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Probability Chart :: Discounting Outs
Interview with Bluffer9: Table Image
Individual Hand Probabilities
Probability Chart by JoblessJoe
This is a probability chart you can use when "calculating your outs", or deciding on whether or not to draw for your hand. Every poker player should have a copy of this with them when they play poker, until it is committed to memory.
To use it :
1) Identify your draw, or find your number of outs.
2) Total up the pot size(how much money is in the pot) including bets already placed by players in the current round.
3) Divide the pot size by the probability number located on the chart.
4) If the number is greater than or equal to the amount of money you must "call", it is a mathematically sound decision to draw. If the number is less than the amount of money you must "call", folding is strongly reccomended.
Discounting Outs by Jblade
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Interview with Bluffer9: Table Image by JoblessJoe
iPokerProfit.com caught up with one of Party Poker's most notorious hold'em players, Bluffer9. To the novice player Bluffer9 seems like nothing more than your average "maniac" loosely playing on the hold'em tables of Party Poker, but the advanced player knows his play is nothing to take lightly. Bluffer9's theorys on "controlled chaos" play, have revolutionized the play of myself and many other great poker players I know.
Q: On Party Poker the player volume is so large, that the majority of time when sitting down to a table, your playing that you have never played with before. How do you advertise to them what kind of player you are?
A: Typically when I sit down to a new table I do what I call "priming the table". Basically I play a series of cards in a extremely loose fashion. Like raising a hand like Q7s in early position, or a hand like 56s and continue to bet. If you dont get called down, great take your money and dont show your hand. If you do get called down show your hand and let them know you are willing to bet with nothing. I try to find a situation where I can call a single player down with a small pair that most players would easily fold, and many other better hands have already done so, then I show the table my hand. The best case scenario is when I have a couple of players calling down the bettor with big cards on the board, and I call down as well with third or fourth pair. If it is not to obvious I would even consider calling down a head up player with a hand like 9 high then showing the table. Loose raises force other players to play alot more hands, alot more often than they normally would. It also insures that players will remember my play when it counts, and in turn, give me less respect than your average player.
Q: That's definitely an interesting strategy, and a great way to loosen up the table, but if you played like that forever you could never make a profit. How does it benefit you in the long run?
A: After I feel the table is sufficiently "primed" I switch to my original tight and agressive strategy. Occasionally switching back to the previous strategy when I feel the table is tighteningu up. It ensures that I get maximum value on my hands, more players tend call me down with absolute garbage because I give the impression that I am wild. This strategy forces players to play out of their element giving me the advantage, players will play completely out of character because they want to beat me so badly.
Q: Ever run into any players you have played with before? How do they view you?
A: All the time. What I gather from their impressions, some players know me as a maniac, or an inexperienced player. Others believe I am a tight player. Even players who play with me often have trouble putting me on hands they believe I am a formidable opponet, but still have trouble laying down a hand to me, or second guess themselves when they do.
Q: Is there any downside to this strategy?
A: The BAD BEATS! Since you get alot of players "gunning" for you they tend to draw for hands that are greatly favored to loose, but if you play enough eventually they are going to hit. In the long run those players are going to loose more money than they are going to win, but luck happens. The problem is when they all seem to be hitting in the same day. I cant tell you how many times I had to take a break and remind myself that people who draw like that are the people paying my bills. It hard to stay the course when an under pair draws and hits a set on the river(23 to 1), while simultaneously a mark on another table just hit his inside straight try to my top set on the end(15 to 1). If your going to play this strategy expect the bad beats to come, you must learn to keep a level head and realize that your getting the better end of the deal.
Thank you for time Bluffer9. You can find Bluffer9 frequenting the limit ring game tables and the no-limit tournaments at Party Poker. If you do stumble upon this "menace" dont take him to lightly, and tell him "hello" from iPokerProfit.com.
Individual Hand Probabilites by AfroMan
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