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How to make a tournaments post

  • 05-12-2007 03:29AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭


    A lot of the new guys here seem kind of shy about posting tournament hands. Dont be! Ive created this handy guide so you can fit in.


    1 Always start out by stating that you are going for the win. Repeat this several times at random through out the post.

    2 Dismiss any mention of pot odds as cash game rubbish and accuse anyone using the term of being an egg head who was bullied in school

    3 Be sure to narrow your opponents hand to not just one holding, but claim to be 100% sure of each of your opponents card. This is called your "read"

    4 remember to check call everything on the river. this is the best way to play marginal hands because you then get to a showdown so which you can then based your read on, which you retrospectively apply to the hand itself. watch jamie gold on hsp to see how tournament professionals handles this important skill


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭Macspower


    who was playign a donkament tonight? ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    Typical nerdy maths cash player thread imo ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭nicnicnic


    and for the new cash players

    1. always speak about how expertly you extracted the maximum value from the river bet although the only way you can know for sure if this is true is if you stack someone.

    2. Always speak about turn and river play as if it is some form of spiritual enlightenment that is exclusive to the ring game and doesn't ever occur is any other form of the same game.

    3. When playing a tournament always look down your nose at the inferior infidels and when one of them knocks you out blame there nonexistent understanding of the game for your exit constantly repeating the mantra loldnkaments loldonkaments loldonkaments


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭Requiem4adream


    4. bet/fold > check/call. Always. In the rare instances where check/call > bet/fold, there's always the hotline to Lee Jones. "hit the doomswitch god-damn-it!!!!"

    5. if in any doubt, remember: fuzzbox or HJ have the right answer. they might for a fee enlighten you. That fee may be monetary or sarcastic ribbing!

    6. If cash game players wanted to destroy the loldonkaments they OBV OBV OBV could do so at ease....the rest of us should bow to their infinite mercy at not doing so :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭StraddleFor6


    This could get really good.
    Some excellent points so far.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭kincsem


    7. I put you on that exact hand (after they show it).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,754 ✭✭✭ianmc38


    8. If your in a tournament and you've to make a +EV call getting more than sufficient pot odds, but you have a strong read your beaten, then ignore EV and odds and fold. That way your tournament life is secured and you can still come first. Leave all that EV and odds crap for the maths heads.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 CHIPRIP


    Cash game players (online)
    1.Fold KK preflop to a fancy nit 3 bet, there is one hand bigger than it
    2.Fold QQ preflop for twice the reasons as above
    3.Dismiss god and all religeons, as to believe in such inprobabilities is -EV
    4.Get quoted by cardshark with a dot or an ass lick.
    5.Get knocked out of donkaments early despite ability edge as you forget the +EV of this
    8.When posting hand advice look at who posted it 1st, then decide on your reply based on the poster.
    Poster based thinking
    9.Fail to comprehend how Phil Helmut has 7 bracelets and you will never have a single earring.
    10.Post expert hand advice to people on boards sharing your expert knowledge and in doing so educuate the masses to
    learn how to think, then lambasse some guy for doing something that is -EV in the long run and fail to see the irony.
    11.Get shot in the punk head by Dirty harry, as you know in all probability he shot 6 bullets, despite your feel that there is one bullet left in the gun ,
    and in so doing making said persons day and forgetting that death is EV- to the power of infinity. (fail to get this point)
    12. Watch little house on the prarie and fail to be moved by Pas plight as he struggles to find Laura a blind school, you emotionless b'stard.
    13.Take your laptop into the loo with you and 6 table as you squeeze one out...(you know you do it) then dont wash your hands.
    14.Experiece deep vein thrombosis in the comfort of your living room
    15. and for Macspower, play online in the hall with your 7 iron close at hand in case some hunchback thieft tries to place his hand in your letterbox and
    randomnly grab at items lying near the door.
    16.notice that there is no 6, 7,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 698 ✭✭✭Sirtoyou


