For the Next Hour I'll Answer all Poker Questions
 

Qualifications? Okay:

Poker dealer for two years. Been playing live games (mainly pot limit/limit cash games and large buy-in tourneys) for 15 years.

Holdem, 7 Card Stud, Omaha, 5 Stud, Razz - you name it. Mainly HE, 7S and O though.

Oh, and I came 7th at the Webmaster Poker Tour :)

So, ask away while I finish this pot of coffee and get ready for another 28-hour work session.

will brand0n run me out of the biz?

Is Daniel Negranu gay?

No idea. Nothing to do with poker.

Yes i have a question.

Would you pok-her ??

http://www.paulcorrigan.com/scott/poker.jpg

What does a straight flush consist of?

I have no clue. He did take over 6 months to reply to an email of mine pointing out an odds error on his site...

In a straight game, five cards in sequence of the same suit: for instance,

5h 6h 7h 8h 9h

Is she offering? I feel a raise coming on.

He is seriously one of my favorite players to watch...but I guess it would be dangerous for him to come out of the closet..probably wouldn't get invited to many big money cash games if he did.

I've always liked watching Howard L. He's one of the few pros who still post in alt.rec.gambling.poker.

I was glad to see Doyle Brunson do well in this year's WSOP as well - the old school players are generally being left behind by the "dead money" players lately. They're catching up in knowledge and ability.

hes got a girlfriend

could be a cover

What do you do in a multihanded pot, when have pocket aces and the flop brings 2 cards of the same suit.

UTG goes all in and 3 players call.

It's your turn. Holdem or Foldem ?

Alright.

You're playing in a multi table NL hold em tournament. You're down to 6/6 2 tables. The final table is the only table that gets paid. You're are sitting on the button and look down at pocket rockets. Frst Pos leads out with with a blind size all-in, fold, fold all in position to your right (possibly a shut out bet). In order to call the bet you will have to risk all your chips. Even though your chances of winning the pot are extremly good.

What do you do call and pray? Or fold and hope all-in gets busted out?

where can i go online that has small buyin tournaments for newbies?

maybe he doesn't like you

Not enough info. Did I put in a substantial raise pre-flop? What exactly is the board?

Again, need more info - what was the buyin and what is the lowest prize on the ladder (10th) that I can realistically think of playing for?

Do you have to be good at dealing to be good at poker? If so do you have any pointers to improve dealer skills?

Yeah I was pulling for him as well. Regarding the dead money players..I don't think in all cases it's that they have more knowledge or ability..I think they just don't know how to bet, or when to lay down and it's confusing the shit out of the real players.

For instance in one showdown between Hellmuth and one noob the guy was drawing dead on the flop..Hellmuth already bet into him the guy calls...on the turn he's still drawing dead Hellmuth increases the bet into him *if I remember correctly he was holding a pair of Jacks* and the guy calls...finally on the River the guy pulls out a queen to make a pair...Hellmuth just shook his guy and said.."You kept calling me the whole time while drawing dead?"

At another time...Hellmuth got up and walked to a camera guy and said something like..."these guys will bet on anything."

LOL I see the same thing on PartyPoker all the time. People just betting and betting non-stop and not having a single pair in their hand

dude alot of poker rooms are buying players way into the big tournaments. a lot of luck comes into play here.

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they're catching up in knowledge and ability.


yeah they all have poker tracker now

Not at all. I firstl learnt how to deal, then how to play. I'd been playing silly wildcard games all my life (my father was and still is a weekly high-stakes pot limit player), but until I deal Holdem in 1989 I'd never heard of it.

Improving skills is something that takes time, but you can do it while playing. Keep a running total of the pot at all times. Work out the rake, the jackpot drop.

Above all, always PAUSE for a brief amount of time before burning and turning. In that pause - ask yourself "Have I forgotten anything".

It's just practice.

Ok here is one:

Is Chris Moneymake a real poker player? Or just a tourist with sunglasses...?

Not a pro..but I'm gonna answer this to see if I get it right...it would depend upon the pot odds...chances are slim that he's got the same hand and even if he does it could be a split pot...I would personally would call all in..with there being a 3 way flop if say the other 2 players each had an Ace in their hand that just improves your chances that they can't beat you..however depending upon their flop could give them an edge on a straight draw.

I'd go all in....at that point you're trying to have as many chips as you can take to the final table and that's the only way you're gonna get them.

OK, you raised 3 times the BB before the flop. 3 players just limped in.

The board is 7h 8h 2c

One of your aces is a heart though .

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what should i do here. I'm asfasf1 BTW

How do we play poker ?

$100 buyin 100 players 10th pays 3% so $300

That's what online play has done for the live game. Online is so vasly different to live, I quit online because it was effecting my live game.

