[johnsabo4]

I noticed that too at low limit games 1-2 NL and below that people are playing it like lotto poker. Also I think alot of tilters that just got busted at the higher limits like 5-10 or even 2-4, come to the .50-1.00 and want to try and double up real quick. Personally I kinda enjoy it because ill be sitting at a .50-1.00 table for a few hours playing only the top 25 hands and a guy will sit down,
(and you can always tell when they sit down with dollors and some change like 25.67 or something. And they immediately within 3 hands go all in with k10 or j10 and ill call with my 44 or 77 and bust them real quick, i think its great.

[dovla]

i'm quite new player .. and i played and still playing on lower stakes (i play only multi-table tourneys, S&Gs and hups-tourneys - i avoid NL cash games)

and i really think that i could do better on higher stakes..i really don't like to move preflop, for ex..and in cheap buy-in tourneys in earlier stages there are always 2-3 players who will move preflop with anything..
if i'm dealt AKs in middle position and make a standard raise, in bad tourney someone from late position with similar stack than mine will move with hands like 66 .. and what to do in that case? i have 50% of chances to risk all my chips in tourney if i call him.. i will always move with decent hand if i'm short staked (i can't let someone to see the flop with my 10 10 if i have chips left for 2-3BBs).. the ALL-in tactic is more frequently in bubble time, when there are 2-3 people left to go for the money, so short-stacked people are moving with everything trying to steal the blinds.. i don't have a solution for this kind of play, many times i lost ALL-ins when i put a player on ACE-something with AK against hands like A8 or K10 .. i don't want to risk big ammount of chips preflop, but sometimes you can't fold premium hand, and sometimes you'll be bad beated, and this is really frustrating.

[revenoff]

Originally Posted by Phoenix29

Since so many new players are intrigued by poker nowadays and have started playing by the millions, this phrase, glamorized on TV, has changed the game forever.

How many times have you played on a site n have seen several people going All In pre-flop, whether its a tourney or a cash game, w/some of the weirdest and worst hands and up winning.

The phrase is so contagious and so easy to do, that in a way, it can ruin your game.

What do you guys think?

Haha! That's precisely it!

There's so many new players flooding the scene, they don't really understand how risky preflop all-ins truely are. I mean, I don't mind, not many chips of my stack to fold.

Okay, sorry if I'm annoying... but here's not the worst, but the most ridiculous beat i've had in a while...

Person A - raise 300
Me - Call with
Person B - call

Flop- :kh:

Person A - all in I had a good read on him, he was bluffing with
Me - Call
Person B - No hesistation, call with

Turn -

River - You guessed it!

[burnsalot420]

its part of poker now with only seein 5% of all actual hads and all the all is thats what they do best thig you can do 2 avoid being busted by them is waitin 4 premium ands in tourneys and in cash games just go to another table all u really can do