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PeterL asks,
the following hand, I think I played the river badly and missed some bets. I know if I went to 2+2 they would say I played it well.
But I believe SSHE would reccomend betting for value here.
PokerRoom 0.15/0.30 Hold’em (8 handed)
Preflop: Hero is CO with 9 , 8 Q&A #43: A Scare Card [...]
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Richard asks,
I thought I would bring up [...]
T.J. asks,
It is an AA overpair hand in a 6-way capped flop, reasonably similar to your KK example in SSHE. (Original hand post can be found here.)
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Preflop: Hero is [...]
setosevens asks,
Hi Ed.� What a great site.
I’ve got a hand here that a friend of mine played online the other night and we had a bit of a disagreement about it.� I was fairly confident about what the best play was, but it differed from how he played Q&A #21: Protecting Top Pair [...]
This article was written in January 2005 for the Two Plus Two Internet Magazine in response to a series of articles in CardPlayer written by Jim Brier. You can read the first article of the series here. To read the other articles, click on the “Previous” link at the Responding to Jim Brier|77|3.95|USD|| [...]
Tags: bluffing, cardplayer, ev, expectation, expected-value, jim-brier, limit-holdem, middle-pair, pocket-pair, poker, poker-books, raising-with-middle-pair, small-stakes-holdem, sshe, suited-hands, two-plus-two, twoplustwothreads13 asks,
I have a question about a recent hand.
We have no reads on the players.
The hero is in the small blind with AA and an early position player, a middle position player, a late position player all limp in. The button then raises and the hero reraises. It Q&A #15: Playing AA from [...]
Last week, the World Poker Tour was in town at the Bellagio, and I was playing in a typically fantastic $30-$60 game. Most hands were four-handed or more before the flop, even with several raises.
My main opponents in this hand are Vinny and Herbert. Vinny is in the big blind, A Limit Hold’em River Play|51|3.95|USD|| [...]
ozone asks,
I have been studying “Small Stakes Hold’em” and I see that you recommend raising preflop with a number of hands. What do you do when everyone tends to fold to your preflop raises? Do you continue playing the same way, add a few extra hands to raise with, or Q&A #7: Adjusting to Tight [...]
PeterL asks,
I have read your book on low limit holdem written with sklansky and play at 15c/30c limit tables at eurobet, I find to win I have to be a bit more passiove and loose than you suggest as the amount of people seeing each flop is large and they Q&A #3: Managing a Bankroll [...]
