Recent content by Charles Wells

Texas Holdem update Thanks for the tips and comments. I have changed my strategy again. The only way to get better and beat the 2/3 (and 5/10) games is to play lots of hands online (many thousands of hands) and then get a coach to help you. I feel that analysing the way people bet is...

Charles Wells holdem update Good to see this thread still going. I have been playing Texas Holdem and nothing else for the past 2 months. As I travel around Australia every week for my job I get to a few of the major casinos. My favourites for this games are Crown in Melbourne (plenty...

Youre right when you say most people dont like to fold. I backed down once to a maniac who shoved with nothing. Ten high from memory. I thought my set wasnt good enough and folded. He showed us his cards and I almost puked on the table. Plenty of donks. Brisbane has way less table but...

Use High-low with a good spread and find a table where the pen is more than 75% pref 85%.

Most donks play the 1/2 game but this is only available from Monday to Thursday. Friday thru Sunday the lowest game is 2/3. Sitting down at a 2/3 game from midnight through to the morning you will see all sorts of bizzare plays. Many of the donks looked like they spend lots of time on a...

Crown on Friday nights I wasnt impressed with the late morning day time. Too many sharks with pimples born after the year 1990 wearing hoodies and dark glasses. Nobody said much. I introduced myself to the players next to me in one of the breaks but they didnt give me a name just a handle...

Thanks for the lesson. You are correct. I'm supposed to make it expensive for them to go for their flush draw. I suppose I'm in new territory and these people really are maniacs. If it makes any difference - I was waiting for the right opportunity to smash them. In an earlier hand I had...

flush draw After the flop I put them both on flush draws. They had both previously shown Ace high flushes (made on the river) and taken the pot after aggressive betting (pot sized bets with all in after the river). I wasnt feeling in the mood to go up against those guys unless I flopped a...

going all in Well I didnt know they had nothing until the showdown and I folded after the flop. At that point in the game I didnt want to risk my whole stack which had taken hours to build with two (low) pairs. If one of them got the flush or trips I would have been wiped out. Some of...

THNL at crown Hi there I think the rake is 10% with a max of $6. I didnt see any cash limit games. I think No limit is the most popular game here. If there were limit tables then there werent many of them. They have regular tournaments at crown which feature limit games - I may be wrong...

suspect in custody From I hear about German interrogation methods the police should get some information from this guy, maybe even a confession. If the notes were 500's you would be surprised how much could fit in a bag. You could hold 100,000 euro in one hand easily.

Nlth I have been lucky not to have had such a baptism or maybe Im not lucky. I think playing with idiots regularly definitely helps - I like the ones that go on tilt and start going all in with nothing. I love the type of player you mentioned in your post - We name them calling stations...

Poker math Very nicely put. Ive now found out that there is just as much math in poker as there is in BJ, maybe more (EV calculations, calculating outs, pot odds) and when you combine this with value betting to deny proper odds to drawing hands it makes it very interesting game. In BJ we...

I never thought I would say this. I am sick of blackjack. Counting has become a chore. I've been doing it for a long time and I need a break. Has anyone else arrived at this point as a AP? I haved replaced it with something else which is more exciting and without all the headaches of...

Shoe games at Treasury and Jupiters Played at the Brisbane and Gold coast casinos. You can find shoe games on the main floor 15 min 500 max If you go into the poker room at Treasury there is a BJ table which is dealt from a shoe. I was the only player there most of the time. No heat...