Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
10-09-2007, 02:06 PM
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Replies: 31
Views: 126
The Mississippi Bluff
Hello everyone,
It's been a great October at the tables for both me and my students. I think we have set up just enough metagame in the first week that by the end of the month we should be out of...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
10-05-2007, 01:25 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 163
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
10-05-2007, 01:07 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 182
Re: Straight over set over set over set
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I would have folded in OPs spot. 3rd nuts is usually no good when 5 people shove.
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I think the OP was committed after his preflop play.
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
10-03-2007, 04:26 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 94
Re: \"All you can eat, baby\"
VI:
Chat management is a much misunderstood part of NL strategy, especially in the arena of SNG's. The only notes I really take on players is how they respond to chat prods, pokes and deception. ...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
10-03-2007, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 273
Re: 50% of folding is discipline
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i read the whole thing like 6 times and i give up....what's the other 50%?
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Krantz:
I usually don't give my competition advice but I have alot of respect for your game...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
10-03-2007, 03:00 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 273
50% of folding is discipline
Hi everyone,
Discipline is the key to poker. The main areas for the novice to focus on are not overplaying AK, timing tells and making sure your fancy plays are consistent with your metagame. I...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-29-2007, 03:16 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 504
Button Stealing for Advanced Players
Hello everyone,
Tonight I want to talk to you about a part of the game that most people just ignore. And that is the button steal. When you have the button, you have the disadvantage of being...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-21-2007, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 209
Re: Playing Class 5 Starting Hands
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this is a genuis play completely retarded but if you really think about it it's beautifull, how much an hour for teaching me your artistically playing style?
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Hi Porto:
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-21-2007, 07:11 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 209
Re: Playing Class 5 Starting Hands
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do you offer coaching?
Brian Townsend wants to know
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Ha Ha, Brian Townsend. He is definitely in that top 1% with Grim and Imsa and even aejones. When guys like that...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-21-2007, 06:46 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 209
Playing Class 5 Starting Hands
Hi Everyone:
Today I'd like to talk about a class of starting hands that most people just fold preflop. Most poker players know how to play big cards like Kings and Tens, they know how to play...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-05-2007, 02:56 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 58
Re: OMG i slow play to rep the straight draw
DS,
I think the flop play is good. You need to call to see where you are at. When he bets the turn, you need to find a fold. You don't really have odds to continue and people almost always only...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-05-2007, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 123
Re: OMG OMG OMG IM PSYCHIC + A DOUCHEBAG
Hi Imrahil,
I'm not a big fan of your preflop play in this hand. It's much wiser for you to raise to about $20 and then decide what to do on the flop. This allows you space to fold on some of...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-05-2007, 02:48 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 151
The Pot Sweetener Effect
Hello everyone. I guess I'm really on a theory kick these days, trying to give back to the community that helped my game so much. Tonight, I want to show you something that's really misunderstood...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-03-2007, 04:27 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 83
Suited Connectors: The Goldmine of NLHE
I always tell my students that if they learn how to play suited connectors well, they will prosper at NLHE. In the interest of giving back to the community that helped me so much, I will post a...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
09-03-2007, 03:34 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 52
Re: Brag: First Royal Flush
Getting a royal flush is great because you can always bet your hand freely and liberally knowing that you have the best hand.
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Forum: BBV4Life
09-03-2007, 03:29 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 98
Brag: Finishing high school at age 39
Hi guys!
Backstory: I really got hosed my senior year in high school. I flunked two classes which stopped me from getting my diploma. I flunked Home Ec and Typing (we had typing classes on...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
12-30-2006, 10:28 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 37
Re: tommy angelo style
What a complex, interesting hand! Thank you for posting it.
Preflop is OK I suppose. Ace-Ace is a splendid hand. Ace-other is a troublesome drawing hand, so be real careful with it. But, I...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
11-20-2006, 12:46 AM
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Replies: 73
Views: 302
Re: Is 25/50 NL Rigged?
tl;dr. But to answer your title question...
I firmly believe that NL25 is rigged, the money just shuffled around, to even out the playing field. This is so that players don't go broke quickly...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
11-19-2006, 06:51 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 123
Re: TIME TO QUIT I GUESS
Hi delta:
I think that this hand is super standard. The minor error was made on the turn. You made your straight and now you don't want to lose him with a big bet. I'd probably lead that for...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
11-15-2006, 11:27 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 36
Re: Great misclick
Hi sponger:
I'm not sure wherein lies the error of your ways?
Playing suited Kings aggressively 4-handed is the mark of a mature player. The only hand that can really get involved with you...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
11-15-2006, 11:17 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 36
Re: Disgusting O8 donkament beat
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yeah, you know what happened. ugh.
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Hi red:
I can only imagine that he held 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif 5/images/graemlins/heart.gif 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
11-15-2006, 03:57 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 40
Re: I made a good read
SGS:
In a blind battle, when you get reraised like this, you must realize that there are 5 pairs out there that are bigger than your nines. To continue on in the hand is the mark of a gambler, or...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
11-15-2006, 03:47 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 49
Re: Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
bwd:
That's a pretty nice hand. The only error I see is preflop. People expect you to play big suited connectors for a raise when you have the button. I'm not sure how advanced of a player that...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
11-15-2006, 03:44 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 123
Two Straights walk into a bar...
Haha, that's a joke. There is no bar. What this post concerns is a bad beat involving the dreaded straight over straight. Set over set is common and I can handle it. Flush over flush happens alot...
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance
11-14-2006, 07:29 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 105
Re: Lost my biggest pot ever today
SC,
Bad break as it stands. But, to play so reckless with Queens on a paired board is a possible leak in your game that you may have to address as you move up in the stakes. People often play...
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