Texas Hold'Em is a community-card poker variant in which each player receives 2 down cards. A flop of 3 cards is dealt face up, followed by a single face-up card (the turn), and a final face-up card (the river). The best 5 card poker hand, using any of the player's 2 cards and the 5 community ...
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Determining the proper play on the turn
This hand came up in a local WPT event (not the main event for the series) that had a $340 buyin. Everyone started the tournament with $15K in chips and the structure was good with 40 minute blinds. ...
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Balanced Continuation Bet range
Assume a 100bb NL game 6max game. Hero is on the Button on Open raises 3BB with a 55% range
The BB calls (25% range). On a Board Axx a lot of players cbet a large portion of their range (60% - 90%) ...
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Inactive player problem: Where should the money be distributed in this situation?
Immagine the situation: Texas Holdem, No Limit.
5 players at the table. At some point in the betting, Player 3 makes a raise and suddenly leaves the table. So, betting may looks like this:
Player 1 ...
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1/2 NL: Call this villain's all-in with top pair, ace kicker?
Game is $1/$2 NL Hold'em at the Venetian
Hero (~$200) - Been playing TAG for the first couple hours and went up about $100. Then switched to loose play since I've been wanting to improve that skill ...
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Best Poker sites on net [duplicate]
I just want to ask which is the best online poker there is on the net.
I am currently on Zynga Poker on facebook.Can u please suggest any good poker sites for free
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Minimum re-raise in Hold em
What is the minimum re-raise in Texas hold em? I have heard both that you need to double the previous bet and that the minimum raise is the big blind. Which is it?
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Short stack play - best way to deal with it?
Short stack play - the extreme measures/adaptive game-plan a
short-stacked player will undertake to stay in the game.
The characteristics of this effect/game-plan tends to include higher levels ...
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Difference in strategies with stakes?
What difference in strategies should occur as the stakes change. For example in a tournament(888.com| 24x7 Freerolls) , I have noticed that I have decent rank in the initial stage when the stakes are ...
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Should you use average value or marginal value when deciding which hands to play?
This example comes from Sklansky: Suppose you are in a very loose wild limit game, where seven players (other than yourself) call for the maximum four bets on every hand. Sklansky then asserts that ...
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Who has the higher hand: 44 vs. A2 on a JJKK2 board?
I played with my friends yesterday and run into the following situation:
player 1: 4 4
player 2: A 2
table: J J K K 2
Both players have two pairs: J J K K.
However, player 1 have one pair in ...
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Short stack strategy
In Bodgan's answer to Is it advantageous to buy into a NL cash game at the maximum amount? I read:
There is even a known, mechanical strategy, called short stack strategy, designed to play if you ...
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Heads Up NL Holdem: Best strategy against all in every hand
Assume you are playing a NL Holdem tournament heads up. What is the best strategy against these all-in scenarios, and what is the expected win percentage when implementing the best strategy against ...
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What if you get a straight flush on flop?
What should be your strategy once you get a straight-flush [not to a high card as A♠or K♠] after flop itself. Keeping in mind the cards in flop are in a row.
Should one start raising ...
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Effect of number of players in the probability distribution of poker hands
We have this official rank of hands.
I have a theory (which I do not know how to prove) that the number of players in a texas-hold-em table will affect the probability distribution of the hands.
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Easy to remember push/fold/callpush table/formula
I've tried to generate a push fold table that's easy to remember in my head. This is what I've got so far:
Take the highest card:
A = 10
K = 8
Q = 7
J = 6
T = 5
9-2 = Face value / 2
Add the ...
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Tough decision on the turn
The tournament has 30 minute blind levels, everyone began with 10K in chips, and the play is 10 handed. At this point the blinds are 200/400 with a 50 Ante. Hero starts the hand with 7825 in chips ...
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Start playing NL Hold'em or Limit Hold'em?
I am a novice who is beginning to take poker seriously and invest a fair amount of time into improving. Limit holdem seems to be a less complicated game than holdem and seems like it may be easier to ...
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What is the D on table and the terms defining players?
Please tell me what is The coin like thing on table [playing online]with written D on it?It keeps on circulating, after every pot it is passed beside next player.
Also tell me if the terms like ...
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When to fold AA pre-flop?
Let's simplify the situation:
you have pocket aces (AA)
cash game
all players but one have folded (heads-up)
the remaining player goes all-in.
we are pre-flop
Is there a situation where folding ...
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What is the best strategy once you are chip leader in a tournament?
I am talking about tournaments(MTT) with about 30-40 players.What should be the strategy:
Go loose: Force other players to either go all in or fold, if you have slightly good cards
Go tight: Let ...
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What to do when a third suited card appears on the river
9 player cash game. Blinds 1c/2c. I am UTG with K:hearts: K:diamonds: I raise to 8c. Everyone folds to the button who calls. SB and BB fold. The pot is 19c. Flop comes 9:spades: 2:spades: K:clubs:. ...
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In deep stacked NLHE cash games, in what way do the implied odds of my starting hands change vs shallow stacked games? And why?
(Note: I consider ~175+bb stacks to be deep, and 50bb or less shallow)
How should the depth of effective stacks change my...
Starting hand range? (Tighter/Looser)
Style of play? (more ...
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Classic Books for Texas Hold'Em
What are the classic books for learning Texas Hold'Em, off- or online? Books that every good player should, at least, know the gist of?
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Starting hands probability
The following is a passage from Wikipedia on starting hands probability:
The 1,326 starting hands can be reduced for purposes of determining the probability of starting hands for Hold 'em—since ...
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Why is this a poor play?
This is an excerpt from this webpage.
They're [novice players] also dangerous and can put you off your game.
