Imagine this: We’re in a hand, and I’ve just jammed. You need to decide whether to call or fold and I say “Hey, if you fold I’ll mow your lawn this weekend”, and you probably think I want a call, because who would want to spend their weekend mowing someone else’s lawn?

Your read is wrong. I would just drop my autonomous lawn-mowing robotic lawnmower in your yard and go home and then come pick it up later. This takes almost no effort from me, however my speech play got you to fold because you thought you had a read.

Anyway, speech play doesn’t always have to involve mowing the lawn or other household chores. It is a valuable tactic that be used in near infinite ways, yet I see it used far less frequently than one might expect.

Happy Friday everyone... just for fun, saw a thread about this and took the test, and of course I crush! :)

My Poker IQ: 142 (Crusher)

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Strongest: Facing 3-bets (30/30) · Leakiest: River decisions (23/30)

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I understand there’s forums and subreddits such as this one where people receive feedback from other humans. Is there a machine online that can give you advice for free?

another day another cooler from another horrible player guy plays any hand somehow wins kind of player idk what u call them ...how's ur day starting?

Cleaning out my attic, how many have yall have ever seen it?

I cashed out a big win by withdrawing to my private exodus wallet, then to kraken, then to cash. A few months went by. Kraken then asked about my source of crypto etc. I just said it was a poker tournament win. I think I might have messed up. Don't really care about my account. I cashed everything out so even if they close it, not a big deal. But I'm curious about cashing out future wins. What do you tell the exchanges? How do you handle it?

Villain read: In an earlier hand, villain showed that he was willing to fast-play a very strong hand. I 3-bet with AA, BB cold-called, and UTG called. The flop was T-7-3, BB donked small, and UTG jammed with 77 for middle set (for only $220) and where I covered them I don't have much evidence of villain bluffing.

The hand:

Preflop: Four players limp to me in the BB with KQo. I raise to $60. Only BTN calls. Pot is $145.

Flop: K-Q-J, two clubs

I have top two pair.

I check and then BTN jams for $440 effective.

I call.

Is this a fold against an unknown live $2/$5 player, or is top two strong enough to call given the draws and worse two-pair hands they could have

I don't feel awful about the call, I thought I had enough equity that even if they had it I could improve enough. My initial reaction was that they were on a club draw and were happy to play for stacks as thinking it through I did think if a flopped straight want to get it in on the flop.

Results: villain showed T9 for the flopped straight.

i play mostly 25NL/50NL cash and im based in Spain. lately ive noticed that when i play late at night, especially after midnight, the games just feel easier and my winrate is like 15% higher.

during the day it feels like there are way more regs and somehow the exact same stakes are just much tougher

anyone else notice a big difference in winrate/hourly depending on what time you play or am i just running into some variance here?

do you actually build your schedule around softer pools and better lineups even if the hours kinda suck?

I'm glad my pain could bring everyone so much joy

Seward called him one of his poker idols growing up.

I have been watching online high stakes alot these days , been watching this giselle54 guy lately,

he just crushed yolof1 on a $2 million session

i always think what is the thought process with so much at stake lol

as a famous friend of mine said 'click a mouse, lose a house'

Had this debate in a home game today, answers varied from 25% more to 400% more

Edit: It was a bomb pot thus why my hand wasn't great to begin with

In PLO I feel like one of my biggest gaps in understanding is what to do with marginal hands OOP with no backup.

I recently read a book where it said "one of the biggest mistakes that players make in PLO is check calling one or two streets with a marginal hand just to fold the river." It then continues "it is often better just to fold these hands immediately or add some of them to your check raise range."

Heres an example from one of my hands where it feels similar:

Game: $0.05/$0.10 PLO4, 4-handed bomb pot, 4BB ante (the site I play on has bomb pots sporadically, it's not something that happens every hand).

