illpoker

I don't live in Portland, but I play almost every day at spirit mountain. It is a great room, very professional, tons of bad players, I love it. They spread a 3-6 and 4-8 everyday, a 10-20 most days, a 30-60 mondays and thursdays and a 40-80 on tuesdays. Tuesday is "high hand for stud" ($100 for the highest 7stud hand every hour) but the game is awful 1-3-6 no antes so the rake takes all the chips. They also have a 2-4 holdem most days but the rake is too high (never play 2-4 in a casino all the money goes down the tube to the house). Anyways, the 10-20 and 30 - 60 are very beatable, it is tou

My regular b&m 10-20 game as well as my once a week 30-60 game are spread with a full kill. I am looking for any and all advice on playing kill pots. Should I make any strategical adjustments when playing kills? What if I am the killer? Should I treat it like a big blind or defend it even more so?thanks-ill

My personal strategey is to play the sb the same as I would in late position before the blind that is I will call (or raise) with AA-22, AK, AQ, KQ, KJ, QJ, AJ, A10, J10, and AXs. I am obviously not going to call 2 1/2 bets cold with anything I can't raise with in this group but usually 1 1/2 I will.The bb I play like I would the button pre flop. I raise with AA-22, AK, AQ, KQ, and call with KJ, QJ, Q10, K10, A10, AJ, 109, 98, 78, AXs and try to steal unraised pots (Once in a blue moon or about every four hours) with 67s, 56s, A9 off, K9s even Q9s or J9s. Again I won't call 2 bets cold with a

I don't play multiple tables. I am not good enough, it is as simple as that.Smash made the comment that playing multiple tables increases your tilt factor because instead of seeing one hand 30 seconds after a bad beat or misread you see 4 hands 2 seconds afterwards. This is just one problem I have. I am also subject to multiple misreads leading to bad calls or bad laydowns. I have to focus on one game at a time to play my best, I have to watch every hand everyone plays with full attention. If I miss the fact that "showemdanutz" has shifted gears and now is playing every hand as fast as possib

Online I play 5/10, 10/20 and 15/30 hold emin my local casino I play 3/6, 4/8, 10/20 and once a week a 30/60 with a full kill.-ill

The standard reply is that your bankroll should be set aside strictly for poker and should be at least 300 times the big bet (i.e. to play 5-10 you need at least a $3000 bankroll). That is all fine and good if you are playing professionally, and if you are you can expect to make $10 an hour (at the 5-10 limit) which basically means you shouldn't play 5-10 for a living stick with the job that gaurantees you $14 an hour (canadian) rather than endure the days of losing money "working" in a poker game.To play part time I follow the advice of the guy who wrote the "killer poker" books (John Vorhaus

limit poker is a game of repetitive mathematical situations. With discipline (a learned skill), patience (a learned skill), and simple algebra (a learned skill) you can be quite successful in the long run. In the short run luck plays a big factor as was pointed out above. One card is luck, one hand is a little less luck, one session even less and a lifetime very little luck is involved.No limit has more skills like people reading and bet sizing, and the long term "luck factor" has to be close to zero, the short term luck factor (one hand or even one tournament) is huge because of the risk fact

I am illtrippone at party, I usually play 10/20 or 15/30 in the bad beat section although last week I got crushed all week (to the tune of $3000) so you will probably find me back at the 5/10 this week.-ill

I Have never understood why people care how someone else acts in a game they weren't a part of anyway! I could fully understand if someone in the game thought Arieh acted like a jerk and therefore didn't like him, but I wasn't in the game so why should I care what he said or how he said it? Just beacuase it was on television doesn't mean it should matter to me or to you. I have never met Josh, nor played against him, He seems like a good player from what I have seen on tv, that is all I know, Why should I judge him to be "AN A Hole?" He has never been rude to me.-ill

its not rigged amd you can't "crack" it. Writing a computer program that would follow the crazy pattern that the book describes would be much more difficult than writing a program that randomly generates and distributes numbers of a limited set (in this case 52 different numbers, or cards if you wish) to a limited number of people. Not to mention it would be silly to do so, as another computer could easily find the pattern (much faster than a person could) and absolutely crush the lower limit games. Computers (like LOKI) already win consistently at the lower limits online. AND IT IS RANDOM! I