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Poker Nugget

#PokerNugget #tournaments

Poker tournaments are a particularly brutal form of poker, because every entrant but one will necessarily lose all their chips at some point. Everyone except the winner will go away thinking "What might have been" if only their ace king had made a pair when racing versus queens, or if only that gutshot hadn't binked on the river in that 25bb pot. I suppose that tournaments appeal to a certain personality type, which might be labelled "degenerate", since playing a game where you are almost guaranteed not to win seems rather illogical. The format arguably requires greater amounts of luck than cash games do. It might even be argued that tourneys are just glorified coin-flipping games; a lottery where Jerry Yang or Jamie Gold can win millions of dollars, while solid pros run below EV for life.

That's not to say that tourneys are completely terrible. They can actually be quite good fun, if you're some kind of masochist that likes sitting around for 8 hours with a bunch of subhuman mutants, one of whom will ultimately puke all over your dreams.

Miss Whiplash has added poker tournaments to her arsenal. 

The funniest thing about this post is that the very next MTT I played after writing it, I won. The Poker Gods work in mysterious ways.

jam it all in its just hold em  #PokerNugget be lucky look lucky feel lucky #tournaments 

 

#PokerNugget #tournaments

The Texas Hold'em tournament, is played with a deck of 52 cards. Following registration all players receive a predetermined amount of coins

(Stack) which can be incremented through the game and remain in play until all the

themselves. In order to encourage action at the table, are two forced bets called blinds defined, that

They are increased in fractions of a predetermined time such levels. The tournament ends with

the allocation of all the prizes, as determined and made known to all participants. View the source

Anglo-Saxon version of the game, the technical terminology is used mainly in English.

Cards:

Hole Cards: literally cards, also known as "pocket cards" are the cards in his hand

player and which in combination with the five community cards realize the best hand.

Flop: The first three community cards dealt on the table.

Turn: The fourth of five community cards. Also known as fourth street.

River: The fifth and final community card, also called "fifth street".

Community Cards, Board: The cards face up on the table, shared by all the players still

in the hand and can be used to achieve the best possible hand in conjunction with the "hole cards."

Kicker: The second card you have in hand when only one of the two is used to form a

with the board, it is compared to that of the opponent in the case of a point equal. The dish is

He assigned to him who has the highest kicker, unless the players have the same hand

five cards.

People:

Dealer: The dealer, is identified by a placeholder, in slang button (button) that is always

also used when the distribution of the cards is via a clerk.

Floorman: The head waiter, he oversees the work of the dealers. Its decisions are

subject to appeal by the players.

Tournament Director (TD): The tournament director, he is responsible for everything that happens within

of the event, its decisions are final.

The stakes:

Chips: definition of English coins in Italian, in French chips.

Ante: A small forced bet made by all players participating in a hand before

the cards are dealt. And 'normally it provided only in the later rounds of the tournament.

All-In: In a game like No Limit (without betting limits), means betting all the chips you

They have on the table. When you have a bet or raise all-in means that the player plays only

with the chips you have on the table, where it has focused the last chips and there are other players, with more

He chips to place bets, the player can only win the part of the plate which includes his last bet and any calls to that stake. The remaining players play

instead both for the dish, both for the side pot (side plate) that is constituted by the additional bets.

Blind (dark): the blind is a forced bet placed in the pot before the hand is dealt.

Usually there are two blinds, a small blind (small blind) and a big blind (big blind) Double

compared to the small blind, brought into play in sequence, the two players to the left of the button.

Actions:

Bet (bet): the action to bet on your hand.

Call (see): The act of matching the last bet or the last raise without raising the pot.

Check: temporary abstention from the game is the turn to act and there have been previous episodes. The

check, passing the action to the next player without placing a bet. Check, reserves the right to

call or raise any future bets on the same round of betting.

Fold (step): Throw your cards or get out of hand.

Muck: Indicates the gesture of throwing his cards in a fold, or the area in which you collect the cards

Raise (Bid): Reviving after a bet of one or more opponents.

Showdown: The end of the hand, when all remaining players turn their hole cards to

determine who is the winner. Assuming that there is a bet and no call, there is a showdown.

Scores in order of value:

to. Royal Flush (Royal straight flush): Five cards in scale from 10 to Ace of the same suit.

b. Straight Flush (Straight flush): Five cards of the same suit in scale.

to. Poker (Four of a kind): four cards of the same value.

b. Full (Full House): Three cards of the same value with two cards of the same value.

c. Color (Flush): Five cards of the same suit.

d. Scala (Straight): five cards in scale.

e. Tris (Three of a kind): Three cards of the same value.

f. Two Pair (Two pair): four cards of two different values

g. Couple (PAIR): two cards of the same value.

h. High Card (High Card): value of the card (high card Ace, 2 lower).

 thanks Santo but it's a bit too long for a poker nugget, isn't it ? :)

and now delete this?

