If you play blackjack and are tired of losing money, read this thread.

Note that the information here will not automatically make you a winning blackjack player. Note that showing a profit in blackjack can sometimes take a long time, as the edge is small and the variance is high. However, you can greatly improve your odds in blackjack by just taking a small amount of time to learn t...

Degenerates,

This is the one small place on the site for serious poker discussion. As much as I hate censorship, I am going to have to ask that everyone refrain from insulting the posters over here.

If you want to attack people, the "Shooting Off" forum is certainly the place to do it. There is very little serious poker discussion on this site as it is, so let's not rui...

You're in a 3-handed 30-60 game online.

You find yourself with Qc8c on the button. Obviously, you raise.

SB, a good player, folds.

The BB, a big donk who both chases and bluffs, three-bets you. You call.

Flop is 3h6d7s rainbow.

The donk now checks. You also check.

Turn is 8h, putting two hearts on the board.

The do...

So Druff, when is the next show? You've been very quiet of late, perhaps you have been working away and we are about to be hit with some new stuff

or

you have given up on this show??


Balls in your court dude...

Mr druff when you are nursing a short stack in the middle to late stages of a tournament and the antes have kicked in, at what point do you feel you lose your fold equity? 10m, 5m, 10 big blinds, or other? example: I'm in the big blind with 5-5 . the blinds are 600-300, ante 50. I have a little over 7200 chips including my big blind. My...

I think I remember reading something of Druff's where he voices the possibility of a doomswitch in low limit games. The theory being that once the online poker sites identify a player in a low stakes game as someone who is really good, and therefore capable of wiping out there low limit player base over time, they do in fact "flip a doomswitch". Seriously, it has to be possible. ...

LIMIT HOLDEM HAND:

Say you raise in middle position with Js9s. The SB and BB call.

Flop comes 5d3s3d

Obviously misses you.

Checked to you, and you bet.

Both call.

Turn comes 8h.

Checked to you again.

You decide to bluff at it again, and fold to a raise.

Both call.

River is 2h....

Hey all, anyone got anything on RPM Poker?

are the games good? Is it safe? anything on the Merge Network?

Hit me back

G

I mean he's down over 1.5 million to him and today lost 150K to him in less than 10 minutes...The man must love pain...

Many people will encounter a ghost while living on this side of the world. Have you considered meeting with spirits with a Ouija board? Even if you don't meet a ghost or you don't want to use it for cheating at poker, it's a fun bonding experience at sleepovers and at my weekly male sleepovers we pull it out sometimes when the power goes and we can't watch Twilight...

As a NLH player I would like to see a beginners guide to PLO

I am sure you could help up with this game.

TIA

Gareth

I'm posting this here mainly for Dan and Dustin and other players affected by the UB scandal. It's a pm exchange I recently had with a high limit UB player about potential legal action. Feel free to email if you want to discuss the matter or would like additional information. (Start reading from the bottom up after the message immediately below).

Alan

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any chance of you doing a +ev show for nl hold em or any more + ev shows or have you given up on them due to the drama with the ceo i Know you have stated you dont play the high limits but your thoughts on the low to middle limits would be great to hear thanks

2nd level
50/100 blinds
I have 5200 of 6k starting stack. Avg is 7k
UTG and UTG+1 have both been tight/solid, shown down top hands, not gotten out of line.

UTG makes it 250. UTG+1 calls. I'm SB with 10-10 and call. The pot is 900.

Flop comes Jd5d5. I donkbet 500 and both players call. The pot is now 2400.

Turn is an offsuit Ace. It gets...

I had this hand come up in an online tourney recently and I think there are a few different ways to play it but here is how I played it with my reasoning:

$24 buy in multi with 750 people, down to about 100 and getting close to the money. my stack: ~12k, villain ~8k. 200/400 blinds w/ante 50

villain min raises from cutoff, button and SB fold, and I have Jd5d and call th...

i been playing limit poker 5/10 trying this bankroll thing.

any how i been doing really well in limit 3 for 3 so far. But i went to a game on sunday where their are usually 5 to 6 callers pre flop for a cap raise. their where also quite a few where all 10 of us where in for cap raise. its a house game so they let the max raise be 50. mostly plays 50 preflop 10 or 15 on the flop then slo...

