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In many hand histories posted on this site, where hero has a good but non-nut hand and is facing a reasonably large river bet (fold/call decision), ...

I have my BR sitting in Neteller right now because I bought a new house in April and have so much to do that I was not getting anything done while...

Only 21 hands on villain. 47%/0%/1.5 I'm thinking raise big on the turn since the pot's so small at the moment and see if he likes his smaller...

Well, it's three months today that I started playing with my first $50 at Party (staked me by PartyStakers.com). I played the forty days on...

Any tips or advice? PokerStars Game #5396396160: Tournament #27233306, $3.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2006/06/28 - 21:22:32...

My chip stack is 9100. There are 7 people left at the final table of a rebuy tournament. The small blind who is small stack has 3400 chips left. The...

Playing with real money, since I don't have a credit card or anything, I can't deposit any money but I can play in freeroles, I placed like 6th in a...

I hate math. I just got theory and practise and I'm trying to go through it, but the math ugh... i've only reached to pg.38. from pg.36 -4.80...

villian is pretty loose, but seems decent. im running 19/8. On the turn i figured he might've made the str8 with 6 4, so i just called hoping the...

I'm curious to hear people's ranges, with position against an unknown pre-flop raiser. Mine is usually AA-JJ & AK. Is anyone's significantly wider?...

Apologies for blatently ripping 2+2 content but here is something that every beginner should read. Parable

It's some assessment of how the other guy plays, but I can't figure it out, nor can I find any other references to it. Thanks!

I wasn't sure where to post this question so i hope i guessed right :) Not that i have a lot, but would really like to know how taxes on poker...

I've always had a suspicion that the poker site I play on is "rigged". Of course, this could just be me being paranoid, but now I've finally found...

I was recently in a small speed tournment. 10 Hands at my table. I am BB. I get Q4u and check. We are 4 left. The flop comes: QQQ !!!! How would...

For the past two days or so I have been playing on Everest Poker. There they have 10 man SnGs with a $.10 prize pool (1st gets $.05, 2nd gets $.03,...

How do you play AK if you get re-raised preflop by an unknown? What do you do when the flop comes A or K high giving you TPTK? Pretty general...

I'm not sure whether you can use overcards as legit outs to draw to a pair. For example: PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (7 handed) Hand...

I'd like to know what a good ptBB/hand would be for some of the bigger hands. I'm playing $25 NL btw. My stats: AA: 8.97 KK: 3.03 QQ: 1.97...

I have been playing poker, mostly for fun for about a year. After depositing some hundred dollars in the beginning (and loosing) I have now, built a...

Recently, i've been noticing that I give my opponents way too much credit for their bets. Basically, it seemed that I wanted them to have a better...

Is this the logic for block betting vs check/calling the river? --Block bet if I am not confident in my hand and think villain will check behind...

Hand converter screwed this up some. I'm UTG+1. Slider bar got stuck at $0.8 instead of full $1 (shitty PR software). I don't think it matters...

Okay, I know I can search mone and other peoples progress in Sng's on Sharkscope.com, I know I can see how I've done in past tournaments on...

Pot Odds - Amount you have to put in, and how much you will win. Ex - Pot- 150 50 bet to me. I am getting 3-1 here right? Btw--- What is good...

Game: NL cash game 4-handed Situation: I raise 0.25-1.0£ with AQo nad maniac reraises me 1.0-5.0£. I fold. He then keeps showing down J3s, T8o, K2o...

Is this the logic for block betting vs check/calling the river? --Block bet if I am not confident in my hand and think villain will check behind...

I hate this Ongame network. Minbets and minraises with monster hands, 5th nut flush draw pushes everywhere. Once I get the points for the bonus...

I'm trying to post this in the NLHE low stakes forum, but can't get the converter to work right. It won't tell me what's wrong with the hand history...

Played correctly? PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format:...

One area I struggle with is the concept of pot control. I know what the definition of pot control is, but I often have trouble applying the...

<lambchop> lol <lambchop> dude, last summer at this time... <lambchop> i was stealing money from my parents <lambchop> and playing $2 and $5...

is it possible to transfer funds directly from firepay to neteller? thanks

I have $425 to dedicate to ring... I've been playing for 3 months, have Pokertracker + AceHUD and I'm going to play cash games all summer (2 1/2...

So, I am sitting at an 45 person SnG. I'm first in stack size, and I'm up against two smaller guys. I wanted to keep my lead, and not get put into...

So I finally got Poker Tracker, after all this time. After 10,468 hands of 100NL since the beginning of May I'm running 3.88 BB/100 Hands (that's PT...

I never quite know what to do in this situation ... especially in NL. If I get a pair of 3's or 4's, then I know that they're probably going to be...

I've noticed that in several online tournaments I've played where I end up going all in pre-flop with the best of it I am getting outdrawn a minority...

This is a follow-up to an earlier thread. Again, I'm not a guru - just posting what I've learned, charting how my game is growing, and hopefully...

Actually I'm mainly a billiard player. But I started to get interested in poker as well and want to pursue it. I was reading about calculating...