| Posted by: KillerKat at September 23, 2005, 3:54 pm | | Topic: Best Poker Playing Cards Forum: Card Chat |
Kem cards are the finest playing cards available, they are made of thermo-plastic materials that are irtually tear-proof and washable. These cards will last for years. A little dear but worth it.
COPAG 100% Plastic Playing Cards are great too and somewhat cheaper.
Torcello pvc playing cards again are a ery good and will last a ery long time.
If all these are a bit too expensive as IrishDave has suggested the bee playing cards are a good quality and inexpensive choice. But I think its worth spending that little extra, you can really notice the difference.
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| Posted by: phoenix999 at November 23, 2006, 9:39 am | | Topic: Playing rags Forum: Card Chat |
Have only been playing this year so still getting to terms with a lot of the strategies to be successful.
I have been playing low end ($1, $5, $10) SnG and I am struggling with how to play a run of complete rags. I manage ok with reasonable start cards but the run of lousy cards is a pain on how to manage that.
Most of the literature talks about playing Group 1 , play aggressive etc as though you have the winners in your pocket cards.
However they are short on what to do if you get 40-50 hands of 27, 39 etc and when you finally get some playable cards some one always plays Ax and the flop comes Axx and goes all-in.
Am I over complicating this and this is just part of poker or is there a strategy to deal with this?
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| Posted by: SOMETIMESLUCKY at May 10, 2004, 12:08 pm | | Topic: Online Bingo - real or rigged? Forum: Winner Online |
I have always wondered just how many cards the "winners" have purchased. I sometimes play (ruby bingo) and usually buy no more than 10 cards (.50) sometimes I may purchase 20 cards (1.00) and get the bonus cards. I have never won and I wonder if it's the amount of cards I purchase s. the cards the others get.... I also don't think its rigged because of the community of players - but I have noticed that some people can win two or three times within my time of playing!
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| Posted by: stormswa at January 26, 2007, 11:08 pm | | Topic: playing Sit & Go blind Forum: Card Chat |
I read this awhile ago I believe in one of magazines and never got around to trying it thought maybe someone would want to.
Ok here is the deal, join a sit & go of at least $10 and cover where your cards would be shown with a sticky note or something so you cant see your cards and don't cheat.
Next basically just play the whole thing without seeing your cards one time. I thought this would be a interesting experiment. It would help you be able to notice your opponents styles since that is what you would be playing by. It might help you in the long run by you would pay more attention to your competition even when you can see your cards.
anyone want to try this and tell us what you think, I cant no way to deposit, but would be interested to see what you think after playing through it.
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| Posted by: xdmanx007 at April 26, 2005, 4:09 am | | Topic: 4 7 suited and 2 6 suited!!! Your comments! Forum: Card Chat |
If you were to beat me in a pot with those cards I would take those cards and cut the soft skin between every one of your fingers and toes, and then I would have my rottweiler sodomize you! In other words not a good idea to play them. Playing those cards and winning a pot is the ery definition of a suck out. When you decide you are comfortable enough to make a deposit and play your own money, playing those cards will cause you to bust out so fast you will be crying on the bottom of your mama's skirt!
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| Posted by: Scarfacecw at August 5, 2007, 3:49 pm | | Topic: full tilt book Forum: Card Chat |
Poker is luck and odds theres 52 cards per deck..........9 players playing 18 cards gone already so your down to 34 cards so you go atleast 1-34 chance of hitting your cards unless their already dead
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| Posted by: Effexor at July 3, 2007, 5:19 pm | | Topic: STUD players, ring games, help needed please... Forum: Card Chat |
I think that generally speaking, playing the opposite as the table is playing is the way to go. If they are playing loose (such as most STUD high tables seem to be), then play like you are in the MTT's, and jam the pot. I like to play cards that work well together, 3to a straight 2 suited, split and hidden pairs, rolled up trips, 3 suited, and any 3 high cards that are all higher than all other exposed cards.
