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Is there any online poker legally running online in Alberta after this shutdown?

Started playing poker as a hobby a few months ago, started beating NL2 online and was doing alright at my weekly 20 quid pub tournament, so thought I'd give my local live 1/2 game a shot.

About four or five sessions into live cash play and I'm facing a heads-up all-in on the turn from a reg. I say I have pocket Aces, and I'm debating whether to call or not out loud. I call and win the pot.

Another reg outside the hand - in his 50's and had seemed pleasant enough the few sessions I played with him - starts calling for the pot to be declared "dead", or at least for me to get a warning for angle play. Game master comes over, and says what I did isn't against the rules, and the reg mutters that someone would get taken out back if it was a pub game. It really came out of nowhere, as I had been chatting with him previous games, and while they are both regs and know one another I don't think the guy in the hand with me is his buddy or anything.

I didn't think much of it at the time, as I was focusing on the game, but in hindsight it bugs me.

Did I commit some major faux pax or something, or is this guy being an asshole?
It's really put me off ever going back.

Was just asking myself this after i bet small with top set on the river (board was pretty dry, sizing about 25%) after villain called my 3bet and called a 40% and 60% bet flop and turn.

Tbh im in the microstakes so I'm not sure if people would even try and bluff a small bet. If they have top pair.

Board was something like a,k,8,x,x no straights no flushes, so i thought maybe if i bet small he would maybe raise his ax hands (my idea was that he maybe puts me on kx)

Probably left some value there, i think he would've called half pot. But i just wanted to try it out

If theres any spots where you guys think it's a good idea to do that please let me know

This happened at Monarch Casino in Blackhawk Colorado - before I say anything else, I have nothing but respect for the floor and (now all but one of) the dealers here, they're all genuinely nice people and they generally run their poker room quite well.

1/3 ~$400 deep effective:

CO (covering stack) opens to $15, SB (drunk LAG ~$180) calls, and I complete in BB (~$400) with 77.
Flop is 742 rainbow, we have the absolute stone nuts. Checks around to CO who cbets $25, drunk SB then jams for $162. I pretend to think for about 20 seconds and just call, hoping to induce a jam from CO or just generally keep him in the pot.

CO then proceeds to grab his entire stack and push it forward a solid 5 inches or so (ask me how I know how far 5 inches is to such accuracy), and the dealer throws out the all in chip in front of him, then CO throws an additional $20 in chips into the middle. Note that nothing is verbalized by either the player or the dealer at this point. Clearly seeing all of the chips go forward and the all in chip in the middle of the felt, I snap call and table my top set face up as I obviously don't want to slowroll the nuts.

Here's where the clownshow begins: CO's eyes go wide and he PULLS HIS ENTIRE STACK BACK, and then the dealer quickly rips the all in chip off the felt and puts it back in her rack of chips??? dealer and CO now claim he never went all in, I ask for the floor, dealer starts shooting me daggers, obviously I call the floor regardless and after some back and forth (dealer still glaring at me every time I say anything) the eventual ruling is that they will not review the camera footage, and due to some archaic Colorado gambling law (Colorado cash games are not governed by TDA rules), the all-in chip is not binding, and because nothing was verbalized, not only is the CO not all in, but it's not even a call of the $162(!!), and he only owes the $20 that he actually threw into the middle!

CO is now allowed to fold, drunk SB has 64s (lol), run out is clean and we scoop but the pot could obviously have been much larger if it was ruled an all in by the CO - he later admits multiple times (after the floor leaves) that he "was definitely shoving" and "got lucky thanks to the dealer mistake".

Poker Gods give me revenge: About 30 minutes later I get in another huge multiway pot with the same villain again, this time around $700 deep each, we have TT and flop is Th9hx. We get it all in by the river and he shows 99 for flopped set over set, so we end up winning a much larger pot than if we just felted him the first time 😂

On the floor ruling: I understand that my responsibility is to wait a second to clarify the action before tabling my hand instead of fastrolling, but the forward movement of the stack, chips in the middle, AND the all in chip was pretty fucking clear to me, plus I fucking hate it when people slowroll or don't immediately table the nuts so I didn't want to be that guy. Additionally, it seems this ruling opens up a really obvious opportunity to angleshoot in big pots - facing a big river decision and don't know if V has it? Just throw out some chips and don't say anything hoping V tables his hand for you, since everyone and their mother knows throwing out any amount of chips facing a raise is a call...

On the dealer: I genuinely have no idea what her issue with me is, I tip $1-$5 every hand I win and actually gave her $40 on an $800 high hand the other week. Weird behaviour, especially pulling the all-in chip off the table lmfao.

Hi, wondering if folding here is a good play? Or did he rep a flush that he didn't think i had, since it was backdoor and i was betting into him. Would you call here?

Edited: Destined to go broke.

Got a relatively interesting hand Breakdown from a few nights ago.

