Went to show down
Big bet per 100 hands. Or big blind dependong on limit or no limit. I'm pretty sure that's what it means but correct me if I am wrong.

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hi .. a friend un: stacksexperience forgot his password and his email adress ;( - could you pm me the email adress registered with the account stacksexperience? He bought actions in turneys with this account @2+2 and could proof that its his account with ftp cashier pictures..if needed..but he thinks that first 3 letters of his email account would help him to remember

thx for your time..

^^^ Somehow I don't think that'll happen

I don't know where to ask this, so I'll try to ask it here. Sorry if it's the wrong place, though. A few days ago I found a really thread on this forum, with a really big OP. It was about a guy taking his friends to a casino. It was they're first time in a casino and in the OP he was giving some advices about how to find poker rooms ("they are in the farthest parts of the casino, you should go to the very end, if you reach the kitchen, you've gone too far", smth like that), how to "join" the "waiting list" ("there is the main desk, you put your name in the list, then wait for your name to appear on one of the big screens"), and some other interesting stuff. If somebody read this post, please, help me find it.

What exactly does 'relevant stack size' mean? I just finished reading the whole PSO series of articles... twice. I kinda get what 'effective stack size' means now, but for the other term, I still don't have a clue. The article I'm referring to can be found here:

http://www.pokerschoolonline.com/art...eads-Up?page=3

Can someone plz explain this to me? I kinda figured it could mean 'whichever of us holds this much BB, but is the biggest stack', but that doesn't make any sense... then there would never be a situation where both of us have 8BB or less. Maybe it's the same as effective stack size, or is there a difference?

Shed some light on this, much appreciated.

Where the heck does the money in the (online) poker economy come from? You see people posting sick graphs and winning 1+ million dollars... But for every $1m somebody wins, that's $1m that somebody else (or a group of people collectively) lost and is likely never going to get back.

Good players are like siphons, sucking money out of the economy and not putting any back in.

Obviously it's supported by losing players, but it's hard for me to believe that there are enough losing players out there, who lose big enough to sustain it? (and who keep reloading and just losing it again)

And what about high stakes? Where does all the money come from there? Is it all from people who think they're ready taking shots at higher limits and losing it all, or losing a little and moving back down? Or are there a lot of rich people who go "I think I'll piss away a few thousand bucks today"?

At the micros you see a lot of people who just enjoy the thrill and uncertainty of gambling, who log on basically just to give away their 2/5/10 dollar buyin. I can understand that mentality, but I can't imagine the same thing happening at higher stakes.

When will I be able to use Private Message feature?

Guy Laliberte

There aren't very many players with graphs like that.

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Hypothetically, if a villain were to only cbet the flop when they actually caught something, i.e. at least a pair, would their flop cbet% be ~33%?

Unanswerable, depends on villain's PFR from that position. ie; under your hypothetically, how often would a nit with a 5% pfr make a cbet? What about a maniac with a 30% PFR?

Thanks for earlier response Cry me A river

I would like to know what are the tools used by online player while they are playing online poker. Thanks

what are c/f, w/f ? could anyone write out all of the abbreviations' meaning. Thank you.

This may well have already been answered, as the beginning of this question appeared when I did a search of the thread for 'heads up blinds'. However, I can't find any way to access the post that asked the question or even find where in the massive list of posts here it was asked.

Why in heads-up play is the button the small blind?

If the small blind is to the left of the button in standard play, with the big blind one more place to the left, shouldn't the non-button player be the small blind and the button therefore be the big blind?

Because if the button were the big blind, the player in the button would act last in all three betting rounds, which is a gigantic advantage.

A key piece of the blind structure in hold'em in general is that the player who acts last before the flop is out of position after the flop. Having the small blind on the button preserves this.

Also I have a 200 BR and I want to know what is the best MTT tourny to grind it in a micro/small stake?

Thanks. Come to think of it, I remember hearing something about the betting order in heads-up play from a commentator but not being quite sure what he meant. Now it makes complete sense.

Is it just me or on the top of each hour 2 or 3 people leave each table?

So annoying.

one question about pot odds... I play full ring (8-10 players) nlh and MTTs. I play tight before the flop, so when i enter the pot with a raise, I always have solid hands. So if i am raising before the flop and someone reraises me, I can almost always call if I am getting 2:1 pot odds or better. Am i right?!
But if i decide to be goofy sometimes and raise with weak hand before the flop (for example 57s in EP) than if someone reraises me I will need better pot odds - 3:1 or better. Please tell me if I am right or wrong. This is very important because it occurs so frequently.

What metric are you using to judge what are good pot odds pre-flop? Did you just arbitrarily choose 2:1?

Read these cotws re 3-betting. They can explain it better than I can:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...etting-436868/
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/78...3-bets-483541/

Stop doing it then, seriously. You're just giving your money away if you play SCs in EP in the micro full ring cash games.

Dumb question...

Is there a minimum number of rake or whatever before PokerStars will allow you to withdraw after your initial deposit bonus?

So is there anything stopping me depositing like 200 and withdrawing 150 immediately?

here's a dumb question... lots of times in videos I see guys using the 4 color deck, why?

Easier to tell suits apart, especially when multi-tabling and/or playing long hours.


--klez

I often wonder this myself.

One thing is that the sites generally pour a lot of money into the economy through bonuses and whatnot.
I honestly have no idea how it works behind the scenes but I always assumed that sites make a killing just banking interest off of player deposits they hold and are able to offer generous bonuses to keep the economy afloat because of this.