Ask me any question

Hi Everyone,

There are a few members that I would like to see do this, as I have questions for them. So, I will start.

Ask any question and I will answer honestly. I enjoy remaining anonymous, so please don't ask anything that would compromise that.

OK fire away- Im out the door but will be back in a few hours.


-Bill

I will start easy:

Great taste or less filling?

If you're going to take a coin flip, you much do you need to have the odds in your favor. Example: You see the other person's cards and he has ace queen and goes all-in. You have ace king and a 75% chance of winning. Would you call the all-in? You have an equal size stack.

Edit: Nevermind, it is Bill's thread to answer question.

Less Filling

There are many situations in which I will take a coin lip. Acoin lip describes a 50/50 situation.

If AQ shows and pushes, and I have AK, my chips will go in very fast. No matter how deep the stacks, if 'im on the bubble in a tournament, whatever. I will call everytime.

Is there any hope for somebody whose brain does not work fast enough to calculate most odds before having to make a decision to be a winning poker player?

Scenario:

It`s the final table of a medium-sized online tourney, seven players remain. It`s your BB and you have only ~10x BB left, but there are two other players even shorter. The other four have you comfortably outstacked.

You are dealt .

Two of the deepstacks limp from late position. SB folds. You call.

The flop comes .

First to act - what`s your move and why ?

Similar situation to above. Final table of small online tourney, 4 players remain. You have a little over 10x BB left, another player similar. Other 2 have bigger stacks.

You are dealt

You are first to act. The other short stack is the BB and the bigstack is the SB. BB plays fairly conservative and SB is very aggressive. Other player in between.

What action do you take and why?

Math is critical. There is no way around it. Study off the table, so that you can have an easier time of it in the heat of battle. As the games get tougher edge becomes increasingly hard to find. Pushing small edges requires accurate math to assess the situation. Is there hope? Yes. study the math can be learned.

-Bill

Although there are a few variables I'd like to know, such as how long until blinds escalate, how top heavy is the prize pool, etc. I won't duck the question. But I have to qualify by there is information that can change my opinion.

The in position players have made a huge mistake limping. How they let you see a flop with 10 blinds for free from the bb tells me they are weak players.

I push. The range of limped hands you are ahead of is wide. tripling up with weak players on your right, with a stack that now has some strength, you push them around all day. If you lose, going broke with 10 blinds and 2 pair isnt tragic.
Play to win, not move up a spot.

Without other information, I push...happily.

-Bill

My Question: Bill, which members of CardsChat would you like to see do this thread? (as you eluded to in your original post).

Push.
JJ four handed is a monster. IMO, 10 blinds is push bot poker. Push or fold.
The blinds must be worth picking up and you must try to keep any fold equity you have. I'm pushing hands less powerful as JJ here. Also, because your push botting weaker hands, you may possibly pick up a call from weaker hands.

Make them find a hand they feel they can call with. I may stop and go in certain conditions, but there are not many...

push, if your behind flop another Jack, that's what id do. lol.

fourdogs-
chuckT's
c9h13no3 (http://www.cardschat.com/members/c9h13no3/)
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for starters...

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Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Get your money back the deck is fouled with 2 Queen of hearts.

-Bill

LDO... eggs, dinosaurs layed eggs way before chickens existed.

Do you think other types of poker games are more profitable than hold 'em, and if so, which ones? Does the answer to that question change with online vs. live play?

I do think other games are more profitable. I play horse, plo, and limit Omaha8.
I believe the hayday for hold'em online is over. Profit centers are getting lower and lower. I am seeing quality play at 25nl online, even shorthanded. Is there still money to be made? yes. Is it as easy as 5 years ago? Not even close.

Pot Limit Omaha has players making mistakes all the way up. 6max is great.
Wynn has been spreading PLO live, but this game has no value for me. Its a 2-5 plo, with tough players. PLO online is great.

The mix games and Horse are really good, but my stud games are not up to snuff.

