I've played a shit ton of SNG's and never saw this before. Lost previous hand when JJ<AQ and was left with 5 chips. Had two triple ups in a row, then like six more double ups

PokerStars Game #22933829431:

I work in a midwest card room and I think this is a horrible rule.

Was wondering how this is dealt with in Vegas/Cali rooms.

I understand the merit in a multi-way pot, but heads up doesn't make much sense to me.

A lot of people don't like flat-calling a raise with aces in a cash game, especially if you are somewhat deep-stacked. The thinking is that it's hard to get people to put a lot of money post-flop into a relatively small pot unless they have aces beat.

If you have a shorter stack, however, it's a different story. This is because you can get people to call your all-in with w...

I'm looking to start playing more online nl hold em tournaments. What are the easiest tournaments to beat / most profitable ones. I have a mac so I think I'm limited to Stars and FT. I don't have a large bankroll. I'd like to play in $10-$20 tourneys and see how that goes. I'm also interested in playing very cheap satellite tournaments that are very profitable and can...

Never seen this guy play lhe much. He wins the Sunday Million and now he is all over the high stakes tables, most recently playing heads up with Hoss.

I don't know if you have logged many hands with him, just wanted your opinion on his play.

PokerStars Game #22424982751: Tournament #122501055, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (100/200) - 2008/11/27 21:47:11 ET
Table '122501055 76' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: canarly (6765 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: krissyb24 (9835 in chips)
Seat 3: let me ante (16355 in chips)
Seat 4: wakingsean62 (9465 in chips)
Seat 5: SetofK...

So i go to play a freeroll at one of those charity poker places and chop 4 ways four ways for 125, then i play a 20 dollar sng and chop that for 75, which put me at 252 dollars in my pocket, im a baller i know, newho buy into the 1-2 nl game for 60 and donk it off, then rebuy for 100 and donk that off, then rebuy for the last 92 and bluff off my stack with a busted flush draw so im left with 1 dol...

So I got off to a horrendous start at a 100-200 live cash game, dropping $5200 in about half an hour. You know, standard sick stuff such as flopped set-over-set, flopping top two versus top set, etc. Live = joke.

Anyway, the game breaks down to 3-handed. My remaining opponents include a donk and a reasonable player, though the reasonable guy isn't aggressive enough for short...

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Law enforcement sources tell us Dakota Culkin was walking on the w...

PokerStars Game #22706428153: Tournament #123479716, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (200/400) - 2008/12/07 13:59:25 ET
Table '123479716 33' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: petter85 (33560 in chips)
Seat 2: Adamo26 (7289 in chips)
Seat 3: tulipaner (10350 in chips)
Seat 4: etushekki (19050 in chips)
Seat 5: lilgambler5 (14475 in chips...

Well, I played 5/10 limit for a long time grinding out slightly more than a call center job, then found NL and was able to make plenty without playing anywhere near as many hours, and now the NL games are really tough. I think 1/2 is fish central, but it's getting tougher and 2/4 and up are pretty bad games. Not to say there aren't good games now and again, but generally if you're a...

$50+$5 daily at Stars, 22 people left. First place is about $15k, the top seven or so places are $2k+ but busting outside the final table only pays a few hundred dollars and would be a huge disappointment after playing for seven hours.

Blinds 5k/10k. I have a little over 200k, which is almost exactly average, the chipleader has about 350k (actually pretty good struct...

my history with the villian. i remember a hand deep in an mtt a few years ago i raised AA, he called from the big blind with 96 and he ended up flopping 2 pair, checkraising me all in, and taking me out, so i assume hes the kind of guy that never lets go of his big blind. He was also ranked in the top 10 on pocketfives at one point, and he has a winning mtt record, so i assume he can play. Hes bee...

Im asking Dan but feel free to answer with your thoughts please.

I have been playing poker for 5 years now . I am a winning live player in limits from 8-16 to 15-30 . Last year I lost over 50k online mostly at stars in high buy in tourneys that I 99% am positive I should or had no business playing .


The No Limit Hold em Tournaments on stars seem to be weird for many re...

9 handed, 2/5NL.

QQ CO position.. 2 limpers, raise to 30. sb calls, mp calls. (pot 90)

Flop : Q75

check, check, i bet 60. fold, call. (210)

Turn : 6

check, bet 190, call (pot 590)

River : 3

mp all in 700.. me?



Hand #2

KK late positon, 3 limps, I raise to 30, 4 callers (pot 120)
...

Online $50/$100 limit hold 'em game, 6-max.

You are on the BB with 66.

There's a raise in the cutoff, SB 3-bets, you cold-call, cutoff calls.

Pot is now $450, flop comes:

QT9 rainbow.

Awful, awful flop. Any idiot knows to check/fold here, right?

