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    An Experiment

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    Re: An Experiment Hi mikkav, I do advocate taking the maximum buy in to cash tables. This is by the far the best thing for a good player to do, you will not be "bullied" around, you have maximum flexiblility and you will get paid the max against anyones second best hand. I cannot say that short buying as it is termed is ever a good idea. However one thing that is true is you might find it easier to get called when you have a premium hand - the big stacks are more likely to gamble with you....In other words it is far easier to get 40 dollars all in preflop than it is to get 400 holding AA at a 400 max buy in table. However I would have to say in the long run losing out on the advantages of having a big stack is just too big a disadvantage to give yourself Jez

    Ladbrokes Private Rooms

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    Re: Ladbrokes Private Rooms Paradise are ok dave, but they keep messing the times of the tournaments up and some members have experienced connection probs with them. Also I dont think everyone here has an account with them so we will prob switch to somewhere that suits us all after the next tourney. They are still a decent site tho I would say, come along and play the next PL tourney there dave...they do a good sign up bonus :ok Jez

    Paul philips

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    Re: Paul philips :lol no prob fritz A leading internet casino software provider only recently realised the wheel was the low straight in three card poker as well....it had been treating it as the highest up until a month or two ago :spank Jez

    Things that piss you off when playing poker

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    Re: Things that piss you off when playing poker Dave, Yep thats me mate ;) welcome back to the fold....glad to see you have taken up poker again from your posts I am sure it will be a profitable hobby for you in the long run... You have done the best thing possible and identified a hole in your game there dave, so many players just assume they know it all that they fail to see where they are leaking profits. The fact you know you can improve heads up puts you a mile above the majority of online players....all you have to do now is get better at it! There is a good post by Zara a few posts back on this forum about heads up play - and of course there is NOTHING better than experience, and you can play little heads up tournaments from as much as 1 dollar on the net these days. I would say the key is just pure aggression and taking control of the situation - there are lots of fancy plays and of course heads up NL poker more than any form is far more about playing the player and not the cards but aggression is probably THE key factor. At the end of an STT which I assume you mean the blinds are so large it is mathematically not that bad to just move in every hand since the maths of your opponent folding make it incorrect for him to do so almost every time yet he will do an awful lot. Opting for this strategy also nulls any loss or fear you might have about actually "playing" heads up. Jez

    How did you start Jezza?

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    Re: How did you start Jezza? :lol Staffy you cheeky cnut I thought that sort of thing only went on at policemans balls? Dave is right in a way, I used to play fruit machines for a living so was accustomed to being a pro gambler anyway - I sort of drifted slowly over to poker, the money coming in from slotting could finance a slow start at poker. As for the poker bankroll, I started out playing STT's like you, the 10 dollar ones (as the rake is less % wise than the 5s) and devouring everything I could on the game + playing for hours every night. Doing not bad I progessed onto the 0.25/0.5 cash tables on ladbrokes (50 dollar max buy in). There I played solidly for many months playing a TAG game and making some not bad money, easily covering my rent + bills at least. I managed to win a 50 dollar buy in MTT outright on pokerstars which paid just under 6k one night and that was when I decided to give up slotting for good...I banked the money and moved up slightly to 0.5/1 NL cash games...concentrating solely on poker - its been a lot of ups and downs but in the long run a gradual rise ever since. As for your other questions on strategy mikkav..there are a few threads about this around already if you take a look back through the poker forum but for a few pointers... 20% to see the flop is very tight, perhaps just a little too much IMO..maybe 30% should be ok. Playing super tight is fine tho just as long as you do back it up with aggression when you go for it you will still find yourself paid off by plenty of people to make it worth you while (as long as you have the patience for it as well!) In STT's I would recommend keeping preflop raising down when the blinds are low but as you say either raising big or folding when the blinds are high...however as I say check out some of the past posts and if you have any more questions or specfic hands/situations to ask about just post away :ok Jez

