Sure. Or in another. However you want -- happy to move these posts to a new thread if you want to start one.
$5 rake isn't $7, but it is a lot. You're going to have to be the best player at the table to make money, and it has to be by a good margin. The other issue is that the max rake is way more than 10%, so if the pot is $32, all $5 are going down. If the game typically has $80 pots then less of an issue.
Just to be clear, in a limit hand once you've committed funds you're almost always seeing a flop. Maybe if it is like 3 more bets back to you...
RARELY = less than 10:1 or 15:1 often? In a 20/40 game, overcalling is probably bad. In small stakes, there is that WTF factor... the guy betting may be betting correctly, but the callers don't realize "hey, there are like 4 guys behind me and I need way more hand to call". They just thing "pairs can win".
Sounds good.

You just need positive equity to raise. Good players are just value raising a lot of hands. If you only raise TT+, AQo+, AJs , you're missing value and you're making it correct for the few observant players to play carefully. If a guy wants to put in a bunch of bets preflop with 32o, you're cheating him of the chance if you limp or overlimp or coldcall.
Gutshot and an overcard? Odds are odds. You're thinking good things.
You can't bet hard in limit. You either do or you don't. Run some equilab. If you're winning the pot 30% of the time and getting 5 callers... that's profit. It is also misery 70% of the time.
Some of this is great. If you turn 2 pair and lose to a rivered flush, you don't lose your whole stack. You have to realize the people drawing to top pair 2nd best kicker and to 2nd best flush are shoveling all their monies to the best hand and the best draw. So if you bet or raise flop with the current best hand, sure you're helping out the flush draw. However, the two of you are chopping up people drawing dead to the pair of you.

In limit you have fewer hard decisions on the river. You don't have to worry about facing a shove or as much about keeping the pot the right size for your hand strength. It could be your opponents are so passive you just bet and fold to a raise a bunch. It could be they're random enough to bet and then shrug and call the rare spew bluff.

I found out the other day that you can straddle the button 3 handed on America's Cardroom. Sweet.

Nice night for KS. Big pots and during the first hour I got all of my good cards in the CO or Bttn. Up three racks. Next two hours blinded off a rack and left.

Night started GREAT as I was waiting for a seat at the table. Floor was privately asking me about a hand I played LAST week when he was out of town. Seems everybody was talking about it throughout the week. I successful bluffed a river in a huge pot against a notorious caller-reg who folded.... and I showed close to the nut low with zero piece of the board (7 high I think...."But it was sooted"). I chuckled.

Maybe more importantly, several regs at the table saw my image continue to get shattered. I raised 4 callers from the button with 45 and Cbet air. Poker Gawd blessed me with runner-runner and as I was racking in the huge pot, I looked up to see everyone giving me "that look".....so I absolutely said "Whaaaaat, I raised PF. Why are you looking at me like I didn't earn this pot. I had a premium hand!" That hand alone will get me paid off for the next few weeks. lol.

/results oriented

What an insane start to my 2017 season in my local league. 38 players. We get 20k starting stack and we start out at. 100/200. In a typical game if I get to the 100k mark I feel comfortable I will get to the final table.

Last night I was card dead the entire night and short stacked after the first four levels. I was forced to play short stack strategy the entire night and never got my stack above 38k. I kept barely surviving by stealing the blinds with well timed shoves and suddenly found myself close to the bubble but only having 4BB's left and the BB on my next hand. Out of nowhere two people get eliminated (one at each table) anf I find myself at the final table.

At the final table I pray for a good button draw, get screwed by drawing the BB, but get a walk so I survive to see another orbit where I double up a couple of times and get my stack to a short but playable 110k. Ultimately I lost a race and came in 6th for a $190 cash, but what a ride!

It just goes to show that you truly only need a chip and a chair.

Donkaments can be crazy. Sure you're more proud of grinding it out than if someone handed you their chip stack level 1 and you coast to 6th.

No doubt!

Sup bros?!

Do any of you know the game Diplomacy?
I am hosting a global variant online but am likely about to lose a player.
I know it's a shot in the dark but I suspect there might be an intelligent player here without any connections to the other players in the pool. If by some fluke you already know the basics of Diplomacy that'd rock too.

How is everyone doing? It's been a while.

Hey Zeldark. Good to see you.

My thread lives!

I do play diplomacy, Zeldark, still looking for an opening?

Also, first call for Babarhaus diplomacy game.

Hey breich I think you owe us a trip report for your 3kth post.

Welcome back.

Ask and ye shall receive, check the medium stakes.

I can only keep up with the traffic in one poker forum.

I think you just nom'd yourself.

Dead NC thread is dead!

Doc

It was until it wasn't. Now it isn't. Though it might be again soon.

Coming up on 60K views.

I thought it was 1k posts?

You're going to have to work hard on that milestone. You still hiking a bunch?

Looking for works at home sucks. I've been pretty much stuck in this chair reading 2+2 since January. When I get to Portland I'm going to have to do a crap ton of work outside of the crap ton of work learning a new job to make up for the last few months.

Maybe this might spark some actual conversation for a bit.

This summer, I'm ending my term as department chair, and I'm thinking of using some of that newfound free time to play some of the WSOP daily tournaments. But I haven't really played any poker in such a long time (especially not tournament stuff).

So I'm taking suggestions for how to plan/practice/prepare over the next couple months. I'm not going to put a ton of time into this, but I'm interested in putting *some* work into this.

Ideas?

Jump in and start playing some tourney's online. This is assuming this is still a thing, I haven't been online for poker since black friday.

I have no money online anywhere. I also pulled out on Black Friday. I did dip my toes into the NV local online poker scene, but the software was bad and the player pool was bad. So I didn't do that for long.

I don't even know the state of low stakes online tournaments accessible from the US. Or even how to get money there if I wanted to go that route.

(I'm so far out of the poker loop...)

Long awaited LHE forum merger happening in about a week. Details in this thread.

Cliffs is the the micros join SS and SSSH as the micros/small stakes forum. Mostly people you already know.

I like it.

In honor of this epic merger come join our nhl playoff bracket challenge...Come gamble with us.


http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/46...-pool-1661860/

The new way to get on tables on Ignition sucks!!!!!

Can't see what tables at different stakes are available. Can't pick your own seat. Makes you start a table (which I am not afraid of) if there are not tables open at the stakes you choose.

Doc