Actually, Harrington on Cash was early 2008. Has there been anything worth its salt since then for live cash games?

And what the heck is this?

As in, there has been a thread in this forum for many weeks now with a recommended reading list...

I'm going to assume that you're at the very beginning of your poker journey. Pick one book out of the recommended reading list and read it only. The others are good, but there is a world of difference between reading a book and actually understanding it. I've had "Theory of Poker" for 5 years now and I re-read it every 6 months or so. Each time, I pick up new things that frankly I didn't really understand before, but thought I did.

Once you read the book, make a list of all the leaks you have and rank them by how much they cost you. Pick two of them and play, working to eliminate them. Then work on the next ones. Contribute to the forum and write responses to other people's HHs. That's the true test that you understand what you have read. It is better to write one great response, outlining your thinking than to respond to 10 threads writing, "Fold", "Raise" or "Call."

Someone needs to write the new COTM and also have a PAHWM HH ready for Monday.... anyone interested????? Would like to see these things go on foooooorrrrr evvvvvvveeeeeerrrrrr

hey guys,

just got into live poker

just wondering - theres a 1/2/5 at my local casino (1/2 with mandatory straddle. 100 min, 400 max)
would that be pretty much equivelent to 2/5? with a smaller buyin cap?

Yep, just a artificial 2/5 game.

hey i'm abit of a stranger to this forum but I feell like this is the best place to post this and any feedback is greatly appreicated.

So i hit the casino after drinking with some friends for the 2nd time or so, after coming too fast the 1st time. I sit down at some £100nl after a short while and find myself 9 handed which is both surprising as well as tedious.

hand 1

villain is a chinese woman (CW) who looks about 75 (but prob is ~40). she seems to be quite passive postflop and tight passive preflop however raising with strong near nutted hands. I doubt she bluff raises any hand. My image is probably tight preflop but qutie aggressive postflop, i havn't yet shown down any hands.

stacks ~ 180 effective
I open AQo in the HJ to 4x , CW woman calls on the button, sb folds, BB who has us coverd calls.
Flop - QJ2r
check, I bet 11, CW calls, sb folds.
Turn - QJ2, Kr

This is where i think i have a decision i can b/f, c/c or c/f i think other options suck.

b/f is good as of hands like JT QT AJ improve to pair draws, and given read am given easy decision if raised. its bad because the K hits her range hard and therefore will raise with a relativly equal freq. to calling.

c/f is ok give nmy read she won't bet air on the turn (not that she has any, but betting a hand like TJ for example) so hands she will bet are like (AQ maybe), KT+ so obviously i can just fold to that range. downsides are i miss value versus al the pair and one pair hands

c/c i guess given above would be the worse out the 3, i can prob c/c if be size is small given aboslute hand str/drawing.

So anyway

I check, CW checks
River - QJ2,K,Kr
I lead for 25, CW calls

Hand 2
Villain is a middle aged gentleman. MAG. He is sitting to my right and it a loose passive player. He ordered chips, ate 2-3 and told me i could have the rest. He told me I was a 'slow player' [not slow-player] as i wasn't driving the action all that much. I think he is a little spazzy postflop at time and may not bet all draws instead play them apssivly at times

UTG+2 limps, MAG limps, i limp OTB with 8x9, Sb calls BB checks.

flop is T 9 7
checks to MAG who bets 8x, i call, all fold.

turn is 6
MAG bets 20x, i call

River is Jx
MAG quickly bets 50, i call.

Also i met a 2p2er at LEEDS CASINO here who played 16$ sngs and wore an ipod, if you read this pm me

thanks again for any advice in advance

Martin, what do you normally play?

LOL hand today from 2/3 NL. The three main players are peanut, fish and donkey...

3 limps including me. Fish makes it 6 from MP. Two callers from LP. Donkey now raises to 12. I fold and I think one limper calls... Peanut now raises to 25, and fish repops to 45. The 5bet preflop was to 15x lol...

Turned out Fish and Donkey both had AA, and the other person something that didnt go to showdown... but seriously, lol at the 5bet being 15x.... Someone opened for 14x after a limp with AA as well lololol....

Another thing I learnt today... Kind of the cycle you go through as a poker player...

When I first decided I wanted to take the game seriously in terms of learning and improving, I decided I wanted to learn to the point that rather then xx% of hands being "standard" that all of them would be. That no matter what spot I was in, I would snap no the answer quickly as what to do...

Its only in the last few months I have realised that this isnt that good of a concept, and instead, I want zero hands to be standard, all of them different apart from you know, flop the nuts and get donk shoved into... I want to make sure that I understand even the most trivial differences between hands and player ranges etc... and how that might influence decisions both then and later...

Might be standard to most here, but I thought it was mildly interesting...

50nl$ now mainly,

without wanting to sound like an ass i genuinely would like to ask why you ask this question after my post, thankyou

Sorry, lost the thread.

Just wanted to have a clue about your skill level.

Hand 1: Was the river bet a value bet or bluff? If a value bet, what hands would call that you beat? If a bluff, what hands that beat you would fold?

Hand 2: On a Pacific ocean wet board, what hands is he pushing the betting on all three streets that you beat?

i have managed to con society into giving me a job, so i'm rolled again! hoo rah. BBV's where i get pwnd coming your way sooon

I've got a question, what is the bb/100 for both rake and tips usually at live games in your experience?

At this casino, it was just about 3 pounds/hour session and no rake, which I thought was really good. Game was only 1/2 and no other games, though.

Where are you playing where they provide a room, table and dealer but don't rake? How do they make money?

looks like seat fee 3 pounds/hr

Wow, that's cheap especially if you are getting the tips included. That's about internet levels of rake.

Looking forward to the cool stories bro

Grats, getting a job in this market is harder than beating all the donkeys in 1/2.

That would be pretty hard to figure out. The average hands per hour in a sslnl game is about 30/hr. Rake is going to vary, but somewhere between $3 and $6 per hand is typical for US rooms. The typical tip per winning hand is going to be somewhere between $1 and $3. Figure out what the average rate at which someone playing sslnl wins hands per hour , crunch the numbers...

I have 5 lines for the powerball tonight, but IF i dont win tonight I need your guy's help on the next numbers.

I need 5 numbers 1-59 on the top and 1 number 1-39 on the bottom (PB).

Please respond with 1 number 1-59. After I get 5 numbers I will ask for the PB. Only one person per number. That means 6 different people.

When we win I am taking the people that chose the numbers to Vegas for a balla trip.

GL US.


ready... Go

12

1. 12 - Percula
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PB

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gogogogogo.. If I can get the numbers in tonight I'll do it!

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