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Alon Ipser

Alon Ipser

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These are things I've learned in the past but the Poker Gods thought they would remind me again this morning.
1) A flopped nut straight doesn't beat a runner runner flush
2) Pocket aces don't beat kings and eights
3) I dislike micro NL tables

Sorry, just me venting a bit and taking a break from donating my money to the lucky.
 
buckster436

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You got a rite to Vent, thats how my cards have been going, good hands and get beat by better hands, it will change though Alon, ive been on the downside for 3 months, thought my luck changed when i won the 10,000 freeroll, but the next day i was back in the crapper,lol, buck:hello:
 
~~Shelynn~~

~~Shelynn~~

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Been their and done it also guys, it's a bummer! Guess we'll have to wait a little bit more till our luck turns around and it's someone else's turn to take our place. Nothing else we can do,it's "Poker"! We keep coming back for more...LOL...won't be long and the luck will change back around.
 
JessieBear15331

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Don't forget the oldie but goodie: Pocket Aces are never a sure thing! This seems to be a newbie mistake/poor judgement call, but I've seen great players act a fool and go all-in pre-flop with bullets, just to later lose. The next time you have pocket aces think; are they worth me losing x amount of chips? If not, wait and be patient, slowplay them!
 
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In ring games if you can get a caller, then all-in with Pocket Aces is just fine... you're getting good odds for the return you'd get. In a tournament if you need to build a stack fast then it's a decent hand to push in with - but sometimes you want to make a rather smaller raise to get some callers, and to avoid risking all your chips on one hand. It's after the flop that you see the really stupid moves by AA - the particular one being to slow-play pre-flop, get lots of callers, and give people a chance to hit 2 pair cheaply, and then push all-in with just the overpair.
Slow-playing is generally a terrible thing to do with Pocket Aces - because after the flop they're often not the best hand any more when you're against a full table, but against only a couple of callers generally they will be. You want to play them fast, just not necessarily for all your chips. Additionally, the main hands that can call a substantial raise are weaker pocket pairs (which have only 2 cards to improve with), and hands like AK and AQ, which are dominated hands, so against the kinds of hands that are likely to call you you've got a greater advantage than over random hands.
 
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