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Bob Dancer Video Poker 365 Article - 16 OCT 2008

#1

I so agree with all of Bob's reasons, however, my reasons
for not playing poker are a little different. I can read
people with the best of them, I can figure pot odds, I
know when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em. But, for some
reason Lady Luck is cruel with her dealt hands to me: it
is incredible how many times in a Hold 'Em session I get
dealt 2, 7 off-suit - the worst starting hand you can
receive. You can't even bluff with the average hands I
get dealt. VP is much kinder.

Where there's a Will, there's a Wager:
www.gaminginstruction.com

#2

27o is not that bad. It's an 88.2/11.8= 7.5 to 1 underdog against AA
and 65.4/34.6= 1.9 to 1 underdog against a random hand. Given the
right situation it can be a winner. A lot of poker players don't
understand that the starting hand is just a starting hand, there are 5
more cards to come. 27o is not an automatic laydown. And you can bluff
with any hand, it's the semibluffs that require some sort of hand or
hand improvement potential. When you have nothing and you bet, that's
a bluff, when you have something that may or may not be the best hand,
that's a semibluff, when you have a hand that's the nuts or not likely
to be beat, that's a value bet.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Paul Roberts <saltnorweg@...> wrote:

I so agree with all of Bob's reasons, however, my reasons
for not playing poker are a little different. I can read
people with the best of them, I can figure pot odds, I
know when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em. But, for some
reason Lady Luck is cruel with her dealt hands to me: it
is incredible how many times in a Hold 'Em session I get
dealt 2, 7 off-suit - the worst starting hand you can
receive. You can't even bluff with the average hands I
get dealt. VP is much kinder.

Where there's a Will, there's a Wager:
www.gaminginstruction.com

#3

That's not quite an accurate description of semi-bluff...

A semi-bluff is when you have a hand that is unlikely the be best at the
moment, but has
a reasonable chance of improving to the best hand when the remaining cards
are dealt.
Examples are when you have an open-ended straight draw or a flush draw.

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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:42 PM, nightoftheiguana2000 < nightoftheiguana2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

  27o is not that bad. It's an 88.2/11.8= 7.5 to 1 underdog against AA
and 65.4/34.6= 1.9 to 1 underdog against a random hand. Given the
right situation it can be a winner. A lot of poker players don't
understand that the starting hand is just a starting hand, there are 5
more cards to come. 27o is not an automatic laydown. And you can bluff
with any hand, it's the semibluffs that require some sort of hand or
hand improvement potential. When you have nothing and you bet, that's
a bluff, when you have something that may or may not be the best hand,
that's a semibluff, when you have a hand that's the nuts or not likely
to be beat, that's a value bet.

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com <vpFREE%40yahoogroups.com>, Paul Roberts
<saltnorweg@...> wrote:
>
> I so agree with all of Bob's reasons, however, my reasons
> for not playing poker are a little different. I can read
> people with the best of them, I can figure pot odds, I
> know when to hold 'em, when to fold 'em. But, for some
> reason Lady Luck is cruel with her dealt hands to me: it
> is incredible how many times in a Hold 'Em session I get
> dealt 2, 7 off-suit - the worst starting hand you can
> receive. You can't even bluff with the average hands I
> get dealt. VP is much kinder.
>
> Where there's a Will, there's a Wager:
> www.gaminginstruction.com
>

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