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While it's disappointing, it's far from surprising to be honest. After 2006 when online poker was effectively outlawed in the US, somehow AP, FTP and stars just kinda ... well... ignored it and stayed open. Somehow US players could both play there and transact money with the site, so clearly there was some dodgy workaround going on and all being run out of caribbean island companies. Frankly, I'm surprised they weren't shut down before now! Well for the rest of the poker world, online poker will keep on turning. There's a couple of downsides. A lot of WSOP entries are won online by US players

I would bet again in this spot. If you check and call, you have no real extra information. If you get raised and you have no info on them, it's likely that they have no info on you either. They will assume that you may have AJ or AQ, so a raise from them indicates that they can beat that. If you're new to the opposition, I don't think they will try and test you out with an A-7 by raising, but they will raise with 10-9. If they call, it's fair to assume they also have an A-x and you may be in trouble, but a spade will probably win it or a card above 10 on the river will give you a split pot. Be

I don't know if i can answer you question very well with a hold'em example, but I can pull one up from seven card stud hi/lo.I know a player who is pretty good at the game and he knows that i know my way around. A pot comes up where I have (A-4)-7-J-8 and he has (x-x)-6-A-2. He checked fifth street and so did I. On 6th street, he caught an 6 and i caught a 5. Now I have made my low here and given that he checked on fifth street and bet when i caught a repeat 6, most players would think that their low is good and they are up against a high hand like three sixes. But I actually figured that by f

I know how you feel. I have been playing poker since 1999. Between 1999 and 2006, I had never had a massive hand win to an unlikely nuts. Eg, if the board was Q-5-8-5-2 and I had Q-Q, I never once ran into pocket fives. In mid 2007, I had my first significant one. It was no limit hold'em and when all the money went in, I had K-K on a board of Ks-Js-5h. The turn was a 5s and the river was a 9s. My opponent had Qs-10s, but I figured that I had been beaten by two-outers before so I'll take that.From December 2007 to Jan 17 2008 (my last session), I have had a "top full" (eg - A-A on board of A-4-

If you are more of a beginner, I would look at Sklansky's Theory of Poker (though I do get annoyed at the amount of Razz examples he uses) and I'd follow that with the Lee Jones book on low limit hold'em (or one of Lou Kreiger's books). Get some good fundamentals going first. Most players these days are reading advanced no limit strategy without good fundamentals and their game ends up being disjointed.Following this and fair bit of experience, take a look at Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players (Sklansky et al). Once you've got a grasp of the concepts and the game and played a lot more, move in

It seems fairly easy to calculate the anticipated rake in a live game and work out what you're up against.I saw a game the other day that carries a $10 per hour time charge per player, 10% rake capped at $6 and there are probably about 25 hands an hour dealt. If we assume that the rake averages around $4 a pot, that's $100 an hour in rake + $90 an hour time changes. In a nine player table, each player is paying around $21 per hour on average. So that's fine.Now let's say I told you the game was $2/$5 no limit and the maximum buy in is $500, is it possible to calculate the degree to which the g

For what it's worth, I have two points to make. First of all, try at all costs to avoid getting into free showdown sessions with players. I've been at many games at 5.00am where the table became talkative, friendly and everyone was showing down for free like yours. I never found those sorts of games good to be in, but it can always depend I suppose. Many players often ask whether you show xyz hand for free in situation xyz. My rules are that I only showdown my hand for free in two situations: (1) When I make an extremely rare hand like a straight flush. (2) when I flop quads, though I recall

Young Turk,I think you're right in your analysis of the situation. As for how to go about it, probably no one has the absolute right answer, but I'd say that letting his cap raise stand and explaining him the rule probably would have been better than insisting that it's called a string bet.Just a correction - one person said that this might not have been a string bet because he had the chips in his hand at one time. Let's just say that in my cardroom, if i did what he did, the dealer would pull me up as would other players at the table. I do notice that sometimes at the WSOP, they let a few t

Hi Guys,Just need a pit of a poll or opinion on a relatively simple matter.We had a real donkey at our table who was only just managing to keep up with the game. He was jamming all these pots with absolutely nothing so i sat and waited for a good hand. I caught my first good hand and I hit the flop and won the pot. About 15 minutes later, I was dealt Q-J. He raised before the flop after i limped. Another player reraised, I decided to gamble and called. Then the donkey picked up enough chips to put in the final raise and cap. He then seemed to have a moment of indecisiveness as he put the chi