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!...

just a quick question. I know you always rebuy immediately in a rebuy tourney, but would you say that goes the same for these tournies as well?

I'm assuming yes, but I can think of a few reasons to argue against it.

Im not one for telling bad beat or hard luck stories, but I am on the worst run of my life and I need to vent a little. The past year I have had below average luck but still came out ahead, but now I can do nothing right. I have been beat by so many 2 out river beats over the course of about 2 months that if I actually posted the numbers none of you would believe me. I keep track of all my hea...

Back in the day, I used to be able to fire up 6 tables of $10-20 lhe on party and crush it on a regular basis. I would just play like a robot and rake in the money. Recently I tried playing 4 of these tables at 5-10 lhe and got crushed. The game was too tough, and playing that many tables I couldn't really make any reads on the players. I'll admit LHE isn't my specialty, but I sti...

I have been playing a new game at treasure island no river holdem. it is a game where you get 3 cards face down a round of betting a flop another round of betting and then the turn then the last stage of betting so that is the game in a nut shell

I have been asked to try to figure out what are the odds of hitting a 4 of a kind with trips in your hand
a str8 flush with 2 or 3 who...

Hi there,
I have just heard about a $200K monthly leaderboard that is running on Pokertime. Is this true? Does anyone know how this works and if it is available on all rooms on the Microgaming network?

First two hours of an online tournament, assume everyone is average in chips. AQ offsuit UTG, what is your normal course of action. My thoughts are 2.5x bb raise, and play very cautiously. I want to put in a small raise but if someone has a real hand I want to get away with as little of investment as possible.

Thoughts?...

Please give me a hand. I am about to get my poker engine restarted hardcore.

Please pay attention to the following constraints

-I only play on Stars

-I want every software advantage I can have

-I only play limit and no limit hold em. No tournys except big ass ones that i dont bneed anything for.

1. Can you datamine on Stars. Like leave open 12...

First off, any and all input is welcome. Over the last 3 years or so I pretty much completely switched to playing only 6max holdem online after like 5 years of just playing full ring. At first it was quite a struggle with a long period of adjustment where I was pretty much just breaking even forever and eventually started showing some decent yet never great (>2bb/100) over a lot of hands. I p...

Was listening to a radio archive and heard Micon rolled them all for $1k at the Bellagio 15/30 limit game. Druff said its a great game but you gotta with stand the variance.

Can anyone offer more insight into it. You think a solid limit player can roll in and make at least $30 an hour (1 big bet) over the long term. Is it possible to pull a $100K a year from this game....

Went to play at PokerStars Macau where the APPT event is held. So Friday night I was smoking hot. I was hitting flops, getting under a couple of players' skins, and taking advantage of my table image. The way I got under some players' skins was this: a couple of Indian guys who thought they were badasses walked in and started watching our table and asking how to play. Everyone was salivati...

my first ask druff post but i need some insight if im going to improve...critque away
Top 45 made money


PokerStars Game #18757735190: Tournament #94924020, $30+$3 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII (600/1200) - 2008/07/12 - 02:27:10 (ET)
Table '94924020 40' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: erwin2975 (27285 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: Co...

Hey tournament gurus... whats the best way to play these hands in tournaments in the early stages? From EP, MP, and LP? Open Raise 3-4x and fold to a 3 bet? what about a call or small raise in front? what about when you're in the blinds against a late position blind steal raise?

Im normally a strict cash game player but have been meddling in tournaments a little online. I took 2nd i...

Is there any software out there that calculates odds that you can put on multiple tables at a time? All the ones I have seen you can only use on 1 table.

So you've been "experimenting" over at AP... What was your hypothesis? Testing method? Results?

Firstly some background,

Up until now i've only played NLHE tourneys with buyins from $5 to $20, i've been fairly succesful with a ROI of 90% (over around 300 tournaments),

however because of college etc. i dont have the time to play for 5+hours evrynight, ive decided to try and start playing cash games as they are obv more flexible timewise.

I gu...

i know most holdem odds but i have been playing a new game called no river holdem really cool game but i have a few questions on odds kinda stupid ones sorry feel dumd asking. In this game u r dealt 3 cards face down then there is a flop and then a turn there is not a river. i was playing the other day and rolled up aces three aces dealt to me quetion number 1 what r those odds of being dealt 3 ac...

look i dont want to get into a big rigged v non rigged argument with anyone, least of all after posting that goofy hand in the bellagio thread, but some shit went down this morning that i just cannot wrap my head around...

so ill just leave it at; are there superuser concerns on the sb.com cake skin?

the cashout concerns are valid and well documented btw, but i can sto...

https://cakepoker.com/HandHistory/?Hand=xcH...FwYjAzczEx8M%3d

I am ISmokeMeth69. I have a9o. This is the final table. Easiest final table i've ever been at, terrible players.The the guy who reshoved me seem suprisingly solid however. I almost always call when I am

something that happens in low stakes HE NL HU sitngos - encountered it in stakes as high as 30$ - someone that will go all in every hand from the start (prob tilting).

what do you think is the best calling strategy in such a match?

Was just playing some guy in 2-4 heads up, I busted him but still ended up losing money (lost 6 cents lol). I looked at the difference between cake and full tilt heads up rake. They are both 5% with $.50 max rake. The difference is cake rake is $.05 per $1 in the pot, and ftp is $.50 once the pot reaches $10. So on ftp there is no rake unless the pot reaches $10. On c...

