Free Poker Money - No Deposit Required: December 2007

Friday, December 28, 2007

Happy Holidays

Full feed restored. Not sure what happened.

Hope everyone enjoyed Giftmas.

I'm out of town until the new year. Hope everyone has a happy one and damages their livers to an appropriate level.

I promise to be much more cynical in the new year. If that's even possible.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

More Poker Advice

After slamming Waffles in the last post, this one is to praise something he said about people who "hate" suited connectors.

He insists that those people who claim to hate the hand actually love it. And they do. I know they do because I do. But if you don't understand why we love it, you're just going to get yourself in trouble with it.

The reason why we love suited connectors (along with suited one-gappers and even two-gappers sometimes) is that they can make VERY BIG HANDS, and they can do that in a LOT OF WAYS. We don't just like to play these hands, we REALLY like calling raises with them. Insanity, right?

If you make a straight or a flush, you can take down a very big pot from someone with an overpair, a set or even a big two-pair. Especially from guys who get married to their hands and make big overbets trying to FORCE them to hold up. Or if you hit a nice drawing hand you can push your opponents off weaker holdings. You hit an OESD and you can push that guy off his continuation bet with AQ that missed.

But the sirens song of the suited connectors is the DREADED two pairs. Two pairs SUCKS with suited connectors, because they often make other players hands, and your two pair is usually something shitty like 5s and 4s.

If you are going to have a love affair with suited connectors, you have to be able to control yourself with a weaker hand like two pairs. Even when you're POSITIVE that your opponent has Aces and you're ahead, don't go nuts. Boards can pair, people hit sets, even straights and flushes happen occasionally. There's nothing wrong with seeing a river card hit the table with money still in your stack sometimes.

Play those suited cards and try to hit those big hands, taking stacks and stacks off opponents when you do. If you happen to hit trips with it you can win some juicy pots too. But don't get over-stimulated by the weaker hands you hit with them. Try to get some value and win some smaller pots with them, but don't get too carried away.

Your overall bankroll will thank you.

Poker Advice

Don't try to give poker advice. It will not be welcomed.

Here's an example.

Waffles hits 2 pair on the turn with 32s. He jams something like 12 bucks into a $2 pot and the opponent with top pair hits a better two pair on the river and Waffles, as always, is crying that he has the worst luck in the universe.

I give some very well meaning advice that when you have a vulnerable hand it's sometimes better to try to control the pot rather than JAM and hope for the best.

He calls me a HUGE MORON and then all the people that love to tongue his asshole come into his comments and call me names.

I guess I play like a total nit. I just don't think 2 pair is a monster hand worth jamming six times the size of the pot. Especially when it's the weakest possible two pair you can have.

Waffles EXPLODES that if you don't agree that he's a FUCKING GENIUS for getting his money in as an 80% favorite then you are A RETARD. As if bottom two pair is ALWAYS an 80% favorite, because his opponents always play their cards FACE UP! What if your opponent had a set, genius? Then you're just a fucking tool.

Yes, you got unlucky. But lots of players realize that they might not always be ahead with bottom two pair, and keeping the pot under control is THE RIGHT PLAY here.

But as we all know, "control" has nothing to do with Waffles' game.

******BONUS******

See if you can spot the irony in this part of Waffles' rant:

If anyone wants to argue that point feel free because your a fucking idiot.

Oh Waffles. You are such a joy to read. We treasure you.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

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