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It's a split.
In short, the best 5 card hand that you can make wins. In this case, you're both playing the board.
There is a similar question here, What is the“Top Five Cards” rule and how does it apply to splitting pots?, explaining the scenario in more detail.
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For a serious poker book, this isn't the most expensive I've seen. Shootaa (Reid Young) has a book out for around $5k and when it came out it honestly may have been worth the price. The fact is that these tips will allow you to improve your game so much that you'll make more than the price of book in a relatively short period of time. Granted, this is ...
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Yes.
Firstly, your hand has to qualify as being a low hand. Qualifying five-card poker hands must have no pairs in there, and also has no card higher than an eight.
As a player can only (and must) use two cards from their starting hand, there have to be at least three community cards available that are also no higher than an eight.
Flushes and straights ...
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Oh yeah, it's got decent content in it, but nothing you won't find if you search through the twoplustwo high stakes forums pretty diligently. Also, no one can put the skills in your brain FOR you. You have to be willing to dig heavily into the math and game theory yourself. The book, "The Mathematics of Poker" is really good for this.
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I dont think there are any hard and fast rules to be honest.
I have seen some places where they burn 3 cards pre flop and then 1 on the turn and river.
If you notice in time then i believe the etiquette is to swap the card for the next one in the deck. If its not spotted in time I believe the hand is played out as it is (but this may vary from casino to ...
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Firstly, the term "short stack" only really relates to a pre-flop description of relative stack sizes of all players. It doesn't have a reasonable use after the action has started. That said, a player may be "short stacked" post-flop but that's entirely down to what action has occurred.
Specific to the example, player A can only call the All-In for $7, ...
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As This article explains -and I remember watching Negreanu complaining about it on the feature table of 2011 WSOP Main Event- there is a rule that almost forbids all talking on the table.
"41. No Disclosure
Players are obligated to protect the other players in the tournament at all times. Therefore, players, whether in the hand or not, may not:
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As of July 2012, the two biggest places for US players to play are currently on sites that are part of either the Merge Network (such as Carbon Poker and Black Chip Poker) or the Revolution Gaming Network (such as Lock Poker and Cake Poker). Both sets of sites get a reasonable amount of traffic, offer good rewards and rakeback, and most importantly still ...
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I agree with Gaz Winter, I don't think any rules are official here.
When I play homegame with friends, if this kind of mistake happen, then the card that should have been burnt is pulled out (I prefer let the card visible I don't put it back in the deck, like that all players can see it) and you place on the table a 4th card, the one that should be on the ...
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Player 3's raise stands, and he does not fold until action returns to him.
If no one remains, then he wins the pot before he is able to fold. If he is not there to claim his winnings, then he should be blinded out (if a tournament), or sat out (in a cash game). In the case of a cash game, his money should be set aside and saved, as it is still rightfully ...
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In most live tournaments, tables break according to a preset pattern, so that the tables can be reused for other games. For this reason, experienced players often adjust their playing style based on the table they are seated at. If they are at a table that breaks quickly, they know that they do not have time to build strong reads, and must instead take ...
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The rules are relative to the online software, casino, or house you're playing in. There really are no rules per se; only common practices.
For example, many online sites now offer tables with variable minimum/maximum buyins ranging from 10-40bb, 40-100bb, or 100-250bb. Casino's from my experience will allow you to buy-in for whatever the largest stack at ...
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I believe plenty of sites offer ways (I am sure PokerStars does ) to play for real money. The trick is you are never "playing for cash".
You purchase some "gaming currency" with real money, then you can gamble with the "gaming currency" and eventually cash out the gaming currency for USD.
edit(1): It appears it's much easier than I thought...
Looks like ...
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There is no rule about trash talking in the WSOP. As long as your banter isn't considered threatening to another player you can say pretty much whatever you want. It's poker. The only thing Gold could have potentially gotten in trouble for in the above mentioned video is discussing his hole cards before the hand is over. But I think that rule has only ...
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The point is to make players feel like they're not getting hustled by a shark. Some people, particularly newer players, think it's an unfriendly thing to do. The game will tend to have a little more action than one where check-raise is allowed, which means that the rake will be a bit larger.
In practice, however, it actually favors more experienced players. ...
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You have to first consider that only 2 cards of your 4 cards are used to make a Qualifying Low or Qualifying High in Omaha HiLo. The same 2 cards can be used for both your High and Low hands. So YES.