I'm wondering when you're playing heads up against an aggressive maniac, whether or not to start raising with hands not so premium...

such as hands like A6 and below, and making Ahi calls on paired boards like T33, etc.

Are these marginal situations that you have to kinda feel? Or is there some sort of systematic play you can profit from....

Say you call off 40% of your stack, as a 75% favorite everytime preflop, other player open shoved, and everyone else folds. On AVERAGE how many of these hands before your broke? Basically, trying to mathamatically prove calling huge preflop bets w/ak off is a very bad idea. I know that it is, but I don't know how to do the math to prove it.

Edit: I guess I am trying to show the...

Hey there Druff,

Was wondering if you'd be able to help me out here. I recently got fired from my shit job at a puppy store(LOL), and I decided to use my last check($254.14) to start my bankroll and try and support myself through poker. I play at a card-room/greyhound race track in Daytona Beach, where nothing but old people and young wannabes(like myself) play. Almost every...

First level, 109$ MTT on cake.

MP with AsQho, UTG bets pot, one EP call, I flat call, one call behind.

Flop:

6c8cQs

UTG bets like 140 into a 320 pot. EP folds, I call, LP min-raises.

UTG calls.

I......?

I was just dealt AAAA in Pot Limit Omaha. Has anyone ever seen this and what are the odds of this?

Anyone bought from www.belrion.com before ? heard they are

a paypal world seller and are macfee seucred. Appreciate some

feedback from anyone ^^

Ok.. Ive never been much of a tournament guy, but Im going to play a few over the next few days cuz im bored and have time. So we all know that "M" is your stack divided by the total of the blinds or (M=Stack/SB+BB). What are you supposed to do with it though? Is the rule of thumb anything 10 or below you push or fold pre-flop? What about if you have 15, and if you make a call, you'l...

I recall you making a post about how you hated AK in tournaments, so I wanted to see what you thought of this hand from the WSOP.


Ted Lawson -- Tight is Right?
Lawson Willing to Muck A-K



An early-position player opened the pot for 2,300. The action was folded aro...

$20+2 Deep Stack tourney on PokerStars (5K starting chips, 30 minute levels). 297 players, 76 remaining, 45 placed paid. My M=10.

I pick up AKs in late position. I pop to 3X BB which was my standard at the table. Min reraise by the button. Everyone else folds. I shove over the top. Instacall. He has AA.

I maybe could have held on until the money, but just barely, so I fi...

I am fairly new to limit and started playing because of Druff's advice.


How do you rate the play of this hand?



PokerStars Game #18475573850: Hold'em Limit ($0.10/$0.20) - 2008/06/29 - 22:25:07 (ET)
Table 'Morrison' 10-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: kloopFderp ($6.35 in chips)
Seat 2: whisky3 ($1.20 in c...

5400 FPP turbo SNGs with top four getting sunday million seats. I've probably played 10 now and bubbled one or MAYBE two. I think any good player should get a seat at least 50% of the time. And "good" in this context is ludicrous. Basically, you play very, very tight and shove your shortstacks when necessary. No one calls with an appropriate frequency, so you're rarely conte...

Most of my SHLHE experience, and the vast majority of my biggest winning sessions / streaks have been in really short handed games on pokerroom where you could create a 3 or 4 handed max. It was great. But now I'm forced to play more tables where there is 6 max. My post flop skills are as good as any but preflop I have certain situations where I may be leaking.

Most of these hand...

I've been on a tear recently playing 6 Max although I do think I have one major leak that needs fixing. When HU and you are in the SB, what should you do with Ax unsuited, high suited connectors (10 9 or 9 8 suited), pairs, etc. I've tried a variety of things, raising with them, limping with them and then usually calling a raise out of position, limp reraising with them or a combination...

0-5 at this room. Can't stop random d-bags from taking 4 bets to the face pf with 10-4 A-3 K-5 Q-7, so fucking sick. Flop 7 straight/flush draws, pound the shit out of the pot, brick brick every mutha fuckin time. The highlight of the weekend was a 5 bet 5 way action pot with my 99 on a J97-J-J board and one of the said d-bags tables J-4 ...

I played some today and these guys were odd..they never raised AA,QQ,KK,AK pf just checked called all the way to the river, had me scratching my head. what is the best way to play full ring this low of limit? im guessing it's wrong to be a limp donk, should I just tighten up and stay raise or fold? thanks for any help....

Like if some horrible hold em player won a seat to like a 20 man satty, and it only payed the top spot, what should the horrible player focus on?

The key to game selection in heads up lhe is finding an opponent that is passive, and is not aggressive.

Is this a true statement? It seems like the ultra aggressive guys rape me. Even the ultra aggressive idiots that will cap undercard gut shot straight draws. I end up paying them off when they do have hands. Im thinking im going to just quit whenever I sit with somebody that seems ag...

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2756418

Hey Druff,

I've been thinking about the last thing you guys talked about last night on the show (about bankroll requirements), and I'm a little confused. You said that one would need twice as big of a bankroll to play online vs. live, but you didn't explain why. I understand if you're playing heads up or short-handed games (potentially bigger swings?), but if I'm p...

I have searched through about 5 pages but havn't found the answer, so here is my question:
in low limit 6max LHE(.25/.50-1/2) should I play more 'filthy' hands(suited,unsuited connectors, Ax) or should I just stay with premium cards? Also, how importan is position, I know the button is always important but is UTG still as bad as full ring?
Thanks for the help...