Poker Anyone?

[Siggie]

I am officially your poker daddy

Yay! Do I get lessons and tips? Ever play on WillHill?

[GSTracer05]

On partypoker dont bother playing the regular play money tables. Go for the tournament tables, holdem - NL. This way people cant rebuy everytime they lose. 800chips per person and the blinds increase until you have 1 winner.

[Siggie]

On partypoker dont bother playing the regular play money tables. Go for the tournament tables, holdem - NL. This way people cant rebuy everytime they lose. 800chips per person and the blinds increase until you have 1 winner.

I dont play on partypoker... never liked it much.

[GSTracer05]

Where do you play?

[Siggie]

I played a little on WillHill. I actually haven't played for a while. I've been too busy.

[omniscient]

http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result10571.htm

They spelled my name wrong again , came in 18th , this was a few days ago.

[Siggie]

http://www.pokerpages.com/tournament/result10571.htm

They spelled my name wrong again , came in 18th , this was a few days ago.

Wow! Congrats!
Do you give free advice?

For tournament play, do you play as conservatively as Lee suggests in low limit? Pre-flop... do you fold the hands he suggests folding?

[omniscient]

Well tournament play and low limit live play is a totally different thing. Your opponents are going to be playing much tighter in the 100 dollar and above buy in tournaments than in low limit live play. Pre flop hand selection that you are talking about also matters on many things and one of them is position. For example if I am in first position and I have a hand like KQ , I would throw it away in a tournament. However, If I am in late position and everyones just limped in I would just call with my KQ. The only real hands I would play are AA,KK,AK,QQ, these are the hands I would throw in a raise If I was in first position. In NO LIMIT hold em' 90% of the time you want to either raise or fold, rarely ever call. Then there are suited connectors which work well in multi way pots where everyones limped in and that is a perfect time to just call. Another good hand to call multi way with no raises is any ace and rag suited for a chance of hitting the nut flush. Then theres the mid tournament strategy of stealing the blinds when they get real high and knowing when to do this followed by late tourney strategy. There's really a whole lot I can type on all of this. I barely went into detail. If you are really serious about it and you need help on any part of your game give me more specific situations and ill answer them.

[Siggie]

Thanks for the information. Even without a lot of detail, that was helpful.
I guess my problem is that while I've probably read a bit more than the avg person I'd play with at a low limit table in vegas and def the people i'd play with at a home game, i'm still a little afraid. I think partly it's because I play hands I shouldn't play sometimes and then get put in a bad position. I've been burned too many times by idiots calling every raise with nothing and catching their only out on the river.

For example... You get QQ, late position. You raise right?
Flop comes A K 4 or something... An overcard or two. Now I'm a bit scared because my Siegfried and Roy are beat by anyone w/ an A or K. There's a raise in front of you... what do you do?

[omniscient]

I've been burned too many times by idiots calling every raise with nothing and catching their only out on the river.

Well that's low limit for you. In those games, the people that play are there just to gamble it up and have fun. They are calling stations and will chase everything. But when you move up in limits those same people will think twice about calling 20 or 40 dollars for each card they're chasing instead of a dollar or two . This is why I prefer no limit.