Online is like bingo to me - stick your money in and see who wins. There's very little information you can get from a person who's nothing more than text on a screen and an empty picture of a chair, so you have to play a solid odds game to do well.

The swings online killed it for me in the end. They were way out of wack for even the most liberal stanard devation, and that got me paranoid.

It can happen in live too. Played on Friday and sat at a table where I instantly knew I was the best player. One guy, maybe 25 with racks of chips was capping raises pre-flop with any face card or an ace...

Needless to say, he left about an hour later missing some of those racks.

All in without hesitation. I'm scared of trips, but I'm thinking I'm against medium pairs or AJ/AQ or TT, JJ, QQ

Take his money... Pray he doesn't hit a low

Tough one, but I think I'd go for it, especially if there are a lot of high stacks on the table.

If I'm going out, I'm going out on a decent hand and not being blinded out holding 7-2 off.

lol, tomorrow we will see the results!

That's what I figured. What if 10th was a significant amount of money to you? Like a years salary or something.

you see I have a str8 flush right?

just checking

Whoops - damn those green decks.

Bet out :)

Yes I do. He could still hit a low on the river...

Never think of money in that terms while playing. It will make you do the wrong thing.

Again, if there are a lot of large stacks at the table I will go for it there and then, because you can be damn sure those big stacks are going to take turns bullying people out of pots, and I need to win against them to survive.

If the chips are all medium stacks and the big stacks at the other table (and I'm one of the medium stacks), again it's a strange situation but then I might (and it's a big "might") wait it out.

Yes of course

While we're posting pics, here's a shot from my very first cash game on Party (notice the extreme high limit *rolls eyes*)

http://www.asshoes.com/royal.jpg

Quick silly bit of info - all the Royals I've ever had (all three of them) have been in Clubs.

I disagree with you there.
The old school players are head and shoulders above the noobs in the tournaments. The newbs are mostly online players who don't have experience in picking up tells or being able to accurately put your opponent on a hand. (And those skills are at least HALF of the game)

The difference in the tournament though is when a noob hits his two outer on the river you go to the rail.
Same thing when they go all in on a hand that's a 4 to 1 dog to yours.....you're going to lose that hand 1 time out of 5, and end up on the rail.

In a cash game losing a hand like this would give you the information you need to bust this guy later on.....but in a tournament you have to be lucky AND good to win.

Moneymaker and Raymer would go home broke if they sat in a cash game with the likes of Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Phil Hellmuth etc.

Anybody can win ONE tournament if they get a good rush of cards and win most of their coin flip hands.
VERY FEW people can actually make a living playing in high stakes tournaments.

:2 cents:

Good point Lenny.

I've never seen a person win a large mutli without getting some luck. And those newbs that do get lucky early on and catch a rush usually give it back before the hit the money.

In fact, I'd say it's a lot more than half the game. More like 60%.

I agree on the online point though, and I think I covered this. What I meant is now online is there, plus so much stuff on the Net and TV it's easier to learn and get good info than ever before. Even 10 years ago, the only way to learn was to sit down and lose your money.



Moneymaker is broke now (according to rumors). He played heads up against Sammy F on Stars last year in a rematch of the final table, and didn't stand a chance.


Agreed.

I can beat anyone here at 7 card stud hi/lo

anyone, even Johnny Chan runs when he sees me

True, its much easier to find information on the "math" of the game these days....but like you said above that's 40% of the game.

Yeah the only reason he beat Farha in the WSOP was he had an enormous chip advantage.....mostly from hitting that miracle ace on the river to bust out Phil Ivey (Ivey made the boat on the turn....its like what I said before about them hitting the miracle two outer on the river and sending you to the rail)

Not to mention cracking Humberto Brenes's AA with his 88 and hitting the miracle 8 on the turn......and probably a few other hands like that along the way that ESPN didn't pick up.

Be very careful what you believe from ESPN's coverage. Last year there were a bunch of questionable hands that were covered and didn't make sense. It turned out they edited the footage to what the *losing* player said they held (Howard L said this happened twice on his non-cam table).

They got a very bad name last year because of it.

As for the Phil I thing - that hand still makes me wince.

I'm going to the stud tables. Tha_Golf_Pro is my nick there. If I cuss at you for sucking out sorry :1orglaugh

Don't worry. I don't play online anymore. I save my playing time for Vegas and the very rare trip to a casino here.

Well, that's the hour up :) Thanks for the posts, guys. Time to get to work!

I don't think so. He's a pretty cool guy, though. He's a member of a poker discussion group I belong to that meets on Wednesdays. He doesn't make too many meetings but it's cool when he does. Right after he placed second on this year's PartyPoker cruise he showed up at our Wednesday meeting in sweet new car/toy he picked up with some of the profits.

Anyway, I think he likes women :) He is about 4' tall and 63lbs, though, a real waif.

SpaceAce