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Re(3): Favorite Poker Quotes of All Time
...but he did say (or rather, type) "donkeys alwasy draw" and "jopke"
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Mar 5th, 2006
Re(1): Suggestion for PS.
I said the same thing to Lee when he dropped in on a ring game I was at for a spot of customer-relations type chat. Only $2/$4 O8, I guess he was checking in on the rest of us... He said it wasn't something they saw as an immediate priority. For one thing, they'd need to spread Razz (oh God, yes please). I suppose they could do SHOE with the games they have on offer now. Until then, I'll keep looking at Full Tilt for mixed games. When it's not 4AM in the UK, that is.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Jan 9th, 2006
Re(2): PLO8
Don't take this as gospel, because I'm no short-handed expert (!) but I believe high-only hands increase in value, including mid-to-high pairs. In part this is because many players don't adjust to short-handed/heads-up play and continue to be biased towards low hands, which go nowhere the 30-40% of hands where no low is possible. I'd be very happy to see KKJ5 heads-up. Double suited even better: there's no time to wait around for nut flushes, second-nuts will usually do just fine. Think about it: in Hold'em your range of hands expands as the number of players drops, until you'll play 80+% ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Nov 6th, 2005
Re(1): SNG Heads up Strategy
Where are you playing, at what stakes and what is your typical stack size (in relation to the blinds and to the total chips on table) when you reach, say the final four' Without wanting to come across as some kind of complete expert (I'm not!) I'm pretty useful (less bad than most at least) up to the $30s across several sites. The thing is, although the approach is pretty similar wherever you play, it varies in intensity. For example, at Party you seldom have any time late on because of the high blinds so "rabid wolverine" aggression is called for. Somewhere like Stars, where there is still ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Sep 13th, 2005
Re(2): Omaha Hi/Lo and 7 card stud
Well, gank was in the $20+2 O8 on Stars last Friday. I know because I donated the last of my chips to him. All I had left ( a big 65) went in after the flop came all-high (and I had 4 wheel cards). Ho hum.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Aug 15th, 2005
Re(3): Devilfish
"Donkeys alwasy draw..."
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Jul 30th, 2005
Re(3): Bodog free entry into 100 + 9
I also signed up some time before making a deposit (waiting for a NETeller cashout to clear). They first offered me $30 added (not bonus - real $$$) if I made a deposit, then offered a free entry to the $100+9 as an extra sweetener, even pointing out the overlay, which of course makes it no cost to the site, just reduces the overlay available to the players who pay their way. Needless to say, I deposited. Sadly I busted out about 10 places short of the money. Worth noting that the client crashed on me three times during the tourney, once requiring a complete reboot (no such issues with any ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Jul 11th, 2005
Re(3): Short stacked! Did I make the right decision??
I'm curious: what did you fold (if you folded) the previous hand when you were UTG' If I read it correctly, you had about enough for a pot- or slightly larger-sized raise, and you'd have had at least some fold equity. No criticism implied - I hope to be able to get as far as you did - one day! Just curious.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Jul 5th, 2005
Re(4): WHO IS COMPLAINING??
I believe he went out. On the bubble. That's got to sting...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Jun 9th, 2005
Re(1): starting hand standards for 6handed nlhe
...or more constructively, how about equating UTG in 6-handed with MP on a full table where it's all been folded to you' Some of the stuff you might play in LP at a full table with a bunch of limpers won't work because the odds won't be there. I'm no 6-handed expert, but that seems like a reasonable place to start...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Jun 9th, 2005
Re(4): Question for Adam
The thing that struck me reading your piece just now was that you didn't become a bad player but you may be a good player who's been playing badly. $5 S&Gs are cheap way to get humbled, as I discover when my wife asks me to sit on for her. In order to stand half a chance of making the money I have to make adjustments: just about every page of my (limited) play book gets ripped out. I leave blind-stealing in there, but I have a very good look at the guys to my right: I usually need a half-way decent semi-bluff because there's a real chance of having to show the hand down. Raising from the SB ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Apr 15th, 2005
Re(1): ABC Poker
I haven't yet played a SNG level where ABC poker wasn't at least in with a decent chance of the money. Well OK, I got lucky the one time I played a $100 game, but that $400 profit is still in my bankroll... Otter Got A and B, working hard on C.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Apr 15th, 2005
Re(2): What do you say after you "suckout"
Just rivered a 6 to hit my set vs 10-10. Well I deserved it. So I volunteered this: "Just caught a fast train to Suckout City"
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Mar 26th, 2005
Re(2): What do you say after you "suckout"
Yeah, "oops" usually works for me. If I got lucky through some atrocious misread, I might say something like "played it wrong, got lucky". If the suckout ratio started to deing in my favour, I'd stop playing a while and try to figure out what leak had crept into my game...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Mar 24th, 2005
Re(1): Good strategy for a beginner
Agree with the SNG suggestion. Find a site that runs $5 games with a 10% fee, rather than $1. Also, I suggest you look for a site that offers a failry "slow" structure. Of the sites I frequent, the two that are the best fit (and have enough players to get started reasonably quickly) are PokerStars and PokerRoom. Both give 1500 starting chips, PS has 10-minute levels and PR 10-hand. The former gives fewer hands at low blinds but many many more per level when you're short-handed. I'd say either gives a reasonable amount of play for the money, PR probably offers the most frequent bonuses ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Mar 23rd, 2005
Re(1): Still tilt prone
At least it was quick. I took a huge beating a week or so and only realised about two days later that I'd been tilting for most of the session. Not even bad beats, just a prolonged run of mediocre hands that saw me trying to force my way through gaps that weren't there. I was winning enough small pots to convince myself that I was playing well, then I'd go and lose another buyin... The trick will be to spot it if it happens again...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Mar 21st, 2005
Re(1): how did everyone build there initial bank?
