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03.12.10
Posted in Funy Center, Gaming World, Lucky Web at 12:00 pm by admin
I was playing a MTT poker online game and had to be somewhere else a few hours into the casino game. I packed up my laptop and jumped into my car 5 minutes or so before the next break was about to begin. The blinds were still small and no antes had been introduced, so I figured it was worth a shot. The other place I had to be was coincidentally another online poker game. If I got there early, I could hook up to their wifi and continue playing. In about a half hour or so I was able to reconnect to my game and had only lost about 700 chips. Though it wasn’t a huge dent in my stack, the inability to add to my stack was the bigger problem. I was average stacked and was now looking for a double up. Nothing was going my way and I found myself getting shorter and shorter as the blinds went up. We were approaching the bubble and I was looking for a good spot to shove and pick up blinds and antes or even double up. With less than 10 big blinds I was put in a strange situation. Blinds were 200/400/50 and I had 3200. UTG+1 I am dealt Ad-10h. In normal circumstances, this is an auto-shove, but the UTG player takes the play away from me. He bets 2,294. I see this as a desperate short stack shove. He’s about to hit the blinds and wants to get a raise in with a decent hand and decide that my ace probably has him dominated. I shove. Everyone folds and then the UTG player still is given a chance to act. He still had 5,000 or so chips behind his bet, but his awkward bet size looked like an all-in to me. He then calls with AA and takes me out 16 places away from the money. If I had known he was opening UTG with chips behind, and not short stack shoving, I would never have moved in. This play is so much stronger when he has chips behind. Unfortunate for me, but I should have been paying more attention. Instead I was playing poker online and live at the same time!
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11.17.09
Posted in Funy Center, Gaming World, Lucky Web at 10:13 am by admin
In the continually recursive logic of a discerning poker player, most any hand could be boiled down to the back and forth between players of “What does he think I’m trying to do?” vs. “What do I think he thinks I’m trying to do?” Across the board, the more often you can act out of the mold of what your opponent thinks you will do, and thereby get him to respond to your actions incorrectly, the more money you will win on a pot by pot basis.
Most of the time, the more basic player’s mindset is that whatever you act like is what you’re not. Because online poker is based on deception, it is expected then that if you hit, you are going to act like you didn’t, and if you don’t hit, you’ll act like you did.
For this reason, when acting out of position on a flop that you’ve connected with, it can often be profitable, especially against aggressive players at the casino, to lead out betting with your hand. Because the other player would imagine that if you had a monster you’d check and let them bet, the betting out seems to signify that you are weak. This reversal of roles can throw that important wrench up your opponent’s read, leaving him unsure where you’re really at, and perhaps more likely to pay to find out.
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02.02.09
Posted in Funy Center, Gaming World, Lucky Web at 11:03 am by admin
Online poker is all about making the most logical decision based on incomplete information. There is no excuse to let irrational thoughts sway your decision to play, raise, call or fold. But many poker players still let muddled thinking ruin their game.
Muddle thinking comes in all kinds of forms. First, there is old-fashioned superstition, which has no place in poker. Players often refuse to acknowledge that randomness is the rule at the poker table, and instead attribute their losses to other outside forces. It’s not uncommon to see people get up and grab another seat in the belief that it will change their luck; or to claim a particular dealer always delivers cold cards, even though each dealer is bound to practice random shuffling techniques. Some people are superstitious about numbers and will only sit at certain tables or seats. All of this is wishful, magical thinking that has no impact on the game of poker, and will only interfere with logical decision making.
Players also let coincidence muddle their thinking. For instance, folding suited connectors pre-flop because you just won with a flush, so don’t believe you can win with another right away, is plain foolish. The cards are always random and one hand does not influence the next.
Each new hand has no connection to the preceding round, and should be played according to sound logic based on the cards, position and other players’ patterns. Any time you credit outside forces for your results at poker, you are setting yourself up to make poor decisions and ultimately painful losses.
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09.19.08
Posted in Funy Center, Gaming World, Shopping Stuff at 12:52 pm by admin
Entering online sweepstakes by mail is going down in well known popularity this month.
Translated it means: Leef je in Wormerland of Boxmeer en wil je vaker prijzen winnen’ Met Win de prijsvraag.nl winnen is nog nooit zo gemakkelijk geweest. Geweldige prijzen winnen met de site van windeprijsvraag.nl‘ Vaak 307 prijzen om de week. Van Oss tot Weesp, winnen met Win de prijsvraag.nl kan hier altijd. Een meneer van 65 heeft gisteren nog een LCD TV in de wacht gesleept.
3 months ago also a Europe based online company has started with a online game contest and is also legally differently. Thats fantastic to win electrical tools worth 6587 euro and that easy. That’s why there are super wakeboards to win at online contest and easy sweepstakes this week. Online contests are tempered much more differently than the players who win who are not chosen by run of risk but by an piece of easy skill. Online actions advertised as funny online contests, thus far, can ask an entry fee or evidence of purchase. Internet sweepstakes are also legally totally different from the fun websites in Killeen Texas. Sweepstakes and actions are banned from calling for a bribe to enter. Really anyone can win great micro waves now every 23 days even if you live in Huntsville Alabama or in Bloomington Illinois, isn’t that absolutely fantastic. Cyber sweepstakes are in general much gentler and faster to enter than contest websites. Lots of more online game contests are select to enter online sweepstakes.
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08.15.08
Posted in Funy Center, Gaming World, Lucky Web at 10:53 am by admin
So far I’ve seen table tennis, beach volleyball, and synchronized diving at the Beijing Olympics this year, and every time I ask myself “How is this an Olympic sport?” Lucky for the Olympics I haven’t yet seen badminton, or else I think I’d really flip my lid. But let’s turn things on their heads, shall we? What about Summer Olympics poker?
OK, when you’re done laughing, listen up. I can wait. Pillar of patience, I am.
Anyway, Summer Olympics poker would at least be as watchable as speed walking, which involves people walking as fast as they can without having more than one foot in the air at any given time. Seriously, it exists, and people take it very seriously. They even have flags and penalties and judges. Three two-footers in the air, and you are OUT. I’m also out. Out cold, because I fell asleep writing about speed walking.
In that light, Olympic poker would be a great substitute for walking, or maybe synchronized swimming, which is equally worthless, in my opinion.
Poker would be a cool event because it could potentially last the length of the Summer games. Announcers could periodically check in for grate hands, just as they do on TV now anyway. So, let’s have it. Summer Olympics poker for the win!
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