bebo getting in on the poker action.

Gillybean72

Got an invite to BEBO Poker, which I havent actually played yet, but what I DID notice and liked was the Poker IQ quiz. Basically showing a table in many situations and asking you what would you do. Its pretty cool actually.

eg.

The Situation:You are playing $0.50/$1 NL Hold 'Em 6-Max online and open to $3.50 from the cutoff.

The button folds and the BB calls. You have no information on the BB's style of play. Both of you have $100 in play.

The flop is .

The BB checks and you bet $6 into a pot of $7. The BB check-raises you to $24. How do you play the hand from here?

And Once you have chose your answer it comes up with the theory...
Explanation:

To many inexperienced players, a drawing hand is…well exactly that, a draw! Your goal is to see all 5 cards cheaply and hope to make your hand. If you miss, you fold, and if you get there you bet! However, this hand is a prime example of why that approach isn’t the best approach in every situation.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, the best option here is to Move-All-In! That’s right, shove all your chips in the middle with 3rd pair and a flush draw! But why? Let’s take a look.

We are sitting with 100 Big Blinds – Pretty standard for any cash game. We chose to raise A6s from the cut-off, a pretty normal play. The flop came 986 with 2 hearts, and short of flopping 2 pair, trip 6’s or a full house, this is about as good a flop as we were looking for. We assume he have 9 outs to the nuts, and believe another 6 or A will make us the best hand. Our hand is extremely value in this spot – Move in!

Moving All-in is a good play for 3 main reasons.

First – we don’t know anything about the big blind. He called a raise preflop and has now check-raised sizably on the flop into a pretty draw-heavy board. What could he have? Assuming he’s not completely bluffing (though he may be!), he could have anything from 3 9’s to 7x, 2 pair, or even a lower flush draw. Overall, our hand plays very favorably against our opponents range.

Second – Moving All-in may get our opponent to lay down the best hand. If our opponents has pocket 10’s or pocket Jacks – he may fear that WE have flopped a set or have AA/KK and give up his hand.

Finally – Moving All-in guarantees that we get to see all 5 cards. Even if he has pocket kings here, we are about 50/50 to win!

Calling isn’t terrible, but it really isn’t a good play. If you miss your draw on the turn you’ll likely have to fold, not getting proper odds to call a river bet. If our opponent has a similar draw to ours, he may shut down and limit the size of the pot we win.

Raising is okay – but there’s really no point in raising any amount that isn’t All-in. By raising over his check-raise we are pot committing ourselves to the hand – so if he shoves over the top of our raise, we have to call.

Folding is far and away the weakest option here. Our hand simply has too much value. Since we don’t have any information on our opponent we can’t just fold fearing he has an absolute monster. If that’s your real fear – fold this hand preflop. You’ve raised with a drawing hand – flopped a monster draw – and now you need to follow through.


Voting:
Fold
Call
Move All-In
Raise

Rb

Pffft, bebo.

Sparky1808

Poker has hit a new low.

I thought Friends Reunited Poker was bad, but now i've seen it all.

I'm still awaiting Wikipedia & YouTube getting their own poker sites.

semibluff

new fish - how bad

davidgti

Sparky1808 wrote: »

Poker has hit a new low.

I thought Friends Reunited Poker was bad, but now i've seen it all.

I'm still awaiting Wikipedia & YouTube getting their own poker sites.

well said sparky was thinking the same:rolleyes:

cooker3

Sparky1808 wrote: »

Poker has hit a new low.

I thought Friends Reunited Poker was bad, but now i've seen it all.

I'm still awaiting Wikipedia & YouTube getting their own poker sites.

God I would dream of that happening 1 day

SuperHans

Is Bebo now an actual site you can play on? All I can find are profile pages relating to poker. Link anyone?

Gillybean72

SuperHans wrote: »

Is Bebo now an actual site you can play on? All I can find are profile pages relating to poker. Link anyone?

If you are a Bebo member, you can dowload the poker application. I got sent it from my brother, and you forward on invites. if you need it forwarded PM me your username and I will forward it on.

Gillybean72

semibluff wrote: »

new fish - how bad

The thing thats so wrong about it, is the there were young ones as young as 12 at the first table I looked at. Lowering the age of gambling addicts everywhere

5starpool

Is this a real money site? If so, is it on a network, or at least proper software?

RoundTower

cooker3 wrote: »

God I would dream of that happening 1 day

yahoo entered the market, on boss I think. They didn't make much of a splash.

Gillybean72

5starpool wrote: »

Is this a real money site? If so, is it on a network, or at least proper software?

Havent looked too har to see if there is real cash tables. The table format is not too bad, reminds me of the PKR style.

I know that one of the facebook ones takes you to Full Tilt.

empirix

Is this real money, can't be, would cause uproar, having kids gambling etc.

What a dream it would be though! i'd have no problem taking their pocket money!

Gillybean72

empirix wrote: »

Is this real money, can't be, would cause uproar, having kids gambling etc.

What a dream it would be though! i'd have no problem taking their pocket money!

Tried playing.. its awfull. Takes ages for the action to go round the table. They have no clue, especially about blinds and things. You get the option to auto post them as norm, and I asked a few there ages at my table and I was ancient next to them! 12 years, 14 year and the question is WHY THE HELL ARE THEY NOT AS SCHOOL!!

The IQ quiz is the ONLY highlight of the whole thing!

DeadParrot

linky?

Gillybean72

DeadParrot wrote: »

linky?

Its just your regular bebo account. on first page that shows the changes. as I said before to another PM me and Ill try to get an invite to you.

gondorff

It's all a bit sinister.
Isn't this tantamount to promoting cigarettes and alcohol in the classroom?