mrpompos

if you're getting break even pot odds you can justify the call to a degree so to be honest is there such a thing as a hero call? Is it not just the right call and the wrong call?

how do u tag a hand?

I've got some advice. don't play the rocky soundtrack, makes u play like an overly-aggresive donkey. Make ur own playlist for poker, play for an hour with play money chips to test if you can concentrate. Its about balance too because anything trance or background sound might do the opposite of help you concentrate and literally put u in a trance. Just a thought.

I know I realized thats what I was trying to do and have corrected it. Thanks

Thanks I get what you are both saying

yeah but I am the one with QQ so obviously I posted as a bad beat not a brag lol

shark cage = drink

yeah I see what you mean but technically I was trying to get worse hands to call or better hands to fold (that is what the bluff is). I did put the bluff card out because who would ever expect 7 high to call me? if I'm called by worse than 8 high it's implied that he was wrong to call. But I guess its cause he didn't care about the chips and wanted me to go in the cage instead :S Fuk it never playing that game again lol

be careful playing zoom you don't get in the habit of increasing volume and not how good you play. That is my advice and I think normal tables are easier as you can get a read and not only a read but a feel for the table dynamics. In zoom there are not many times to bluff, semibluff or get tricky, as people either have it or zoom off to another table. I'm not a pro but I've got alot better recently by improving my bet sizing. Also I have to recommend this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPtVEfuUdkk and then watch part 2 after!

started with 1500 chips blinds at 20/40 it was a winnertakesall £5 freeroll. I don't have money to play with atm so trying to get a bankroll from freerolls. I think 4x might have got him to fold but I'm not sure. post flop only thing I could do better is check and fold the flop knowing I should've made it bigger preflop. I mean should you continue with the story you meant to tell or give up as soon as you realise the mistake? What do you guys do when you make mistakes? 

it was a freeroll so yeah they probs call with garbage and I could've made it 640 but sometimes they call with garbage for any amount lol

why is this a fist pump call? What hands are we beating if not flipping with?

I think you should just call pre like you did to disguise ur hand and keep him making mistakes postflop because you could 3bet but then he doesn't make as many mistakes post. bet the flop is a good idea, he calls with anything, check the turn as if you're giving up, if he bets check raise, if not then you can bet for value on the river. That is my opinion for how to play it, but I've had more than 15 seconds to think about it lol

cool so you've worked out that its ok to 3bet or call with PP in the blinds, but you would like to know which is better, and other hands I guess you need to take more care when bluffing or taking to showdown. I would guess these "other hands" have less implied odds and less reverse implied odds I just think its doesn't make a difference if you're 3-betting them anyway. 

Yeah I agree. So you don't think implied odds with pairs (hitting a set) is good enough to just check because you have less reverse implied also? So you 3-bet to get extra value, is that what you're saying?

Thanks yeah I agree and its also the postflop playability unless you hit a 2 they're all overcards. I still think though it depends on the many other factors including implied odds of hitting a 2 and if you're being 3-bet frequently.

very advanced question which I can't answer but I'd like to be on the journey towards the answer so if you can answer this quick question it would help me a lot. If your equity is 43% doesn't that mean a break even call you need 43% pot odds? That's the way I learnt it; to have the same equity as the pot odds you're being offered. I hope someone can answer you're question although I kind of liked JediMindTricks answer lol

pretty good insight from someone whos new to the game...lol but I really agree. What I suggest as a possible value for limping is that it could make players make mistakes because they're confused by the limp. If you raise you say "I have a good hand" but a limp is more disguised, and if you limp alot people won't know when you limped with a very strong hand and by not raising you force atleast the BB to see a flop and catch what they think is top pair...Personally I would only do it to mess about and have fun with, see what happens lol. In terms of consistently making money though I think raising is optimal.

thanks for this post I look forward to watching that at some point. Recently my favourite is watching Jason Summerville (Jcarver) runitup series. Theres alot of episodes so I doubt many will catch up to date but I would recommend this with Antonio Esfandiari as a guest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBLEWsHS8z8&list=PL0WEgOKoPvBRVL7JIewDYoz1k66uiMrhO&index=22 Also I found an interview with Daniel Negreanu on the radio heres the link: http://jaredtendlerpoker.com/blog/positive-poker-with-daniel-negreanu/

this is what they do for freerolls dunno about cash entryies: 

50% of the fund shared equally among the remaining players
50% distributed
proportionally in line with the players chip counts.

Prize money stage
reached:

Each player is awarded an amount equal to the prize that the
next eliminated player would have received if the tournament was not
interrupted.
Of the remaining prize pool 50% is distributed equally among the
players and 50% is distributed in proportion to their chip counts.

yeah...looks like thats wats gonna happen. forget my position and chip stack cause they don't care about that -_-

thanks I like that advice, I would prefer bet/fold than check behind just cause its a low stakes tournament, want to take risk. oh yeah I can't x/c in position that's how bad I am at poker I don't think of obvious things like that lol when I look back logically it makes sense to bet and then slow down on the river but I tried to slow play instead of being aggressive and making better decisions. big pairs often win small pots and lose big ones so I've heard.