    CHIPRIP wrote: »
    Cash game players (online)
    1.Fold KK preflop to a fancy nit 3 bet, there is one hand bigger than it
    2.Fold QQ preflop for twice the reasons as above
    3.Dismiss god and all religeons, as to believe in such inprobabilities is -EV
    4.Get quoted by cardshark with a dot or an ass lick.
    5.Get knocked out of donkaments early despite ability edge as you forget the +EV of this
    8.When posting hand advice look at who posted it 1st, then decide on your reply based on the poster.
    Poster based thinking
    9.Fail to comprehend how Phil Helmut has 7 bracelets and you will never have a single earring.
    10.Post expert hand advice to people on boards sharing your expert knowledge and in doing so educuate the masses to
    learn how to think, then lambasse some guy for doing something that is -EV in the long run and fail to see the irony.
    11.Get shot in the punk head by Dirty harry, as you know in all probability he shot 6 bullets, despite your feel that there is one bullet left in the gun ,
    and in so doing making said persons day and forgetting that death is EV- to the power of infinity. (fail to get this point)
    12. Watch little house on the prarie and fail to be moved by Pas plight as he struggles to find Laura a blind school, you emotionless b'stard.
    13.Take your laptop into the loo with you and 6 table as you squeeze one out...(you know you do it) then dont wash your hands.
    14.Experiece deep vein thrombosis in the comfort of your living room
    15. and for Macspower, play online in the hall with your 7 iron close at hand in case some hunchback thieft tries to place his hand in your letterbox and
    randomnly grab at items lying near the door.
    16.notice that there is no 6, 7,

    Wow lol.
    A welcome new poster for +ev entertainment


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭pok3rplaya


    clearly a gimick


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭GrangeUtd


    always remember to tell people "I put you all in"
    this is always the correct manner and etiquette.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,881 ✭✭✭bohsman


    CHIPRIP wrote: »
    Cash game players (online)
    1.Fold KK preflop to a fancy nit 3 bet, there is one hand bigger than it
    2.Fold QQ preflop for twice the reasons as above
    3.Dismiss god and all religeons, as to believe in such inprobabilities is -EV
    4.Get quoted by cardshark with a dot or an ass lick.
    5.Get knocked out of donkaments early despite ability edge as you forget the +EV of this
    8.When posting hand advice look at who posted it 1st, then decide on your reply based on the poster.
    Poster based thinking
    9.Fail to comprehend how Phil Helmut has 7 bracelets and you will never have a single earring.
    10.Post expert hand advice to people on boards sharing your expert knowledge and in doing so educuate the masses to
    learn how to think, then lambasse some guy for doing something that is -EV in the long run and fail to see the irony.
    11.Get shot in the punk head by Dirty harry, as you know in all probability he shot 6 bullets, despite your feel that there is one bullet left in the gun ,
    and in so doing making said persons day and forgetting that death is EV- to the power of infinity. (fail to get this point)
    12. Watch little house on the prarie and fail to be moved by Pas plight as he struggles to find Laura a blind school, you emotionless b'stard.
    13.Take your laptop into the loo with you and 6 table as you squeeze one out...(you know you do it) then dont wash your hands.
    14.Experiece deep vein thrombosis in the comfort of your living room
    15. and for Macspower, play online in the hall with your 7 iron close at hand in case some hunchback thieft tries to place his hand in your letterbox and
    randomnly grab at items lying near the door.
    16.notice that there is no 6, 7,

    once a scouser always a scouser.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭Hitman Actual


    Sirtoyou wrote: »
    Wow lol.
    A welcome new poster for +ev entertainment

    lol, hardly a new poster!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,459 ✭✭✭califano



    3 Be sure to narrow your opponents hand to not just one holding, but claim to be 100% sure of each of your opponents card. This is called your "read"

    lol
    especially if you have JJ facing an all in bet you put the other guy on 1010.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭careca


    If you make a horrendous call in an online game and suck out on someone, make sure to put the word "misclick" in your HH on the BB thread.

    Even if you are losing (or for most posters loosing) your sack, be sure to say you earn "a nice monthly profit" from poker.

