mrmuzeman
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Re: Question, On disconnection? What site was this on Kev?
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Re: Posting Blinds when sitting at a cash table
That one :lol but nah being pinickity I always wait personally unless im frothing at the mouth for some reason. Nothing wrong with posting in the cut off though. The ones I like are when people post UTG thats just great playSo, what do you think is best in the cut off - post or wait? Or is the difference so small, you dont care!!!! -
Re: Sometimes it's not the winning that matters ... Last week I was dealing a live tourny. A total rock who literally had not played a single hand for about an hour raised all in for 1200 (blinds 50/100) after 1 limper. The BB called and the limper called. Hes gota have a monster right? BB QQ Limper 99 Rock 84clubs Flop Q9x ALL CLUBS The rest is history. This 1 hand in isolation proves beyond all doubt live poker is fixed and mrmuzemans random card generator is rigged. Thankyou for your time
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Re: Good fold or bad fold? Probably something to work on that, well if youre getting well into cash games anyway mate. It presumably means you never fold when a flush looks very likely or someones really showing you they have trips etc. I misread the flop btw in this hand I thought it said 875 :$ 876 makes 2 pair combos and pocket 9s more dangerous, as well as made straights obv. Its extremely close I dont think its a mistake to call or fold oddswise really. As its a tourny I think a fold is good though cos survival is key, id call in cash. My mate whos a better player than I says he folds whatever it is, so I think you made a good decision. I think its neither here nor there really.
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Re: Good fold or bad fold? Well yeah I mean hes very likely drawing here, its a tough one cos hes not gona be far off coinflipping with you. I can see a case for folding or calling. Id call but thats me with my cash game cap on, in a tournament the fold is more of an opton. Roughly 6/4 on your money and you are probably JUST about ahead.
Btw is that for real? I guess youre more a tourny player but still thats strangeOnly time I can ever remember folding aces post flop....... -
Re: Keep the pot small or try and take it down?
Call everytime with deep stacks. Reraise with QQ though for sure, JJ its up to youYou are in the small blind in a cash game or early in a tournament (i.e. no time pressure).....you have a decent hand that is probably best now, but that doesn't play well after the flop......something like 99 or TT ..... there are multiple limpers before you ...... what is your primary objective? 1) Keep the pot small as you will be out of position after the flop (so call) -
Re: Straddle Bets...oh boy! In cash games things like straddles, rabbit hunting, running it twice etc etc, they are all allowed, players just have to agree to them. Live cash is sort of like a game where the players decide what goes cos its all their own money etc on the line, rules get relaxed.
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Re: Straddle Bets...oh boy!
Straddles are only used In Pot Limit games
Those statements are not actually true although straddles are more 'regular' in pot limit I guess. You can still have them in NL no problem though and they do happen.In no limit the person UTG can "bet in the dark", as much as they want, but if called there is no option to raise. -
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Re: Straddle Bets...oh boy!
UTG is no longer UTG as such, hes straddled so he is like the 'new' big blind so he would collect the chips. I dont think in the history of the human race anyone has ever all folded round to a straddle though. I cant speak for Alien races but id imagine the same would apply.Mrm? Just suppose UTG straddles for $4... and the dealer puts out so much junk that everyone folds. ;) :tongue2 Who takes the blinds? BB or UTG? -
Re: Straddle Bets...oh boy!
:lol Why is it disgusting. You gota remember all these things been around for donkeys years before net poker came along. Yeah straddling is commonplace in cardrooms. It is certainly the sort of thing youd find in a local cardroom on the cash tables anyway. I dont know if they are a regular feature of your typical 1/2 game in vegas but theyll be about as an option I would think. The straddle is just a bet that acts as 2x the BB. So in a $1/$2 game the player that is usually UTG posts a straddle bet of $4. When the action comes round to them they have the option to do whatever just like the BB normally would. A straddle is posted prior to the hand being dealt, so you cant see you have AA and then straddle for example! The basic idea of straddling is to get some action into a game. The opening raise will be larger as there is a straddle and there is just more initial money in the pot from the off encouraging people in etc. It loosens up a game and gets more gamble into it. Its just like a fun thing to induce action. Do any of you watch High Stakes? They straddle in that sometimes (Farha and Elezra love a good straddle - ooh er). Sometimes people at a table will agree to all straddle. Sometimes some people want to, others dont - that is fine there is no obligation they are not obligatory bets like blinds are. If you sit in live cash games you will encounter straddling sooner rather than later but its not a thing that happens every hand or anything at all dont worry, vast majority of the time there will be no straddling about. Youll know if a straddle is on its way youll hear the cry of 'STEEEEERADDLE'! If things get really wild you can even have super straddles and round and round we go! It has been known for every player at a table to straddle before :lol Rare but it can happen in a crazy game. (Basically normal 1/2 blinds, then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 etc etc all blind before a hand is even dealt!).(All this Straddling and Toking the Dealer...it just sounds disgusting to me!) -
Re: Doyles Room move and tourney info Prima huh, whered you hear that? I was wondering where they were off to cos thats where ive been playing cash lately. I knew they werent going to ipoker. Oh well goodbye Doyles Room then I have a better rakeback deal elsewhere on Prima!