    Things that piss you off when playing poker

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    Re: Things that piss you off when playing poker Hey Dave, Great to see you back on here mate. One of the old skool on pl. Been many years since I remember seeing you on ladborokes (under the orginal software...remember how pish that was :lol ) Hope you stick around on the poker forum here mate as you always have well thought out posts that are good to read. I will have to disagree with you totally on the AA tho and agree with dave. Many people hold this view that folding AA on the bubble/as they are about to go up in prize money etc is correct - it isn't although your short term expectation might be ok from doing this the long term expectation is far better going for the tournament win as dave points out. This is where the lions share of the money is...one outright MTT win is far better than 5 final table placings. However the point about a sat where winning does not increase your prize is a valid one and it can be correct to fold it in situations such as that. Back on thread tract I will have to add.... Live poker players who always insisit on being the last to turn their cards over in an all in before the river situation. CHEEKY FCUKERS IF I CALLED YOU THEN TURN THEM OVER FIRST MR SLOW ROLLER Jez

    Raked Hand Requirement

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    Re: Raked Hand Requirement Just to reiterate much of what has been said :lol ... You dont have to be actually in a pot that has been raked for it to count towards your 250. As long as you got dealt cards in that hand and it matches the criteria for being a "raked hand" it will count towards your 250. A hand is not raked on the net if there is no flop....so a preflop takedown wont count...check the small print of everything just to be sure what tables you can play (sometimes microlimit tables are excluded from counting). When you play cash games towards these requiremants just be very tight but agggressive mate...be mindful that everything you have infront of you is very much at risk every hand and think about what your opponents have - you should do ok playing ABC TAG poker (barring any unfortunate beats!) ;) Jez P.S. - DONT tilt!!

    An interesting question

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    Re: An interesting question slapdash, Only just noticed this just now...GREAT work mate :clap What did you write the program in as a matter of interest? Good computer skills there mr dash ;) If you could post the full results up I would appreciate it greatly, can you factor in blinds into the equation? Jez

    Do you think online poker is rigged?

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    Re: Do you think online poker is rigged? Many good points have been made above but just to add my 2p worth... Nah, there is absolutely 0 chance that online poker (at least any site worth its salt anyway) is "rigged" for several reasons 1) The sites have too much to lose. Imagine the headlines in the papers if ladbrokes had been found to be rigging their online poker site - they would be destroyed over night - any company putting its branded name on anything public is putting its reputation on the line. Bear in mind also many sites get 3rd partys to verify the RNG as being fair and random - Price Waterhouse Coopers (beefcake accountancy firm) do ladbrokes for example - there is no WAY that lot would have anything to do with a crooked RNG 2) The money involved. These sites are making phenomenal amounts at the minute. This is from the game of poker and not from rigging the cards. They make the most money by offering an honest game. If a REAL suspicion came out that a site was fixed then who would play there? They make so much from rake as it is with super low running costs it makes more financial sense to be straight rather than crooked. 3) There is a huge amount of proof in favour of the RNG's. Many players (myself included) have logged millions of hands with software like pokertracker etc. Personally I have 300,000 hands of net poker logged on there and everything is bang in line. If there was even the slightest proof of the mildest hint of fixing it would have been noticed long ago. Staffy made a good point when he said that the good players are 9/10 looking for the river to help no-one whereas the bad players are just hoping it helps them. Remember if you are going in infront all the time you will naturally experience more bad beats than someone who only goes in ahead half the time as you have twice as many chances! It's just human nature to remember or notice all the bad beats and forget all the good wins/times your hands held up - probability and the laws of chance are crazy at best and hold em is a very volatile form of gambing - just take your pals furious statement that ladbrokes is a fixed piece of shit right after he bubbles on the 30k guaranteed with his aces losing to kings with a pinch of salt..... Jez

