You got questions, I got answers.

[liladypokerpro]

Poker related question, huh? Okay here's one for you.....

Describe in detail the key differences between the following games:

Texas Hold Em
Omaha
Stud

Don't just state the obvious, either.....you wanted poker related, now gimme a poker player's answer Dig deeper, Watson

[gamer4life27]

Of course, everyone knows about Holdem. So i am just going to compare the other two games to that.

Omaha, you get 4 cards instead of the two in Holdem. You must use two out of the four cards in your hands, no more and no less. And three cards from the board, no more, no less. Poker hand ranks apply here.

The main difference between Holdem and Omaha is the percentages. An easy way to compare the two is to show how many hands you are up against. In a regular 9-handed Holdem game, you are up against 8 different 2 card hands. meaning for every one of your hands, you are up against 8 other hands. But in Omaha, it's different.

You get 4 cards, using two and only two. Meaning you have 6 different combinations of hands possible. But at a 9-handed, you are up against 48 different hand combinations. So you have to be more selective when it comes to choosing your hands.

Thats basically it for Omaha, is the percentages and hands.

Stud is much different though. Stud is played with everyone having there own community board.

When you first start out, there is no blind. The button doesn't move around, but there is an ante. There is an ante every single hand in Stud. Unlike in some holdem games where the antes don't come to later, or not at all. So when the cards are dealt, you get your first two cards face down, and the third card face up. Depending on the stud game, one person has the bring-in. (If it was Stud Hi, the lowest card showing has the bring-in. If it's Razz (a form of stud, but lowest hand wins), then the highest card has the bring-in. If it's Stud Hi/Lo, the lowest card has the bring-in.) If two people have the same bring-in card, the suit determines it.

If we are playing Stud Hi (I will just refer to Stud hi from now on.), and we both had 2's showing, but I had the 2 clubs, and you had the 2 spades, i would bring-in. It goes Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades. Closer to the Clubs means you have the bring-in.

In a 2/4 game (dollars or tournament chips), the bring-in would be either 0.5, or 1 depending on the place you are at, or if your playing cash game or not. The ante's are usually 1/10 of the Big Bet, but they can be more or less depending on the tournament, cash game, or place you play at. After someone brings-in, and you want to raise, then you can complete the bet to 2.

Stud is played as a limit game (mostley, you can find NL and SL (Spread Limit) Stud games here and there, but other than that, it's mainly Limit Stud). So there is a cap to each betting round.

In Stud, there is 5 betting rounds, just like it a Limit Holdem game. You have to bet the Small Bet for the first two, and the Big Bet for the last three. But in stud, if you get a pair on the second betting round, you can bet double the amount you would normally for the second round of betting and second round only.

The betting and dealing goes like such:

Three cards, bring-in/bets
2nd card face up, 4th card total, another round of betting
3rd card face up, 5th card total, another round of betting
4th card face up, 6th card total, another rounf of betting
3rd card face down, 7th total, last round of betting.

In Stud, it's not only about what you have, but what your opponents have. This applies to all poker games, but in Stud, you can see 4/7th of what the other player has for sure. But they can see 4/7th of your hand as well. Once someone has a card face up, that card will not come (of course), so it makes for knowing which cards are dead much easier.

In a full 8-handed table, if everyone or close to it stays in untill the 6th total card, then instead of having some people short a card, the next card is dealt face up, and everyone can use it.

The odds are kind of the same as Holdem when drawing for certain cards, but in Hi/Lo, or Razz, it's way different.

So there you have it. Anything else?

Bty, I like to be called Holmes, not Watson.

[liladypokerpro]

LOL **bows to Holmes the all-knowing know it all**

[gamer4life27]

Any more poker questions?

[liladypokerpro]

Okay another poker question.....hmm.....

How about explaining to people how steaming / tilting can affect their play, not just in the current game, but in future games to come And, give tips on how they can avoid this emotional sabotage and better deal with the downs that come with the ups of poker.

[gamer4life27]

Of course, everyone knows how people get steaming. When they either take a bad beat, or a series of bad beats, or lose a big tournament that they needed to cash in or something, and they start cursing, or being violant, rude, and play bad.

But some people don't know how exactly that happens. Well, when you start to tilt or steam, your mind set at that current time is 'Screw the game, I need my money back.' or 'I need to take this effer out, I don't care how, I am going to do it.' So you start to play hands you wouldn't make bad calls to try and get your chips/money back, or play ATC against your foe to try to get lucky, forcing you to slowly give up chips.

Most poker players usually take a small break when they realize this is happening to them, then come back after a few blinds/antes have been taken from them, and play like normal. But most amatures don't know when/how to stop. My personal way, is to go to the gym to work up an apitite, go around town for a bit just checking out the beautiful, doing stuff for me. I will be fine a little bit later. But if I don't do that, then I can wake up the next day thinking I am fine, but then when I play poker, I get in that mind set that I need to win, I need to get my money back some how.

It may take a while before you find out what will work for you, but find it. Whats the thing that makes you feel happy? If it means spending time with your family/significant other, or sleeping, or whatever, do it. 'Cool off' for a bit, then take a little bit more time to re-gain your composure, and hopefully, you will be off of tilt/steaming, and you will be playing like normal again.

But when I'm in a live tournament, or a tournament I can't leave from, I usually take a small, personal break, take a few breaths in and out, have a bottled water, and try to get back in the game. So make little things that will make you ok for the time beaing also.

[ungarstu132]

lol, ok showoff poker related riddle....

you are downstars in a 2 story house, with 3 different light switches

up stairs there are 3 rooms, each with one light,

you may only go up the stairs ONE time!

how do you deternmine which switch turns on which light?

this relates to poker...because you are broke and have a home game in 30 minutes, and your friend offered you $100 if you could figure out this riddle (i am not your friend) lol

i got another riddle if u can figure this one out...

[liladypokerpro]

LOL reminds me of those pokerspace riddles some of them are waaaaaaaay out there.....Good luck gamer!

[Wyte22]

Can we just ban the light switches from working? They are -EV, they cost you money!!

[liladypokerpro]

If it was me, I'd say if you're already down stairs with the light switches, then it's irrelevant how many times you can go up the stairs...I'd say the way to tell which switch turns on which light is to turn them all on one at a time...I hope I didn't just spoil it, but I'm sure I'm not right on this one...seems too obvious to be right LOL

[gamer4life27]

Very easy. Go to the light switches, turn on TWO lights for around 5-10 minutes. Turn ONE off, and go back down. The one thats left on is the light switch that you left on. The one that feels warmest out of the two that are not illuminated, is the one you turned off. And the one that is both cold and not on, is the one you never touched.

Bty, thats not poker related. None of those riddles are.