some people absolutely prefer tournaments. the structure is such that you're generally risking a small buy-in for a potential huge profit rather than a generally more 1:1 ratio in cash, you don't have to moderate your behavior to secure a reinvite, and the spots you should be studying are completely different and therefore potentially more interesting to some people's personalities.
good players willingly playing against other good players usually choose high variance formats where their risk is offset by backers, endorsements, an unbalanced buy-in to potential reward ratio (i.e. tournaments), or a combination of those elements. so it's more akin to gambling with edges they're comfortable with than a slogging grind for minimal profit.
more frequently good players are bumhunting bad players who don't realize they're bad. most of the high roller games are basically a handful of really good players plus one or two fish those players all intend to fleece. if you're invited to such a game, the perception is that either you're that fish, or they think there's a high potential you can bring someone who is because you can only string fish along so long before you need new ones so you do need to turn over the good players who aren't bringing fish as well as the fish to keep a game going.
being a bankroll nit is questionable building a roll, but important once you have one.
why is this comment upvoted while mine saying essentially the same thing is downvoted?
it's essentially a big blind, but since stud games have different betting rules that use bring in bets rather than blinds, the term big bet is often used for stud and mixed games that include stud.
it's not poker, but imo one of the best poker scenes is the scene from pirate's of the carribbean: dead man's chest where they play liar's dice. it explains the rules to a game the audience is unfamiliar with well, has clear stakes, and has absurd gamesmanship and tells
max late reg something with a large pay structure where hopefully half the remaining field will cash when registration closes. you'll likely just need one double up to cash.
first place is less than $3 million. a win (at least temporarily) puts him in the black for this year's wsop, but any other result he's still in the red.
basically look at what it does to pay tables of video poker and it's roughly the same in terms of how the value of hands shift.
river spade you can maybe fold, but river diamond never. villain's story isn't consistent with making a backdoor flush, especially with your holding the queen of diamonds.
it's probably a fold, but much easier to do if you 3-bet pre and get 4-bet. probably cheaper if you do it this way too.
yeah, i anti-sweat him so hard. don't know why. he needs 1st to get back in the black for this year's wsop.
eh, it might be if they change up the lineup some. arden cho has no place being there while i found veldhuis and helmuth to be too quiet. keating and tilly were entertaining enough imo, even though they're not the greatest players.
bluff less. remove anything that raise/folds from your preflop range.
sportsbooks partnered with sports leagues to create that huge lobby. it's possible they eye expanding into other forms of gambling, which is probably best case scenario for poker, but sportsbooks wouldn't be where they are if it wasn't for their partnerships with the leagues and the leagues' huge lobbying arm.
poker isn't nearly as lucrative as slots or table games, nor is sportsbook though. i do think the perception that sports is harder to cheat as well as getting a lobbying partner in the sports leagues helped though. poker maybe has an edge due to the "it's a skill game not gambling" argument, but revenue-wise it's the least desirable game to providers and does likely require a ton of oversight to police potential cheaters that other games don't have.
poker isn't legal in the us mostly due to moral panic surrounding gambling and not a big enough lobby to say otherwise.
i can't see why the online sportsbooks wouldn't want it. they'd just want a piece. it's less lucrative to the house than sports betting or especially casino games though, so it's not a priority.
legalizing will help probably more than anything else, but i think pop culture events could also give it a boost.
vloggers are helping quite a bit imo. pokergo, however, not so much.
5% of the time, add in not pairing and the pairs in his starting range, you're getting down to 1% or so, but that's still an equity edge. 99% of the time jamming pre is exactly the same as call/jam flop. but 1% of the time call/jam flop is better and that's the point.
it's probably to deal with the studio lights.
if you max late reg you'll likely win last longer bets vs. negreanu and hellmuth who always seem to bust day 1.
depends on your playstyle and the tournament structure. they used to have the minor niner offer late registration until level 27 where you could literally register at the last second and, provided you survived an orbit, make the mincash, but i think they upped when registration closes on that.
looks great.
Spraypainted a betting line on my table
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