Forum: Beginners Questions
11-20-2007, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 156
Mucking and showing hands
Player 1 bets on the river. Player 2 calls. Player 2 shows his hand first and player 1 mucks his hand declaring player 2 the winner. Player 2 says he wants to see player 1's cards. Player 2...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
07-13-2007, 02:55 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 72
Re: Which one is binding?
What if the mistake isn't discovered until after the hand is finished. A player bets $200 but puts in $300. A second player calls and places $300 in the pot. They finish the hand before the...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
07-13-2007, 02:31 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 72
Which one is binding?
A player announces he is going to bet $200 but he accidentally puts $300 in chips into the pot. What do you do?
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
07-08-2007, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 93
Re: Poker ethics question?
Shove is exactly what I did. The results. The guy with the jack ended up folding. The guy who just called called my all in. He had pocket kings. I was knocked out. But I agree, it was the right...
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Forum: STT Strategy
07-08-2007, 08:56 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 43
Re: Tournament ethics question?
Shove is exactly what I did. The results. The guy with the jack ended up folding. The guy who just called called my all in. He had pocket kings. I was knocked out. But I agree, it was the right...
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Forum: STT Strategy
07-08-2007, 08:47 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 43
Tournament ethics question?
There are eight of us playing a $30 buyin texas holdem tournament. Four of us are left and I am the short stack, just a little below 10 times the BB. I am the small blind and delt AQ. The first to...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
07-08-2007, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 93
Poker ethics question?
There are eight of us playing a $30 buyin texas holdem tournament. Four of us are left and I am the short stack, just a little below 10 times the BB. I am the small blind and delt AQ. The first to...
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Forum: Small Stakes
07-03-2007, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 33
Flopping a set!
Any suggestions on determining if a person has flopped a set? One of my biggest downfalls is flopping top pair, top kicker then getting busted by someone whos pocket pair flopped a set.
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-22-2007, 05:01 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 151
Re: One last try
Not luck. Because they fall outside the bell curve in different areas.
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-22-2007, 04:54 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 151
Re: One last try
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Over hundreds of thousands of hands and years of playing poker the individual will have hit their hands within perecntage range it is suppossed to.
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Yes most will, but a...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-22-2007, 04:44 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 151
Re: One last try
And yet they continue to post to it adding to the clutter and moving it back to the top.
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-22-2007, 04:13 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 151
One last try
Every process in life follows a distribution pattern known as a bell curve. It looks like a bell because most people fall in the middle but a few are on either end (left or right).
Even life...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-22-2007, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 106
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 04:23 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 156
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 03:52 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 156
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 03:20 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 79
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 156
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 156
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 79
I was watching Phil Ivy on Poker After Dark...
I wast watching Poker After Dark off and on and saw Phil Ivy play three hands. The very first hand of the tournament he had Q 10. He flopped top pair with the queen and ended up with trip queens...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 156
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 06:21 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 258
Re: Interesting take on poker pros
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Excellent points. There pretty clearly must be a distribution of luck. The question is, how much of a disadvantage are the players at the left side at relative to the right side? ...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 205
Re: Interesting take on Poker Pros (Part II)
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Why is that a great point, though??? Okay, yes, if Ivey were the unluckiest person in the world, he'd perform poorly. So what? He's successful, so obviously he's not the unluckiest...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 205
Re: Interesting take on Poker Pros (Part II)
Joey Joe Joe posted this in the other thread. It was such a good point I wanted to repeat it over here.
"His name might still be Phil Ivey, but is it certain that he'd be thought of as one of the...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 258
Re: Interesting take on poker pros
GREAT POINT JOEY JOE JOE!
If Phil Ivy were in a low percentile of luck no one would be talking about the him being the greatest player in the world. Even though his skill would be exactly the...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 02:01 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 205
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