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Forum: Stoxpoker.com 11-27-2007, 02:33 AM
Replies: 97
Views: 2,904
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: Bryce is \"In the Well\"

Hey Bryce, I've been a member (lurker) on StoxPoker for several months now and your videos are my favourite by far. I also love your video blogs.

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My formal education consists of high...
Forum: Televised Poker 11-01-2007, 05:58 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 64
Posted By nickabourisk
How does Phil Laak make money?

I'm just watching Poker After Dark on the nbcsports website and I'm just wondering how he makes money. He plays sooo tight.

P.S. he said that he wanted someone to post a thread on 2p2 asking this...
Forum: Poker Theory 10-16-2007, 10:49 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 303
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: simple game theory question

The main author Martin Zinkevich (who came up with the new method) has since moved to work for Yahoo so unfortunately, he's not here anymore. The others, however, are all still here (although the...
Forum: Poker Theory 10-16-2007, 05:32 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 303
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: simple game theory question

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You haven't a clue what's Nash equilibrium for hold'em. No one knows it.

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This is something that can be solved by computational game theory (at least within some...
Forum: Poker Theory 10-16-2007, 05:08 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 476
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: Best hand to play against AA?

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Actually the best hand is v AA is AA which has 50% expectation, except in my local live game where I found the As duplicated, making AAs possible, imagine a 10 out flush draw!

The next...
Forum: MTT Strategy 10-12-2007, 10:47 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 51
Posted By nickabourisk
$26 Chip Leader Clash

http://www.pokerxfactor.com/servlet/pxf?t=hand&handid=89995

The hand and situational description are provided in the link above. Comments/criticism would be greatly appreciated. Also, an...
Forum: Poker Theory 09-19-2007, 06:54 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 444
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: Win rate with optimal strategy against limit raise bot

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0 = check, fold
1 = check, call
2 = bet, call
3 = check, bet, call
4 = bet, bet, call

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Forum: Poker Theory 09-19-2007, 06:45 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 76
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: A line analyzer

Thanks a lot. I think I'll check out the free version and see if that works out all right. Also, I think I'll use C/C++ or C# (have to learn it). I was using Java and the free code that is given...
Forum: Poker Theory 09-19-2007, 04:15 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 444
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: Win rate with optimal strategy against limit raise bot

No biggie. I thought about postflop bets and forgot that there is one bet size in the middle (as you pointed out) which is not available (depending on your position).
Forum: Poker Theory 09-19-2007, 03:18 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 444
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: Win rate with optimal strategy against limit raise bot

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For the small blind, the choices would be 2sb or 4sb preflop

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In the case of the SB, you can get in 2, 3, or 4 sb. For 3 sb to go in, the action would go as follows:

SB...
Forum: STT Strategy 09-19-2007, 01:41 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 73
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: lilholdem954 according to Sharkscope

The interview was on www.cardplayer.com (http://www.cardplayer.com) under the Card Player TV section in the Online Zone.

Jennifear's article of p5s discusses how playing a LAG style might be...
Forum: Poker Theory 09-19-2007, 12:33 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 444
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: Win rate with optimal strategy against limit raise bot

Several things mykey.

1) I talked to Morgan Kan yesterday about his thesis and the claim that the always raise bot will make about 3 sb/g. He said that he ran some simulations with VexBot (which I...
Forum: Poker Theory 09-19-2007, 12:11 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 76
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: A line analyzer

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What I think would be really cool about this sort of program is that you would be able to check, given the same betting sequence, how bet sizes affect your overall EV (for that exact...
Forum: High Stakes Limit 09-18-2007, 07:38 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 158
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: A software I would love to have

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what are the flops? who is the guy? what is our recent history? lots of stuff matters here.

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I don't think you understand the main interest behind such software. It's...
Forum: Poker Theory 09-18-2007, 05:24 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 76
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: A line analyzer

Well, I'm no computerwiz (although I am doing my Masters in Computing Science at UofA and am interested in joining their Computer Poker Research Group) since my undergraduate degree was in physics...
Forum: Poker Theory 09-18-2007, 01:17 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 76
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: A line analyzer

Yeah, what I envision this program being (at least initially) would be something to do the calculations similar to those done in the book "Killer Poker By The Numbers: The Mathematical Edge for...
Forum: Poker Theory 09-18-2007, 05:38 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 76
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: A line analyzer

I also agree that this would be very interesting. It's kinda funny because I was thinking about the EXACT same program this morning. mykey, even if your opponent plays a mixed strategy, wouldn't you...
Forum: MTT Strategy 09-08-2007, 09:59 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 50
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: FullTilt $26 $28k Guaranteed Final Table (5 left).

Thanks for the reply. I have a few questions/comments:

1) how are you calculating the EV of these hands? Are you creating the structure of this tourney and putting it into SNGPT or some similar...
Forum: MTT Strategy 09-08-2007, 03:09 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 50
Posted By nickabourisk
FullTilt $26 $28k Guaranteed Final Table (5 left).

Okay, so this is my first post in MTT. I just started playing MTTs less than two months ago and I'm just in love with them. I've final-tabled four $26 tourneys so far (one was a MTT SNG) and I want...
Forum: Micro Stakes 07-19-2007, 09:03 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 23
Posted By nickabourisk
25NL: Flopped a set in BvB situation.

Villain is 53/14/1.5 over 96 hands. I also think that he was pissed off about me raising and reraising him (this happened quite often especially since he limped quite often). I'm switching over from...
Forum: Software 05-31-2007, 07:46 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 92
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: Bodog and Pacific poker hand history converter?

Hey Davey,

at Pacific, you have to get the program HandGrabber to obtain hand histories. To convert these into another format (such as 2+2) you can use the following link:
...
Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded 05-26-2007, 10:19 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 118
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: Never openlimp! (?)

kaby, I definitely know what you are talking about. I play at Pacific (very loose) and I deal with the same types of players all the time. I also raise most times in for the same reasons that...
Forum: Software 05-26-2007, 10:43 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 242
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: 3-betting, lets find a solution

cool. I currently live in Prince Edward Island but I'm moving to Edmonton, Alberta in September to do my Master's in Computer Science at UofA. Have you heard of Poker Academy and the research they do...
Forum: Software 05-25-2007, 06:46 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 242
Posted By nickabourisk
Re: 3-betting, lets find a solution

rvg,

where are located in Canada?
Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded 05-24-2007, 10:49 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 37
Posted By nickabourisk
Flopped bottom set. Crazy river action. Easy fold?

No stats. Only note is that a few hands or orbits earlier, SB called my PFR in SB with J2o and bet into multiway pot on 235 flop.

I'm wondering how you guys play this hand. Without doing anything...
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