If you have "the ghey" how did you usually get it? How do you get rid of "the ghey"

That's a very complex and controversial question. According to many people with "the ghey", you are born with it and will always have it. According to some religious folks, "the ghey" is a matter of choice and you can get rid of it, particularly through prayer.

Face up means turning your cards up so everyone can see the contents of your hand. Sometimes this expression is used as a metaphor, ie; a play that makes it obvious what your hand is.

Why won't the hand converter convert my betfair hand histories?

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 652254805 *****
PL $0.25/$0.50 Omaha - Monday, February 15, 01:42:06 GMT 2010
Table Loire 04 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 5: obama79 ( $67.35 )
Seat 6: Maffiac ( $95.90 )
Maffiac posts small blind [$0.25]
obama79 posts big blind [$0.50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Maffiac [ 5c, 5s, 7h, 8c ]
Maffiac raises to [$1.50]
obama79 raises to [$4.50]
Maffiac calls [$3]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6s, 4c, Qc ]
obama79 bets [$6.30]
Maffiac raises to [$27.90]
obama79 goes all-in
obama79 raises to [$62.85]
Maffiac calls [$34.95]
** Showdown **
obama79 shows [ Kc, 6c, 2s, Qs ]
Maffiac shows [ 5c, 5s, 7h, 8c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Js ]
** Hand Conclusion **
obama79 wins $133.70 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 652254805 ends ************

From looking at deucescracked website I can see it does convert betfair hand histories. Basically I'm pasting it into hand converter, pressing convert, but it just says 'no valid hand history detected'.... ?

****Official TwoPlusTwo Hand Converter Thread****

When opening a FTP account does your email address you signed up with need to be the same email you use for moneybookers to make deposits and withdrawls?

I haven't searched the forums for this so it may have already been asked

I played a short handed live game yesterday. Whenever someone won a hand with one pair, they only showed the hole card that paired (probably to prevent someone from seeing they play 39o). I got aggravated they didn't show their other hole card. Is there a rule against this? If someone wins a hand, don't they have to show both cards?

Yes they do however home games have all kinds of dumb house rules. If you're going to play in (drunken) home games you need to learn to let these kinds of things slide. The last thing you want to be is the killjoy.

Beginner book decision question.....

Got "Harrington on Holdem" and "Play Poker Like the Pros" in my Amazon Cart. Which one should I buy along with my camping knife and paracord?

I'm currently playing micro-limit cash games, primarily, with a few dollar tournaments and sit and gos.

Harrington over Phil by a landslide.

When a thread says it is "moved", how do you find it? Wouldn't it be easy to just say where the thread went? Or is the whole point that it is supposed to disappear?

Usually a moved thread will include a link to the new destination. If not, use the Search.

How much would anyone here recommend working on the study and play of games like chess and backgammon as a complement to working on poker? My dad tried to get me into both as a kid, and I keep hearing about players like Gus Hansen and Dan Harrington who are proficient in those games as well as poker.

I'm pretty confident that neither chess nor backgammon will help your poker significantly. They may be great games (I love chess, don't really care for or understand backgammon), but they are just far too removed from poker to give you many relevant lessons. Though I would guess that Backgammon may be more applicable.

I say this despite making constant chess analogies when discussing poker. Well, maybe chess will help you understand my analogies... hehe.

Someone explain 10bb/100 or for example, 20bb/100

is the bb big bets? size of the big blind?

I.E. -

NL 5

10bb/100 (hands) = $.50.

Is this correct?

is there any other poker site that has cap nlhe or is full tilt poker the only one?

question about full tilt poker: can satellite tokens be converted into real cash?

BB = PTBB = Big Bets = 2 big blinds = 2bb

10bb/100 at 5nl = $.50
10BB/100 at 5nl = $1.00

Yes, I know it's ******ed.

No

Wondering when Full Tilt does its Late Night Happy Hour. Is there a set schedule for Happy Hour? Or does it change randomly?

That just confused the hell out of me, lol.

what does PTBB mean again? Less equal signs please. :-)

Beginners Forum Frequently Asked Questions

ptBB = 2bb

BB= big bets
bb = big blinds

TY...

sorry, such a noob.

why im a still a newbie?