| Posted by: mendozaline at August 24, 2007, 6:51 pm | | Topic: Here are some observations from playing Sit n Go’s and MTT's, and tips of my own Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by eaglelite
Can't understand this statement
What I'm saying is that there are many good books out there (which everyone should read at least five or more) that will saturate you pretty quickly with the poker theory side of the problem. But think about it for a second. If two people both knew all the same things (a stretch, I know, but go with me just for the sake of the point I'm trying to get at), then who would win, and what would it boil down to? Would it boil down to strickly luck? I think partially but not totally. It's the part that's not luck and not poker theory that I'm talking about. To get a flavor for what I'm getting at, go to a 10-20 to maybe 200-400 (play money, and you'll need a good supply of chips) heads-up table at your favorite online site. Play about a half hour a day for a couple of weeks. They'll be times when you can't lose, and times when you can't win, and the action is fast and furious. You have no time for calculating odds o... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: aliengenius at August 24, 2007, 5:19 pm | | Topic: Here are some observations from playing Sit n Go’s and MTT's, and tips of my own Forum: Card Chat |
Overall this seems to be an argument for tight preflop play at lower stakes (especially out of position), and in that regard it's a decent argument, even though some of the math is a bit off (an ace doesn't flop 30% of the time when you have one in your hand).
However, this entire 'mentality' seems not to understand the concept of implied odds (?!?!: "77’s and 88’s should also be folded about 80-90% of the time on a raise").
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| Posted by: Chris_TC at August 24, 2007, 10:52 am | | Topic: Here are some observations from playing Sit n Go’s and MTT's, and tips of my own Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by twizzybop
Yet now you need 4 cards to make that hand 100%. Odds are that you probably won’t make that hand. You have a 16% to get that card on the turn and then 8% to get it on the river.
I only read the first few parts, but make sure you understand that the odds of hitting a 4-outer on the turn are ~9% (not 16%), and on the river ~9% as well, for a TOTAL of 18% (if you see both the turn and the river).
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| Posted by: eaglelite at August 24, 2007, 10:48 am | | Topic: Here are some observations from playing Sit n Go’s and MTT's, and tips of my own Forum: Card Chat |
"Here are some observations from playing sit n go’s and mtt, along with some tips of my own
Well some people don’t care and still play at the any 2 cards can win mentality.
Don’t know why they do, need I care? Not really cause in the long run that mentality will lose much, much more. These are also the same people who never think about Position."
totally agree with the above statement, trying to shake that mentality off.
Quote: Originally Posted by mendozaline
I don't want to be critical, but this stuff is all out there in many books. This stuff all falls in the category of poker theory, and is alid, but remember poker isn't really so much a game of cards as it is a game of people played with cards. How one goes beyond the cards to the situation presented is the real question.
Can't understand this statement
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| Posted by: twizzybop at January 20, 2006, 2:55 am | | Topic: Here are some observations from playing Sit n Go’s and MTT's, and tips of my own Forum: Card Chat |
By the way this is basically a rough draft.. had someone edit this once for me. Check mistakes I made, which I still see there are a few up there. I even put it through spell checker and it changed a lot. So I am open to new suggestions/ideas cause I know I need to add some more to it. Any and all opinions are ery much welcomed and ty for any of them.
The copy and paste is basically what chopped some of it up..but all in all for someone who doesn't write ery well, has great sentence structure, and even english composition problems. I think I did ok(looking for assurance which I shouldn't but just something I wanted to do). Something I hardly do is write an article, I do poems pretty good though.
Anyway..asking just for opinions and suggestions
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| Posted by: twizzybop at January 19, 2006, 7:25 pm | | Topic: Here are some observations from playing Sit n Go’s and MTT's, and tips of my own Forum: Card Chat |
Here are some observations from playing sit n go’s and mtt, along with some tips of my own.
Well some people don’t care and still play at the any 2 cards can win mentality.
Don’t know why they do, need I care? Not really cause in the long run that mentality will lose much, much more. These are also the same people who never think about Position.
For instance I will take a marginal hand the Ace, 10Decent hand, not great, not bad but O.K hand, becomes a little better when suited but still O.K ’ve seen people raise Under the Gun and you are 1st to act with a whole bunch of others behind you. If you want to raise with this hand do it in the late positions. I personally hate the hand cause it doesn’t have a lot of potential, well for me it doesn’t. But back to what I was saying, ok you raise UTG and lets say you get 3 callers. Flop shows KH, JH,8D and you have AS 10C.
Assuming you play your hand out to the end, it will consist of seven cards. After the flop you have seen five cards... | | Read Entire Entry |
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