Just as in holdem, just because I see someone win a huge pot playing 62o to a PF raise, doesn't mean that that's a winning strategy in the long run.
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| Posted by: mrsnake3695 at November 1, 2006, 8:44 pm | | Topic: what do u think about playing any suited cards? Forum: Card Chat |
If you play suited cards you have a 6% chance to hit if you see all 5 cards. Of course that doesn't mean 6% to win since sometimes another player will have higher suited cards than you, or there will be a pair and someone will have a full house or even 4 suited cards will come and someone with a lone ace or king of the suit will beat your 2 cards. Therefore, generally playing any 2 suited cards is a losing proposition, especially against a raise or against a single opponent.
Of course limit and no-limit are different. In limit big cards and pocket pairs rule. You don't get enough implied odds to play alot of suited crap in limit usually unless they are big cards.
In No-limit you have a chance to take all of someones chips if you hit so it's sometimes worth it if you can get in cheaply and are smart enough to know when you are beat post flop. Remember about 95% of the time you will not hit so if you are playing them against raises mathematically you are going to lose in the long run.
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| Posted by: vanquish at August 5, 2007, 3:50 pm | | Topic: full tilt book Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by Scarfacecw
Poker is luck and odds theres 52 cards per deck..........9 players playing 18 cards gone already so your down to 34 cards so you go atleast 1-34 chance of hitting your cards unless their already dead
Are you serious?
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| Posted by: phatlad at September 3, 2005, 12:14 am | | Topic: Party, segregation Forum: Bonus Whores |
Been this way for a month.
I don't see how this would have a big effect, honestly. All the fishes there playing against each other, all playing shitty cards and seeing the flop. Under that scenario, what usually wins hands? Shitty cards.
So, the shitty players keep playing shitty cards, thinking they'll win, because they won a huge amount of money at the shitty beginner's table doing the exact same thing. | | Static Link |
| Posted by: TheJace at August 8, 2007, 7:45 pm | | Topic: full tilt book Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by Scarfacecw
Poker is luck and odds theres 52 cards per deck..........9 players playing 18 cards gone already so your down to 34 cards so you go atleast 1-34 chance of hitting your cards unless their already dead
Hahahahahaaa
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| Posted by: Ronaldadio at June 22, 2007, 11:34 pm | | Topic: I`m better at STUD than holdem - how is that??? Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by aliengenius
or maybe the people playing stud are just far worse than your usual holdem opponents?
I agree with the other points but this is a alid one.
I find playing STUD that patience, in the early stages, is ery important.
I`m sure some of the guys don`t know what they are doing and the number of cards on show starts to puzzle them more.
Obviously, playing holdem u see your 2 hole cards then 5 community cards.
At a full stud table they can contend with their 7 + possibly as many as 20+ other cards. So I think, even more than in holdem, they concentrate on their own hand and are almost blind to other people.
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| Posted by: titans4ever at June 2, 2007, 3:14 pm | | Topic: Hold'em no limit tournament, how many decks? Forum: Card Chat |
You should never see more than 11 at a poker table. Any more than that and it can start screwing with the odds to catch your outs. Most stay at 10 so you have 20 hole cards + burn and flop 4 + burn turn 2 + burn river = 28 cards. This represents just 2 cards over half the deck. This way things can stay more random because there are more cards to draw from.
For any type of tournament I run I plan on having 2 decks per a table if using paper cards or 1.5 decks if using plastic playing cards. This will make sure you have enough to last. As tables break down you should have enough to keep playing and we always open a new deck at the start of the final table.
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| Posted by: CoachMKV at May 25, 2005, 12:29 am | | Topic: Poker Card Cover Forum: Card Chat |
When playing live poker, sometimes cards gets mucked to your direction and possibly touch your cards. That's a dead hand (even if you have aces). Or sometimes, the dealer sees a bunch of cards in front of him/her and grabs your cards by accident which = dead hand. It protects your cards from the dealer and other cards. Also, it tells the people at the table that you are in the current hand. Some of them are players lucky charm. Hopefully you find the right one.
