Hot answers tagged texas-hold-em
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If they are beginners, their play is completely haotic and makes absolutely no sense. In a weird and ironic way, this makes such players somewhat dangerous...
I see this all the time if I play online and enter a tournament that has virtual money as entry fee (yeah, I still do that). In such tournaments, people often go all-in in the absolute first hand with ...
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My standard raise in this spot preflop would be something like $84. With reads that villains are bad (i.e. will call 3bets like this way too often) that number becomes bigger. So $110 probably isn't a bad raise size, but you should realize that you're putting in 1/3 of effective stacks and you really don't want to play postflop when that's the case.
Under ...
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Theoretically, no. For every dollar you and your opponent add to the pot, you stand to win your dollar back plus some of his, regardless of his hand. However there are a few practical edge-cases worth considering.
Trusting the game
If this is your first time playing in a home game, there are a few ways this could be a mistake. The first is cheating; ...
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This is a tiny little chart I made for a few friends who are very new to the game and often can't get their head around how much of a difference one or two pips can make!
Reading the chart: If your hand is unsuited, match your hole cards in the lower left half of the table. If your hand is suited, match your hole cards in the upper right half of the ...
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Annette Obrestad did this a few years ago. A quick google search finds an article where she discusses her win and a youtube video of the tournament she played:
http://www.bluffeurope.com/interview/en/Annette-Obrestad-Eyes-Wide-Shut_3379.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dax6w3RgDWA
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I believe this to be a very complicated set of factors... I'll try to mention a few, but not all of them, since I'm not old enough to know them :D.
First of all, Texas Hold'em is the variation of poker with the easiest mechanics to understand. All others are a bit more complicated: in Omaha there are too many cards, in Stud games there are those weird ...
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If there was an agreement to do so I would say that it is a form of collusion and therefore wrong.
If it just happens then it should be considered softplay and may draw a warning acording to most tournament rules.
By not being there the absent player cannot participate in the hand nor can he see the action taking place. That is to his detriment and if he ...
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If you're approaching a game already in progress, you've got a few different scenarios:
1- Open seat is one spot after current big blind -- If you sit here, you will be the big blind on the next hand and no one pays double blinds.
2- Open seat is between current small blind and current big blind. -- If you sit here, you can either sit out the next hand, ...
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This can not be true... A flush is always better than a straight, no matter how many players there are at the table.
Now, if you're talking about a higher probability of a player to have a flush instead of a straight... this depends on a lot of factors... and by a lot I mean a lot:
players are usually tighter when there are 8 players at the table vs. 3 ...
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The only time you can consider folding AA preflop is:
You are on the bubble in a tournament, and
More than two players are all in, and one of them WILL bust, and
Your stack is such that you could bust out if you call, and
If you fold, you are guaranteed a place in the money.
ALL of these things MUST be true to make folding AA the right decision. There ...
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At first, rank, as you define it, has nothing to do with the stages of a tournament. It has to do with a thing, called the M factor. M represents the number of orbits that you will survive if you never play a hand, if you fold immediately, when your chance is given. Its formula is:
M=(Stack size)/(big blind+small blind+total antes)
(you should add one ante ...
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The best interactivity is playing with other real opponents. Just open a poker client and keep playing. If you are to scared to play for real money play for play money. After you finish your session do a hand review. Pick a couple of hands which you remember as tough or pick the ones where you won most or lost most and see what you did to get to this ...
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Well, obviously like everything in poker, the answer is: "it depends".
Let's strip it down to its core: Pocket pairs are good because if you go against an opponent that doesn't have a pocket pair, he needs to hit the flop/turn/river somehow in order to have showdown value. You don't have to connect to the flop to do this, because you already have a pair.
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Villain's range is weighted toward Qx given his lack of interest in maximizing fold equity, so you're something like 32% to win and being given 2730:1170 = 30%, slightly correct pot odds to call chip-equity wise.
If you fold, your money equity via ICM is $411.
If you commit, 32% of the time your stack will be 7,130 against 2,870, for a money equity of ...
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Try this link, Holdem preflop matchups. It's a zip file of all PF matchups in table form I think.