    Learn to spell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,476 ✭✭✭Samba


    Highlight all the tourney wins and boast huge earnings, but always fail to mention your running expenditure for tournament entries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,434 ✭✭✭cardshark202


    CHIPRIP wrote: »
    Cash game players (online)......

    Is this the original Solksjaer or one of your brothers which you claimed to have using your account too?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,771 ✭✭✭carfax


    Is this the original Solksjaer or one of your brothers which you claimed to have using your account too?

    Don't think its Solksjaer but if it is its another brilliant post :D

    Can we get an I.P. check please :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭RoundTower


    this thread was funnier before the emo bits


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Ste05


    carfax wrote: »
    Can we get an I.P. check please :)
    She's clean from the checks I'm able to make...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,049 ✭✭✭The_Chopper


    Fail to factor in any variables whatsoever when making "+ EV" decisions


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 CHIPRIP


    Is this the original Solksjaer or one of your brothers which you claimed to have using your account too?


    Reginald, you gingerhaired dolt.....

    Solksjaer will be joining your Saturday football game soon. I'm fat and unfit but I'm really looking forward to it.


    Reggie you Veggie!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 CHIPRIP


    it's amazing, when HJ, Fuzz or one of these guys makes a post, regardless of content, out from the crevices of the overrated come the disciples......It gives me a real LOL hard on......

    oh and DOT to that big boys.

    Quack Quack, great fold Tony btw. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 730 ✭✭✭aodea


    wow this thread sucks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Ste05


    I thought this Solskjaer might have been a nice version.. :rolleyes: :(

    Ah well, until the next time Solks, cya around...

    Banned (again)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,450 ✭✭✭Gholimoli


    To tourney heads

    1. Make a small raise with AA preflop after 6000 limpers.
    Post-flop min reraise and make sure by doing so you put more than half your stack in the middle.
    then when your opponent shoves , start to think about it for a while getting 3:1 on the call. then make sure you call when you are drawing to 2 outs and ensure that you say this after wards to your opponent:
    “I got you to do exactly what I wanted you to do which is to put your stack in the middle”.


    2. Limp UTG with AA, KK then come over the top when some 1 makes a raise.
    This will be better played if you go all in as it will make sure the other opponent plays perfectly.

    3. Limp, call a raise, and then when you flop a draw keep min betting the pot and calling huge reraises.
    This will really confuse your opponent and increases the chances of your draw coming in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,754 ✭✭✭ianmc38


    Run hotter than God. Get big donkament score. Acquire ego. Label people who can play poker cash players or maths people. Compare cash and tournaments players results. Lolo lolo proof of the pudding is in the eating init. Obv cash players will refer to this as results based thinking.

    Limp JJ UTG. When the button raises, raise about 50% of your stack to see where you stand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,187 ✭✭✭Flushdraw


    Gholimoli wrote: »
    To tourney heads

    1. Make a small raise with AA preflop after 6000 limpers.
    Post-flop min reraise and make sure by doing so you put more than half your stack in the middle.
    then when your opponent shoves , start to think about it for a while getting 3:1 on the call. then make sure you call when you are drawing to 2 outs and ensure that you say this after wards to your opponent:
    “I got you to do exactly what I wanted you to do which is to put your stack in the middle”.


    2. Limp UTG with AA, KK then come over the top when some 1 makes a raise.
    This will be better played if you go all in as it will make sure the other opponent plays perfectly.

    3. Limp, call a raise, and then when you flop a draw keep min betting the pot and calling huge reraises.
    This will really confuse your opponent and increases the chances of your draw coming in.

    D-

    I was expecting better Gholi.....

    I think you got tournie heads mixed up with the chief btw


  • Posts: 6,045 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sweet Zombie Jebus this quack quack thread really has divided people.

    Since when did the poker forum turn into a fncking kindergarten?

    Grow the fnck up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭Mr.Plough


    ianmc38 wrote: »
    Limp JJ UTG. When the button raises raise about 50% of your stack to see where you stand.

    .


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