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I just dabble at free tables online. Any hardcore vets on here? What are some of your trade secrets?
Any Texas Hold'em Players?
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Former life I was. At one point I was heading to the WSOP
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Always wanted to learn. I hear the key is to know when to fold 'em.
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nice. I am often accused of slow rolling people. to which I say, isn't that kind of the point?
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When I played I was very much like matt Damon's character from Rounders. I could play blind
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any tricks or strategies you're willing to share?
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I guess u should close your eyes?
Brett, it is your duty to deliver. Ole needs your help and it's the Christlike thing to do. I wanna know too. One of my best friends is a poker champ and math professor. He don't tell me shit about his game, but says it's all mathematical. Is it?
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I play Euchre :shrug:
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1) don't play with what you can't lose
2) don't let it consume you
3) math is a part but reading your opponents and leaving your tells hidden is the most important aspect
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I used to be into it pretty heavy but now I only play a couple of times a month (friendly game at the neighbor's house). I don't play online anymore.
The first live tourny I ever played in was at the local dog track, and I won. A $40 buy-in earned me $2,500.
I also played in a $300 buy-in tourny in Atlantic City once and was doing pretty well until my pocket jacks got beat by an ace-jack. The flop came ace-ace-jack and I was out. To this day I think the dealer was in cahoots with the other guy, but oh well. I won the entry money playing 'Let it Ride' anyway, so it was a free life-lesson.
Tells, bluffs, traps and reads all enter into it a little bit, but hold 'em ultimately boils down to math (pot odds) and luck imo.
The first live tourny I ever played in was at the local dog track, and I won. A $40 buy-in earned me $2,500.
I also played in a $300 buy-in tourny in Atlantic City once and was doing pretty well until my pocket jacks got beat by an ace-jack. The flop came ace-ace-jack and I was out. To this day I think the dealer was in cahoots with the other guy, but oh well. I won the entry money playing 'Let it Ride' anyway, so it was a free life-lesson.
Tells, bluffs, traps and reads all enter into it a little bit, but hold 'em ultimately boils down to math (pot odds) and luck imo.
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I'm no expert but I've seen some on tv. Would think it has less to do with math and more to do with being able to read your opponents and avoid being a pattern type player yourself.
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I play. I will say its very hard to play against people that don't know what the hell they are doing and make dumb bets.
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Its both. There is a lot of math too. You have to be able to assess the strength of you hand. And you have to be able to assess risk of checking a bet compared to the reward in the current pot... and a lot of other situation shit.
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I used to be into it pretty heavy but now I only play a couple of times a month (friendly game at the neighbor's house). I don't play online anymore.
The first live tourny I ever played in was at the local dog track, and I won. A $40 buy-in earned me $2,500.
I also played in a $300 buy-in tourny in Atlantic City once and was doing pretty well until my pocket jacks got beat by an ace-jack. The flop came ace-ace-jack and I was out. To this day I think the dealer was in cahoots with the other guy, but oh well. I won the entry money playing 'Let it Ride' anyway, so it was a free life-lesson.
Tells, bluffs, traps and reads all enter into it a little bit, but hold 'em ultimately boils down to math (pot odds) and luck imo.
You went all in on pocket jacks?
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If you can get your opponent to fold the math is immaterial as you always win
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Know when to hold em..know when to fold em.
Make sure to walk away, when the dealing's done.
Make sure to walk away, when the dealing's done.
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lol... yeah nothin like winning the blind...
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Yes.
I had posiition on him, the best hand preflop and fantastic pot odds against anything but aces, kings or queens. His ace-jack was a totally shitty hand and he should have folded like everybody else did after the little raises. The 'math' says I would beat him better than 9 out of 10 times.
I should mention that I was the chip boss at the table going into the break; the Ace-Jack guy was brand new, sitting at my right (with slightly more chips as it turned out), when we returned from the break.
My pocket jacks were the first hand of the second round, and he busted me with only three outs left in the deck. He just "happened" to hit two of them FIRST off, and then rubbed a Jack in my face.
The odds of that happening...never mind that he was the only guy with more chips than me at the table, that I had never seen before that first hand. I still LMAO just thinking about it.
It was an "Atlantic City Life Lesson" for free; but then I was never very good at math anyway, so what do I know?
(a hint about good poker dealers, for those that care; the properties of Monopoly are named after Atlantic City streets for a reason)