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| Posted by: Dorkus Malorkus at March 2, 2007, 9:02 am | | Topic: Omaha H/L postflop??? Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by JimboJim
I have a couple of questions. How do you calculate pot odds? Do you cut the pot odds in half if there is 2 low cards or only one on the flop (and you obviously don't have the low draw)
You don't cut them in half because a low will not always hit.
With a 2 low-card flop, assuming we have no low cards there are 24 other 'low cards' that can come on the turn or river, out of 45 remaining cards, so it's like 75% that a low will come. We also have to factor in the fact that if we put our opponent on a naked low draw then that's only 22 cards remaining, and also the fact that some low cards will pair illain rather than make him a low. I'd use something like 60-65% as a general rule, accounting for all this.
So let's say 65% of the time we will be playing for 50% of the pot
(.35*100)+(.65*50) = 35+32.5 = ~67.5%, so we're playing, in essence for roughly 67.5% of the pot on average. Reduce the size of the pot to ~67.5% of i... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: vanquish at July 3, 2007, 5:55 pm | | Topic: STUD players, ring games, help needed please... Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by Effexor
I think that generally speaking, playing the opposite as the table is playing is the way to go. If they are playing loose (such as most STUD high tables seem to be), then play like you are in the MTT's, and jam the pot. I like to play cards that work well together, 3to a straight 2 suited, split and hidden pairs, rolled up trips, 3 suited, and any 3 high cards that are all higher than all other exposed cards.
Just as in holdem, just because I see someone win a huge pot playing 62o to a PF raise, doesn't mean that that's a winning strategy in the long run.
Everyone likes rolled up trips
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| Posted by: DeadoneD1 at March 20, 2007, 4:12 pm | | Topic: Who won this game? Forum: Card Chat |
no argument there
but can I hijack this thread??
What is the protocol when playing in a live game and a
card is turned over accidentally???
During "friendly" games a have seen fist fights over this.
some players say they have a right to keep their cards,
I say redeal all...and you shouldnt even look at your cards till its your turn?
I have seen this dealt with both ways is ery frustrating
when people are drinking and playing cards.
any thoughts? anyone know of any rules on this?
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| Posted by: HartFlush at January 27, 2006, 6:10 pm | | Topic: How often do you lose when chasing bonuses? Forum: Bonus Whores | I have been bonus chasing since April 2005 and I am just curious as to how often you have losing months playing not including the bonus? So just your play on the cards. I have had one losing month so far in 9 months playing cards the bonuses bailed me out that month and I am down playing cards this month. I am curious how often you guys lose playing cards each month? Is it normal to have losing months playing while chasing bonuses? Does bonus chasing hurt the way you play the cards because you are just wanting to finish the bonus?
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| Posted by: starfall at April 3, 2006, 8:41 am | | Topic: When a bad runs happen , how do i know? Forum: Card Chat |
This is why you want to maintain a substantial bankroll for the stakes you're playing at - because sometimes you will have really bad runs... for me I'm generally playing lower stakes, but I'd made about $150 over a month or so, and lost $100 in 3 days, getting long runs of cold cards and getting outdrawn... since then I've gradually built it up again.
One thing that I did find made it easier to deal with the cold run was to use some stats software like Poker Office or Poker Tracker, because then you can see whether you're playing different hands to normal, and whether you're playing more hands than normal. If you can see your style of play hasn't changed much (so you're playing unlucky rather than playing badly), then keep at it. If you find you're playing worse cards or playing differently (because I'm sure that most of us have got bored with getting bad cards and started wanting to experiment with some more suited connectors of the like), then it will help you to see if there are any element... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Kj Sexton at December 24, 2005, 11:34 am | | Topic: favourite deck? Forum: Card Chat |
I love my jack daniels playing cards , though the WPT poker cards were pretty good too. Though I like most cards just none of those imitation ones that come in the chip sets these days...
