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There has to be a way to play the blinds besides folding every time. I just played a tourney for two and a half hours, and every time I had the small blind and everyone folded I had a hand to good to ...
...to, that's fine too)..
people running you over in a tournament with rapidly escalating and large blinds is another story....
... table.
I've never run anything like this and I'm incommunicably concerned about getting the blinds structure right. Ideally the entire tournament would take about 3 or 4 hours. My first ...
...never sure what an actual bluff is.....
but i think all of the following are bluffs:
stealing the blinds from CO with garbage
restealing from a chronic button stealer (maybe steal from but...
...seful part of the book. He goes into some math on how often you need to steal and win to keep up with the blinds. Obviously, when the structure is steep, you need to do it much more often to keep your...
...If they are immediately after the large stack, I would pick a better spot and use my chips to steal their blinds while you are on the the bubble.
With your chip stack, I actually like the seat pos...
You have bigger balls than me for sure. I would have raised it 4x the big blind and hope to take the blinds right there.
...ping everyone else checked so I could then raise relatively safe in the knowledge I had top pair.
The blinds were 20/40 and somebody raised 160 pre-flop. I called, another player called, then some...
... tough and questionable lay downs in the past when I felt beat. Villain was LAG and had bullied me in the blinds and button as he was to my immediate right....
Playing NLH with 25-50 blinds. You have the 25 small blind. Everyone folds to you. You toss in a $100chip(the 25$ chip is still in front of you) and don't say anything. Is this taken as a raise o...
...et your money in than this. I would think this especially true if it's already down to three and the blinds are only 25/50. That said, you were calling 2050 to win 2975 with the better half of a ...
...ly not an option IMO. The chip stacks of the last 10 places were near equal, the difference less than the blinds. Calling and folding the flop would leave me in last place. Pushing and winning would g...
...received the most press in Harrington's 2nd book. It represents the ratio between your stack and the blinds/antes. Harrington wrote a whole guideline on what to do with certain ranges so beginner...
...in some of the cases where it doesn`t work, it will triger a violent reaction. naerlly always take the blinds, but so will much smaller bets with less dire cosnequecnes when it doesn`t work....
...pay starts at 150. You have a decent stack, let's say $5000 and pickup 78 suited in the cut off. The blinds are at 50/100 there is a middle position limper and you limp as well as the button, sma...
...obably can't push him out either.
That being said I fold AK in this situation, and look to steal blinds and hopefully get an opportunity to bust a short stack....
...u're down to your last 125. I don't know what the limits were but I'm happily guessing the blinds were 25-50. You're on the button and 5 players limp in front of you. You look down...
...ith a few shorthanded. Seven $2-4.
Not as much NL, but there are 3 full $100 buy-in games with $.50-1 blinds. A few bigger games.
As of Friday night....
...ext blind level or two) or I start to feel short again already. Coming out of the first break (on PStars) blinds are at 75/150, when they hit 100/200 +25 I start to get real antsy if I haven't ad...
... a multiuway pot any day of the week and would consider it a minor dissapointment to simply take down the blinds with a big pair.
Having a loose aggressive player on your left is best. You sipmly ...
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Then I'll all that advice out the window as I get a better feel of the players. Who folds their blinds. Who come bets. Who raises for free cards. Who's an idiot who'll call any ...
...ld secure in the knowledge you're doing the right thing.
You bet it preflop in order to take the blinds with what probably is the best starting hand preflop. Just make your standard raise (wi...
...le. 5 positions pay, although 5th only pays $140 and first pays $1220.
I am in the BB with Q2 suited. Blinds are 300/600, ante of 50. Player UTG+1 is the shortest stack at the table and goes all i...
...oubles the blind utg and it is folded to me. I selectively have 66, for whatever reason I don`t want the blinds in cheap, yet I don`t want to bet my stack and discover a bigger pair behind me. I rai...
Hi All, Just back from my San Diego trip. Whenever I visit from Vegas I usual play poker at Viejas Casino. This time the action was terrible & the rake was $five a hand in $3-6 & $4-ei...
His name is TANSTAAFL. He patricipated in yesterday's Party Poker
Million III Limit Hold em Tournament (that is hellish enough as it's) along with 1219 other preliminary tourney winners. Th...
It makes since to me why limpin alot pre-flop in loose games can be a good thin, in order to keep the pot small & magnify the mistakes your opponents make after the flop by calling too much.
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