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  1. JustinInMN

    What would you do? Fold AKo?

    I think mine would have been the same too, though I did deliberately first post without reading the spoiler or other comments.
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    What would you do? Fold AKo?

    You can't do worse than Hamilton Burger. (Yes , I am making a 60 year old reference in the same thread I am mocking a 20 year old joke :P.)
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    What would you do? Fold AKo?

    2004 called, they want their joke back.
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    What would you do? Fold AKo?

    This point is very underrated. Does hero have a "sizing" tell and did villain pick up that often will mean Ax as opposed to premium pairs? Regardless, I am a firm believer in standardizing raise sizes. I usually do about 3x + 1BB for every limper as my "standard" open. This helps me keep my...
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    What would you do? Fold AKo?

    Yeah the time to use this play is if you have called a 3 bet out of position in a hand where the late position player is likely to c-bet. (or if you had limped early and a late position player raised-pre.) If villain had 3-bet her holding pre, and hero deciding to flat, I would 100% be about...
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    What would you do? Fold AKo?

    Having seen the spoiler.
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    What would you do? Fold AKo?

    Haven't looked at the spoiler. I was about to say why 9BB, but if you are getting 4 callers, it can't be all bad. There is zero reason to check for deception in a 5 way pot when you were the preflop aggressor. I absolutely would be continuing with probably a 3/4 to full pot size bet in a 5...
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    Cash Game Appropriate Fixed Limit conversions

    (Edit, nevermind, @rjbf65 just made the exact same point)
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    Cash Game .25/.5 | Minimum Chip Count

    I think you could do it with 400 chips. 80/200/120 of 25¢/1/5. Everyone can start with 20 in quarters and singles (8/18) and the rest in fives. Bank is $820, or 16 buy-ins of $50. $20 notes play after that. If it doesn't HAVE to be 25¢-50¢ and can be 50¢-50¢ then you can cheat with a 50¢...
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    Cash Game Appropriate Fixed Limit conversions

    I've never seen this in practice, but I've seen it floated in books and articles, even in a hold'em context, double on the turn, redouble on the river. I am a pretty big limit "purist" given that was the only option to play live in Minnesota when I got started. But I am certainly warming to...
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    Cash Game Appropriate Fixed Limit conversions

    That's a pretty good approach. For me, I think in terms of average pot size and I think your average limit pot has 6-8 big bets in it. Your average NL pot probably has about 25-30x big blinds in it. Pots that go to the river will both tend to be above these averages. So I guess to me it...
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    What to do with these queens?

    FWIW, I think @DrStrange summed it up well, how to respond to the limp-4-bet was the only decision point in the hand. As played, with no A or K on the flop you need to commit to the flop, no matter whether you think anyone can fold. And really, it's tough for a villain find a fold for $210...
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    Help managing heartrate

    Not sure if this applies... This may not be exactly about heart rate, but when first started playing in (at least what I thought back then) were bigger games, I noticed caffeine use affected me in bigger spots (especially Mountain Dew) to the point I was visibly shaking. I learned to cut back...
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    What to do with these queens?

    My concern is whether or not this fold can be exploited. I think the 3-bet pre is pretty standard, but I am also going to do this with JJ (and probably TT as well unless I think the opener is unusually tight), so I think that is my 3-bet-fold candidate if I am constructing a range. That said...
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    Tourney WSOPc Main Event #7 Toronto

    14% for an admin fee is actually pretty good for live, some tournaments go much higher. Cash game $20 max rake is absolutely nutsy though. The drop will crush these games, except maybe for 10-20 NL and up, there will be no winners.
  16. JustinInMN

    What to do with these queens?

    I am probably going to shove here, especially if utg is one of the questionable players. But that aside, folding QQ after raising feels pretty exploitable unless you have reason to believe the limp reraise is 100% KK+. I don't think you have that data 6 hands in. Shove.
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    Tourney When was string betting outlawed?

    Excellent research by the way :). Proof it's been around a long while.
  18. JustinInMN

    Simple adjustments to make when switching from cash to STT?

    1) Chips won are less valuable than chips lost. Definitely play more careful in the early stages. 2) This seems to contradict the first point, but don't wait too long to force the action in later stages. When you get to 6-8BB you are probably looking for a hand to get all in preflop. If you...
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    Tourney When was string betting outlawed?

    The issue is if you allow this, how long is the permissible gap between "I see your x" and "raise x?" That does open up an avenue of exploit to wait for extra clues before the "raise." Even if players aren't looking for this exploit it very quickly becomes a pace of play issue (which is...
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    Tourney When was string betting outlawed?

    This is something my uncles would say in our family games frequently, including when they were teaching us (me and my brothers) around age 10 or so (I would say this was a good 10 years before the so called "poker boom.") Once the boom happened and I became a regular in cardroom games we...
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