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08-30-2005, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by vrecksler You should sign up and get your instant bankroll | Unfortunately, I have had a PartyPoker account for quite some time now--lost several hundred there before giving it up. So I am ineligible for the Instant Bankroll. Quote:
I am not a solid player either but I can turn small profits because I am tight/aggressive, however I need cards to do anything because I do not possess very good post flop skills. I play so few hands that when I do get something like AKs and get action, if I miss the flop I feel obligated to bet anyways and this sometimes gets me into trouble.
 | This is one of my problems, too. And I will continue betting, for fear of showing weakness that will encourage a bluff from a weaker hand. |
08-31-2005, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by SpeakEasy For the range of limits we're discussing here, the answer is no-limit hold 'em cash games, and its not even close. | I took this advice and lost everything I had won in the past 2 months.
TY. |
08-31-2005, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by yeltzen "Post Flop Skills" are ridiculously overrated.
When you raise preflop and a no-help flop comes up, you go like this:
1) Do(es) my opponent(s) play tight or loose preflop?
2) Based on this, is this flop likely to have helped them?
3) Do(es) my opponents(s) fold to a bet on the flop when they didn't get help, or will they raise and reraise with nothing?
4) Do(es) my opponents(s) see me as a tight player who only bets with a made hand or a loose player who will bet overcards?
5) If I'm called, do I have any hope of all of improving to a hand good enough to pull a semi-bluff on the turn?
Just run through them and if bluffing seems like it might work, do it. If it seems like your opponents know you bet scared when you flop nothing but overcards and will raise back at you, just check. TV shows and books make Hold'em seem much more complicated than it is. You aren't reconstructing the World Trade Center... you're playing cards. Seriously, there's only 2 plays you can make (besides folding) and, unless you're an idiot, there's only a few choices for how much to bet (1/2 the pot, 3/4 the pot, the pot). Sometimes you're right, sometimes you're wrong... online, one wrong decision is the end of you almost every time. | Great post.
This makes me think we ought to have a "Poker Tips" thread in the Strategy section.  |
08-31-2005, 12:14 PM
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| | | Not surprisingly, though, I suck at NL Hold'em. Just like golf. I can explain how to improve someone else's golf game/swing, but I can't improve my own. |
08-31-2005, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by yeltzen Quote: |
Originally Posted by SpeakEasy For the range of limits we're discussing here, the answer is no-limit hold 'em cash games, and its not even close. | I took this advice and lost everything I had won in the past 2 months.
TY. | Although it should go without saying --
proceed at your own risk. |
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