Apparently, the doomswitch called and it wants more of my lifetime profits.
You guys should all join ladbrokes and play vs me, any 2 cards = the nuts as they will always hit on the river. Don't worry about my range or what I could have, just call call call and when your magic river hits just shove.
[Article] The Daily Floptionby PanoRaMa, February 23
As I mentioned previously, I write a "metagame" column for Baller Magazine (www.ballermagazine.com) every month. It's a relatively new publication, and I'm a bad writer and not an immensely good player but I consider myself a good teacher and I like helping people. The general audience of the publication is comprised of beginners so don't expect anything phil galfond-ish here if you're already a good player, but hopefully newer players get something out of it. My February article can be found here (on tilt control): http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=839275
I should also mention that I have an extra sc2 beta key which I'm considering selling for $200. Only to relatively known posters on LP (no 1 post lurkers), and I'm not for sure selling but if I decide to then I'll do a first come first serve type deal. PM me if interested. Edit: No longer selling
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While each poker hand begins before the flop, it’s only after the flop that the story—the overlying, strategic line you take with your hand—truly begins. Just because you raised pocket Queens preflop for value doesn’t mean that you’ll be sticking to a pure value-oriented line on the flop. Your opponent may do something unexpected, or the flop may come unfavorably. Poker is a variable-oriented game. There are many options to choose from whenever we play a hand on any street.
Something I’ve implemented with my students is what I like to call “The Daily Floption”, meaning the daily flop option. Lame humor aside, every day I create a preflop and flop scenario, then ask my students what they think is the most optimal flop action to take given the circumstances. The flop is something people take for granted far too often. Just because you only have 9-high doesn’t mean you can immediately disregard your hand, and just because you have an overpair doesn’t mean you can blindly start betting and raising.
Every time the action is on you, you have the opportunity to play your hand in the single most optimal way possible. With that in mind, doing these flop exercises is an “off-the-table” approach to studying poker that will help any player’s game, from beginners to advanced players.
Try this: Grab a deck of cards, shuffle it, and deal three cards face up—the flop. Let’s say you’ve dealt yourself a flop of Jc 3s 5c.
Before the more detailed analysis, it’s best for novice players to first get acquainted with reading flop textures. There is a substantial difference between an Ac 7s 2h flop and a Th 9h 8c flop. “Dry” flops are flops that don’t contain many draws (straight draws and/or flush draws), whereas “wet” flops are flops that contain many draws.
Dry flops are very straightforward. Wet flops require a bit more understanding; wet flops can be “slightly wet” to “significantly wet”, with many levels of sogginess in between. An analogy would be driving down a street. For a slightly wet street, maybe it rained a bit the night before. You might have to deal with a few puddles, but for the most part, your driving will be unaffected. If it’s still pouring rain, however, your driving might be exponentially more cautious. There may be more hazards to consider, your visibility may be affected, and your tires may not work as well. The same can be said for your play with a hand. Having Ac Ts on Th 3d 2c (a dry flop) is substantially different from Ac Ts on Th 9h 8h (a significantly wet flop).
Now back to our randomly-dealt flop. I would classify Jc 3s 5c as semi-wet. The flush draw is present, along with a few gutshot straight draws (7-6, A-4, A-2) and two open-ended straight draws (6-4 and 4-2). Now imagine a scenario in which you have a hand—be it a draw or a made hand—and are up against an average, good, or bad opponent (maybe with some more specific details like his or her tendencies post-flop), with x amount of big blinds as the effective stack, and either in position or out of position. With this in mind, you now decide upon which play is likely to be the most optimal given the circumstance you’ve created.
“In a $5/$10 game, a loose, aggressive, but not particularly good player raised $30 preflop from the Cutoff. We called Ac 4c from the Button, the blinds folded, and against the Cutoff we are 100 big blinds deep. On the flop, our opponent bet $50 into a $75 dollar pot, what is the best play now?”
With this we are limited to three options: raising, calling, and folding. Each option has its own inherent expected value (EV). Folding has an EV of 0. Calling probably has a positive EV because we have sufficient pot odds and implied odds to call. Raising is probably positive EV because we fold out better hands enough of the time, and we still have the capability to win a big pot if we hit our flush or straight. The question is now whether raising has a higher EV than calling.
Since this is a metagame column and not an actual strategy column I won’t go into detail about the specific hand. I just wanted to demonstrate the beginning thought process involved in good, objective decision-making. Every professional considers these factors when playing a hand. With the options laid out, I then ask my students to rationalize what they think is the best option. It’s one thing to blindly choose the correct answer. It’s quite another to understand the reasons behind it.
Having and knowing good reasons for your play in poker is what makes you a good player, not accidentally stumbling into the best play. I then rate their reasons for validity and overall relevance. Sometimes there are some large disputes over what the most optimal play actually is. Ultimately, these disputes are what make poker such a technically beautiful game. In a game of hidden information and millions of possible variables—we haven’t even discussed the turn and river yet!—lies the opportunity to play optimally in the millions of possible circumstances presented to you.
