Forum: Brick and Mortar
12-05-2004, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 92
non KEM plastic cards
Hi.
I want some plastic cards for use in home games, but KEM no longer makes poker sized. I undestood that there has always been a rival brand of plastic cards used in casinos, but i can't recall...
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Forum: Home Poker
12-05-2004, 03:13 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 151
non-Kem Plastic Cards
Hi.
I want some plastic cards for use in home games, but KEM no longer makes poker sized. I undestood that there has always been a rival brand of plastic cards used in casinos, but i can't recall...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
12-03-2004, 04:00 PM
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Replies: 85
Views: 291
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Forum: Beginners Questions
12-03-2004, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 47
Re: How do you play this table?
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do you own a copy of small stakes hold em? you should, it goes into this topic and much more.
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Best advise you're ever going to get on this Blahblah
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Forum: Beginners Questions
12-03-2004, 03:48 PM
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Replies: 85
Views: 291
Re: True viability of multi-tabling?
[quote}...If you're playing at least 3 tables at 2BB/100, you're easily clearing the 5BB/100 you're making at your single table...
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This misses a very important point about making...
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Forum: Poker Theory
12-03-2004, 03:06 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 87
Re: Very Basic Stats Keeping Question
Where do you play online? Party Poker and Poker Room will both count your hands for you. This is as easy to check and checking the clock to count your hours.
There is a good chance that the...
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Forum: Poker Theory
12-03-2004, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 174
Re: Girlfriends watching: +EV?
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You will probably be less likely to tilt, and play more proper, but at the same time when a difficult situation arises, you may feel more "on the spot" than usual, and make a wrong...
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Forum: Poker Theory
12-03-2004, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 87
Re: Very Basic Stats Keeping Question
I suggest not tracking your $/hr directly. Track your $/hand and your hands/hr. This will still give you your hourly rate ($/hr = $/hand x hands/hr) if you want to know it, but by a more thorough...
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Forum: Poker Theory
12-03-2004, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 92
Re: Raising vs Limping with AK & similar hands
Not raising with AK in a typical-tough game (As is implied in Hold 'em Poker For Advanced Players first two cards section) is something you do when your early position raises are getting to much...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 131
invalid question
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So really no one knows the actual odds of losing with 4 8's. You could say that if you play the lottery everyday you will eventually win, but i doubt it. There has to be a way to figure it...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 02:28 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 263
Re: Negreanu and Party Day
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...This idea of blowing off some money very quickly every now and then has been around for a long time and has been advocated by many writers before Negreaneu appeared. It was wrong then...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 208
Re: Poker and social misfits
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crim, while I appreciate your efforts to clean this forum up of improperly placed posts, that is not my point at all. My point is... these posts get made about once a week. The same...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 01:26 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 208
Re: Poker and social misfits
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Posts I would like to never see on this forum again:
(1) Should you fold AA pre-flop?
(2) Online Poker is rigged.
(3) What kind of bank roll should I have?
(4) What's better? PL or...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 115
out of catagory
BTW, this type of question probably belongs in the Texas Hold 'em Mid- and High-Stakes forum. It is a hold 'em question at heart.
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 01:09 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 115
Re: Smooth calling AA or KK pre-flap?
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If you notice after a while that everybody at your table folds to an EP raise, the answer is not to limp with big pairs, the answer is to change tables.
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You should read...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 12:49 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 92
Re: NL or PL holdem???
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but in NL if you make one mistake you are dead and can lose everything...I owuld like to hear others thoughts on this.
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Same is true in pot-limit. You can easilly lose...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 12:08 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 130
Re: Tips on starting all over
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Sell weed. You can buy a pound wholesale (at a good price) for between $2500-$3000. Sold by $20 gram you would gross about $9000. Even if you have to sell $50 eighths you would still be...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-28-2004, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 93
no distractions!
Have you tried following the action (and hand histories) and taking player notes? Even in a loose, soft game players have various tendicies. Some people slow play to much, some people rarely bluff...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-27-2004, 04:21 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 131
Re: Party Poker bad beat odds?
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Well, the odds approach 100% as the number of hands played increases indefinately.
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This is incorrect, every time you are dealt 88 and your opponent is dealt...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-26-2004, 05:44 PM
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Replies: 77
Views: 659
Re: Becoming a professional player
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You must be kidding, right? Do you honestly think anyone could squeeze a living out of 4/8 poker?????
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Hmmm...
I don't have it with me, but I think Malmuth (in Poker...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-26-2004, 03:14 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 131
Re: Party Poker bad beat odds?
Well, the odds approach 100% as the number of hands played increases indefinately.
As to the odds on any given hand (of which I haven't so much as an estimate) they are higher the more loose...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-26-2004, 02:36 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 89
Re: Three questions about books
Thanks Rudbaeck.
Good news about question 1. I trust 2+2 more than any other publishers.
Bad news about progressive slots. Apparently progressive video poker is still highly beatable. Do you...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-26-2004, 02:11 PM
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Replies: 109
Views: 463
Re: unbeatable game?
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A good player loses a lot of the tools that make him a winning player when he joins those games. You can't bluff anyone, reads don't really matter, you can't manipulate anyone's...
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Forum: Poker Theory
11-26-2004, 01:38 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 89
Three questions about books
Hi everyone. Three questions:
1 - Is "Harrington on Hold 'em, Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments; Volume I: Strategic Play" published by 2+2?
2 - Is there a book which includes the...
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