Position is of couse very important...in PL especially.

Good high is more important than a low as you only need to beat one oppo and fairly regularly there will be no low..you need to have the high sown up.

And yeah the player you play is as important as he is in HE..it's HU..there is noone else in there.

Thanks boldie.

Some opponents seem to be of the 'I am raising preflop and I am going to the river at great expense with or without you' variety, especially when the blinds deepen up, and I hate to get there and find he has two guns and I have one.

Playing more of this these days but have moved off cash into heads up tourneys. Am a real HiLo noob, have a basic gist of strategy, aware of starting hand importance.
I love the game but is hard to master. Seems to be a lot of crazies firing off with nut hi or not lo only, working out which or both proving tricky.
Was wondering how starting hand selection should be adjusted in heads up. Is opponent type important? Does big hi starting hand override need for good low when calling big pf bets? How important is position?

Dear Mods.

In an era of negativity, the authentic ironist is the hidden enthusiast.

A man's greatest enemies are his own potential and other's expectations.

  welcome to blonde.....

lol. Hiya back.

I really like that quote, where's it from?

Dear Mods.

In an era of negativity, the authentic ironist is the hidden enthusiast.

A man's greatest enemies are his own potential and other's expectations.

dear mods

Originality on blonde is dead

I was reading some comments from American players, pros and amateurs alike, about how tough the online cash games have become over the last year or two, and just wondered what the current future of online poker is with regards to ring games. For instance, is Asia an upcoming market, or do they have seemingly unmovable laws set in place that restrict people from playing online? What are the chances of Asia becoming a viable market for online poker? Also, is the American government going to overturn the Unlawful Gambling Act at any stage, or at least find a way in which people can get back to ambushing the online sites in their masses? Does anyone have an insight into this, an opinion perhaps, or even some links to different discussions, articles, etc that might be of interest. The games just seem to be getting tougher and tougher, and sooner or later you're going to run out of new players, and thus fish. It would be interesting to know what the future holds.

My old man told me way back that it is only a matter of time before large proportions get better and better and you have to run ever faster just to maintain your position, as it were.
I do not agree with this.
When you play poker and win consistently (I did this one week in '04, for example), you are deviating from fundamental natural tendencies. Tendencies to laziness, rashness, fundamental biases, stupidity, lack of control and untethered rashness. How many times did you win a tournament/big pot because you made some Einstein insight and just outthought the other guy? And how many times because the other guy just did something )*()ng stupid. You see it all over the place. Even big tourneys, big names.
How to make money at poker: learn the game, then don't be stupid. You could sit and play a tight, unadventurous game with no insight and still make cash from chaos.
Have you read a book on poker? Then you're already well ahead of the masses.

I do hope both the Asian and American markets find themself's able to donk on the online felt sometime soon, though although the games are getting tougher(not as much as people suggest IMO) theres still plenty of dough out there for the pro's and very good recreational players.

I'm not sure if the statistic that 85% of online players lose, 10% break even and 5% are winners is still accurate but even if, as snoopy sugggests, less and less new players are coming into the game i imagine this statistic wouldn't differ too dramatically over time.
you dont have to be exceptional, brilliant, amazing or fantastic to be an online pro, just BETTER!!! better than that 85% that dont put in the time and effort that you do, and even if that is becoming slightly harder to do it shouldnt be causing the top 15% of winning/break even players any amount of considerable concern

It's funny this coming up because i was having this discussion with a pal of mine and i used the % of winning online players as an analogy for life and it does seem to lend itself to a lot of other things in the real world and demonstrates you dont always have to be the best to suceed, just better than that 85%.

FTW. You should coach the british olympic teams.

Dear Mods.

In an era of negativity, the authentic ironist is the hidden enthusiast.

A man's greatest enemies are his own potential and other's expectations.

what planet are you from?

Different one from you I hope.

Thanks, those were awesome.





All from Icanhascheezburger.com, find pic, add caption, some are pretty good.

Chances of flopping a flush are so low that when you finally do you think omg I flopped a flush. Must min reraise here to telegraph it.
It's possible that he flopped a flush/2 pair/set  here and jammed the turn to look stealy/weak. The only reason such a move would ever ever work is if some/most of the time such an action is justifiably seen by your average player to actually be weak.
The long term EV in my opinion comes from player observation here, people tend not to deviate that much from their core MO here. If I fill up on the turn here I almost cannot help myself slowing down the action. A check to me may mean the other guy is half giving up on his flush draw. Some people still on the draw cannot help themselves from betting quickly. Commonly someone who fills up on the turn here just has to stop that little bit longer to actually figure: I probably have the nuts, I should bet again to look stealy.
But anyway here you have little history on the guy so it may just be one of those things. Coolish deck kinda.

Excellent check on Turn. No way he has a full house. Check shows fear of trips minimum, his bet is a **** off bet, which you will not get from a flush here most of the time. He has a flush draw with maybe a pair, and reraised on the flop to set this move up. On the flop I was thinking baby flush, but your defensive check got you some nice info throwing his flush out. Call is profitable enough of the time. And you still have outs...
Not unreasonable to put him on a weaker K. A weak K suddenly becomes 'the best hand' when it becomes trips, cuz no way the OtherGuy has that fourth card, right? And also your flat call of the flop reraise looked weak/unkingly to him maybe.

$500 USD NL Texas Hold'em 6 handed MTT

Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Jendaboy ( 1720 )
Seat 4: Hero ( 8520 )
Seat 3: Mammy33 ( 3210 )
Seat 5: peterpot ( 3340 )
Seat 2: Urmomwashere ( 2550 )
Seat 6: Badabing33 ( 3510 )
Jendaboy posts small blind [50].
Hero posts big blind [100].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ ]
Mammy33 [ ] folds
peterpot raises to 300 [ ]
Urmomwasheres reraises to 900 [ ]



What do you do?