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case ace has it right. Nothing to do with the nuts. Here's a quote from an article by Tom Mcevoy. "Now comes the story of the “cooler” hand. I’m using the word “cooler” figuratively here — cooler is a term used to describe a dishonest situation in which the deck has been preset to deal out several big hands "

what site do you play on and what is your handle?I'd really like a stack of that money that you're giving away.

One of the worst beats you've ever seen??? Clearly you haven't been playing very long. The guy calls an all-in bet with a set of aces (even if you've got the flush he's still going to win the hand 35% of the time) and if you don't have the flush and are either drawing to a straight or a flush or both, he's at worst a 60% favorite. Or the more likely scenario in heads up play is you're making the bet with nothing in hopes that he'll lay down a hand, in that case he's winning 100% of the time. He's the idiot that got lucky? You can't possibly fold that holding. He made the correct pre-flop bet a

Been playing hold'em for ten years and seen my share of ups and downs, try not to get down but it's tough some times. Two weeks ago, I'm playing in a 77 person $300 buy-in live tournament. I get my seat assignment and don't know anyone at my table. As I watch the early play I quickly determine there are really only 2 other good players at this table and everyone else is dead money. I'm expecting to run over this table and take a nice stack forward into the tournament. Cards are running pretty cold, I steal a couple of small pots but I'm not really getting much to play with. I look down and see

The people aspect of the game is lost on most online players. Good online players analyze hands based on betting patterns and play accordingly. Live game players do that also, but good live game players add the personal aspect to their decisions.

I don't understand, are you saying a good player can't win in these games because there are too many bad players there? That's seems to be a pretty silly statement, don't you think? While I agree there will be more bad beats and greater swings in a game like that, a good player should be able to cut that game up.

To start you need to be able to calculate the odds against completeing a hand, there are hundreds of web sites that explain the calculations or if you prefer, provide a chart that gives the odds against completing a hand with a certain number of outs.An easy way to estimate the odds is to take the number of outs you have after the flop and multiply it by 4 (this gives you the percentage). Flush draw = 9 outs, 9 x 4 = 36% chance of making your flush in the next two cards. If there are 4 cards out (after the turn) multiply your outs by 2, same flush draw = 9 outs 9 x 2 = 18% chance of completing

XXEddie, you just don't get it do you? The way to win tournaments is to be the only guy left at the end with chips. If you continue to put yourself in situations where you have all of your chips in the pot and you are not the favorite to win, you will continue to lose tournaments. If you make smart decisions and make sure your chips are going into the pot when you are the favorite then you will win more tournaments. If that means you have to fold monster cards pre-flop sometimes then that is what you should do. Do you honestly think the most successful tournament players are always risking the

You do have to show both cards to take down a pot if you are called, unless someone calls you and you show him the one card you need to win and he then mucks his hand so you are actually taking the pot uncontested. Second, there is nothing wrong with asking to see a hand of someone who has called the last bet. Gaining information about your opponents play is very important in Hold'em and when they make that call on the river they have invited you to see their hand. If they try to muck their hand ask to see it every time. It's nice to know when you have an opponent calling you down with only an

First of all show me the tournament with 10 Million for first and nothing for second and third and I'll show you a tournament your an idiot for playing in . Secondly the example given was three people in the pot before he folded so he would have been the fourth making the Aces a 3:2 dog to win the hand your example is against two other players which makes you a 3:2 favorite with Aces.

I'll reiterate what's already been said. To all of you talking about pot odds and the long run, this is a tournament situation, it is not about the long run, it's about winning plain and simple. You can't win a tournament if you haven't got any chips left, this guy folds to three other all ins, worst case scenario he has effectively moved up one position in the pay out structure, unfortunately the original post doesn't tell us how many people are left in the tournament at this point but that doesn't really matter either. If it's early in the tournament your goal is to survive, if it's late you

Clearly you have never worked in the service industry. These people rely on tips to make a decent living. Perhaps if there were fewer people like you playing at these tables we would have some better dealers. Don't forget if a dealer sees that people are tipping other dealers for doing a good job, ie. fast and mistake free dealing, perhaps it will encourage them to become better at what they do. If your tipping $1 each pot has the result of you getting to play an extra 5 hands an hour because the dealers are working harder for you tips, isn't that good for you?? Maybe we should all make it a h

About two months ago I was playing at Turning Stone Casino in Syracuse $100 max buy-in $1-$2 blinds no-limit. I was dealt KhQh on the button it was raised to $15 by a guy in early position and two people called before it got to me, I called and the blinds both folded. The flop comes 10h Jh 2s, wow open ended straight flush draw. The original raiser bets $20 the other two guys fold and I make it $40, he calls. Turn card Ah, he fires another $20 I look at his stack and he's only got about $40 left, they had a high hand jackpot so I decided not to raise because the hand has to be complete to win

You are supposed to pay taxes on tournament winnings as well as any other gambling income. No money is withheld from the pots for tax purposes because professional gamblers are considered self employed. The payout is the total pot but you are still supposed to claim it as income. You can also claim the expenses of travelling to LV, staying in a hotel, entry fees, etc. as well as loses in cash games against your earnings if you are a professional. If you do plan on claiming these types of expenses also plan on claiming your winnings, any self employed person can only show a loss for so long bef

Two things: we measure our success in poker in dollars, you read the hand right and made a good play, how do we know it was a good play? You pulled in the chips right?Second, I agree that you shouldn't have showed the hand. I know it's hard to resist when you have clearly outplayed an opponent and made them lay down the best hand but you have to keep them guessing. As for Daniel showing his bluff to Freddy Deeb, there are two huge differences, one Daniel asked Freddy if showing the bluff would be good for the game and Freddy replied yeah, sure. More importantly, this was a huge No-limit heads