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Is "talking to influence action" illegal at WSOP?
Yes talking to influence action is against the rules and people push it. When he announced the pot size it went over the line. By announcing the pot size he was coaching. That is a rule violation. ...
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Questionable Tournament Rule With Two Players Left
This is false. The hand will play out as usual with the flop, turn, and river.
I'm not sure where your friend heard this or why he believed it. There are plenty of televised heads-up tournament ...
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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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In a tournament if you walk away from the table when "all in" did you "abandon" your hand?
"A hand may be considered and mucked if player is not at his seat" - WSOP rules. This is hand abandonment. "At his seat" is defined as touching or in reach of one's seat. However, this rule only ...
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What is overlay?
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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 much should I be tipping when I cash a live tournament?
From my experience as a dealer when closing out a tournament, the player whom ended up winning would give the 'loose change' from their win as a tip. I.E. say you take down a 100$ tournament in your ...
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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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Tips for my first Live Tournament
Just play your game, don't let the fact it's a live game or your first tournament in a casino affect you negatively in how you play. There is no need to fight over every pot in the first few levels. ...
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How to Prevent Blinding Out
My comment on your previous post was about this very phenomenon! You will not get "good" hands at anywhere close to a desirable frequency and the blinds will increase quickly.
You've asked a couple ...
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What is a "dead raise"?
When you straddle in the traditional sense in a poker room that allows them, it's considered a "live" straddle. Several popular variations of straddling exist, but one common element is that they're "...
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Play every hand or not
If you had more chance to win by playing every hand, everyone would play every hand all the time and there wouldn't be much of a game.
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Help with a tournament hand - KK in SB
I haven't looked at the revealed answer yet, and I'm not experienced in tournaments, so YMMV.
You haven't said anything about the button's tendencies. Two calls of raises in this hand pre-flop could ...
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How to deal with people who randomly go all-in?
I've wondered this question before too, but in the context of playing poker for free on Zynga where people do this all the time which is a little different from a tournament but much of the same basic ...
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What exactly happens when chip denominations are pulled in a tournament?
Typically, you "race" for the chips. Players get a card for any chips left over. Those chips are then colored up and are paid out based on high card.
You cannot be eliminated this way. If you don'...
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SNG $0.25 45-man, huge combo draw
I think this was a bad fold. You have to stick with the story you are trying to tell. You personally knew no one had the nut flush. So the two other players had to fear the ace of spades. Now the ...
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Decision, is the hand dead
Tournaments are different from live play. Once the all-in bet is called, both hands must be turned face up immediately. Neither player is allowed to fold. Both hands are live, and remain face up while ...
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Push or just call on the turn with trips against an over-pair and you know it?
My initial reaction when reading this hand was that a push was the easy play. After thinking about it a little, I'm not sure that it's so clear. Make no mistake, a push is absolutely a good, ...
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Why do players join a tournament late?
If you late register, all pots you play will be much more significant, compared to pots you play in the earlier stages of the game. Players can opt to late register, because playing the earlier stages ...
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Should i have shoved with QQ?
No, that was a massive overbet, given your stack size. A standard sized bet of about 3BB would have been better.
Although, in hindsight, it's possible you may have gotten into a raising war, and ...
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Does tipping happen at the highest level?
Tipping in tournaments occurs after the prizes have been paid out. There is no tipping during a hand. Typically the winner, and perhaps some of the other top finishers will tip a portion of their ...
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TT close to bubble in SnG with a good stack
With your current position, I think it would be overly cautious to be too passive and essentially play for 7th place (while hoping for better). Being in 8th place right now, it's not guaranteed you'll ...
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reraising when a player is allin
To give you a better answer we would really need to know everyones stack sizes, if it's a very short stacked table, a shove might give you some fold-equity, but if the table all have bigger stacks, ...
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Re entry tournament rules
A tournament shouldn't have you posting a big blind, unless you are in the big blind ever. When you re-buy you are treated as a new player, and depending on the tournament size you should also get a ...
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Re entry tournament rules
A Re-Entry tournament allows busted players to buy back into the tournament. You start again from scratch as if you were a completely new player. Therefore, you :
leave the table.
go to cashier buy ...
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Is all-in calling 2 all-ins with KK a bad move pre-flop?
Short answer, no, I wouldn't have done anything differently.
You have 14BBs and find KK with two players already committed to pay off your entire stack if you win the hand. Sure, you might rather ...
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Why do players join a tournament late?
I think Raymond's answer is great, concise and covers most of the points. I want to add two extra points as an answer.
Some people are turbo specialists, and their edge in these situations can be ...
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Final table at tournament, two players avoiding eliminating each other -- what can the tournament director do?
The WSOP has rules against collusion and card throwing, the collusion rule is as follows
b.Collusion is defined as any agreement between or among two (2) or more Participants to engage ...
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How to size an opening raise in a NLHE tournament with antes?
This depends on several factors... what's customary for the table, blind/ante sizes relative to stack sizes, who you are targeting with your raises. Early on, you can expect to get more loose calls ...
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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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