    Showing cards

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    Re: Showing cards There is a big difference of opinion on this subject....Personally when I play online I always have auto muck set on for both losing and winning hands (I dont really care if I get bad beaten and I dont really think anyone should get to see what I have unless they call the bet....). However you do notice some people who like to show cards on occasion. Doing it for a purpose is the classic reason I suppose...Showing everyone a bluff when you take down a pot with nothing (to give the image of a bluffer and make everyone call your bets when you actually have it) and of course the natural opposite, showing the nuts when you bet so you can bluff away to your hearts content for the rest of the time. It is easy to see the logic behind this and of course it DOES work to some extent I suppose however I feel there is a little flaw. When you deliberately show cards like that the better players at the table will realise what you are doing, which is trying to create an image - they WONT fall for it and indeed you will be playing into their hands. Of course your average joe might fall for it but then again you can just outplay your average joe anyway.... If you want to create a wild bluffing image then imo it is far better to have been FORCED to turn over your cards by a call after you try to pull some ridiculous play than to show them yourself. An exception might be if you are trying to put an indivudual on tilt...if you know you are getting the better of him and showing him a bluff after he folded a massive pot to you will piss him off even more then that is an ideal time to do it, this is totally different than showing the table however. Of course if im playing a friendly game with someone I will happily show my cards every hand as I would let any of my friends watch me play on the net anyway (And see how I played every hand with my cards exposed). Jez

    Add-ons

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    Re: Add-ons This is a difficult one to judge I agree slapdash, it depends on what your stack size is compared to what the average stack is of the tournament I guess. There was a very good article with a mathematical calculation written on pokerpages a few months ago about this...I will try and look it up later. Jez

    New Boy

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    Re: New Boy All right james, Personally I prefer cash games - I play them up to 10hrs a day sometimes across all the sites. The thing with NL (and to some extent PL) cash games is that you can really punish weak play by taking someones entire stack of money. They are not friendly in the slightest and although I would say they are the most consitant profit form of poker to learn you really have to find your feet slowly in them - start at the smaller limits and work your way up or any cash game virgin is going to find themselves in uncomfortable situations! MTT's are for the "glory".....smaller entry fees (and a fixed limit to what you can lose!) offer shots at huge prizes and the chance to put your name on a trophy. All the famous RL players made their name from MTT successes like the world poker tour etc...cash game players never reach this level of fame! MTT's can be highly profitable for the good player but the level of variance is very high. I do enjoy playing them but only occasionly and I dont treat them as my bread and butter, more a little fun now and again. What you say about being able to make the money but havnt made it to the no 1 place yet is nothing to worry about it. You are obviously playing a pretty good tight game to get that far james..what you have to do when the blinds get large and the prizes become in sight is open it up a notch. Become a bit more LAG (loose aggressive) preflop, raising more frequently and be the one challenging everyone, not the one calling. This will lead you being knocked out a bit more often but the times you do survive you will have plenty of chips, a table that fears you and 1st place in your sights. In cash games my advice would be to play at small stakes to start with. Always take the maximum to the table...if you want to play with 50 dollars then dont take 50 dollars to a 200 buy in table, take 50 dollars to a table where 50 is the maximum. Keep it really tight, and when you hit a good hand BET IT HARD (pot size bets all the way) - you should get paid off most of the time. If there is a raise preflop try to ditch trouble hands like AJ AQ KQ KJ etc, but provided the raiser has a lot of money behind them and its not too much to call you can play suited connectors (with position) and pocket pairs to try and break him. Reading people just comes with experience (something you can gain a lot of on the net if you wish to). All the way through a hand try to put your opponent on a hand. This is a difficult thing to do but after a while you will get better at it (and it is a CRUCIAL skill to become a great NL player). The times you do get to see your opponents cards you can think back through the hand and consider how the way he played it gave clues to what he held. An awfully common one is people who act weak on the flop etc then liven up on the river usually hold a monster Jez

    New Boy

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    Re: New Boy Hi james, Welcome to the poker forum mate. Glad to hear you have been enjoying some online poker action :clap.....I will answer your other questions in depth later on tonight when im not buried in 3 games at once (like now lol)! Jez

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