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Can an old dog learn new tricks?

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  • VespaPXVespaPX Member Posts: 12,474
    edited February 2016
    Just to change the subject, i'm suprised no-one has mentioned "lucky" Hendo winning the freeroll last night.
    WP mate
  • Macacgirl1Macacgirl1 Member Posts: 865
    edited February 2016
    (his) K8 vs A8 last hand was a beauty!
    Well done Hendo.
    xx
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited February 2016


    Oh yes, well done hendo, he's coming to the UKPC from a chuffing FREEROLL.

    Gt8 stuff, or, to use his own word...

    sigh
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited February 2016
    In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks?:
    Saw this thread this morning and thought I must be missing something here, what was Tikay doing in hand with that rubbish? (???, ???? just for effect) Then realised you had limped. As greater minds than mine have said that, my friend, was your undoing.
    Posted by Enut
    Is there really any need for that childish uneducated stupidity?

    Saturday morning, everyone is chilling, & then you rev me up with that stuff.

    Get outa here.
     
    I got an e-mail yesterday, 5 sentences, 5 exclamation marks,. What DO they teach kids at school these days? Certainly not written English.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited February 2016
    In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks?:
    Regarding line of thinking, I lost one last night that I don't understand at all. I can't remember the blind level, it wasn't late though as I was the first player out the game. I flopped the (made, not draw) nut flush alongside a nut low draw, it all went pot-pot-pot-pot until they were all-in and my opponent turned over 2 pair, no low draw. Irrespective of the fact he hit his house and scooped, I'd love to know what he thought I had and why he played it like that.
    Posted by Macacgirl1
    You & I are very alike in these things. Play 30 DYM's a day, lose between 12 & 18 of them, day after day, so it's not like we are bothered by a beat here & there. we'll lose thousands of DYM's this year, so losing one is not even an irritation.

    But the "what were they thinking?" absolutely intrigues me.

    I got called last night, effectively all-in - we both had playable stacks by 10-8-8-2. That ranks as 4,953rd out of 5,300 hands in the PLO8 Hand Rankings. 

    Why would anyone think that made sense, & would win more often that it would lose?

    God bless these guys, they are our long term profit, but I'd love to understand the thinking.  
     
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited February 2016
    In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks?:
    In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks? : Ego, alcohol and an E-Number driven inability to fold. I'm much more inclined to think it's an ego/lack of understanding of standard dym play, rather than setting up an image for later. Just my opinion, but I'm usually bang on the money. Unless I'm totally wrong and talking out my doofer. Obviously.
    Posted by Macacgirl1
    QFT
  • weecheez1weecheez1 Member Posts: 1,686
    edited February 2016
    Got to give my tuppence worth here at least it wasn't me in both cases lol
  • stuarty117stuarty117 Member Posts: 1,395
    edited February 2016
    Churchy

    I blame the bucky
  • HENDRIK62HENDRIK62 Member Posts: 3,232
    edited February 2016
    In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks?:
    Just to change the subject, i'm suprised no-one has mentioned "lucky" Hendo winning the freeroll last night. WP mate
    Posted by VespaPX

    Thank you very much Mick, skill game obviously :-) (still feel for the other lad in that final hand)

    What a great bunch of people, was so nice to have all the well wishers appear on the FT, really means a lot.

    Huge thank you to everyone.

    The 'sigh' lattes are on me TK ;-)
  • Macacgirl1Macacgirl1 Member Posts: 865
    edited February 2016
    "we'll lose thousands of DYM's this year"

    I hope not, I'm only here for another week until we come back in early November.
  • EnutEnut Member Posts: 3,583
    edited February 2016
    In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks?:
    Agree i should have raised pre but have been limping more lately as was just losing too much when being too aggressive(hand kind of shows that) and it seems too be working a bit better for me and in my defense i just insta reraised then looked and seen it was you sigh if had looked at who was in hand i would have more than likely just called and seen another card think maybe playing tourneys and dyms at same time does not help much as well. Think this might be the hand with eon think i seen it as a good solid high hand and everyone knows the big stack always wins lol no just seen this as a good hand for heads up and it seemed a good spot too defend with as would still have 7 bbs left if it went wrong. Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance tikay1 Small blind   150.00 150.00 1540.00 churchy18 Big blind   300.00 450.00 3280.00   Your hole cards 4 K J Q       eon1961 Raise   1050.00 1500.00 457.50 HOVIS684 Fold         aub Fold         tikay1 Fold         churchy18 Raise   1500.00 3000.00 1780.00 eon1961 All-in   457.50 3457.50 0.00 churchy18 Unmatched bet   292.50 3165.00 2072.50 churchy18 Show 4 K J Q       eon1961 Show 7 5 A 3       Flop     9 2 J       Turn     2       River     10       churchy18 Win high Straight to the King 3165.00   5237.50   No qualifying low hand
    Posted by churchy18
    Would you, or more importantly should you, play J4, Q4 and K4 in that position in holdem? You have no low potential and half of your two card combos are not particularly good. Again just my opinion and I am by no means an expert like Tikay and Macca etc, but I would fold here.
  • Macacgirl1Macacgirl1 Member Posts: 865
    edited February 2016
    I'm not an expert! I usually play sloppier than a bag of gravy.
    With a stack size of 3k etc, I'm folding that every day of the week though.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited February 2016

