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What would you do with AK on bubble of live tourney?
Well, if it's the true bubble the tournament is going to be playing hand-for-hand. No benefit to tank-calling. Anyway, if I staked someone to play MTTs and later found out that they like to fold premium hands near the bubble in order to min-cash, that staking agreement would come to an end mighty quick.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jan 19th, 2011
PocketFives Open on Wed Sept 1st - UPDATE: PASSWORD INSIDE!
Ughh..I'm moved to a new table after being card dead the last 3 or so orbits. First hand at the new table, and I pick up a hand that I'm just not in the mood to fold, even without reads. Turns out it's a good call, but leave it to Stars..... PokerStars Game #49006319679: Tournament #304335107, $20+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2010/09/01 22:31:48 ET Table '304335107 66' 9-max Seat #7 is the button Seat 1: EyeKnows (4300 in chips) Seat 2: Freewill1978 (4861 in chips) Seat 3: AreUserious (5866 in chips) Seat 4: Morgase (19603 in chips) Seat 5: ThatsPoker4U (7982 in ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Sep 1st, 2010
PocketFives Open on Wed Sept 1st - UPDATE: PASSWORD INSIDE!
Nice, quick double-up. I know, I know, fold pre. PokerStars Game #49002332939: Tournament #304335107, $20+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2010/09/01 20:35:42 ET Table '304335107 77' 9-max Seat #1 is the button Seat 1: NizeCph (1515 in chips) Seat 2: Freewill1978 (1760 in chips) Seat 3: FaulkDogg (1470 in chips) Seat 4: Gertsu (1470 in chips) Seat 5: LAE777 (1470 in chips) Seat 6: OGHowie (1500 in chips) Seat 7: tjeezy17 (1485 in chips) Seat 8: ZENFUL (1330 in chips) Seat 9: 99NvrLosez (1500 in chips) Freewill1978: posts small blind 10 FaulkDogg: posts big blind 20 *** HOLE CARDS ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Sep 1st, 2010
Spot Early in the $35K Guaranteed on FTP
Hardly. Gags is a far more accomplished player than I, AINEC. I'm just trying to initiate a little discussion about how important it is that your hand be suited if you're going to flat a raise OOP in a HU pot.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jun 10th, 2010
Spot Early in the $35K Guaranteed on FTP
file:///C:/Users/Robert/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.pngequity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 48.726% 44.61% 04.11% 1219220420 112389872.00 { 22+, A2s+, K5s+, Q7s+, J9s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, A2o+, K9o+, Q9o+, JTo } Hand 1: 51.274% 47.16% 04.11% 1288837020 112389872.00 { A7s } equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 51.477% 47.12% 04.35% 3863367780 356968782.00 { 22+, A2s+, K5s+, Q7s+, J9s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, A2o+, K9o+, Q9o+, JTo } Hand 1: 48.523% 44.17% 04.35% 3621206208 356968782.00 { A7o } If your definition of "clearly superior" is about 3%, I'd have to ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jun 10th, 2010
Spot Early in the $35K Guaranteed on FTP
Agreed but once he leads the flop, he probably should lead the turn, and then fold to a raise. But if he leads turn and gets called, creates kind of a 'wtf' spot on a lot of rivers.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jun 10th, 2010
Spot Early in the $35K Guaranteed on FTP
A little something to think about: would you have called with Ah7c'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jun 10th, 2010
Re:tough spot in cash game with JJ-do you call or fold?
Explain rationale for raising. What are we trying to get villain to fold here'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Apr 17th, 2010
Re:tough spot in cash game with JJ-do you call or fold?
QJ is a possibility too, although less likely since we have two Jacks. I'm betting the turn, though. I have no reason to believe I'm beat yet and the board is still very drawy.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Apr 17th, 2010
Re:rakeback after u signed up to a site
fyp
Posted in: Poker Sites 		Freewill1978
Mar 4th, 2010
Re:Deep in the 50/50 with 77
I think it's very close between folding and shoving, for exactly the reasons ferrengi stated. I think both options are >>>>>>>> calling; your stack is just too short for that. I lean towards a fold here because you have to risk busting for too small of a gain, imo.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Mar 4th, 2010
Re:Fold kings pre-plop ??
The cash players who recommend folding KK in certain situations (assuming 100bb deep or less) are probably not 3-betting and 4-betting with enough frequency to where their opponents will give them all-in action with less than KK.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jan 31st, 2010
Re:Rail call for the 50/Hundo on FTP
Sick hold, man. Keep up the pressure, good luck!
