Forum: Medium Stakes Limit
12-04-2006, 07:30 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 87
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Forum: Medium Stakes
12-04-2006, 07:30 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 51
Three handed play
So lately i've been playing a lot of three handed winner take all tournaments with a couple of my friends. The blinds in this particular game do not go up until one player has been eliminated, and...
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Forum: Stud
11-17-2006, 07:36 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 57
Cursed?
alright so here's the deal, i used to be a semi-pro player. Lately i've just been playing for fun, but stud used to be my best game, and now i can't win at all. I used to make a decent living playing...
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Forum: Stud
09-14-2006, 03:54 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 1,109
Re: Who Do You Fear on Party?
Sorry I only got this far down in the post and had to comment, Percy (RACER____X) Took a pretty big chunk out of my bankroll when I was trying to make the switch up to higher stakes, very ...
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Forum: Stud
09-10-2006, 02:17 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 52
Re: 25/50 Possibly standard hand
i think it's a pretty thin line between a check and a bet... at worst checking loses you one bet; because if you bet and are called by P1 then it sounds like P2 is a good enough player to throw away...
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Forum: Stud
09-10-2006, 02:01 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 70
Re: 3rd street play
Got some very helpful responses here, thanks everybody... I find that when i'm in these types of games if i end up making the flush by 5th (three cards to my flush showing) it KILLS my action unless...
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Forum: Stud
09-08-2006, 02:39 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 70
Re: 3rd street play
i intentionally left some of these questions open, i think the 3rd street is the obvious decision here, the most important decision is whether overall a hand like 3 low LIVE flush cards are worth...
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Forum: Stud
09-07-2006, 02:32 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 70
3rd street play
Alright so here's the situation (STUD HIGH ONLY) let's say you have something like (2s 4s)7s or (8h 2h)4h (three low cards to a flush.) Your suit is completely live, but you are in one of the first...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-29-2006, 02:28 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 42
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-29-2006, 02:02 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 59
Re: 5/10, \"Im lost\"
isn't Kd Kd, the nuts no matter what the game?
as it went i think i'd make a defensive style bet such as $250-$350, depending on if you're leaning more toward him having somelike like K 10 or...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-29-2006, 05:31 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 164
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-29-2006, 03:39 AM
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Replies: 48
Views: 164
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-28-2006, 11:35 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 164
Re: $3/$6 no limit. AK facing all in bet....
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i love how all the weaktights are giving him a perfect tag range of everything beating us and nothing we beat.
this guy probably has TT-KK and is sick of getting overcarded.
a 3.7...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-28-2006, 11:30 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 164
Re: $3/$6 no limit. AK facing all in bet....
i would've made the call with the pot being as big as it was to begin with, and i know that it might've been a little tougher than i made it out to be, but i think there's just too many ways for him...
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Forum: Stud
08-28-2006, 02:28 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 228
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-28-2006, 01:14 PM
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Replies: 48
Views: 164
Re: $3/$6 no limit. AK facing all in bet....
yeah, obviously this guy's got balls where are yours? make the call you've got a real good hand... also, why no re-raise preflop? i see no scenario where taking it to $100 doesn't make your life a...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-27-2006, 06:42 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 111
Re: i just folded top two for the first time ever
pretty insane read, lol, if i were that guy i wouldn't show the set for the whole world, no need to give you more info then you already had; esspecially if you're making a laydown of that caliber.....
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-27-2006, 05:38 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 111
Re: i just folded top two for the first time ever
so what hand are you putting the other guy on exactly? he can't know that hero has a huge hand, so is he just gambling on the fact that hero has a hand big enough to call an all in when there is an...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-27-2006, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 111
Re: i just folded top two for the first time ever
agreed, i used to play hold em with some omaha enthusiasts who loved doing XXXX like this... i don't think that's as easy of a fold as some people are saying, oh well, still probably the right...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-26-2006, 10:29 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 59
Re: I might have messed this one up...
alright, just got out of the shower, and came up with a much clearer reason i didn't like the check in any situation... basically even if you had had a deep stack, and you had been able to make a...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-26-2006, 10:05 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 59
Re: I might have messed this one up...
my bad, he did check-raise on the turn, saw it wrong... yeah i agree this isn't the type of hand to check raise, the pot is too big for the villian to be making any decent bet, and then not be forced...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-26-2006, 09:53 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 59
Re: I might have messed this one up...
why the check/call on the turn? if you're going to call anyway you should be semi-bluffing to try and get him to laydown KJ AJ and such... you've been the aggressor on every round so far, definitely...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-26-2006, 09:49 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 27
Re: Flopped trips weak kicker, kinda deep $200 NL
yeah, you played it fine definitely not a fold on the flop. like someone else said, way too many ways for him to have Qx, i like how you waited til the turn to decide what you wanted to do with the...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-26-2006, 09:34 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 61
Re: 600NL. River c/r against a 2p2er?
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check is good here, you'll get a bluff from this player way more often than you'll get a value bet called.
Especially given the weak-looking "call preflop, check flop, probe turn, check...
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Forum: Medium Stakes
08-26-2006, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 30
Re: JJ reraised pot against huge fish
i'd say there's about a 50% chance of the call being right here, and your odds are right to make such a call... it'd be tough for him to have the 3 (because i assume that if he's calling $19...
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