Topic: Poker: hands analysis, useful stuff and general discussions - page 3. (Read 868 times)

Hey. If you play pokerstars, then you probably wonder how often prizes of valuable prizes from the chests. In our community there is a player who has accumulated 183 platinum chests and opened them on the stream! I can translate his words if necessary)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/237305043

Actually, if you are starting and trying to learn, it is better not to bluff. Just learn to select your pre-flop hands and to value betting. Maybe better to seme-bluff at some spots using projects.

The best way to have a good read is to play the game multiple times, play with different players for you to get used to different styles. You can try playing online, you will a lot hands to play compared to the real poker table. Practice a bluff. It will help if you will wait for your moment to have a good card, play low profile until you have something. Silent killer moves.

The buy-in was something around 5.5k$, 3k$ is the buy-in for the EPT Main Event, which will be held soon. Top pros, of course, pay it themselves. Not so successful regulars usually sell shares, but it depends on everybody's own preferences. From one side, I know those, who always try to play as safe as it possible. On the other hand, there are players, who consider such tournaments as an opportunity to skyrocket and sometimes decide to play 100% from themselves. As for me, I qualified online in one of starting attempts and spent on satellites something like 20$, so I chose not to sell anything. And yes, I was very lucky even without reaching money in the main tournament)


Yes, you are right in some measure. It's called being result oriented, but I don't think it's related to my story. I consider my line to be bad because the only reason I chose it was a fear of elimination from so important tournament.

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Wonder_woman, patt0, thanks for the feedback. Please, don't think about me as about poker guru. I used to be an ordinary low-stakes grinder with rare shots on high limits in case of good shape or winning satellite. Today I prefer to call myself an advanced amateur 

P.S. I wanted to share first hand to analyse, but unfortunately my laptop broke down, so I need some time to reload hands to the database

Cool compilation man. I actually gave my first steps using pokerstrategy. Never got that far, and only got the gold level there, but it was a nice place to learn poker and start playing with no risk. I actually get some decent profit on my short climb. I also used holdem manager, and the one provided by pokerstrategy itself, since I won the license there. TwoPlusTwo is a legendary forum like you said, so really nice compilation man. I definitely know your ways through poker.

I will be waiting for some hand analysis as well. Maybe this is what I was missing to get back on the game.

Thanks for your reply! Wow. Participating in a PokerStars Championship is something valuable in itself. I've read that the buy-in for the Main Event was around $3,000. Is that true? I've been always wondering do players pay it themselves or is it paid by sponsors mostly?

Regarding the big bluff you think you should've made, it's only post-factum looks obvious what should be done. For example if your opponent had a great hand he wouldn't fold and you'd lose everything. But anyway, I can see your point, it's probably not the same. I just never participated in off-line championships so I don't know how it feels.

Yes, surely I heard about it and used it a lot during my career of "advanced amateur". Sharkscope still stays the best resource to track online tournament results (MTT and Sit&Go), but there are also 2 another useful sites, where you can check your stats or stats of your opponents:

1. Whotfru
Checking results in online cash games. Registration is available only with an invite from another user. I don't have such invites because I play online cash very rarely.

2. OfficialPokerRankings
A very convenient resource, where you can find player's results in 36+ players tournament on PokerStars, PartyPoker, FullTilt, and Carbon.

Thanks for your question. I forgot about it, but these links have to be in the OP.


I think, there is a very big difference between bluffing online and live and I have a really valid reason to claim so - my own experience. By today, I managed to play only 1 major offline tournament (PSC Sochi 2017) and one of the most important pots I lost was a result of my fear to make a big bluff. I had to go all-in on the river and I had played many similar spots online, where I successfully did it. But in that situation, I didn't manage to handle the pressure, checked and lost the pot.

Surely, there are a lot of players, who are not afraid of big bluffing and aggressive game right after starting playing offline. But if you think you can act like me in a stressful live game spot, you should prepare yourself for such kind of moments in advance. I have already got a memorable lesson for the future.

