Double or nothing. Half the field wins double what the entered for minus the rake.
You could just google it.

jargon q: what's "a level"?

PokerStars or FTP for 25NL? I have read CMAR saying to take the FTP rakeback, that it isn't even a close decision.

But then I read someone else saying that FTP's rakeback only takes the rake down to 4.8% from 5%. So maybe I'd be better off staying at PS for the FPPs.

Can someone please explain? Thanks.

in poker, levels of thinking are "what does my opponent have" and "what does my opponent think I have" and so on. You may check a strong hand, hoping your opponent interprets it as weakness, or else wonder if your opponent's check is a trap.

by extension, on 2+2, people sometimes post something, but mean the exact opposite of what they say. They're posting something obviously (to them) silly, attempting to point out the absurdity of it or to make a joke.

It's the old textbook definition of irony. It frequently doesn't work well online.

Sometimes "levels" are purely deceptive, to draw a reaction.

sigh, how do i post an image? I click on "insert image" button and it asks for a URL?

you need to use an image hosting site like imageshack or photobucket. 2+2 doesn't dedicate server space for uploading images.

upload your image to imageshack, and they'll give you the url to use. it's really rather easy.

don't look at the 2+2 FAQ for this, they mention attachments and albums, but those features are not enabled on 2+2

The Beginners Forum Frequently Asked Questions includes instruction on how to post images in the Posting Guide section.

Also in About There Forums, there's a sticky:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/55...ctures-285800/

quick question - how do i get my HEm graph to show rakeback made. i selected the option to show "rakeback+bonuses" but it didnt add anything to the graph. how do i fix this. thanks a lot

hey cry me a river..thanks a ton for linking that. i obviously suck for not finding that. in my defense, i searched probably ~30posts/threads of "post image" before I gave up.

thanks again!

options/rakeback and bonuses/add rakeback

http://www.holdemmanager.net/faq/afm...aspx?faqid=125

http://rvgsoftware.fileburst.com/Hol...agerManual.pdf

Ah, thanks.

Who's the guy who thought he had a straight but didn't and/or link me to that video thanks.

Hi,

I have been playing at 0.05/0.10 6 max limit hold'em for last two month and somehow got 3BB+/100 win rate last 10K+ hands. I felt I could move up but almost always lose when I play at 0.10/0.20 6 max LHE.

I thought my poor heads up playing is my weakness. So, I tried 0.05/0.10 heads up game a few times to find a way, hint, or tips to improve my heads up skill but could not find anything, just I realized I am a big fish at heads up table. orz.

I would appreciate if anybody suggest me how to improve my heads up skill or other way to improve 6 max LHE skill.　Well, I have several LHE books, DC videos, and PT3, and my total poker time is about 3 hours a day. What kind of learning style is the most time effective? Current my style is playing 0.05/0.10 6 max 2 hours, and reading, watching or posting here, just started though, for 1 hour.

Cheers.

Why would your head's up ability have anything to do with your 6-max results?

Because I think I am not good at playing at head's up situation, i.e. SB vs BB.

Ok, so I'm having trouble keeping making myself play tight, and I keep finding myself in bad situations with troubled hands like KTo or something.

So, my question is: would it be a bad idea to use poker stove to print off a list of the top 10% or so of hands and use that to decide whether or not to open?

I was thinking something like: raise with the top 5% of hands, open with the top 10% of hands, and call with the top 15% of hands. The only situations I'd vary this in would be cases where it folded to me on the button or in the small blind and I thought I could steal a blind.

I guess my big question is: I'm getting myself into trouble by playing marginal hands pre-flop. I'm trying to figure out which hands I should be opening with, which hands I should be raising other openers with, and which hands I should call other openers with, but fold if it's just limpers in the pot.

And finally, what kind of a raise/bet should I be making with my top 5%/top 10% of hands when I open? I've heard something like 3.5+1BB for every limper. Does this mean if I'm on the button and there's 4 limpers and the blinds is 0.02 I should bet 3.5+4=7.5 BB which is 15 cents? Does this mean I actually bet 15 cents (so I'm raising the 2 cent blind to 15 cents) or do I raise the 2 cent blind BY 15 cents TO 17 cents?

