Forum: Texas Hold'em
12-21-2005, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 113
Play before is super important...
I think the most important factor is how how have you been playing up to now and how have the other players been playing?
If you have been playing very aggressively and stealing there's a good...
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Forum: Psychology
12-08-2005, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 90
Fish I understand... weak sharks I can\'t...
I completely understand fish. They are there to have fun and look at it as gambling.
What I can't understand are weak sharks that don't have the heart to take the money of the fish.
I'm a...
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Forum: Other Other Topics
11-02-2005, 11:15 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 167
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Forum: Psychology
10-29-2005, 07:18 PM
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Replies: 212
Views: 755
She has to be interested...
I think you are very wrong in assuming that because she's hot she won't like you.
Often, super hot girls don't have anything to prove and look beyond looks even more than average girls.
Don't...
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Forum: Psychology
07-26-2005, 01:40 AM
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Replies: 87
Views: 350
Hey dummy! Isn\'t it obvious?
The people that are attracted to a game like poker which gives you a chance to show how smart you are are the same people that are attracted to flaming on a message board to show how smart they are....
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Forum: Internet Gambling
07-14-2005, 03:55 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 515
Hehe...
I can't help but find it hilarious...
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Forum: Psychology
07-14-2005, 03:40 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 141
Caro\'s point and the reasoning behind it...
Caro maintains that at lower limits, people want to call (its more fun). Therefore, they will look for reasons to call.
He says just do something... anything. Give someone a reason to call. It...
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Forum: Psychology
07-08-2005, 02:19 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 88
Walk away... its a no brainer...
You don't need to purposefully place yourself in situations that test your patience... believe me, these situations will find you.
If you have the ability to walk away when upset (very few do) you...
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Forum: Internet Gambling
07-07-2005, 11:54 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 20
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Forum: Psychology
07-07-2005, 10:15 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 127
Who cares?
Of all the things in the world to be addicted to... poker's not a bad choice.
As long as you are a winning player... who cares?
show me anything that
1) is fun
and
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
06-15-2005, 11:34 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 133
Hehe...
I thought it was kinda funny and creative...
I don't mind stupid posts as much as the 34 replies blasting them...
Then again, I'm smoking peyote...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-09-2005, 01:34 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 119
When you improve...
Doyle or any good player will make the best play for the situation...
You need to be able to evaluate what the best style for the moment is... not pick a "style" and try to find situations to use...
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Forum: Other Other Topics
06-09-2005, 12:04 AM
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Replies: 65
Views: 229
There\'s only one good piece of advice...
Stay out of it.
When you kick his butt (which he deserves) and she goes back to him (which happens most of the time) you'll be the one left standing with a criminal record.
You don't know the...
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Forum: Poker Theory
06-02-2005, 11:49 PM
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Replies: 80
Views: 334
Life isn\'t about having fun...
I promise you... hanging out in college with girls and beer and playing poker is more fun than playing poker...
and playing poker...
and playing poker...
and playing poker...
and playing...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
06-02-2005, 11:31 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 123
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Forum: Beginners Questions
05-31-2005, 07:47 PM
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Replies: 162
Views: 498
Contract Law Lesson...
"Legal" doesn't really apply, since online poker's illegal...
There was consideration... the willingness to play was consideration.
Also, courts apply the doctrine of consideration so...
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Forum: Poker Theory
05-23-2005, 10:31 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 121
The question is not what to do with AA
the question is what to do with crap.
If raising with AA is a -ev play, that tells me you are playing too tightly.
If they fold to your AA... they will fold to your 87s.
Limping might have...
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Forum: Psychology
05-23-2005, 01:37 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 252
WTF?
I can't get AA to hold up and this guy's having $2000 just given to him...
I need to start praying to a different God. /images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Forum: Poker Theory
05-23-2005, 01:26 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 106
PVN\'s right...
PVN clearly has a strong theoretical understanding of poker.
The advantages a short stack all in might have a bigger stack fold...
more importantly... people rarely know how to play against a...
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Forum: Poker Theory
05-22-2005, 09:09 PM
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Replies: 286
Views: 1,041
A couple hundred...
You guys and your high-fallutin' math is all well and good... but you need to consider what hands a player (even an expert) is going to raise with.
If a player has a top ten hand... they are going...
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Forum: Poker Theory
05-22-2005, 08:55 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 90
Well...
If he's playing EVERYTHING... then you need to loosen up considerably.
Calling's not by definition weak... there are drawing hands and made hands.
When you say aggresive post flop... what do...
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Forum: Psychology
05-22-2005, 03:07 AM
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Replies: 278
Views: 970
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Forum: Psychology
05-22-2005, 02:27 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 140
I play it one way...
I start giving absurd advice. Their responses about how stupid I am tell me a great deal about their play.
and it infuriates them that I don't realize I didn't outplay them....
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Forum: Psychology
05-21-2005, 11:48 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 163
Count me in!
I'm up for a cock measuring contest.
Should I whip it all out... or just enough to win?
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Forum: Televised Poker
05-21-2005, 01:10 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 283
Sklansky\'s a genius, but...
... he's also a bit of a coward.
I'll take the challenge for a 10% rebate... any game that's remotely standard immediately or any crazy game i.e. "if you have a four you can buy two cards..."...
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