Forum: Medium Stakes Limit
11-27-2007, 12:18 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 317
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Forum: Heads Up Poker
11-26-2007, 02:49 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 54
Re: LMT vs maniac
actually i'm not running bad. it's a legitimate question - when you do run bad vs such a player, is there anything you can do to limit the loss aside from deciding to not play?
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Forum: Heads Up Poker
11-25-2007, 02:29 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 54
LMT vs maniac
limit holdem:
if you raise with 100% of your hands before the flop (and call all my raises), flop a pair twice as many times as i do, and play aggressively after the flop regardless of your hand,...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
11-12-2007, 09:03 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 272
Re: 55 $ Stars, isolating fish with 67s on button
if villian isn't weak tight, i'd have to disagree with jonnyd. your push is getting called.. just call and hit, fold if not. he seems to like his hand, and most MTT fish don't fold when they like...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
11-12-2007, 03:02 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 103
Re: final table hand
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Also, lol at a normal raise planning to fold to a push, this would be 100% retarded as his pushing range would inlcude a hell of a lot more hands that 77+
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I mentioned...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
11-12-2007, 05:16 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 36
final table vs chip leader w/ 55
Final Table of Sunday's $20k guaranteed, 8 players left. The prize structure (mentioned in a previous post) is pretty silly:
1: 5400
2: 3600
3: 1800
4: 1400
5: 1200
6: 1000
7: 800
8: 600
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Forum: MTT Strategy
11-12-2007, 12:32 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 103
Re: final table hand
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The only place I'd put more emphasis on Q is when its fairly obvious that you stand to gain more by tightening up, considering that there must be (far) shorter stacks if you're regarding Q...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
11-12-2007, 12:31 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 103
Re: final table hand
one last thing about playing a pot out of position with an M of 4-5 in the SB vs a tight BB - is it really possible to make a continuation bet on the flop and not be pot committed when you raised...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
11-12-2007, 12:27 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 103
Re: final table hand
how important is effective M, and how do you calculate it? i have a friend who doesn't regard it very highly at final tables, and puts more emphasis on Q.
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Forum: MTT Strategy
11-11-2007, 11:54 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 103
Re: final table hand
thanks, i figured as much.. dan harrington says you should gamble with any two with an M of under 5 and first in vig, but i think at tighter tables, the M threshold is more like 3, and Q plays a more...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
11-11-2007, 11:02 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 103
final table hand
final table of a small site's MTT - $60 with 1rebuy. guaranteed prize pool of $20k, and the overlay is about $5,600.
final table, 6handed, generally tight play, everyone is pretty short stacked,...
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Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded
11-08-2007, 03:13 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 183
3betting from the SB with marginal hands
in a shorthanded small stakes limit hold'em game (3-5 handed, 2/4 to 5/10), my standard line in the SB vs a very aggressive button stealer is to 3bet with my showdownable hands - 22+, A2+, K5s+,...
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Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded
09-30-2007, 02:26 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 72
Re: heads up downswings
how much greater? what about 2-4 handed games, where most of the hands are HU, then 3, then 4 players?
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Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded
09-30-2007, 01:59 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 72
Re: heads up downswings
wow. that is so revealing. thanks for those examples! some of those graphs look horrible. what software did you make them with? i assume SD means standard deviation. is 25BB/100 realistic?
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Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded
09-30-2007, 12:51 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 72
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Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded
09-30-2007, 12:36 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 72
Re: heads up downswings
why do you think they aren't as rare anymore? is it because the games have become more aggressive, or because there's more data to go around lately?
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Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded
09-29-2007, 11:32 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 72
heads up downswings
let's say you're a heads up limit hold'em player. for the sake of this discussion, you play only heads up. your edge against your opponents is thin, but it's there. you and your opponents play a...
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Forum: High Stakes MTT
09-10-2007, 01:36 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 43
Re: buying a piece - settle an argument
so what happens if you buy 100%? i guess that's not normal, but your stakehorse isn't going to play for free. and if he's not playing for free, why should he give you 100% of your piece if you buy...
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Forum: High Stakes MTT
09-09-2007, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 43
buying a piece - settle an argument
i have been in a dispute with a friend who contends that a typical tournament staking agreement goes like this - when you buy a piece of someone in a tournament, you only get 50% of what you put in. ...
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Forum: MTT Strategy
08-18-2007, 02:57 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 65
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Forum: MTT Strategy
08-18-2007, 01:18 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 65
borgata final table situation
you are playing borgata's nightly $100+20 MTT with optional $100 addon. you have made the final table. first place is $6900, 2nd place is $3100. the final table is amazing, in that all of the...
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Forum: Small Stakes Shorthanded
08-14-2007, 09:37 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 122
Re: How much action with a set?
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its time to call because you cant fold to a raise and because your hand is far from teh nutz
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i disagree with all of you. your hand is not far from the nuts. you have...
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Forum: Internet Gambling
08-13-2007, 02:57 PM
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Replies: 350
Views: 3,092
no ePassoprte cashouts on poker.com
Poker.com currently is not allowing its (US?) customers to withdraw to their ePassoprte accounts. They claim it's a technical issue, but these problems come on the heels of their launch of new...
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Forum: Internet Gambling
07-09-2007, 02:09 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 85
UIGEA takes effect tomorrow
Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 10 is the 270-day deadline for the US government to release details on how the UIGEA will be enforced (assumes the countdown started on October 13 when Bush signed it into...
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Forum: Televised Poker
07-01-2007, 03:22 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 229
Re: WPT World Poker Open thread
he might have been on some sort of focus drug or ADD medication. i'm hearing stories of people taking these kinds of things now to play poker, especially during high stress situations such as WPT...
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