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| Posted by: phaidra at November 13, 2005, 4:48 am | | Topic: Online Bingo - real or rigged? Forum: Winner Online |
I just wanted to say that I won a large jackpot at my site (Starlight Bingo) and had no problems in getting the money they were ery prompt in sending it to me. I have to admit I was playing quite a few cards for a couple of days, but it paid off By the way the people in our chat room are all really nice and there is a nice atmosphere. I agree with some of the others, obviously if someone plays more cards than they are more likely to win. Having said that though, sometimes you can have a string of wins playing a small amount of cards too. So I dont think that it can be rigged.
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| Posted by: Shannon71.com at June 5, 2002, 11:32 pm | | Topic: Thursday, June 6th MLB winner! Forum: Winner Online |
Thursday, June 6th
Stl. Cardinals (Kyle 3-3, 3.48) s. Cincinnati Reds (Reitsma 3-2, 2.65) 12:35 PM EST.
Forecast: Partly cloudy with a 60-percent chance of rain. Winds blowing from left to right field at 5-10 m.p.h. Game-time temperature: Around 75.
Despite the fact the Reds are playing solid ball, and Ken Griffey Jr. has owned the Cards starter Kyle going 11-7 with three homers and a average of .636, I like the Cards to put more pressure on the Reds for the division lead, as the Cards have beaten the Reds 6 out of 8 contest over the past month.
With a win today the Cards could share the lead with Cincinnati in the NL Central. When playing divison opponents, the Cards have racked up a solid 25-14 record. The Cards offensively have fared well against Reistma as 7 Cards players have averages of .333 or better against him.
Play the Stl. Cardinals
See you tomorrow, http://www.shannon71.com
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| Posted by: dj11 at May 8, 2007, 1:19 pm | | Topic: What's the deal with Poker Stars???? Forum: Card Chat |
Revelation !!!!!!
Pick a card, any card.
It aint us that are experiencing the bad beats, it is not us who are playing the cards right or wrong, it is the cards who are playing us! Ad they know exactly what they are doing. To the cards we are the be all and end all of thier entertainment.
I overheard 2 sixes the other day complaining to an 89 offsuited couple about the twit from Memphis who actually thought he was in control with a pair of ones!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, you picked the wrong card!...Rigged!
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| Posted by: mrsnake3695 at November 1, 2006, 9:14 pm | | Topic: Horse/7-card stud Forum: Card Chat |
A couple of things about stud. If you are playing with 3 suited cards or 3 straight cards to start you should usually check/fold if the 4th cards doesn't hit. Why? Well if it does hit, you have 3 cards left to make one card to win, if you miss you have 3 cards left and you need 2 of them to hit to win, not ery good odds and a losing proposition long term. Chasing is death in stud considering players with big pairs or 2 pairs will usually call all the way down unless you are showing a huge scary board.
When you believe you have the winning hand, bet bet bet. Make the fishies pay to chase. NO FREE CARDS EVER.
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| Posted by: trentonlf at June 14, 2005, 9:18 pm | | Topic: Any other card games Forum: Card Chat |
i like a game called Guts
every player puts in X amount into the pot (say 6 players $1 each for $6 pot) and is dealt two cards face down.
The object is to see who has the guts to say they have the best two cards. When its your turn to act if you feel you have the best two cards (of course AA is premium) you lay your cards face down in the middle of the table.
Everyone else has the option to call you or fold. If no one calls you you win the pot, but if someone thinks their hand might be better they lay their cards face down in the middle of the table, you look at their cards and they look at yours. Your cards go back to the middle of the table.
Now if you had the better hand they pay you whatever the pot is ($6 here), but if they had the better hand you pay them.
can get interesting after awhile playing this lol
g/l
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| Posted by: dj11 at March 16, 2007, 2:41 am | | Topic: Card dead awareness Forum: Card Chat |
Go play through the streak at a multiple table site, FT, PS, Party on play tables. Dont waste your money going through the streak losing.