How many times have you been on Party Poker playing $1-2 No-Limit Hold
'em and ...
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Play in position against BB preflop raiser
I'm on the button, with AJ unsuited. Blinds 3000/6000. Folded to me, I raise the pot, BB calls. My stack before the start of the hand is around the 110000 mark, slightly lower than the caller.
Flop ...
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What happens if the card wasn't burned?
I understand the purpose of burning the cards - so that one cannot possibly use any marks to see the next card in deck. But in home games, sometimes the dealer will forget to burn a card on the flop, ...
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Are there any good Poker hand history databases for free out there? [duplicate]
I'm doing a project on poker AI's for my senior thesis and I was wondering if anyone knows about any hand history data openly available? By hand history database I mean game logs where everything is ...
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Why do people make the following call, check, call round the table?
I play in a work tournament usually 2 tables of 6 or 7 for a set time period with the top 3 chip counts on each table moving to a final table to win the prize.
It is largely amateurish but with ...
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Why can't folded hands compete for sidepots?
I'm just wondering the rationale for preventing folded players from competing in sidepots. My feeling is that once a player has as much in the pot as an all-in player, they should be allowed to ...
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Position when joining a Texas Hold'em table
Is it allowed to join a Texas Hold'em table as the Dealer, the Small Blind or the Big Blind?
If it is, are there any rules to avoid players having to pay the blinds twice?
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Name of five card Texas Hold'em game?
I got shown this game during a break at a recent local tournament I was in that is just like Texas Hold'em except one is dealt five cards, not two. Then at the end of every betting round (pre-flop, ...
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Is it bad etiqutte for the whole table to agree to let someone blind out?
There is probably no wrong or right answer to this just wondered what the general opinion is.
To set the scene. I was just playing in a tourney where we got down to the final 6 and 5 paid. The chip ...
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Do previous bets count towards All-In raises?
Let's say 3 players are playing poker. Player A has $11, B has $10, C has $9
Player A opens by betting $3, leaving A with $8
Player B re-raises A "All-In" and C calls, going "All-In" as well.
Player A ...
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What are the odds of getting the same four-of-a-kind twice in a row?
Several years ago, I was playing Limit Hold'Em at the Palms. I had pocket sixes, and ended up turning those into quads. Then, the very next hand -- from a different, auto-shuffled deck -- I got pocket ...
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Are there well documented cases of winning tournament by someone who wasn't looking at his own cards?
I read long ago about one case, but I'm not sure if it was true. I can certainly imagine that kind of feat, by exploiting the fact that it is not so important what cards you have, as it is what others ...
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Why is Texas Hold'em Poker so popular in worldwide not just US?
Texas Hold'em Poker is popular in almost all countries. Is there any technical reason for this?
Is it because Texas Holdem is better than other poker games? For example, there is a poker variation ...
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Do you have favourite hole cards - and do these change over time
Bad as they are, I used to like playing Q8 off/on suit and more recently A & a low number card (say 9 or less) on suit. I know these cards are pretty raggy, but do any of you often find yourselves ...
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Simple final table tournament play including push/fold
I've had a look at this table here as a guide of what to do heads up, and made a rough approximation of how to play various hands based on stack sizes, such that I can remember them and don't have to ...
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Should I call all-in here with bottom set?
Game is $1/$3 NL Hold'em
Hero is in a middle position with $410. Villain is in an earlier position with approx $540.
Pre-Flop:
A few callers, including villain. Hero sees 22 and calls $3. In total, ...
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Should I have went all-in with KK on this flop?
Game is $1/$3 NL Hold'em
Hero is BB with $440.
Villain is UTG with about $310.
Pre-Flop:
Villain raises UTG to $12.
4 callers.
Hero happily discovers that he has KK and raises to 110.
Villain ...
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combinations from 2 hole card and 7 communal cards
If we have 5 communal cards and 2 hole cards, and its our turn to deal, Can we just select all the 5 communal cards for hand? or do we need to keep our 2 hole cards and only choose 3 communal cards ...
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Straight + Flush draw on flop, is all-in worth to play?
Effective stack 80% max buy-in. Villain (UTG) bets 3xBB, Hero (Big Blind) calls with 5d 4d. Flop 6d 7d Ac.Action: Hero checks, Villain bets 3/4 pot. Hero goes all-in. Is it all-in good move ...
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Texas Hold'em: Heads up pre-flop probabilities
Has anyone calculated the probabilities of winning/losing heads up matchups of all combinations of two players preflop hands in Texas Hold'em, and if so, can they provide a reference?
I could write ...
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Raising after an all in
In this situation, the blinds are 200/400 in a No Limit tournament. First to act raises to 1600, next player calls, small blind folds, and big blind goes all-in with only 1800.
Can the first player ...
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What is the“Top Five Cards” rule and how does it apply to splitting pots?
Before you answer the question I will give a scenario that confused me thus prompting this question. The other week I was playing a game and we had this scenario :
8 players - down to me and a pal ...
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Could I have won more money with top set on the flop?
$1/$2 NL
Hero is in late position with about $260 and picks up 10♣ 10♠ . During pre-flop, Villain raises to $10 in middle position. Villain seems tight; more passive than aggressive, thus making the ...
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Small Pairs on early and middle positions
I'm still uncertain about best way to play small pairs on early or middle positions. 22, 33, etc. even up to 99.
Straight and Flush possibility are low, and even if you catch one of these - someone ...
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Tricky Tournament Bubble Situation
How (and why) do you play this hand as big stack on the bubble of a short-handed SNG? All players are reasonably skilled. BB has played pretty tight in the previous ~100 hands this tournament, and in ...