But then the unexpected happens: It checks around.

O...

Someone teach me Gus Hansen math

Hand #58731565-39 at Daily620pm-Final (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
Started at 17/Nov/08 19:48:10

acesuspect is at seat 0 with 15020.
INSTACALL_OBV is at seat 1 with 89215.
JackTee is at seat 4 with 10970.
madisonmmm is at seat 6 with 15585.
loco tx larry is at seat 9 with 8710....

Live 15/30

I am moving into the game from a broken game. Transferring chips and trying to eat sweet and sour chicken at the same time so obv Im playing tighter than normal until I at least get situated. I get KK and rai in MP and blinds call.

Flop K36 two diamonds. Chk, Chk, I bet and SB raises BB folds, I 3 bet he calls. SB is prob one of the most solid regulars that I...

Ok recently i've won a few k so i thought i could justify messing around playing some high stakes limit. I sit at 50/100 Full Ring on stars(although only 5 of us were playing atm) It's pretty obv they think i'm retarded as Enon moves to sit on my left. I play tight at first obv, and it seems that EVERY pot is just raise/call down with ATC.

What the fuck makes these peop...

I would like some feedback on a particular hand that came up in a live deep stack tournament that I played recently . Did I play this wrong , Was it a bad call honest feedback would be greatly appreciated .


Blinds are 200-400 I am on the button with 19,400 chips. I have been at the same table for 2 hrs and have a very good read on the whole table.

3rd to act makes it...

http://cakepoker.com//HandHistory/?Hand=xc...Ex4jAzczEx8M%3d

Either a superuser, or he just made the greatest read of all time, after I had just pot commited myself against him with that pot size bet........

I just bubbled (meaning not the actual bubble, but within a few places of a cash & final table) in the $500 Limit at Hollywood Park tonight.

This was particularly offensive because:

1) I took a ton of awful beats on big hands
2) Despite #1, I had a nice stack (among the best in the tournament) with 14 people left -- and I went out 13th.

They only paid t...

I've recently come across a 20/40 game with a $8 rake. It gets down to $1 per person when under 8 people. (sigh) The lineup is pretty decent, but nothing extrodinary. I've ran pretty bad in this game and am wondering if it is worth the effort. There are no legal limit games within a few hours drive from here, so this game has convienence, good food, and the people are pr...

This is a terrible ruling .. it aired last week WSOP Ep28 about 8min in Ep 28 http://www.pokvid.com/musicvideos.php?vid=3af878181 .. i dont know how no one hasn't picked up on this before, with all the hands that are played in the WSOP .. if you were finding it hard to read your opponent it could g...

Let's say you are playing a game of 1/2 no limit poker on an outdoor table on the strip in Las Vegas, and like, a bird dies and falls on you. Should you finish the hand and discard the bird, maybe give it to like, a cat, or just ask the table to hold on for a second and find a cat to give that dead bird to. In the past, playing high limit Limit Texas Hold Em, when dead birds fall on you and...

Any opinions on this? I played poker 10 hours per day every day for 3 years, and never ever ever in my life have I ran as bad as I run in the cake 6 handed sngs.

it seems like every poker series in la has a couple rebuy tourneys mixed in. why don't we see any in vegas tournaments?

Whats the best phil hellmuth blow out you have seen recently - there was a great on in WSOP Ep 24 about 33 minutes in (he was being way to nice all episode ) .. also sick sick beat 20 minutes in.

http://www.pokvid.com/musicvideos.php?vid=eb5e3629f

Professional poker players who are not from the US, would they need a work permit to enter the WSOP, or any other cash tournament played in the US?

Obviously sounds like a dumb question, but I want to know the answer

K, so everytime I cash in a sit n go cake sends me an email to let me know. Say im 8 tabling, and 33% of the players cash, but since im great i think I can cash 40% of the time. So in a 7 hour session i can probably get in close to 100 sngs. If I cash in 40% of them thats 40 emails! How do I stop this???????????...

So I've been playing on Pokerstars for about 6 months now, not really getting too serious on it, just buying in $20-40 and playing around with it. The level of play wasn't as bad/talented as I expected it to be. I'm going to be honest and say I lost my first 2-3 buyins, but when I deposited $100 I did pretty well with it. The thing is, I got arrogant and played higher stak...

Druff what rakeback site do you use for full tilt and stars ?

I only use eurosites at the moment but fancy a change and i want to get a rakeback deal when i sign up for these sites so wondered who you would recomend i sign up for rakeback through ?

http://www.richardmarcusbooks.com/pokercheatingmoves.php#10


This guy makes it out that everyone cheats at poker, is he trying to sell books, or is he telling the truth? After reading his site and watching his video's i feel like an idiot for even playing poker .

