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Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-26-2007, 11:52 AM
Replies: 430
Views: 3,322
Posted By mosch
Re: The Worst Strategy You\'ve Overheard at a Table

My favorite things to claim at the table:

Small cards are better... (this can be followed with a detailed discussion of dead card odds, related to people playing mostly high cards, if the person...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-26-2007, 11:33 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 111
Posted By mosch
Re: Vegas Trip Report - Bellagio/Caesar\'s/Venetian

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I've hit quads once in the last 500 hours of play. But I've been at tables where one player hit a straight flush twice and got paid a HHJ twice in 3 hours. I'm a victim of statistics. ...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-26-2007, 11:27 AM
Replies: 58
Views: 224
Posted By mosch
Re: Clock ruling at the Bellagio

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Who thinks this was actually 30 seconds? He was probably 1/2 way through an album on his ipod.

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I had a clock called on me with little delay at my last Bellagio visit. ...
Forum: News, Views, and Gossip 10-24-2007, 01:07 PM
Replies: 378
Views: 2,399
Posted By mosch
Re: Jman\'s High Stakes Poker Trip Report (long)

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This is getting ridiculous. He sat down in a game full of people playing INCREDIBLY TERRIBLE--, and played somewhat tightly for a full-ring game (15% is probably about optimal in a...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-24-2007, 12:26 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 270
Posted By mosch
Re: 5/10nl live skill level is to _______ online

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I think online players like to think that big live games are equivalent to paltry limits online so that they can brag that they are good enough to beat the big live games. Of course,...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-24-2007, 11:59 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 600
Posted By mosch
Re: Re-opening the raising in NLHE cash game

I'd expect the full-raise rule to apply here. (and in most major casinos.)

That said, the situation doesn't arise often enough for me to know which way it is supposed to go at most of the places...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-24-2007, 11:43 AM
Replies: 71
Views: 270
Posted By mosch
Re: 5/10nl live skill level is to _______ online

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Isn't the general rule 10x the online buyin = the live buyin?

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It's a decent rule of thumb.

In my experience, most exceptions involve either the smallest or largest...
Forum: News, Views, and Gossip 10-23-2007, 09:33 PM
Replies: 378
Views: 2,399
Posted By mosch
Re: Jman\'s High Stakes Poker Trip Report (long)

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we see Humberto, Mrs Laak Tilly, Mouth, Sooky girl Hellmouth etc with zero class, zero style as the main proponents.......guys that have a brain and intelligence like van Alstyne etc are...
Forum: News, Views, and Gossip 10-23-2007, 09:16 PM
Replies: 378
Views: 2,399
Posted By mosch
Re: Jman\'s High Stakes Poker Trip Report (long)

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From an "outsider's" (no idea who Jman is) point of view, this thread leaves a seriously bad taste in my mouth towards the OP. Comes off extremely self-righteously. He bought in min,...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-23-2007, 08:50 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 168
Posted By mosch
Re: A Newbie Guide to B&M Small Stakes No Limit Cash Games

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If you tip any more than $1 per hand at 2/5, you will be tipping away all your profits.

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I'm not arguing for mega-tips, but that is a blatantly false statement.*
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Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-23-2007, 08:37 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 101
Posted By mosch
Re: Rake vs. Hourly Drop in AC

If $5/half is killing your profits, you should really move back down, and I'm not joking.

Drop makes a wider range of pots profitably contestable, so you should just be glad to see the end of...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-23-2007, 02:15 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 53
Posted By mosch
Re: Las Vegas during American Thanksgiving

Even if it's dead, Bellagio or Wynn should be able to hook you up with an 8/16 game.
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-23-2007, 02:09 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 73
Posted By mosch
Re: Bellagio tournament hand, floor ruling question.

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not at all binding

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Wouldn't this open up an opportunity for angle-shooting, whereby the second all-in player could opt out of their push, without anything changing?
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Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-23-2007, 01:54 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 73
Posted By mosch
Re: Bellagio tournament hand, floor ruling question.

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I'm not sure but I would say that the all-in is binding if you fold and not binding if you do anything else. I might be wrong though.

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Thanks. This is actually the ruling...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 10-23-2007, 12:10 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 73
Posted By mosch
Bellagio tournament hand, floor ruling question.

Bellagio Friday Tournament:

EP pushes all-in. Action is on me in MP. LMP declares "all-in" and pushes his chips forward, then realizes I haven't acted. It reads like a genuine mistake.

I ask...
Forum: High Stakes MTT 10-22-2007, 12:23 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 113
Posted By mosch
Re: Caesar\'s $1500: Help, I\'m Addicted to Suited Connectors

A serious question for you: what were you hoping for when you called?

You already knew the action would be multi-way, and which players would be involved. What did you want to flop? (aside from...
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit 08-02-2007, 04:47 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 395
Posted By mosch
Re: 60-120 hand

pf: I 4-bet

f: I guess this is sort of the alternate to 4-betting pf... waiting for a non-terrible flop and then dispensing chips. it's a bit odd to see, but I'm guessing it made sense in person....
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit 07-30-2007, 06:22 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 123
Posted By mosch
Re: 10/20 - OOP, 3bet by LAG, missed bets?

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The 20/40 Foxwoods game plays very differently than the 10/20 - so I have been told. Whenever a 20/40 regular is on a temporary bankroll adjustment and drops down to the 10/20 game, I try...
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit 07-30-2007, 12:13 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 123
Posted By mosch
Re: 10/20 - OOP, 3bet by LAG, missed bets?

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You play in tough games, bc I tend to get called by Q9, Q8s, K9s, K9o and thats just the average fish.

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You might actually be right about the difference. I get an...
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit 07-30-2007, 02:23 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 123
Posted By mosch
Re: 10/20 - OOP, 3bet by LAG, missed bets?

I call it spew, absolutely.

I was about to post that I'd open it in MP, 10-seated, but not earlier, and I decided to look at PT to see how it fared in reality, using my old party lhe hands as my...
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit 07-30-2007, 02:13 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 260
Posted By mosch
Re: Collusion in canterbury 30/60 game?

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If you want to know who colludes, look at the people defending adamantly that there is absolutely no collusion taking place... ever. They obviously care enough to get real defensive about...
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit 07-30-2007, 02:09 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 106
Posted By mosch
Re: 1st Daily Post: Fun w/ QQ

I understand exactly what's going on, I just happened to call it a three-bet instead of a 3.5 bet.

As for the "definitely has a set", that could be true if the hand is being played against you in...
Forum: Small Stakes Limit 07-26-2007, 11:33 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 84
Posted By mosch
Re: 2/4 FTP 62o LOL I RAISED 62o PREFLOP!

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Flop: I'm putting in exactly 1 more bet in this hand, and this is where. If he calls I check through the turn intending to fold to his river bet, if he check/raises I fold immediately. ...
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit 07-26-2007, 11:22 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 180
Posted By mosch
Re: 22 in SB

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Against a very weak player, you could probably muck to a 4th bet.

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That would be absurd. Mucking in a ~ 15bb pot for one bet. You're going to see AA, KK, AQ and QT often...
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit 07-26-2007, 11:10 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 81
Posted By mosch
Re: Another borg 10/20 hand.

The river bet isn't a bluff or a value-bet.

You're just throwing your chips away in the cases that you're beat, and feeling all fancy and special when you were going to win anyway.
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