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Re(1): Recovering from Horrible, gut wrenching Play
1st - these people losing respect for your game is a *GOOD* thing. It's hard to swallow your pride and let people think you're a donk, but if you do you'll show more profits. 2nd - I don't think your call against this player in the second hand was so terrible. He had been able to push you off of hands with big bets before, so I'd have thought he was trying to do the same thing here. Based on his stealing of your blinds, he had you labeled in his mind as tight-weak. what do you do to tight weak players' you raise them. I actually would have thought his re-raise all-in would mean a weaker ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 20th, 2005
Re(3): Play a hand with Xmas....
gotcha; essentially you were playing the jacks here like a small-medium pair; set or fold. nothing wrong with that considering the preflop bet was only 5% of your stack. GL! Bill
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 20th, 2005
Re(1): WHAT IS THE BEST LINE?
Laugh :) "my image is super tight. I have limped in or raised the last 17 hands" nice.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 20th, 2005
Re(3): Was my play poor?
on second thought his call with the 5's probably was fine. We'd need to know the chip stack sizes to be sure though. He had already put in 3x the BB, which I was just re-reading to be 12k. So he raised 36k so there was now 6k sb, 12k bb and his 36k raise plus any ante's. That's a big pot and likely pushed his pot odds into an automatic call.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 20th, 2005
Re(3): Was my play poor?
Laugh on the 55's being 100% - nice :) also I agree that the 39% statistic isn't correct.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 20th, 2005
Re(2): Was my play poor?
4 handed with huge blinds to me means that 3x raise could be almost any hand, especially coming from the chip leader. I like the reraise with AQ. in any case he should have folded the 5's - at best he's a coin flip there and doesn't have you outchipped by much. Good play, tough break imo.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 20th, 2005
Re(1): Flops seen
I seem to remember harrington giving a number of up to 20%, then between 20% and 30% as being very aggressive and over 30% being stupid. like others have mentioned though I don't think you should shoot for a specific number.. if you're at a weak table full of loose/passive players with 4 or 5 people to see the flop every hand, you can see the flop more often profitably. Also of course if you're playing 6 handed or less you need to loosen your starting requirements or you're going to get killed.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 20th, 2005
Re(1): Play a hand with Xmas....
Just one comment; you called his raise pre-flop, and I don't see anything on the flop that should make you feel a preflop reraiser improved. Since you'd count on him making a continuation bet whether he hit or not I don't like your fold, or I don't like your initial call preflop. I'd either fold preflop or reraise his bet after the flop here.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 20th, 2005
Re(1): Would you play or fold
what kind of a game is this' if it's a 6 person SNG, I fold if it's a 10 person SNG, I fold if it's a tournament, I call. I assume it's not a cash game because everyone started with 1500 chips, but just for posterity I'd call there too. 5 players all in sounds to me like lots of big pocket pairs and big aces. you could have a huge chance to beat these because of their hands interfering with each other, however, in a 6 person SNG, folding almost guarantees you a money finish. Not quite as much in the 10 person, but still a big chunk of the field eliminated and now only 6 people to fight over ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 16th, 2005
Re(1): Folding Pocket Aces against a Tilter
wow. way too many petty and childish responses to this. In any case, mn808, this wasn't a good fold. In a cash game you should be willing to risk your chips with a relatively small edge, because you can buy back in, and in the long run you will make money on these small edges. Play the odds in a cash game and ignore the variance. AA will make money in the long run against any other hand, so you have to play it. The reason not to play it would be if $700 is a significant part of your bankroll, in which case I can understand the fold. *BUT* if it is a significant part of your bankroll, you ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 16th, 2005
Re(1): Need some Help
most people are stronger at one or the other. if you can keep up that pace in the tournaments you enter, I'd say just forget the ring games :)
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 16th, 2005
Re(1): Need more discipline.
min raise utg looks strong to many people so you aren't apt to get a re-raise, which I imagine you were hoping for pre-flop. I'd be more tempted to call and hope for a raise from one of the later players. If the table has been pretty passive though without a lot of preflop raises and with a lot of limpers, I think you want to do the standard 3-5x raise to thin the flock a bit here.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 16th, 2005
Re(5): NSXT2 AND ARAIZA atop 20k dise.
Laugh :) No worries steve! GL! Bill
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 1st, 2005
Re(3): NSXT2 AND ARAIZA atop 20k dise.
That is true and I agree, but a couple points: 1. NSXT2 wouldnt have posted that he and his girlfriend were both doing well in the tournament if there was any colluding going on. If you want to suspect someone of colluding, there are tens of thousands of more likely people playing right now. 2. the sites encourage you to get your friends and family to play. When they do this, they are encouraging this exact activity. They want you to play in the tournament, they want your girlfriend to play in the tournament, they want your dog and goldfish to play in the tournament. 3. Two people in the ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 1st, 2005
Re(1): NSXT2 AND ARAIZA atop 20k dise.
There's nothing at all wrong with them playing in the same tournament... and you've probably noticed that the sites outright encourage you to get your friends and family to play. (thus the referal bonuses). GL! Bill
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 1st, 2005
Re(1): Thoughts on this hand wanted please
agreed; I dont think you could have spared yourself here. Especially with the ace on the river, even if you'd have slowed down earlier you still would have committed the rest of your chips with top two pair.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 1st, 2005
Re(2): Could anyone get away from this?
oh also, in EP my temptation would have been to limp with the tens instead of raise... maybe 70% of the time.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 1st, 2005
Re(1): Could anyone get away from this?
