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Forum Post which would you prefer to call a standard raise with?
...r the flop with 78s. If the flop comes 772, you don't have to worry much about A7 from the original raiser, whereas if the flop comes KK2, you DO have to consider AK as a very possible hand. In f...
Forum Post Minimum raise pre-flop
I love to raise the minimum in limit hold'em. It's a wicked move that pwnz n00bz.
Forum Post AKo vs. AA or KK
...t is to me with 3 limpers, plus the big blind. I see AcKs. I know no one will fold but I grab chips to raise it up to $6, simulating 4 or 6 more limpers. As I'm about to raise, big blind is gr...
Forum Post I used to be fearless.... (now a bit indecisive)
... remains that even if he has junk there is a very good chance his junk is overcarding you. I don`t raise preflop, and I certainly don`t raise it in the regularly face of a raise. In a nutshell ...
Forum Post Help settle this debate!
B4 I READ THE RESULTS,I WOULD RAISE IT HERE,NOT TO SCARE NOBODY OUT...JUST because i was "due" for a hand & 7-2s is very alluring.....so RAISE htat baby up!!!!one what happened? lemm...
Forum Post hand question hold em tourney
... 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 checked around. next card 2 of diamonds putting 2 diamonds on the bo...
Forum Post AA in early position in NL
...ely but otherwise is tight? With the former, you can go ahead in limp because the maniac will likely raise and give you the opportunity. With the latter, the table is too passive to count on t...
Forum Post NL question
The 'oversized chip' rule is a TDA rule, and applies to tournaments. This is a raise. Even in a tournament, if you leave the $25 chip in front of you, it is usually considered a raise, as th...
Forum Post some carsonversial ideas
...rendering the initiative. If you have a medium pocket pair or a good drawing hand and limp in, he will raise and make you play it for two bets. Which means that any other players must call two bets...
Forum Post Suited Connectors
T9s JTs JQs I`d open call early position. KQs I raise coming in. Other then which, I want two limpers before thinly calling a suited connector. In general, I want 4-1 pot odds to come in with 98s or...
Forum Post how to play suited connectors in a loose LLHL
...t draw, i tend to dump them at the flop. 1) say i'm on the buttron, is it correct for me to call a raise cold (from a relatively tight player who only raises with premium hands) if 5 ppl have al...
Forum Post A concept I`m having trouble with
...rth 30% of the pot, and with two players 40%. The guy with the best hand bets. After a while you know a raise from you shall drive the third guy out. If you call, your EV is .3 * 1060 = 318. If you ...
Forum Post Confirming a Basic NLHE Concept
...play for most people is dictated by closely they can put their opponent on a range of hands. Without the raise pre-flop, the hero here doesn't have much information to go on. On almost all th...
Forum Post Call or Fold?
... or fold. The only alternative I would add in is a stop and go if you're on the blinds facing a min raise from the button. So, that leaves us with J8 facing a raise, and 2 decisions, allin, o...
Forum Post I am so tired of donking off chips in the blinds
... hand too good to fold to a random hand' isn't a high enough standard when deciding whether to raise here. You are going to be out of position for the rest of the hand. The deeper the stacks...
Forum Post How do you approach a new table?
... as many reads on the other players styles as I can. I want to know what types of hands they limp with, raise with, and cold call raises with. Then I like to make adjustments to my play. If I feel ...
Forum Post What do you think? BAHH
The raise from that position might have been a little aggressive, but it depends on the table and how they were playing aorund the bubble. It might be a hand I raise if the table is playing really tig...
Forum Post Does anyone like this line?
...in a 20/40 game with a unique player sitting behind me. 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 lea...
Forum Post PLO High Tournament Situation
...ke this with a grain of salt. On Jun 26 2006 4:53 PM, KookieMonstr wrote: I think you could have raised rather than limp when you came into the pot. The BB looks like he's pulling a squee...
Forum Post Just saw this hand in a sit and go
Folded a royal Arlo in the SB to no raise and 6 callers.
Forum Post Holdem Question #2
...). Also, since you've represented a big hand by 3-betting out of the BB, it is difficult for him to raise you on the turn without a big hand. Betting also disguises your hand to some extent, so i...
Forum Post Action flop on Paradise!!!!
...nFlop : Post Big Blind ($5) Dealing... Dealt to jacksup13 [ 2s ] Dealt to jacksup13 [ Ks ] jacksup13: Raise ($10) Obviously I have to raise with these monsters, and Paradise knows this. Irrel...
Forum Post How would you play these hands? (Re: Call me paranoid but......)
...as the small blind (20/40) and limped in with 3 others. After the flop I checked, middle position player raised 160 and the other two folded. I then folded worried they had KK. I was probably thinking...
Forum Post Do you make this call?
Maybe I should have called...I was thinking he was on a total bluff. calling the Buttons raise and then going allin on the turn no matter what. But I just couldn't make the call . whooda thun...
Forum Post What to do with AQ?
...ds. What amount could someone bet to get you to fold? If it's much larger than the standard preflop raise for your table, that all but announces that you're a favorite over the range of hand...
Forum Post cheating on online poker
... anybody, but I did know the other pros & rewspected their play. I knew that if they repeatedly raised, they had a good hand and I could dump my QJ, but if I had a big hand msyelf, I would be...
Forum Post Per Scott Fischman, how often an ace flops
So you can get cleaned out by the guy who called your pre-flop raise with 8-6s, and who bluffs with a push on the flop, and catches runner-runner for the flush.
Forum Post Restealing in NL cash games
...h all the responses, and I disagree with them all. At that limit I would fold Q8o every time to a button raise, no matter how often he is raising there. If somehow I misclicked fold and hit rerais...
Forum Post hold em: missed bets?
I probably shouldn't have 3-bet here, & checked to the raiser on the turn. But which's just me, & it can get you burned: In a game today I flopped a fh with pocket 9s &am...
Forum Post OMalley TOC trip report please?
...earlier he had been called down and shown a winning hand with 5-7c and won it with a river flush. He had raised the flop in mid position. The other agressive player re-raised and made it $1800. I thou...
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