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What does your season hold for you? My early doors.

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TopPair2Pair:
I call this being "Bluesquared". Dog is never a dog on bs... at 3-1 I"m putting you pretty much at evens on Bluesquare.

Dont rly play this level on BS so cant comment of much further use but when i used to play the 4-5 freerolls a day there I used to shout "bluesquared" every time a dog suckedout and lets just say i used to cut and paste it instead of typing it out!

Swinebag:

--- Quote from: Toppietwo on January 10, 2009, 16:31:29 PM ---
I call this being "Bluesquared". Dog is never a dog on bs... at 3-1 I"m putting you pretty much at evens on Bluesquare.

--- End quote ---


3 to 1 means it only happens 1 in 4 times which, considering we tend to forget the other 3 times that the best hand holds up, isn"t really anything we can put down to any one site/skin

TopPair2Pair:

--- Quote from: Swinebag22 on January 10, 2009, 17:08:53 PM ---

--- Quote from: Toppietwo on January 10, 2009, 16:31:29 PM ---
I call this being "Bluesquared". Dog is never a dog on bs... at 3-1 I"m putting you pretty much at evens on Bluesquare.

--- End quote ---


3 to 1 means it only happens 1 in 4 times which, considering we tend to forget the other 3 times that the best hand holds up, isn"t really anything we can put down to any one site/skin

--- End quote ---


Thanks for putting some common sense back into thread that i rudely disrupted!!! just wanted to share my "Bluesquared" legacey that i"d like to think i can leave behind me one day.....*hands head in shame*

Cyntaf:
Thanks again for the replies, points taken re: cut and paste/time saver and the point regards winning the other three Rob.

Thought it was time i should get posting, something poker related, it"s got me thinking as i hope others. Not as thought provoking as noble and such posters, but a start.

Probably a bit of a mix and match, as  the title is slightly misleading, and my main probe was supposed to be about reads, not so much the beat. I can take these daily, all part of the game. Just the clarity of the situation, isn"t normally this good for me on the net. A lot better Live, with more info available. Looking back a large portion relates to the hand, but i was trying to get over the feel that i had. To see how others felt. Do they get good reads on line a lot, or playing more a numbers game? etc.

It wasn"t meant, and i certainly didn"t want it to come across as. Wow I"m good. If anything the opposite as i said, very rare on line do i find things crystal clear.

I then decided well i better mention some poker I have played early door(season) as per title. ;D

TopPair2Pair:
I think you can make gd reads online... and when you do make them they are very rewarding!

I"ve been placing a lot of emphasis on timing tells at the $2/$1 sng level recently felt I made some progress and positive decisions especially tonight. So I am rly in the mood to make a serious post... as aposed to my usual muck.

At first I thought i"d post the hand histories but that wont really achieve much in terms of tackling this subject and assisting with your question as I didn"t base 100% of decisioning purely on the betting but more on the betting+opponent reaction time+general skill of the player.

At this level imo a slower reation then the player usually has with an unusual check or small bet normally results in them hitting the flop quite hard. Whereas a large instant bet is pretty weak.

Say your playing heads up, short stacked and 13k in play and you have about 3.5k, villian is raising every single hand we are playing and we are occasionally shoving back and his folding. Then all of a sudden you notice a miniscule pause from him and he just calls from SB when usually its a standard raise with atc... at this stage I am thinking dont raise just check and unless i flop the nuts there"s no reason for me to get involved, it looks to me like something villian is very happy with and wants action with a monsterous AK, QQ+.

And over time I"ve learnt that this is generally opponent thinking "right how can i extract as much as pos from this hand, i"ve got to trick him, i"ll just call cos that wont look unsual..." obv it doesn"t work and we correctly put the brakes on.

I am still trying to work out how much of a % I personally want to factor on this information but slowly its 1 part of my game that seems to be coming together lately and at $1/2 it seems to be paying off. Still making mistakes but its work in progress.

Short stacks shoving with 1~3 callers are a great opportunity to skillup on these sort of online reads, obv you want the short stack to have no more then 15% of your stack and sometimes you can only be playing for the side pot. But if you need to get away you can and still get to see the cards you were up against which is handy.

Picking 1 player at the table that you have a good feel for and solely putting yourself up against them is also a good way to go about working on this.

The other thing I was doing was calling down when i knew i was behind. I would say to myself right he has X. "I fold" and check/call it down just to see if i was behind or if i read something incorrectly and then replay it and work out what it was that went wrong and more importantly why?

I dont know how much of this is relvaent to the $10 BS games but hope its thought provocating anyhow!

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