Personally I think I have got less than average cards for the last year, which at some point MIGHT SUGGEST I get better than average cards for a year.
When I am not happy with the way the cards seem to be coming, I first have to convince myself whether it is the cards being dead to me, or is it the way I am playing them. Blasting thru the play money donkaments has tended to prove it one way or another.
Only this week have I seen a change. Either I have incorporated a ton of info, mostly from here, or the cards have changed. Still a bit too early to tell, but I did have my first streak of 'happyness playing poker' for 3 straight days ever.
But then, what do I know, I only got this expert member thingy cause the computer gliched.....
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| Posted by: jeffred1111 at January 3, 2008, 4:56 am | | Topic: BINGO! Forum: Card Chat |
Only strategy is to play as many cards as possible without missing a beat since most places have reduced prices if you take many cards (1$ for 3 cards, 2$ for 9 for example). This means that for a smaller investment, you get more chances of winning. But since this means that there is ery, ery, ery little skill involved (making BINGO mistakes is rare unless you play 75 cards), you'd need to play a lot for you to overcome the huge BINGO swings
So yes, if everyone only has one card and pays 1$ for it, it's just luck. If you have the option of playing as many cards as possible for a reduced investment, your chances of winning increase by a small margin and it becomes almost all luck but some skills.
PS: If there is a cap on the number of cards that can be bought, or no rebate for additionnal card, or everyone plays (flawlessly) the card cap, it becomes all luck again.
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| Posted by: fastchip at March 11, 2006, 2:32 am | | Topic: High Stakes Poker on Home Network WHAT ARE THEY PLAYING??? Forum: Card Chat |
Hi,
I am trying to get into this poker craze but I am stumped by what they are playing on a show called HIGH STAKES POKER on the Game channel.
The house deals two cards and only two cards to each player, I have seen the house get Three cards and then a fourth card but the fourth card was separated by a space indicating to me that somehow it didn't belong in the group of three cards.
When I was a kid many moons ago Poker was played with 5 cards, no matter what ariation of Poker we played, it was played with 5 cards. It seems to me that you ought to call Poker played with only two cards,Gin Rummy.
Please help me with this quandry. Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
fastchip
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| Posted by: Smilin at June 25, 2005, 5:28 am | | Topic: Am I wrong or right? Forum: Card Chat |
I was A9 offsuit and he was 34 suited clubs. If I remember right only one club came on the flop and no help on the turn, so he had no flush poss and definately no str8. His outs were the 2 3's and the 3 4's. 5 cards.
As for me being a known bluffer. Not really, but it's possible. Bluffing is part of the game. I do bet at pots if I am last to act and everybody checked. I will also bet at a pot if I have a lower pair. But it depends on the hand and what's happened before me. I try not to get shown down with a bluff. I'd rather make them think I may have been on a draw or a lower pair. My strategy works well in sit and go's. The cards obviously play a factor, but I can tell you I get knocked out more frequently playing good cards than I do playing bad cards. I had a stretch of 3 SNG's last night that I was busted out on AA, AK and AQ. I somewhat prefer playing like 8-9, 9-10 (preferrably suited). I bust alot of people out playing what is considered marginal hands. It's alot easier to drop a margi... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: mendozaline at November 1, 2007, 8:51 pm | | Topic: Bubble play Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by OzExorcist
What needs to be considered is the cards the other players are likely to be calling with. I'm assuming neither the BB nor the short stack would bother calling with 72o or any rubbish hands like that.............................................. ..........
Against any two cards, 88 might have the figures you're suggesting. But who's playing ATC here? Certainly not the big blind, I would have thought.
Ok, but remember the problem that was presented above was pre-flop knowing nothing more than your own two cards. Is it really alid to consider what they might call with when you're still working on what they might have in the first place?
