I mentioned Four Color Decks to the game runner at a pot limit game and they agreed to try them on a trial basis…now the question is, where to get them? Specifically looking for Kem decks…standard or bridge size.
Answer 1:
IIRC, the 4-color Kem decks are the wrong colors. Mike Caro got the colors right: Green Clubs, Blue Diamonds, Red Hearts, Black Spades. The Kem decks are strange colors.
Answer 2:
Actually, I think its PINK hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, and blue diamonds.
Answer 3:
The four color deck at Paradise is simply marvelous! What do we have to do to get casinos to start using them? It would certainly prevent my most embarassing moment last Saturday. I’m ready to scoop with a nice Ace high diamond flush in a Omaha8 kill pot when the guy next to me lays down an 8 high flush with a busted low. “I got the ace,” I said laying the cards out. “Oops, that ace of hearts used to be a diamond. How did that happen?” He scoops huge pot including my raise on the river that he called. ARGHHH!!!!!





Planning a ski trip — yeah, I know it’s early — to Lake Tahoe area next January. Never been there. Anybody tell me where the best HE action is? Also, the best way to get back and forth from slopes to action?
I would like some advice from some more seasoned tournament players on the following: I recently played in a HE tournament with the structure as outlined below:
Lately I’ve had a chance to play some pot limit and no limit Hold’em and Omaha. I definitely like both of these better then structured limit, but I’m pretty new to these forms of poker, and was wondering what skills are unique to each form of betting. Which one do most people (who’ve played both) prefer, and why.
I am making a trip to Vegas and would like to learn how to play Omaha8. Is there a card room that spreads 2-4 or 3-6 Omaha8? I vaguely remember an ad in Card Player that advertised a 2-4 game, but I don’t see it in the most recent issue.
You sit down at a 4-8 hold’em game and come in right away on the big blind. You get KQo, no raise, 5 see the flop of KT8 rainbow. SB checks, you bet, 2 fold, one late position caller, SB calls. Turn another 8 putting 2 hearts on the board. SB bets out. Raise, call, or fold?
Can we get some more clarification on this? Here is what I’m thinking and doing regarding tournament wins and losses, is it wrong? Live play is easy – take the session win or loss and add that to either the “Other Income” (Gambling Winnings) or Gambling losses (to the extent of winnings) sections on the 1040 and the schedule A. For a tournament, if my buy-in is $220, with $200 to the prize pool and $20 to the house, and I cash out $1000, my net win would be $780.
I use Word and have the suit symbols available as “one-stroke” macros. I used that in a word document and then pasted the symbols in above. I’m posting this to see if they show up properly on rgp.
I have a copy of Brunson’s book, with Mike Caro’s odds table in the back. I’m trying to work these problems myself so I can do more complicated ones in the future. There is a chart that says if your first three cards are the T, J, Q of clubs, your odds of getting a straight if you stay to the river are 14.91 (expressed in percent). I have tried to figure this out, but I’m not getting what I believe to be the right answer. Please explain how this is determined.