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Poker Academy Pro or an alternative
Several years back I trained with a copy of Poker Academy Pro.
I played tens of thousands of hands and did a lot to improve my game. I changed computers to an iMac some time ago and never ...
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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 ...
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Implied odds meaning and usage
What is exactly implied odds, and how to calculate it correctly, in which situations should someone use this tool, and in which situations should someone avoid it?
Thanks.
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NL200 Zoom: Top 2-Pair Deepstacked @ Wet Board
Villain is 29/21/1.6AF; 6% 3bet; Fold to 3Bet 13%(1/9); Steal from BTN 67%(10/15), 41% overall steal (16/39); over ~160 hands.
I believe he's positionally aware and aggressive. I think he's at least ...
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Can a bettor concede his hand without showing it?
Let's say someone bluffs on the flop, turn, and river with "nothing", (maybe he has AK), and is called all three times, by someone who probably has a small pair.
In theory, he is supposed to show his ...
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Dealing with Rookie / Novice Players
Having played NLHE and LHE for some time, I am very aware of all the aspects that go into "playing the game".
I am fairly good at the NLHE as my online and casino stacks often show, recently (as seen ...
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Should you make your choice of gaming location based on the promotions or the players?
I have a few years experience playing in the South Florida area and have over heard several locals make the choice of gaming location based off the promotions the particular casino offers. Personally, ...
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Texas Hold'em and pocket ace
What are the overall chances that a single pocket ace in texas hold'em will be the winning hand, regardless of the other card?
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Starting a Friendly Poker Ring
Not sure if this is applicable to the decorum of Poker.SE but here goes:
What is a reasonable way of getting a regular ring together? I have a group of 6-8 friends at work who are fairly interested ...
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Poker Tools : Recording Hands / Outcomes
Not really looking for a bank manager as I've already looked at:
Tools for Managing Bankroll, Income and Losses
and it's not what I'm looking for.
I want to know if you guys have any tools that ...
5
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2answers
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Is it possible to play for real money online in the US?
I know that after "Black Friday" many online poker sites didn't allow U.S. Players to play for real money anymore. I've heard/seen that it's possible to play via bitcoins and/or other proxy methods. ...
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What is a proper starting bankroll?
I know that people have different metrics for different stakes. From what I read it's usually 200x the big blind of the stakes you're playing at. I'm about to start saving again to build a Proper ...
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Is Manipulating Your Own Table Image Beneficial?
There really are only two perspectives here to think about: Online and Live.
In both scenarios you can alter what someone perceives about your playing style at any moment, but by how much? and how ...
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Is There Any Standard Rule of Buy-in Chips?
I just want to know if there is any standard rule of min and max buying chips? What I have noticed in Zynga poker is that the max buy-in chip is 200x of the big-blind. Meaning, for 5-10 blinds it is ...
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Can A Qualifying Low Hand Also Win The High Hand Pot?
For example, I was playing with a group of friends and one of the guys ended up with A-2-4-5-7 suited. He did win the low, but since it was also a flush he won both high and low pots. So my question ...
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How to maximize expectation with pocket aces and an Aces Cracked bonus running
I was playing $3-$6 Limit live Texas Hold'em and there was a $200 Aces Cracked bonus running - meaning if you have pocket Aces and lose, you get $200. The house rake is pretty steep - $3 per hand + ...
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Best way to play poker online for playchips
I got hooked to holdem poker on fulltiltpoker.com a few years back. They were shutdown for some financial irregularities. Since then I've been playing on facebook with zynga poker but it's not that ...
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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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Thoughts on Chen's formula
These days I came across this post describing the Chen's formula.
The Chen formula is a system for scoring different starting hands in Texas Hold'em. It was created by Bill Chen for use in the ...
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Is just calling the big blind a poor strategy?
I came across this quote concerning the Chen Formula:
Just calling the big blind is not a profitable way to play NL Hold'em for the most part.
He is basically saying that you should always ...
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Should I call opponent's flop re-raise with trips?
I'm looking for some advice on a particular hand I played last night.
1/3 NL.
Villain (~$350) - Playing loose aggressive and seemed like a reasonable/good player overall. Definitely raises more ...
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Are seat re-assignments random in multi-table tournaments?
During multi-table tournaments, players are re-assigned to other tables in order to keep minimum number of tables and to have them as balanced as possible. Are there any rules as to which table to ...
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Readless Preflop Strategy for Pokerstars HU Hyperturbo SNGs?
I ran into several materials about hyperturbo heads-up SNGs from different sources, and their preflop ranges readless are really different.
Some reccomend open raising 90-100% hands, others limping ...
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What software to use when playing online?
I want to use some software for online play that would help with better information about my opponents. I think I saw over the years some screenshots with such software, but I don't know their name.
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What mnemonic rules are helpful in poker calculations?
Given that precise EV calculations require one to operate with rather uncomfortable numbers, approximations are used along with simplified models.
For instance, the rule of 4 and 2 allows you to ...
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NL400: Big Slick IP vs C-Bet In 3-Bet Pot
Opponent relatively unknown, only ~35 hands. They're playing VPIP:51 / PFR:31 / 3bet:6% (1/17 opportunities). Currently he has a postflop AF of 2.7, which is above the ~2.0 average.
