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to everyone that plays long session cash games online i was wondering do all of you use poker calculators like holdem genius or texas calculatem?

No..just learn to do the math yourself and its 1000x more useful than an application

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well I know how to do math but when playing long sessions i tend to lose focus alot

i think alot of that comes down to practise.

Also i recently started 2 tabling and i find i can concentrate MUCH longer playing 2 tables than i can playing 1 table.
Also it isnt too many tables for me to stop concentrating on what cards/ bets each player is playing.

Usuing a calculator at the poker table is like jumping on Neil Armstrong's back during a marathon. You may win but you won't learn how to do it yourself and look like a dweeb in the process.

Originally Posted by BankItPayette

Usuing a calculator at the poker table is like jumping on LANCE Armstrong's back during the TOUR DE FRANCE. You may win but you won't learn how to do it yourself and look like a dweeb in the process.

FYP... unless you meant heading to the moon with Neil

Originally Posted by BankItPayette

Usuing a calculator at the poker table is like jumping on Neil Armstrong's back during a marathon. You may win but you won't learn how to do it yourself and look like a dweeb in the process.

damn naturaltan who is that in your avatar?

Originally Posted by BankItPayette

Usuing a calculator at the poker table is like jumping on Neil Armstrong's back during a marathon. You may win but you won't learn how to do it yourself and look like a dweeb in the process.

New sig coming up

That cracks me up.

It's one small step for man.. and then another small step for man... and then... jeez i still got 20 miles of this shit left and there's some dumb fuck on mah back who thinks i'm a cyclist.

Originally Posted by Silent7

That cracks me up.

It's one small step for man.. and then another small step for man... and then... jeez i still got 20 miles of this shit left and there's some dumb fuck on mah back who thinks i'm a cyclist.

You don't do a marathon on a bike, my friend.

Originally Posted by lamaros

Originally Posted by Silent7

That cracks me up.

It's one small step for man.. and then another small step for man... and then... jeez i still got 20 miles of this shit left and there's some dumb fuck on mah back who thinks i'm a cyclist.

You don't do a marathon on a bike, my friend.

I do and I havent lost yet

Originally Posted by lamaros

You don't do a marathon on a bike, my friend.

Right. But the guy's obviously talking about lance armstrong. Neil is an astronaut.

Maybe you're joking and I don't realize it. That happens to me a lot.

Originally Posted by sejje

The guy's obviously talking about lance armstrong. Neil is an astronaut.

Isn't Lance Armstrong the porn star? He was on someone else's back.... I heard.

hehe.. oh man.. i meant Lance. but u get my point.

Originally Posted by STIdrivr

damn naturaltan who is that in your avatar?

that would be Katie Price ... or better known as Jordan, the British Wonder

She wears her right hand well.

Yes she does ...

Originally Posted by Reggggy

to everyone that plays long session cash games online i was wondering do all of you use poker calculators like holdem genius or texas calculatem?

Hmm... I mostly play NL RG's and STT's and according to my experience these so called pot odds calculators lika Holdem Genius, Poker Pal and Texas Caculatem and primarily for use in Limit holdem where a strictly matematical approach can make you farly succesfull or at least not loose that much.

In NL where you can loose your hole stack in one hand the most important thing is to play thight-aggressive, by aggressive I mean selective aggresion by wich I mean to know when to push a good hand and also when to fold it, that reguire two important skills that no pott odds calculator in the world can give. They can actually make you play like a fish if you aren't carefull, so stick to low-limit holdem if your reading skills suck and you have to use a pot odds calculator.

You have to read your opponent and correctly place him on a hand and you have to be able to play the player (Even if your matematical chance of winning is only 5%, your real VC could well be 70% if you make a raise aganist an opponent wich you think has a better hand than yours but not a monster and will fold to your raise most times in those situations.

The only software I know of that can help you with that is profiling software like Poker Tracker, Poker Office and similar so buy one of them instead and learn to use and interpet the information they give you correctly, practice makes perfect as they say.

BTW! Nice avatar rubixstreub