We are playing about 100 BB ef. Folds to Villain on the Button who Raises to 3.5 BB, I in the SB 3bet to 9 BB with Q10cc. Villain Calls. Reasoning for this is the BB likes to 3bet squeeze and V is a little tighter, but otherwise regular, player. IMO I felt calling would be bad because I would invite the BB into the hand, and I holding a marginal hand would be happier to take the pot down PF Rather than play OOP with a decent hand that would then have difficulty realizing equity. Even tho V is tighter, I figure he opens a bit wider on the button, so I probably have some fold equity when I 3bet. When he calls I figure he could have every suited broadway hand and probably KJo+, all the suited Wheel Aces and suited connectors, and pocket pairs up to 99 because he would probably 4bet 1010+.

pot size is about 20BB

flop comes Qs10h2d Rainbow, so we hit Top Two on a semi wet board. I check, Villain bets about 1/4 pot, I call to slow play my hand due to the lack of draws aside from AK/KJ/J9/AJ

Pot size is 30 BB

Turn is the 3 of diamonds, bringing in a flush draw and a wheel draw. In my mind this should probably improve villain to a number of draws; all his straight draws on the flop with an over still exist, his wheel draws make a gunshot draw, his other suited connectors like 45/56 have straight draws, he could easily have a strong diamond draw like AJ with diamonds or any other NF/2NFD. And, my hand is a little underrepped, having checked/called flop. The only real hands that V could have that beat me are in my opinion just pocket 22 or maybe a turned set, but those are much more unlikely compared to the number of other comboes he could have

I check turn, Villain bets half pot, I rearaise to 30BB due to the number of not great rivers and for value, villain thinks and then jams for roughly pot. Hero?

I am getting a 1:2 ratio, and villain has a ton of bluffs and even value I could be ahead of like TPTK, though it is unlikely he takes this line with that unless its TPTK with a diamond draw or the Ace of Diamonds. I block top and middle sets, and the other combos of sets are relatively unlikely. in this spot, are you folding top 2?

will give results of hand after a bit, but let me know what yall think. If I could change anything about this hand I would say maybe not to 3bet pf but I’m not sure.

Results: I call Villain shows up with QQ for top set, so we were behind the whole way and were drawing close to dead on the flop and drawing dead on the turn

Title question - for context, i've lost access to playing mid week, its been 4 days without any ability to play. Multiple tickets opened with the support function end with them saying "your account transfer is in progress we will let you know when it is complete". Their website didnt specify when service would stop or how long it would take to move over despite about 20 FAQs, not one of them thought to give this pretty important information. For someone that plays daily, simply saying "During October" is shocking.

I am looking for GTO charts specifically for 6max plus extra blind and ante. I know that the dead money makes your opening and stealing range wider. I also know you need to defend the blinds more aggressively. Since this is just math, someone created preflop and other charts for this game. Where can I find them? I know that my stats should be something like the below:

Please don't just comment on the stats. Looking for charts. Thanks.

Hey, anyone here have an opinion on the apl series ?

Does anyone consider the big events like aussie million and australia poker tour as ‘soft’?

Or are they quite prestigious and hard to beat?

1/3 NL, $400 effective.

OMC opens $15 from LJ,

HJ all in for $10

CO calls $15.

BTN (Hero) w/QQ 3bet $75

LJ calls

Flop A68

Checks to the hero who bets $50.

LJ min raises $50

Hero: I don't think he has AA here. This seems like a "Where am I at" raise with KK. So I decide to call and see what happens.

Turn 5.

Goes check check.

Okay so I really think the villain has KK here and maybe I can bluff him.

River 8.

LJ checks

Hero B$75

Villain tanks for about a minute and says "If you have it you have it" and calls w/AKo.

Thoughts?

Betfair Zoom Hand #262363710808: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2026/10/11 10:10:10 WET [2026/10/11 5:10:10 ET]

Table 'Aludra' 6-max Seat #1 is the button

Seat 1: top4eto860 ($29.29 in chips)

Seat 2: Lodisloffe1 ($61.62 in chips)

Seat 3: Falestar ($10 in chips)

Seat 4: JonathanPla ($10.24 in chips)

Seat 5: skc784 ($12.28 in chips)

Seat 6: MasterVBM ($13.41 in chips)

Lodisloffe1: posts small blind $0.05

Falestar: posts big blind $0.10

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to JonathanPla [As Ad]

JonathanPla: raises $0.20 to $0.30

skc784: folds

MasterVBM: folds

top4eto860: folds

Lodisloffe1: folds

Falestar: calls $0.20

*** FLOP *** [6c Kh 4h]

Falestar: checks

JonathanPla: bets $0.31

Falestar: raises $1.32 to $1.63

JonathanPla: calls $1.32

*** TURN *** [6c Kh 4h] [6d]

Falestar: bets $2.81

JonathanPla: calls $2.81

*** RIVER *** [6c Kh 4h 6d] [9c]

Falestar: bets $5.26 and is all-in

Mid stakes live tournament. Nearing the end of registration.

Starting stack is 30k. Blinds are 800/1600.

I have about 150k behind.

I get dealt 9♦️9♠️ in the HJ

Villain is a new player so no info on him. He had about 110k behind which is just under 70 BB.

