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    A classic online poker chat box cut...and an apology

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    First of all soz for my absence the past week......I had written 3 pages of my vegas report and then realised I hadnt got past the first night :rollin ...hopefully it will be finished soon. Also MrM I have your pms but havnt had a chance to look at them yet, been mobbed since I got back...however I will soon and will send you back my thoughts... Anyway this afternoon.......................

    PL Internet Poker Bragging Thread

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    Re: PL Internet Poker Bragging Thread I love it when I get a chance to post on here :rollin (not very often as a hardly ever play MTTs) Went onto ladbrokes yesterday to chat to my mate who was playing a 10 dollar STT.....I saw an advert in the window for the heads up MTT starting in 5 mins time, and I thought I would play it for a couple of reasons. First of all because I like to play heads up a lot, I do end up playing HU cash fairly often and it is always good to practice and secondly because I had just come off an 8 hr cash game session nd fancied something a bit different to wind down on... headsup2gi.jpg

    Help for to play better..

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    Re: Help for to play better.. Hey mate, Glad to hear you are back on the winning track :) I remember you telling me about a lot of losing sessions you had :o. In this example here I think the flop play is fine. A semibluff here is a bad idea as you are not only in a bad position, but also against multiple opponents. You did well by just checking and calling the small bet, letting others in as well and pricing your draw correctly. Now the turn hits and you have the nuts - what to do? A lot of players here would do what you did and check it. This is not really a horrible play but it has several problems. First of all, if someone has a second best hand like a smaller flush you are missing going up against them by leading out (and them then raising...comitting themselves more) and secondly, when you check-raise your hand is pretty obvious to a decent player. Of course what actually happened is you ended up putting in the second raise (reraising or however you want to put it), this alerted the other two to your hand and caused them to fold. Also, if as you feared, someone has a set and is drawing to a FH you are giving them a chance to check for free and snap it off on you when you check - you dont want to do this and should charge them for it. What would probably have been a better play here is to lead out and bet. Hardly any players lead out with the nuts when they make it so it certainly can entice some calls that way as many people wont believe you. You will be charging the sets to draw to a FH and.....the biggest factor IMO...at the lower limits (and on the net in general) people love to CALL CALL CALL. Take advantage of this and bet your good hands hard. In this situation you might well have got a raise and a reraise after your lead out, a raise and a flat call or a flat call and a raise. Who knows, but I feel you have your hand slightly more disguised and your opponents a bit more commited had you played it this way. Anyway hope this is ok mate...im away to write my vegas report now! Jez

    Poker Indicator

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    Re: Poker Indicator When you are playing on some sites, showing down a hand that is a loser can be mucked automatically. However the fact it got shown means it did get just that, shown, even if the user mucked it straight away. You can see what your opponent called and lost with usually by going to the hand history. these programs will just be doing that donkey work for you. Of course if you muck your hand without a showdown, noone can know what it was. Now I have to go....plane in an hr and a half! Jez

    Jezza...Can You Help? Or Anyone Else?

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    Re: Jezza...Can You Help? Or Anyone Else? Hi Valiant, Sorry for the delay in replying - he is indeed as norfolk says on stars, but he is most often on ultimatebet. He is one of the pros that represents them in the real world, so he has his own name reserved as his nick "PhilHellmuth"...occasionly to be found in the big NL games on there mouthing off :rollin. Other players of interest up there on UB are "dill pickle" (mike matusow - LOVES his internet poker), "spirit rock/mahatma/aplusgame247" (prahlad friedman) and "HASSAN SLASK" (hallingol of pokerstars fame) I am away to vegas tomorrow for a few weeks so wont be around for a while, good luck everyone and see you all when I get back Jez

    Pokerstars - final table deals

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    Re: Pokerstars - final table deals I have done a deal in the final of a MTT on stars before.. (a 20 dollar entry 900 player one which I won)... What happens is you can all sit out. This means everyone folds automatically and the chip positions effectively stay the same as the antes get folded round, someone sends an email to stars whilst you are all sitting out and a customer service rep comes to the chat box on the table (less than 2mins after we sent the email). The tournament is manually paused and you can talk the deal......the rep makes sure everyone is in agreement to it and sorts the payouts for every player accordingly, you then have to play out for TLB points. If not everyone agrees the tourney is unpaused and play continues. Jez

    A hand I played in a live game last night

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    Re: A hand I played in a live game last night Yeah, the hand the idiot bluffed against plow was a bit over the top.... I am all for showing your bluffs when you successfully pull one off. A lot of the time I dont show, but sometimes I do and turn my cards over just to rub it in a little bit and maybe make your opponent steam. However this guy went WAY over the top with plow, pushing his face up into him and laughing. In my opinion he showed a total lack of class at the poker table and just made everyone think he was a dick. At my semi final table he had called a raise and a reraise cold with A7, the flop came down 10 J 4 and he called an all in bet and a call before him cold, one guy had QQ and the other AA - the turn and river were both 7s :lol This gave him all his chips, and he was the clear leader going into the final. After building my own stack nicely through some steals and double ups, I raised his blind with the £$ ~# and flopped three of a kind... As soon as the flop came down I knew if I played it right I would get them all, and get them all I did rocketing me to clear chip leader. This left me with 120k chips. Another guy had 90k and everyone else was 25k or below practically. with 7 people left and therefore 70% of the prizepool being split equally in 5 minutes time you can understand my annoyance at this! As it turns out first prize was 1200 or so, and I got 400...I would far rather have played it out and gone for the 1200. Casinos in the UK have a forced closing time at the moment (this might change with the gambling bill). So obviously some "rule" has to be worked out, I disagree with the 10% thing at my local cardroom but at least you are told before you start the way it is. Yeah GotAFancy, the max is 4 tables with 11 per table...and since its in an old converted house and we are playing in what used to be someones living room it is pretty cramped like that! On a wednesday it is only a ten quid buy in. These days it is full most weeks and the rebuy period is crazy. I frequently raise blind during it and will call all ins with any part of board whatsoever :rollin . The upshot of this is that we end up with mountains of chips on the table and a very deep stacked game. This is of course great fun but leads to it lasting a long time.... Jez