You can think about it as playing 2 different games with the same cards but with the same pot - Note that you may not have a Qualifying LOW all the time and ...
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It is unlikely that any comercial card room would ban check-raising in standard limit or no-limit games such as Stud, Hold'em or Omaha. The rules for some lowball limit games prohibit or restrict check-raising.
Roberts Rules of Poker goes into more detail as to what games (Ex:A-5 Lowball) and on what streets check-raising is prohibited.
It might be common ...
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There was a lot of controversy around that hand. I think the official explanation from the floorman and supervisor was that as soon as the floorman said "one" the hand was dead. He said "hand dead" a second later, but the time was up when the said "one"....
I think this explanation is pretty thin. Friedman said "call" before the words "hand dead" were ...
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First off, the statement in your question is not the norm:
They have an obvious advantage of knowing about more cards that are in the play than they should, and they can strategically bet against one another to increase the pot (encouraging other players to play in hopes of winning).
Almost always when players collude, they are typically protecting ...
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I know several people who've been asking about this for years.
Intuitively - you'd think the answer is surely yes. It's also pretty easy to construct scenarios in which you'd think you'd gain an advantage.
However - the reason I suspect you don't gain a significant advantage is that, as long as I've been playing Foxwoods and Vegas - the casinos make ...
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They have an obvious advantage and so will earn more in the long run, that's pretty clear! Also playing together and playing both separately would lead to the same amount money, so they are not risking more money just together (same argument for the profits.)
Now I don't really know to much about collusion and specifically what edge it can give you but I ...
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The most important thing is that you should be aware of the fact that you cannot teach poker to someone who doesn't like the game. Yes, it's a great game and yes, I enjoy it very much. But, as much as it hurts, it doesn't mean that my friends should like it too. Judging by what I read, they don't seem to like it that much. So, before everything, make sure ...
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I'm in exactly the same situation, down to every cruel aspect of it. It's actually quite amazing, something that people without knowledge of probability distributions would call a huge coincidence :D .
I think the problem in your approach is the fact that you throw a huge amount of information at them. Texas Hold'em (and poker in general) is a game with a ...
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In tournament play they definately have an advantage as they can tell the other person to fold when they have a monster hand therefore not risking their tournament life.
They can also very easily help to stack the other person up a bit if they are getting low on chips to keep them in the tourney that little bit longer etc.
As far as in cash games, I dont ...
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Sadly, I dont know about any scientific proof, so I can give you just my thoughts.
Lets say we have 2 players, each one with a skill to win 1bb/100 hands.
If they dont collude, each of them wins 1bb/100 hands = 2bb
When they start to collude, both of them get advantage as you mentioned, so lets say this increases their EV to win 2bb/hands. So they both ...
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There is no right or wrong or fair or unfair way to structure a game of poker. You can set the rules to be whatever you want and it changes optimal strategy accordingly. If you want to run the game like this, that's fine and if people want to play it they can. And if they are smart they will play differently in certain situations because of it.
For ...
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Yes he is forced to call the big blind(or raise) in order to play. The only thing is the remaining blinds and bets from now on go to the side pot. So basically player 1 can only watch the game and learn how his opponents play from an "audience" point of view (without knowing their cards) simply seeing their strategies unfold
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Chris is right.
A raise reopens the betting if and only if the raise is a legal (more than twice the size of the previous raise) raise.
I am concerned about the logic here: "The OP remains unchanged" -> the player who "raised" is now the person who made the all-in raise, and play continues around the rest of the table, and back to his right, but no one who ...
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First of all why are you bothered about play money websites. As Toby said everything applies and there are no rules but however it is suited for your best interests in real-money games. How much can you afford to gamble with. Are you a NIT who gambles with only Aces or Kings or a loose-aggressive player.
So the buy-in depends on two factors:
The amount ...
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Yes it is possible to win both Hi and Lowe pots What comes to mind first is:
If you have an Ace,2, and a 6,7, in your hand and the community cards are 3,4,5,j,10, then You win the low, A,2,3,4,5, and you wine the High with 3,4,5,6,7, (J+10 would be dead)
Or If you had a flush and a low hand. Say AS,2S, 8*, K* and the community cards are 3D, 4D, 6S, 5S,JS, ...
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