Forum: Poker Theory
08-11-2005, 12:46 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 90
Re: Need some strategy advice on this format
If you're gonna take it, take it right away. Yeah, you might get all your chips in and take a bad beat be someone who has you covered, but you might also get all your chips in and have your hand...
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Forum: Poker Theory
08-10-2005, 02:07 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 92
Re: repeated raises
You've just described the reason why every cardroom limits the number of raises in a multiway-pot to 4.
But in a theoretical sense, once you get trapped in the pot odds it is always correct to...
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Forum: Poker Theory
08-10-2005, 02:05 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 91
Re: Pot Odds
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You're dividing the # of outs by the number of non-outs... your chances of...
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Forum: Poker Theory
08-10-2005, 01:42 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 91
Re: Pot Odds
You have 8 outs three times -- the technically accurate way is to multiply the odds of not hitting three times.
so 32 cards out of 40 unseen will not help you on the first card. On the second...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-30-2005, 07:35 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 124
Re: Trouble with AJ, AK, AQ offsuit......
To mix things up, if there are 2 or 3 other players in the pot, and i took the lead preflop from late position, i Like to check it through on the flop and bet the turn. The double sized bet on the...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-26-2005, 12:30 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 219
Re: Worst 3rd card in Pineapple
And that would come into play when your opponent had an ace, and two cards below an 8 with it, elected to continue playing with tpnk in the face of numerous straight and flush possibilities _and_...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-25-2005, 09:20 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 134
Re: John Vorhaus and Killer Poker
Although I think he could have made the point better, I think the basic point of the whole discussion of low pairs out of position was "Generally, its bad to put yourself in a situation where...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-25-2005, 09:01 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 219
Re: Worst 3rd card in Pineapple
Given that suitedness is not an issue (you already have a suited 2) and that any given hand is just as likely with an 8 as a 9, the 9 definitely has the edge in high
With A2, assuming im playing...
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Forum: Stud
06-25-2005, 08:40 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 87
Re: Adjustments for no qualifier
thanks for the advice all... I hadn't realized that SS addrressed 7-stud with no qualifier... I haven't looked at it in a while. From what i've heard from others, it used to be played exclusively...
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Forum: Stud
06-25-2005, 08:21 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 87
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Forum: Stud
06-21-2005, 12:59 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 87
Adjustments for no qualifier
Hi all...
I recently played a stud H/L game at a BM cardroom where the low does not have to qualify. I've played some stud/8 before, and i feel pretty comfortable with hand selection, and having...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-21-2005, 12:42 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 85
Re: What Am I Missing Here?
You have to ask yourself, what are you hoping to accomplish with your raise?
You don't have an especially strong hand, so you don't want to build a huge pot that you probably won't win.
Your...
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Forum: Probability
06-21-2005, 12:33 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 80
Community cards and hand strength
Given the same number of players, is the average hand strength likely to be the same for 8 random stud hands and 8 random holdem hands.
Put another way, does the community card aspect of holdem...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-21-2005, 12:18 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 159
Re: How good is this guy?
In low limit BM games, its easy to identify the expert players. They will be the ones wearing sunglasses and hooded sweatshirts and relentlessly quoting rounders and tilt.
Seriously, though, look...
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Forum: Two Plus Two Internet Magazine
06-12-2005, 05:15 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 366
Re: online poker legitimacy
Because its impossible to prove a negative. If you say "Senjitsu cheats at live poker. He breaks people's arm like The Matador and colludes with tropical henry", it wouldn't be reasonable to ask me...
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Forum: Two Plus Two Internet Magazine
06-12-2005, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 366
Re: online poker legitimacy
I'll be wearing the tinfoil hat I use to keep the mind reading internet poker shills from reading my thoughts.
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I hope your watching ESPN when i make the final table at...
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Forum: Two Plus Two Internet Magazine
06-12-2005, 05:00 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 289
Re: playing poker while drunk
Don't knock it... completely. Its definitely a bad habit and exceptionally dangerous. But its also worth looking at your hand histories to see if you're doing anything different. Did you play more...
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Forum: Two Plus Two Internet Magazine
06-12-2005, 04:58 AM
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Replies: 309
Views: 3,425
Re: ONLINE POKER IS 100% RIGGED
Assuming you dont have to get them in any particular order, probably about 1/1.5 million.. which means on the big sites, it should happen to three or four people a day... combined on the biggest...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-04-2005, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 87
Re: Optimal Play in home game (long)
Your friends are right (but for the wrong reason).
In a game like the one you describe, it is correct to play looser and more aggressively. This isn't because of the limited number of hands...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-04-2005, 09:52 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 161
Re: Long shots with odds
I assumed from the context of the original post that the 13:1 represented a relatively small bet into a large pot (like, you're paying $20 into a $260 pot). Is it talking about calling a large bet...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-04-2005, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 121
Re: logic flawed? NL limp or raise
It might be one of your favorite situations, but i guarantee you're losing money on it. Paying a ton of money to see a flop with a hand of secondary strength just isnt profitable in the long run. ...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-03-2005, 02:33 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 182
Re: Cold Calling
I believe the initial subject of the thread was the guy who asked "why, when people describe their play, do they frequently cite cold calling as such a henious act.
Preflop play is not the most...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-03-2005, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 182
Re: Cold Calling
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Except when he plays with a skirt on...
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Lol... I have no idea why I assumed you were female... maybe I was thinking Dov...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-03-2005, 11:48 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 91
Re: Game Theory + Bluffing + Hold\'em
I do it based on the first four letters of the next word someone at my table says (add their numerical value, then multiply by two) in addition to randomizing your play, it randomizes how quickly...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-03-2005, 11:44 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 91
Re: Game Theory + Bluffing + Hold\'em
Are you talking about a bluff or a semi-bluff... either way, i think you're a bit confused about how pot odds relate to bluffing.
Assuming you're on an out and out bluff, youre bluff frequency...
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