Replay Poker

Ruh roh … :slight_smile:

For me, playing against the best and losing is still a worthwhile effort. Playing against the worst and winning is a waste of time. For play chips and practice, I want a field of sharks.

Geez, I really have to start carving out some time to play. Only managed a little of the ring games this week just to build bankroll.

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I agree with that. In order to play against sharks you need to manage your bankroll and move up the stakes. That is what I have been doing because I want to mix it up with the top 100 players. Unfortunately, they have exponentially more chips than the rest of us (1 billion vs. my ~50 million), so it is very difficult to get to the same stakes as them.

The people are friendly (and some unfriendly) at all stake levels, but if you want to practice putting opponents on ranges, executing bluffs,working on 3 betting ranges, bluff 3 betting, floating, and generally playing game-theory optimal balanced poker, it is only really necessary at the highest stakes. Otherwise it’s the same old ABC transparent fish-crushing game.

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Joe,
And you can’t get that, playing the same ppl all month long, every month… with a few donks sprinkled in… in the leagues ??

What are these leagues people are talking about? Like the American League monthly leaderboard or private leagues? I don’t have time to do leaderboards, but if there is some other form of competition I would be happy to try it.

The leagues are the American, Asian, and European MTTs and leaderboards.

Based on the times I play, I could maybe play the Asian league about 2 days a week, but that wouldn’t be enough to make the leaderboard, and 5k and 15k is too low-stakes. When I used to have more time, I finished in the top 3 of the high, medium, and low stakes SnG leaderboards. They are a lot of fun, but now they require so many tournaments. I also finished on the MTT monthly medium leaderboard once, but those take even more time.

I guess competing for the leaderboards does put you up against some very good players (e.g., Scratch, if he still plays them, or Satchypaul or Cottage), but about 90% of the players in 15k tournaments are awful, so it’s hard to practice things like bluffing or range balancing.

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Joe,
Sry to hear you can’t play more in the leagues. I must strongly dissagree that the 15k level is unplayable for the reasons you listed. Not only in the red MTTs are at least 1/2 the players “regulars” and going for the leaderboards, but those players generally play tighter and more realistic like a live game. Sure, after 1/2 way thru they loosen up a bit as you kinda should, but these players are playing a hybrid long-short game. ( I am not talking about any of the non-red MTTs , at the 15k level )

I like it lol

well said

I have been playing on Replay for over 3 years now,and have met some really nice people from all parts of the
world, So whats the problem???
Lets start with the bonus chips,given everyday for regular players,I agree that this is a good idea, No problem there,however read the top line on the bonus chips provided by professional players. one of them states,
The only Royal Flush you will find in a casino is in the washroom, Replay have a list of Royal flush winners and it grows by the day
Now lets move on to the flop, 9 out of every 10 flops are set up for at least a straight or a flush, don’t take my word for it ,watch the hands,
The fact the Replay is free creates another problem, Some players get their free chips and bang,All in ,All in,All in until they lose their chips, This is usually followed by another All in merchant, So what does a tight player,a good player do,Fold or risk their chips and fall to a Replay special, The All in merchant has one card and one only to survive on the River A 2% chance. need I say more, his card arrives, sometimes they need Two cards on the Turn, and Eureka,they win a massive pot, I can see you nodding now saying it happens ALL the time, WHY ??? ,and then of course they think they can play, so spoil everyones game for the next …minutes

I could go on , but you see the problems and they are not addressed.

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Free - no problem there.
All-in - thats what no limit is.

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again, well said Sarah

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A post was merged into an existing topic: The fairness debate

Mostly it is the beginners who go all in before the flop. I was just in a tourney when 1 went all in before the flop . I had Ace 10 but it was the first hand so maybe he had KK or something. Someone else called and knocked him out. I would have had 2 pair but did not play it. By the way… the beginner had 27.

free poker will always be just that…free poker…if you expect anything less than idiot play, you are fooling yourself.
It is for entertainment only. If you like poker in its’ true nature, you have to go play cash games at the casino or in home games. Any other game which requires skill will not be skewed…poker is the only game in which the worst player can beat the best player at any given time, with any given call, good or bad…period.

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just trying to kill some time.

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I mostly like the depression it gives me when I go for weeks and weeks loosing in the most unlikely of ways
But without us losers out there we couldn’t have all these players with hundreds of millions of chips
could we.

so your saying you like the cool people you meet .

I take that as you like the game

I like your attitude !!

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