Can anybody recommend an Itunes alternative for windows? Preferred features would be ability to find duplicates, manage library, sync to android and Ipod, smart playlists and something like genius playlists in Itunes. Ability to stream wirelessly to android would be bonus.

I have media monkey, but before I dive further into learning that I wanted to check if anybody had other recomendations.

Thanks

"People suck so much at no limit. If you have a hand like 87s on the button and it's folded to you, you raise because if you get called you know that they've got AK. And if the flop comes 732, you know it missed them because they've got high cards. And then when they check it to you, you bet and win the pot." -- T., my friend who thinks he understands poker.

Also...

"I'd rather have 87 in that spot than a hand like KJ. KJ is so easily dominated."

Maybe he's stumbling into having a perfectly polarized range? Ask him how he plays 94o, 86o, and T8s on that flop.

happy change-your-password-because-the-database-has-been-stolen-(again) day, micros!

My reminder was at 1702 days so time flies...

hush, noob.

1702 days is the last hack, not registration. Sup Tyler

I am such a live 3/6 limit fish. I can't beat 7 players to the flop.....ever.

Signed,
Starting to get to me

Too bad we don't have Abul's swimming with the fishes article handy, or how I learned to stop fearing the guy with 86s and be the guy with it. I'm sure next session you'll pile up 6-10 racks and need help getting to the cage.

I once took 14 racks to the cage myself. That was fun

the rake probably makes the game unbeatable

Thanks all for the kind words. I really thought I would do OK in this game but I've lost money 5 of the last 7 months playing 100-ish hours per month. Same group of players play a once-a-month freeroll NL tourney that I can usually get in the money. Of course NL is where I started (2 millon+ hands FTP and Stars) and this No Foldem game has sawed off my legs.

Rake and tokes are of course a part of it. I really can't calculate if this is the case or if I am just on a long run of second-best hands and the tide will eventually turn.

Still wish I could find a strat that would be successful since it really is the only game in town...and given my personal life, I can't travel for my poker hobby.

/sobbing into the palms of my hands lol

i'm serious - if they're raking probably 4 or more per pot then the game is essentially unbeatable by anyone no matter how expert. obviously variance and blah blah but there's probably no secret strat that you don't know about

play online? ignition (formerly bovada) has a 100% up to $1000 first deposit bonus which makes the micros beatable

If you must play live low stakes poker, play 1/2 NL. At least then you can nit it up to profit.

I should pay more attention to the absence of content thread. There was a Tyler sighting and I missed it.

Been a while.

Anyways, I don't play poker any more but I was looking through the real money tables at 11:30am on a Thursday, for limit holdem, and above 15/30 I saw nothing. I saw 1 table of 5/10 and a three-handed game of 10/20 and then I saw a bunch of 3/6, 2/4 and 1/2 games. I know that limit is dead, but I was really expecting to see more than this at pokerstars.

Also, I don't think I saw games in any currency other than $USD, which is fine, but do games in euros or whatever actually exist on stars at those stakes/games? I believe I made sure that I wasn't automatically filtering those games out.

Dayum, all the old bros coming out of the woodwork.

I'm just curious if this is normal state of online LHE or if it gets better or something, this is weird. A funny thing I saw is that there was a 0.5/1 table of zoom going on with 80% to flop, so that's pretty neat.

I came in when they were advertising beat the clock to see what that was all about: 10% immediate rake in a 5-minute NLHE tourney with quickly escallating blinds... I don't think anyone can get an edge in that at all.

Definitely some action at the NL tables though.

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Yeah I had a great time my first foxwoods trip and I guess I ran bad the second trip so it wasn't as much fun, but pretty crazy all the posts we wrote here so many years ago!

Would if I could. Closest spread limit game is 2+ hours away.

Felony to play online poker from my libtard state of WA.

That sucks. I guess you'll just have to make having fun your number one priority at the table and see poker as a hobby for now.

It is the hand I have been dealt with Bob. Fun is always the priority...but I am a competitive man (I even enjoy Play Money online games) and I am guessing my biggest problem is.....

I can't tell if I am losing less than others (thus, I could be the 'winner') Ya follow?

What's the rake? Many people to the flop is a good starting point to make a game possible to beat. If you say $4, I say can be beaten for >$0. If you say $7, I'd say no.

If you played a lot of NL, are you folding for single bets on the river with TP hands? I'd also be concerned about folding ++EV draws for correct NL reasons that are just not correct due to massive LHE odds.

Do we hash this out in this thread?

Rake is $1 for every $10 up to a $3 max. BBJ is $2 if there is a flop. I would say that 5 to the flop is the norm. I'll fold to a raise PF without a decent hand if I have nothing invested and call if it is only one back to me.

I'll fold TP type hands on river when multiway with a bet and call in front. RARELY am I ahead. I call just about every TP hands HU. I'll call a majority of big pots on the river "for one more" if I only have to be good 10% or less. I think this part of my game is pretty good.

++EV draws are often a raise from me. I do chase with the odds (often plus IO if I can count on another bet if I hit)


Concerns
1. I don't raise much PF. (I do play fairly tight...and positionally aware opening up as I approach button. PF steals are non-existent). There are VERY few 3! PF here. Even with my tight image a raise from me in EP will get 5+ callers. If I 3! from LP, everyone stays in. And I play the hand battling huge ranges. An example from last week had me losing a raised PF hand...4 to flop....to the BB with 32o. "I had the perfect hand to bust aces".

2. I call a bunch of flops with any small piece (or pocket pair that missed)...maybe as small as two backdoors....ya know, to see what develops on the turn. BUT....I fold turn a ton...maybe too much,,, but I never seem to hit yada yada yada. Can't find a call with a gutshot on the turn ever

3. Still can't wrap my head around betting strat with TPTK on the flop on a wet board. I sometimes bet hard, sometimes wait to see what falls on the turn.

4. I fear The Flush/Str8. I know it's stupid but a two-flush or 3 to-a-straight flop gets me to slam on the brakes more than it should I suppose. But if I can't beat TPGK, I drop the hand. If I do, I'll call flop, eval turn. If a blank, I'll bet hard. If it completes I'll drop because someone already hit and two others will rep that it hit them as well....

Bah... gotta run but will come back later today