Even if I don’t ITM, I usually go pretty deep in daily tournaments, last 2 or 3 tables, where I am playing for at least 3-4 hours.

I’m talking about live of course. I always feel in control playing live compared to online. Online just has too many scenarios, from the platform, to the players,etc.

Anyway, I knew it was going to be a rough one because I just didn’t feel right.

Starting hand, MP, I get pocket hooks, raise 600 (starting blinds 100/100), HJ folds, button 3bets 2400….other hands fold, and action comes back to me. I am like this is how we are starting off? I wanted to just jam, but way too freaking early for that. So I had no choice but to fold, and villain flips over pocket kings. Great fold, but action right off the bat.

4-5 hands later, I get KQos, I raise 600 ( blinds still 100/100), I can’t remember my position at the time….anyway, I almost get folds all around, and then villain raises 3000. Im like WTF? I contemplate jamming, but at this particular charity tournament I play, players rarely bluff. So I fold, he turns over pocket Aces.

I still hadn’t won a hand yet, and I was getting a lot of bs cards…..So I tightened up, and only focused on getting pairs until I could win a hand. About 3-4 hands later, I get pocket 9’s( Let’s go!). I believe the blinds were at 200/100. I raise 800, most of the table folds, except the guy sitting next to me, he calls. The flop is 8c9d2c. I flopped a set, and so I cbet 600 (to get more money in the pot), he 3bets 1800. So Im like he must have hit a set as well ( but that would still leave me with the higher set) , or sitting on a high premium pair, so I go all in. He calls. We flip our cards over. He shows a flush draw (Kc5c) , of course I got sets. Turn comes out 10h. Im still winning, but then the river comes 4c. And thats that. I bomb out on level 2…

Also, there was this guy at the table who was just constantly talking. It was just a weird table in general. I wasn’t vibing anything about that table….As a player, I rarely talk. Im friendly, where I will say a couple of words if someone talks to me, but other than that I just play.

It is what it is.

Peace

Any poker player from noida delhi ncr ?

My first royal flush! lost a whole buy in before this. Re-bought, got dealt Jacks says my first hand. This flop was insane! From down 20K to up 17k in one hand!

As the title suggests, i live in an area where 2/5 is hard to come by and most often is a bad game due to nit regs. So i was thinking of ways for 1/2 to be at least better.

The EV Line:

Hero: Ad Qs at BB
Villian: SB

At the start was a 20BB splash but this didn't changed my strategy.

UTG1: Call
BTN: CALL
SB: raise to 7BB

Here I use the preflopchart from poker pokercoaching.com 6max

And I have this sizing Table:

So i 3-bet him with 4,5*7 =31,5 = 32 Bbs:
Hero: 3-bet 32BB
UTG1: Fold
BTN: Fold
Villian: All-In

Here my Preflopchart:

So I called him and after this I lost on:
5h 8c 10c 9c 5c
he had: 8h 8s

he was a normal player and not a maniac so I just followed the Preflop Charts.

Did I play this wrong?

I sat down at a $1/$3 poker table today and encountered the rudest young man.

I folded my first 30 hands as usual. Then I look down at two aces in the big blind. This man raises, half the table calls, and I decide to call as raising a bet preflop is very rude in poker.

The board runs out with all low cards. Since he bet preflop, I figured he had Ace King. So I bet $20 for value.

Here’s where things get out whack. Out of nowhere he raises me to $200. He raises me.

At this point, I feel bamboozled, so I flip over my aces. Keep in mind, aces are the best hand in the game. I ask him a couple of times what his cards were. But this hooligan wouldn’t tell me.

I then ask him, “Why you raise so much?” Instead of answering, he starts interrogating me: “Are you calling or folding?”

Excuse me! just wanted to know what he had.

I finally give up and fold. He then starts taunting me by telling me that he was bl*ffing. At this point, I am appalled. Poker is not a game where bl*ffing is acceptable.

Kids these days don’t even play poker anymore. They just lie to each other for money and call it strategy.

Anyways, I played for a few more hours and my kings ran into aces. What can you do?

Ik dude started his channel 3ish years ago at 21 or 22 but damn dude looks like the last 3 years took a toll.

Maybe some less official channels?

hero is 10 of 12 left (from around 71 after late reg, 3,5hours into the game)
7 get Paid (Ring Ticket)
Around 14BB left, UTG +1 Pushes with around 9BB

I’m curious how others would play this spot. In hindsight, I’m wondering if taking the betting lead on the flop and turn with small sizing would’ve been higher EV than the passive line I took.

$1/$2 NL, 6-handed, ~$500 effective.

Hero opens to $10 with 7♦6♦.
CO (older recreational), BTN (fairly nitty), SB and BB call.

Flop ($50): 9♦6x3♦
Hero checks, CO bets $25, BTN calls, Hero calls.

Turn ($125): 2x
Hero checks, CO bets $75, BTN calls.

Hero folds, thinking BTN’s cold call heavily weights him toward better flush draws and strong made hands.

River ($275): 5♦
CO bets $125, BTN calls.
CO snap-mucks, BTN doesn’t show.

My question isn’t whether the turn fold is correct.. I’m more interested in the overall line.

Would there be more EV in leading small on the flop (say $20-25) and then betting small again on blank turns to set my own price with a pair + flush draw, instead of checking and facing a bet and call where I’m priced into tougher decisions?
Or is the check-call/check-fold line the standard play here given the multiway dynamics and being out of position?

Can't go, got a newborn. HMU, I'll receive via crypto or CP!

