Is it good to have 3 Aces and 2 Kings?
I lost a lot of money yesterday with this cards!

Yes, a full house AAAKK is a super strong hand. You're almost never going to lose with it unless you're playing a community card game like Hold'em or Omaha, with AAA on the board (flop, turn, river, you get me?)

So if you hold K5 in NLHE and the board is AJAKA... don't be entirely surprised if your opponent shows up with the ace for quads. You can't reasonably bet much money with this hand because you're not going to get paid much by worse hands, the three aces belong to your opponent as much as they belong to you, and the likely strength of your hand is too apparent.

But if you hold AK and the board is AA4KT (lots of diamonds), get ready to win a big pot or go broke in the absurdly rare situation where your opponent shows up with a royal flush.

Losing with full houses to quads is more common in Omaha though... or Crazy Pineapple.

How much should I be buying in with at NL2?

I always assumed that you should always buy in with $5

There's no absolutely correct answer, but most of the forum would probably support the decision to buy in for the max, or at least not play a short stack.

What's your goal? Long term learning is promoted by one of two likely approaches, I think:

-First approach would be to buy in for no less than 100bb in most games... and perhaps the max always.

-Second approach would be to play a variety of stack sizes and learn what you can from the experience.

Just start out by buying in for 2$, you'll learn to play deep-stacked poker later. You first need some experience with regular stacks imo.

Generally you have a 50% chance of making a pair when you go all-in preflop. 22 is already a pair, but you have a small edge of still making sets/straights/flushes. This is why if you go all in with 22 against a strong hand like AK, 22 is still a slight favorite.

Now compare JT suited against 22. 22 has a slight lead over AK, but with JT suited you open up more flush and straight potential. You can make straights with AKQ, KQ9, Q98, 987 and flushes with just 3 of the same suit. AK offsuit you can only have straights with QJT and 2345 and you need 4 similar suits for a flush. This is why JT suited is a slight favorite over 22, while 22 is slight favorite over AK. But then AK is definitly more than a slight favorite against JTs.

You can buy for $2, but $5 is "more profitable". I started with $2 and then went to $3 after I had enough money to play comfortably. The problem is that if you buyin for $5 you could probably make more money by just playing in the 5NL tables. Just stick to $2 buyins if you have less than $40 in your bankroll.

Anyone plz?

They give you $50 hoping that you play a lot and rake money. The website will take a percentage of what you rake.

I'm not actually sure what your asking when you mean 27% affiliate program. 27% rakeback is what affiliates usually offer when you sign up with them. And getting 27% rakeback is much better in the long term than $50.

Thanks for the response.
JT suited is indeed another possibility, however, I'm still surprised that Q10 offsuit is a favorite over 22 as well, as it doesn't have the flush potential that JT suited has.

Is there a thread somewhere in this forum about getting the max out of my FPP at Pokerstars? I am a gold star with 25K FPP's and I want to know how I can get the max money out of them

This is kind of interesting. The thing to realize, though, is that 22 has a lot of disadvantages. Against any two cards that are not paired, it's a pretty close contest (against pairs, of course, it's crushed). You see, among the unpaired hands that could face 22, high card strength is *almost* irrelevant.

Just as QTo is a very marginal favorite over 22, so is T8o. They have the same character as one gappers... the straight possibilites. Both hands are better than AKo in this aspect, and that's marginally more important than high card strength.

The only very slight advantage of higher cards, which is less important than straight possibilites, comes in situations where a higher kicker can save a win rather than a split.

E.g., QT is *very very slightly* better than T8 versus the twos because of situations like this:

BOARD: 4477J

Now the Q plays to win the pot, but the T8 hand would split with 22 because neither has a playable kicker.

If anything can be learned from this, though, it's that 22 is a pretty rotten hand. You always face a situation where you can ONLY be a big dog or a close call (preflop), and never have a significant edge over any hand. 22's playability depends on dead money already being in the pot, and hopefully some fold equity to chase out unpaired hands like T8o which are very unlikely to call to significant pressure even though they're favorite when the money goes in.

I am interested in it too. Have ~50k FPP points.

What is the best HUD software to use for FTP? and for PokerStars?

The two most popular HUD and database choices are PokerTracker 3 and Hold 'Em Manager. Both are compatible with FTP and Pokerstars. They both also have free trials, so you can give them both a try without having to make a decision in the dark as to which you would prefer.

I finished reading Collin Moshman's "SNG strategy". I want to play SNGs.

What is the best website to watch videos about SNG?
There are Collin's videos on stoxpoker.com but from 2007 mainly. Does it make any difference? (personally I don't think so...but you tell me)
please recommend any websites where I can learn more about SNG through watching videos/ courses.

Is there a function in Poker Tracker or any other software that will automatically analyse my played hands?
I know about SNG Wizard but does it analyse played hands and tell you what you should have done? I think I heard about Leak buster, an add on to Holdem Manager but maybe there are alternatives?

Thanks a lot :-)

In a cash game..
If I open 2x from btn with intent to steal the blinds. How often do I have to be succesful for it to be +EV?

Also would like to know the same thing If I minbet from the SB to steal.

Then lastly, If I cb half the pot how much do I have to be succesful?

You're laying two to win 1.5, so you'd have to take the blinds down 4 times out of seven to break even (neglecting post-flop outcomes, of course).

Here, you're laying 1.5 to win 1.5, so breakeven is taking it down half the time.

You're laying 1 to win 2 here, so you need be successful only one time in three to break even.

Do you see the pattern here?

Yep, thanks man!

1)when two players pair the board and the pot is shared under what circumstances is this the case with examples please.

2) Is k,k and q,q worth playing when 4 players in front of you go all-in , or is this a stupid question?

3) played a hand the other night in a live rebuy tourney

flop 9h,10d,jc,3s,ad

hole cards kh,6s

on the flop I bet 700 on the turn bet 700, and when the river I was like sh** and checked the other two players checked and I took the pot down one person had q,6 and the other mucked.The reason I played the hand like this is because I won a similar one online but did not bet as much.The question is if the player with q,6 went all- in after my check should I call???

When they have the same five card hand.

Yes.

Unanswereable without stack sizes.

Greetings

I am here on a mission to find out on the behalf of myself why my rakeback is just half the amount that it is on my rakeback site?

In HEM it says I have paid $450 rake and that should be $120 in rakeback.
It says I only got total $50 rakeback on my rakeback site!

I shall be awaiting your answer with great anticipation!

Regards,
Myself

P.S
How do I get tableninja to work on full tilt?

have you withdrawn/used ftp's/cleared bonuses etc?

Oh right.

Well I earned $260 from my $400 bonus and I also spent 3000 ftps.

How much is this gonna affect my rakeback?

well, it's going to take $260 off your mgr, which basically equates to the $70 you're missing.