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Added 3 links in the last section of OP:

1. TheHendonMob
A database of live tournaments results and schedules

2. Pokerdope
2.1. Pokerdope cash game variance calculator
2.2. Pokerdope tournament variance calculator
A great tool to calculate probability of up streaks and down streaks of different length

Great topic! I hope it will be updated with some poker related info on a regular basis. Among the links listed in the OP I recommend Pokerstars Youtube channel to every poker lover who still doesn't know of its existence(highly improbable, I know ) .

I'd like to see your opinions guys about bluffing in online poker. Do you think it is the same as in a live casino or there is a big difference since we can't see faces of each other? I personally think it is the same because in reality no one can actually read the face of an opponent. Well, I mean, you can try of course, but even the greatest players make mistakes in the reading, and based on my observations I can say those mistakes are not rare.

On the other hand even when playing online poker there is a feeling that you can read someone and it's not so rare when it turns out you were right.

So, what do you guys think? Is there a difference?

Great and very helpful topic, finally something refreshing in this section.
Ever heard of https://www.sharkscope.com/ ?
When I was playing poker it was very useful site to see statistics from your opponent.

I've been looking for a thread like this for a long time. Thanks for the work. As a poker player I need to say that I'm quite familiar with almost all of the resources you posted here, and I consider them top-notch! I've actually started developing my poker game once I went to pokerstrategy.com. I will definitely keep an eye on this thread, to see how hand analysis will go.

I will also link this thread to my "merit give away thread", to help promote it.
I will leave you that thread here, please stop by and share any other good threads like this one, if you happen to know them.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/topic-post-review-specific-areas-smerit-to-give-2850321

Poker is one of my favorite game. Most of all I like the way people skillfully hide their emotions during the game. I mean, you can know people you play with for many years but while you are sitting at the gambling table, people become completely different. I love Gripsed Poker Training channel very much. This is great that the service focuses not only on the actual process of the game, but also considers such important points as lifestyle and psychology of the player. Video organically connects the theory and practice of playing poker, which allows both newbies to master the game, and professionals to develop their skills.

I completely disagree with you. To my mind, there is nothing common between bluffing and cheating. I suppose, that every online pro and the majority of amateurs are totally against getting advantage by any way, which doesn't belong to a technical part of the game or reading live-tells. How can you know if these players are related to America's Cardroom or their staff or not? In this case, I consider the situation to be a fraud, if it isn't so, it's also pity that so big and well-named room has such shameful bugs in their software. I think, this method of getting advantage isn't connected to a poker skill and the main question is how big was a role of America's Cardroom in the story?

Poker is all about cheating but one must make sure that he does not get caught while doing so. A poker player needs to cheat his opponents in order to win. That is the trick of the game. If the guy was really able to fool many people around and name victory, he must be a good bluffer and smart out others at understanding the mind and nature of human beings. This is the only gambling game that is fun and deserves some time.

Thanks for this guide and information, I have never played poker because of the lack of knowledge on strategy and even basic knowledge.  I am thankful that you had breakdown information about playing poker and strategy to use when playing against a certain guy.  Again thank you for this wonderful information.

Lol.  Joe Ingram looks like he's having a mental break down in this vid. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHP2F9auRco

Now this is impressive work by him.  America's Cardroom explosed one of the Winning Poker skins of cheating.  Watch it.  Good job by ACR and Joe Ingram.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhNANPYPsX8

Nice one, thanks, the information is added in the OP

That was what I was told, he's been scouring the internet to find a VPS with at least 500GB of RAM just for the computations of the software. Not even sure if that was available anywhere. I'll probably do some more research on it, since it's quite interesting. I'm not very much a poker player as I don't really employ any form of knowledge. I just play for fun on free stuff. Probably with these information I could improve my game.

great thread by the way , info and details about poker or any other type of gambling are always welcome here
I would recommend listing Gripsed youtube channel , it's so far one of the largest free resources in youtube where you can find almost everything related to poker starting from mindset to some big tournies hands review

the channel isn't that active these days but the old videos are up and they are useful

Thanks a lot, the link is added in OP. I am sure it will be really valuable for beginners and maybe for some others too. If this guy doesn't lie about creating the blog in 2007, his passion deserves a great respect)


You mean this video, right?