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a.8 9 J You hold 88. b.7 8 9 You hold 77

$10NL. I raised the standard 4xBB when limped to me in MP w/ AKo. Folded round to SB, who pushed for $11.30 making it HU. I had about $10 behind me....

Hi, I've been lurking on this forum for a couple of months now, and it has been invaluable in helping me improve my game. I was amazed to find the...

I don't have a HH, but it's a pretty easy hand to remember. I was playing on Stars this weekend, .01/.02 NL FR. I had just sat down a few hands...

I gotta tell ya, I don't see a lot of replies or ratings on these free vids that FTR is providing for the benifit of the beginners. As an example, In...

My first $100 to be played online should be available in epassporte tonight. I'm trying to determine the best place to deposit it to begin. Keep...

Hey guys, haven´t posted for a couple of weeks. I took two weeks off poker poker after finding myself in the freefall dropping 2k at the end of...

After reading through the threads about the latest saga @ AP via 2+2, here and abroad, it occurred to me... If I'd have spent the past little...

The laptop should be cheap (max $1.5k). I want to be able to 4table comfortably on the pokerroom skin. (non resizeable tables). is 1440x900...

Me and another FTR poster were having a pretty interesting talk about the concept of betting into the preflop raiser in NLHE. My default play has...

This is prolly a 101 question, but f- it... why stop asking them now...? "It seems"* that 60+% of the time that I flop a set the board also...

$10NL UB. Villain is TPA. I limp the 99 from the button because the pot is so MW so I'm looking for a set. Hit it on the flop on a very drawie board....

This is first hand from a 3.40. Not only are these easy to beat they are quite entertaining PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20...

Curious what your thinking is on playing pocket jacks or tens pre-flop in full ring. Do you play them more like QQ or 88? To date I have done the...

Okay long story short I signed up for an account on Bodog and used phony information because: 1) I wanted to play online poker for some...

Villain is 29/1/1 over about 70 hands..... What do you do on the turn? I wonder if I really beat anything at that point.... Full Tilt No-Limit...

At Stars the 5NL and 10NL games have blinds of 0f .01/.02 and .02/.05 respectively. I'm wondering how one should change their approach as opposed to...

I have come across some new posters recently that seem to be iffy on the basic rules of HE. If I were to start a video series of myself showing...

Other relevant stats: attempt to steal blinds is 30.1% flop af 4.82 turn af 2.27 riveraf 2.20 totalaf 3.53 My observations:

Okay... so i done looked at how much I spent on Rakeback re: Poker Tracker numbers... m-f--a be at like at 80 something dollars. I figure if I'd...

I'm moving money between poker accounts a little, and am likely to be doing it a lot more often. At the moment I'm simply using my credit card but...

How do you get the graphs in PT where they show the $ per so many hands?

....so at what point does it make sense for me to start posting HHs in the NL Hold 'Em Hand Histories Forum? No ego issues... I can post in the...

Is it possible to be a professional Sit N Go player? I've been tracking my winning/losing and it's amazing how much better i am at Sit N Gos than...

I have been playing very aggro. Villain has floated me a few times before or minraised my flop bets (where I fold). PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em,...

I was pretty pissed after the following hand, it was the second time from the same player, same table. Both time villain returned in time for the...

So it seemed tonight that just above every AK, AQ, AJ, KQ I PFR'd missed the flop. (okay, so that' s an exaggeration.... but at least 70%...) After a...

what kind tournaments is best to start with? What sites offer most freeroll tournaments? Thanks for advice

Agree/Disagree?

I play some very loose micro NL games and in those games there are often up to 5 limpers for the flop. what odds do I need... to play two...

Ok, I was bored at work, thinking about what it would mean to me to leave the cubicle life for good. While I know there is another thread open about...

I've started playing some FR sometimes simply because I'm able to play a lot more tables than when I play 6-max, which equals to more $/hour....

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