humm I will have to look to be honest. I would be curious also.. Problem in I have 50K hands at that level and only 5K hands in 10NL

Just take the total rake at 1c/2c and the total rake at 5c/10 and divide by number of hands and adjust for stakes.

You should get an email that tells you that you won this. I get this every so often

So you had someone in middle position flat infront of you so Naw in the pot you have 10c . You have the BEST starting hand preflop in Texas hold'em so you can not be priced out of a your hand. By priced out I mean no one can make a bet that would force you to fold. So you are solid. so you have a few choices now.. show you have a strong hand and raise it up, play it slow and disguise your AA with just a call. or fold.. we're not folding jokes aside. so you decided to raise but you raised it to 8c so understanding pot odds there is now a 18c pot and it folds all the way around to the original flatter they now are looking at this decision: all I have to do is put 4c into a pot to with 18c that's like 1:4.5 or 22% which means he can lose 78% of the time and still be profitable making this call. this opens his rage to call with a large range of cards.

The whole point of your bet should do a few things. You should want to get information from your bet. let's pretend you shove all in and he folds.. well you got information from that but it's a little too late. In that scenario the only hand that will call that is KK QQ or AK because you are screaming my hand is huge, yours better be also if you want to call me. Or you're on tilt.. So just shoving is not the best option here. a small raise as we saw before gets you no information because the play is going to call with any 2 cards because the price is right. if you just cold called like he did then you would have even less information also the possibility of other users coming into the hand that are fishing. So the only real option here is to raise it a considerable amount, like 3x to 5x their bet. The reason is in the math. let's assume you did this so you would have raised to 16c now the pot is 26c now anyone that has action after you has to look at their hand and think is it worth calling 16c, nope they are priced out. Comes back to original flatter and this is the section they have to make. I have to call 12c more to win 26c, now all of a sudden he has to win 54% of the time to make this call profitable.. this now narrows his range to a lot and they have to start think how well does this hand play postflop if I just CALL. You want to make a bet that will keep in pairs and suited connectors and evaluate the flop.. what could he have possibly called my raise with.. Narrow their range down.

I feel like you gave them too good of a price to not call. I would have done 4x there IMO only . I know you want to get paid off for AA but it's not worth letting any 2 cards into the hand because then it is impossible for you to evaluate their hand. you are playing blind at that point.

Also all this assumes your opponent playing $2NL understands pot odds, position, range etc.. Sometimes they are learning and will call you with anything no matter what the bet was!! This can even happen in a $200NL game that you assume everyone there has a grasp on the game.. they don't!!!

I played a AA hand in last night's cash game and I had to play it different as the flop determined.. it was 8max 7 at the table I was felt AA in middle position. I opened by raising it to 3x the BB I had the dealer raise me and I had not player a hand in like 30 hands so I just checked. If I had raised I was going to get a fold because made me look too much like an OMC only playing premium hands. the flop came down all clubs (I didn't have the A of clubs) and I shoved. the dealer scratched his head. After the hand he asked why I did that. Did I have a flush, a set. I said no I had AA and I had to protect it.. At that point the chances of someone having flush was less than 1% and the cards were not connected so no straight was there (yet) and if he flipped a set (12%) then so be it. I could not allow his to draw another card with out it costing him his stack. was it the right move.. debatable, I was a bit bored at the time. Did I get the most value for my AA, nope. But you have to always be re-evaluating even with AA

Move up to where they respect your raises.... lol... ok joking aside, better to win a small pot than lose your stack.. Steve is pretty spot on, he has learned a lot in the past couple of years and has done some studying and reading.

After that turn, the player is not going anywhere.

thisORthat;c-419816 wrotehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkHzOUzDjc&list=PLvZlja2OPoK_3wH9-UC5ArZU18fMOOg2I&index=5

Interesting find Henry. My biggest question regarding PS dealing has always been "Is the deck shuffled before the hand is dealt (as in live poker and the hand is predetermined before the first card is dealt) or are the cards to be dealt determined as each street is dealt (a random number generator determines the next card dealt only after all action is completed on a particular street)?" Your video (assuming that it's legit, and I have no reason to think it isn't) confirms that PS deals hands the same way as is done in live poker, which is good to know. I've never really been a believer in the "conspiracy theories" circulating about how PS deals to create action etc.; PS has no reason to try to "game" the system - they make lots of easy money off the rake and buy-ins. Why risk losing the golden goose by rigging anything?

Now cheating on the "other side" of the computer is a completely different topic. Collusion and the use of RTS software is undoubtedly an issue with online poker so you still have to tread carefully.