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Opponenet is 16/7 and has been playing pretty solid TAG poker. PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (8 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from...

(Assume NLHE cash game with 1/2 blind structure) 40 bb stacks not including blinds, SB open pushes top 50% of hands, find a calling range for BB...

Just wanted some opinion on this MTT hand (it's a $5k freeroll with 400 entrants through a RB affiliate if that adjusts your thinking). I'm not...

(Assume NLHE cash game with 1/2 blind structure) 40 bb stacks not including blinds, SB open pushes top 50% of hands, find a calling range for BB...

is there anything online that anyone could recomend or any tips you have to share about theory of position play.

I'm new and I was wondering which sit n go games are the best to conisistntly win money with. -$5 SnG OR -$10 SnG OR -$20 SnG (All...

How long to clear 361 vpp on stars playing 4 tables of 100nl and 2 tables of 200 nl. I just realized i was 361 points away from the next level. ...

hey guys, I just wanted to ask around what ppl's cashout policies are. I am by no stretch of the imagination a professional, but I take the game...

I've heard a lot about tourney donks, how cash players are generally better, and how players think "yum yum" when WSOP winners come to their cash...

I want 500 brand new shiny dollars in my BR by monday How would you go about planning that? So far I've just been nuthunting 4 tables with my...

disclaimer: Long, boring, probably pointless post. Deals very little to do with poker theory and has a little to do with frame of mind and...

hey all just signed up with Flop Turn River Ok i play on ladbrokes poker and im a cash game player playing at usually $.10/.20 and $.25/.50...

This is a totally hypothetical situation. Let's say you have Ah Kh OOP, raised 4x and got 1 unknown LP caller. Effective stack size is 100BB each. ...

how often have you seen this. Villian min raises in EP you have a good hand like AK so u want to isolate and therefor you have to raise so you end...

Ok I find most of the time i am limp calling seems to be with pocket pairs preflop. I would think by widening what I am limp-calling with...

Need to get it off my chest. I got sucked out, when I had KK, and they had a draw, put them all-in, they hit. Then got done, by set over set. I...

I have known the rules of poker for a long time, but am now getting very serious about playing. I have the cash to play a decent BR but am limiting...

I know that to learn poker you need to play it, but my biggest weakness is odds. I'd like to run through a bunch of odds "homework" or something...

Let me begin by stating that I absolutely love playing NL Holdem... usually with a group of friends, .10-.20 to .50-1 blinds, with a $10-20-or-40...

I follow a simple strategy preflop. I either call if I feel my hand is marginal, or raise 4xbb (at the $25 NL tables this is standard, and people...

Somebody sits down at a 25NL table with $15 (60BB), posts a newbie BB UTG and open pushes. What do you call this person with and why? Complete...

Anyone who has played cash games for more than a week, knows all about swing... specifically though, I'm talking about very short term swing... swing...

I am trying to open up my game more lately and am not feeling good about it at all right now. My old style of play was pretty solid and made...

This might be too vague a question, but... I have noticed in most hand histories from say $200NL upwards that the majority of turns are checked by...

An old respected ENA professor was invited to do a speech about effective scheduling of time for small group which consisted of managers from big...

just a no0bie question, it has seemed as though over the past four months about 80 percent of the hands i have lost going all in before the river i...

This is a 2-part question/discussion post. First, I am curious what everyone's opinions are on the quality of bankroll management philosophy I...

alright i just got my online account working, and i was wondering if somoene could explain what all the numbers mean when picking a cash game or sng...

I am wondering how to gauge my success in playing based on percentages that are shown in the Stats section on Pokerstars. I play .05/.10 full ring...

No reads at all, this is my first hand at the table. PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from...

If there are any questions, see this thread: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-42620.htm Avocado and Cobere IslandAK and...

How many BB (big bets, big blinds) should your stack be when playing speculative hands (Q90, J9o, 9Ts, 55). I've heard that shallow / shorter stacks...

Hello Mr. Obvious, long time reader first time poster. (Anyone that gets Bob and Tom will understand that one. Oh, and this is my second post but...

Okay, I need this explained to me like I am a two year old. Let's say I make $50,000 this year as a professional online poker player. If I file as...

Hi everyone, latley I find myself in a dubiuos spot. Let say you dubled up your stack and now you are enjoying being the big guy at a table. Now the...

In general, is it a standard move or is it a leak to complete the SB with any two cards after 2-3 limpers? Say at 25NL, two players in front limp,...

I've been reading a lot of posts lately about reraising AA-TT AK and sometimes AQ preflop. I have really only been reraising with AA KK and...