TehPussyMan Q Q Initial Pot: 0.3

Aoo folds
shab B raises to 0.4
DiiCode calls 0.4
bh72 folds
mediumone folds
TehPussyMan raises to 1.4
shab B calls 1
DiiCode calls 1
### FLOP ### J 2 J Pot: 4.3

TehPussyMan bets 2.5
shab B folds
DiiCode raises to 8.85
TehPussyMan is All in
DiiCode is All in
TehPussyMan shows Q Q
DiiCode shows K 2
### TURN ### A Pot: 39.15

### RIVER ### 5 Pot: 39.15

TehPussyMan wins 1.95 from side pot n°1 with Two pairs, queens and jacks
TehPussyMan wins 37.2 from the main pot with Two pairs, queens and jacks

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BetfairPoker Game 574353111 / Tournament

Table Sodium 169 6-max (Real Money) – 10.09.09 – 19:20

Blinds : 0.1/0.2

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5 players

[SB] BrasilNut (24.02)

[BB] luvmel (4.31)

[1] maddix (10)

[2] Jasperrr (21.66)

[But] TehPussyMan (19.5)
TehPussyMan K K Initial Pot: 0.3

maddix raises to 0.7

Jasperrr folds

TehPussyMan raises to 1.6

BrasilNut folds

luvmel is All in

maddix calls 3.61

TehPussyMan is All in

maddix is All in

maddix shows 5 5

TehPussyMan shows K K

luvmel shows Q 9

### FLOP ### A 4 T Pot: 33.91

### TURN ### 4 Pot: 33.91

### RIVER ### T Pot: 33.91

TehPussyMan wins 9.5 from side pot n°0 with Two pairs, kings and tens

TehPussyMan wins 11.38 from side pot n°1 with Two pairs, kings and tens

TehPussyMan wins 13.03 from the main pot with Two pairs, kings and tens

Few hands later I knocked the last player out with the following hand.

Glad I’m already winning sit and goes this soon, because the shift from cash games to tournaments isn’t an easy one I encountered. It’s an oh so different game But I must not forget to mention that I had some luck on the right moments (I hit some lucky rivers but hey who doesn’t? ) Maybe I’ll be playing some more tournaments on Pokerstars in the future. Thinking about depositing more money on Pokerstars trying to profit from their 300$ reload bonus

Cheers

I must admit, it’s been a while. Been busy with lots of things, not concerning poker. Sometimes I play for a short time at fat bet poker but as I told their hand histories are crap so the few special hands I saw over there, it’s a burden to make a post about them.

Instead of playing poker, I’ve been busy more often with the development of plenty other websites rather than playing or viewing poker. One of the latest websites I created is Online poker shopping. Its purpose is to give some solid reviews about some poker products. I hope you’ll like. It is nice, I like

You’ve very prone to go on steaming, which means you lose your emotional control when things go wrong. This is something you really need to be able to control, it will save you a lot of money. Everyone suffers bad beats from time to time, but if you go on tilt every time you will lose a lot of money and it’ll destroy game.

But there are some things you can do to minimize your damages after suffering a bad beat. The simplest solution is to follow this rule.

This will certainly have some negative affect on your poker action. But … when you’re tilting action is the very last thing you need Don’t take too many risks losing your bankroll Better to break a while than become favourite to lose a few hundred big blinds. Know when to fold!

Some handy tricks …

The rule of four

The rule of two

As you can see, these results will never be extremely accurate, so if you want to be more precise just use the Solomon’s rule.

Solomon’s rule

THE PROBE BET

In general, probe bets are a bit smaller dan the value bets. (1/3 to 1/2 of the pot size). You do probe bets when you believe you don’t have the best but you want to bet for some various reasons. You do it when you want to know where you stand in comparison with your opponents. A probe bet could result in one of the follow outcomes:

• winning the pot

That would be definitely an unexpected result, but you definitely won’t complain

• getting in control of the hand

By taking the lead in betting yourself and establishing yourself as the main man in the pot, it’s possible you may get a free card or two on later streets.

• avoiding larger bets

Players with a decent hand are more likely to bet first in the pot, than to raise an initial better. By betting first, you could convince an opponent to just call rather than betting a larger amount. This enables you to see the turn or river at a cheaper price.

• chase out the weakest

With a bet you could convince a couple of opponents to throw their bad hands away, rather than call with hands that might have beaten you with a lucky draw. And believe me, by just checking this happens a lot :p

THE VALUE BET

Value bets you make when you believe you’ve got the best hand and you just would like to spice the pot a bit. You don’t need absolute certainty before contemplating a valuebet. Except when having the absolute nuts in your hands, your belief of having the best hand at the table is just a well-thought guess. In poker however, you have to act on these kind of guesses so in this case, you will just bet. A normal value bet is usually in the range of half the pot to the whole pot

What are the distinct possible goals of making a value bet?

• Getting more money into the pot when you’re a favourite

One of the primary goals in poker is to build big pots when being favourite, and to keep the pot small when you’re less likely to win. A value bet can accomplish this first goal.

• Chasing away hands better than yours

If you are wrong and you don’t actually have the best hand right now, a bet might still chase away somebody with a slightly better hand. That way you could win a pot you wouldn’t have caught elsewise.

• Denying proper odds to drawing hands

If you have the best hand at this time, but an opponent has a good draw to beat you and you bet an amount which denies him good odds they have two choices. The obvious option is to fold, but in the other case they voluntarily put some extra value in the pot. Then you just hope they don’t hit, but in the long term these kind of drawers will earn you a nice profit :p

• Taking control of the hand

If you bet, you say to the others at the poker table you have a good hand. It sends out some kind of authority ^^
It could prevent some of your opponents to bet on the turn or the river, despite maybe having a better hand than you have. In that case you’ll get the opportunity to see a free card.

Principle no. 1 : The Strength principle

In general, you want to bet your strong hands, check your mediocre hands, and fold (or sometimes bluff) with your weakest hands

That wouldn’t be too hard not? Obviously you want to bet your very strong hands to build a bigger pot when you’re likely to win. Your middle hands you better check because it’s harder to make money when you bet these. Better hands than yours are likely to call or raise, while weak hands probably fold. Folding your weakest hands is quite obvious. Bluffing with your weakest hands might be not so obvious, but then again if the bluff works you’ve gained value from a hand that had none

Principle no.2: the agression principle

Agressive actions have two possible outcomes: your opponent could fold to your bet, or he could call your bet and you can win at the showdown. Passive actions in contrary has just one, at the showdown. 2 > 1

Principle no.3: the betting principle

A bet can thus make money in three ways. If you can chase away a better hand, you won a pot you normally would have lost. If you get a weaker hand to call, you’ve got more money into the pot. Same goes to let somebody call a draw at unfavorable odds If you don’t think a bet could accomplish one of these things, just don’t bet :p

Principle no.4: the deception principle

This is quite clear. Be surprising, don’t act predictively! In order to be succesful at poker, you need your opponents to keep guessing about your bets.