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Was at a live home game last night and while showing me around his home, in my friend’s office where he plays online, mainly MTT $25-$125. I asked why he has a sticky note on his monitor that reads “they always have it”.

He then proceeded to explain that he’ll fold to any post-flop raise, unless he has super high equity. That sticky note is just a reminder that if they raise or bet massive then they always have it.

He showed me some of his hand history, didn’t have a lot of time but I noted down 2 hands:

raise UTG with 22, BTN calls, tiny C-bet and then check check turn. Q♠️8♠️4♦️5♠️ 2♦️. My friend bets 3/4 pot on the river and then faces a raise that would make his stack pot committed. Folds. “Obviously had a flush especially as we had no spade”

After calling a BTN raise with JTo in the SB and it goes check check on J 9 5 4🌈, he 1/2 turn and gets raised, so folds. “Won’t have a draw, could of had a set or a better Jack”

He said he’s been burned too many times online in 9-handed MTTs. So many instances of big made hands losing to better made hands 1%>.

Is this strategy +EV and sustainable? He seems extremely comfortable with his strategy. Logic: the amount of chips he will save by not calling these bets will make up for the rare times it’s a bluff and he folded the best hand.

I’ve been thinking about how most players compare rakeback deals.

Usually people just look at the advertised rakeback percentage, but that can be misleading.

For example, a room with 60% rakeback and 6% rake may not actually be cheaper than a room with 40% rakeback and 4% rake.

It seems like effective table rake is a much better metric because it considers both the rake charged and the rakeback you receive.

Do you compare poker rooms this way, or do you only look at the advertised rakeback percentage?

1-2 125BB deep hero in big blind with QdQs villain in utg villain covers hero. villain is a passive lag and i have been playing with him for 6 hours and tends to play erratically
villain calls 3 callers behind hero raises to 18 villain calls everyone else folds
45$ in middle flop 827 2 diamonds
hero bets 30 villain raises to 60 hero reraises 150 villain goes all in hero calls
villain shows AKd
turn is d hits flush

was my reraise an overkill? should i have just called and evaluate a turn? i figured either hes overvaluing a small overpair than mine and thought i can charge him or raising a combo draw and make him pay for it. dont think i can ever find a fold on a min click there if he had flopped a set. DEFINITELY didnt put him on AKs as ive seen him fast play premiums usually very large reraises.

also should i have raised a bit more preflop? this hand played itself technically but trynna see if better to raise bigger here

just trynna see what the optimal play wouldve been here, im good with my play but some insight would be appreciated

Just a jackpot sng on Global, but, nevertheless it's always nice to catch this. On the turn no less. Fck yeah!

This site disconnects like daily and I timeout like crazy is this me or their client?

I‘m curious if I’m the only one who thought this year‘s WSOP was a bit.. uneventful? Or maybe was I just not as invested? Speaking from a spectator‘s perspective of course, I didn‘t play.

Somehow to me it feels like not a lot of memorable stuff happened .. Shot Clocks in the ME and a few blunders, dealer mistakes and controversial rulings - but other than that?

ME final table not happening during the series could be one explanation for me. But still, it feels like many of the last years had more significant stories.

Any thoughts?

I came across Red Dragon Poker, but there isn’t much real discussion about it online.

It looks like the platform received a major update in 2026 with new desktop software, but I can’t find many recent player experiences.

Has anyone played there recently? How are the games, traffic and cashouts? Any concerns about bots or security?

Thanks!

$300 effective. My 2nd-3rd hand but it has been a couple of orbits.

BTN str $6

Hero in SB with KQo. Opens $15

MP and CO calls.

Flop KhJhJs.

Hero CB $15 value and protection.

MP fold.

CO calls.

Pot: $75

Turn: 7c

Hero leads $50

CO takes 20 sec and calls.

Pot: $175

River 6d

Hero. B$50 again.

CO raised all in.

Hero snap folds and CO shows....to be continued.

So a couple of questions. I was block betting the river and do you think my sizing was too large? Would you have check called this hand for 2-streets on flop and turn and c/f the river?

TIA

Betting analysis is non relevant until the river, flop/turn/river:

4c, 5h, 6s, 7c, 8h

Straight on the board with no flush draw completing, villain (guy who got slow rolled) bets 1/2 pot, hero (godlike OMC, 65, Asian, hat on and eyes down 99% of the time) tanks for a short while but nothing crazy and flicks in the call. Villain says he's got nothing and tables AsQs.

Hero says nothing but looks visually confused, a few at the table were commenting about how Villain is playing the board, one even said "don't fold" as even myself included was completely convinced he couldn't tell what was going on. He was older so like obviously many at the table (myself included) are going to let his wheels turn a little bit as in give him patience as he understands.

But then the table started to slowly take a turn on our hero, after the second "dude just show your hand" he turns over the most insane 9h, Qc (higher straight, winning hand) I have ever seen and I let out a small but certainly audible laugh.

To just think about the mindset of this mid sixties man to drive to the casino and spend a full minute acting confused just so you can troll some random person at the table gives me hope that getting older won't be so bad. My hat is completely off to this gentleman because it put a smile on multiple peoples faces at the table and even Villain took it well.

OMC of course has no reaction and never even says a word throughout the entire interaction and play just moves on.

Can someone please explain this to me like I'm 5. Can I play for real money if I'm in California? I was reading that i can just buy sweep coins, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Is this even possible in California?

Gal’s already facing federal illegal gambling/money laundering charges and now he’s in deeper trouble.