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How To Make Your Poker Game Less Exploitable? – Robert Woolley

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One of my favorite memories from my years living in Las Vegas had almost nothing to do with poker. I joined a pub trivia team. We did well enough to advance to the city-wide finals. Eleven teams were competing for three cash prizes. Even after the tiebreakers, we were tied with another team for third place. The emcee announced that it would be settled by a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, or “Roshambo.”

You know the game, I trust. Following a count of three, two players simultaneously “throw” their choice of either Rock (a fist), Paper (a flat hand), or Scissors (two fingers), with rock beating scissors, scissors beating paper, and paper beating rock.

I had done some reading on RPS strategy, because it turns out to have some deep connections to poker strategy. One of the most basic facts is that inexperienced players tend to go Rock on their first throw. This tendency is particularly pronounced among males. (Perhaps they naively believe, like Bart Simpson, “Nothing beats Rock.”)

As our team representative stood to go to the front of the room for the contest — which consisted of just a single throw — I whispered to him, “Go with Paper.” He did. The man from the other team went Rock, per the stereotype, and we won the money.

I’m reminded of this now because I just learned of a major new piece of research on RPS. It was published in February in Nature, one of the most prestigious science journals in the world.

The study pitted human players against a computer opponent. The results can be summarized with these bullet points:

The human players threw Rock more than Paper or Scissors.
After a win, players tend to stay with the same selection for the next throw.
After a loss, players tend to switch — and they preferentially switch to the choice that would have won in the throw they just lost. E.g., after playing Rock and losing to Paper, they switch to Scissors, which beats Paper.
After a draw (when both players throw the same), players tend to switch — and again they preferentially switch to the choice that would have won in the draw. E.g., after a Rock-Rock draw, they switch to Paper, which beats Rock.
This makes perfect sense from the standpoint of basic human psychology. After feeling the sting of a loss, we don’t want to repeat it, so we make a different choice. When there are only two other options available, of course we’ll tend to choose the one that would have won if we had played it in the round just finished. It looks like a winner, so that’s what we go with. It’s also a way of feeling like we’re correcting a mistake. Read Full article @pokernews.com by Robert Woolley

Floating vs. Bluff-Raising with Andrew Seidman

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Andrew Seidman: First and foremost, against a weaker opponent, I’m probably not looking to bluff too much because I’m going to end up at showdown. So if I flop a draw, I’ll just call and not raise. If I flop nothing, I’ll just fold. Weaker opponents make it easy on you.

Preflop, a big thing that goes into my decision-making over whether to flat or reraise would be the people in the blinds. My range would be a lot wider for flatting preflop if there were weaker players in the blinds where I could get better value by flatting and hoping to play a pot with them than I could by three-betting the original raiser.

Let’s say we have a fish in the blinds and a reg opens, and I call my wide range on the button and the fish folds. Then the first question I’m asking myself when facing the continuation bet is how often does this guy c-bet against me? This is an important question that goes beyond stats. If I see him check-fold against me, or check-call some weak top pair or second pair or something, those affect whether or not I’ll play back, and how I’ll do it. Read Full @pokernews.com

How to Amass a Big Stack Early in a Poker Tournament

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In all my years of tournament reporting, I have never seen anyone amass chips early in poker tournaments as consistently as Mid-States Poker Tour Team Pro Blake Bohn and online poker legend Mark “P0ker H0” Kroon. Both are “go-big-or-go-home players,” meaning they’re not afraid to bust if it gives them a shot at the chip lead. Oftentimes they do, but in those instances they don’t they nearly always find themselves the big stack in the room.

 

Full Read @Pokernews.com

Protecting Your Stack vs. Maximizing Value

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We are staying with the same World Series of Poker event from last year for this week’s hand analysis, another one from Event #25: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Eight Handed, a tournament I managed to final table.

The first three hands we’ve discussed all came from the first day of the event, while this one happened on Day 2 during Level 14 (1,200/2,400/400). At this point we were nearing the bubble, which usually means players with middle and short stacks tighten up.

Even though I found a strong hand in {10-Hearts}{10-Spades}, I decided to proceed cautiously here when facing an early position raise from an unknown 35-year-old opponent playing a relatively short stack.

It is important to realize when you can happily pile your stack in with pocket tens and when you should take the conservative route. As you’ll see, I took the latter approach in this hand — deciding to protect my stack rather than look to maximize value — and even though I lost the pot, it wasn’t too costly. Take a look:

Could I have done anything differently in this hand? How would you have played it? Did my opponent play the hand well or might he have done anything to get more chips? Let me know your thoughts in a comment below. Source: Pokernews.com

Six Kinds of Players Are Taking in the Flop: Which Are You?

