Greg Raymer
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Greg Raymer - 2004 WSOP Main Event Champion, 2012 HPT Player of the Year, author ("FossilMan's Winning Tournament Strategies", now available)
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Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: Inducing A Bluff With Just Ace High
Please let me encourage you to reach out to me with article ideas and questions for future columns. You can tweet to me at @FossilMan, or send me a message at info@fossilmanpoker.com. When I teach live seminars, we spend the first three hours doing a lecture, take a lunch break, and then spend the afternoon doing live hand labs. In these, I deal to the students, who try to play their best game. At the end of the hand, they show their cards, and I provide feedback and critique.
Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: Inducing Action After Flopping Big Original
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Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: How The Choice-Supportive Bias Affects Players Original
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Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: The Survivorship Bias
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Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: The Pessimism And Optimism Bias Original
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Greg Raymer: How The Confirmation Bias Affects Your Poker Game Original
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Greg Raymer: How The Anchoring Bias Affects Us At The Poker Table Original
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How Cognitive Bias Affects Your Poker Game: Greg Raymer On 'The Curse Of Knowledge'
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Greg Raymer: How Cognitive Bias Affects Your Poker Game Original
Card Player Magazine, available in print and online, covers poker strategy, poker news, online and casino poker, and poker legislation. Sign up today for a digital subscription to access more than 800 magazine issues and get 26 new issues per year! Please let me encourage you to reach out to me with article ideas and questions for future columns. You can tweet to me at @FossilMan, or send me a message at info@fossilmanpoker.com.
Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: Re-Entry and Rebuy Tournaments
Card Player Magazine, available in print and online, covers poker strategy, poker news, online and casino poker, and poker legislation. Sign up today for a digital subscription to access more than 800 magazine issues and get 26 new issues per year! Please let me encourage you to reach out to me with article ideas and questions for future columns. You can tweet to me at @FossilMan, or send me a message at info@fossilmanpoker.com. More from this series: Part 1: Definitions.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 1 minute ago Grinding it out at my friend's house in NJ for the last 9 hours after driving up from home in NC yesterday. Get this sad end to my @wsop #mainevent as we are getting within sniffing distance of the money. Basically, what can you say, but F**k You, 2020!!
Short Stacked Mistake from a Poker Final Table
Short Stacked Mistake from a Poker Final Table 08/12/2020 by Jonathan Little I was recently told about a hand from the final table of a live $500 buy-in tournament that illustrates a few key mistakes that many players make when playing short stacked. With blinds at 5,000/10,000 with a 10,000 big blind ante, everyone folded to the small blind who started with 120,000. He was the shortest stack at the final table, but there were a few other players with between 15 and 20 big blinds.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 1 minute ago Only playing online poker during pandemic. Had some good results, but lately it's just been a bunch of this shit. Totally happy with how I played the hand, given what I know about this opponent. His preflop range is wide open, he's very sticky, so while I knew he wouldn't fold anything that had me beat, I also knew he would call with all kinds of hands like this one, or even just bare overcards.
Stop Slowplaying
Stop Slowplaying 30/10/2020 by Jonathan Little Cards: 3♥3♦ J♣T♥ Board: K♠Q♠3♣9♦ I was recently told about a no-limit hold’em poker hand that illustrates a key concept you must master if you want to succeed at the game. In a $1/$2 cash game, someone raised to $7 from early position out of his $200 effective stack and our Hero called on the button with 3-3. I like Hero’s call with a small pair.
Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: Re-Entry And Rebuy Tournaments
Card Player Magazine, available in print and online, covers poker strategy, poker news, online and casino poker, and poker legislation. Sign up today for a digital subscription to access more than 800 magazine issues and get 26 new issues per year! Please let me encourage you to reach out to me with article ideas and questions for future columns. You can tweet to me at @FossilMan, or send me a message at info@fossilmanpoker.com. Click here for Part 1 of this series.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 1 minute ago Omitting names to spare the guilty, but this is a lesson in how NOT to play the bubble. We are hand-for-hand in OC #129 on @wsopcom. The shortest stack in the tourney, who can afford to fold their way to a min-cash, goes for it with K6o? And they are guaranteed to get called. Not only is it dirt-cheap, but the caller can win a $100 bounty. Note how Kenna James folded from the small blind despite a short stack. Exactly correct!!
Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: Patience Vs. Aggression In Tournaments
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My Body is Destroyed from Online Poker
My Body is Destroyed from Online Poker 28/05/2020 by Alexander Fitzgerald I spent years of my life traveling for the game. During that time, I played online poker from any surface I could place a laptop. Airport interiors, coffee shops, hostels, cabins in the middle of nowhere…it was all fair game. In many of these spots, a wicker chair was a luxury. I didn’t have much of a choice abroad. Wherever I found a reliable internet connection, I set up shop.
The Myth of Poker Talent - an extract
The Myth of Poker Talent - an extract 14/05/2020 by Alexander Fitzgerald Capped Boards We have discussed capped boards previously, but here we are going to add some details as we analyze them more extensively. If you a recall, a “capped” board is a flop where typically the caller’s range is limited to one pair or worse. This provides ample opportunities to bluff on complicating turns. An example of a capped board is 6♠8♠9♦.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 51 seconds ago Been a long time since I posted a SMP hand, haven't been playing much NLH. Here's one that is kinda strange. I love my hand, but kind of hate all my options preflop. Feel free to add your thoughts to the SMP posting, and I'll chime in later with mine. We can have a fun discussion.
Greg Raymer: A Proposal To Make The Money On Day One Of The Tournament
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Poker Strategy With Greg Raymer: Am I Too Tight?
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Greg Raymer: Quitting Your Job Or School For Poker
Card Player Magazine, available in print and online, covers poker strategy, poker news, online and casino poker, and poker legislation. Sign up today for a digital subscription to access more than 800 magazine issues and get 26 new issues per year! Please let me encourage you to reach out to me with article ideas and questions for future columns. You can tweet to me at @FossilMan, or send me a message at info@fossilmanpoker.com. I want to address a question I am asked a lot.
Quitting For Poker
Card Player Magazine, available in print and online, covers poker strategy, poker news, online and casino poker, and poker legislation. Sign up today for a digital subscription to access more than 800 magazine issues and get 26 new issues per year! Please let me encourage you to reach out to me with article ideas and questions for future columns. You can tweet to me at @FossilMan, or send me a message at info@fossilmanpoker.com. I want to address a question I am asked a lot.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 2 minutes ago One of those strange hands from day 1b of the @parxpokerroom #MainEvent. While I was behind on every street, and even drawing dead on the turn, it felt unlucky to lose this pot. Player actually tanked on the river before calling. Basically, even though I was bluffing, it seems almost certain he folds the river unless he hits the Q for trips, or presumably the Jack for a straight, maybe the Ten for two pair.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 2 minutes ago Here is one of the more fun and interesting hands from day 1b of the @MGMNH_Poker #MainEvent of the Potomac Poker Open. James was playing a strong game, but was very loose and aggressive, and it just felt on each street that I was too likely to be ahead to fold. Glad and lucky I was right this time.
Where does your profit come from?
Where does your profit come from? 04/10/2019 by Jonathan Little I recently had the opportunity to play a $25/$50 no-limit game on Poker Night in America at Choctaw Casino in Durant Oklahoma. It was an awesome experience and a lot of fun. The table was a nice mix of amateurs and professionals and there was lots of action. About halfway through the first day of filming, I became aware that I was not playing very many pots with the amateurs, and quickly realized the obvious mistake I was making.
