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Pre-flop charts 6-max cash games
I found some opening charts here which you might find useful:
Semi-Loose
Tight
There is also a chart here with calling, 3-betting and 4-betting ranges:
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How to stay alert during long tournaments
Great Question, some things that I find useful are the following:
snacks like sunflower seeds, nuts, or gum keep your mouth busy and help to keep you awake and alert
regular breaks where you get up ...
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What is overlay?
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Wiki
In poker, an overlay is the gap between a poker tournament's
guaranteed prize pool and the actual prize pool generated by entrants.
For example, if a tournament has a ...
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How to stay alert during long tournaments
Clarko's given some good pieces of advice.
Most tournaments give you a 5-minute break every hour, so make good use of those!
One thing I'd add is "pay attention to what your opponents are doing! ...
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Are online poker sites rigged?
I have over 1M hands in my poker database and everything holds true for the RnG of any site. Stats I can look up are frequency I get hands like AA and odds of calling and shoving all in's. Everything ...
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What are the percentage for running into AA if you have KK?
The chance that any one person has AA when you have no aces (and given no other information) is 6 / (50 * 49 / 2) or ~ .5% (note: you know your two cards, so it's not 52 * 51). This means that there'...
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Why to post big blind in online poker?
It is just a rule of poker. When you take a seat you must wait for the BB to come to you before you can start playing. Or you can post a BB to start playing immediately.
Imagine this scenario. A ...
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What measures can I take to verify that an online poker site has rigged hands?
I think the biggest potential risk is not from non-random hands, but from insiders who have available to them knowledge of the (perhaps totally random) hands in real-time while they're playing out. ...
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How do poker sites detect bots?
From what I know they track certain metrics to determine bots. Most bots are pretty damn weak but as individuals are often hard to detect. What they track tend to be the following:
Repeated use of ...
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How to play a pair against a maniac?
Ok. Let's take this one step at a time.
You describe your opponent as a "maniac". However, that player displays no "maniac" behavior in this hand, so I'm not sure where to go with that. I'd like ...
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Avoid Costly Mistakes
I agree generally with the other answers, but I just wanted to point out that I think your post looks a lot like the specific type of tilt known as "entitlement tilt."
You start your post with a ...
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Aggression vs cheap flop
But even a call to a raise in early position is not a cheap flop. 2BB is 2BB and you have 4 players behind you that could re-raise.
K-10 suited is not just outside the tight range in early ...
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Is playing online poker with multiple accounts an advantage?
Sit on a (as in the same table) is cheating. You know the other hands and what cards are out. It is player collusion which alone is cheating.
If one hand is KK and another hand is QQ then you would ...
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How can a poker player alter their strategy to exploit java.util.Random
"Anyone who considers arithmetic methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann, 1951
The short answer: If your player knows your seed, in theory he can ...
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Did I play this AK hand well?
There are a lot of questions outstanding in this, but a couple of things jump out at me.
It's a micro-limit play money game - people will play anything
Your raise to 2x BB with multiple limpers is ...
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How can a poker player alter their strategy to exploit java.util.Random
Shuffling a deck on a computer is not a trivial task. It is not the same task as encryption and it is not the same task as game simulation, both of which use PRNG's.
http://www.datamation.com/entdev/...
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Why to post big blind in online poker?
This is to prevent people from gaining an advantage by coming in for free than not playing the blind when it comes to them. Common rule, although not particularly standard in all venues.
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Why to post big blind in online poker?
They must include this button.
Imagine the scenario, you sit down at a table and someone comes to the door. Without this button the game would force you to pay the BB out of turn. And you could ...
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Online poker, bring all chips to the table?
Generally bankroll management for cash games determines how many buyins you want depending on how much risk you are willing to take that you could lose your entire bankroll - despite playing ...
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Why do so few players play razz?
Razz has never been a popular game.
Razz is a form of seven card stud. The best hand is a "wheel" which is a 5 high straight (a-2-3-4-5). They also play a 2-7 version. These days in brick and mortar ...
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How to play if you hit a straight on flop?
Just gonna throw my two cents in to make you think about some things (some people might have mention some of them already.)
You haven't actually mentioned anything about positions here, what position ...
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How to play if you hit a straight on flop?
This is really just a comment on your turn play. Short version: After you check and he bets, I think you should have shoved all-in.
You don't say exactly what the stacks were to begin the hand, but ...
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Why this pot is split?
Repeat after me: poker hands have five cards. EXACTLY five cards. No more, no fewer. In Hold'em, each player plays the best 5-card hand he can out of the seven available.
Vlad's best 5-card hand is A-...
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Should I call 3 bet when having two pair?
One of the troubles with this hand is you can't narrow his range pre-flop. He's seeing a lot of flops anyway and since he's defending his blind his range will likely be even higher than normal. Pre-...
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What's the optimum time to enter a tournament with late registration?
I like the accepted answer but I disagree with "get a large stack early".
Playing big pots to build a stack early is risky. Even a fish can wake up with or draw to the nuts.
Play pot control ...
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How to deal with the fast rate of play online
Perhaps you're playing a zoom or rush table where you only have a few seconds. You will get used to it pretty quickly but to ease yourself into it just try play a single table, maybe for a lower stake ...
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Avoid Costly Mistakes
There are ways of maintaining concentration sure, but what works for me might not work for you. You will have to find your own method.
For me I listen to music when I play. I find that it stops ...
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Avoid Costly Mistakes
This sounds like a classic example of tilt. Being able to control oneself in these situations is often the only the difference between a consistently winning poker player and a losing one. For ...
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What measures can I take to verify that an online poker site has rigged hands?
To directly answer the question,
Is there a reliable known method to verify whether a game server is
rigged / not truly* random?
...without trying to go on too much of a tangent:
The most ...
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