A successful poker room is like a pyramid. That is, there are more small games than large games and the regular small stakes players tend to feed into the larger games.

However, in small limit hold 'em games, the rake is now so large, that it's very difficult to develop regular players. (Thus, you don't have the players to start games and keep games going.) This result can lead to an upside down pyramid which in turn leads to less games in the future. And the answer to this is to reduce the rake

Hi 2+2ers,

Welcome to the official WPT Global thread!

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Gobbo other Thread got closed by the mod said it doesn't belong in the House of Blogs, hoping we can have this one without Trooper talk.

This thread is to discuss local professional poker players on their journey. Please refrain from mentioning the local youtube celebrity who plays poker.

Links to their youtube channels

Andrew Neeme
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLTP4Ns...

PokerKraut
https://www.youtube.com/user/Pokerkraut

Tappan
https://www.youtube.com/user/tappanmoore

I remember having a great first time last year and thought I could maybe plan a couple weeks every year if the schedule allows for it.

But to be honest, with the recent developments it's not looking too enticing anymore. I have even spoken to a cpl who have cancelled all plans for this year, citing either political reasons or just the fact that they are too shocked and disgusted with the way things are shaping up in the US.

Just wondering how other pros or rec players from outside the US, who wo

I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?

So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at low-info Boomers like my religions aunts. I have two questions:

a) Is anyone here who supports Trump bothered by lies like this?

b) Does anyone know what he's even talking about here? Like is there some grain of truth that he's embellishing on bigly?

In my humble opinion it is a bit archaic to continue with:

Red for both hearts and diamonds
Black for both spades and clubs

I advocate that we should make diamonds Blue and clubs Green.

1. It will make seeing the cards easier and surely speed up action.
2. New players who have cut their poker teeth online, while using 4 color decks, will have a more easier transition to live.
3. It will help minimize dealer errors (like the very costly one that recently happened at a WSOP event).

I know this break

Hi all,

For those of you not familiar with my poker blog here, 1/3 Grinding and Bankroll, I started as a drunk tourist player the regs salivated over, playing sporadically for fun. Then life hit me with a baseball bat across the face and I was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but not before I had gotten my law license and started practicing criminal and post-conviction law. Poker gave me a way to pass the time and not give up on life, and eventually the hobby turned into a job and I went pro or semi

Doug Polk is going to try to make 100k in a month one tabling mid stakes (3/6) poker on ClubWPT. Can he do it?

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Edit/MH:

It's been about 9.5 years and 350K posts of epicness, but "It Lives, It Lives" can live no more. The OG LLSNL Chat Thread got too big for the servers to handle and had to be retired.

You can take that trip down memory lane here.

Now it is time for a new chat thread, and new epicness.

I start this with some pictures:

nl2 -$8792.18 -82 buy ins below EV

nl5 (notice that pt4 shows party poker nl5 as nl4) -$5943.81

nl10 -$773.92 -15 buy ins below EV

Total loss -$15509.91

This is me playing nl2, nl5 and nl10 on party poker for one year.

My history begins somewhere in same period when they started to show WSOP shows in television. I think I have played 12-13 years nows mainly NL2, some amount of NL5 and little bit of NL10 what is the biggest stake i've ever played.

I've read all Sklansk

Think this merits its own thread...

Discuss my fellow 2+2ers..

AM YISRAEL CHAI.

[QUOTE=Crossnerd]Edit: RULES FOR THIS THREAD

2+2 Rules

Posting guidelines for Politics and Soci...

These are our baselines. We're not reinventing the wheel here. If you aren't sure if something is acceptable to post, its better to ask first. If you think someone is posting something that violates the above guidelines, please report it or PM me rather than responding in kind.

To reiterate some of the points:

In the current news climate we see that some figures and events tend to dominate the front-pages heavily. Still, there are important, interesting or just plain weird things happening out there and a group of people can find these better than one.

I thought I would test with a thread for linking general news articles about "other news" and discussion. Perhaps it goes into the abyss that is page 2 and beyond, but it is worth a try.

Some guidelines:
- Try to find the "clean link", so that links to the

hey guys!

It's been a while, where are we at?

I'm 24 years old, and I'm currently playing PLO online. Finished up school, focusing on building up the roll and moving up stakes.

Have had a few rough downswings lately, but keeping my head up and putting in volume has been working nicely. I'm excited to see where things will take us in 6 months or so!

Life:

We are currently living with gf, got a nice place we're happy with, where we are able to entertain guests (really big plus, throwing parties is AWE

Another day, another hand!

UTG: 104 BB (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 30.00, 3Bet Preflop: 40.00, Hands: 10)
CO: 109 BB (VPIP: 20.41, PFR: 16.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 50)
BTN: 45.5 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)
SB: 100 BB (VPIP: 21.74, PFR: 21.74, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 23)
Hero (BB): 174.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 4♣ 4♦

fold, fold, BTN raises to 3 BB, fold, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 2 players) 4♠ 7♥ 3♣
Hero checks,

Hello folks, I wanted to know your opinion about this. I'm self-banned from all online casinos in my country (France). They are regulated by the French government, no shaddy sites.

Here's the thing: I don't have a gambling problem but sometimes I lose some money and feel stupid afterwards because I know it's EV-, it doesn't matter if you win, still EV-. To avoid that I told the site in which I played that I wanted to close my account definitely (I was totally clear about that, I said "forever" if

an interesting interview of SBF by Tucker Carlson today...

I woke up in the middle of choking to death again; though to be accurate, it was towards the end of the process--woke up right away in a white hot panic with black spots of permanent unconsciousness swooping in across both sides of my vision.

Calm yourself, was the first important step. My lungs were soaked, steeped in the things that belonged only in my stomach, and locked up tight. My air passage was blocked and burning with bile and hydrochloric acid. No, I don't have asthma. I have a drinking

Hello people,

I can't believe it's been 6 months since I have been in Vegas, and we cannot let that go on for much longer! I will fly to London on March 20th after work, relax at a hotel there overnight, and then fly direct from there to Las Vegas on Friday the 21st (just in time for March Madness).

My brother will finally join in as well; he actually has a business trip to the US coming up in a few days, so when he is done with work he is already in the country. He will also head out to Vegas on

5/10 NLHE .
Eff stack ~2K.

Villain (UTG+1) is relatively new to the table, no significant reads but I've seen him before at these stakes. Seems to be a capable, thinking player. Young-middle aged asian guy.

UTG limps
Villain raises to 50 UTG+1
Hero calls with 2♣2♥ in CO.
SB calls.
BB folds.
Limper folds.

Flop (3 ways): A♠J♦2♠
Pot 165
SB checks.
Villain (UTG+1) checks.
Hero (CO) bets 55.
Button calls.
Villain raises to 300.
Hero calls.
Button folds.

Turn: A♥
Pot 820

Villain bets 400.
Hero calls.

River: 3♠
Pot 1620

Villain

I wrote in my blog, but I'm just curious if any of you has ever seen a stack like that. At the table (obviously) was the biggest whale I've ever seen

But I feel that it's quite difficult to beat that stack on an 8h session!