Other than that, use a search engine using the terms "poker" "hand" "matchups", or some other variation with "preflop" and "probability" in there.
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My suggestion based off my own personal experience with house games is start with small buy-in tournaments. As the experience and comfort level grows, you can then either. Up the buy-in of the tournaments and/or transition into cash games. You can set the Buy-in caps of the cash games to limit the loss and keep the games friendly. To keep players from ...
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There are quite a few things we need to address here. I'm going to do my best to break them down point-by-point.
First off...
AK is not favorite to win against so many players, is it really profitable in the long run? What should i look for in this 2 situations to decide if it's profitable on the long run? Should i consider play AQ as well in this ...
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If it is your strategy to be playing these marginal hands in the first place. you probably need to have a more subtle strategy for letting their value come forth when you hit a gin draw like this. betting more of your stack than would be mathematically valid for a flush draw, even with the guarantee that everyone calls you all in when you make it, puts other ...
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Obviously the flop here is terrible for the hero. The hero is behind A-x, JJ, KQ, 10-10. Villain raised under the gun making AK, AQ or high pockets the likely holdings.
An all-in bet will likely immediately chase away 9-9 pockets and below, leaving the likely holdings of AK,AQ, AA, QQ, JJ , 10-10 remaining. I excluded KK, since this holding is very ...
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I tend to raise this spot preflop but if the guys behind you and in the blinds are passive limping behind can be ok.
The flop raise is a tad big, but standard, and yes, call the shove.
His shove is pretty large and if anything that's indicative of a big draw like A⋄K⋄ or J⋄T⋄. Sure he'll show up with better sets sometimes ...
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@Silversana With a hand like AK, he would have raised preflop. The same with 99 or QQ (bigger set).
Smells like KQ, A9, medium flush draw, straight draw, something in that range; in which case I would fold. Yes, you have a good hand, but in my opinion it's not good enough to call an all-in with. If this was a tournament and you had a smaller stack (less ...
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I think all-in is definitely the best move here in a cash game, where the hero is most surely ahead.
The villain, being in dealer position, would most likely have raised with QQ or 99 pre-flop. Without knowing about your table image, the villain could have been playing Q-x, 10dJd, or could have 2 pair.
So of the likely holdings for the villian there are ...
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Well, it's actually pretty easy. In Texas Hold'em you can combine them anyway you want. So the answer is yes, you can choose all the 5 community cards to form your hand1.
In fact, in Texas Hold'em, the total number of ways you can combine the cards is:
(7!) / ((5!) x (7 - 5)!) = (6 x 7) / 2! = (6 x 7) / 2 = 42 / 2 = 21.
where n! = n factorial = 1 x 2 x 3 ...
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If you fold for what ever reason before the hand is finished you forfeit your right to compete for any pot on the table. That is simply one of the rules of the game.
So, that is where strategy comes in to play. If there are three players in a hand with one of them all in, I always try to bet the remaining player out of the hand. That way I am only ...
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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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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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The general formula for the minimum pot size that is worth a call goes like this:
Break-even pot size = Probability of losing / probability of winning * price of call
In the worse case (you opponent is holding 65s), the numbers are:
Break-even pot size = 23 / 77 * aa = 0.3*aa
where aa is the amout of the all-in.
The pot is worth aa + blinds, which must ...
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When you are dealt a card, it has 13 possible ranks. When you are dealt a second card, for it not to be a pocket pair, that can be of any rank different to your first hole card - i.e. 12 different card ranks. For the division by 2, the calculations are for the number of combinations of different types of hands and a combination disregards order. If you take ...
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First, it really depends on who/where you're playing. If you're playing with at least pseudo-serious people, I think limit is the best way to start.
An often unappreciated skill in Hold'Em (and poker in general) is the ability to bet. If you read any reputable book on necessary poker skills it will always contain a section on proper betting. Knowing how ...
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Building a bankroll. If you want to play modern poker online for cash, "building a bankroll" is the book. You will find all the other poker books wrote on this argument until now superficials. It is not for beginner players, you must have a good knowledge of the theory of texas hold'em.
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