Questions tagged [texas-hold-em]
Texas Hold'Em is a poker variant in which each player receives two cards (hole cards) that are dealt face down and then five community cards are dealt face-up by the dealer. All players may use their hole cards and the five community cards to make their best five-card poker high hand.
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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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Is online poker legal or not in the United States ?
I am just starting to learn Texas holdem, and I've heard that online poker is not legal, and also that it is. Which is it?
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When should I use a polarized vs. a merged range?
In what situations would I want to use a polarized vs. a merged range? Are there situations where it is best to have a purely high or low value range?
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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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Should I call this river overbet with an overpair?
1/3 at Rivers Casino, Pittsburgh Pa. Villain is a Hines Ward lookalike - he started out playing as a seemingly competent LAG, playing lots of hands fairly aggressively, putting opponents in tough ...
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Publicly available poker stats
Are there any sources of poker hands, including how they play out with betting etc... I am imagining the log files of some poker site somewhere.
I am looking for complete hand histories - and ...
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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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Is Small Ball Poker In Cash Games A Good Strategy?
I have read Daniel Negreanu's book on small ball poker strategy in tournament play.
Essentially, small ball poker involves playing a wider range of
starting hands more aggressively, but only ...
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What is the min-raise and min-reraise in Holdem No Limit?
When I play with friends live poker we always ask ourself what are the min-raise and min-reraise rules in Holdem No Limit?
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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 using a "straddle" a valid strategy or is it just for fun?
I am wondering if posting a straddle makes the game more fun, if it's a pure gamble or if it actually has any hidden strategic value (well, of course the straddeler gains a better position pre-flop by ...
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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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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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How do you bet pre-flop when there's no action, you're on the button, and you have pocket rockets?
In a no limit cash game, if I'm sitting on the button pre-flop with pocket aces and no one has bet ahead of me, I usually don't want to limp because I don't want to offer free opportunities to draw to ...
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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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How to deal with a table that always calls?
In my no-limit Texas hold'em home games, players are allotted approximately $2500 worth of chips. The starting blinds are $5/$10, and are increased everytime the button has moved around the whole ...
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What are the odds I will hit my flush? [duplicate]
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What can I do to calculate my odds in a hand?
If I have 2 cards of the same suit in the hole, and 2 board cards with those suits on the flop, what are the chances that I will ...
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The more advice I read - the worse I play. What am I doing wrong?
I have been playing online Texas Holdem for years. At first I was getting better all the time. Not good enough to make a living or anything but steadily accumulating money on the low stakes "penny" ...
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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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Can the optimal strategy for low stakes holdem be considered simpler as a general rule?
It appears that some of the subtleties of the game of poker are actually counterproductive against weak players. For example, raising is better than calling in many situations because it provides you ...
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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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Best way to put your poker learning into a cohesive plan?
I am a tourney player exclusively and I want to improve my poker significantly in 2015. I'm also a person that likes to put a plan/goals into place in order to measure myself against that progress.
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Texas Holdem poker software for LAN
Is there any free/paid multi-player (in LAN) poker software available? Please suggest a good one you know.
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Can an Ace be low in a straight?
I was under the impression that, in Texas Holdem, "Aces are always high". However, I have been playing online and I noticed that aces are used in a low straight (A, 2, 3, 4, 5). Was I mistaken that "...
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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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How to make the most of a very good hand when you've been playing conservatively?
The other day I was playing a game where I was playing relatively conservatively, waiting for a good hand. Then I got a pair of aces, and as soon as I bet just a couple of chips, everybody ...
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How to determine the winning hands in poker?
It seems especially to newer players that what constitutes a winning hand, what the best five cards are, can be confusing. So exactly what hand is the winner and why does it win?
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Are non-standard verbal declarations such as "same bet" or "I put you all-in" binding?
Obviously verbal declarations using standard language (e.g. "I bet $20") is binding in most casinos. However, sometimes players get a little "cute" with their choice of language. For instance, when ...
