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Hi all, Thought a good 'concept' type thread might be a discussion of how we should incorporate villians stack size into hero's decision making....

I'm trying to work on my note taking so here are two hands from the same villain. What notes would you make on him? (At the start of Hand 1 he was...

Is this a good spot? Villain is 34/4/1.2 after 100 hands. Seems like a standard loose passive fish. Will call Q high flops to the end with KQ,...

Which book is better for learning cash games? Harrington on Cash Games or Professional No limit hold'em I'm currently finishing the promotion...

OK these are two concepts I think I'm having trouble with. Firstly 3 betting AQ... is it ever the "correct play"? It seems whenever I 3 bet AQ im...

I'd only been at the table for 10 hands or so but both villains had seen at least 7 of the flops and had multiple show downs with the worst hand. On...

hello. my PT3 HUD wont give me any popup stats but i still get the table stats (vpip, pfr, afq). i'm sure its the simple ticking of a box somewhere...

I had already planned to open this hand for 4BB with the limper but the super tight players raise turned my play into a call. When the maniac shoved...

64/7 but I found out about that after this hand. As played no reads. Ax,5x,6x,poketpairs, buch of those hands with one club and some air donk the...

A bit of background is that on the 3rd hand atthe table I got it all in with a set of 5's and took down a $3.75 profit.On my 11th hand I raised K2s...

Villian is TAGish. Not a real big sample as of yet. 14/7 0% 3bet over 65 hands. After his min3bet I'm thinking JJ+, AK. My image is fairly tight so I...

Where are my leaks?

hi, just want to know if my brother can make an account using my computer in the same poker room.

UTG (39/17/1.1) and MP3 (88/6/0.9) were both pretty terrible. The other two opps were extremely passive, so I knew it would be easy for me to tell...

Was this hand played correctly? Is this hand a bad beat or a rough beat for one of these guys? Say you just join a table, have no reads on anyone,...

I can't recall the post, but one of the most useful pieces of info I've found on this site was in regards to playing pps against someone you can...

Anybody know how to make a 'minimal hands required' for a specific stat? Like when you only want the HUD to show you a certain stat once you have a...

Villain is a 67/4.76/afq: 52/ AF: 1.20 type. Did i play this hand correctly against this player. I have much difficulty with these kind of...

Starting a session off like this a few weeks ago would have sent me on a HUGE downward spiral. But today I just kept my head calm and reminded...

Villain is 47/26 (about 400 hands) and is not positionally aware. He plays the same range from every position. Limps too much, calls too much, 3bets...

For those of you using statistical tracking software. If you have a reasonably large sample of hands (say, 25,000 or more at a particular level on...

Villain is a weak/tightish 20/10. I expect him to have PPs almost always when he calls the flop and maybe some high Ax hands, and the board is so...

Here is another hand I played terribly. Villain is a complete maniac. 85/50 through 68, with 63% Agg. He could literally have anything. But of all...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com MP2 ($2.23) CO ($3.18) Button ($1.21) Hero...

Villain is 22/17 over 36 He's been fairly active preflop, taking down a lot of pots uncontested, no real reads other than that. My thoughts: ...

villain has a pfr of 8 and a c-bet percentage of 84 Absolute Poker (Cash Game): $0.01/$0.02 NL, 7 players Mon, Oct 19, 2009 05:49:34 EDT...

VIllian is one of those 16/9 types. Hands that I was trying to get value from are likely not raising me on the river. KJ,AQ,QJ,TJ,99. Those hands I...

A few $2NL hands I was unsure if played correctly? Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.02 BB (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from...

Villian is 49/32/52 with 88% cbet, and 11% fold to cbet and 44% raise vs Cbet Preflop: It's really hard for me to come up with a realistic range...

Button is 32/5 over 22 hands, so not much to go on. No notes. I've been running at 25/11 over 65 hands at this table. PokerStars No-Limit...

Villain is very loose and pretty aggro postflop (50/3/5). I built my stack against him maybe 15 hands earlier with this hand. PokerStars No-Limit...

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) Villain is 35/28 over 54, attempt to steal is 69%. How would you have played it? Hero (BB) ($50) UTG...

Another big pot with the same villain as my Calculation Check thread. Over 196 hands he's 86/29/2. Sees over 80% of flops. A large portion of...

3bet sizing should be 1-2bb more, flop and turn looks standard? my thinking on the river bet is that i may get a call from hands like 77-99 that...