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Minimum raise pre-flop
I love to raise the minimum in limit hold'em. It's a wicked move that pwnz n00bz.
Action flop on Paradise!!!!
... poker sites are rigged so that two people just have to get their money in on so-called "action flops." Observe: Seat 2: Irrelevant1 ($532 in chips) Seat 3: DoomedByActionFlop ($190 in ...
Re:A concept I`m having trouble with
And underlying assumption with witch strategy is thath the pot is very big due to pre-flop raisin (or may be flop vigorously riasing too). If the pot was lightly capped four way before the flop, & ...
Re:What do you think? BAHH
All right, I can see the3 logic of that. A hand that vulnerable is hard to play after the flop because, unless you flop two pair or better, you don't know where you staqnd. I guess the key for ...
which would you prefer to call a standard raise with?
... the 78s to the KQs, personally. As you cited, it is much easier to know where you are at after the flop with 78s. If the flop comes 772, you don't have to worry much about A7 from the original ...
Re:Confirming a Basic NLHE Concept
... deep stack games, whether or not you are profitable is usually determined by how good you play post-flop. That play for most people is dictated by closely ...
Re:Call or Fold?
I think the place to evaluate was the mini-raise you put in on the flop rather than his reraise. If you are going to play j8 3-handed (and I am ok with that in this situation), you have to be willing ...
Re:What is it about Bodog and pocket aces?
I don't think it has so much to do with a lot of callers pre-flop. At least in my case, a 5 to 8 times the BB pre-flop raise will only get you one or two callers. But it's what they call ...
0/8 rhetorical question inspired by last nights game
How can it be a routine feature that 6 players see a flop for 3 bets and the flop comes with 2 Aces? (If anybody else plays in a game like this please let me know). Howard Beale
Re:Per Scott Fischman, how often an ace flops
... ng better than me. Well, there was my last hand in the 180 last night where an ace actually hit the flop, but AJ got me after we went all in and he rivered a jack. At least I can get away from the ...
Re:Odds Question
After the flop, yes. Before the flop, only if there are dead cards known to the calculator. Yes. An example being the AK vs AK vs Q5s post a little while ago. Q5 is the money favourite. No.
Re:Psychology question
Funny, that's precisely why I will play a small pocket pair to a pre-flop raise. Maybe I'm just lucky but I find that my set is frequently 'good'. Continuing on in the hand, ...
Re:What to do with AQ?
Here's my approach to AQ: 1. If you're short and have to take a shot with it, go all-in (assuming the right circumstances, of course), watch it lose, and hope that next time you won' ...
Re:hold em: missed bets?
... 9;t play post-mortem results. For all you know, with this board, even if you hadn't 3-bet the flop, they'll have all folded on the turn. And they're are scenarios where you may even ...
Does anyone like this line?
... e. His VPIP was 65%, pfr was close to 30. He always raised first in with any playable hand. His postflop play was to keep betting if he had the lead no matter what flopped but he ...
Re:Defending Blinds or Against Aggressive Players
... EAK-TIGHT image, meaning that people were betting/raising with impunity with blind steals or on the flop since I was folding basically nearly all of the time. In other ...
Re:I am so tired of donking off chips in the blinds
The advantage of limping in from the small blind when everyone has folded is that you are getting immediate pot odds of 3 to 1 (more if there are antes). The downside - and its a major one - is that ...
Please help, a few questions about official rules.
... ll the junk with the search engine. Question 1) 4 people are playing, 2 of them fold before the flop. The flop comes out. Then 1 of the ...
Set over set?
If both of two players start with a pocket pair, a set over set flop will happen 1% of the time. Since you don't only see flops with pairs, it is less, but if there are many multiway pots and ...
Re:How would you play these hands? (Re: Call me paranoid but......)
... ng more than 75% of the hands. If so, your biggest problem is that you are not folding enough pre-flop. You should not be playing more than 35% of ...
Paradise - People winning on All-ins?
I did some analysis on my last 100 hands only. Found that people checked/bet All-in 9 times. Of those: 3 times they lost 6 times they won Of the wins 2 were on the River (a Sstraight, a Full ...
Re:Suited Connectors
... y be no raise, there are 6 or more callers (including you) AND players are justifiably loose post-flop. Some experts suggest playing ...
Re:Bluffing techniques
i'm 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 ...
hand question hold em tourney
... ney. first key hand midway through tourney pickup Qs/Th in the small blind 3 limpers and me see the flop of QQ5 with 2 clubs i check inaudibly looking to check raise unfortunatelly it is ...
Holdem Question #2
... AcKh in the SB. The button open-raises. You 3bet. The BB calls. The BB has a tendency to call preflop and could have a very wide range of hands here. Let's also assume that the BB is ...
BAHH - looking for comments on this hand
... 039;ve got Aces!!' blinders on, and so managed to lose the maximum. The guy's call on the flop is comedic (to everyone but me) but after that point I think I started to donk it up. ...
Re:Do you make this call?
Psst, that was a joke. Personally I never see the flop, so I never have that decision to make. Morphy
Re:cheating on online poker
Even out the cheaters advantage using this site may be? http://www.21stCenturyInc.com/holdem Although this 1 is not quite finisehd yet, it will serve as a behind the scenes poker advisor WHILE you ...
Jargon questions
... some jargon I'm unfamiliar with: 1) what does it mean to 'take one off' 2) On a flop of K88 what is the 'case king' ? ...
how to play suited connectors in a loose LLHL
I'd like to hear your opinions on what's the best way to play siutyed conectors in a typically lose LLHL game. My curent strategy is the "pump or dump" strategy as ilustraetd in ...
Re:JJ, AA, AA - How`s this for three all ins
Eric Rosenberg: of the time, & the J-J rates as a 3.68-to-one underdog...& then after the 4h-5d-10h flop, the odds against the J-J chronologically climb to 9.88-to-1..As i mostly see it .
AA in early position in NL
Why would you limp with the best possible pre-flop hand at a loose-passive table? Loose-agressive, yes.
Re:What is the right play here? (Partial BAHH). Small stakes, but keen student of the game.
... a push against this reraise. I am firmly putting my opponent on Ax, Kx, or a smaller pair. If the flop comes down with no ace or king, I push. I ...
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