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Lets say your on the button. You look at your cards and you have AKs. A player on in early position trebles the bet, so your thinking a pocket pair is very possible but no idea how high. For my money average players over-slow play big pairs. So you do you call or re-raise? If an A or a K comes on the flop are you ahead or has he hit his set? Whats the best play?
 
Call, because he is in the early position he has to act before you on the A or K on the flop.

That is when you have to decide what to do. I presume that this is offline poker, in which case you are watching him like a hawk. You need to be able to tell from his actions whether he has just seen the dreaded over-card that he suspects you have as you called him in the first place. Or whether he has just hit high trips which he is going to muller you with.

Play the person, not the cards.

P.S if you are unsure (because he is good) and he checks only bet what you can afford to lose in anticipation of his check raise.

For whats its worth... betsmate.
 
Geroid, if this is offline poker i would strongly reccomend reading Mike (the mad proffesor) Caro's book of poker tells. If your playing against tough players this book is truely amazing.

On the hand you mention above i would probably re-raise. Taking into mind i am probably as in-experienced as they come, i would be thinking my AKs is a strong hand for the following reasons:

1)2 over cards if he's on Queens of worse
2)He will always be first to act
3)He would probably raise holding AQs or AJs just as many times as he'd raise with a pair, making you a big favourite

I was thinking that even if he is on Kings or Aces, you hold AK so his 8/1 chance of making trips on the flop are out of the window, but on second thoughts if he was on any of those hands you would only have the straight or flush to win, making him a strong favourite.
 
Can you blokes who know what you are doing look at this site

Poker

and tell me if it is a good site for an absolute beginner like me to learn from
 
Ive never played online for real money DG. Downloading PartyPoker now though so will let you know what i think of the advice once i get my members login.

played a comp today, only a fiver buy in at Casino. Was probably the worst ive ever done, bought in 10 times and never had more than 3000 chips in front of me (you get 1000 for a fiver!!!) lots of decent startrers but flopped nottin all day!!!

Finished Super System last night and its confused me a little, needs another read or 10 me thinks!!
 
The Poker Tutor is alright, I guess, though I think that there may be better ones around.

Remember, though it has now become a bit of a cliché it's true to say that Hold 'em poker takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master
 
Downloaded a new poker site tonight.....CardPlayerPoker.com

Anyway, its very simular to ultimatebet.com and they have sheduled tournaments where you can win "bonus" dollars with no enterance fee.

Their were 2500 players to start with and im now sat here (3 hours and 17 minutes later) in 18th position with only 60 odd players left in!

The top 150 players get a payout, very small until you finish in the top 10 though i think.....but im well happy!!!

They call it "bonus" dollars coz you gotta play it in real money games, but anything you win from their you can keep!!!

Gotta go.....play resumes!!!
 
Damn! :angry:

Just went out on this hand.....(im Razorlight)

Pre-flop:

KrazyKnute folds. callec folds. TARPONSEEKER folds.
Travelin_Jack folds. Razorlight calls.
merrillcoates folds. Jactown calls. Nimrod2333
checks.

Flop (board: 9h Jc 8s):

Jactown checks. Nimrod2333 checks. Razorlight bets
11400. Jactown calls. Nimrod2333 folds.

Turn (board: 9h Jc 8s 2s):

Jactown checks. Razorlight bets 34200. Jactown goes
all-in for 74300. Razorlight goes all-in for 49740.
Jactown is returned 24560 (uncalled).

Tournament all-in showdown -- players show:

Razorlight shows Jd Qh.
Jactown shows7s Tc.


River (board: 9h Jc 8s 2s 8c):

(no action in this round)




Showdown:

Razorlight has Jd Qh Jc 8s 8c: two pair, jacks and eights.
Jactown has 7s Tc 9h Jc 8s: straight, jack high.


Hand #4329861-283 Summary:

No rake is taken for this hand.
Jactown wins 133680 with straight, jack high.



Ended up winning $1.50........for over 3hrs play!!!

Nevermind, was fun!!! :rolleyes:
 
I hope that as well as $1.50 you picked up a valuable lesson - never force the betting in that way when the board shows three to a straight or three to a flush
 
Yup! :rolleyes:

Think i learned a lot last night. Was playing as aggressive as possible and won a lot of hands on Brunsons advice. The section where he say's "you may think to yourself, surely he can't fold another, but they do, they fold and fold and fold until they have such a good hand they basically show it to you!" proved so true last night. I'd bring it in with say, 6/7d and if it was checked to me (sometimes even bet to me) i would bet (or raise) a reasonable (about the pot) amount and they would fold forever!

Had another read this morning though and found i was making a few mistakes (like the one i went out on!) that probably cost me a top 10 finish.

Dont know about anywere else but it seems impossible to find any cash PL or NL games in Hull.....and decent PL tournament (only game available for me at mo) strategy/advice is proving very hard to come by!
 
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