Re: Texas Hold 'Em When a player at the table wins 2 pots in a row, the limits increase by 50% for the next hands until that players doesn't win a pot. "Kill that players run by increaing the limits"
Re: Texas Hold 'Em I won a satellite into the Party Poker Sunday Million Guaranteed. I played in it today and finished 166th out of 4002! By far my most successful tourney score ever.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em I play a lot of home tourneys with my friends but we always play so that all the chips are woth the same, everyone gets 50 chips to start. What chip set do you guys use with your home tournaments, like how much do you guys make each chip color worth, and how many chips do you guys give out for each person. also how much do you guys make the blinds to start off. basically how do you guys set up your home games ?
Re: Texas Hold 'Em It all depends really. I imagine if you only start with 50 chips and 1/2 SB/BB that would be too low. That means everyone only starts with 25 BBs, and there isn't enough flexibility. I would start with 100 chips per person, and then maybe double the blinds everytime someone gets knocked out. You can also raise them in smaller increments every 30/45 minutes too. I've never hosted a home game, so this is just a guess.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em My home game runs a £10 buy in and you get the equivalent in chips. Three chip types valued at £5, £1 and 25p - each player gets 1x£5 chip, 3x£1 chip and 8x25p chip at the start. We start out with small blind and big blind of the same value (25p) for an hour and then increase to 50p/25p with regular increases every 20 minutes thereafter. Probably should mention that you can re-buy as often as you want for that first hour. First two places in the money with a 2/1 split on the pot - with 7 to 8 regular players first place generally picks up in excess of a £100, enough for a "friendly" game....
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Thanks to Stogey23 for pointing this thread out to me, presumably because I made a couple of vaguely poker-related posts in the USMNT forums. I'm working toward semipro status -- started out in 2004 playing LHE because that's what there were books about at the time. With the NL explosion I've migrated toward that and feel comfortable around 50c-$1 online or $1-2 (occasionally $2-5) live. Actually more comfortable live, heh. I covet the new Miller/Sklansky book but I haven't rewarded myself with it yet (maybe at the end of this week). I also love love love playing the non-hold 'em "serious" games (in other words, Omaha, stud, triple draw, maybe one day I'll learn Badougi, but not so much Baseball or Follow the Queen). I post quite a bit in the 2+2 beginners forum as AKQJ10 -- though the WC has forced a little break -- and I try to contribute to http://poker.wikia.com as I'm able. Too bad time doesn't expand to accomodate hobbies, eh?
Re: Texas Hold 'Em YES! I've been working all spring on that $600 initial deposit bonus from Full Tilt, along with various redeposits from Absolute.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Congrats! Just keep in mind that an ROI of 100% is not sustainable. Offhand I think around 30-40% is considered the theoretical max against really terrible opposition -- which I'm sure it probably is.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Well, it depends on what chip colors you have in your chip set, obviously, but where possible I like to use standard casino colors: T1 white, T5 red, T25 green, T100 black. (The T just stands for "tournament" to indicate we're talking about play money.) If you want you can add one or two zeros to make it sound more exciting (white could be T100), but I would generally keep the ratios the same so that someone used to playing in casinos isn't confused by why the white is more valuable than the green or what have you. The bigger the starting stacks, the more role skill plays instead of luck. Ideally you'd like to start people with at least 50 x the big blind. With the acceleration of blinds the average stack will soon be much shorter than that after a few rounds, and that's where knowing tournaments (versus just knowing how to beat cash games) comes into play. But if you start with short stacks it's just a crapshoot to see who gets good cards before everyone else gets blinded out. I don't play as many home games as I'd like, but recently we played one with T960 stacks (I have no idea why we didn't go to T1000) starting at T1-2 blinds that took a few hours for eight players. I would consider that a slow one-table tournament, but slow is good. IIRC our starting stacks were something like black - 6 x T100 -> T600 green - 12 x T25 -> T300 red - 10 x T5 -> T50 white - 10 x T1 -> T10 And that seemed to work well, although I'd make it a rounder number such as T1000. That's just the basics but if you have deeper questions a good place to ask is http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=home (2+2 Home Games forum).