Just changing a slightly wet, two-tone flop to a dry, rainbow flop has ramifications on how you may ultimately decide to play your hand. Note how much strength our hand loses if our example flop is changed from Jc 3s 5c to Jc 3s 5h.
Run a flop exercise like this every day and you’ll be amazed at how well you’ll improve your understanding of Hold’em. Talk to your poker-playing friends about these scenarios you create and what they would do. Recognize and consider flop situations that you frequently have trouble with but have never bothered to try and solve. (A tough one for my students was the common “pocket Kings out of position on an Ace-high flop” scenario.) After that, change the flop texture a bit and see how vastly different your new answer may be. An enhanced understanding of flop textures will allow you to better extract value from wet flops and minimize your losses on dry flops with marginal holdings.
I dont think i played the KK hand wrong honestly, not when he folds to 0 3bets. I did have really retarded bet sizing considering i played that hand so quickly(when i clicked it back min raised..), but still shouldnt matter and it snot like the money wouldnt go in. Honestly the guy was 45% 3bet(no joke) and cbet pot 100% of flops. Im not folding J9 and especially not Q3 just because hes a spewtard faggot donk. Epic run bad session, courtesy of cake poker. Had him down to 100 and unchecked auto post blinds when i was dealt that KK hand, and then never left after that wanting my money back. Oh and yeah, calling 3bets with the hands i did was perfectly fine considering i saw him 3bet 74o, 28o, J6o and all sorts of garbage.
this was kinda depressing to watch. i kinda looked up to the U.S. for a long time and now I think I'm better off living in the Philippines than some working class guy who lost their home and job during the housing crash. just doesnt look promising where it's headed.
my week ended up pretty good, as i reached my profit goal (which was arbitrary to begin with, but whatever) and cashed in the million. i think i ended up getting 3700th or something, which was lame because i bubbled the next cash level. i'm pretty disappointed that stars will no longer be having the super-sngs, as i felt my edge was pretty big in them even without bonuses, though i doubt they would be very popular with fish as they're non-turbo. i think my sng game has improved a lot over the last week, as i can now easily 12-table and still make correct decisions. i'm looking forward to printing money in the next few weeks, as i'm now out of make-up in my backing deal.
I know this is a long shot but might as well try. Looking to transfer 5k of my UB for 5k your ftp or stars. You send first obv. PM or reply here please. people are avoiding the ub monies like the plague sad day ;(
I went to the clinic on Sunday and the doctor said there doesn't seem to be anything wrong really wrong with me that won't clear up on its own (like a cold or w/e). So that's good. It still sucks that I've had a constant headache for atleast 3 days now and physically don't feel very well :/ Hopefully it'll pass by the end of this week!
hey everyone i need 12.5k on Stars I send FTP,i have done a lot of transfers in the past ,i will send first to well know member,i give 4% extra vig for the help.i belive that "YESHBoOM ,PanoRaMa,lachlan" all can vouche for me.
pm me or post here
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prize range to be up to 150$ max 200$ - dont bother posting if they r over 200$
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Dire need of long term stake...by Drakk, February 22
hey my funds are very low now... i feel really good about my game still but spewed a shitload on hyper turbos.
im still up 4.1k according to opr in 2k10... i have pretty nice low stake results since august but very poor money management.
wondering if anyone would want to stake me for a fair amount of monies for the long term, ive been staked before on partttimepoker once.. that was for sngs 12$-, was down early on then made it all back with a surplus 2 days after the beginning i canceled the deal and gave him a 80$ish profit.
Busted the Venetian around 160th out of 870 or something like that. Lost two big flips when I needed to win them, then chipped down to 40kish and shipped KQs in the hijack and 88 held. I really like how I played the tournament. I got very few big hands and still chipped up a lot. I was never all in for all my chips until the last hand, and if those first two flips go the other way then I have a lot of chips to work with. Oh well, gg.
***** Hand History for Game 39974459218 ***** Poker Stars
$50.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 19, 12:44:48 ET 2010
Table Ottegebe IX Real Money
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: No1_Playa $50.25 USD
Seat 2: Colton Dane $56.45 USD
Seat 3: FrankBou $63.10 USD
Seat 4: B Breaker774 $30.70 USD
Seat 5: ad3n0virUS $30.95 USD
Seat 6: tutz_aml $50.00 USD
No1_Playa posts small blind [$0.25 USD].
Colton Dane posts big blind [$0.50 USD].
Holecards Dealt to tutz_aml [ ]
FrankBou folds
B Breaker774 folds
ad3n0virUS folds
tutz_aml raises [$2.00 USD]
No1_Playa folds
Colton Dane raises [$4.50 USD]
tutz_aml raises [$11.00 USD]
Colton Dane calls [$8.00 USD]
Flop (Pot : $23.75)
Colton Dane bets [$15.00 USD]
tutz_aml calls [$15.00 USD]
Turn (Pot : $53.75)
Colton Dane bets [$28.45 USD]
tutz_aml folds
Colton Dane wins $28.45 USD
Colton Dane wins $53.55 USD from main pot
Colton Dane shows
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