[retired_drumcook]

Do you have a satelite dish?

[san]

Would anyone be interested in being "referred" to absolute poker by moi? All you have to do is give me an e-mail address, deposit at least $25 and play 100 raked hands there, and you get a free $25 deposited in your account....they've got a pretty decent site too, a fair bit of traffic and excellent bonus rates (1 point per raked hand, 100 points = $10)....actually, with those kinds of bonus rates, I wonder how the site makes any money. My only quibble is that the ring games are 9-handed, but that's a minor issue.

Any takers?

[retired_shaneargy]

Originally posted by San:
Would anyone be interested in being "referred" to absolute poker by moi? All you have to do is give me an e-mail address, deposit at least $25 and play 100 raked hands there, and you get a free $25 deposited in your account....they've got a pretty decent site too, a fair bit of traffic and excellent bonus rates (1 point per raked hand, 100 points = $10)....actually, with those kinds of bonus rates, I wonder how the site makes any money. My only quibble is that the ring games are 9-handed, but that's a minor issue.

Any takers?

What's in it for you?

[san]

Some money.

[retired_emiliek]

yeh go on san...email in profile

[san]

Done :thup:

[retired_emiliek]

nice one...prob wont do it for a week or so when I get some money but I will get round to it eventually!

[retired_alonzo993]

so yeah i just won the VC Student Qualifier this week :cool:

www.vcstudentpoker.com it looks fun

[retired_kkahl]

Hand advice

BBP freeroll tournament, down to 45 left from 800, top 27 get money. Tournament chip leader has 350k, on my table are 4 players (including myself) on about 250k.

Fairly loose table, quite a few big bets in the past hands (all-ins, or +pot raises)

Im dealt AK in late position, 1 30k raiser from UTG, 1 caller from middle position. I didnt think much of the raise, as people had been playing quite loose

flop comes 8h, Kd and Ad

original raiser checks, the caller then raises 27k. I push all in, thinking someone either has top pair, or has a flush draw, and I dont want them to chase their flush draw. TBH I didnt give enough consideration as to what the opponents may have been holding.

Original raiser folds, and the middle position guy calls my all in, and turns over AA. I even hit a K on da river for my boat, but of course that just gave him an A high boat.

Opinions?

I dont think I should have raised, but should I have tried to call him down? I think even if I had tried to do this he would have raised all in at some point.

Was I just unlucky in that I ran into a big hand? I regret even calling the initial raise with AK now, that should have told me someone had a big hand, but as I said the table had been quite loose. I should have jus sat back and waited until I got a money finish, then started trying to push people around again.

[retired_shaneargy]

Originally posted by darkhorse:
Hand advice

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Was I just unlucky in that I ran into a big hand? I regret even calling the initial raise with AK now, that should have told me someone had a big hand, but as I said the table had been quite loose. I should have jus sat back and waited until I got a money finish, then started trying to push people around again.

I miss the level of the blinds. I assume it is 5/10k or something like that. If it is considerably lower like 2/4k you can fold this preflop.

I would consider reraising preflop with AK in position but flatcalling is fine too. I would flatcall or reraise smaller on the flop to get weaker hands (than yours) to call. Your all-in raise makes you win the pot at once (when you have the best hand) or go bust (against a better hand). Don't do bets that all better hands will call and all weaker hands will fold. If you absolutely want to finish lowly in the points fold preflop. If you want to win the tourney you can't avoid going broke this hand.