***** Official Dumb Questions Thread ****

[Gomery]

What is SPR? How do I use it? What does "13 SPR" mean?

[BorisHsArivd]

What does "overcalling postflop" mean, and why is it bad? Thanks

[Cry Me A River]

Originally Posted by Gomery

What is SPR? How do I use it? What does "13 SPR" mean?

Stack to Pot Ratio. If you have a 13 SPR, your stack is 13 times the size of the pot. Helps determine if you should be pot committed, whether you want to try and play for stacks.

Originally Posted by BorisHsArivd

What does "overcalling postflop" mean, and why is it bad? Thanks

Overcalling is calling a bet after someone else has called. It's usually bad (except draws where a raise won't have fold equity) because if two people have already shown interest in the hand you should usually be either folding or raising. If you have TJ on a T52 flop you might call against one aggressive player but against two your hand almost certainly is no good. On the other hand, if you have 55 or AT you should be usually raising.

[Gomery]

Originally Posted by Cry Me A River

Stack to Pot Ratio. If you have a 13 SPR, your stack is 13 times the size of the pot. Helps determine if you should be pot committed, whether you want to try and play for stacks.

Thanks! When are we committed? When the pot is bigger then our remaining stack? When we have invested half of our stack? What's the general rules?

[Cry Me A River]

Originally Posted by Gomery

Thanks! When are we committed? When the pot is bigger then our remaining stack? When we have invested half of our stack? What's the general rules?

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...nl-spr-493552/

[Gomery]

Originally Posted by Cry Me A River

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...nl-spr-493552/

Haha, that's the post that made me post in the dumb questions thread

[AQhearts]

I am being result oriented when I play 2NL. My graph slowly goes up but for the most part its a rollercoaster. Its frustrating, makes me think that I cant even beat 2NL. How do I combat that?
I went busto without bankroll management before on various sites and now when I have downswings I think I am gonna go bust again...even thought I am still up...

[Gomery]

Getting confused here... What is a 3bet? I have always believed that: a raise on flop, someone re-raises and then the original raiser raises again, that last raise is a 3bet. Correct?

In pokertracker is a 3bet the same thing? Was told that for some people 3bet=betting on flop+turn+river.

[Cry Me A River]

Originally Posted by Gomery

Getting confused here... What is a 3bet? I have always believed that: a raise on flop, someone re-raises and then the original raiser raises again, that last raise is a 3bet. Correct?

A 3bet is the third bet/raise on any street. Most often 3bet is preflop:

Big blind - First bet (nobody ever calls it this)
Raise - 2bet (nobody ever calls it this)
Re-Raise - 3bet

In pokertracker is a 3bet the same thing? Was told that for some people 3bet=betting on flop+turn+river.

That's 3 barrelling.

[Gomery]

Thanks CMAR

[Green_29]

I want to ask about variance, just how bad can it be/how bad should I expect it to be? Ok, I know how bad it *could* be, I could lose every pot for the rest of my life. But realistically, just what sort of sample sizes are good to figure out what your winrate is? Im broke even for the last 13K hands but Im 99% sure that Im a +7BB/100 winner, is it common for a winning player to break even over such a stretch? I mean, it's just horrible for your confidence when you win nothing for 13K hands, should I start worrying about my game yet or not?

I guess I just dont really understand sample sizes, I mean to me 13,000 hands sounds like A LOT.

[AnyOne]

One Plus One Question:

I often observe the $5/$10 NL 6 Max cash games online and see something that I just do not understand.

Player A raises 3x the BB to $30 and then Player B reraises to $90, Player A folds nearly 100% of the time. This goes on and on and on.... WHY? Why not just call with the knowledge that you might be raised? And/Or better yet, why not call the reraise and play the hand you thought good enough to raise with in the first place?

Could it be that many of these players started multi-tabling early on and rely on their software added play so much that they never really learned how to play poker beyond this very linear strategy?

And by linear strategy I really mean circle jerk.

I hope this was the right place to ask the question. If not, sorry...

Thx

[coolnout]

Am I making the right plays?

Two examples, are these just bad beats or is this very likely to happen and I shouldn't be in the hands to begin with?

I'm at a 9 person table at a Freeroll MTT and it's about midway and I have a pretty small stack and the blinds are starting to get up there. A player with a large stack is playing extremely aggressive. I just watched him shove with A-10 and get called and almost lose half his stack. So I get dealt K-J and again he raises like he has a big hand. So I call, and I flop a king. He bets, and I feel he's bluffing and I'm all in by the river as he's betting very aggressively. River comes and it's an A. He was holding A-J.

My instincts told me to play that hand and I flopped the K.

Second example, I have QJ and again I'm shortstacked and the large stack is playing very aggressive. He raises pre-flop, and my instincts tell me to call this hand. I'm running out of time to make a move.

I flop two pair. I'm all in by the river, and he hits a 10 on the river with A-K hitting the straight.

Are the odds against me in these hands, twice I'm all in by the river with the lead against very aggressive players. Bad beats? or simply stupid plays on my part with expected outcomes on the river?

[Terremoto]

Originally Posted by coolnout

Am I making the right plays?

Without having any more details, it's difficult to really say what you should or should not have done. Details like stack sizes, size of blinds, payout structure, how many players left, position, reads, etc...

One thing I noticed was that it sounds like you played pretty passive though. Why weren't you the one putting pressure on villian when you've got a made hand, or just shove pf depending on stacks obviously.

Also, what do you mean my instincts? Are you talking about a gut feeling? I hope not.

[Terremoto]

Originally Posted by AnyOne

Player A raises 3x the BB to $30 and then Player B reraises to $90, Player A folds nearly 100% of the time. This goes on and on and on.... WHY? Why not just call with the knowledge that you might be raised? And/Or better yet, why not call the reraise and play the hand you thought good enough to raise with in the first place?

Who knows, maybe there's some meta-game thing going on and they're each trying to set the other up, but if you were player B, wouldn't you 3-bet player A all day long?