    "....Think this might be the hand with eon think i seen it as a good solid high hand and everyone knows the big stack always wins lol no just seen this as a good hand for heads up and it seemed a good spot too defend with as would still have 7 bbs left if it went wrong...."

    Not sure I can buy into that, Brian. For starters, you have 4 cards,& Eon has five - his Ace plays BOTH ways, so you start at a disadvantage.
     
    I've never seen Eon (in this exact spot) get it in without an Ace in his hand so that GUARANTEES you need to outdraw him.

    Anyway, enough opinions, here's the facts.

    Your hand SCOOPS 29% of the time

    His hand SCOOPS 48% of the time

    Your hand wins the HIGH 51% of the time

    His hand wins the HIGH 49% of the time. 

    Your hand wins the LOW 0% of the time. 

    His hand wins the LOW 60% of the time. 

    Overall equity pre-flop - YOUR hand 40%, HIS hand 60%.


    So, taking all that into account, lets go back to that first mistake thing we discussed this morning.

     
    One player is OUT

    One player is AWAY

    One player is roffling around in every pot.

    You have 3,300 chips.

    I have around 1,200.

     
    Do we NEED to get involved with this very marginal hand, or can we await a better spot? We might not even need to play another hand. Once AWAY man disappears, that's 3 Big stacks, + me trundling along with 4 Bigs, & guaranteed to widen my range & take a stab shortly. 

    In your spot, I'd be sitting nice & quietly here. We don't get any extra for having most chips. In a 6 Max, yes, in a DYM, no.
     
        
     
      
  • stokefcstokefc Member Posts: 7,878
    edited February 2016
    im a plopper..i think :)
  • HENDRIK62HENDRIK62 Member Posts: 3,232
    edited February 2016
    In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks?:
    im a plopper..i think :)
    Posted by stokefc

    when you typed 'oops there's 4 cards' I knew you would boss it VWP ;-)

  • stokefcstokefc Member Posts: 7,878
    edited February 2016
    the triple up in hand 2 helped ty jimi
    can you post hands in m/s edge
  • HENDRIK62HENDRIK62 Member Posts: 3,232
    edited February 2016
    In Response to Re: Can an old dog learn new tricks?:
    the triple up in hand 2 helped ty jimi can you post hands in m/s edge
    Posted by stokefc
    I think so, not sure I use mac now, before that it was chrome
  • winshoeswinshoes Member Posts: 133
    edited February 2016
    Tony, sorry for the derail, but I wasn't sure where to ask this.
    Please can you ask if there would be any chance of trialling some low stakes turbo PLO8 sit and goes?
    I know they won't appeal to the purists like yourself, but they are offered in holdem and omaha.
    I think they may help broaden the appeal of the game to holdem players who can't or don't want to commit 35/40minutes to a game, but who could afford 8/10 minutes?
    Thanks,
    Andrew.
  • Macacgirl1Macacgirl1 Member Posts: 865
    edited February 2016
    Hi Mr. K and one and all.
    For some reason I'm having a dog of an ordeal trying to access the site, either through the browser or download. Not sure what's going on, but it ain't half weird.
    Anyways, we're away on the 13th, so if I manage to get on the site my last time playing until the winter will be this Friday. If I'm still unable to get onboard, I'll use this opportunity to say bye bye for now. All the best everyone, it's been a pleasure, keep on plopping on and all that. Seeya all late October, early November time.
    Karen
    xx
    ps. The site needs someone to spite-call TK whilst I'm away. Thanks in advance.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited February 2016


    Andrew, Karen - will reply tomorrow.
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