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Posted: Thu, 01 Feb 2007, 3:25pm Post subject: |
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Straight
Joined: 19 Sep 2006
Posts: 168
WPP: 109
Location: Denmark
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Congratulations Irish! 
It's been very interesting following your journey through both good and bad times, and I hope you carry on writing in this thread.
I also wanted to tell you that I enjoyed the videos a lot, keep them coming  |
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Posted: Fri, 02 Feb 2007, 12:54am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 01 Sep 2005
Posts: 2182
WPP: 80
Location: donkaments weeeeeeeeeeee
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Congrats sir, very impressive!
Just add a zero after the 75 and continue. |
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Posted: Fri, 02 Feb 2007, 12:59am Post subject: |
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Full House
Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 981
WPP: 178
Location: Sweden
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tl; dr
No, but seriously, have you thought about writing a summary of your experiences. I mean, some of the highs and lows and how you've come through them to where you are now?
Then you can option in to some big hollywood house and they can have Matt Damon play you in 75k - the movie. |
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Posted: Fri, 02 Feb 2007, 7:50am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 28 Feb 2006
Posts: 2736
WPP: 110
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| Anosmic wrote: | tl; dr
No, but seriously, have you thought about writing a summary of your experiences. I mean, some of the highs and lows and how you've come through them to where you are now?
Then you can option in to some big hollywood house and they can have Matt Damon play you in 75k - the movie. |
| Trainer_jyms wrote: | Don't stop posting. maybe a sticky or two about some things you learned. You have played a lot of different stakes and sites. You have a wealth of info. If you don't want to post about your game, maybe post about ours. Your a high roller now, one of the top earners here, nice to see another success.
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Posted: Fri, 02 Feb 2007, 10:36am Post subject: |
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Flush
Joined: 06 May 2005
Posts: 571
WPP: 65
Location: Sweden
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stop it, i run bad and you pwn. i wanna make money too 
oh and nice |
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Posted: Fri, 02 Feb 2007, 10:52am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 02 May 2006
Posts: 3469
WPP: 60
Location: TAGfishery
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| congrats irish!! thanks for the video too. i havent had a chance to watch it yet, but i look forward to it this weekend. |
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Posted: Sun, 11 Feb 2007, 5:39am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 3173
WPP: 68
Location: over there
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Hnad reading 101
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)
MP ($1015)
CO ($846)
Button ($2774.20)
SB ($950)
Hero ($1000)
UTG ($1763.94)
Preflop: Hero is BB with K , J . SB posts a blind of $5.
4 folds, SB (poster) raises to $28, Hero calls $23.
Flop: ($66) 3 , 3 , 4 (2 players)
SB bets $44, Hero calls $44.
Turn: ($154) 4 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $100, SB raises to $288, Hero calls $188.
River: ($730) 2 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero pushes, SB folds.
Final Pot: $730 |
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Posted: Sun, 11 Feb 2007, 9:49pm Post subject: |
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Almost as bad as that idiot redgrape
Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 5906
WPP: 73
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| that read is way too easy. |
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Posted: Sun, 11 Feb 2007, 11:32pm Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 3173
WPP: 68
Location: over there
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On reraising preflop:
This is a huge subject, you could literally write a book (at least a pamphlet) if you knew all there is to know about reraising preflop. IMO this skill is what gives the best players a good portion of their edge at 600NL - 2kNL. It's something I'm only coming to grips with myself and trying to get really good at. Anyway, bunch of random thoughts here.
It's not something I would advise trying to force at 100NLish stakes. A strategy which includes a lot of reraising needs a player type that can actually make some folds here and there because a lot of the time you are forced to put your stack on the line with very little in the way of real hands.
Because of this, you should also see an increace in variance when you employ a strategy like this. It basically inflates the sise of the pot dramatically in relation to your stack and even the fishies that read Sklansky know that ++pots and --stacks = mucho variance.
Another reason that reraising becomes more valuable as you move up to higher stakes is that image manipulation becomes a much bigger issue. When you play at hyper aggressive tables where there is lots of preflop raising you ogten find yourself in situations where you hold a good hand (like AA) and there is a raise in front of you. You are forced to reraise here a good percentage of the time. If you only reraise a tight range the good players will notice this and you will not get payed off. This sort of thing won't be such a problem at lower stakes because less players are paying attention and less people are raising preflop with a high frequency.
Your image can also become a very importand weapon against those players who do happen to be paying attention. For example here's a hand where I reraised a TAG so much and my image became so bad that he was forced to begin to employ a shabby 4 betting strategy which allowed me to own him here:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)
saw flop|saw showdown
Hero ($553.80)
UTG ($390.20)
MP ($402.57)
Button ($386)
SB ($92)
Preflop: Hero is BB with J, J. SB posts a blind of $2.
2 folds, Villan raises to $16, SB calls, Hero raises $56, Villian raises $174, SB folds, Hero is All in $554, Villan calls.
Flop: ($6) 5, 9, T (5 players)
Turn: ($6) 9 (5 players)
River: ($6) T (5 players)
Final Pot: $950
Results below:
Hero has Js Jh (two pair, jacks and tens).
Button has As Qc (two pair, tens and nines).
Outcome: Hero wins $950.
