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Re(2): Small m push or fold to dominated hand?
+1. KQ is not a value-shoving hand. you shove with KQ in an unopened pot, or against a very loose raiser. it's just not a good enough hand that your money is good in the pot; better to open push with 32 than to call in this situation.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Mar 5th, 2007
Re(1): Is my name Gus Hansen?
it'd be less funny if you didn't realize how poorly you played this hand the whole way. you're lucky he caught a full house, otherwise you wouldn't have made anything off your quads. min reraise a min raise, gotta love it.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Mar 5th, 2007
Re(8): Attendance at WSOP main event
you might be one of the most terrible handicappers alive. attendance has never gone down. this year, it might--but only might. over/under would have to be at least 6500, for things to be sporting, but i wouldn't take bets on the over there. a real like would be 8000, then i might take some action. (edit: attendance went down once, by a dozen or so entrants, in 92)
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Mar 4th, 2007
Re(2): Another great Rizen article
i absolutely understand, and the point you're making is well-taken. keeping abreast of the trends in poker, and confounding them, is something for which great players like yourself must constantly strive. i just wanted to acknowledge that in many cases, working within the "box" of those trends is just as correct. the important part is to always consider the alternatives.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 27th, 2007
Re(2): SnG strategy - bet or check down?
+1. precisely.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 27th, 2007
Re(1): Another great Rizen article
i think the paragraph i will quote below is actually an example of USING harrington's technique, and not exploiting it in others: "One of the other things I’ve noticed is the changes in short stack play. When the book first came out, when you got into the ‘red zone’ you could often push-bot your way alive for a long time. Today’s internet player is very hip to this now though, and their calling ranges against red zone players is often much wider than it was a few years ago. Because of this, when my stack reaches the red zone, I will often open push some of my bigger hands, knowing that ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 27th, 2007
Re(2): Deep in the 3r. Flopped top pair. Graps comments especially welcome.
i think a stop and go is a good play here, but honestly, he's fairly unlikely to lay down his nut flush draw no matter what you do or what the turn brings. some players have trouble shedding the rebuy-period mindset in the 3r, and he will not be very concerned about pot odds at any point in the hand. the reason the stop and go works here is because, when you shove on the flop, he's still 45% to win the hand. it's an obvious call--it would be an obvious call if you just outright shoved (if he knew what you had) instead of check-raised. however, once the turn comes a blank, he's only about 25% ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 22nd, 2007
Re(2): what do u do with the royal draw?!
i also would have folded to the raise preflop, this early in a SNG. no reason to get involved with such a marginal hand except on the cheap. in a multiway pot you don't have the top pair potential you think you do. but as played once the flop comes, sure, you definitely did the right thing. there's nothing wrong with your play there.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 16th, 2007
Re(1): best sites to play on
yeah, that's pokerstars all right. they're the best as far as those considerations go. ultimatebet has great tournament structures... but the software is clunky and i have no real experience with their customer service.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 16th, 2007
Re(3): Two tournment pocket pair problems
yeah, the preflop raiser is probably going to make a continuation bet, and it's good to use your poor position to your advantage with a check-raise. i think jc wins more chips that way. betting out is not a bad move either, though, because it confuses your opponent (and he may flat call with a hand like JJ) , and it can be a cheaper way of finding out if your opponent has you beat with a hand like AK. the more aggressive play is often the better play, so i would go with the check-raise all-in. you could bump it 3x to 900, but you're left with 600 behind. if you don't plan on folding to a ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(1): Two tournment pocket pair problems
the first hand: fine, even excellent fold. i play in a lot of the $5 games and a donk bet (ie a bet out of rhythm with the betting pattern) from a tight player like this means a king, definitely. good job sticking with your read and not overplaying your pair. second hand: i like to have 66+ before i will push after two limpers (or AJs+), but raising the limpers like this is definitely a legitimate play. it suggests your hand is stronger than it is. that said, i would rather see an open raise with 33, and not a jam into an opened pot.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(1): is this correct play ?
a few major problems: 1. never, ever, ever, ever min-raise. there will be certain situations where a min-raise is appropriate, but if you're making min-raises like you did here, you are probably not in a position to recognize where a min-raise is good. think like your opponent will NEVER fold to a reraise. 2. always at least triple your opponent's bet. 3. AT suited in a 6-max game is a raising hand, so raise it up preflop, 3x, 4x the bb. 4. on the flop when your opponent bets .40, i would raise it to 1.5-2. it's good to have draws in your range of reraising hands, and you want to give ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(1): When Bluffing is actually the +ev play....?
you're only going to get a 5 to fold there a very very small percentage of the time, unless you've somehow set up the play (against observant players) to make your bet on the end more credible. the pot is just too small, too minor, for someone to give up a full house where his tournament isn't at stake. i think betting the pot there does look like an overbet, because anyone with either a 5 or jack is going to be practically desperate for a little action, and throw out more like 200. i think if i had sixes here i would call a lot of the time based on the overbet. it does look like an ace is ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(1): kinda short, What do i need to call here?
"The real question is whatrange of hands would i need to have to push here' i Didnt have much ofa read on the re-reiaser he was new to the table. " okay, i had done the math earlier today but i messed it up, only accounted for the small stack. but now i'd like to have a go at what you need to enter the pot here, with no fold equity... the ranges/assumptions: small stack is pushing with any ace, any pair, and KQ (suited and unsuited). MP is raising with 77+ and AQ+. any hand you're going to enter with here has a lot of equity in the main pot because of the loose range of the small stack. ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(3): Please help...this is for my friend.
also, i vote for .02/.05, if all you've got is $30 and you still haven't learned not to call a raise in a full ring game oop with A9. at .02/.05 at least he'll have the opportunity to learn before he goes broke.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(8): Playing JJ on all under flop.
