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What does it mean to be counterfeited (e.g.in hold’em orOmaha)??

Answer 1:

I am not sure how it works in holdem but in Omaha it’s when one of your hole cards in matched on the board in a detrimental fashion ( e.g. you have A 2 K Q in the pocket and the board is J 6 5 2. The deuce counterfeited you killing your low hand ).

Answer 2:

In hold’em, you have a strong hand and a card hits the board that beats you or gives you a push by completing someone else’s hand Example one. You’re up against a player w/KK and you have 98s, and the flop comes 985. Then a five hits on the turn, in effect “counterfeiting” your second pair. Example two. You have the same 98s and you’re up against a player with, say 78. the 567 on the flop gives you a straight, but a 9 hits and counterfeits your straight, giving the player with 78 the same straight.

Answer 3:

InOmaha, we usually refer to your low hand being ruined. If the river card matches one of your lowest two cards, you have also been counterfeited.  Example:  You hold KK32.  Flop is A-6-7. Turn is a 9.  you hold the nut-low.  River is a 2.  Now you have a really bad low which is beaten be 43, 53, 54 and is tied by A3, 23, 36, and 37.

I bought Turbo Texas Hold’em v3.0 only to discover that it is easy to beat it (even when you fill the table with Advisor-profiles). By playing extremely aggressive (running a lot of bluffs and stealing a lot) the win rate is $2.50 or more per hand in a 10-20 which is absurd (?). It would be nice with a reasonable and (to some extent) realistic computer opponent to try out new ideas against without losing any real money. InSwedenwhere I live, casino’s will open this fall (yes, finally legal) so it would be nice to be prepared… Does anyone know of a computer game which is hard(er) to beat?

Answer 1:

Unfortunately, it seems as if the government-run casinos will NOT be spreading poker games! Only useless Caribbean Stud! Too bad, I was also anticipating a future of playing Hold’em and 7CS at casinos… The closest casino would probably be Casino Ray for you. Living on the south coast, I think I’m out of luck, unless I move out…

Answer 2:

The “challenge” becomes to create profiles that play the way you say you play to beat the default profiles. Although it is tedious to “program” the profiles, you can make them *much* tougher if you put in the effort. The beauties of the program are the elaborate profile parameters plus the ability to do simulations. Creating profiles will do more for your game, IMHO than “playing” it as a game.

Answer 3:

I looked at the Casino Ray home page, and it looks like it’s all about pot-limit which of course is a lot better than nothing (I hope the game standard isn’t too high though or I will be crushed for sure). I’ve thought about going toLas Vegasfor a weekend, but because of the airline ticket prices I’m afraid it will be a race against the clock to win back the ticket money. Meanwhile I’m trying to get some of my friends interested of the game, but it seems as though they rather lose their money at the Blackjacks tables in the pubs. I’ve heard about some underground poker clubs here inStockholm, but I think I would prefer a legitimate casino with their security arrangements.

I am a beginner atTexashold’em, and i just have a simple? About playing trips from the flop. Say i had 7s7c on the flop in middle position, and the flop came up Js 7d 3s. My question is should i bet or wait. And if i do bet this and it gets raised should i call or re-raise. My personal feelings are i should bet this and if i get raised call. Anyone with a spade draw will not fold if i re-raise and if there bluffing i beat them any way’s. It just seems that my trips on the flop are getting killed in later rounds, from people you might have folded if i bet or re-raised.

Answer 1:

Bet/raise, re-raise, re-re-raise and cap it with this flop.  No, a spade draw will not fold here, but you want to make them pay as much as possible to make them see the last two cards. If there are other people in the hand they’re probably playing stuff like AJ, KJ, maybe even crap like T9 and 65. (They’ll suck out on you once in a while; try not to scream too loud.) One of the blinds might have gotten “lucky” holding J7 or J3. There might even be two spade draws out there, which is great, because then their odds of making the flush are that much smaller.  Basically, the only hand you’re afraid of is JJ, which is quite unlikely.  If someone does have it, you’re going to lose a lot of money here. But if no one has it, you’re going to make even more money, and it will be well worth it in the long run. The beautiful thing about your set is that AJ, KJ and QJ are drawing dead; if they hit another jack, you make sevens full of jacks at the same time they make trip jacks. If they hit their kicker to make two pair, you’ve still got them beat.  A lot of times players will draw dead, make their hand and they’ll keep raising you until you’ve made it perfectly obvious your hand is better. And then they’ll pay you off anyway.

Answer 2:

There is an old hold’em axiom that says that if you flop a set and lose the pot, you played it wrong if you didn’t lose a lot of chips in the process. Generally, and especially with a suited flop, you should put maximum heat on the pot to reduce your opponents’ pot odds and maximize your return if you win.  Of course, you need to use your judgment if there were three or more bets (re-raiser) before the flop and the flop contains all faces and aces (possible straights and/or set over set).  However, generally play VERY aggressively. Remember, KK & QQ are only pairs with which you can flop a set and still end up with the nuts without improving (i.e., not be facing a possible straight or flush).

Answer 3:

Well, you’re not a big favorite over the field if they flopped a straight or a flush, but you do have a reasonable draw. You have 7 outs on the turn. If the board doesn’t pair on the turn, you have 10 outs on the river. This, I suppose, works out approximately equal to a flush draw. It’s almost never right to slow play a set in limit holdem.