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Looking for the BB/M math to build good NLHE Tourney Blind Structures
I'm running a home game and I want to better design NLHE Tourney Blind Structures.
So far the auto generators I've found either bias slow build up or long tourney times.
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Is there a situation where just calling is justified with AK on a QKA suited flop?
Suppose you raised pre-flop with the AK and have one caller, so you go heads-up to the flop. On the flop comes QKA which are all spades. This is clearly a very draw-heavy board, and your two pair AK ...
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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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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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Do I have to show my hand in an "All-In" situation?
This question is concerning Texas Hold'Em rules.
If my opponent goes "All-In" and I call with more chips than he does, do I immediately show my cards?
During a recent game, my opponent called "All-...
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Why did I lose this hand?
I was playing hold 'em and there was a show down.
The board was:
K:diamonds: 2:diamonds: J:diamonds: 8:diamonds: 6:diamonds:
My opponent had:
9:diamonds: T:diamonds:
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7:spades: J:clubs:...
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Do I call a turn all-in with KK with against a possible flush?
I don't recall all the details about this hand, but here's what I do know.
Some folds and possibly some limps; I forget exactly.
$1/$2 NL
Villain (Has hero easily covered) in Seat 1
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Should I have bet this river? - KK vs potential flush
Playing 2NL. Hero has only seen villain in one hand where he called some large bets with top pair mid kicker and got lucky on the river. Villain has 9$ and hero has $1.90.
Preflop
Hero is on button
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What is the maximum number of players in Texas Hold'em?
I've been told the maximum number of players at a Texas Hold'em table is 10. Why?
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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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looking to see what card would have come
Whilst playing texas holdem, two players are left in a hand - one as the dealer, on the turn the other player bets, and the dealer folds meaning the other player has won the hand - but the dealer out ...
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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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What is Teddy KGB's tell?
Toward the end of the film Rounders, the main protagonist, Mike McDermott, decides to play his $20k bankroll against Teddy KGB in Texas Hold'Em, after the latter taunts him. After an indeterminate ...
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What to do when a third suited card appears on the river
9 player cash game. Blinds 1c/2c. I am UTG with K:hearts: K:diamonds: I raise to 8c. Everyone folds to the button who calls. SB and BB fold. The pot is 19c. Flop comes 9:spades: 2:spades: K:clubs:. ...
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Is it correct to go all-in when you have KK?
I was playing a cash game online and I got pocket Kings. If someone else keeps raising me pre-flop, should I go all-in or should I hold back in case he has pocket Aces?
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How to deal with overcards in the flop
OK, so you've been dealt QQ and you're feeling pretty good about things and throw out a few BBs. Everyone folds but the villain.
The flop comes and it contains a rocket.
Whatever happens next, I ...
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What is an open limp?
What is the difference between limping and an open limp?
I know that when you just pay the bigblind on preflop it's called limping. But what is an open limp?
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What happens if the card wasn't burned?
I understand the purpose of burning the cards - so that one cannot possibly use any marks to see the next card in deck. But in home games, sometimes the dealer will forget to burn a card on the flop, ...
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How to play the flop when two aces appear?
The game was Texas Holdem NLHE 1$/2$ 6 player game.
I was in the big blind. Two players limped in, one of them was a new player.. I got Q♠Q♥ and made a standard 3BB raise. both players ...
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How to identify low sets against top pair top kicker? (Online Poker)
When I get busted it is because I did not identify that my opponent held a set and I thought my top pair with top kicker is best.
I often run in situations where I held something like A♠K&...
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Poker program that tells you the best-known multistrategy in limit hold'em
Following up on an article I read in the NY Times I've learned that the best limit hold'em bots are better than the best humans. My understanding is that for each game state they reach these bots must ...
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What is the definition of a "redraw"?
Very simple question...
When people talk about outs and card odds they often will something to the like of, "i have about 4 outs not counting redraws" - what defines a redraw?
If it matters, I am ...