...if you lose the hand, sure. why does it seem so definite to everyone that the reraise indicates a high pair' this guy is out of position, and he might be on two high cards, or a lower pair. he might think hero is full of it. i got limp-min-raised by pocket fours last night in a $20 SNG. (they did crack my kings... he made a set on the turn.) in a SNG format, early on, it's important to play very tightly and play your pairs above TT aggressively. that is key to accumulating chips, because most of your opponents are very loose and willing to break themselves against you even though you've ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(4): QJo raise vs all in reraise from shortstack
he's right that this is a timing problem. and you don't have enough chips relative to the blinds to just raise, you pretty much want to push all-in here, and you want to do that with a similar-sized stack on the bb. your M here is around 7, which means you're very close to emergency mode, and you can't really play a hand after the flop, so you've got to push. M is the number produced by dividing your stack by the sum of the blinds and antes. when it is less than 10, you want to get all-in rather than make a standard preflop raise.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(3): QJo raise vs all in reraise from shortstack
"the reason i raised was to steal the blinds, all the articles and stuff i read seems to say be aggressive, loosen up your starting hand requirements, steal the blinds when they get high, put pressure on the shorter stacks and that you cant wait around for aces all day. So i figured it was good enough to raise with but not to call a reraise with as that would seem to indicate some kind of hand that most likely better than mine. is it really that terrible a move' i thought i was doing what i was supposed to" that's where you misunderstood what you've been reading, i think. the blinds put ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(4): kinda short, What do i need to call here?

Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(3): kinda short, What do i need to call here?
sry, misread
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(5): Playing JJ on all under flop.
what i hate about the min raise is that you have to call it preflop. even if he told you outright that he had aces, you should still call the preflop raise, because if that jack flops you've got position and you're going to take all of his chips. impliedly, you're paying 80 chips for a 10% shot at 1500. obviously a good deal, because you'll take a good 800 of those at the very least if you hit. but of course that's if you know he has aces. you're going to lose a few more chips on the flop figuring that out. when you have JJ and the flop comes all low, and someone bets into you, it's almost ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 15th, 2007
Re(4): ridiculous preflop calls happen in the high limits too
what is AK ahead of' JJ, TT, KJ, 88, 77, etc. if he's the type of guy who makes a min raise then calls a substantial reraise with JT, how could those hands NOT be in his range here' it's tough to determine you're behind on this flop after he flat calls the big reraise preflop, that looks like jacks or tens to me.... the betting pattern alone gives me the impression he has AA or AK, too...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 14th, 2007
Re(2): Most People Gamble?
yeah and i forgot to factor in the possibility he holds AK, but i don't think there's any percentage i could assign that likelihood that would alter the fact that you should call.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 14th, 2007
Re(1): Most People Gamble?
say half the time you're 47/53 against a pocket pair, and the other half you're 70/30 dominating a hand like AQ, and this looks like an easy call. more realistically, 50% of the time you're 47/53, 33% of the time you're dominating an ace hand at 70/30, 10% of the time he's bluffing with undercards and you're somewhere around a 63/37 favorite, and the rest of the time you're up against AA or KK and those times you never win (for the sake of simplicity, because i'm not running these numbers through a program). given that range you're roughly 53% to win this hand. so again, easy call. might ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 14th, 2007
Re(1): Saw this hand in a video
the number you really want to pay attention to is your M, which is your stack divided by the sum total of the blinds and antes. your stack / BB is a lazy number, and it doesn't take into account the pot odds created by antes and the SB, or the growing cost of making an orbit once antes are in place. here the blinds and antes total 825. hero's M is thus 4200/825, or about 5. dan harrington makes extensive recommendations for low-M play, and it's more than worth the read for any tournament player. suffice it to say that when your M is below 10, you are all but committed to any pot you open ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 14th, 2007
Re(4): No one reads Hand Advice- so this is a repost:
but you don't think, you know, you volunteered to waste your own time by: 1. viewing a thread that stated it was a repost; 2. replying to a reposted thread, for the purpose of 3. complaining that it was a repost, and then 4. responding to my critique of that response. that and, of course, reading the forum in the first place'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 14th, 2007
Re(2): No one reads Hand Advice- so this is a repost:
it amazes me how bad this forum can be--how few responses and how skimpy they will generally be. before i joined this site, i had been under the impression that a lot more profitable players would respond WAY more extensively than they do. don't you dare say "we read it once and don't want to read it again." who the fuck are you' i haven't read it, for starters, and even if i had, it's not too much skin off my ass for him to repost it when he didn't get any responses the first time. plus this forum is relatively crappy; don't act like you're hot shit, in demand. i don't care how shitty this ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 14th, 2007
Re(2): Need some advice
that's a much better response. i simply don't aspire, when playing strangers, to do things like lay down top set with outs to the nuts, even on a fairly dangerous board.... unless we're talking bubble play or some other extenuating circumstances.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 12th, 2007
Re(6): Can I make a value raise here?
AND, i play these limits.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 12th, 2007
Re(5): Can I make a value raise here?
if i'm ever telling you your hand and calling your bets, i guarantee you i will have you beat.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		parsifals
Feb 12th, 2007