SIMPLE QUESTION

This post is meaningless. Post specific hhs please.

Well, just don't slow play them unless there is a really loose player or players at the table that you know will raise.

Less metaphor, more substance plz

What should the win percentage for KK or QQ over 10000 hands be? On average.

Here and here are some (free0 software programs that you might want to download.

Post some hand histories... Are you raising pre-flop to isolate opponents? what are you doing post-flop to determine your hand strength?

I thought the question was gonna be that you couldn't find your caps lock key. But then I realize you found it by the time you made the post.

In all seriousness though yeah there are no specifics. Imagine a baseball player going to a batting coach and saying "I keep hitting the ball but I can't get hits what's wrong with my swing?" How about examples or a certain spot and how you played it?

You're not always gonna get paid off on premium hands. Just play them the best you can.

Like alot of others have said, somee hand histories would help.Slow playing premium hands will kill you. But if an Ace hits the board you have to be willing to pitch your hand. Have you seen the FT commercial when Jennifer Harman muck her KK when an Ace hits the board?

it's very important that you raise before the flop, and i mean a consistant raise, to isolate the other players. if you re trying to slow play make sure you have a big stack. good luck

Since this isnt a "HA" thread I dont understand WVs reply to this post. If a new member were to reply with some of the comments I am seeing from WV and Zach they wouldnt get credit for them for being not relevant to the post.
Neil, I would suggest you go to the websites Alien suggested.
As far as my advice, Dont slow play KK or QQ. You want to chase out A rag (if you can) and you sure dont want to loose to the BB who stayed in with a 3 9 off because he had no reason to fold preflop.

Maybe you should stop being a child and actually think about what you're asking. I know you need ~30 more post before you can get into the freerolls or whatever but certainly you can come up with a real question or two.

Here is a real answer to your original question; it depends. Really helpful huh? Now post some hhs, get real advice, learn to play better, or just go post bad beats and never get better. The choice is yours and I don't care either way.

gl

Deleted the OP's troll post that WV is responding to ^^

WVH point is valid, how can this possibly be answered without examples to see what you're doing?

If you stay around in this forum long enough to find out (which sounds quite unlikely from the way you have conducted yourself so far) you will find that zacvach and WVHillbilly give a lot of excellent advice, but only to people that ask quality questions which are worthy of quality answers.

Incidentally, am I the only person that finds ambiguous thread titles like this one frustrating

If you put as much effort into trying to find an answer already (Yes, it's out there) as you do trying to pick a cool font (Early 90's printer font) and thinking of original ways of getting people to read your post (Useless title, CAPS LOCK), then you'd be well on your way.

lol what? Just because it's not HA we should just ignore the fact that they're asking for advice about an impossible situation? It's not the fact that there's no hand, it's the fact that there's no question. It's basically "I am having a problem please everyone fix it" without actually going into what the problem is.

This is good advice. I think there's a post here somewhere with the beginners guide to pokerstove? If you are able to use it it can be a huge help in understanding situations.

Kind of this, but we actually want them to incorrectly call without odds. Obviously limping QQ/KK is not good (if that's what you meant by slowplaying I agree completely) but if we raise KK from the button we definitely want the blinds to call with whatever they have, be it 39 or A3o. The only time we want them to fold is when they have AA but we know that's not going to happen.

Cruel but true.

I have realized one thing over the long term. Most of the times when I start with a high pair I usually get beat. Be it 10-King, anyone with an Ace who pairs up beats me. Thus I'll bet, but conservatively.

Honestly, if you guys have moved past the point of giveing advice with out making personal attacks, maybe you should stop giving advice all together. We have all seen that same question asked 100s of times or ones just like it, but look at the person asking it. 37 posts and plays at Bodog......ie NEW TO POKER. This community is better than this, we need to get back to doing what we do best, TALKING with eachother about poker, learning and teaching with respect shown to EVERY member from the newest member to Nick

Honestly Cowboy I think you mistook my original response here. I meant no attack against the poster, only the post. It really wasn't very good and basically asked no real question (hence meaningless).

As for my 2nd post, it was in response to a direct insult to me that has since been deleted and admittedly I was a bit more confrontational with it (I actually had worse written but thought better about it before posting). I still think that my 2nd post is spot on and if the original poster takes the advice offered in this thread (i.e. post some actual examples and read the HA forums for similar spots) he'll be a better player for it.

Next time maybe I should just throw out some cliche like "never slowplay those ladies" and we'll all sing Kumbaya. That should really help to further a new player's grasp on the game.

it depends

The reason I joined the forum was to improve my game. Some questions, while might seeming simple to some people couls be helpfull. I could use any help I could get.

It don't think anyone has a problem with any problem being too simple. But questions like "how do I win?" aren't too simple they're just too vague.

I would like to apologize for causing so much uproar over my "vague" post. I wrote the post in the midst of a bad run of cards and was more venting than searching for an answer. I did not mean to abuse the goals of the forum with selfish motives. It was a stupid question and while a bit harsh the response was somewhat understandable.

If you want to vent in future, please do it in the part of the forum that is dedicated to boring stuff like that:

http://www.cardschat.com/f46/ (http://www.cardschat.com/f46/)

not the Strategy Forum, thanks.

Simple questions are good.

Ask them and they will be answered, in depth.

vague questions are pointless. Poker is a situational and villain dependent game. No two situations are exactly the same. So the vaguer the question, the more difficult it is to answer.

Make use of the HA section.

If you post a specific hand along with any reads or stats you have on the villain, people can talk about how it was played and how it could be played better.

Over time you will build a mental picture of how different situations are played.

If the question is too vague, it ceases to have any specific meaning and could easily be paraphrased as 'how do I play poker?'

Whilst this forum is good, you are never going to get an answer which satisfactorily answers that question.

Being specific in your questions is important, however they can be as simple as you want but they must be specific.

Hand Analysis is the easiest way for you to post a specific question.. make use of it. It will help you game immensely.

u already know what u are doing wrong...if u at a tight table then sometimes its ok just to double the blinds preflop...just cause an ace comes doesnt mean that someone has one....know ur players....put chips in to gain info......if u in a regular game u have to focus more and always raise preflop with those....forget what they think or even if u think they might have u on a big pair.....sometimes the best thing u can do is be completely obvious with betting ur big hands...some people take that as a bluff

I think this is an excellent well written response. A reply simply asking for hand histories would have suffice I think. You see far too many forums where new members get shot down in flames for slightly ill informed postings.

So Niel, do you have hand histories for people to give opinions on?

Im assuming you're pretty new to poker here. NEVER slowplay KK, QQ pf. If the pot is unraised when it's your turn then raise it. Raise it the same amount you would any other hand.

Don't have winrates for KK, QQ but both should be near the top of your most profitable hands over any decent sample.

There's a post here somewhere about Way Ahead/ Way Behind (WA/WB) situations that helped me in situations where you have KK, QQ on A high flop. The basic gist of it was to check the flop if you were the raiser because if you cbet only hands that you were way ahead of would fold.

I think that you have to bet 4-5 times bb because the most cards you afraid from are mid cards and you don't want them to play