I started with a $100 deposit on pokerroom, so green I didn't even get a deposit bonus. Played $10+1 SNGs until I lost it all. Put another $150 in, lost most of it before turning the corner. After three months I took back my $250 and carried on playing exclusively with money won. The first $1000 profit took 5 months. The second took 11 days. the third' Well, actually I've gone back to finishing the second again just now. Had a bit of a lean spell. Ho hum. Back to the coalface...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Mar 18th, 2005
Re(3): Wachovia's 03/16/05 blog...
I will use "nh" in two ways: first, when it really was a nice hand and the other guy played it well. Usually when he's crippled me, so there's an element of clenched teeth involved. Second, and more frequently used, I'll "nh" just about any bonehead play that wins. He can't see (a) those teeth again or (b) the huge "irony" flag I'm waving as I'm typing. I want him to think he played well. Because I want him to keep on doing it. While I'm more than happy to discuss the finer points (to the limited extent I understand them) away from the table, here, or at RGP or wherever, at the table I want a ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Mar 18th, 2005
Re(6): betting strategies for cash games and tournaments
At those levels it sounds fine. You'd be amazed just how far you can go playing ABC, by-the-book, plain old vanilla poker. Sticking to that instantly gives you an advantage of maybe 50% of the players in those fields, which ought to make them nicely profitable over a period of time. Keep looking for opportunities to expand your game, though: don't get locked into one style - as you progress you're going to need to be able to change your style according to the situation in whcih you find yourself. And remember that Multis can be fairly high variance, so expect cash-free runs to happen. But I'm ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Feb 27th, 2005
Re(1): Avoiding (Minimizing?) Bad Beats...
I can think of two ways to avoid bad beats completely. (1) don't play! (2) only play bad hands so you can deliver the bad beats instead. It seems to me that good players will generally get their money in with the best of it, but we can't always flop the complete nuts, so anyone staying with us is going to be behind, sometimes way behind. And sometimes they're going to win. Or deliver a bad beat. Or suck out. Call it what you will, if you're the 98% favourite then over the long run you'll lose 2% of the time. So the better you are, the more you're going to lose with bad beats. It goes with the ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Feb 27th, 2005
Re(4): betting strategies for cash games and tournaments
I was thinking about this earlier in the week (clearly not enough to do). I think the 3 to 5 times BB (plus any limps already in the pot) is essentially a hangover from pot-limit, where it's around the size of a pot raise (you call, then raise the new size of the pot). With just the blinds in, you could call 1BB then raise another 2.5BB. So 3xBB + limps is actually slightly less than a pot raise. It generally works for me, although some cash games seem to settle by some unspoken convention on 4 or even 5 BBs as the "standard" raise. It seems to price out the drawing hands, unless the game is ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Feb 26th, 2005
Re(2): Is poker room the best site for the avg. player?
Pokerroom was my first site and the place where I learned to stop losing money. I like the software, the play is acceptable: not the loosest but fairly beatable, the multis are plentiful at low buyins and the new session browser is nice. It's a good site, overall. Readers of Inside Edge (UK gambling magazine) just voted it best online poker site, for waht that's worth. The server problems: I played about 90 minutes this evening and didn't get bounced out of my seat for the first time in a while - I wonder if they're getting the problem under control. I did note there was another client ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Feb 25th, 2005
Re(1): Is cash games the best place to start??
Bear in mind that I'm coming from a no-limit perspective here - I'm in the UK, where pot limit was what I cut my teeth on, so NL comes more naturally (actually, I suck at limit!). I started online in SNGs (read Adam's article, which for me pretty much sums up the way I figured out how to make money in these games). I only played cash to get raked hands for bonuses; most of the time I lost more than the bonus amount I was trying to earn: the classic win-small lose-big problem. If your target is the multis, SNGs offer the chance to learn some useful skills: playing short-handed and ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		OtterChaos
Feb 25th, 2005