heads-up [hedz-uhp]
adjective
1.
quick to grasp a situation and take advantage of opportunities; alert; resourceful.
noun
2.
a warning in advance: sending a heads-up to the Pentagon about possible attacks.


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I only play brick and mortar games. I do keep a log of my hand history for significant hands played, but not for the raise pre-flop, everyone folds, or the ones I have very little invested (Less than 5BB) and know I'm beat. I don't see the point in tracking those.

That being said, being a brick and mortar only player, is there a good way to track my stats for review on here by other players, aside from just posting hand history on questionable hands?

Moving on, is there a general rule for the pre-flop value you need before you call with any two cards? For instance, I was playing this past weekend on a 1/2 game where the average stack was $700, with the tall stack $1,300 and the short stack $250. I bought in for $400 (75% of tall stack, cap of $500)

I sit down and fold the first ten hands, just watching. I'm in seat 5. Seat 7 is a maniac who I've never seen before, with about $800 in front of him. Raising pre-flop 80% of the time, show down wins less than 15%. Seat 8 is mid twenties woman, couldn't get a good read on her, she was the tall stack ($1,300), and no one was pushing her to show down. She definitely was bullying people, but I wasn't going to get involved with her without knowing her showdown percentage.

The 9 seat, I play with very regularly. We know each other well. He's stacked at $900, but clearly on tilt, and paying more attention to the college basketball game on tv than the cards.

The 3 seat is a fish who thinks he knows what he's doing. He's pushing enough people off their hands to be making money, but then giving it right back to the tall stacks when they value town him and he refuses to lay it down, saying he's too far invested when he's put 20% of his $700 stack in, then calls off another 25% on the river. He was a consistent calling station all night.

Everyone else at the table were fish playing ABC poker, or just had no idea what they were doing at all.

In other words, it's a nice juicy game for a Saturday evening. After about an hour of play, I'm up $350 and think I've got it figured out pretty well for where the game is going. People are betting off their stacks with top pair top kicker and getting called by flush draws, straight draws, etc, who seem to be hitting a little too often.

Then I run into a situation I dread. I'm in the high jack seat, and get dealt J, 9. The button straddled, UTG raises to $75 cold. There were FIVE callers. I feel like I have to call. I have a mediocre hand, but I can't imagine folding in this position, given that I know the SB is going to call. It ends up being 7 people in the pot, for $75 pre flop.

I have two questions. First, is there any situation where you fold this particular hand, getting 6:1 on your money, even if it's costing $75 to call? I mean, I'm folding hands like Ace-rag here, but suited connectors, pocket pairs, and any two face cards, I'm calling.

Last question. The board comes out 10-9-9 rainbow. Obviously I hit gin. SB makes bets $50 (wth? 50 into a $600 pot?), and it's folded around to seat 3. He calls. I raise to $150, SB folds, Seat 3 calls.

Given the call, and that I flopped trips, do you check on the turn or fast play it into a calling station?

i probably wouldn't call the 75, because even with the amount in the pot there's only 325 more left that you can win which isn't enough, unless you stack two people at once which seems unlikely. as played it's a trivial shove over the SB's gaybet, you have less than half the pot left yourself

Thinking of playing ssmtt, but will only play like 2 tourneys a night, and maybe about 5-6 on Sunday and Mondays, how neccessary would Holdem Manager may be? I wouldnt mind reviewing my hands.. but do I really need it? Playing on merge network.

can you stack tables without the console? cascading style but the tables would stay in same place.

Is it a good idea to start an blog at "Poker Goals&Challenges" to become help and good advices?
And are othe free poker softwares also good to do this?

Thank you

I'm new to internet poker and am trying to fiigure this out... Do people pay taxes on winnings? Or just deposit thousands of untaxed phantom dollars into their banks?

Depends.

In some countries, poker winnings aren't even taxable.

In some countries they are, but some people don't pay them. This is really dumb having an electronic trail. You can absolutely be arrested or fined for failing to pay tax on online winnings.

but for a more serious answer, most people don't have any winnings to cash out. Poker would be dead if they did!

I'm in the U.S... from what I understand, my state doesn't ban online gambling but doesn't really address it, so the whole tax- thing is kind of hazy. I find it very frustrating that I have combed the internet investigating this and have found no definite answer/info regarding taxes, especially in my state. I guess it depends on the amount also. Thanks for your info and your screen name is genius.

IIRC US poker winnings are subject to tax. Someone will know more than me though. Maybe just start a new thread in this forum and title it "Are US poker winnings taxed?" and then mention your state in the opening post.

Play in bitcoins there are no way to tax them. Sealswithclubs is one site I know that allows bets in Bitcoins.

Unless US tax law is vastly different from the UK, not paying tax on earnings in bitcoins is still illegal (although here poker winnings aren't taxed). Not to mention dodging tax being highly immoral.

Excuse my question i believe its kinda dumb but im very new here
If i play 10NL what goals should i have for the day/week/year?
Whats a good profit for a day or overall?

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ok so lets say i play 2k hands TAG at 10NL
And lets say im running pretty average...
Whats an averege profit?

The vast majority of players will lose. Your typical winner might expect to win about $6-10 over that sample, if they run consistently at their mean winrate.

Thanks

since you asking this question,safe BR for you would be 100

30 buy ins for what ever stake your playing.

umm i hope this is the right thread...
i would prefer tournaments rather than cashgames, cuz i cashed in on a few 2.2 bigs etc.
should i go for tourneys?are the tourneys harder, easier?
or are they not fit for beginers?
the reason im asking is because by my judgement if you run good once in a tourney you can really go deep itm and make a huge boost to your bankroll

they're almost completely different games and only you can answer that question

Should I play golf or basketball?

Should I become a doctor or lawyer?

Do you have rock solid tilt control and excellent endurance? Do you dream of the big score and don't mind spinning your wheels a while waiting for it? If so, play large MTTs.

Do you prefer steady, incremental, advances? Do you value consistency? Do you like to take frequent breaks? Then play cash or SNGs.

ive decided for MTTs
thanks guys

preflop when we raise for value it means we are ahead in equity or we consider implied odds too?for example raising with 65s with 250bb effective stack and 40bb is in both cases a semi-bluff or in the first we raise for value?

I think the question to consider is 'why does it matter?' Value/bluff/semi-bluff has much less meaning preflop due to the similarity in equity between all hands with live cards.