Not
but just poked my head back above even for JAN Very swingy so far plus I suck at poker

I am up 500+ after my 800~ downswing. ^^

Make the new NC thread would be good. Also if a mod is so inclined our forum games thread is getting long again and could use a trim (start over) imo. Also I suck at poker tyvm. Also we need some limit players in here. Teh NL is evil.

Bona, I'll play LHE if you sweat me and help me =D

[X] Sure. mutual though- Take turns, or play at same table and exchange HH, or 2 way session reviews. W/E
[X] You prolly already better than I am

I will PM you after while (gotta work a few hours) to see what we want to do and when or PM me with your time zone and availability and I will respond.

Yeah, sure. Uh I don't play much LHE, but I can help you with NLHE =P

All I know about LHE is SSHE stuff and some random questions I've asked some LHE guys. Just give me your AIM/MSN ^^

IMO if you took a picture of you and monkey in a rundown crack house you would win this competition easy...

Also, are there crack houses that aren't run down...like high class crack houses?!

ok so a friend was asking me about how to open up his game as right now he is playing extremely tight....decent player,understands positional play(i think), very disciplined and has a good grasp of poker math. oh and also loaded...this kid has daddy's money... i gave him some advice but im thinking now whether this was bad advice or not...any comments?

basically he tells me that every time he tries to open up his game he ends up losing money as he is not able to read hands that well (fold when he should) hence the tightness.

basically my advice to him was when playing out of the button and cutoff if you are only opening top 15% of hands (now) then instead of adding the next 10% (thus making it top 25% or whatever) add the absolute worst 5% of hands so you are playing your top 15% and the bottom 5%.

the reason i said this was because when playing the really crap hands you cant really stack off unless you flop big and folds are relatively easier to make when your steals are not working.

i told him practising this (at a lower limit) maybe a good way to learn to open up and should help him read hands better as well.

bad advice??? opinions?? anything you guys wanna suggest?

Tell him to read some books, and ask some forum questions.

i think part of the problem is that he has read too many books/forum and is a robot.



what is your opinion on the advice??

That's pretty awful advice. You do not want to be opening 72,23,93 etc. you will basically never flop good with these and even if you make say 2 pair it will likely be bottom 2 pair which is a fairly vulnerable hand. A better idea that I think you may have misunderstood is to open some hands that will make either a big hand/big draw or a weak pair/nothing e.g. suited connectors/suited one-gappers/small pocket pairs. This way there is less chance of you making a good hand which is second best. Having said that, I would have your friend concentrate on learning to hand read better instead of trying to find ways avoid the problem - hand reading is the basis of your game, you can't really get around that.

lulz flipmaha


$0.25/$0.5 Pot Limit Omaha Hi
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($29.00)
UTG+1 ($14.55)
CO ($91.45)
BTN ($65.85)
Hero (SB) ($49.50)
BB ($31.55)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 6 players) Hero is SB K A A K
UTG calls $0.50, UTG+1 calls $0.50, 2 folds, Hero raises to $2.50, BB calls $2, UTG calls $2, UTG+1 calls $2

Flop: 7 8 A ($10, 4 players)
Hero bets $10, BB goes all-in $29.05, 2 folds, Hero calls $19.05

Turn: Q ($68.10, 2 players)

River: Q ($68.10, 2 players)

Final Pot: $68.10
Hero shows: K A A K
BB shows: 9 5 6 J

Hero wins $65.10 ( won +$33.55 )
BB lost -$31.55
UTG lost -$2.50
UTG+1 lost -$2.50

Nah the advice makes sense, but I think you should just tell him to open 100% when folded to =P

IF he has folding equity. Does he use a HUD? Tell him to make all the important stats show, such as VPIP in blinds, fold to cbet, AF, 3bet%, etc.

lol AAAK T_T

I just had a sweat session with Bona which worked out great (the fact that I ran hot as the sun helped). Up almost 40 dollars ^^

I think the advice makes sense from a point of view .... but I don't think it's good advice. I'd rather steal with such not great hands that had a better chance of hitting when called than steal with something like 52o that's basically dead when called.

Gonna have to learn to play and gonna have to learn to hand read ...... at least a little .... you don''t have to be too good at all at either to be good enough to win a decent $ at poker right now (depending on your definition of decent I guess). Just advising to raise top 15% and worst 5%, however, .... well I dunno ... does not seem like a good way to play.

im bored so it is done. firsts suck btw.