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It happens in every other sport so why not poker?I sat down at a $20 SNG. Within thirty minutes, sad and pathetic as this may sound, I realized I was one of the better players there, if not the best. I've only been playing for a couple of years, so usually I'm the sucker. But this time, I wasn't! And I was surprised because it was a $20 table. I'd figure it'd happen at a $5 one.So anyway, as I continued to play, every player became transparent to me. I knew what people had and I was playing accordingly.Plays that normally scared me off, I saw right through. For once, the other players w

I wasn't crazy about the move either. One of those "I know shouldn't be doing this BUT..."How does the fact the SB is making this move factor into it? I'm always a bit unsure how to take an agressive bet from a blind.

I was playing an online tourney. $800 in chips. Blinds were $25-50. 6 fold to me. I call with A-10 suited. The button raise to $100. SB pushes with about the same chips as me ($850) but has me covered. BB folds. Action is back to me. I'm pretty short stacked at this point. Blinds were going to go up to $50-100 soon. SB has playing a somewhat average game. Not overly tight or agressive. I decide to call.What do you think of this move?

I work at a health care foundation and one of our grantees gave a presentation in front of the entire company. It was about the health risks of working with liquid metals to coat objects. The process was called Master Plating.Needless to say that was the funniest presentaiton I've ever heard. When the grantee was talking about how you should limit the amount you Master Plate or that toxic run off from Master Plating was a big concern, it was everything we could do to not be rolling in the aisles.

I feel like at 10x the big blind you were still in ok shape. Still short stacked, but not panic mode. With A9suited (I assume at a 10 person table), a strong raise might have been sufficient to try and steal the blind. A9s is not the greatest hand to play post flop but at least you wouldn't have put your tournament life at stake.I say, with 10x BB you still have enough chips to play some hands with. And you definitely can wait around for a better hand to move all in on. Your idea to steal the blinds is good, but not with all your chips.

I'm going to disagree with the majority. You only had about 5x the big blind at that point in the tourney. That's pretty short stacked (don't know what the players above you had). The other two players were similarly short stacked (5-6x big blind).Normally, two all-ins before you is pretty scary. But since they are both short stacked,, you might think you have a good shot at having the best hand (which you did). The only hand you're scared of is AA and again, with the other all-ins being short stacks, it's not a guarantee someone's holding bullets. Your Kings were an incredibly strong

Kind of lost some credibility here... :-)

It is my belief that one of the signs of "Poker Maturity" is the loss of interest in talking about Bad Beats.I've played a decent amount of poker. In the beginning though, I remember I loved talking about my "bad beats". Now when someone starts telling me about how their aces full of kings lost to quad kings my eyes just glaze over. That's Poker folks!I can tell you a hundred stories like that. I've heard a million stories like that. When I get a bad beat, I get annoyed for a minute then shrug it off. Why? Because I have to. You can tear yourself up over bad beats, go on tilt and lose

This is a question for live cash games.I've played maybe 10 times at min 100 max 300 NLHE tables. First few times I got annihilated. Then I was able to play for 3-4 hours on 100-200 bucks before I busted. Then I was actually able to get up with 300 (up to 600). But then I just kept playing and eventually lost it all.To those who play cash games, when do you stop playing? Is it purely based on how much you make or lose? Like you say if you make $200 you leave? What if that happens in the first ten minutes?Hard to leave when you're up. Harder to leave when you're down!

I played in this tourney this past Saturday. Top prize was 40% of the prize pool and a WSOP seat. $75 buy-in, max 240 people. Not bad you say? I didn't think so either. But I should have looked more closely at the structure.You start off with $500 in chips. Blinds $15/20. Then 20/40, 50/100, 100/200... every 15 minutes! It was like an online tourney but you get $1000 less chips. PLUS unlimited re-buys for $50 for the first hour. I shouldn't have gotten involved. Especially since I wasn't willing to cough up more than the inital $75 buy in. But the allure of a WSOP seat drew me in.A

Bonehead went all in after a raise and a re-raise. The other play called the all in.With your hand, I definitely wouldn't have called. Especially since another player had you covered. This is your tournament life at stake. I wouldn't risk it on a flush draw. And you didn't even have the nut flush draw.

The flop was great for you. At that point I would tried to take the hand and reraise his 1.5k raise. Maybe double the raise (3k) or even push if you don't figure him to have an overpair.I'm not sure why you only called. There are plently of cards that can beat you on the turn and river. Especially if you had him on 2 overcards which you should of at least.You were not wrong for getting involved in the hand with this guy. But you should have played your hand stronger and gotten this guy out earlier. Definitely should have been the agressor in this situation especially since you were in po