Thanks for the info... I'm struggling a little here.

i don;t think that's the right way to go about it.

it sounds like you need to work on positioning. try to think about the premium hands you would open rasie with utg, for example all pp's, A10s+, AQo+, QJs+. you wouldn't really want to raise with much else here until you become more adept.

in mp you can add some hands to this range to open with, e.g A8s+, KJs+ and AJo+.

in lp you can add A6s+, A9o+, T9s+ and so on, until when you get to the button you can add much more cards to open raise with.

note: i'm not advocating this range just using at as an example.

open raising i would stick to 4bb, +1 per limper.

3betting I would look at between 3.5 & 5 x the raise amount not the bet amount. looking at the lower end ip and the higher end oop.

try and think ahead as to what you want to accomplish when you do something. so you want callers? do you want everyone to fold? that kind of thing. try and think what kind of range your opponents are playing and then try to narrow it down as the board develops.

try and adjust to the players at your table. do a bit of table selection. the easiest tables generally are having tighter player on your left so you can steal (or respect their raises!) and looser players on your right so you have position on them.

and the best advice i can give you is to post lots of hands in the right forum or even beginners and lots of people will help you out. you just need to put the effort in and participate and you will benefit no end.

hope this gives you some help. don't give up and good luck

Ok, and that is completely true, I need to work on positioning.

I guess my question is: would it be a bad idea to make myself a hand chart (say one for EP, one for MP, and one for LP) to keep my play reasonable?

Also, once I've figured out a range, should I ALWAYS be raising when I enter a pot pre-flop? In what cases is it ok to call a pre-flop bet (say its a bet for 4BB)?

Thanks

that would be a much better idea imo. make a spreadsheet based on the poker stove starting hand screen, and then colour code the hands you want to play in a position. it's very important though that you don;t stick to a hand chart rigidly but use it predominantly as a template, and then adjust according to how the table is playing. that said, sticking to a hand chart should stop you playing marginal hands at the wrong times.

you should be raising more often than not when entering a pot, either opening or 3betting.

generally, it would be ok to call a pf bet with hands that can hit disguised monsters on the flop and much more preferably when the hand is mulitway. like mid sc's. this is obviously a very general statement, but until you get better at your post flop try raising the majority of your hands. try and picture how your action looks to a villain/s

as a side note, i'm working on that myself at the moment as one of my september goals. i must have a very very good reason to use the call button pf (including when some has 3bet me).

i also find it helps when you have a range template that you are using to then start to put others on a range during a hand. particularly when you have something open on the screen to quickly glance at.

bit of waffle in my post but it's late

I also think that there is something like very essential idea that I still do not understand well yet to beat head's up game, and if I get it and be a winning 0.05/0.10 head's up player I could probably be a winning 0.10/0.20 6 max player.

Is Tom Dwan Jewish?

question about position and an open bet I have seen a lot lately in MTT

I have run into this many times and am unsure how to defend it. When I am close to the button I make the typical 3x BB raise with AK-KQ-AQ,ect. The BB calls and then leads the flop for around 2/3 the Pot. Is this a typical strategy from the BB? Should I re-raise here even when i miss? Or dump it? Am I reading to much into this?

Thanks for your help.

Question about a hand here:

Villain is 9/8/2.9 over 134 hands

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.20 Limit Hold'em - 9 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

Pre Flop: (1.5 SB) Hero is MP2 with 9 8
4 folds, Hero calls, 3 folds, BB checks

Flop: (2.5 SB) 7 2 T (2 players)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB calls
Bit of a free card play here.

Turn: (3.25 BB) 3 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (3.25 BB) 8 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero ???

Should I bet for value here? How often will this guy have top pair?

Hi!

I am a winner player. That's a start. I wonder if NL CG or HU SNG makes more profit. This is an improtant question to me, and needs to be answered.
And how difficult is learning NL CG and HU SNG at low or micro limits?
Thanks for your help.

you should look to value bet here knowing that the villain will call you with worse hands than yours. judging by the action and the villains stats, he has nothing and will not be calling. check it down.