Archive for July, 2009
How to Play 4Bet Pots
Posted on26. Jul, 2009 by Gugel.
In this post, we’ll talk about what you should do when you are on the button, you raise, villain 3bets, you 4bet and villain just smooth calls. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about…
$100NL
Preflop: Hero is SB with Kh, As
Hero bets $3, BB raises to $10, Hero raises to $25, BB calls $15
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10% Discount Code for PokerTableRatings.com
Posted on22. Jul, 2009 by Gugel.
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So PokerTableRatings sent me an email today and asked me to fill out a survey. I’m a fan of the site and they’re giving away $30,476 worth of free stuff, so I figured [...]
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Playing Good When You’re Running Bad
Posted on21. Jul, 2009 by Gugel.
Seth Godin had a great post on his blog today. Even though he’s talking about marketing and customer service, his advice applies really well to poker. Let’s say you have a bike race coming up and you obviously want to have the best time you possibly can. The thing is, everyone goes super fast on [...]
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Problems with Hold’Em Manager After Full Tilt’s Update
Posted on08. Jul, 2009 by Gugel.
It looks like the new version of FTP made the HEM HUD stop working. It wouldn’t even display the mucked hole cards of your opponent…
HEM support was on it pretty quick and came out with a beta version that should address most of the issues. It looks like one of the lasting consequences of this [...]
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Mistakes
Posted on07. Jul, 2009 by Gugel.
About a week ago, I made a mistake at $200NL HU vs. Smokin Mokin (a breakeven reg). Here’s the hand in question.
Hero (BB) ($200)
Button ($245)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 8♦, 6♦
Button bets $6, Hero calls $4
Flop: ($12) Q♦, 6♠, 9♦ (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $8, Hero raises to $30, Button calls
Turn: ($72) J♠ (2 [...]

