After that miserable piece of poker knowledge that Mr. Blue dropped here last time, I will show you something today that you can really use to improve your own game. It’s all about certain moves you can make on the river.

I stumbled upon this subject because I was involved in a specific situation this week during a tournament on FTP:

I like my hand a little more because I’m on the button here. I could have raised, but try to see a flop cheaply here. Now the Ace flops with a pair of threes and the small blind leads out: always risky. However, I’m not folding of course and try to see what he’ll do on the turn. He bets the same amount on the turn which could be a sign of having a three: there’s a small chance that I’m going to outdraw that hand on this board. When he bets small on the river again I have enough information and I make a raise for two reasons.

First of all I was playing fairly loose-aggressive on this table and he could call me here with a medium pocket pair because of my image. And second, he might have a smaller Ace and pay my value raise. I think he had like 55 or something and he folds. Btw, if you would like to read more of my plays and the terrible beats I have to face now and then in specific, you can visit my own very interesting poker blog!

Submitted by Mr. White

LOL did Mr. Blue show a royal flush from me last time in Pot Limit Omaha, this time I just flopped a straight flush in TEXAS HOLD’EM! I just cashed out my bankroll when a couple of dollars rakeback was deposited in my account, so I decided to play a little sit ‘n go for a buck or something when I was bored .

I was playing like almost every hand and the funny thing was: I almost won 60% of them ^^. So we were down to three players when I got…

…KQ suited in the big blind. A shorty moves with an Ace and is CRUSHED LIKE HELL on the flop hehe. As the odds of flopping a straight flush depend on the kind of hand you hold in the hole, it’s hard to say what my exact chances were here. The best chance you have is when you hold  mid range suited connectors from 45 to TJ, you are about 1 to 5000 in that case to flop a straight flush. Guess I was lucky^^.

Submitted by Mr. Brown

As you maybe read last time, FTP tried to take away my bankroll last time. I quit playing for a day after that sick beat and steaming. However, I played some 9 handed tournaments yesterday and was able to reach the money a couple of times: $220. Still $78 behind Mr. Brown though.

His run couldn’t last forever and ended yesterday when he was down some dollars since last time: $298. Between us is Mr. Blue, who made a rather small cash out ($24) in a MTT again this week, with $254. And not far behind me is Ms. Pink in last place with $211. Conclusion: after a fair amount of played hands, nobody was able to create a big lead and neither did somebody go broke.

Ms. Pink sent me some hands to post, to show an essential phenomenon in tournament poker: sometimes you’ll be able to finish in the money as a shortstack because of donkeyplays from the big stacks.

So Ms. Pink is shortstacked when the next player to be eliminated will be the bubble boy/girl. For some reason however, somebody moves all-in with top two pair on that flop against a set. Thank you very much. Another hand from a sng with 27 players:

So Ms. Pink has less than 10 bb’s here with 8 players left (top six finishers will cash). One player is out anyway, with only 5 chips left, but the other player must have looked dazed when he saw his toppair getting called by AK . Thank you very much again, chipmonsters.

Submitted by Mr. White.