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Re: skill against luck Ill agree with most stuff here. Tournies (if were talking big entrant MTTs) are sick variance/luck factor. In can be possible for people never to get the fair deal overall in tournaments I think and so the luck element still looms large. For example you or I may only get a chance to enter a couple or major live events ever in our lives, if the luck goes against us on these big money occasions we never get the chance for it to even out. Also it takes longer in MTTs just in general I believe to get the luck factor to even out. You can easily just keep getting stiffed at crucial points for a long time, it could take years for it to swing back in your favour really. In can work the other way too of course, where you keep getting lucky. In cash games if you play the same stakes for long enough there is 0% luck involved basically. If you have 1 million hands in pokertracker thats pretty much how it is.
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Re: Dusk Till Dawn - permission granted I didnt mind the cavendish thing so much cos the owner of that knocked me out the Ladbrokes Poker Cruise ME :lol I heard through the grapevine that in 6 months or so there may possibly be a thing called a poker license for poker clubs.
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AA Problem?
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Re: AA Problem? If he did have 108 I disagree that he played it well. Checkraising isnt the sort of play I think is good in general when you have a big hand (apart from river checkraising which is a delight). If he leads into you on the flop, you raise him and he goes back all in over the top its difficult to see you folding AA. Leading into preflop raisers is the way to win big pots. Not check calling on dry boards then check raising the turn on a blank, hes just letting you know he has a big hand and you can correctly get away from your Aces. Which is good for you obviously.
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Re: ''Toke'' the dealer ???
Yeah I guess you have to check, I dont work in a casino btw its a poker club so maybe the rules are different between casinos and private clubs. I have to say I dont really like the idea of tipping in ring games much either. A little bit in big pots is fine but I certainly wouldnt be an excessive tipper if I was playing. Dont think you must tip every hand or anything like that. Im really not sure I will ever want to deal in cash games either cos I dont like the idea of it so much relying on tips from people to earn a wage at all. Something doesnt sit comfortably with me about it. I deal in tournaments and obviously this differs greatly. However where I work there is a 5% deduction taken from the prizepool for all dealers which acts as the tip which is a much welcome bonus and makes the job a much nicer proposition. It also negates the, 'should I or shouldnt I' tip thing for the player who wins and doesnt put any pressure on them as its already taken care of. Of course cos the winner is usually on a buzz and has witnessed you dealing him all manner of sweet river cards they usually leave something as well anyway.Guess I will have to check with whatever casino I go to to find what their rules are. Must be honest, I assumed that all dealers would be reasonably well paid and that tips would not be allowed. But clearly from mrmuzemans comments this is not the case. -
Re: ''Toke'' the dealer ??? Hey mate, to answer your questions (im a dealer btw, no not a drug dealer)...
It is actually up to you. I would personally give the following advice, if you win a reasonable pot, tip the dealer a dollar or two and if you win a big fat pot or all in pot, tip the dealer 5 dollar. Dont worry about the smallish pots at all. As I said though it is up to you. Dealers wages vary a lot from place to place. In some cases all the dealers earn is tips with no other wage paid to them, so obviously tips are very important to dealers. In some cases dealers are paid reasonably hourly anyway so tips are just a welcome bonus for them. I think in America a common scenario is that dealers get paid min wage + tips.Assuming this is in ring games, but are you expected to tip (or toke) the dealer every time you win a hand or just when you win a decent pot?
Absolutely not so dont worry about that.And what if you over tip...couldn't this be seen as a bribe or pay-off?
This again is up to you. Some places already deduct a % of the prizepool for the dealers tips anyway (say 5% of the prizepool shared amongst the dealers). Obviously any extra is always welcome. Some dont though and it is expected (but again not compulsary) for anyone who wins a lot of money (so usually the top 2 I guess) to just tip a bit.Also...do you tip if you win a tournament
Yeah if the dealers being an arse I wouldnt tip him either. As a dealer you have a service to provide in being as efficient and courteous as you can so if they arent doing that then I wouldnt tip them. If they are I would.When you get a crap dealer dont be afraid not to tip. -
AA Problem?
