Hi,All a bit new to this forum.
Question is poker related but not the norm.
What im wanting to know is what or how do people capture screen shots from there on line games etc?I see many shots of hands from games or graphs etc but I dont know how to post my own screen shots.
Is there some special software i need or am I just a bit thick( i admit to being no pc wizz)
I mainly play on pstars or sky poker.
Any help appreciated
thanks.

What is the best way to deal with players which you solidly beat with a smart move and they have the audacity to call you a donk or an idiot? I know the easy answer (and probably correct one) is to ignore them and move on, but this consistently pisses me off and I find myself often trying to justify my move.

do sng's or cash have less variance? i want to say sng's because there are so many all in situations so the ev is more likely to balance itself out but im not sure...

They're probably calling you a donkey or idiot because they don't recognize that your move was smart. You probably would prefer that they continue to think it was a dumb move, else they start making smart moves themselves and/or practicing better table selection (not playing against you, in other words).

The "print screen" button makes a copy of the picture on your screen (I believe), and then you need to open up a program like MS Paint and use the "paste" function. Then save the file.

Hi Guys, First time poster!

I have a few stupid Q's

1 How long should I have to observe opponents to start reading well? Do you only focus on the hands that get shown down? It seems like I can watch a game all day and not be able to give a basic overview of the players/table. Games with very few showdowns/lots of players/ compound the problem.

2 Does everyone have difficulty keeping up when starting? I'm way too slow to spot straights(despite practice)/glean info by reconstructing a plays when the cards are only shown briefly.

Hi guys,

I've been a lurker for quite a while now, reading a lot and working on my game. I see on PT that my biggest leak is playing in the blinds, how can I work on this? What hands should I play, what hands should I reraise with?

Make an account on Photobucket.com or go to imageshack.us if you don't feel like making an account, upload your picture (browse, find picture, etcetc), and get the URL. Open image tags (remove asterisk): [*img][/img] and paste the URL from the site you uploaded it to between them.

[*img]http://www.nullamatix.com/images/I-dunno-lol.jpg[/img]

(Without the asterisk)

I'll address this but take it with a grain of salt, someone might have better answers.

1. Don't only focus on the hands that get shown down. Pay attention to how much your opponent raises, in which positions he raises, and how he responds to bets, raises, and check-raises. Does he fold to big raises? If the hand is shown down, analyze how the hand played out and try figure out what your opponent might have been thinking on each street. It takes practice and patience and it sure ain't easy to read hands when you're just starting out.

2. Varies from person to person, but straights and straight draws should be very easy to recognize. Just keep playing it. Before you know it, you'll be recognizing them in an insant.

This heavily depends on what you want to achieve and the situations you're in. It's different for cash games and tournaments (where blind stealing becomes important at some point). Stack sizes compared to blind sizes also matter. I can't give you good advice on this, but personally, I (sometimes) raise in the blinds when I have a high pair, AK, or AQ depending on how many people are in the pot with deep stacks.. You don't really want to call with medium-strength hands on the blinds when your opponents make significant raises unless you can adapt to the flop pretty well.

Plan ahead. Are you gonna make a continuation bet if you missed with the hand you raised preflop or are you gonna check-fold? Are you gonna check and pray everyone else does the same or makes a small bet?

Again, just my 2 cents. Someone probably has better advice, feel free to disagree with me.

/longtime lurker

im looking for any kind of simple math formulas or tricks that are workable in your head, specifically for calculating equity and ev

i play mainly live and struggle with the numbers. when it is explained to me and i read articles etc. on the topic i understand it, but under pressure in a live game i cannot seem to come up with the 'correct' play fast enough.

i know practice makes perfect but any advice ppl have is appreciated

I have a question in regards to equity. This is written on http://www.cardschat.com/poker-equity.php:

Firstly, is it correct to bet out first to act on the aforementioned flop? Is it still correct if you believe (and is often the case) that only one opponent will call you in a 3+ way pot?

Secondly, if you raise bets on this flop, do you have to make sure you raise about enough so that at least two opponents will call (for it to be positive equity)?

Thirdly, what happens if you miss on the turn? If you're betting/raising a flush draw based on 35% equity and the turn doesn't help, what do you do then? Shouldn't you generally determine equity based on the next card, as there could be action on the turn for which your equity wasn't calculated by?

Thanks for your help

If I read it correctly the premise is that you raise all-in (so there is no turn and river decision) and both opponents call. In that case your bet constitutes less % of the pot than your equity % and this move will make you money in the long run.

If you have a draw, count the number of outs that will very likely give you the best hand. Multiply this number by two to get the % chance to hit your draw on the next street. If you can see both the turn and the river (for example, when you go all-in), multiply the number by four. It's not perfect, but it's fast and practicle.

If your opponent makes a half pot sized bet you need 25% equity. If he makes a pot sized bet you need 33% equity.

What does DUCY mean?

What does BBV4L mean? (I get the BBV part, why 4L?)

Beginners Forum Frequently Asked Questions

hi, i have a question about the pokerstars sign up bonus. I'm guessing since theres no rakeback there that the best sign up bonuses are the 100% deposit bonuses. I was wondering if I signed up for pokerstars and I don't deposit for a long time, will i still get the deposit bonus if i deposit like 2 years after i sign up? the reason for the question is that I'm trying to buy a piece of someone on pokerstars, but i dont have a pokerstars account right now, so my plan was to trade FT for PS, then send him that money, but i dont want to waste my sign up bonus to do so...

What is a squeeze? Squeeze %?
Thanks

This article explains it fairly well.

I assume squeeze % relates to the percentage of times someone reraises a raise preflop and takes down the pot doing so vs the number of times you don't take down the pot by doing so, but I could be wrong.

Read the article though.

A squeeze is when there's a preflop raiser, a second player calling that raise and then a third player reraising. The reraise of the third player is called a squeeze. If the initial raiser folds the second player hardly ever has a hand that is good enough to call or reraise with (he is caught in the squeeze, so to speak).

Squeeze % means the percentage of times a player squeezed when he had the opportunity to do so.

Looking for a good thread/threads on note-taking for multi-tablers. Searching now, but if anyone knows of any good ones, please help me out.

Is it generally agreed that you shouldn't post dead blinds, you should just wait for the BB to come to you when you enter a game for the first time?

I don't know about "generally agreed"; some years back I looked at my own Poker Tracker data from online play and concluded that at least for me it was better to take the big blind than to wait for the button to pass and post in the cutoff seat.

Since then I have made it my own practice to wait for the blind rather than posting in the cutoff when I sat down in a new game.

I've got a bit of ethics/moral question. When I play heads-up SnGs, people get disconnected sometimes and I get to steal their blinds. How long should I wait for them to reconnect before starting to do so? 5 min? More? Less? Don't wait at all?

is thre a way that i can completely wipe my Pokertracker data?


Edit: i searched and i found out how to do it. here is how to delete your entire PT3 database etc

http://www.pokertracker.com/products...oc=databaseman

Im pretty sure this a ******ed question but...What use are pot odds (excluding implied pot odds) when standard betting sizes are 1/2, 2/3, 3/4 the pot? You never have a 50% draw.
A flush draw is 17%, when does anyone ever bet <=17% the pot?

Posting from the cutoff is probably slightly -EV, but may be worthwhile if your window of available time to play is short. More important, imo, is that any villain posting outside the CO is a fish. Take a note.