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5 Reasons to Join at SocialPoker for Live Poker Action

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SocialPoker is one of the greatest poker rooms to play poker action in Midtown, New York. Many poker players regularly playing at our poker room due to running a clean, friendly and the unbelievable bonus we offer. Here are five more great reasons why you should play with us, especially if you don’t already have an account.

1) Game Offering:

SocialPoker is one of the busiest poker rooms in New York and has plenty of traffic in its cash games and tournaments. Currently, we are offering the following poker games:

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There are buy-in levels to suit all budgets and skill levels with cash games stakes starting at $1/$2 No Limit holdem and increasing up to $5/$10. Most of the traffic is concentrated around the low-stakes No limit Hold’em cash games, but games up to $2/$5 run frequently.

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Recognize your image as others perceive it, then play in ways that upset expectations.

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In my last column I began a discussion of “third level thinking” — learning to recognize what cards your opponent thinks you to be playing — and then how to exploit that. Today we’ll look at another aspect of third level thinking, one that involves recognizing your image in your opponent’s mind.

You need to start with the premise that your image in your opponent’s mind may be quite different from your image of yourself.

We each tend to be the hero in our own story. We forgive our deficiencies and exaggerate our abilities. Simply put, as we understand our unique motivations and desires, we tend to have a very rosy picture of ourselves — and (importantly) we tend to think that others see us as we see ourselves.

But we must jettison that view if we are to take advantage of third level thinking correctly. To be effective at third level thinking (or any of the higher types of thinking that involve an understanding of our image) we must accurately assess what our image actually is in the minds of others, and not what we would like it to be.

Our image in our opponent’s mind derives from a combination of factors, including our reputation, our historic style of play, the action of others towards us, and even our demeanor at the table. More than anything, though, our image is chiefly based on our recent action — that is, our betting action that we have done at the table in the last hour or so.

Our first step toward understanding our image at the table, then, is to release from our mind our image of ourselves. What matters is how they see us, not how we see ourselves. Next start to focus on this particular session, and how the hands we’ve played might have affected how others are viewing us.

Let’s say we’ve sat down with a number of players with whom we haven’t played before. We’ve started out with good drawing hands and have played them aggressively in position. But for whatever reason, the hands did not develop, our opponents proved sticky, and we’ve ended up showing down pretty dreadful holdings. As the randomness of the deal would have it, we had four of these hands with visibly bad outcomes for us in the first two orbits.

In a situation such as this, though we know we are generally a strong, tight-aggressive player, what would our opponents think of us? They don’t know that we are typically highly selective with our starting hands. They don’t care what we know to be true about our real playing style. They only know that for the half-hour or so they’ve seen us play we’ve appeared pretty poor. And that’s the image they have of us — a loose, perhaps even bad player.

But here’s the good news. You can use this image, adjusting your play based on the impression your recent play has created in the mind of your opponent.

If you’ve called and lost lately, recognize that you might look like a calling station to someone not very familiar with your play. You’ve been caught bluffing a couple of times lately? Recognize that you appear more loose-aggressive than tight-aggressive to them. You’ve backed down from a few fights lately? Perhaps you’re looking more like a weak-tight player. Then use that new image to set up your opponents, and make them pay for such incorrect reads.

The key is to have the ability to recognize when your image changes in the mind of your opponent. Some players cannot do that. They have an image of themselves and try to make moves at the table that take advantage of that image, even though that image is one only in their head. They will lose because of it.

This works when things are running your way as well. You enhance your image as a fierce, tough competitor when you show down a winner or knock someone out of a pot with a particularly strong bet. Your opponents, reacting to that strength, are more likely to respect your bets in the future. You can take advantage by pushing marginal hands and bluffing more frequently, recognizing your opponents are likely to get out of your way rather than to take you on.

Poker is perhaps unique among all of the competitive events in that it is often the case that no one really knows who is a winning and who is a losing player in the long run. The only thing that players can be sure about their opponents is how they appear when they are seated with them.

That translates into impressions being build on short-term, session-by-session experiences. You profit from that by first recognizing the image you’ve projected to your opponents based on your recent performance against them. Then you use that image to cause your opponents to misread the true strength of your hand.

Those misreads, and the incorrect betting decisions that flow from them, are the source of your profit. (Source: pokernews.com)

Today’s NYC No Limit Holdem Poker Cash Game

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Find the best No Limit hold’em poker cash game and tournament in New York City. Our Poker Room is located near the penn station and runs daily, we are spreading low stakes as well as bigger stakes cash games on player demand.