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jan 30th, 2010
Re:folding aces pre
Alright, your first post was vaguely on topic because it at least included a hand where you got AA all-in against a few players. This latest one isn't even remotely on topic. At the risk of derailing this awesome thread even further, I have to ask: if Full Tilt is rigged, who is it rigged in favor of' Just anyone who plays you in a hand'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jan 6th, 2010
Re:folding aces pre
<-------- Bad beats is that way.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jan 6th, 2010
Re:folding aces pre
Lowered the equity even more just by changing one of the AK's to A2. equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 04.799% 04.66% 00.14% 107965 3312.22 { AcAd } Hand 1: 04.864% 04.72% 00.14% 109466 3312.22 { AsKh } Hand 2: 17.267% 17.28% 00.00% 400355 6.89 { Th9h } Hand 3: 15.894% 15.90% 00.00% 368526 6.89 { 8s7s } Hand 4: 11.003% 11.01% 00.00% 255132 6.89 { 5d4d } Hand 5: 12.487% 12.49% 00.00% 289554 6.89 { 3c3d } Hand 6: 16.388% 16.40% 00.00% 380010 6.89 { QcJc } Hand 7: 14.209% 14.22% 00.00% 329489 6.89 { 6d6s } Hand 8: 03.090% 02.95% 00.14% 68349 3312.22 { Ah2d }
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jan 6th, 2010
Re:folding aces pre
After messing around with Pokerstove a little bit, I found a way to give AA less equity than it is contributing to the pot, without cheating by giving someone else AA. The key is to just have the other two Aces accounted for, so we have no outs to re-suck. equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 07.637% 07.54% 00.10% 644499 8803.22 { AcAd} Hand 1: 02.225% 00.92% 01.31% 78654 111644.22 { AsKh} Hand 2: 17.050% 17.05% 00.00% 1458413 18.22 { Th9h } Hand 3: 16.164% 16.17% 00.00% 1382690 18.22 { 8s7s } Hand 4: 11.212% 11.21% 00.00% 959099 18.22 { 5d4d } Hand 5: 13.082% 13.08% 00.00% 1119008 ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Jan 6th, 2010
Re:Lucky You
I love that she announces that he has a flush draw, and then it's fold, fold, fold. WTF'!'! Doesn't anyone want to raise'!'! Are those old nits really that scared that he'll get there'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Dec 19th, 2009
Re:WSOP Champ Joe Cada lobbying for online poker rights!
He could counter that by pointing out that, in getting to the final table, he was never once all-in and called with his tournament on the line. That takes some tremendous skill. He could quote Tom McEvoy, in saying that winning a poker tournament is about putting yourself in good position to get lucky (I hope I'm not mis-attributing that quote). The field is something like 25% pros, and they can't all of them get to the final table. Yeah, he got incredibly lucky at the final table, but it took tremendous skill (and some luck) to get there in the first place.
Posted in: Poker Legislation 		Freewill1978
Dec 13th, 2009
Re:can i ever fold this river ???
AK is not typically a way-ahead/way-behind hand. You're only way behind AA and KK, but having one of each makes it more unlikely that he has either of those hands. You flip with all other pairs, and are ahead of everything else. I agree with the advice ITT; 3-bet the AK preflop, almost always. Your whole thought process on how to play AK seems screwy to me ("I check because I get no value from anything I beat", followed by a raise on the river'!'!). AK is a great hand, but you want to be getting money in fast with it when you hit top pair, not slow. When you wait until the river ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Dec 4th, 2009
Washington State Senator in favor of expanding Keno games
About a week old, but didn't see it posted over here yet. The following is brought to you by the "People in Glass Houses" department: Proposed legislation from Washington State Senator Margarita Prentice would allow lottery retailers that offer Keno games to increase their frequency from once a day to once every 4 minutes. This is an attempt to close the gap on the state's $2.5 billion deficit. Prentice is the very same person who pushed through legislation outlawing online gambing and making it a Class C felony to participate.
Posted in: Poker Legislation 		Freewill1978
Dec 4th, 2009
Re:Is it ok to set mine here? How should I play this??
I also haven't played tournaments with any frequency in well over a year now. I've been more focused on cash games. Which I guess is why I gave a cash game example.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Nov 14th, 2009
Re:Is it ok to set mine here? How should I play this??
I'd say if you both had around 15,000, set-mining would be okay. Maybe even if you had as little as 13,000. But that's really the bare minimum. But you still see TV pros doing it all the time with shorter stacks than that.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Nov 14th, 2009
Re:Is it ok to set mine here? How should I play this??
The blinds have nothing to do with it. It's the size of the bets compared to the remaining money left to be bet, that's important. Imagine that you and I are in a $1/2 NL cash game, and we both have $200. You get dealt 66. You raise to $8, and I re-raise it to $26. (these bet sizes are to help illustrate the example, never mind that you wouldn't actually bet that big) You read me to be very strong here, and you just know you are going to get my stack if you hit. But it's still a losing call for you, even though we're 100 big blinds deep. You'd be getting around the ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Nov 14th, 2009
Re:Is it ok to set mine here? How should I play this??
Conventional wisdom says that you should invest no more than 1/15th of your stack with a pair if it is purely to set-mine. The odds of you flopping a set are 7.5:1, but you have to account for the times where you flop a set and don't stack him because he's not strong enough, or hit a set and lose anyway.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Nov 14th, 2009
Re:Rediculous poker article
Without clicking the link I am going to take a guess who the author is: Stephen Katz. And now I will read the article.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Nov 13th, 2009
Re:Wierd river spot with Bottom trips Late in Tournament. Whats your play ?
Now there's something I'll bet you didn't think you were going to type on Pocket Fives today.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Nov 13th, 2009
Re:Right to call or just spewy?
Please don't ever fold QQ with 40 blinds on a 6-max table. Thank you.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Nov 12th, 2009
Re:Cash Game Grinders....
If you get raised on the turn, almost always fold an unimproved overpair. Even AA. (this does not apply if the pot was 3-bet preflop.)
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Freewill1978
Nov 12th, 2009