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Yup. The common version of this is someone pretending to be tired / bored / ready to go home as he shoves, which I've seen again and again. In fact it's one of the more reliable weak-means-strong tells. What you've described is a lot more targeted and verbally explicit, but more or less the...

I think you took it a little too far. Letting the person know your out-of-turn check was an honest mistake is fine. "Sorry, thought it was my action." That's enough. Vociferously pointing out that it wasn't an angle basically sounds the alarm that you're strong (which is the only context in...

My experience with raked private games is generally negative. I played in several different ones when I lived in NYC. There was maybe one (named Felted, with great equipment and decent custom chips) that I would recommend to anyone. Rake was casino-level (10% to $5 or $6, IIRC), but was more...

Rule #1: Don't get fancy. Do. Not. Get. Fancy. It's all wasted on players like this and will only get you in trouble. Bet your value hands robustly, and try to get to the end cheaply with draws and marginal hands. Rule #2: Loosen up a little bit. These types of players will make it cheap for...

This is one possibility, but think of the other side. Seeing one of your opponent's cards now means you can use his up-card as part of the board to judge your hole cards by traditional Hold'em standards, e.g., to see if the board is paired or a flush is possible. With 3 hidden cards, anyone...

I've found that a double-board format is usually best to get some action out of Hold'em variants with 3 or more hole cards. In a single-board format, everyone's (understandably) terrified of monsters. With multiple boards, not as much. Same idea as Scarney. The potential for a low brings a lot...

Are you raking the pots they're playing in and/or rounding down their cash-outs? If yes to any of that, they should be included.

Seems to be a similar design and edge-spot pattern as this snapper I got from Atlantis in the Bahamas: http://chipguide.themogh.org/cg_chip2.php?id=BSPIAT&v=3329117995. This chip has chunkier spots/lines than the Atlantis one and a slicker plastic texture. Anyway, I grabbed a barrel of these...

Rule 4.1, implemented on 4/1. Hmm. :unsure:

The key thing is that it has to be a high hand that expects to win hands where there will be no low. As @Rhodeman77 mentions, KKxx types of hands tend to be more valuable to that end than AAxx hands because you can flop the set without contributing to potential lows. (I assign less value to...

I completely agree with you, and it wouldn't be wrong to feel cheated there. It is genuinely unfair. This is what makes it such a tough spot. This is why my solution calls for the person who sees the cards to let the table know that he has seen them (but not what they are, until flasher is...

I have struggled with this over the years. Yes, knowing someone else's cards over the course of a hand offers you an unfair advantage over the rest of the players. But to call this cheating is a step too far. Cheating takes intent, and we're talking about a situation that was foisted upon the...

Love the $25s and $100s in this set. Very pretty. GLWS!

In case you missed it, @BarbaraBooey143 showed his entire ass in a thread about the BTP chips. This is not a person who has joined PCF to be part of the community and indulge in the chip-collecting hobby. He stated in no uncertain terms that he considers the whole project a felonious and...

Oh yeah, if buy-ins are about $50, then $1/2 limit is the sweet spot.

I've seen (like once or twice ever) a flop game structured the same way, with a 4x bet size on the river. It is definitely unusual, though.

This is a good idea. I also think the structure with a third bet size (like 1/2/4 or 2/4/10) could serve as a decent bridge to NL/PL. Having that extra-large bet on the end is still fixed-limit but better parallels the progression of big-bet poker. Aside from MOAR ACTION, it allows for a more...

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I picked the first option ($0.25 ante, $1/2 limits) because, in the abstract, that tends to line up with a $0.25/0.50 NLHE game with a typical buy-in structure (~100 BB max) and typical player lineup. Sometimes it really won't, though. For contrast, in the game @bergs used to host before he...

Unless you have reason to believe UTG is prone to 4-bet light in a spot like this, no shame in dumping the queens preflop and waiting for a better spot.