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HOH1&2 is without a doubt the best NL tourney book (he considers it one book) out there. I'm like you too producer, we play the tight game. The pot odds lessons he gives and the heads up advice have helped a lot. I find that the pushing with two nice cards (AQ) when in the red zone doesn't work that well in live tourneys, as players are quite likely to fold, but online, it works everytime :-) Every tight player should have that book read and reread, and hey, Dan made the final table of the 2003 and 2004 WSOP main event, so obviously that's a great support that playing tight is a successf

Shocked he continued betting on the river, or was it just obvious to US that he was beat?

I dont think A/K played it poorly. He has no good reason to believe that someone flopped a straight. If they did, they _should_ have cashed in on it earlier in the hand, because of how loose everyone is at the low limit tables. There's no reason to slow play, and he certainly has no reason to believe that his top two pair are beat given the limits.I didn't say AK played it poorly, even though his big bet on the river was rather odd. I'm saying the poster didn't play his nut straight strongly enough to get value for it. He got lucky on the end that the AK overplayed his hand.

In retrospect, now that I realize it's a 100NL game, I'm folding. Wow, raising to $60 in a $100NL game. I'm used to my tourneys, that's what I was thinking of, 10/20 blinds...ahh screw it, I'm done explaining, FOLD!

When you play tight in a session, you have to know how to maximize your returns on your good hands. If you don't do that, then you can expect to be walking away with $12.05 a lot of your sessions. That's why you see so many of the loose players walk away with so much money, they may play a crappy hands preflop (like QTo :-) ), but they know how to maximize the value of it postflop.

I agree wit h the bet/raise the flop. But overall that was just a minor mistake. Your play on the turn was a much bigger mistake IMO. I player with a flush and straight draw here, such as T 9 has 12 outs, and you were allowing 3.7-1 odds. I'd take those odds happily any day. Your first decision not to raise on the turn was bad, but when the player behind you showed strength, you definitely should reraise. And as everyone stated (and you know) that check on the river almost prevented you getting any value from the nuts. The way I see it, if it wasn't for the guy's bad playing behind you, y

My actions here would depend on a few things. What kind of player is the UTG player? does he raise a lot? is he very aggressive, like is he likely to reraise here? What kind of player is the reraiser? The clearest way to play this would be to call if you don't believe the UTG player will reraise. Judge further play by the flop.

Didn't read through all the posts, but I seriously don't understand the fold option here. That's a very very sweet draw, and you'd be happier if others stayed as well.

how big is his stack?even though this is pretty much an automatic call, if you're willing to play a coinflip, which is probably what you're up for.

I think this is true, but I also have played with this guy a lot, and I never see him reraise a raise, even if it is minimum with anything but a strong hand. Also he is the type of player that doesn't want to bet too much so that everyone folds. He likes having a coulple people see the flop with him when he is really strongEnough said, you just explained why it's an obvious fold. Your read is all you needed.

that's just how it goes sometimes, nothing really wrong with that all-in. That's a pretty painful structure after the third level.

So here's a weakness I know I have. I'm not an overly aggressive played, based on the fact that I think of this game too logically. Let's say I have Q Q in MP, I raise to 4BB, button callsbutton is A LAG, who bluffs at any sign of weakness(11 BB) Flop: 9 6 2 I bet 9 BB, button callsWhat kinds of hands do you start putting your opponent on here?remember it's also online, so you have about 20secs of thinking time.I'm so used to playing loose players that I know they can have anything from A6 to A2 to K9 to T8(29 BB) Turn: K I bet 20 BB, button callsDefinitely a scare card, not very mu

Very loose preflop call.The minraise on the flop makes no sense, as it definitely wouldn't get him to fold. The rest of the hand plays itself.

the preflop raise did strike me as strange too, but as he says, his game is crazy, so it may make sense in that context. I love flops like that, geez!

the preflop raise did strike me as strange too, but as he says, his game is crazy, so it may make sense in that context. I love flops like that, geez!