So we all hear about poker bankrolls, but what about blackjack bankrolls for counters? Given that your edge is only small even if you are a succesful counter, how many bets should you have in your bankroll. Perhaps that isnt the best way to phrase the question given that your bet sizes wont be the same all the time, so exactly how do you calculate a blackjack bankroll?...

Again, all Turbo HU Sngs.

Alright, so lets say I plan on playing 40 110+5$ SNG turbos/day and I want to project the entire net profit/ total gross etc of 15 weeks.

Heres how we start, I just don't know how to calculate the toal profit for each hypothetic ROI I want to look up.

40 sngs a day for 15 weeks. 15 weeks, 7 days in a week. So, were looking at 105...

Druff,
I just recently started playing 6 max limit. After my first 1,000 hands, I am winning at exactly a 1BB/100 pace. I know you always advocate open raising any time you are coming into the pot and staying aggressive, which Ive been doing. The hands Ive lost the most with over the first 1,000 surprised me. My hands losing the most were AKo,AQo,AJo,ATo,KTo,and KJo. Depending on the flop tex...

I'm new to this site, but the best part outside of the shenanigans, are dan druff's strategy radio pods/threads. You seem to be a very accomplished gambler, and I am jealous.

In my quest to become a limit cash game player,
I’ve taken some $$$ to the side to start a limit bankroll, I never knew there was so much strategy to limit, I don’t know how I’ve...

Full Tilt Poker Game #8107995545: Table Berg (deep hu) - $0.25/$0.50 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 4:11:22 ET - 2008/09/17
Seat 1: dalymount ($50)
Seat 2: Sungwon ($56.45)
Sungwon posts the small blind of $0.25
dalymount posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to dalymount
Sung...

How come I cant earn the higher ones that give you all the monies?

final table. six players left. u have third high stack. m is 8. big stack raises 3x big blind utg. u have aks. do call fold or shove?

Most of the time I have a good idea where I am in hand. Here I was unsure. How do you play this river?


Full Tilt Poker Game #7792090899: Table Duffer (6 max) - $3/$6 - Limit Hold'em - 5:25:40 ET - 2008/08/25
Seat 1: pokerlover8 ($137.50)
Seat 2: outlaw9 ($75.50)
Seat 3: busthemove ($152.50)
Seat 4: utpn ($199.50)
Seat...

I quite often play live at the casino near my home. I do fairly well and am overall a lifetime winning player, playing live.. they only spread two games 1/2 nl and 2.50/5 nl and often there is only one table going during the week.

You see your fair share of tourist donks, local donks, tight hardasses and excellent winning players. Of course table selection is key, and there have been...

9 man's on stars, we get HU and I run into 2 types of players. 1. One who shoves preflop almost every hand. 2. One who will see every flop and min bet it everytime.

1. If he's literally shoveing over 90 percent of the hands should I be calling with any Ace here or even something like kq?
2. How often should I be raiseing him here, and wouldn't it be correct not to over...

in nlh cash games they show a % of flops seen stat for evry table for +ev is it better to play a high percentage of flop seen or a low percentage
of flops seen????. and can you comment on a couple main points for good solid winning ring game nlh for lower stakes (25/50c). ty druff
-Q-

PokerStars Game #19813110301: Tournament #102283021, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (200/400) - 2008/08/22 - 14:18:47 (ET)
Table '102283021 179' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: obiefashobie (10285 in chips)
Seat 2: jozsef75 (9889 in chips)
Seat 3: thomsonjames (11140 in chips)
Seat 4: GambleFreak8 (13387 in chips)
Seat 5: canard49 (10...

Anyone know if they plan on changing the name of this site anytime soon?

I assume the skill level is better at higher limits online. But what are some of your observations on how play differs?

Doom Switch Exists!


PokerStars Game #18880478171: Tournament #96129016, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (125/250) - 2008/07/17 - 04:01:19 (ET)
Table '96129016 19' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Flash#61 (2367 in chips)
Seat 2: Johnybgood78 (4455 in chips)
Seat 3: systemoadown (1440 in chips)
Seat 4: gamerstyle (33...

Your expert opinion, please. $2K buy in deepstack tourney at Borgata. 956 players start, 90 pays, $445k 1st place. 3rd/last day. 40 players left. I'm 14th in chips w/ 880k. blinds 20-40k 5k ante. 5 8-handed tables left. I raise in EP w/ TT for 120k, 100k in blinds/antes in the middle. SB goes all in for 570k. 450k more to me to call, which would leave me w/ 310k. 450k to call to win...

Hey Druff, I've never played Limit HE before. I've heard it is a reliable money maker and not too difficult. Can you point me to some books/posts/resources to help me learn how to play? I'm trying to expand my poker horizons.

I'm a slightly winning NLHE player if that matters.

Thanks!...