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This entire article is about a roughly two-second-long window of time that occurs in every hand of hold’em and Omaha. It’s the moment that the three flop cards are revealed. I’ve noticed six distinct ways that people behave in this brief interval.

1. The Watcher
2. The Robot
3. The Watcher Watcher
4. The Glancer
5. The Drama Queen
6. The Reverser

The most important thing is to be aware of and in control of what you’re doing — every time, and with every flop.

So when the flop comes, which of these six are you? Read Full Articles @pokernews.com/strategy

Live Low Stakes and Deep stakes Poker Cash Games in Midtown, Manhattan.

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Everybody loves poker. When you play poker at online you can only play the most popular poker games. When you play in a home poker game with your associates you can play lot of different dealer choice poker games ranging from stud poker games to wild card poker games.

If you’re a person who likes to come and go as they please and looking for a quick fix of fun, we’ve got cash games in different shapes and sizes running daily.

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Check Out our daily cash game and tournament schedule. Stop by and let us know how we’re doing or what you may be interested in having us add to our room. Why play anywhere else?

Low Stake Poker:

  • Low Stake: 1/2 #NLHE
  • Buy-in: Min 80 Max 500.
  • Mon – Fri @4pm. Sat – Sun @2pm.

Deep Stake Poker:

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  • Buy-in: Min 300 Max 2000.
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High Stakes Poker Room in Midtown

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We are committed to bringing you exclusive, safe & secure poker rooms, located in the best places of the City. There is no doubt, that you will find a lot of find high stakes poker room searching on google. We have decorated our place. Now it’s your turn to get in on the action, right?

High Stakes Poker Room:

  • High Stake: 2/5 #NLHE
  • Buy-in: Min 300 Max 2000.
  • Mon – Fri @3pm. Sat – Sun @6pm.

BONUSES:

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  • 10% Early Bird Bonus.
  • $75 First Time Bonus.
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Home Poker Cash Game or Poker Tournament – Which one you are interested?

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Dear Poker players, Start playing cash game with your friend and a diverse group of No limit Holdem players, who vary greatly in skill level and personality.

Poker Cash Game:

  • Low Stake: 1/2 #NLHE
  • Buy-in: Min 80 Max 500.
  • High Stake: 2/5 #NLHE
  • Buy-in: Min 300 Max 2000.

BONUSES for Cash Game:

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  • 10% Early Bird Bonus.
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Poker Tournament

  • Rebuy Poker Tournament
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  • 15 Minute Level

When & Where?

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Top Poker Strategy to beat the poker fish

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How to beat the poker donkeys or poker fish.

Everybody likes to think of themselves as a poker shark, but it takes true commitment to gain that level of play.

What Is A Shark?

A poker shark is someone who can quickly read the opponents and detect the patterns and physical tells that they have.

What Is A Fish?

Now a days the word “poker donkey” has replaced by the word “poker fish”. Before 1999 the bad players were called fish.

Let’s state it right from the start = your goal in poker is to win money. This is true whether you’re playing in a cash game or a tournament. You always want to finish with the most chips. It’s easiest to achieve your goal when you play against bad poker players. If your opponents are worse than you, you will tend to come out ahead and win more. Let’s take a look at the different types of bad poker players and then discuss how you can beat them (and win their chips).

Types of Poker Donkeys

1. Loose – Passive = also known as a fish, or a donkey
2. Loose – Aggressive = also known as a maniac
3. Tight – Passive = also known as a rock

How do you beat a poker donkey?

Poker donkeys loves to play hands and they play more starting hands than they should. They also love calling bets, without the cards to justify the action. They will chase after their flush and straight draws, hoping that the flop will bring them their miracle card.

When you construct a good hand, act persistently and keep betting. Get as many chips as you can out of the poker donkeys. You know that they are going to be calling a lot, even if they have not made their hands yet, so you can bet big. Don’t try to bluff, because poker donkeys are not going to fold. When you have good hands you can win big against poker donkeys. Bet them for all they are attraction!

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How to Protect Yourself Against Cheating in Online Poker Games

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While online poker is considered as being very safe and secure, some cheating also happens in the online gambling industry. With all of the recent scandals involving online poker cheating I thought I would take a few paragraphs to describe all of the various ways people can cheat at online poker. Read on to learn more about the five most common ways of cheating in online poker.

Five ways to cheat in online poker.

Poker Bots
Multi-Accounting
Collusion
Ghosting
Access to hole cards (superuser account)

Cheating is always going to happen in poker. Online poker cheating is simply an extension of many of the common cheating methods used in live games. Source: Internet.

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