What would you ...
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Why is “Let There Be Range” so expensive ? Is it worth that money?
I saw this book on the Internet today called one of the best poker books. Price is unbelievable. $947.00
I made some little search and I found this comment.
Very expensive, but again, there are ...
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Micro Stakes, playing Big Aces pre-flop against multiple very loose opponents
I'm kinda new to poker online so i'm sorry if my question is kinda silly.
I decided to start building my bank-roll by start playing from micro-stakes, where i'm more comfortable in having some losing ...
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Straight + Flush draw on flop, is all-in worth to play?
Effective stack 80% max buy-in. Villain (UTG) bets 3xBB, Hero (Big Blind) calls with 5d 4d. Flop 6d 7d Ac.Action: Hero checks, Villain bets 3/4 pot. Hero goes all-in. Is it all-in good move ...
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Online play analysis software
What software would you recommend for analyzing one's game? I'm talking detailed number-crunching after the session, not online databases like sharkscope or in-game odds calculators (meh).
Is there ...
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Profitability of re-buys/add-ons when allowed
If you are not familiar with the format: such tournaments are (at least) available online, mostly in form of satellites to other tournaments etc. Basically the standard satellite structure with 1 ...
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Heads up NLHE, is it harder to beat rake then full ring?
I don't play HU but tried to play one game at 10NL. I can't remember exact numbers but we both started with 10$ stack and played many hands until I took his all stack. I left table with ~14-15$. Is it ...
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Maximizing profit post-bubble
Had a few pleasant games in a particular tourney format: 9max NL normal speed/structure; NTT S-M field (~150); M-L buy-in (~$300); this runs often enough for me to have accumulated a sample of just ...
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Is there an optimum formula for deciding chip denominations?
I play in a $1-2 NL game where they use chips in values of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50. I feel like it's tedious to try to keep track of the values of 6 different colors of chips. If you have a 5 and a 20 ...
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Interesting Spot in Penny Poker: Overpair vs Nit on Wet Board
One of my students was practicing at the super-low stakes online games, and he came across a hand that ended up a lot more interesting than it seemed on face value. I have my own conclusions that I'll ...
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What metrics do you use to evaluate your own live play performance?
What metrics do you use to evaluate your own live play performance?
For example, would you record big blinds won per hour at a cash game? Or do you rather try to understand if you are playing well ...
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is there an open source algorithm for a fixed limit holdem
I'm looking for an AI algorithm in any programming language for studying. The simple - the better. I've read that Polaris is the best implementation for a fixed limit holdem so far. I'm looking for ...
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Minimum number of hands required to establish a conclusion about win-rate?
What is minimum number of hands required to establish a conclusion about win-rate at particular level (10NLHE, 30NLHE, etc)?
e.g. You can play 1000 hands and have a win-rate of 53bb/100 but that is ...
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How to calculate expected value if I go All-in before flop with AK offsuit
1/2$ 6max NLHE game. I am UTG and I raised by 6$ with AKo. Everybody folded except BB who raised by 11$. Pot is now 20$. Now, if I go All-in my opponet will fold everthing except AA and KK in which ...
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Poker hands - betting - best hand [closed]
I know the poket rockets (A A) is the best drawing hand in poker.
But if you see a king in the flop, what strategy would you follow in betting?
Also, which hand do you consider the best hand to ...
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How often, and how much, should I bluff on the river when I miss my flush but a possible straight comes?
Playing no-limit hold-em cash game, I am out of position drawing at a flush against one opponent. The river card comes down without completing the flush, but it does complete a potential open-ended ...
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About Holdem Manager graphs
When I go to Opponents tab -> Summaries in down right corner I have Group Profile and have option to choose to look different states bar graphs, for example for VP$IP I have these:
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What does 'freerolling' mean?
I was reading the most common freerolling situations in holdem, but I have no idea what is being asked. What is Freerolling?
Google wasn't any help (hit too many free rolls vs. freerolling), and we ...
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Most common freerolling situations in holdem?
Player1 K♣T♣
Player2 K♥T♥
Board is A♣ Q♦ J♥ 4♣
This one is most common, what are the few others(most common)?
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How do I structure the blind levels of a tournament to run for a certain length (on average)?
I'm hosting a poker tournament with 10 people and want it to go on for 3-4 hours. I'm bringing a 500 piece poker set for the event (5 colors). What blind structure should I use for this? In general, ...
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HUD states - current or database based
Does poker tracking software like HEM generates HUD states about my current opponents at the table based of current game, or are the states generated from database(all the game I played with those ...
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Easy to memorize starting hand strategy
I am not too good at memorizing stuff. Is there any starting hand set of rules or chart that is easy to remember?
A little bit of context:
No Limit Hold'em
the number of players is not really a ...
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Does Holdem Manager 2 have built in hand convertor?
Does Holdem Manger 2 have built in hand convertor for posting on forums or I can only copy hand to some online covertor? Also is there some hand convertor that I can download that works with ...
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Who wins this game of high low Hurricane with wilds?
In a game of high low Hurricane with deuces and 2 jokers wild, who wins between one player with Ace joker and the other deuce deuce?
Here are the rules we were going by:
Players must declare ...
