Free 1-to-1 lesson with Me.

**Dice Man** · 8th September 2008, 05:09 PM

Ok rules are you need 1000 posts to post in this thread.

This is a competition to receive a free 2-minute lesson on poker with me. The lesson will come in PM form and will guarantee that you are the second best player to ever live.

To be considered for the prize you must:

1. Post in this thread what you consider to be the best part of my game.
2. Write a fictional story entitled "How I became the prince of a town called Bel Air."
3. Bring me the horn of a unicorn.

My decision is final =)

**rfph1** · 8th September 2008, 05:47 PM

Whats second prize ?

**Dice Man** · 8th September 2008, 06:13 PM

2nd prize is that I will do nothing intentionally to bring about your demise.

**TankmanDan** · 8th September 2008, 07:48 PM

Ok here goes...

1. The best part of your game is the way you calculate pot odds. For example: there is 900 in the pot, Tankman's gone all-in for 900, therefore, when i put my 900 in there is 2700 giving me......errrrr....... 3 to 1 pot odds with my back door, ten high flush draw, leaving me with oooooh 125 if i lose...... okay i call!*

2. I became the fresh prince of Bel-Air cos my daddy was the King. And he's fresh.

3. As soon as Cinderella has finished sucking it off the Unicorn says I have first dibs. Are IOU's acceptable?

Ship me that valuable info!

* This ACTUALLY happened. For real. And he wasn't kidding. Drunk, but not kidding.

**Dice Man** · 8th September 2008, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by TankmanDan

1. The best part of your game is the way you calculate pot odds. For example: there is 900 in the pot, Tankman's gone all-in for 900, therefore, when i put my 900 in there is 2700 giving me......errrrr....... 3 to 1 pot odds with my back door, ten high flush draw, leaving me with oooooh 125 if i lose...... okay i call!

I can't remember the exact details of this hand. I think the flop was something like 267 all hearts, and I had a JTo with a heart and Tankman had a KQo with no heart. It folded around to me in the SB and I called. Blinds are 75/150 (well I'm not sure they were, but if we use Tankman's use of 900 above they were). Tankman made it 3x in the BB and I call. I check the flop, Tankman pushes all in for a pot-size bet and I eventually call with just the jack high. Not only was it the right call but I was the favourite to win and Tankman lucked out!

Correct I worked the odds out wrong, thinking I had 3-1 when I had 2-1, but I only needed evens for it to be a good call! So that made the odds-calculation irrelevant.

I'm afraid I'll have to reject your entry because even I can't teach somebody who fails to think that I made a world class call in that spot. I checked the flop there because I was hoping to call, not push you out of the pot when I had the best of it.

**Dice Man** · 8th September 2008, 09:04 PM

No. No level at all. I was certain Dan was full of shit when he put the first raise in. I figured that about 25% of the time I was actually way ahead here, with J high good and the best heart. Unfortunately about 25% of the time I was way behind to a higher heart. I very rarely call with jack high and a flush draw here, but I put a soulread on Dan and made the right play.

If I push first and he calls then I'm most likely very screwed, but good for me he can push with way the worst hands making my check/call more +EV than a straight push or check/fold.

**Dice Man** · 8th September 2008, 09:13 PM

LOL where do you get that reasoning from? I can't put him on any hand that is insta-fold. There's always the possibility he has me crushed and I don't want to push into that. I read him as weak pre-flop and needed a chance to confirm whether he was still weak post-flop. So I check and see how he acts. Sure enough his push is super-weak and the call was justifiable.

You have to take into account that I don't get an opportunity to read him post-flop until he gets to act because he is on my immediate left. I don;t want to have to read his body language after the flop but before I act because that immediately gives away that I know I'm in a borderline situation and that I need him to be weak to proceed. When he knows that it makes it too hard for me to read him. (Even if I know he knows that).

**TankmanDan** · 8th September 2008, 09:21 PM

It was the odds calculation that cracked me up outside Dice, when you told me and James that you were getting 3 to 1 and that was the basis that you made the call on!
Ergo; I am loving this element of your game.

So for the record, I was ahead preflop, I was evens at worst postflop, and then ahead again when turn and river brick out? I rack that up as a "result"

I demand my poker lesson!!!

**Dice Man** · 8th September 2008, 09:31 PM

You put 1/3 of your chips in while a 66% favourite, and then you put the last 2/3 of your stack in when a 48% underdog. I guess you didn't play it terrible, but I played it better. I recall the conversation you, James and I had about the incorrect odds calculation, but you were both also convinced the call was bad as well. I think you both thought it was a bad call against your range, but then everybody always thinks opponents should think their ranges are AA or whatever the nuts is. I think I knew your range better than you did, enough to make it a reasonably easy call. I hesitated for a while because although it was a reasonably easy call, I wasn't sure I wanted everybody else on the table to know that I thought it was a reasonably easy call.