    A hand I played in a live game last night

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    Re: A hand I played in a live game last night The problem I have with commentating on this hand is that I played on the same semi final table as plows opponent in this hand, infact I was sat next to him, so it influenced my view on him in the final - I will try to give my view on it tho without letting that information that plow did not have cross over into my analysis. Ok first of all the guy was making several mistakes with the rules at the final table. I dont mean the sort of thing which an internet player making his first journey to a cardroom might do (like string betting or being intimidated by not knowing anyone) - I mean plain mistakes. Like constantly betting out of turn despite having it politely explained to him several times. You could assume from this he is new to poker at least (new players 99/100 play far too many starting hands) calling a reraise with KQo is also a loose play so he is obviously playing a lot of hands. When it is folded round to you you are correct in thinking that your hand is almost certainly better (more times than not) than his random hand. However remember you are against a loose player here so he is probably going to call when you raise and you will be out of position from the flop and on. I might have limped because of this and hoped I could either get paid off on a favourable flop or lost the minimum. Raising is not that bad a play however either. So you raise and miss the flop what are you going to do now? I would not worry about this guy slowplaying to you as I doubt he has that ability but knowing him he could have any two cards to be honest. Remember the chances are he has missed as well as you and you have the lead from the preflop raise. Against a good player a small bet might not work here as you will be read correctly but this guy does not have that ability. Perhaps betting maybe half the pot size (not something I usually advocate but there is a time for it) might have worked - he isnt going to read anything from the size of your bet and if he has missed surely he will give it up. This way the majority of the time he will probably fold the pot to you but the times he calls you can escape still with some chips and a chance in the tournament. Checking is not too bad either but he is liable to do some random things (as all beginners are) and you must give it up straight away if he bets - flat calling on the flop is a pretty ugly play and is just giving your chips away as the turn is not liable to help you. Position really is key in these battles and if you think you are going to get played with try only to raise out of position with very good hands. Jez

    A hand I played last night in a live game - YOU make the play!

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    Re: A hand I played last night in a live game - YOU make the play! :lol - sorry guys I have been busy. Well all the cards are out now and I have to make my decision... I can discount him for slowplaying now. With three spades on the turn he is not going to slowplay even with AAA there as he knows the river could kill his hand dead - I would have been raised for sure. I think if he had a flush draw on the flop he would have bet it and the same applies for if he held a bigger ace - therefore I dont think he has either of these hands and I can only assume my ace was good on the turn. So why the quick call of a large bet by him? I figure he must have hand like KQ with the Q of spades or KJ/K10 with the J or 10 of spades - that would give him a pair + a flush draw and makes his call understandable. As the dealer burns and turns I cross my fingers and hope for no KJQ10 or spade, any of those cards and I planned to check the river. However the card off is a total blank! I am sure this leaves me with the best hand (my pair of aces to his pair of kings) and now I can try and get paid off.... Many players would check here in my position but if you want to really punish your opponents you have to "value bet" with the best hand (even if it is a weak one like top pair no kicker) when you are sure you are winning from your read. Ok..I know if I check here he will check right behind me and I will win the showdown so the question is not to bet or not, its how much to bet. Now this is maybe where I made a mistake :(. I always advocate betting the pot size - whether you are betting to protect your hand, betting as a bluff or betting for value. That way good players who pick up on bet size tells will never be able to read your hand from it. However I did not follow my own advice here and went down a different road. I thought to myself that betting the pot size (over 20k) would leave him with hardly any chips if he called and his pair of kings is not good enough to call that size of bet. So I bet only 10k into the pot of around 23k hoping for a call. My opponent hummed and hawed for ages and looked at me shaking his head - obviously not knowing if his pair of kings was good or not. Eventually he said he thought I had flopped a monster and folded. I can understand the logic behind his read the way the hand played out and perhaps my small bet at the end was screaming to be called and added to his read? I dont know.......perhaps I shoul dhave bet a lot smaller or a lot larger! When we left for the break I was talking to my mate (and opponent in this hand) and he asked me what I had straight out. I told him the truth and he said he did indeed have the.... ££&££ .> Jez (comments on the bet at the end appreciated)

    The sunday night half million guaranteed on stars

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    Re: The sunday night half million guaranteed on stars Well i moved all in first hand after the break with 1600 chips and blinds 300/600 and ante 25 with Q10 the same guy whos bluff i called earlier and whos A6 beat my A8 called with A7....the board flopped A 10 8 and turn and river were blanks..so im gone Nevermind...... Jez

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