Forum: High Stakes Limit
01-29-2007, 02:09 PM
|
|
Replies: 67
Views: 1,017
Re: Invisible Ink
“Might he have said, “I think I still have you beat” if his hole cards were the jack of clubs and another club, giving him top pair on the flop, and a flush on the river? Yes he might.”
Not though...
|
|
Forum: Internet Gambling
10-13-2006, 09:32 AM
|
|
Replies: 1
Views: 75
Re: stars new bonus system
btw they should be making it more attractive than say an amazon voucher not less. Not least because they will get some of it back, but none of amazon (not directly anyway); but also many of us like...
|
|
Forum: Internet Gambling
10-13-2006, 09:27 AM
|
|
Replies: 1
Views: 75
stars new bonus system
25k fpps = $285 bonus (which is conidtioned on raked hands))
29k fpps = £250 (~$475) amazon voucher.
Dumb move unless I'm missing something.
The only chance you've got of people taking up such...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
10-02-2006, 01:13 PM
|
|
Replies: 31
Views: 305
Re: New law impact on live games. thoughts?
Whether the poor players find the live games tougher or not they will be better off and have greater longevity: they will be playing less hours and less hands per hour than online, they will lose...
|
|
Forum: Internet Gambling
09-24-2006, 06:20 AM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 58
|
|
Forum: Internet Gambling
09-23-2006, 08:08 PM
|
|
Replies: 3
Views: 58
Ecash payouts
A few years ago I had a crypto account that used ecash. They were dreadful - they took weeks to payout and periodically requested faxes of identification bills etc before paying out - in checks. It...
|
|
Forum: Medium Stakes Limit
09-07-2006, 07:08 PM
|
|
Replies: 8
Views: 75
Re: KTs hand
*utg raise is typically too loose, but ok a small %age of the time or if the time is right.
*I wouldn't fold p/f with K-10s for two more bets.
* flop cap is bad but acceptable some of the time...
|
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-07-2006, 07:27 AM
|
|
Replies: 48
Views: 238
Re: Eugenics
Well one could argue that it depends how you measure success and benefit. For some people measuring the long-term success of the human race cannot preclude morality.
However, this is also no...
|
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-07-2006, 06:41 AM
|
|
Replies: 47
Views: 188
Re: \"Anomalies don\'t exist\"
[ QUOTE ]
[The model is pretty static and evolution dictates this as rapid mutation is not good. Whatever the timeframe, there is an optimal strategy and those who execute that strategy win. You...
|
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
09-06-2006, 11:55 AM
|
|
Replies: 47
Views: 188
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
09-04-2006, 06:57 PM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 121
Re: Combatting collusion
That was to be another post or question - the only justification I gleaned was because s/he might be innocent and so it was 'unfair'.
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
09-04-2006, 06:48 PM
|
|
Replies: 2
Views: 121
Combatting collusion
Just recently I reported a couple of suspected cases of collusion on the crypto site - either could have been
innocent, but since I don't have considerable confidence in the policing of the poker...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
09-02-2006, 09:45 PM
|
|
Replies: 16
Views: 87
Re: 99, a little too strong?
I feel you need a very good read on your own image. I've regrettably made these plays in instances where I have no chance of getting a player to fold a better hand and where AQ is unlikely to bet -...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
09-02-2006, 08:46 PM
|
|
Replies: 14
Views: 73
Re: my thinking
[ QUOTE ]
it protects calls with weaker hands out of the blinds
[/ QUOTE ]
sure, but there is trade-off: you weaken the medium strength hands you 3-bet with if you always f/c big pairs.
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-31-2006, 04:56 PM
|
|
Replies: 27
Views: 138
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-30-2006, 07:24 PM
|
|
Replies: 27
Views: 138
Re: $5 rake in shorthanded 50/100 !!!
Sorry for the delay. 'On what grounds?' - gross profiteering. In the uk many services industries are affiliated to watchdogs/regualators. My knowledge is superficial - no more than consumer level -...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-30-2006, 01:34 PM
|
|
Replies: 27
Views: 138
Re: $5 rake in shorthanded 50/100 !!!
The mistake that people make is comparing the services, they are completely different - they are only similar in so much hands of poker are played. For every $ rake over 90c* is money they can are...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-29-2006, 09:46 PM
|
|
Replies: 27
Views: 138
Re: $5 rake in shorthanded 50/100 !!!
Rake is a rip-off, profit margins are huge, why charge $5? Because they can. Ultimately its the poor players that drive the games and they aren't incentivised by rake. The trouble is virtually every...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-29-2006, 02:28 PM
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 219
Re: River hypothetical
Thanks for the response. I’m not sure the question is vague, I think my it is clear - just hard to measure; besides I‘d have taken a few wet fingers.
In this hand I was the BB, and on the turn...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-27-2006, 08:21 PM
|
|
Replies: 4
Views: 219
River hypothetical
6-handed. Cut-off raises. Big blind calls.
Profile the players two semi-TAGs.
flop Q-5-7 rainbow.
chk-bet-raise-call.
Turn:2
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-27-2006, 08:00 PM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 199
Re: Collusion evolved?
I'm glad you liked my style, though poor grammar and needless repetition leads me to doubt your adulation. Though I appreciate it's a step up.
If the requirements of the role of moderator didn't...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-25-2006, 08:37 PM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 199
Re: Collusion evolved?
Thanks, I should also add I won a ahndful of big bets, so I wasn't looking for it as such - I just noticed how uncomfortable I'd felt. Naturally it could be variance, even so very few players are...
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
08-25-2006, 08:17 PM
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 199
Collusion evolved?
The ashamedly very limited amount I've read on collusion would tend to keep you on guard against active actions of sorts, essentially manipulation of flops in a number of subtle and not so subtle...
|
|
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy
08-23-2006, 08:34 PM
|
|
Replies: 27
Views: 176
|
|
Forum: High Stakes Limit
07-21-2006, 05:51 AM
|
|
Replies: 45
Views: 245
Re: Results
Would you say it accomplishes nothing if foe had JJ rather than 10-10? Whether it's the right play or not is debatable, but to say it accomplishes nothing is senseless.
I've grown to like it more. ...
|
