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Is there anywhere I can find a list of all the Sunday Million winners in the tournaments history?

I'm playing 10NL and I was doing pretty good 15bb/100.
I had a week off for playing and now Im not playing my A game anymore. Im just gambling and tilting. Im down 10BI at the moment.

How can I come back to play my A game?

You might try this.

Motivation to take poker seriously comes from somewhere within. I'm not sure how much an external source can do for you. Maybe try the Tommy Angelo series if you have a deucescracked subscription?

Who's better at the poker; Europeans or North Americans?

Random question for controversy.

didn't they do a ryder-cup style tourney a while back? who won? i'm pretty sure the americans didn't...

shouda had a poll. i'm going to vote for the antarcticans

northern irish imo, far superior drinkers and poker players imo

I was born in Northern Ireland (just outside Derry) and I live in the south (Cork). Andy Black is a fine player. Made a hero fold on TV coupla weeks ago - he folded AA999 full house to 9999 quads - incredible read.

Since I am north american... I suspect that europeans are better...

Why?

What is a nut shot straight draw?

I suppose it means you have a shot at a nut straight, but in that case shot and draw are someway double.

This might not be a beginner's question, but I did not know where else to put it:

My friend keeps arguing that it is just luck in poker. He said he saw numbers released by pokerstars that said only 3% of user got more money out, then they put in. That's why I told him it was about reads and range balancing against certain villain's range, and taking lines that make the said villain more prone to mistakes, depending on the type of mistakes he is most likely to make.

He replied it was not like that, since at anytime someone could decide to bluff, or decide to 4 bet 86o out of position for no reason. I told him I was +ev at the micro right now, and it was enough proof, since the simple event he described is not going to make someone -ev in the long run and that everything was based on the long run. He answered well if that is the case, why aren't you millionaire? Borrow money and play 1/2$ 10 000$ would be 1/50 your bankroll and you would make more money.

I told him the level at 1/2 I am not ready for, but he said it's the same, and there are as many fish at the 1/2 as the micros. At this point I ran out of argument and was about to give up, is poker really just luck? Thank you.

How do I access my positional winrate in HEM? For the life of me I can't figure this out and tried googling it to no avail. By this I mean how much I'm losing in the BB or winning OTB, my pfr/3bet%, etc.

I am new to the forum and I thought I would pop my post cherry with a dumb question.

When you guys sit for a session how do you decided you session length? Do you usually plan to sit for a (relatively) fixed time period or until you reach a goal, say doulbling your initial stake? I realize a lot of what actually happens is dependent on the day but I was just wondering where peoples heads are at when walking into a card room or logging on. Thanks.

I think you meant to say gut-shot straight draw, which is when you're missing one card (max of 4 outs) to make your straight.

For example, if you have AK on a J-10-6 board, you have a gutshot straight draw because you need a Queen to make your hand.

The other type of straight draw is the open-ended straight draw, which means you can make your straight with two different cards.

For example, if you have 87 on a 10-9-3 board, you need either a Jack or a 6 to make your hand, giving you a maximum of 8 outs for your draws.

Hope that helps.

I think most people sit down for a determined amount of time and quit after that unless they're running hot at the time. It depends on whatever you wanna do, it's up to you really.

When does the PokerStars monthly VPP counter re-set? Is it midnight eastern time, aka as soon as the clock flips from 11:59 on the 31st to 12:00 on the 1st?

Every bit counts :P

From a purely long term income standpoint, is PLO a more lucrative game to play than NLHE? Are there more fish in the midstakes games in PLO than compared to NLHE?

I am looking into getting a HUD but I will be buying a new desktop within a few months and I want to make sure I don't have to buy it again for a new computer. also I have a laptop I play on and I was wondering if the program is simply linked to your FT account or what?

I believe both Pokertracker and HEM allow you to register the program on two computers. It's not linked to anyting but your computer.

If poker was just luck, there would be no such thing as poker professionals. You know, since if you ran 10's of 1000s of hands, the same people wouldn't keep winning. No point in arguing with a moron though.

In the long run it is not just luck; but luck in the short term can mislead people into thinking they are winning players—or that it is all luck—and convince them to keep playing even though they have no chance of winning in the long run.

Have you challenged your friend to a game yet? Suggest that if it really is just luck, then over an extended period of time, if you played each other heads up (for some small but meaningful amount, since you're friends), you should break even. Right?

Then take him to school.


--klez

You know how magicians are never supposed to reveal how a trick is done? Or how wrestlers are supposed to stay in character and never reveal that it's scripted?

Unless you're addressing a legislative committee, never, ever, try to convince anyone that poker is anything less than 100% luck. This is more commonly known as, "Don't tap the glass".

hes better than me heads up, but to prove his point, he would do all in pre every hand, which he said has been statistically proven as the best method to win against anyone with a skill edge over you.

Though it may increase variance, someone shoving every hand is definitely beatable.


--klez