I've just spent more than half an hour discussing with Toma (a fellow poker player friend of mine whom I speak daily) what is the chavviest suit in poker. We couldn't agree on it at all, so I'd like you to post your order of suits from the pimpest to the chavviest. Also, if you have time, please let me know why you think the way you do. (And everybody who says hearts is the pimpest please also send me your nicknames so that I could instantly mark you as fish.)
My list (from the pimpest to the chavviest): diamonds/blue (not a question), spades(if black), hearts/red, clubs/green, spades(if yellow)
PS: only upside of this half an hour was that I learnt a new word (chavvy)
PS2: BTW the reason for discussing was that he had the second chavviest Royal Flush yesterday. (The one where he flops the draw, and the river completes it.)
//Hungarian version
Tomával ma vagy fél órán keresztül azon vitatkoztunk, hogy mi a legputtóbb szín, de nem sikerült megegyezésre jutnunk. Ha van időtök, írjátok le, hogy nálatok mi a sorrend.
Nálam: ld. az angol posztot.
2012. május 4., péntek
2012. május 3., csütörtök
The lifetilt of a regular
Dear xxx regular,
This happens when, while being a small stakes HUSnG grinder (and honestly not a good one), you think it's a good idea to sit on medium/high stakes HUSnG regulars. Thank you for letting me be a part of this. ;)
</sarcasm>
#whyBRMisimportant
#whynotbeingstupidisevenmoreimportant (well maybe not)
Update: after a friend's comment I realised it's not clear from the text, but it's not me. I'm some part of his 'downswing' tho...
This happens when, while being a small stakes HUSnG grinder (and honestly not a good one), you think it's a good idea to sit on medium/high stakes HUSnG regulars. Thank you for letting me be a part of this. ;)
#whyBRMisimportant
#whynotbeingstupidisevenmoreimportant (well maybe not)
Update: after a friend's comment I realised it's not clear from the text, but it's not me. I'm some part of his 'downswing' tho...
2012. május 2., szerda
Lingo: Protection
This is going to be a repost of my rambling on lingo and protection: here it is in Hungarian.
I've been thinking for a long time, if the first of the Lingo series should be about protection or "raising" (in Hungarian lingo betting is called raising by a lot, also raising called 3betting, etc. #NLFTW), honestly both of them are driving me mad, but the fate has decided for me, so let's talk about protection.
People, please understand FFS, what protection is. Not because I ask you nicely, or because I'm posh in poker or anything like that, but because by using the expression wrong, you just show that you don't have a fucking clue about what you're talking about. So once and for all, let's make it clear for you.
There are two, and only two basic reasons for being agressive: getting better hands to fold (bluff) or getting worse hands to call (value). In specific cases, however, an agressive action can have side-effects (rarely good reasons) for it, which will add a little to our expected value. One of these is protection.
Protection means that you can make your opponent fold a certain amount of equity.. Make someone fold, get it? That's why I get frustrated all the time when I see or hear something like "I raise here for protection against his flush draws". Do you really think he would fold a flushdraw for a-million-to-one? Oh, no? So we raise because we have equity edge over those hands? So we are valueraising, right? Then why the hell you call it protection?
For example, you can bet a smaller pair or A hi for protection in a huge pot to make Villain fold 6 outs against you (they won't ever fold more, so...), and it's probably better than any other option. But these kind of situations are pretty rare, betting for pure protection is close to a non-existing thing in my mind (of course talking about FLHE, not NLHE or PLO), therefore we usually use it as a combination with a bluff or valuebet.
I hope I could make things more clear, and I'll see less "raise for protection against a small pocketpair" type of bullshit on the forums... (I think it's maybe less of an issue in native English forums BTW, still I can hear these stuffs here and there, but in Hungarian it's just amazingly often misused.)
I've been thinking for a long time, if the first of the Lingo series should be about protection or "raising" (in Hungarian lingo betting is called raising by a lot, also raising called 3betting, etc. #NLFTW), honestly both of them are driving me mad, but the fate has decided for me, so let's talk about protection.
People, please understand FFS, what protection is. Not because I ask you nicely, or because I'm posh in poker or anything like that, but because by using the expression wrong, you just show that you don't have a fucking clue about what you're talking about. So once and for all, let's make it clear for you.
There are two, and only two basic reasons for being agressive: getting better hands to fold (bluff) or getting worse hands to call (value). In specific cases, however, an agressive action can have side-effects (rarely good reasons) for it, which will add a little to our expected value. One of these is protection.
Protection means that you can make your opponent fold a certain amount of equity.. Make someone fold, get it? That's why I get frustrated all the time when I see or hear something like "I raise here for protection against his flush draws". Do you really think he would fold a flushdraw for a-million-to-one? Oh, no? So we raise because we have equity edge over those hands? So we are valueraising, right? Then why the hell you call it protection?
For example, you can bet a smaller pair or A hi for protection in a huge pot to make Villain fold 6 outs against you (they won't ever fold more, so...), and it's probably better than any other option. But these kind of situations are pretty rare, betting for pure protection is close to a non-existing thing in my mind (of course talking about FLHE, not NLHE or PLO), therefore we usually use it as a combination with a bluff or valuebet.
I hope I could make things more clear, and I'll see less "raise for protection against a small pocketpair" type of bullshit on the forums... (I think it's maybe less of an issue in native English forums BTW, still I can hear these stuffs here and there, but in Hungarian it's just amazingly often misused.)
2012. május 1., kedd
Rollin' in Simple English now...
Úgy döntöttem, hogy mostantól a kisebb (mindennapi) dolgokat simán angolul, a nagyobb cikkszerűségeket magyarul és angolul fogom közzétenni a blogban, tekintve, hogy a jelenlegi olvasóim nagy része beszél angolul legalább egy bizonyos szinten, viszont szeretném szélesíteni az olvasói körömet + kevésbé hagyni elveszni az egyébként elképzelhetően érdekes tartalmakat.
// English version
I decided that from now on I'm gonna post the everyday stuff in English, and the bigger article-type stuff in English and Hungarian. My goal is to get you English-speaking guys envolved, so that my rambling about some more or less interesting stuff would get to a bigger circle of people. Hope you'll find it useful, or at least entertaining to read.
// English version
I decided that from now on I'm gonna post the everyday stuff in English, and the bigger article-type stuff in English and Hungarian. My goal is to get you English-speaking guys envolved, so that my rambling about some more or less interesting stuff would get to a bigger circle of people. Hope you'll find it useful, or at least entertaining to read.
2012. április 23., hétfő
Savanyú búcsú
Életének 53. évében, 2012. április 20-án elhunyt Bakonyi Ernő Savanyú táncművész és tánctanár. Többek között az én egykori tánctanárom. Nyugodjék békében!
Habár mindehol egy egyen-tablókép van kint, én inkább így szeretnék emlékezni Savira:
Habár mindehol egy egyen-tablókép van kint, én inkább így szeretnék emlékezni Savira:
Maybe, it's hard to say...
Minden tiltmonkey-nak, és azoknak, akik meglátják és értékelik a mögöttes filozófiát.
2012. április 3., kedd
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