in USFeel this question fits best here Goofing around with play money on Stars during lunch at work How do I find my play money balance?

Click on Cashier, it shows play money balance as well as your real money.

Pokerstars.net in the US doesn't have a cashier in the lobby

Oh. OK, well I googled it for you and it seems you may to have install an old version to see the cashier, details here:

http://www.cardschat.com/f10/pokerstars-net-197513/

Or try emailing Stars support, they are really quick to respond.

Thanks, I'll give it a try

I have a question about position. When do you know when you are OOP at the flop in 6 max. I know you're always IP if you play from the button but how do you that you are OOP on the flop from an other position?
Anyone here who got a article about that?

Thanks in advance

CoTW Positional Awareness

As with just about anything related to poker strategy at the "beginning" level, the Concept of the Week threads (CotW, or COTW, or CoTW......all the same ) that were created a few years ago in the micro full ring area of 2+2 are ALWAYS a good place to begin looking for an in depth discussion thread.

Micro FR Concept of the Week Index. Scroll through the list of threads for a topic or find the earliest posts and read them all.

GL

Can the full rings conepts of the week apply on 6 max?

Yes. It's exactly the same game, just the first 3 positions are missing. In practice it plays slightly differently, but the same concepts apply.

I have been playing poker on and off for about a year, thou it's during the last couple of months I've become serious about it. I currently play mostly low (7 / 15 usd) stakes SitnGo NL Hold'em, looking to move up as fast as possible.

The concept I seem to be having a hard time grasping is the Bubble factor. I wonder, do you continuosly calculate bubble factors when making decisions in later parts of the game (power numbers, etc), or can you (eventually) play as profitably using intuition?

I got the SitNGo Wizard program, which I've been studying. But to me this program doesn't seem to take into account bubble factor to as big a degree as I think you should.
I understand this varies depending on the format played, but from what I've read - which is the book ''Kill Everyone'' by Lee Nelson, it seems your play in a SitnGo 50/30/20, 9-player Hold'em game should be quite a bit tighter than what SitnGo Wizard seems to propose, often telling me to push what I think is pretty marginal hands near the bubble (I know that the estimated hand ranges sometimes messes this up).

Do the SitnGo Wizard really take into full account all the bubble factors? And how should I think to make bubbleplay easier, or does ''just playing'' eventually help me get the feel for when to push/fold near bubble?

Thank you!

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SNGWhiz only accounts for what you tell it to account for. It's not a magic box. You just feed it chip counts, hands and ranges and it crunches the numbers. That is all.

If you're not giving SNGWhiz the correct hand ranges it's not going to work any better than telling a mortgage calculator you live in a 10 Million dollar home...

The exact answer really depends on the stakes for each format, and for tourneys the number of players playing it.

But generally I would expect the variance level to go like this from highest to lowest for most players.

Large field MTTs > Cash games > 1 or 2 table tournaments

As someone who plays live, what are the poker mathematics - odds and calculations - that everyone playing seriously should know inside and out?

Position is not about button or not. It's about who speaks first. The guy who speaks first is always OOP and the guy who speaks last is always IP. It's obvious that you don't need to be the BTN to be IP, as well as you don't need to be UTG or in the blinds to be OOP.

Probably the first two that you need for post-flop play are the chances of making straights and flushes if you have a draw on the flop.
If you have a naked flush draw (no overcards for top pair potential) then you have 9 outs. You'll make a flush on the turn about 19% of the time, and by the river about 35% of the time.
With an open-ended straight draw, you have 8 outs, which gives you about a 17% chance of spiking the turn, and a 31% chance of getting there by the river.
You have to compare your chances of making a hand with the odds that the pot lays, while also figuring in implied odds.
DiamondDog did a whole series on this: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/32...poker-1164777/

There's lots of other stuff on poker probabilities at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_p...xas_hold_%27em) with the section on "after the flop" probably being most relevant.

Thanks.

What's the difference between a 4-bet vs. a cold 4-bet? Is a 4-bet considered "cold" only when you're OOP? Thanks

4bet:

player A raises, player B 3bets, player A 4bets
This also assumes all other players have folded.

cold 4bet:

Player A raises, Player B 3bets, Player C 4bets
Player C has cold 4bet here because he had not put anything in the pot previous to the 3bet

...and generally speaking cold 4-bets are very scary things indeed. If someone opened, someone else 3-bet, then another player cold 4-bets, he nearly always has a monster. At higher stakes games, the cold 4-bet might be a squeeze play with any two cards, but it's usually KK+ and AK in nanostakes games.

Is it better to play super tight or a long range of hands other then premium hands during the early stages of the game?

Some said to play super tight and some said to open up the range as the blinds are still low.

So which one is better?

How does MTT players earn profit?

Grinding for 2hours 45mins but yet still not inside the bubble.

For starters, they don't make any assumptions based on a single tournament...

Board: Qd-4d-Qd-6s-8h

Me: AQ
villain: QJ

Is my hand the one that wins ?