Forum: Home Poker
03-31-2007, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 71
Re: Top 2 pair fears trips vs. 2 all-ins
I assume that this is still early on in a tournament (based on blinds versus starting stack, although being down to 9-10 players already is a little odd) and that there are no rebuys.
If my...
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Forum: Micro Stakes
03-30-2007, 04:24 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 25
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Forum: Home Poker
03-29-2007, 01:45 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 151
Re: Rebuys for home Tournaments - YES or NO
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Put another way, I've given several legitimate points attempting to discuss this with you, and each time you've come back with some tangentical nonsense, not ever addressing what I was...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-29-2007, 12:00 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 63
Re: Quick question re: playing 12-handed...
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Is there any reason you can't if there is room to fit 12 at the table? I can't think of any reason not to. I overbooked my game tonight and I have no desire to set up a 2nd table.
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Forum: Home Poker
03-29-2007, 11:15 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 151
Re: Rebuys for home Tournaments - YES or NO
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Hello, Arnold, welcome to the forum.
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Just because I quoted from his book, does that make me him? If so, I must have a really split personality, since I have dozens of...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-27-2007, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 258
Re: inviting dead money
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Even if you someone is *frequently* annoying, once you start down the road of banning such people, where do you draw the line?
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You draw the line where you're...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-27-2007, 10:39 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 151
Re: Rebuys for home Tournaments - YES or NO
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You could ALSO say "I can stick with my T10K for my original buy-in, get everyone else to double their investment and STILL have a 30% lead on the larger stacks."
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Forum: Home Poker
03-25-2007, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 97
Re: Theory behind big Add-On\'s?
The book <u>The Poker Tournament Formula</u> -- whether you buy the logic of the "formula" or not -- has the most comprehensive analysis I've seen of rebuys, add-ons, the theory behind them, and how...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-22-2007, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 258
Re: inviting dead money
If someone was picking fights or just ranting the whole time so that nobody else could talk, then yeah, I would probably opt him out, but just run-of-the-mill annoying?
Even if you someone is...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 424
Re: Calling and Raising
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I started out loseing at 3/6 for the first 6 weeks but have slowly started to turn that around in the last 3 weeks and have started to move up. I have mainly done that by playing fewer...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-19-2007, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 424
Re: Calling and Raising
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Pot odds are 4:1 or better and you have a flush draw on the turn. All the books I read say you should call but none of them address whether or not you should raise if everyone else checks...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-19-2007, 09:31 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 157
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-19-2007, 08:56 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 50
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-19-2007, 08:28 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 245
Re: Interesting take on poker pros
Did you see the following thread?
Poker Theory: Poker Gods... (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=9452814&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1)
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Forum: Home Poker
03-19-2007, 08:20 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 47
Re: Anyone Play Spread Limit?
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Been playing dealer's choice game, mostly hi/low, that permits bets between $1-$3 each round and $5 on the last round. Just curious how common spead limit games are these days.
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-16-2007, 05:52 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 46
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Forum: Small Stakes
03-15-2007, 10:51 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 346
Re: Did I misplay these?
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(3) I opened for $20 with AK-suited and got called by a young, aggressive guy. I made a normal continuation bet on a flop of QJx and he raised. I felt like he was just pushing and...
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Forum: Small Stakes
03-15-2007, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 346
Re: Did I misplay these?
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(2) I had KQ-suited, made top 2 pair on a KQx flop, and called a $100 all-in from someone with AJ who got a Ten on the river.
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2)I dont know how the rest of the hand went...
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Forum: Small Stakes
03-15-2007, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 346
Re: Did I misplay these?
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Too many hands with too much background in this post. In future please try and keep your posts to one or two hands.
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Sorry. I'll split my replies to your replies into...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-14-2007, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 302
Re: How do YOU like to stack up your chips?
In a 4/8 limit game, I like most of my stacks with 16, a row of 8s in front of them, and stacks of 4s in front or on top of those (offset, of course). This makes it easier to grab chips to bet with.
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Forum: Small Stakes
03-14-2007, 05:13 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 346
Did I misplay these?
I'm a limit player, but got into a 1/2 NL game at El Dorado (in Bossier, LA) last week because it was all that was open.
It was a wild game with a standard raise of $20 preflop. I bought in for...
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Forum: Poker Theory
03-08-2007, 09:30 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 181
Re: Poker Gods or Fallacy?
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For example, you define a trial of flipping a coin 1000 times. This is the original set and the expected outcome is 500:500 for heads:tails. If the first 10 flips are heads, the...
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Forum: Small Stakes Limit
03-07-2007, 07:51 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 197
Re: Worst run of cards ever? 4/8Live
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You have to believe and understand that we all get the same hands, in the same distribution, in the long run.
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Warm and fuzzy, but not necessarily true. See the...
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Forum: Home Poker
03-07-2007, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 64
Re: Unbeatable board
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I was playing in a NLHE tourney with some less experienced players. Flop Came 5-5-5, turn was an Ace, and river the fourth 5. Board was unbeatable. I said to the remaining players "split...
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Forum: Poker Theory
03-07-2007, 07:28 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 181
Re: Poker Gods or Fallacy?
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Again, the analogy of the coin flipping trial is that someone has just started playing Hold'em and suffered 5 (or 10 or 100) bad beats in a row. This is not a "prelook", it is...
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