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TPTK=Felt, I'm sure. How do you deal with some one who 3Bets you, or some one who is a light 3Better? Do you even bother trying to deal with them,...

Villain is 33/0 over 9 hands. Seen him OPEN-LIMP Q8o on the Button. Put him all in on the turn? I think I might be able to classify the ace as a...

Hey guys. Since M2M is taking micro/low stakes guys for FR coaching right now, I thought I'd make a parallel thread doing the same for 6-max. A...

Ok so some of us are rebuilding and some have been grinding up the micro/small stakes for some time. We've all been guilty of something or another...

This guy has raised a staggering 1% of hands preflop. Sadly I think his PFR is slightly too big to call. How much would you call here when you...

I'm playing NL10. I'm trying to find situations and reads to be more aggressive and wondering what it will look like in the stats. Current...

Would anyone be intested in reviewing a sessions hand histories once a week or two for me? I could do the same for you and we could talk about...

I want this to be a really cool thread, but it's going to take a little bit of time from whoever is going to post in it. I want everyone that does,...

hey, I played pokers for like 3 years and won every year and most months, supported my family for a while and find myself reducing my volume lately....

How can one tell the difference between someone who is a compulsive gambler or someone who is just trying to learn the game? I have lost a total of...

This has happened twice in the last three days, and it's getting really annoying. The situation was identical. I am dealt KK. A guy raises $1.2 - in...

Everyone wants to be the man at poker. They want to be considered 'good', be a 'winning player,' and absolutely pwn people. They want to have a high...

I just read this on 2+2... normally I don't believe in stuff like this but the evidence is too compelling not to. Everyone who plays at FT should be...

Okay so like check this out. The next person who posts about 20 buyins being enough to move up to the next level of stakes in NLHE is getting kicked...

EDIT: link fixed Hi all, I mostly post in the short handed forum. You may know me from abstract blog posts. You may know me as the guy who I...

***VIDEO*** Here's the video, it's a little over an hour long: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=79DCWANU Lets give it a shot. I will be using...

Rainbow = All three different suits Two tone = Two of the same suit Monotone = Three of the same suit Which happens the most often?

I am currently playing the 25nl on Party, and doing pretty well. I have been running about 8bb/100 over a fairly substantial number of hands (about...

Hey guys and gals! I'll be putting up the links for the videos that I make here periodically. The videos on the FTR page are kinda dated so I thought...

Since this has come up a couple times on this board... Please correct any errors, I only have the equivalent of a minor in math. There are a lot of...

I need other people's help that have already experienced this. here is the problem. THE GIRLFRIEND. she is fed up with me playing, talking and...

Throughout my poker career i have often been reminded that three of a kind beats 2pair. But why i ask you? Listed below are the reasons that i...

Sorry to put this here but I thought this was the best forum for it. Please tell me if these hands are awful or I'm just running bad. I think it's...

I have done this post before. I was new here, and wanted to get some of the valuable information from the regs. I also thought it would be the...

A while back a player named Gary (known here and at Grinderschool as luckyslev1n) joined FTR and subsequently Grinderschool to learn how to turn his...

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bored, go go go. w.e u feel like asking. dont be surprised if u ask me about wimmens if i don't answer tho

Afternoon. Trying hard to figure out where i actually stand with poker now. I recently moved up to 5nl and was KILLING it hard for 3k hands,...

Introduction A dozen or more times a week there are hands posted in this forum that are asking if Hero should call an all-in. I don't even have to...

Recently I had an epiphany about how to maximize winnings (and at the same time, minimizing losses) at lower limit nl holdem. I devised a nearly...

What's a sweat session? A sweat session (or sweating another player) means watching another person play and making comments on their play and...