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888poker Players Get Paid, $300k & $50k Jackpots Hit!

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Two of the ultra popular new jackpot BLAST events were played for 10,000x the buy-in, including a $300k and a $50k prize pool.

The largest prize of the weekend went to Sweden as a player named bucopepic took down $180,000 out of the $300,000 overall prize pool.

The winner of the second 10,000x buy-in event was Mn79Ben, a player based in Malaysia. He won $30,000 for an investment of just a fiver.

One Weekend, Two Jackpots

Since the events of the weekend there are now eight 888poker players who can tell you what it feels like to see that spinning jackpot multiplier land on 10,000x.

Sweden’s bucopepic was sat in a $30 BLAST event when the big number came up and things went perfectly for him afterwards.

In the last hand he went all-in with 6-5s and hit a straight on a board 8-5-7. The turn 2 and river 4 allowed him to beat his Russian counterpart sreutov for the major share.

The Russian still cashed for $60,000 while the third- and fourth-place finishers received $30,000 in their 888poker accounts.

Mn79Ben and mario868116 invested just $5 and came away with $30,000 and $10,000 respectively.

Mn79Ben held two black queens in the last hand while mario868116 had A-6. The queens held up and gave the Malaysian the win. The other two players both received $5,000 for their $5 buy-in.

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Poker Hand Review: Getting Creative Early in a Tournament

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Covering live poker tournaments for a living affords me the opportunity to see countless thousands of hands played out, many of which offer interesting and potentially valuable insights into how players — both amateurs and professionals — play the game. In this ongoing series, I’ll highlight hands I’ve seen at the tournaments I’ve covered and see if we can glean anything useful from them.

The Scene

After a couple of weeks off, we’re back with what will likely be the final hand I cover from my abbreviated turn in the $1,675 buy-in World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Hammond Main Event. Memories from the event are fading, and that’s probably a good thing, but I recorded this one for later use.

At this point, it was very early on Day 1b of the event and I was firing my second bullet. I was a little above the 20,000-chip starting stack, but hadn’t shown down anything too crazy. My main opponent in this hand was one of the splashier players at the table, entering lots of pots and calling raises pretty liberally. He had about the starting stack.

The Action

With the blinds 75/150, I opened to 400 from an early position with {q-Clubs}{j-Hearts} and got calls from a middle-position player, the button, and both blinds.

The five of us saw a flop come {k-Clubs}{9-}{8-Clubs}, and after being checked to I bet 1,100. Action folded to the small blind, who made it 2,500 to go. I called, and the turn was a {7-Clubs}. My opponent bet 5,500 and I moved all in. He thought for about 30 seconds before folding.

Concept and Analysis

Queen-jack offsuit is not a hand I’m usually looking to play from early position at a tough table, but I felt I had a pretty good handle on a soft table here so I was opening up a bit and trying to play more pots than usual.

The wisdom of firing a continuation bet into a crowd of four opponents can certainly be debated, but this is a spot where I like doing it some percentage of the time. Betting your strong hands is almost a must on a flop with this many draws against weaker, more passive opponents, and I’ve noticed players usually play their hands pretty straightforwardly early in these tournaments, not wanting to punt off stacks.

The small blind’s check-raise seems a bit strange, mainly because of the sizing. He’s offering me excellent odds to continue since it’s another 1,400 into a pot of 5,600. There are a lot of draws, so that doesn’t really make sense if he’s saying he has a big but vulnerable hand like {9-}{8-} or a strong top pair. I’m certainly not folding with position and outs in the form of a straight draw and a backdoor flush draw.

After the {7-Clubs} turn my opponent makes a large-ish bet of 5,500. I certainly can’t call any more, but I feel like I have a clear opportunity to take away the pot with a shove.

Since he has about 10,000 back, he still has a very playable stack if he folds, and the size of the shove isn’t so large as to look suspicious. Plus, shouldn’t he usually be checking a lot of his hands on that turn? I could certainly have jack-ten suited or a flush, while he can’t really ever have jack-ten given his flop sizing. Most of his other hands should be folding, and with a player this splashy, I could see him having a wide variety of stuff like ten-nine with which he wanted to “take control of the pot” on the flop.

Lastly, there’s very little chance I’m drawing dead since I have outs against everything but the nut flush. And why would he bet 80 percent of the pot with that hand? If he has anything else, I’m drawing live in case I’m called by something like two pair or a stubborn {k-}{j-Clubs}.