No, no pls dont delete :) It was just a remark nothing special :)

Maybe you can add a conclusion in 2 phrases with the real tip ?

Poker Nugget: The tournaments

#PokerNugget #tournaments

This summer, the RankingHero community is collecting a shared treasure of poker nuggets!


We’ll cover 6 different topics and every time, our pro and co-founder @Nicolas Levi will reveal one of the keys to his success in a short video.

 

We invite you to share your own little secrets and recipes for poker success with the community. You’re free to choose how best to do it:

A short one-minute video (or just slightly over one minute).
A text, also as short of possible.
A post full of cat GIFs (but there again, you’d better not overdo it, Nicolas is a bit allergic to cat hair).

 

Up for grabs:

The most liked entry at the end of the mission:
1 RKH T-shirt!

The one chosen by the RKH Team:
1 RKH card deck!

10 randomly drawn entries:
1 RKH patch!

 

 

This week: The #tournaments 

 

Here is Nicolas’ nugget:


Tell us yours now with the hashtags #PokerNugget and #tournaments !

Thanking you in advance for your precious tips  !

#PokerNugget #nuts In December 2009 I was on a poker heater where I final tabled 8 of 9 events over a 2 week span at Seminole Casino Immokalee.  Final tables are great but it was even better as I won 5 of those events outright and chopped 2 others.  But if you asked me what were the pivotal hands in those tourneys I could not hazard a guess.  What I do know is there was one tourney where I did not cash.  In fact I was eliminated during the second hand of this $325 tourney.  The blinds started at 25/50 and there was a raise UTG.  I was in the small blind and found myself with two black aces.  I raised and was called by the BB and UTG.  The flop came Ace of diamonds, Jack Hearts, 10 hearts. I bet the flop.  The SB folded and UTG flatted. I was feeling pretty good with my set and even better when the ace of hearts hit the turn.  I continued thru with a turn bet and was met by a raise.  Of course I rereaised and to cut to the chase all of the chips found their way to the middle.  Yes, as one might surmise my quad aces ran into the KQHearts and I experienced being on the short end of a Royal Flush as my quad aces went down in flames.  Eight final tables in a 16 day span and the only tourney I have a vivid recollection of was staring down at the proverbial nuts.  Fortuntely those two weeks of poker paid for one hell of a Christmas vacation in the Caribbean.

Thanks for the post @Randy Cohen 

#PokerNugget #nuts

In poker, the best possible hand for any arrangement of cards is known as the ‘nuts’. Sometimes you will be fortunate enough to hold the nut hand after all the cards have been dealt. In that case you would be in a completely unbeatable position. However, it is sometimes possible that someone else may have the same hand as you, in which case you will split the pot.

Let’s take a look at some examples of the nut hand.

 

  Hole Cards     Board Cards  
              

Here you would hold the nuts if you had the K in your hand together with any other spade. The nut hand is A-K-9-3-X, where ‘X’ denotes another spade.

 

 

  Hole Cards     Board Cards  
              

This board is very similar to the previous one. However, now a straight flush is possible! Anyone holding 5-4 in their hand will have made a Five-high straight flush: 5-4-3-2-A.

 

  Hole Cards     Board Cards  
              

This time the nuts hand is specifically 4-4 for quad fours. The best possible five-card hand is 4-4-4-4-A.

 

Poker Nugget is so cool!!! - Poker is the coolest Sport of the World - your head is the racket for win million dollars, pfund (greatbritain), euros (greece) and not (germany)!!!

You can play on Montag, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - but on Tuesday is in german poker dead !!! - lol

Yours sincerely

gnagi (german fuzzy)

Poker Nugget: The Nuts

#PokerNugget #nuts

This summer, the RankingHero community is collecting a shared treasure of poker nuggets!


We’ll cover 6 different topics and every time, our pro and co-founder @Nicolas Levi will reveal one of the keys to his success in a short video.

 

We invite you to share your own little secrets and recipes for poker success with the community. You’re free to choose how best to do it:

A short one-minute video (or just slightly over one minute).
A text, also as short of possible.
A post full of cat GIFs (but there again, you’d better not overdo it, Nicolas is a bit allergic to cat hair).

 

Up for grabs:

The most liked entry at the end of the mission:
1 RKH T-shirt!

The one chosen by the RKH Team:
1 RKH card deck!

10 randomly drawn entries:
1 RKH patch!

 

 

This week: The #nuts 

 

Here is Nicolas’ nugget:


Tell us yours now with the hashtags #PokerNugget and #nuts  !

Thanking you in advance for your precious tips  !