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Welcome Philip! Ok, so I've been dabbling in 7-Stud just for fun, and in my 2nd hand tonight (just showing my gf the game) I get a ROYAL FLUSH! Interestingly, I've only ever seen ONE before - when my girlfriend got one in Vegas! Funny enough, both of us completed them with J of hearts as the last card. ***** Hand History for Game 4568590922 ***** $0.50/$1 7 Card Stud - Thursday, June 22, 02:30:04 ET 2006 Table Grumpy Bear (Real Money) Seat 0 is the button Total number of players : 8 Seat 1: Poker_prn ( $24.25 ) Seat 2: ramosudaisy ( $168.50 ) Seat 3: pete53 ( $19.25 ) Seat 4: bennyburns10 ( $8.32 ) Seat 5: kevinlim ( $23.75 ) Seat 6: ShxtHappen ( $14.59 ) Seat 8: mortazar ( $25.75 ) Seat 7: stogey23 ( $24.75 ) Poker_prn posts ante [$0.25]. ramosudaisy posts ante [$0.25]. bennyburns10 posts ante [$0.25]. kevinlim posts ante [$0.25]. ShxtHappen posts ante [$0.25]. stogey23 posts ante [$0.25]. mortazar posts ante [$0.25]. ** Dealing ** Dealt to stogey23 [ Th Tc Ah ] kevinlim opens. kevinlim bring-ins [$0.25]. ShxtHappen folds. stogey23 completes [$0.50]. mortazar folds. Poker_prn calls [$0.50]. ramosudaisy folds. bennyburns10 calls [$0.50]. kevinlim calls [$0.25]. ** Dealing Fourth street ** Dealt to stogey23 [ Kh ] stogey23 opens. stogey23 bets [$0.50]. Poker_prn calls [$0.50]. bennyburns10 calls [$0.50]. kevinlim calls [$0.50]. ** Dealing Fifth street ** Dealt to stogey23 [ Ad ] stogey23 opens. stogey23 bets [$1]. Poker_prn calls [$1]. bennyburns10 folds. kevinlim calls [$1]. ** Dealing Sixth street ** Dealt to stogey23 [ Qh ] stogey23 opens. stogey23 bets [$1]. Poker_prn calls [$1]. kevinlim calls [$1]. ** Dealing River ** Dealt to stogey23 [ Jh ] stogey23 opens. stogey23 bets [$1]. Poker_prn folds. kevinlim calls [$1]. stogey23 shows [ Th, Tc, Ah, Kh, Ad, Qh, Jh ] Royal Flush. kevinlim shows [ 6s, Ks, 4h, Qs, Js, 4s, 2s ] a flush, king high. stogey23 wins $13 from the main pot with Royal Flush.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Hi there! Came across this thread today and wanted to share my poker experiences. My friends and I play a Hold Em tournament every Thursday evening. It's a $20 buy in and we all get: 20 white chips ($.05 each) 15 red chips ($.10 each) 10 blue chips ($.25 each) and 10 black chips ($1.00 each) I know this only adds up to $15 in chips and I'm not sure why we do it this way....maybe we didn't have enough chips for an even $20 for everyone?? We usually have 10-12 players and we pay out the top 4. 4th gets their buy in back, 3rd gets $40, and 1st and 2nd split the rest depending on how many players we had. If it was 12, for example, then it would be $80 for 2nd, $100 for 1st. Blinds start at $.15/$.30 and double every 1/2 hour. After $1.20/$2.40 though we switch to $2/$4 and the small blind goes up by $1 and big is double the small blind ($3/$6 for example) perhaps for the sake of less confusion?? I'm one of 2 girls who regularly plays and I make the top 4 on a pretty consistant basis. I'm HORRIBLE at heads up though, so if anyone has any tips I would greatly appreciate them!!!
Re: Texas Hold 'Em My biggest suggestion for anyone here is to go to the beginners forum (you have to scroll down to find it) at http://www.twoplustwo.com and start posting there. I still learn so much, and in many ways I'm still just a beginner after two years. To your specific question very briefly: Heads up you need to be MUCH more agressive. Even a junk hand like Q8o is going to have value heads up. It's something of a crap shoot, because you may push your A9o (a good hand HU, junk in a full ring game) and get called by AJ and be in serious trouble, but that's how you've gotta play.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em I agree that you have to be very agressive in heads up. Plus you really have to watch the blinds relative to you chips. You can't wait too long and let the blinds eat your stack.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Got real deep in a Party $22 400-person tourney last night. Ended up with terrible table position (all the big stacks in the tourney were at one table!), and finished 16th when my TT got called by KQ. I flopped a set, he flopped the nut straight.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em I once had my set of tens get drawn out on by top pair of kings, jack kicker, at Foxwoods. Brick and mortar poker is so rigged. Seriously, play enough hands and you'll see everything. And it's a lot easier to play more hands, and hence see quads get beat by a straight flush, online than it is in person.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Two plus two is great, but there can be a lot of insecure jerks there. I'm not sure what the beginner's forums are like, though. I only lurk there. If there is one thing I would recommend to anyone that would improve their HU play, and in fact their NLHE play in general, it would be to buy Harrington on Hold 'em Volumes I and II. It deals with all aspects of hold 'em, including Heads Up play. Also recommend Small Stakes Hold 'em. Both books published by two plus two publishing.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Yeah, I figured BigSoccer fans would feel right at home. No, seriously, many of us who are active in the beginner's forum try to make it more friendly. It's far different than the rest of the site. Great suggestion! v. 2 is more on-target for heads-up. Great book, but discussing limit hold 'em. Miller and Sklansky have a new NLHE book out that's pretty good.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em I haven't gotten the NLHE book yet, but I'm re-reading SSHE on the metro when I'm coming home from work these days, and I find it has so many good points on things like how to evaluate hands in various situations that you can adapt it to NLHE fairly well. A lot of very good NLHE players swear by it. Personally, as far as NLHE goes, I've found HOH to be really worth the money in terms of knowledge gained (my very limited bankroll doesn't allow me to put it to full use though). There's a vIII on the way. Have you read it? It may not be out yet.
Re: Texas Hold 'Em Got it a little early for the World Cup, and the 166th place finish in the Party Poker Million took care of the rest.
