OT: 7-2o

[Vadered]

I play Texas Hold 'Em for play money online, because I am bad at it and do not want to lose all my real money. That said, how come I keep losing to idiots who go all in pre-flop with pretty much the worst hand you can against my pocket aces?

Part of me wishes we could ban idiocy from the internet. And life.

 

[puckhead]

that's this issue with playing for 'free'. too many players just don't give a shit, b/c they don't have to.
I was on one board a lot of years ago where one guy kept announcing his hand. and he wasn't lying.
made for an odd game, to say the least.

 

[CatScrap]

Pocket pairs are one of the best starting cards you can have. Of these, obviously, aces are the best of the best.

That said. Look at your odds of improving your hand after the game has progress to the flop, turn, and river.

Getting Trips or better :If it's an 8 man table, you have 5 chances of hitting one of the 2 remaining aces in the deck, assuming they aren't in your opponents hands, but I'll get to that later, which amounts to a meager 11% chance. Taking into account that there is approximately a 50% chance that one of the aces could have already been taken by your opponents and about a 30% chance both could, your true odds of hitting a third ace are arround 5%.

without going into the actual odds of drawing a straight or a flush, I can comment that having a pocket pair significantly lowers your chances of either compared to somebody who has open ended or closed connectors, suited cards, or even suited connectors.

Pockets are great to start the game, however, with pockets you must narrow the playing field down with big pre flop bets to allow your opponents to drop out. If the game goes to the river draw hands start to take the advantage, the odds of improving on say 5-6 suited starts to become better and better. The odds that that hand will beat your pockets after only the flop is actualy 5.7%. And those odds go up and up with the Turn and River.

Moral of the story, pockets should play big to open as they are hard to improve upon, and you don't want to have to win the game by showing after the river, where as suited connectors are a slow play that you hope to drag into the river.

Hope this helps~

 

[Comeds]

I play Texas Hold 'Em for play money online, because I am bad at it and do not want to lose all my real money. That said, how come I keep losing to idiots who go all in pre-flop with pretty much the worst hand you can against my pocket aces?

Part of me wishes we could ban idiocy from the internet. And life.

I used to play that on Yahoo but stopped for that very same reason.

 

[Eddie_Shack]

I tried to play online euchre with dare one night. It went pretty well.

 

[Vadered]

That said, how come I keep losing to idiots who go all in pre-flop with pretty much the worst hand you can against my pocket aces?

Part of me wishes we could ban idiocy from the internet. And life.

Pocket pairs are one of the best starting cards you can have. Of these, obviously, aces are the best of the best.

That said. Look at your odds of improving your hand after the game has progress to the flop, turn, and river.

Getting Trips or better :If it's an 8 man table, you have 5 chances of hitting one of the 2 remaining aces in the deck, assuming they aren't in your opponents hands, but I'll get to that later, which amounts to a meager 11% chance. Taking into account that there is approximately a 50% chance that one of the aces could have already been taken by your opponents and about a 30% chance both could, your true odds of hitting a third ace are arround 5%.

without going into the actual odds of drawing a straight or a flush, I can comment that having a pocket pair significantly lowers your chances of either compared to somebody who has open ended or closed connectors, suited cards, or even suited connectors.

Pockets are great to start the gamplay e, however, with pockets you must narrow the playing field down with big pre flop bets to allow your opponents to drop out. If the game goes to the river draw hands start to take the advantage, the odds of improving on say 5-6 suited starts to become better and better. The odds that that hand will beat your pockets after only the flop is actualy 5.7%. And those odds go up and up with the Turn and River.

Moral of the story, pockets should big to open as they are hard to improve upon, and you don't want to have to win the game by showing after the river, where as suited connectors are a slow play that you hope to drag into the river.

Hope this helps~

I know the logic. The guy pushes all in before the flop even comes up with 7-2 offsuit, everyone else folds, and I call it because he'd been pushing all in a lot.. The flop comes 222. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!

 

[puckhead]

I know the logic. The guy pushes all in before the flop even comes up with 7-2 offsuit, everyone else folds, and I call it because he'd been pushing all in a lot.. The flop comes 222. RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWR!

oooh - that's shitty.
I was in a tourney with some friends, and we were one spot away from the money.
I wanted to lay low until the next guy was out, but had buried kings on the small blind. It folded around to me (except one guy on his final few chips) so I push all-in, hoping for a quick blind. The fucker calls me with 6-7 offsuit. Of course 6-6-7 showed up