Poorly Played Underpair
Poorly Played Underpair 12/09/2019 by Jonathan Little I was recently told about a hand from a $1/$2 no-limit cash game that illustrates two errors that many amateur players make on a regular basis. A generally tight player raised to $5 out of his $200 stack from first position at a 7-handed table. Another reasonable player called from the hijack seat (two to the right of the button). Hero called with 9♠9♥ from the small blind.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 2 minutes ago Gross end to a long day of playing my heart out. With 20 minutes left in day 1c @WynnPoker #MainEvent, I find a great spot to double up and get above the chip average, and villain hits the 7-outer on the river. #sigh. Silver lining is better now than early on day 2, since we're still a few hours away from the money.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 5 minutes ago Out of @WSOP #event80 PLO/NLH on last hand before last break. Had done a lot of folding for 2 hours, never won or lost a significant pot, and my patience was not rewarded this time. When the big stack shoved, his range included at least every possible drawing hand, every one-pair hand, and obviously better hands as well. Might have even had some ace-high hands in his range as well. Obvious call for me, just not my night.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 1 minute ago Busted just before dinner break @WSOP #EVENT44 NLH Bounty in this wild hand. Even with the bounties, not a fan of the play by seat 1. He thought I was just trying to isolate the small blind and win the bounty, but am I ever going that utg with worse than J high? oh well, missed my shot at getting a big stack.
Facing an Overbet on the Flop
Facing an Overbet on the Flop 06/06/2019 by Jonathan Little The following hand took place in a $1,000 buy-in World Poker Tour side event. The tournament just started and everyone had about 4,500 chips with 25/25 blinds. I raised to 75 from the cutoff seat with K♣J♣ and only the small blind, a 50-year-old recreational local player, called. The flop came K♠Q♦4♥. The small blind bet into me for 250.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 29 seconds ago From early in level 3 of @WSOP #event19a #MillyMaker, got lucky in a big pot against @berkey11. Drawing almost dead if the guy with 8s9s doesn't fold. While my shove is questionable, it sure seems better than calling, and my hand has too much equity to fold.
Bluffing, Part 2
Bluffing, Part 2 30/05/2019 by Steve Blay In part 1 of this series, I did a crash course in bluffing theory, as it relates to how often we should bluff. In this article, I’ll be talking about hand selection. On the river, it’s important to understand (and again, this is rooted in math) that we want to value bet with our best hands (duh), and (all other things being equal) bluff with our absolute worst hands. This doesn’t mean we need to have 7-2 offsuit to bluff.
The Most Exploitative Line Ever
The Most Exploitative Line Ever 16/05/2019 by Alexander Fitzgerald Let’s put you in a situation: You are on the button with A-Qo. It’s folded around to you in a $100 buy-in tournament in your local casino. You raise. Dustin Richards is in the big blind. He’s a nice guy. He works in waste management. He likes cards and sports, but this isn’t his obsession. He plays for fun. You raise to 3X. Dustin calls out of the big blind. You’re both 50X deep. The board comes A♥2♠4♣. He checks to you. What do you do here?
2-5 No Limit - Categorizing Players
2-5 No Limit – Categorizing Players 09/05/2019 by Matt Affleck The 2-5 No Limit Hold’em level of cash games is the beginning point where a significant amount of money can be made. At lower levels, the lack of stack depth and higher relative rake cut into profits to a large degree. An intelligent player at these stakes in poker can make enough money to grind out a living if need be.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 51 seconds ago Busted @HPTPoker @Hollywood_Poker main event in super annoying fashion. If there's a raise pre, I just fold. Instead I see a free flop that makes it impossible for me to intelligently fold, yet I'm totally crushed after getting it in. Some days staying patient doesn't pay off.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 1 minute ago This was probably the hand of the day from flight 1a yesterday at @HarrahsCherokee #wsopc #MainEvent, but the reporter didn't happen to catch it. The huge stack was fairly new to the table, but I didn't think he was a maniac or anything like that. Seemed thoughtful about his play. I decided to slow-play the flop as I am way behind a set, in good shape against a flush draw, and way ahead of anything else.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 14 minutes ago Here is that bustout hand @TulsaHardRock @WSOP #circuit #MainEvent day 1b. After a minute, I wanted him to call, as I was sure he had a worse kicker or a smaller pair. Sure he would have called quicker with a good draw, as well as with any hand better than mine. Sad end to a tough day, just didn't make hardly any hands at all, had to fold a lot and work for every chip.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 2 minutes ago Here is the fun hand I won near the end of level 15 day 1b @TulsaHardRock @WSOP #circuit #MainEvent. Guy on my right kept asking me how could I call with that board. If you have comments or questions, please post in the @ShareMyPair thread for this hand. I will respond there, but not on twitter. Thanks.