You're right that the Warren chart is pre-flop considering any two cards you might get played against all the way to the river, and is not considering what cards someone would play ersus cards they wouldn't play, but I'm not so sure those considerations can really be useful in actual practice... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: IrishDave at June 2, 2005, 11:49 am | | Topic: Bizzarre But it Worked Forum: Card Chat |
Was playing on the cash tables at Fulltilt the other night and was having a run of the coldest cards I ever saw. Actually got 9-2o 4 times in a row. Everybody was playing tight so I started playing some of this junk as it only cost a dime. Won a lot of pots and it was kind of fun. The cards started to come better and I went back to playing "normal" again - got knocked out within about 10 hands. I guess the adage "rather be lucky than good" has some merit...
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| Posted by: Dirk_Dangerous at July 25, 2001, 11:24 am | | Topic: How would you cheat? Forum: Winner Online |
Small cards on double down hands. Not all the time, but code the software so the double down card is drawn from a pool of cards weighted down with small cards s. large cards.
In essence the player will be drawing from a deck of cards with too few high cards, 10's, 9's & 8's. Sometimes the player will get a high card, but most often a small card.
BTW, my opinion is that this is one of the things Microgaming does in their BJ game.
Keep track of the number of small cards you receive on your doubled hands when playing Microgaming's BJ and you will see what I mean.
Dirk
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| Posted by: VinnieMac3601 at August 25, 2007, 5:50 pm | | Topic: Magic: The Gathering Forum: Card Chat |
I used to love playing MTG. Starts to get ery complicated though the more cards you pick up. After a while, it became more of a race to collect the best cards than playing the actual game. thats when it kind of died out with us. I just seen some ads on the t the other day about it, seems its starting to come back a little. wouldnt mind picking up a starter deck to mess with, but wouldnt get crazy like i did before. i just sold my entire set on ebay a while back when i dug it out of the closet. had some crazy cards lol
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| Posted by: precious at May 18, 2001, 12:33 am | | Topic: Bingo Gala Forum: Winner Online |
I play Bingo Gala nearly every day. I win about 4-7 games during the day playing 20 - 50 cards depending on prize.
Have you tried playing more cards? If I want to win I just increase my cards. It always works and is worth it on the big pots available at Bingo Gala
I give Bingo Gala the thumbs up!
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| Posted by: tdfarls1103 at November 14, 2005, 7:11 pm | | Topic: low suited connectors Forum: Card Chat |
Low sutied connectors are great to play. For one, most people whoa re in a hand have high cards so playing with low cards can deceive the others into thinking you have high cards as well. With suited connectors, you have straight, flush, and any number of possibilities that you couldnt get. My favorite is 6-7 suited. I have won a lot of hands with these cards because people always put me on high cards.
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| Posted by: Kenzie 96 at January 27, 2007, 5:32 am | | Topic: playing Sit & Go blind Forum: Card Chat |
I actually think this is a common playing style online, based of some of the hands I see calling large bets or allins. When playing SNG's I normally cover my hole cards & focus on betting patterns, stack sizes, speed of play & whatnot until it is my turn. Hopefully when I get to a casino to play live this will help me watch the other players instead of just playing my cards.
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| Posted by: masboleh at October 22, 2006, 9:12 am | | Topic: Please Help! Do I have to show my mucked cards? Forum: Card Chat |
Do I have to show my mucked cards?
I was playing in my home poker tourney when this situation occured:
4 players, A, B, C and D were in the pot when player A, acting first bet out after the flop.
Action folded to D who called. Both players checked on the turn.
On the river, A bet and D called. After which, A mucked his cards (declaring D the winner) not wanting the others to know what he had bluffed with.
A slight disagreement broke out from the players who wanted to know A's cards, claiming since he bet first, he should reveal his cards. Whereas A argued that he need not show his cards since he 'surrendered' this game and mucked his cards.
This differs slightly from the all-in scenario. Who is in the right?
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