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Re: AA Problem? Good fold V. To quote myself
I was gona say why dyou keep saying online whatr do you, live what do you do. Personally it makes no difference to me which it is. Although now I see why you put it. Shame you didnt ACTUALLY get to see what he had though. It looks like me PP read was probably a good one though, works good that does.If he checkraises then its gona have to be an annoying fold imo. He would very rarely checkraise without the above danger hands. -
Re: Updated Live play rules
That rule shouldnt exist anywhere, they must have a mistake, you can always raise that if the action hadnt got to you yet.our local casino used the under raise rule which stopped me playing there in the end, coz you cannot protect your hand i.e 50/100 blinds i have AA on the button UTG has 175 chips and is all in, as he did not raise at least the BB all you can do is call
This isnt the same thing though as youve already acted. There is discrepancies within the rule though, I have encountered 2 types. Say you raise to 300, shorty pushes all in for 450. This is sometimes deemed an underraise and you cant do anything apart from fold or call when it comes to you. Say you raise to 300, shorty pushes all in for 450. This is half of a full raise and thus COUNTS as a raise and the action can be reraised when it comes back to you. Some places require the full raise, some just half of a full raise.The incident: I raise to 300 UTG and the shorty has less than 600 and is all in (he had about 475 or so?), got 4 callers to shoties shove but I cannot reraise to isolate when it gets back to me
That BS as well I think. Its just a bet in the dark, you should be allowed to do this.I had a major row with folks about this - so then i announced I was all in on the flop regardless - and was told that i couldn't say that and my hand was now dead - lets just say the F word was said once or twice :lol -
AA Problem?
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Re: AA Problem?
Why is this btw, I think its quite good to look weak here. The turn deuce changes nothing, hes shown us that he surely (bar weirdness) he either has a PP or has flopped a boat (66) or trips (getting freaky deaky with 78 or 89 preflop). Any of those are possible but you have to presume your ahead for now. Bet again cos this pots well worth taking down now with 3k in it but no need to hammer it incase hes got us and if he has just the PP we would like him to stay but still at a reasonably hefty price. A 2k bet looks good. If he checkraises then its gona have to be an annoying fold imo. He would very rarely checkraise without the above danger hands. If he calls the turn then we have to see the river but if he checks the river then im checking behind.Well, I didn't want to portray weakness and wanted to put a bet in to challenge him. -
Re: Laying down AA first hand
I think you hit the nail on the head there :lolNow I agree a lot of this could be psychological and he wants to make an entrance and be noticed
It depends on the type of game. In an ME type scenario thered be a lot of raise it and take it going on id imagine and not much action at all so probably in the region of 30 hands an hour. But in your standard £10 rebuy donkathons where theres muchos action your looking at more like 20 I reckon.how many are dealt roughly per hour live Mrm? -
Re: Laying down AA first hand
I appreciate the observations but in reality it doesnt really work like this imo. You cant think along these lines in all honesty in the heat of battle. By this sort of logic youd only ever risk your entire stack if you were a 90%+ favourite or had a lock and you cant do that in poker. A tournament is won or done well in by a series of different moments where hopefully you get your money in infront and hold up, this being one of those moments.In a very deep-stacked, long blind level tournament, with a flat prize structure, and a player much better than average, I don't think it's at all obvious that his tournament equity would be multiplied by as much as 1.25 by doubling his stack on the first hand, especially if he was at a weak table. I don't think it's obvious, but I really don't know.
I guarantee Hellmuth would call this. Hed be in there like a fcuking shot with one of his patented all in shoves where the chips spill about everywhere :lolOf course, if there were a player who thought he was that good, I wouldn't expect him to tell anybody that he'd fold all hands in this situation, or he'd just be inviting people to rob him .... unless he were Phil Hellmuth, perhaps -
AA Problem?
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Re: AA Problem?
Well UTG is to act first so we need to know what he did first! Ill assume he checked though as im guessing thats what happened. Well if this PARTICULAR 886 board had 2 to a flush on it id definitely bet, probably 600-700. BUT it doesnt its rainbow so its actually totally ok to check behind here if you want to. If he has 2 high cards then hes TOTALLY missed the flop and he cant move ahead of you whatever may hit on the turn. It also makes it look like you have missed also with an AK for example if hes someone who thinks about things. So thats 1 possible move. The other is to put out a weak CB, like 500. This also has the added benefit of looking like youve missed the flop with overcards and he may play back at you with a checkraise to try and take it down. ESPECIALLY if he has a pocket pair which is very relevant here. If you see UTG limp then call a raise his most likely holding is a small/medium PP, its just an observation ive made through playing a lot, it really is a PP quite a lot. That rule only really applies to UTG or UTG+1 though but this is UTG so thats ok. So id either check behind or bet 500 as I put him on a PP if I had to say. Either of those is totally fine imo.What do you do? (a) In the casino (b) Online -
Re: Poker IQ Test - No cheating now! I got 124 btw. Not that its a competition but IF it were Norfolk Enchance would have got the gold medal by 1 single point with 125, I DEMAND A RECOUNT :lol
Question, On disconnection?
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Re: Question, On disconnection? Yeah its a problem with the boss software I think Kev. My mate has had exactly the same problem in a series of small pots and he has spoke to them about it. They say they are sorting it out. If you contact them about it (perhaps with hand history if you have it) you never know you might get a small bonus or something, probably worth a try.