Partouche Poker Tour Saison 2 Main Event from Players Plus on Vimeo.
The Partouche Poker Tour is Europe’s biggest ever Texas Hold’em tournament, with a whopping guaranteed Prize Pool of 3 million Euros, 1 million Euros of which will be going to one lucky winner.
mnpg.net no-limit texas hold-em poker players play at Full Tilt. Be sure to check back here at mnpg.net for updates to how our team players are doing on the online and live circuits! Building up our bankroll, we are really trying to live in the Dancing Apartment Building my ninjas, for real. For our next movement we look at our first poker lesson by Phil Gordon at the Poker Lab Rat:
Say you’re playing in a low-stakes ring game. The blinds are $.50 and $1, and it’s folded to you in middle position. You find a nice hand – pocket Tens – and bring it in for a standard raise of three times the big blind. It’s folded around to a player in late position, who re-raises the minimum amount, making it $5 to go.
I’ve seen this sort of play repeatedly in the past few months while researching my next No-Limit Hold ‘em book by playing in low-stakes games. Every time I’ve been faced with a minimum re-raise, I’ve been up against a monster - pocket Kings or Aces.
A player who opts for the small raise may think he’s being crafty by getting me to put a little extra money in the pot while he holds a big hand. But this is not a profitable play. There are two major problems with the minimum raise.
I’ve already mentioned the first problem: My opponent has telegraphed his hand. And making good decisions is pretty easy when you know exactly what your opponent holds. The second problem is mathematical. My opponent is giving me 5 to 1 to call the additional raise. (In this example, my extra $2 will give me a chance win $10.) When I make the call, I know that I stand to win a very big pot. My implied odds - the money I stand to make if I hit my hand - more than justify the call. If my opponent started the hand with a $100 stack, I could get paid at a rate of 50 to 1.
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