I mean, this is a poker blog, amirite? So yeah. Why not. This isn't revolutionary or anything but I've talked about it with several students and have actually had to mention it in a few videos that I've done for Deuces. Anywho. I'm talking with a student about hands... Read More
In general, your defense standards should be largely dependent upon several things: 1. The preflop range of hands of the blind stealer. 2. The relative skill difference between you and the preflop raiser. 3. Other smaller factors, like rake con... Read More
The battle in the blinds In hold'em, blind stealing and defense is what separates the great players from small winners and mediocre losers. As you play increasingly shorthanded games, the amount of time you spend in the blinds increases dramatically. You will spend one and... Read More
… you think you’re going to be awesome at it until you try it out. In case you didn’t know, live poker is really easy for anyone with a brain. Having a brain, poker seemed like a good idea 4 years ago. Still playing regularly I decided to quit the wiffle stakes of live poker to try to learn the harder version… and it’s killing my life. Adjusting to these nitty uNL players is turning out to ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/ipwnflips/56531-Online-poker-is-like-sex-">(continued)</a>
I wanted to play flop but they wanted to get into war with high cards, I will accept with 37% equity. Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 Pot Limit Omaha Hi – 6 players – View hand 751913 The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter MP: $64.65 Hero (CO): $32.32 BTN: $32.21 SB: $25.00 BB: $14.97 UTG: $14.85 Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with 7 4 6 8 2 folds , Hero raises to ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/buzz/28121-PLO-Preflop-wars-hand-1">(continued)</a>
I made a 2-tabling HU video at play money with one of the guys from my Secret HQ group. Hopefully he learnt something from it, here is the video . There were some preflop rules: You cannot fold or call with AJ+ or 99+ (i.e. you must keep raising until you are all-in preflop). You can only raise or fold a 6 or 7 high suited hand (i.e. 65,64,63,62,76,75,74,73,73,72s) – you cannot call preflop ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/jjd323/25491-NLHE-HU-Video-2-tables">(continued)</a>
I’ve missed a few days posting, which is a failure of my own mostly due to laziness. Played only a little bit of the cash games, but basically started over-doing it a little bit with stealing dead money and running a little bit too laggy/c-betting too much and ended up putting too much dead money into the pot myself. I’ve put that in check and spent a couple of days reading my theory notes and p ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/jjd323/6911-Dead-Air-Dead-Money">(continued)</a>
Today I played two sessions. In the first session I two-tabled in the second session I three-tabled, which is rare for me. I played around 550 hands in total. I managed to remember to get my glass of water before each session, so that’s a good thing; I prepared well. I had a bunch of interesting spots come up, but I just marked them for future analysis at the time, rather than try ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/jjd323/5041-Jan-2nd-2x-NL100-sessions-evaluation">(continued)</a>
In general, your defense standards should be largely dependent upon several things: Â Â Â 1. The preflop range of hands of the blind stealer. Â Â Â 2. The relative skill difference between you and the preflop raiser. Â Â Â 3. Other smaller factors, like rake considerations. The biggest thing you should be considering when you are debating a defense situation ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/entity/493-Shorthanded-Limit-Hold-em-Basic-Preflop-Steal-and-Defense">(continued)</a>
The battle in the blinds In hold’em, blind stealing and defense is what separates the great players from small winners and mediocre losers.  As you play increasingly shorthanded games, the amount of time you spend in the blinds increases dramatically.  You will spend one and half more times paying blinds at a six-handed table than you will at a 10-handed ... <a href="http://www.deucescracked.com/blogs/entity/492-Shorthanded-Limit-Hold-em-An-Introduction-to-Preflop-Play">(continued)</a>