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Do you guys believe online poker room is a scam?
Please help me to figure out this one. Thanks in advance, any inputs will help.
I'm new to online poker game and I noticed one particular player was playing 6-10 Texas Hold'em (No Limit) games/tables ...
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Why is short-stacker pot committed in this instance?
From Analytical No Limit Holdem:
Question: Why exactly does our opponent have reason to "put his money into the pot with almost any hand", leaving us with almost no fold equity?
I get that ...
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Did I play QQ correctly in this situation?
This is a 1/3 B&M cash game.
Table perception:
Villain sees like a good player.
Hero is struggling (played an earlier hand very poorly) and seat has been very cold.
UTG+1 raises to 10
UTG+2 (...
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Poker bankroll management in cash game [closed]
A player has a bankroll of Rs. 200 k and has 4 different ids on 4 different websites .
He has to play only cash games and no MTT’s on all 4 ids every day .
Playing cash games is his only profession ...
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Whats your move on this hand?(KK) High Level Table
£10/20NL DeepStack
Player Reads
Seat 1 fish around 8K stack LAG
Seat 2 high lvl player 20K stack TAG
Seat 3 ( Hero ) 16K stack LAG
Seat 4 Small Roller champion 10K stack TIGHT
Seat 5 Big Tournament ...
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PokerStars Android - Cards History
I'm a professional software developer and usually play on my android phone. Unfortunately there seems to be no HUD software for the pokerstars app on android. As a result, I plan on creating such an ...
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I was light on a hand, namely six dollars short.
I was light on a hand, namely six dollars short. I took six chips out of the pot (agreed to by the players) and lost the hand. I gave the winner six dollars cash (representing my short in the hand) ...
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Is my hand live
At the table in a heads up, I bet, he pushes all in. I turn my cards face up, without uttering CALL or FOLD. Are my cards still live?
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Additional Odds for Flush Draw, by hitting two paris or three of a kind, as well - How to calculate Runner-Runner?
Following an example from MIT Poker Course (slides can be found here, example starts at p9),
where the odds are calculated from a drawing flush hand.
In the example, the situation is the following:
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Rules following a raise, then a shove for slightly more?
No Limit Texas Holdem
Blinds are 200/400. Player A (under the gun) calls 400. Player B raises to 1,200
Player C shoves for 2,050
Player D calls 2,050
Can player A now raise? If so, why?
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Complete all-in rules of fixed-limit hold-em
I have been having a hard time finding the full rules of fixed-limit poker pertaining to all-ins.
For example,
Scenario #1:
Fixed bet size of $20, capped at 4 bets.
Player 1 bets all-in for $5.
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What is a double belly buster?
I heard this term while playing poker live, it skipped my mind back then but now i'm wondering what it means.
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Profitable players crazy all ins
Question: What is the correlation between lifetime profitability and luck? Can luck last for many thousands of hands? Have you noticed profitable players going all in with weak hands and winning?
My ...
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Calculating Nash Equilibrium for HU NLHE push fold game
This question has been asked before here and here. But what i am looking for is the specific calculation methodology or pseudocode.
Additionally my understanding itself of Nash equilibrium is this ...
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Is speech final in Poker?
We were playing poker with a few friends.
Once we were heads up, I went all-in. The other player said he's all-in. But didn't move any chips forward.
Right after that, he said: "Nevermind. I fold."
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"Streets" in holdem
In hold-em style games (Texas holdem, Omaha) you commonly hear the turn being called "fourth street" and the river "fifth street".
Why is this? Is it because the turn is the 4th card on the board (...
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Probability of tie [duplicate]
what is the probability of tie and how to calculate it? How to determjne winning percentage
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Playing omaha showing players hands. Would it be usefull for training purposes?
I am starting to program an omaha software to help users and myself to improve their skills.
I wonder if it would be usefull that my trainer system allows to play offline showing the hands of all ...
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Top 5 Cards Question (Straight) [duplicate]
It was down to a friend and I in poker, the 5 cards drawn was Q K J 10 9
my buddy had an Ace and a 7, I had a King and an 8. Would this pot have been a split or would my buddy or I won it all. (Suit ...
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How to alter play so a tournement ends sooner?
My weekly game is a 16 player low stakes live tournement; where top 8 places get league points and top 3 pay out cash.
The game typically runs from 8pm till midnight. However this week due to family ...
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Strategy vs Donkey Supreme?
How would you play against someone with a seemingly unlimited bankroll, going all in preflop with every single hand and rebuying max limit every time he lost?
Seems like a dream scenario, yet I ...
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How should I play against a limpers?
How should I play against limpers? When I play online I play little aggressive so people start limping so how should I deal with this?
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Occurence of heads-up in full table poker [closed]
How often, in your experience, do heads-up situations (exactly two players in the game) occur in full table casino cash Hold'em games?
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Unusual Tournament spot
Ok this was when I first started playing so please go easy on me, live tournament 80 players down to 13, paid at 7th
8 handed
blinds are 1500/3000
Hero (120,000 ) average stack
V1 (250,000)
V2/V3 (20,...