In the end, I was able to get a fold and pick up a huge pot for that early in the tournament without showing a hand down.

Conventional wisdom says to avoid these spots by playing tighter and avoiding possible spew situations early on, and checking the flop here would be the standard line I’d usually take. But I think it’s good to get creative every now and then early to avoid being too predictable, and it can be a huge boost if you can find the right spot.

Value Betting: Mats Karlsson Gets Paid on the River

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Making a big hand in no-limit hold’em is always fun — particularly when you’re on the turn or river, your hand is reasonably well disguised, and your opponents have already shown an inclination to call your bets, or even bet or raise themselves.

Mats Karlsson enjoyed just such a situation during the latter stage of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Malta Main Event, and as a result was able to carry the chip lead to the final table. Karlsson spoke with our Sasha Salinger about it, and as it happened the hand provided an interesting bet sizing challenge for the Swedish player currently residing in Malta.

With just nine players left from a 468-entry field, the blinds were 15,000/30,000 with a 5,000 ante when Elie Saad of Lebanon opened for 65,000 from middle position. It folded to Karlsson in the big blind who looked down at {8-Diamonds}{7-Clubs}, and he defended with a call.

As Karlsson explains to Salinger below, the flop came {Q-Spades}{9-Diamonds}{7-Spades}, and even though he’d only made bottom pair he chose an aggressive line after checking and watching Saad continue for 85,000.

“I took a chance to check-raise him,” says Karlsson, “because that’s a flop that usually hits my hand better than his.”

Karlsson made a hefty check-raise to 275,000, and after thinking for a minute Saad called. The {7-Hearts} then happily fell on the turn to give Karlsson trips, and he took his time before betting 350,000. Saad called quickly, bringing the pot up to just over 1.4 million.

The {8-Spades} then comes on the river, giving Karlsson a full house and for all intents and purposes the virtual nuts. Eyeing the 1.1 million or so Saad had behind, Karlsson faced an interesting decision.

It was very similar to the conundrum explored earlier this week by Robert Woolley in his article “‘There is a Figure, an Exact Figure’: The Problem of Value Bet Sizing.”

“I could bet a normal [amount like] 550,000,” says Karlsson, an amount representing about half of what Saad had behind. But he also knew that would show Saad that he himself was committing most of his stack, thus causing him to decide to bet less to make it more enticing for Saad to call.

Additionally — a smaller bet might also have produced an even better result.

“I thought 250 would look pretty weak, so he might do something stupid,” says Karlsson with a grin, indicating his hope perhaps Saad might raise him.

Listen to Karlsson’s street-by-street explanation and hear how the hand turned out:

Note also what Karlsson says near the end about the chance he took by check-raising on the flop.

“That goes to show, when you take a chance once in a while, the cards usually cooperate a bit more than if you play passively.”

While Saad would recover to finish fourth and earn €141,780, Karlsson would get all of the way to runner-up to cash for €261,730, with Aliaksei Boika ultimately earning the title.

Jonathan Little Faces a River Check-Raise with a Full House

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This week’s hand again comes from a €5K buy-in European Poker Tour Main Event I recently played.

It was still early in the tournament, with the blinds 150/300 with a 25 ante. The action began with the player on my right in the hijack seat opening for 700. He had about 17,000 to start the hand, while I was already up to about 50,000.

In the cutoff I looked down at {A-Clubs}{9-Clubs}. In general, I’d probably prefer three-betting this hand in this spot, but here I just called and the two of us saw a flop come {K-Clubs}{K-Diamonds}{2-Spades}.

We both checked, then the turn brought the {9-Hearts} to improve my hand. My opponent led for 1,300 (about two-thirds pot) and I called. The {K-Hearts} then fell on fifth street to complete the board, meaning I had nines full of kings.

My opponent checked and with the pot almost 4,700 I went for a big bet of 5,000. In the video I explain my reasons for trying to go for value with this river bet.

Rather than folding or calling, however, my opponent check-raised all in with the nearly 15,000 he had left. Now what?

Hear what I say about my response to this check-raise, and see what happened:

Even when you have a traditionally strong hand, it is still important to think about your opponent’s range and play accordingly. Your hand can be strong, but if most of your opponent’s range beats you, you have to make a disciplined fold.

How would you have played this hand? (Source: pokernews.com)

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