I think you gotta pay them off with top set here. You at least have several outs even if you are behind to start with. it's unfortunate that there were three people calling your raise; this early in the tournament at these stakes, you may need to bump up to a 4x or 5x typical raise to isolate them. 3x is probably fine later in the tournament when the blinds are bigger, but this early more people are willing to pay to see a flop. after the flop, your 860 reraise here gets you 3:1 odds on this bet if mrshade calls; and if you are up against a made straight you have 7 outs for the turn and 10 ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 1st, 2005
Re(1): Bad timing or a bad push?
Just one disagreement with Dan, your chip count to start the hand was 995, so with the 150 blinds you had an M of 6.5, not 12. This is still a tad early for an all-in move with low/mid pocket pairs imo, but it's a much more reasonable move than it would be with 1700+ chips here. I think Dan will agree. GL! Bill
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Sep 1st, 2005
Re(1): is this a donk play??
keep in mind that want2win had two callers ahead of him and was on the big blind, so the range of playable hands for him was higher than it normally would be. his call on the flop wasn't so hot, but preflop I wouldnt argue too much with someone playing a suited 2 gapper for 4.5:1 odds. He should have layed down the top pair 8, but he probably figured you for two big cards.. in which case he should have re-raised you all in. The flop call was definitely his worst play that hand.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 31st, 2005
Re(1): Moving up in stakes?
If you don't want to lose money ever, you have the wrong hobby ;) Anyway I think you have to prepare yourself for a bit of a hit when you move up levels. There's no teacher like experience as they say, and you'll have to take your knocks to advance. It sounds like you've done a great job managing your bankroll, so just establish what your threshhold of pain is as far as losses goes, and save up that much to give the $55's a try. I'd think you want to give yourself at least 20 buyins worth to test the waters with and get a feel for whether the level of competition is too high or not. ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 31st, 2005
Re(1): Food for thought ladies and gentlemen
Well you said you dont want us to post saying that you want the guy to make that call, but it's obligatory so here goes. you want that guy to call. He's your dream opponent. He's calling almost a full pot bet with an 8% chance to hit his draw... in a cash game! If you don't want that guy in the game against you, you don't understand where your profits are coming from. If he doesn't make that call and other mistakes, your edge against him goes away and the person who is going to win is the one with the better cards. Do you want that to happen' Don't go ballistic on the guy, just smile... ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 31st, 2005
Re(4): Idea for the new member profiles
I googled "F beanie", and thought you might appreciate this. it's a "royal f beanie with orange trim". does it get better than that''
Posted in: Off Topic 		da_bill
Aug 31st, 2005
Re(1): <<<<< new member
welcome to p5's No-Loitering- GL at the tables!
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 31st, 2005
Re(1): Raising/Stealing with early limpers
If you have position on these limpers (which you do) then I don't mind the steal attempt here depending on how feisty they are. You're unlikely to steal the blinds outright, but what I'd hope for here is to remove two of the limpers and get isolated with one to see the flop. Then they hopefully check if they dont hit their hand (which they most likely will because you're the raiser) and you can take the pot from them with a decent raise. It's a more aggressive play than the shorter handed steals, but you can probably get away with it once or twice before someone finally leads out against you ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 31st, 2005
Re(1): Good Lay Down??
agree with the assessments so far. Nothing that beats you here puts you all-in but doesn't give itself away preflop. imo you are up against a middle pair that figures it is now the best hand and you have two big cards. It could also be a flush draw with two overcards to the board, or if kholso is the loose type it could be a straight draw or straight flush draw but I'd think those highly unlikely.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 30th, 2005
Re(3): ITM % in 6-person SNGs
30-60% seems very very high, but if it's working for you keep at it. if things start running cold over a long period though, I would start with this flop percentage as a place to look for holes in your game. GL! Bill
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 30th, 2005
Re(1): Do you try to milk this flop to get a call with AA??
I think you played your aces pretty well. With all the money in the pot it was worth taking down and not getting cute. If there was less in the pot and you were a shorter chip stack I think it may have been worth trying to slow play it to chip up, accepting the greater risk... GL! Bill
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 30th, 2005
Re(1): Who's the bigger idiot?
with three callers and a dangerous board, I'd say you want to open the betting with a larger amount here. say the pot has 100 chips, and you bet 50. The first guy is getting 3:1 odds on his call. A slightly incorrect call on his part if he's on a straight draw when considering just pot odds, but adding in implied odds it's not so off the wall.. But if he calls, the second guy now has 4:1 odds.. a correct call if he's on a draw, and the third guy has even better odds than he needs to make the call on a draw. If guy #1 feels the people behind him are loose/passive and likely to call not raise, ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 30th, 2005
Re(1): Fox's "see your hole cards" post
Hey Super! The trick wouldnt be hoping to have someone at your table whos hole cards you can see, the task is just to see who's hole cards you have visible, and go join them at a table. Basically if you could even get a few people to inadvertently download your virus, you could just go sit with them whenever you see them on. As the other posters indicated, really the only way to prevent this is good personal security; clean your system of spyware and you have no worries :) GL and thx for the feedback all! Bill
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		da_bill
Aug 27th, 2005