Limit Omaha 8 appears to be drying up recently online. There is really only one O8 game in Vegas, the 30-60 Bellagio. During the day the game is no good. Late at night is worth it.

Im actually looking at NL again.

So in short skilled players can leverage more skill in other games, both live and online.

Thanks, Bill.

As you may have guessed, this was a real situation I found myself in the other day. I made the same decision you did, and for the same reasons.

Annoyingly, one of the late position limpers flopped a flush. I didn`t improve and my game ended there.

The adverse outcome made me question my decision and wonder whether I shouldn`t have waited for the other shorties to bust out and move me up.

Your answer matches my instinct of the moment and reassures me. It must be right to sieze the opportunity to build a competetive stack and finish top three (where the big money is). The result was just bad variance.

Most profitable : Tournaments or cash games ?

Best hand to play deep-stacked : 22 or AK ?

Hold'em or omaha ?

Ever play in the WSOP ? Ever cash ?

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You should use the Cardschat Hand History Converter Tool to post hands.

still loling

Will you vote in this thread and explain your vote:

Generic Tournament Question

I understand you play both live and online, so what's your take on the whole online is rigged debate? Do you believe that online poker is "real poker"?

Why do mods have no sense of humor and delete legitimate questions?

Serious question so this doesn't get deleted too:

What limits of NLHE do you play live and online?

What's the number 1 tell people have live? I hear its how they put their chips in the pot (right handed, left handed, do they splash them or slowly stack & slide them in, ect.), but I don't really play live enough to know.

When calculating our outs in a hand, do we discount the size of the table we are playing, so in a FR 10 seat game, 10 players get dealt 2 cards, taking the 52 card deck to 32, then the flop comes with 1 burn card and the flop, taking the remaining deck to 28. If we had the nut flush draw, would we be dividing 9/28 giving us a 32% chance to hit our card by the river?

Great answer, thanks very much!

Are there any good live stud/HORSE games in vegas at limits 10-20 or below?

Because we have a great chance to get some valuable insight from Bill. Don't want this thread to go off topic. Nothing personal, Zach.

I answered in the thread.

The call to me is straight forward. That is something I would drool to have happen. My comment is short, but I feel strongly it says it all. I'm not good enough to pass up that kind of equity. I don't care if it's the main event or a home game.

-Bill

Online poker is not rigged. The cheating scandals at absolute and Ultimatebet are exactly that. Cheating. Randomness plays tricks with the brain. I do feel that online accomodates collusion slightly easier than live, but only slighty.

Also, collusion mathematics is very difficult believe it or not. To be good at it, a colluder is probably as well off playing without cheating. On rare occasion I have even stayed in a game with players I believed were cheating, because they appeared to be so bad, that I felt I had an edge.

Online is absolutely real poker. I'm a huge believer that you have to play online to remain competitive. Players today must have lots of volume and access to situations that years of live play can't reproduce.

I have friends who live here and play online only. Tipping, rake, etc. are steep live, and at low limits very tough to overcome.

Some of the best players are online, although you can see if they have no crossover experience.

-Bill

Yes. The Venetian has a 6-12 that runs saturday night regularly.
Binions I think is getting a 4-8 going alot, especially now because they have a freeroll or something and folks are trying to get the hours qualified.

Thursday Monte Carlo has a 4-8 I think.

Not exactly my game, but I hope that helps.

-Bill

I don't know what happened, but I don't know how to quote Zach's question.

I'll answer anyway.

Online I really don't play NLH anymore, I haven't for a year. I currently play
10-20 PLO online at Full Tilt.

Live I play 30-60 limit omaha 8, at the Bellagio
and 10-20 NLH. mostly at the wynn.

If possible when you have a chance I wold LOVE to hear your thoughts on someone starting up into PLO and Omaha8 online at lower stakes...Would make for an awesome strategy guide IMO. I am quickly falling in love with the 2 games