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I sometimes play microstakes/small stakes NHLE for fun and I'm a winning player over several hundred thousand hands. I miss when online poker was super easy and most players online were loose/passive instead of huge nits. That said, I haven't really studied or followed poker for a few years. Will poker ever be popular enough amongst idiots again for people to be able to be profitable online without understanding poo poo like 3-betting with a polarized range and floating to the turn in position when up against a continuation bet? Or is it impossible to put a cap on the glut of poker knowledge that exists? What's your current BB/100 now compared to before Black Friday? What's your opinion on the effect that Let There Be Range had? antiga posted:What books do you recommend for a casual (1/2) casino player to improve? How much will playing online (in the US so potentially not real money games) help play in person? I am guessing that you're a typical casino player, which means you try to put people on single hands and don't know what c-betting is or why bluffing is good, so I guess read Let There Be Range. You'll be playing against significantly better people when playing something like 5NL online compared to 200NL live -- they will be tighter, more aggressive, and will probably have some understanding of position. It won't help during Friday night games when family pots are common and people are there to throw chips around and have a good time (provided you're just playing ABC poker then), but when the table is less wild and you're doing something other than waiting to flop the best hand and get all of your money in the middle as fast as possible, it will help a lot probably.
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Thank you for answering my questions, OP
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Has anybody watched the documentary on the Ultimatebet/Absolute Poker superuser scandal? I want to see it but forget what it's called. The short story is that you can google people's usernames on poker sites, and there are public sites that track (approximately) what their results have been. There was a user on Absolute Poker whose profits were at an unsustainable level over a sample size where it would be statistically impossible to maintain that much profit. Some people from, I think, 2+2 looked into it and started setting traps for the person to see if they were cheating and could somehow see other players' cards, playing hands in a way that the person would only continue if they were cheating (I recall something where they called a big bluff with a hand that was the second worst hand possible, while the person playing them had the worst possible hand). Eventually it was discovered that people running the sites had the ability to set up superuser accounts that could see all of their opponents' cards, but the details beyond that are muddy to me. Keg fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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mostlygray posted:I find being really irritating as a good way to bluff. Like mentioning to people at the table when you catch yourself in a tell. Like "Hey, I just noticed that I fan my cards differently when I have a so-so hand." Talk tons of poo poo all the time. My brother in law likes to call out the cards that are in play in community games to make it seem like he can truly count cards. He can't, but it puts people on edge. I like to call out things like "third card down is the 3 of clubs" because I'll see them as I shuffle. I then have someone else cut the cards and even ask that they re shuffle if they're concerned. I never, ever, cheat. I just want them to concentrate on making sure I don't cheat instead of thinking about the game. Make it seem like I'm magically controlling the deck. Wow, that's a very good strategy.
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Keg posted:Wow, that's a very good strategy. By the way... I was bluffing 
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Jun 14, 2016 18:40
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My unfair edge during the Party Poker days was having a huge pokertracker DB mined from a few weeks when I'd just leave a bunch of tables going while importing hands into pokertracker. I think close to when Neteller shut down, Party stopped generating hand histories on tables where you weren't sitting, but until then it was pretty great being able to load up the game and search through a list of people who were absurdly passive and loose.
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Sheep-Goats posted:It's also not okay to be selling poker books for hundred or sometimes thousands of dollars like some people have done in the past. Didn't everybody just steal Let There Be Range, anyway?
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