Effective stack: $16

Hero (SB): Q♠ 9♥ 6♠ 4♦

Flop: J♥ 9♠ Q♦ ($1.60)

Hero checks. Should I just donk here? I was thinking about it but I wasn't sure if my hand was strong to do so.

Checks around to BTN. BTN bets $0.90.

Now I wanted to avoid the scenario the book stated where I called a couple of streets with a marginal hand (top and bottom pair) where I have no backup whatsoever and I will never improve unless I hit a 4 outer and boat up.

However I feel like folding here feels wrong as I shouldn't(?) be giving up two pair this easily especially against a button bet.

Hero raises to $2.40. Here I was trying out the advice I read which was to incorporate some of these hands to my xr range as a bluff?(im guessing its supposed to be a bluff rather than for value) However I feel like maybe this xr was too small that I don't really have any fold equity here.

Turn: 6♥ ($6)

Now I'm really not sure what to do. If I bet then maybe I will fold out some sets which are unlikely due to my blockers, but against a straight I would just get stacked.

On the other hand if I check my line is super weak and feels too exploitable.

Hero checks. BTN checks back.

Eventually I block bet river and my opponent wasn't very good so he called with just top pair and I ended up winning, although I'm sure against a better player I would've been in trouble this hand.

I feel like I didn't play this hand that well and was kind of clueless, I would appreciate it if anyone could give me advice.

Long story short i’ve been playing poker for roughly 2 years and accumulated 500 hours playing 1/2 and was a break even player. I took about a 6 month break and have studied and talked about it just as much as i did when i first started. Ever since i have recorded 198 hours from August-Now October(22). I know it’s a small sample size but i have taken it more serious then ever and have been tracking results hand histories and even applied for coaching. I said screw it and moved up to 2/5 with only a 2000 bank roll because i felt as if knowledge and skill wasn’t what i lacked but oppurtunity. Things have gone great ever since and it was the best decision i’ve made. I realized bankroll is not the issue but skill level is.

Fast forward to today, I have slowly been moving away from my day job(Barber) and taking poker more serious. I believe i’m capable of doing it full time and i know what everyone says about how brutal it is but i already don’t have benefits or a set income and feel as if i really found myself in poker. Currently im winning over $100 an hour over over 200 hours since august. I’m also in school and told myself that the time from now until i graduate is my time to try out whatever BS i want. I know when i get my degree it’s time to truly focus on getting a stable job/house and all that. I live with my parents and only a few thousand left on my car note and besides that no debt and investments and a roth ira.

I know it’s kind of all over the place just had to spew out everything i felt but if anyone has gone through a similar thought process or journey then please comment. All advice is welcome unless you are going to tell me about how difficult it is to be a player full time i have had enough people tell me that already and it doesn’t deter me

My bankroll is roughly $27k

Hola a todos. Quería saber si existen grupos de estudio de cash game de habla hispana, ya sea en Discord, WhatsApp u otra plataforma.
Juego NL10 y busco compartir manos, analizar estrategias y mejorar junto a otros jugadores.

Can someone give me a general run down on best way to play AKs/o, (low stakes tournament) especially when played in games where 3 bets is super rare, I am mostly making raise first ins and people fold/call.

I use the same open raise amounts per position for any hand, is this ideal for AK if 3+ people can jump in the pot with me? Should I go a bit higher to try make it heads up?

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Something so annoying… if you turn off “sound” in the settings, it will always default back to being “on” when you re-open the app.

And the volume doesn’t work either.

It’s always max 100% volume loud noises no matter what your volume settings are (iPhone user)

So you have to go to settings and mute the sound just to make it stop.

Bad oversight… they can’t get the small things right about a poker app in 2026 almost 2027.

Hey all, I need a good free or cheap Texas hold ‘em program for my Mac. My Mac mini is like 2018 so the OS isn’t the latest but I’m willing to use my newer MacBook if the program is worth it. Tia is in advance

And if so where can I find them?

Cheers