The Game Killer

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A small-town Holiday Inn is not where you expe...

I don't need a full synopsis of course, but what is the current state of affairs? Is there a court date? Has UB publicly condemned him? I'm sure there is information on this board to be found, but am just curious as to the here and now.

Thanks.

After reading an article about Joe Cassidy on Cardplayer, I was curious, Druff, as to which known players that specialize in LHE that you respect the most, or whom are considered the best by high limit players. You always hear shit about this subject, but I wanted it from the horse's mouth.

Gracias....

Hey Druff new to the fourms but listen to you all your shows and enjoy them very much.(you actually are the one who made me sign up to be honest) I have a question in regards to how to seprate your money in banks for keeping track of and for tax purposes as well. EX: Let say you have a standered BOA checking and savings. You use your checking to pay bills, buy food, gas all the basic things in lif...

What does this mean? Im guessing they are giving more vpps? How much more? Where can I find info on this?

I just received a letter in the mail saying i owe ~$300 for 3k in tournament winnings from 2007. I looked for receipts from 2007 and all I could find were the receipts to the 2 tournaments I cashed in. So my main question is can I deduct the buy in to the 2 tournaments (~1300) from the 3k I won? This would nearly cut the tax in half. Without a hard copy for other tourneys I played in,...

I have beaten 5/10 LHE live forever and I have actually never played a hand of LHE online seriously...Would it be possible to at least break even 12 tabling 3-6 LHE online playing super mechanical/tight if I went into it just playing super straight forward playing so many tables of it in 6 max ? I also have a winning full ring no limit background along with SNGs... I have that sick tight gear...Do...

Listened to NWP radio and Druff you mentioned you heebed up $500 to $200k on cake. Could you please go into more detail about this?

a) How long did it take?

b)What limits were you playing when you had $500? at $1000? at $10,000? at $100,000? basically when did you move up levels.

c)Was it Limit, or NL - I know you are a limit player...

PokerStars Game #29884276896: Hold'em Limit ($5/$10) - 2009/06/28 16:38:22 ET
Table 'Jugta' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: thyprez ($147 in chips)
Seat 2: Rod Owens ($580 in chips)
Seat 3: yusuf6161 ($87.50 in chips)
Seat 4: chucksaucey ($137 in chips)
Seat 5: vtpokerrat ($426 in chips)
Rod Owens: posts sm...

this is all, move along.

Yesterday, I found myself in not one, not two, but THREE drawing situations where I picked up draws while being below-average stacked. These were all early in the event.

I'd like to get everyone's opinion on these, and please don't just simply say "shove all in" because being aggressive sounds cooler. I think there's an argument to be had on both sides of eac...

Sometimes the time is right to re-bluff. Is this one of them?

Situation:

You are in late position with QcTc at a live, 9-handed 100-200 limit hold 'em game.

A semi-donk limps from early position. Folds to you. You raise to isolate him. Button cold-calls, SB calls, BB calls, limper calls.

Flop:

7d-5s-5d

Checks to you. You...

I just curious about people's opinions. I play NLHE live and a bit online as well. I know it probably depends on the speed of the game and so on, but generally how many BBs per hour should I be winning (as a long-term average) before I can consider myself a good, winning player?

How does the answer change if I play online? Would it be per table per hour instead of per hour?...

Full Tilt Poker Game #13000253142: Table Stober - $8/$16 Ante $1.50 - Limit Stud Hi - 4:55:10 ET - 2009/06/24
Seat 2: JasonEye ($556)
Seat 3: HBBUCKEYE ($829.50)
Seat 4: MaconMarcNWP ($454.50)
Seat 6: tony202020 ($89.50)
JasonEye antes $1.50
HBBUCKEYE antes $1.50
tony202020 antes $1.50
MaconMarcNWP antes ...

We will use a $530 satillite at the rio as an example. In this event, 10 players play a single table tourney, and first place gets 10 $500 wsop chips. Usually the final 2 or 3 or whatever end up chopping. Before the thing starts often times most of the players do a last longer bet for $100 or $200. My question is, would it be -EV to join the last longer bet? My reason for think...

I have been playing a lot more live NL cash lately, in part due to the limit games drying up big time (especially in Vegas).