FossilMan's Winning Tournament Strategies
Description FossilMan’s Winning Tournament Strategies is the ultimate guide to practical tournament play. Greg “FossilMan” Raymer, winner of the WSOP Main Event in 2004, explains everything you need to know to become a successful tournament player. Raymer is not only a big winner at the tables, he also has a unique ability to explain difficult concepts in clear and simple language. Raymer simplfies the learning process by breaking down the complex subject of tournament strategy into the key areas.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 6 minutes ago Playing in a home game tourney, here is an example of how NOT to play a small pocket pair. The issue here is his hand is only just above break even against my range. While his shove has some benefit in possibly getting bigger pairs to fold, it also means he loses the maximum when he runs into one of the biggest pairs. And with half the table yet to act, that is a legitimate concern.
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Back Copy Hand Link Greg Raymer (@FossilMan) | 4 minutes ago Sad end to my shot at the @BeauBiloxi #MillionDollarHeater #MainEvent. Don't see how folding could ever be right here, especially since the shove by the big stack almost certainly means no shot he has AA or even KK or QQ. Almost definitely an isolation move. Shame he didn't have a weaker Ace, as even winning just the side pot leaves me with more chips and a good shot at a comeback. oh well, nothing to do but make the best decision you can.
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This hand is just posted as an example of how good my starting table was. Had another hand that I recall where a player bet the river on a board like A64-9-6, got called by A5 (no biggie) and overcalled by 88. So much potential to build a big stack, and I won exactly 2 pots in over 5 hours at this table. If I had played every hand dealt to me to the river, I might have won 2 more, 3 at most. lol. Poker, what a game.
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This is the hand that hurt the most today in #Event13 #wsopc @harrahscherokee. Definitely a worrisome river, but too much chance villain is either bluffing because I checked, or possibly value-betting a worse hand like AJ, KJ, QJ, AT, A9, etc. Damnit!
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Villain was fairly new to the table, had been dealt in about 18 hands, called a raise once, folded the rest. While the thought he was trapping with a bigger pair was a concern, it seemed a mistake to do anything other than raise preflop given my stack size. Lost the minimum. As is so often the case, my real question here isn't why did you play that hand, but all those other hands, what were you folding? lol
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Very first hand dealt to me in tonight's tag team event at @AmeristarEC as part of the @HPTPoker series. Nice start, but did not last. Most of the rest of the night I folded, except for losing a big pot with KJ<K3 on a K-high flop (3 on the turn), and a flip or two. @CraigCasino1 was my partner, and while he won a lot of chips, he did bust both stacks eventually. Just teasing, buddy, pretty sure you won more chips than I did.
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From level 2 @WSOP event 59 super turbo bounty, this was my first play made due to the bounty format. Of the $1000 buy-in 300 is the bounty, 600 to the prize pool, so a bounty is equal in value to half a start stack, or 2500 chips. By getting the callers to fold, I'm getting 8:1.
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Busto @WSOP event 45 $1000 NLH 30-min levels. Reraising preflop definitely the standard line, but I like to mix this up by sometimes calling with my premium hands. Turn shove not really debatable, his range has way more 2-pair and combo hands than made straights. Got the last 850 in a few hands later 99 vs KT, flop was AQJ, lol.
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