I agree with HJ's up there for the most part. The only thing I would disagree with is:
| Quote: | | I dont think it matters a whole lot where you do it from, unless you start actually seeing showdowns. I generally never see a showdown when I do this, they either fold preflop, fold the flop or I give up at some stage. |
I think position is a very important factor in reraisings situations. Obviously it is better to be in position when you reraise. It is just far easier to apply pressure from this position and force your opponent to a tough decision for his stack. The problem with this is that generally players raising ranges increace dramatically the later a position they are in. So if you are in the cutoff and a player raises in MP then his raising range from that position will stand to be comprised of much better hands then if you were the BB and he raised from the button. But a lot of the time your position will make up for this especially as stacks tend towards the deeper end of the spectrum.
Generally you should reraise a player more...
the looser his raising standards,
the more coldcallers between you and the initial raiser,
the more likely he is to fold to your raise preflop,
the deeper the effective stacks,
the tighter he is postflop,
the less you think he knows about bluffing lines in reraised pots,
when you are in position.
There's probably a buch of other simple reasons that should be here but they just aren't coming to me right now.
Finally, what hands should we reraise with? I don't like to reraise with TPGK kinda hands like ATo even against fairly wide raising ranges. I feel that we just leave ourselves open to too many marginal decisions later in the hand where we have to decide if our top pair is good. Hands like suited connectors ands Axs are good choices because of what I was referring to at the start. If we are going to be making large bets without much of a hand in an attempt to make another player fold, I would like to be doing it with hands that will a portion of the time have outs should things go wrong. Also obviously TT+ and AK are standard reraising hands. AQ is a marginal raise or fold "it depends" type of beast.
And ehh.... yeah looks like I'm done. |
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Posted: Mon, 12 Feb 2007, 8:31am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 3173
WPP: 68
Location: over there
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| Fuck it, lets keep grinding and blogging. |
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Posted: Mon, 12 Feb 2007, 9:10am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Posts: 2871
WPP: 109
Location: searching for something...
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| Irisheyes wrote: | | Fuck it, lets keep grinding and blogging. | You should make it "one brazillion dollars" |
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Posted: Wed, 14 Feb 2007, 12:19am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 3173
WPP: 68
Location: over there
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Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ Hero (6 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)
saw flop|saw showdown
CO ($4280.73)
Button ($2330.25)
SB ($1950)
Hero ($1042.50)
UTG ($1012)
MP ($657)
Preflop: Hero is BB with Q, T. SB posts a blind of $5.
2 folds, CO calls $10, 1 fold, SB (poster) completes, Hero checks, SB checks, Hero bets $25, CO calls $25, SB folds, Hero bets $85, CO calls $60.
Flop: ($195) J, J, Q (2 players)
Turn: ($195) 3 (2 players)
River: ($195) Q (2 players)
Hero is All-in, CO calls $947.50.
Final Pot: $2084.50
Results in white below:
Hero has Qc Td (full house, queens full of jacks).
CO has 9s Jc (full house, jacks full of queens).
Outcome: Hero wins $2084.50. |
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Posted: Wed, 14 Feb 2007, 12:24am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 3173
WPP: 68
Location: over there
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***** Hand History for Game 5672049651 *****
$1000 NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, February 13, 15:36:25 ET 2007
Table Table 127423 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: bae5833 ( $4582.82 )
Seat 3: STRANGEler ( $2866 )
Seat 5: Knejten ( $1089.50 )
Seat 6: Hero( $1394 )
Seat 2: caspis ( $980 )
Seat 4: GY_BE ( $1064 )
Knejten posts small blind [$5].
Hero posts big blind [$10].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Ah 9h ]
bae5833 folds
caspis folds
STRANGEler raises [$33]
GY_BE folds
Knejten folds
Hero raises [$136]
STRANGEler calls [$113]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, 5d, 6h ]
Hero bets [$170]
STRANGEler raises [$444]
Hero is all-In [$1078]
STRANGEler folds
Hero does not show cards.
Hero wins $1986 |
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Posted: Wed, 14 Feb 2007, 12:35am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 3173
WPP: 68
Location: over there
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| Tryin to play out 100k hands at 5/10 Party at the moment. Getting my ass raped in general and I'm down about 7k over the last few days. I'd say I'm a breakeven player in these games if not a marginal loser but I'm working my rocks off to improve at the moment. Been playing fewer tables, concentrating more, makin reads, changing my game etc so hopefully I'll be able to beat them soon. Hey! No pain no gain right!!? |
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Posted: Wed, 14 Feb 2007, 8:47am Post subject: |
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Straight
Joined: 19 Sep 2006
Posts: 168
WPP: 109
Location: Denmark
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Right on soldier  !
I'm sure you'll dominate those games soon. |
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Posted: Thu, 15 Feb 2007, 5:20am Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 3173
WPP: 68
Location: over there
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Fun poker IQ test you can do here: [url] www.donkeytest.com [\url]
My poker IQ is 120 which is better then 80% of people that took the test. See what you get. |
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Posted: Thu, 15 Feb 2007, 11:54pm Post subject: |
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
Posts: 3975
WPP: 106
Location: ISHPERMING MISHIGEN
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| Irisheyes wrote: | Fun poker IQ test you can do here: [url] www.donkeytest.com [\url]
My poker IQ is 120 which is better then 80% of people that took the test. See what you get. |
I got 114.
lol @ the last question. |
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Posted: Thu, 15 Feb 2007, 11:58pm Post subject: |
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Straight Flush
Joined: 04 Jul 2006
Posts: 4192
WPP: 83
Location: Pwnsylvania
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| I got a 134 which means the test is horribly flawed if I scored better than you two. |
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