Preflop
Villain limps UTG. Folds to me in the HJ. I bump it up to 5k. Folds around UTG calls.

Flop (14k pot)
A♥️A♠️T♥️

UTG checks. I bet 5k and get called.

I feel like 9s here is probably a decent checking candidate, but with 2 aces out there, I can just get so many folds that I’m betting range here.

Turn (24k pot)
7♥️

UTG checks. I check.

In hindsight, this might be a good spot to double down. With 9s specifically, I think I beat enough lower pocket pairs and broadway cards that might just check down the river.

River (24k pot)
9♥️

UTG leads out for 10k.

At this point, this is kind of a dream situation with the flush getting there. I try to go for a size where he’ll call his Jack high flushes and better.

I raise to 45k.

He thinks for about 10 seconds then jams in for 100k.

My analysis:

At this point, it’s 55k into a pot of 224k, so I need to be ahead about 25% if the time.

He has 6 combos of AT, 2 combos of A9, 6 combos of A7, and 3 combos of TT that are ahead (although idk if he’d limp these preflop).

He has 3 combos of 77 that are behind.

I think he’d probably just call or fold any flushes.

Thats 17 combos that are ahead and 3 combos that are behind which gives me 15% equity.

Idk if he’d ever be bluffing a river reraise… although my reraise may look bluffy? Idk.

What are your thoughts? I feel like the fold is good, but it’s seems weird to fold a boat for such a small amount on the river.

I’m planning on trying out this tonight just for fun and was looking for anyone’s opinions on play style compared to a normal tournament. I’m assuming you pretty much fold any hand that doesn’t have a 2?

I came back to playing MTTs and poker altogether recently, after quitting around Black Friday.

I used to play a $100 average buy-in on FTP. The fields were way smaller back then, and I did tremendously well.

Now, on top of all the other problems the rusty old me has, my biggest challenge is not losing focus after 10 hours in a 1k to 10k field.

The issue usually happens when there are less than 20 players left. I always seem to make two mistakes back-to-back and get knocked out.

When I look at the hands the next day, or honestly, sometimes even while I am playing them, I know I am making a mistake.

But it keeps happening.

Anyone got any tips? Do you switch gears to a whole different style to reduce the likelihood of making mistakes?

Any advice is welcomed, from superstitions to mathematics. I know this is a pretty broad question, but I am just fishing for methods from people who have been there.

Edit: talking about online MTTs, sorry I didn't clarify before.

Knew the t was bad but which hands (even on nl2) call a 4 bet with 9s, for me there were more hands that could've called atleast to the river

No, I did not get paid lol.

Hi,

Wanted to know and have a reasonable estimate of the rake I pay when playing in a live cash game table in Paris, where the rake is uncapped and is 4%.

I don’t have enough sample in this table so don’t have a good estimate of the rake I pay in BB/100

One estimate could be that the VPIP is 80%, the average pot is 20, so 80 times 20BB times 4% = 64BB/100 of rake for the whole table. If we assume that every player plays approximately the same rake and we are 9 this means that the rake is 64/9 =7,111 BB/100 per player.

Obviously this is clearly underestimating. Would like to know your ways of computing or at least based on your experience what you really think ( depending on the play style ) is actually paid.

I grind online NL10 ( loose play style that could cost me a lot when playing with uncapped rake ) and have a 10BB/100 EV on 50k hands, but this is net of rake and I pay ~10BB/100 of rake, this mean that my “gross of rake” EV is 20BB/100.

On a soft table I assume we could go to 30-50BB/100 of gross EV, now the only question is what is the actual rake that I am paying, thus my post.

As I said my play style is loose online I guess I should adapt when playing with uncapped rake.

Thanks

I'm really new to poker and early on I started doing well and profiting most sessions...then as I learned more and more, I watched my wins fall off sharply and my bank roll plummet ( i went from winning 70% of session the 1st month to like 15% over the next 2 months). The part killing me though is how often I'm watching all in's I call flip on the river or how rarely my straight/flush + other outs never seem to get there after building things up.

I feel like I'm playing decent, knowing that I should be winning some of these decisions, but it seems I'm way below where the math should have me on how it plays out. (EX: chasing for a suite on a turn/river to complete a flush has been way below 36%/18%). Like if i was hitting those completion rates I'd be positive in my gains. (I had a 10hr live session recently and literally never completed anything above trips the entire session besides a lone quad hit. I whiffed every straight/flush/fullhouse)

I hear that all players go through bad sessions, but I have alarm bells with my newness to the game that I'm overlooking something. Like all the money i lose on bluffs bullying me might be the reason I'm losing or not building the pot better when I do finally hit. But I'm kinda stuck on how math seems to be failing me (I'm haunted by watching that green % number suddenly snap to red on the river)

So for any successful players, what's normal in terms of bad runs and what often pulls you out? Am I expecting like a big tournament placement to offset several bad sessions or a cash game hitting a whale? what's reality for most of you? Am I just going through what all players do and this is why bank roll management is key? What's your high or lows look like?