Tags: poker for beginners
Tags: poker for beginners
Flopping a Straight Flush Draw -- Part II
Posted Friday January 19, 2007, 10:39 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
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Flopping a Straight Flush Draw
Posted Wednesday January 17, 2007, 10:31 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
And being the mathy guy that I am, I know that 15 outs twice actually makes me the favorite over any other made hand that is not a straight or flush, as is usually the case in these situations.
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Tournament Thoughts: 400k
Posted Tuesday January 9, 2007, 10:39 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
I've noticed that I have slipped into a weak-passive mode right now, and though I don't like it I'm going to wait it out - it usually doesn't last too long. 1.5 hours in - 1500 players remain which means there have been 1076 casualties.
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Waiting for the Flush
Posted Monday January 8, 2007, 10:39 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
The flop nailed me hard, giving me the nut boat and making me the stone nuts for this hand other than the extremely unlikely flopped quads for one of my opponents, a holding made all the more unlikely by each opponent having called a nearly pot-sized raise before the flop.
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A Poker Tournament Guide and The Patience Factor
Posted Monday January 8, 2007, 10:39 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
What makes this guide so incredibly useful is Snyder's Patience Factor Formula, which looks at the depth of the starting stacks, the time of each level, and assigns a number between 1 and 10 for how patient you can be when selecting the strength of your starting hands.
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What's He Holding? (Part III)
Posted Friday January 5, 2007, 10:38 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
So, given my read that my opponent was on a medium pair between 8s and Jacks, and given my check on the turn which I did intentionally for the purpose of suggesting that I also am not holding an Ace, I decided to really go for the gusto here and to check it back to him again.
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What's He Holding (Part II)
Posted Thursday January 4, 2007, 10:38 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
Given his lead on the raggiest of raggy flops of 226, which also contains a pair which would make his high-card or middle-paired hand very likely the best here, I am feeling very comfortable with my read so far of probably pocket 8s through pocket Jacks, or AQ down through AT or maybe A9s.
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What's He Holding?
Posted Wednesday January 3, 2007, 10:48 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
So today's What's He Holding? post occured fairly deep into last Sunday's 30k HORSE tournament, with blinds already up at 300-600, and with my stack sitting at just over 7000, which was just above the average stack size at the time.
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What's He Holding? -- Middle Ace in Limit Holdem
Posted Tuesday January 2, 2007, 10:38 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
So today's What's He Holding? post occured fairly deep into last Sunday's 30k HORSE tournament, with blinds already up at 300-600, and with my stack sitting at just over 7000, which was just above the average stack size at the time.
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The Suck Bet
Posted Wednesday December 27, 2006, 10:38 am, Over one day old at Card Squad
Instead, you want to try to pick an amount of money to bet on the river that is large enough for you to make it worthwhile to make the bet in the first place, but small enough that your opponent will be willing to pay it off just to make sure you are in fact ahead.
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