drums on this pretty interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDuRoPIOBjE

lebron james* switches from 6max to HU to 6max on stars in first few seconds :S

how do you make the music/beats MC?
music was my 'therapy' for many years though last year it took a real backseat and i miss the creativity hugely.
not hugely into hip hop (been in a few guitar-y bands) but was actually listening to drake the other day and found myself playing with the drum software on logic

gl tonight dan, get this year off to a flyer

not a call, a reshove imo

think preserving your stack for a better spot is optimal play here, good fold.

in a higher buyin game i'd struggle to fold though as it seems to me that early 3bettors have wider ranges. obv depends on players in question

rarely folding here regardless of tournament.

peel 100%

hehe, i didn't realise the poker dictionary had hijacked the word induce from the english dictionary. apologies....

re checking - can you explain?
i feel if i were in his shoes i'd then be leading the turn 100% of the time.
so to me checking is the only thing that guarantees i lose the pot, unless u are checking to call later streets to allow him to bluff... but thats really unlikely here surely?

$55 ante up on stars. QQ and KK to an ace on the flop is usually fairly straightforward in my opinion
but in this spot i didn't know what to do cbet wise. should i just be sticking it in. or raise/folding?

no HUD and no reads other than maybe villain has been a bit more active than the average player

9 handed. blinds are 5/5/ ante is 60

UTG raises to 99 from large stack
folds to MP who reraises to 239 from stack of 2200 ish
next to act i 4b to 599 with QQ from stack of 2000 ish
folds all the way back to middle position 3better who flats.
flop is A28 rainbow; pot is about 1800, i have 1400 left. he is first to act and checks.

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i'm sure lots of people will (with hindsight) say shove pre flop but I was obviously inducing someone to shove, and it's pretty rare IMO (on pokerstars) for someone to flat a third of the effective stack oop even with the big ante pool in the middle. i assumed that if he was bad enough to flat me oop there then he was bad enough to be doing it quite wide.

cant remember ever being in quite this position.
having got to here can i raise/fold in this sort of tourney with ante increasing every 5minutes? if so what should i bet when i'm planning to fold? half my remaining stack?
or do i have to just shove and pray?

whatever happened to roland de wolfe?

whatever happened to the main characters from wonder years? i just saw tonight that kevin arnold directed some episodes of its always sunny in philadephia

[Paul Ho has demonstrated this perfectly by applying it to celery, which is the food of the devil]

I think there needs to be a 'like' between 'don't mind' and 'love'.

I like mince pies.

taximan - 'hate' is a word to be used very sparingly, but sometime it is the only word that will do - Paul Ho has demonstrated this perfectly by applying it to celery, which is the food of the devil.

Shows how complex all this is.

Celery chopped finely is an essential ingredient in any Spag Bol I make, however raw celery is disgusting

Weirdo!

+1 !!!

Chicken liver is fine in spag bol but celery is downright perverse.

Raw celery dipped in a little salt on the other hand is a rather tasty nibble.

CELERY is essential in a spag bol. a sauce made without celery shouldn't be called spag bol but something else....

yeah i wouldn't ever fold AQ here. AJ/77+ is prob my range, sometimes lighter.

thanks for the replies

he deffo wasn't shoving any 2 cards, he had already given me a walk on final table at least once when i was short.

an orbit later in same spot with 2x 4bb shortstacks icmizer makes it a call i think

i have put it in icmizer, i hope correctly, and was pretty surprised by the results