Forum: Two Plus Two Internet Magazine
11-28-2005, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 201
Re: All My Magazine Articles Now Online
Appreciate it! Maybe some other authors will take the hint...
Dave
PS: Congratulations on having picked a winner (wife)! Mine of 41 years is a winner too...
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Forum: Two Plus Two Internet Magazine
11-28-2005, 04:57 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 49
Re: On the Edge - IX: Define \'Post\'?
Appreciate it (very much!)!!! It seems to be a strange word for describing this thing, since the word is used for so many other betting eventualities, but who am I to say?
Thanks!
Dave
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Forum: Two Plus Two Internet Magazine
11-28-2005, 03:37 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 49
On the Edge - IX: Define \'Post\'?
Here are a couple of pharagraphs drawn from Toth's "Internet Magazine" Nov. article. Notice he's used either the words "posted" or "post" 4 times. I searched in vain thru my 2+2 books for a...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
10-15-2005, 11:23 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 79
Re: Interesting Starting Hand Calculation
Thanks! I haven't checked it against starting hand sets I use, but it seems like something very easy to remember. Of course, it must have reasonable validity to be useful.
Dave
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Forum: Beginners Questions
10-07-2005, 12:02 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 304
Re: How to get broke at NL...
You'll have to admit there are one heck of a lot of possible hands better than yours, with that flop! But when you attempted to buy the pot with your bet, this could have precipitated LP buying it...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
10-04-2005, 09:06 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 61
Re: another definition needed
I too wonder about what "$25NL" means, and I agree with OP that a definition is actually needed. His conjecture was this is the maximum buy-in amount, as opposed to the minimum buy-in amount. So...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
10-04-2005, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 92
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Forum: Beginners Questions
10-03-2005, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 50
Re: Searching 2+2 Question
Last night I tried to get the info I needed, using the site you referred me to. I tried many approaches, and had no success. However, this morning (with a head much clearer, I suspect) the first...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
10-02-2005, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 50
Searching 2+2 Question
I'd assumed it's possible to search everything that any member has ever written to 2+2, but when I attempted to do that for one individual I found the search was limited to about the last 3 months....
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-23-2005, 03:37 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 81
Re: Help me with a study plan???
I'm struggling in an attempt to understand exactly where you are in poker, just as I'm sure you are! But poker is an extremely large topic, and the more we learn about it the larger the topic...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-22-2005, 11:35 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 50
Re: Learning to Play Poker
I'd received some encouragement from 2+2 as to usefulness of what I do relating to others, and I came to the conclusion that I benefit too from explaining my ideas (see the post I did a few minutes...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-22-2005, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 50
Re: Learning to Play Poker
Glad you reminded me about the usefulness of teaching, within the learning cycle! You stated that you posted hands to 2+2, and it could be taken that you meant to secure reenforcement of your ideas,...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-21-2005, 10:43 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 81
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-21-2005, 10:19 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 50
Re: Learning to Play Poker
I was getting ready to respond to your other thread, when I noticed you'd entered my thread too. My answer in this thread will come more easily to me than the other, so I'll start with this one and...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-21-2005, 05:19 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 50
Re: Learning to Play Poker
It's true, because you're integrating limited experience with your readings! I too am a rank beginner, and I knew I had no basis for understanding, except that I'd watched TV poker for a couple of...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-21-2005, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 84
Re: this may help:
Appreciate your linkage to two dimes! It seems to permit evaluating situations not covered by PokerStove...
Dave
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-21-2005, 01:30 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 66
Re: Downswings and bad play
Excellent post!
We must have been thinking alike, because I've just posted a new thread to our Beginner's Forum, that was written perhaps just as you were writing your post. We even used the same...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-21-2005, 12:58 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 50
Learning to Play Poker
It's perfectly natural for one to read a book and understand only those aspects of it that our experiences will permit! That's why I recommend the cycle of Read, Play and Think. During the Reading...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-21-2005, 12:54 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 66
Re: Downswings and bad play
It's perfectly natural for one to read a book and understand only those aspects of it that our experiences will permit! Keep doing what you're doing, and one day you'll be teaching us all how to play...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-16-2005, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 79
Re: Becoming a student of the game
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The only thing keeping me back from being a good to semi-great player is my tendencies to tilt and or loosen up my play after bad beats or just being tired.
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Amen to that!...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-16-2005, 01:53 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 79
Re: Becoming a student of the game
The tradeoff of dollars vs excitement isn't the only one involved, for the poker student. One who is also functioning as student is also willing to tradeoff both dollars and excitement, in favor of...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
09-01-2005, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 75
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Forum: Beginners Questions
08-31-2005, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 95
Re: NL Cash Games
I disagree with the advise you must do limit hold'em before you attempt NL. Unfortunately the 2 games are very different, so much so as to constitute a serious threat to your ultimate goal: mastery...
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Forum: Books and Publications
08-18-2005, 05:42 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 90
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Forum: Books and Publications
08-18-2005, 04:34 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 96
Re: Benefiting From Poker Books
I strongly agree with your contention, which I understand to be that there are jewels among those rocks! A nice thing about your approach is that one can buy practically any book about poker (or even...
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