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Question about checking and calling
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So I’ve played only Texas Holdem in games where it’s its own separate mini game and 247freepoker and I had a question so if someone bets how many people before you have to call before you can check
Top Comment: You can’t check if someone before you bets...
What does it mean to "cold" call or "cold" bet?
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Edit: I think I have a definition. An action is "cold" when it's a new player entering the action preflop after 2 players have already taken an action.
Edit 2: Some of yall need Jesus. I'm trying to thoroughly learn how to properly use a word and yall are acting like I slapped the burrito out of your fat wife's hand.
Top Comment: Cold refers to action by a player who hasn’t acted yet in a pot. If you were on the button and the action was raised by utg and reraised by the CO any of your actions (other than fold) would be “cold” as you were a player not involved in the pot yet. If you raise, it’s a “cold” 4-bet. If you call, this is a cold call. If you folded and the action folded around to the original raiser, none of their action would be “cold.” If they were to raise it would be a standard 4-bet or a call.
rules - What constitutes a call? - Poker Stack Exchange
Main Post: rules - What constitutes a call? - Poker Stack Exchange
Is "Call Any" the most unnecessary button in online poker?
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Aren't you just raising the majority of the time in a situation like that? Having a button dedicated to the corner case where you have someone donking street after street seems like a waste from a UI perspective.
Top Comment: Personally, I find the fold button pretty useless.
When is it okay to call off pre with AK 100bb+?
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I always find it hard to call off with AK preflop in cash games 100bb+, especially from TAGs in all configurations. Am I overfolding? Thanks for your input.
Edit: this is for 50nl and 100nl online
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If villain is over 60 years old: fold
Villain 35-60 years: mix
Villain under 35: snap call
Is it really that bad to call a 4-bet preflop with J9 suited early in a tournament?
Main Post: Is it really that bad to call a 4-bet preflop with J9 suited early in a tournament?
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If you truly cold called a cold 4bet, yes that is bad. But it seems like maybe you just called an opening 3x raise which is probably fine in position.
How wide do we call in bounty MTTs?
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I was wondering this after a hand in an online MTT. 888poker, 40+40+8 PKO so you only get half of someone's bounty in cash if you KO them, the other half goes on your own head. So if you KO someone first hand you get 1/4 buyin. Starting stack is 50k, blinds at 600/1200/150 8 handed and UTG1 (no bounties collected yet) jams for 10.8k and I have 55k which is about average for the tournament. I look down at Q2o in the BB after it folds to me and at the time I thought it was a slam dunk call, and duly rivered a Q vs his Ax, now I'm not so sure. We're calling 9.6k to win 23.4k, so if we give ourselves 30% equity, we lose about 2500chip EV (5% of the starting stack) in exchange for a 32% shot at 0.25 BI if we call and win, so that's juicing the pot, so to speak, with 0.08 BIs.
Looking for feedback on that spot I suppose, but also more generally how do we account for bounties? Obviously the amount of BI's you get for a KO is important and so (I think) is the % of starting stack that he's jamming for (the thinking being, if 1 BI is worth 1 starting stack, then we can kinda sorta convert the guy's bounty into chips "in the middle" that affect our pot odds. What I don't know how to account for is future bounty equity- i.e. if we call and lose, this obviously cripples our ability to get bounties for the rest of the tournament.
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Min bounty is worth about 17k chips in equity to add to the calculation. Snap that bitch off.
I’m quite new to poker and I haven’t got the confidence to bluff yet. I always feel like they’ll have something to call me with and take a lot of my chips. Any advice for me?
Main Post: I’m quite new to poker and I haven’t got the confidence to bluff yet. I always feel like they’ll have something to call me with and take a lot of my chips. Any advice for me?
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Scared money don’t make money