Last night, I showed up to Bellagio to play a 4-handed 60-120 limit game, only to find that the 4 people were all winning regulars. I wasn't going to waste my time with that crap. Instead, I decided to join a heads-up 10-20 NL game (making myself the 3rd pla...

IN a cash game, is it ever a bad play to push all-in if you think you have the best hand ?

Ok so I've been playing this game for like 5 years now (LHE) and still don't really know what to do here. My local lhe game is pretty ridiculous. It is 10/20 and 15/30 with 20/40 once a week. There are some decent players but overall its a bunch of nits or limpdonks. It plays super poorly. People limp all over the place and call 2 cold easy. So usually you have 4+ going to each flop. The p...

Any fees associated with using instant e-checks on the b of a side?

druff i can only make it to vegas like 4 days hope to play a event or maybe two depending on how i do. Do you think its bettor to come in early june or wait to the later june.

Also do you know anything about the mega stack seris at ceasers thats seems interesting as well it runs at the same time as the wsop...

Hey,

I'm coming up to vegas to play to take a vacation and play some cash games. I don't want to spend more than 1k on a tourny buy in, but I figure cash games must get juicy during the wsop. I know lhe is dying. I've been working on my nl game online in anticipation that I'll play some nl while I'm there. But I want to know where you think the best low limit games h...

I know you've addressed it a few times but I am on my phone right now and wanted to know this:

Ill be flying into vegas mid-day May 29th. First event is the 1k on the 30th. When should I register for this to avoid lines etc.?


Thanks druff

Not interested in playing tthe tourneys. Wanting to play 2/5 to 10/20 NL and mabey some 10/20 to 30/60 limit. During the 6 weeks is there better times then others. ALso where will be the best 2-3 places wit hthe most action?

I'm sure this has been rehashed countless times, but have been wondering....

What stakes do you normally play?

How long have you been a winning player?

Which WSOP events do you normally play/plan on playing?

which do you guys think is bettor? i finally got FULL TIlt to give me the rake back. I dont really understand their point system or that medal thing but which do you think is bettor FTP or stars as far as rake back

Been playing this on Stars recently, and it's pretty much easy money up to 10/20 limit. And it's pretty fun too. Anyone else playing Badugi regularly?

So he was in town and we hit up the local gambling establishment run by our favorite pornography (Larry Flynt).

This was a 5-10 NL game and Druff bought in for $1000. This hand was very close to the beginning of the session and was against a player who was to my left and I had played with before. He is an asian kid who bought in for around 2500 and had won the first hand where 3...

Hey Dan,

I've been a long time lurker here for years.... I'm a devoted listener of the radio shows and follow the forums regularly.. My friend has a problem cashing out on stars and he is getting jerked around for no good reason. I thought you might be able to help him draft a letter that might help expedite and resolve the matter. If you are agreeable to helping us out...

Got to open the music...

the limit game. how and when do you play diff than ur cash sessions during the mtt? like with a billion starting chips, you play tight early or see a lotta flops hoping to outplay weaker players still in the mtt early?

Stars refuses to let me change my avatar, I've requested a few times now, but I guess I already changed it once like 2 years ago. But I know all kinds of people who were able to change theirs multiple times, but I suspect they contribute more rake than me. Any ideas? Maybe a Finkelstein letter?

At Grand Lisboa Macau!

I might even offer a few rounds at the MGM LION's BAR on thursday night should any of you manage to get a valid passport enabling you to get over here!

MACAU POKER CUP SCHEDULE
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THURSDAY - May 7

2:10 pm --> Free to enter Red Dragon Satellite (2 Red Dragon Seats Guaranteed!) --> Buyin: FREE (...

So I was a lurker on this site for years, finally got an account and then lurked for 2 more years before making a post, here goes. I played lots of Stars, Party/Empire and Paradise before the ban law passed. I came back about 18 months ago to FTP and did ok, but I found it an utter bitch to get my money back. I had to make some retarded eWallet thing, fund it and then when i actually won, it su...

So I was able to get the account created and funded at PokerStars last night (used the NWP marketing / bonus codes) and they took the eCheck just fine, despite declining my credit card attempt, which I expected.

I noticed an immediate difference in my play on stars. I played Stars a LOT about 5 years ago (I think, before Moneymaker won the WSOP), and I always felt comfortable even thou...