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I m going for a quick trip to New Orleans next Tuesday.

Any recommendation on a specific poker room?

Stay away from the hard rock. When I played there, there were too many locals who tried to take the tourists money and wasn't profitable because they were "colluding" too much. I was told afterwards to look at one of the riverboats there, while they were locals, they were each for their own...but, I can't remember the name.

Trust me, after a night in New orleans I probably won t remember either

Ok so I went to the Harrah's, it appears that the dealer knew all the players at the table by their first name... However, there was a couple of big big fishes. Anyway, something strange happens, it seems custom there to show your holding to your opponent in order to see their reaction before you decide to call them or fold or raise on the river.

I didn t play a lot of pot, table is close to be loose and I look very conservative ( it wasn t my plan but that s another story ), I was in a 6 way pot ( limped ), flop come 6d 9d 2c, I m in position decide to use it and bet 10$, fold all the way to a guy who raised to 30$, I take some time to think, call, the pot is now 72$, turn comes 7s, check to me, I count my chips ( 112$ ), look at his chips and bet 40$, my opponent start to talk, "you flopped two pairs? a set? didn t play a lot of pots so far, I have top pair" and he exposes a As9h. he continues to talk, I stay quiet, he calls, pot is 152$ come the river, it is a J, he checks, I look at my cards, push the 72$ in front of me. He says I must have him beat, he folds and I collect a pot showing the table my monster 5d7d...

What was this guy thinking? Showing his hand on the turn and fold to a river bet? This just didn t made sense to me. Did he think he could get a tell from me good enough to decides what my hand was? To me it s incredible ( but actually very nice ) to see these types of things...

The reasons for my betting was my conservative and tight play over the 2 first hours of play and my opponents noticed it so I thought it would be ok to gamble ( without odds ) on my straight or flush. Reason for showing my hand was of course to get actions from unsofisticated players on later rounds but unfortunately I coudn t catch a hand later and start to loose focus so I left.

Incredible value can be found even where it seems there is not much to go your way...

HAHA...yep, that sounds like the place I played. A couple of guys were drunk and the dealer said that is how they always were. Some of the locals would show their cards to other players while still in a hand, but I would never say anything since it never happened in a hand with me. My problem is there were quite a few loose guys at the table. I would pick my spots but then was bad on my luck. I actually had one pot where I made a big bluff (with a very good draw) and the guy called me, saying you beat me, but I just want to see. Needless to say, his bottom pair beat my bluff! LOL By the final day, I figured out how to play them, but a little too late. I wasn't down much, but, I hate leaving down.

I am glad you figured out a system to beat them. It isn't easy for the normal poker player. You really have to understand a lot of strategies. I think I would do much better after playing online poker so much recently!

nice hand, akamma and pretty brave to go all the way with your bluff.

Brave? the line between brave and dumb is pretty thin and I m affraid I am most of time on the wrong side.

I have to say that few month ago I wouldn t have bet the turn and not bet the river but what a loss of value. You don t need this type of bluff to work most of the time to be profitable anyway ( 152$ gain vs 72$ loss ) and this guy obviously doesn t want to loose a big pot on my all in river bet and look like an idiot because he showed his hand, call and loose the pot so it seems to me he s going to get any opportunity to fold.

Funny how the dealer gave him a hard time after that

Thank you for the support RR

P.S. Just tried to use some of Mike Caro s stuff to the best of my mediocre abilities on this one. Thank you Mad genius of Poker, you are the best.

from my experience it is brave to pull a stunt like this.

Whenever I play live the other guy says " oh what the hell" and calls whether it makes sense or not.

Road_Runner wrote

brave

I was going to instert my typical comment about frenchie and his heritage here, but I am trying to turn over a new leaf of social correctness!

I was in New Orleans a few months back for a week. I loved it, and actually plan to move down there some day in the near future. I figure since there is a casino, I could be able to play live much more often, and its a shorter jump to Vegas than where I am currently located.

Interesting some one would mention the card turning, because I have been trying to catch up and watch the 09 Nation Heads Up Tournament and Daniel Negreanu used this technique verses Chris Moneymaker :who by the way played very badly toward the end at least:. This is the first time I have come across a tournament with turning one, possibly both hole cards over? Is this type of variation common? Regardless of its frequency anyone know any websites, in which said variation has some documentation.

I think this variation in play would through some people off, if caught of guard in a particular situation. Interestingly enough Daniel Negreanu played out of character for him, and pushed Moneymaker around very effectively.

the rules are whatever the tournament organization wants them to be, so basically anything goes.
however, this particular rule is usually only allowed in casg games.

I have only seen a variation of this on Poker After Dark where the whole table agreed to show up one of their hole cards at the end of the hand. Never in a tournament format. Good to know though. The strategic value requires more research.

yeah I have never EVER heard of it in a tournament, except on PAD, which is supposed to resemble a home game sng anyway.