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What should hero do with JJ overpair on the Flop against an ultra aggressive (perhaps maniac)?
Context: Playing a 1/3 cash game at a B&M casino last night. Table is mostly tight passive except for villain; I'm picking up small pots and a few medium size pots all night with little pushback.
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Hand analysis no limit
1/2 no limit 6 handed
All players are deep
Pre flop
Hero UTG
Q♠J♠
opens for 5
CO
calls
BTN
raises to 15
SB
fold
BB
calls
CO
calls
Flop
Pot 46
T♠7&...
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Texas Hold'em blind raises
In a 1/2 NL Texas Hold'em game with a $4 straddle on the button.
The original under the gun player places a blind raise of $10 before the cards are dealt.
The small blind who has only $1 in the ...
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What are the top money making starting hands?
We all know the routine: the best hands are AA, KK, QQ, AKs...
These are the hands that win the most often, but what if the metric we are interested in is not "how often you win", but the overall ...
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Finding out my range
Is there a free software that can compute my range from my hand history and show what I am playing from the various positions?
I am a beginner, so I don't feel quite ready to spring up for ...
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How many people need to call to make a bet on a flush draw worthwhile? [duplicate]
In Texas Hold'Em, after the flop, let's say you are holding two spades, and the flop comes out with two spades. Now you have a flush draw.
How many people need to call your bet in order for there to ...
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Rules for Full house [duplicate]
How the full house winner is chosen. Best of five or the card user has?
There was a scenario in a popular mobile app poker, where I had J, 4
On the board J J 4 7 8
I Guess, I have the best ...
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What are the rules for talking when you are not in the pot?
Watching this video at one point the commentator gets almost irritated at players who are not in the pot talking with one another, is this common? Will players talk when not in the pot or is this ...
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Draw poker should you keep AK
5 card draw and you have AK and junk. Assume unsuited.
A♠K♣T⋄8♣5♠
Should you keep AK or just the A?
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Draw lowball call
I'm reading Sklansky's "Theory of Poker" which states
For instance, if you are playing draw lowball and you see three players calling $10 and then drawing two cards, which is a very bad play
Why ...
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Player has 3 cards in his hand, declares at the river
3 players, all with about 1200 chips in the pot. At the river, one declares he has 3 cards in his hand.. what happens?
Players hand is void, right? Does he get his chips back from the pot?
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Does tipping happen at the highest level?
In tournaments like High Stakes Poker and the World Series of Poker, are the players tipping? Would it be at the same rate as most tipping seen in casinos? If it does happen, doesn't it affect chip ...
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Heads up with chip advantage but you are the weaker player
Related question on how many blinds does a better player need against a bigger stack.
Say an amateur is heads up against a pro with a 4:1 chip advantage. Pro has 40 bb. Blinds are 1 and 2.
Pro is ...
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Is there a theory of how a novice can be a favorite against a world class player with a stack advantage?
The novice has a three to one stack advantage over the world class player. To make it simple, let's call it twelve chips to four. The novice knows enough to try to go "all in" if possible. So his ...
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Help with a hand analysis from more experienced players?
Still fairly new to the cash game scene, lost a semi big hand today and was wondering if people could critique things I could have done differently.
9-max table 1/2 NL:
Hero (~70 BB in LJ): AsQc
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Poker pre-flop probability training tool
Is there a freeware, better FLOSS, online or preferably offline trainer for preflop probabilities. I imagine different play modes with entering percentages under measurement of time resulting in ...
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Odds of King flush losing to Ace flush
Was at an MTT earlier on today late on in the game, I get King Six suited, everyone has been playing tight so I decide on a 2BB raise, am in medium position. Everyone folds except one player who calls....
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Any program/game/bot to play with?
I want to learn to play poker, but I don't know where to start. I thought about finding computer program, something like Microsoft's Solitaire, to start practicing and learning it. I am searching for ...
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Can "run it twice" be a +EV in a long run?
The concept of "run it twice" is that when players go all in, the rest of the board will be dealt two times with the cards left at the deck. The pot is then by splitted into two parts; one for both "...
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Why do so few players play razz?
I don't understand why razz is not more popular. Is it an especially difficult game to learn or play? Or are there other causes that keep the game from becoming popular?
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What is the precise definition of "showdown"?
A game has the following house rule:
"All players in a showdown must show all of their cards. You may not muck your hand during a showdown even if someone has already shown a better hand."
There is ...
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Question for beginners in Omaha [duplicate]
Player 1: Ks 10d 6h 7h
Player 2: 4s 4h Qs Jh
Board:
As Ad 8s Kh Ah
Who is the winner?
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HU you know your opponent will bet pre with any two cards - what should your range be
Based on this range answer of play top 70% against 100% it got me thinking.
Pre your opponent will open or call 3x with any hand.
Your choice is to open 3x, call 3x, or fold.
Clearly you can ...
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Best method to mark the numbers onto poker chips?
My personal set of poker chips is a typical cheap plastic set with solid colours. I would like to mark numbers on them instead of memorising their values.
What is the best method of writing the ...
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