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There is lots of anger here. Not sure how I incited such a riot with this post. This site has a very small box of thought going on. You are all trying to play the exact same way, and that's very...

You guys are right about the coincidental nature of what happened in the deals over the session. Weird stuff like that rarely happens, but when it does, it's time to take advantage. Ask yourself an...

I understand that the 3-bet on my 1st two were not optimal for making money on those hands. I was trying to look like an a**hole who didn't know how to play. Anyhow, I seriously considered raising to...

The following happened at a $1-2 ring game in December live at the Golden Nugget. I've just sat down at the table and sit a few rounds without much action; the table seems kind of dead, so I decide...

It sounds like aejones has gotten inside everyone's heads here :) If this guy is so good and so tricky, blunt force trauma and low SPR situations are the most profitable to avoid getting outplayed. ...

I like folding the flop too. He has no reason to think you don't have an ace based upon your betting, so his raise says one of two things: 1) I can beat your ace with my set or kicker, or 2) I think...

Ravageur,

Sorry to tilt you on a forum. Never done that before :) You're right that I prefer to make easy decisions at the poker table over hard ones, but I am far from passive when I play. ...

I'm not folding overpairs or a flush to that river bet. River bet has no value. Every hand that calls you has you beat. Your bet is a 100% bluff in my opinion and unlikely to fold anything other...

Why not throw a 1/2 pot sized-bet out and try to take it? If his hand is similar to yours, he will give it up based upon the same fear. Besides, how does he know you don't have KQ which is quite...

I meant that if you check the turn and he bets appropriately with a TPTK type of hand which would be $35 bucks or so, you can't check-raise his likely turn bet because of low SPR and no FE. If you...

Shove it in there; only two hands beat you and there are only 4 combinations of cards that give him that. Take your lumps if he has AA or 88. In Omaha, you could flat call here (maybe even fold in...

He probably didn't limp in with jacks, kings, or aces, so the only hand that beats you is A8. Big reraise and trust the gods don't hate you by dealing him the cooler.

Easy fold. If he stinks as bad as you think he does, you'll get his money eventually in a much easier to play situation where you are sure to have him crushed. But I have difficulties with 3-betting...

Your opponent check-raises 6s and leads out with AQ (or the like) because he doesn't want AQ to get checked around if he doesn't bet it for fear of its vulnerability. You need to raise now before...

You can't check raise the turn with any fold equity because the SPR is too low at that point and he's going to call. You could bomb the turn right out with FE, but not by check-raising. The pot has...

I'd imagine that your hand is very transparent to your opponent in this situation considering how you played pre-flop and then calling the flop bet OOP. AK is your most likely candidate in his eyes....

Min-raise IP on the flop followed by a check on a basically blank turn card usually indicates a free card play or an outright steal. He probably has nothing but a missed draw or perhaps a pair of...

If you call, you're only doing so to make a king high bluff on the turn. Only card you can actually like (besides a diamond) is a queen, not a king based on the 3-bet preflop. You are taking a huge...

Shove the river. 3 jacks has to pay you off considering the pot size.

I would call in a heartbeat. He's probably playing your hand, not his through the turn and blasting the river hoping you don't have a queen. I would view your button raise as weak and try to push...

I would only fold if I actually thought he had pocket 9s or pocket 3s.

I'm not advocating folding to a shove on the flop. I'm advocating committing to the pot and letting him know it. He could easily shove worse than QQ. This hand was played scared, and scared rarely...

Yes, your raise to nine on the flop merely sweetened the pot without charging your opponents to draw. You may be beat by trip nines or an underfull here, but you set yourself up to be bluffed by...

I think you'r beat. Whether he hit a straight, two-pair, or a set on the river or the flush on the turn, this is a folder. Big overbets on the river are rarely bluffs. Eat your $22 loss and not...

Could very easily be a flush draw with the jack of clubs or something like QJ hoping to suck out and it did.