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DEKE02Regular53 posts
Posted Aug 6, 2026, 2:51 PM#1

I was looking through my computer files for something totally not related to poker and I found this file from 2015. The entire file was only these two items. I must have thought they were especially meaningful to have saved them. Eleven years later, the 2nd one is still very true, but I have no idea what the first one means.

  1. Remind yourself, the hunting lion doesn’t roar.
  2. "The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right."
  • William J. O’Neil
plogMicro-Stakes Grinder7 posts
Posted Aug 10, 2026, 10:21 PM#2

#1 applies to the guy who needs to tell crappy players they are crappy, how they are crappy and how good he is.

DEKE02Regular53 posts
Posted Aug 11, 2026, 12:07 AM#3

Well...apparently you shouldn't knock on the glass.

FreeCardRegular50 posts
Posted Aug 23, 2026, 2:06 PM#4
  1. When you hunt, you sneak up on your prey without giving them any clue that you hold the nuts.
  2. It’s all about assessing risk - don’t risk as much when the odds are break even Maybe I wasn’t supposed to evaluate those IDK, but here’s one for you: Players that chase straights and flushes, arrive in planes and leave on buses.
DEKE02Regular53 posts
Posted Aug 23, 2026, 4:41 PM#5

by FreeCard m (https://www.twoplustwo.com/post?postId=59383558#post59383558)

Maybe I wasn’t supposed to evaluate those IDK, but here’s one for you: Players that chase straights and flushes, arrive in planes and leave on buses.

Yes, I wanted the interpretations. As to flushes to buses, I both agree and disagree. I try not to call for SD and FD unless it's super cheap. Also, unless we're HU, I want it to be a near NFD. You miss way more than you catch, so it's not wise to get too deep into your stack calling unless the pot odds are heavily in my favor. So I don't want to call often, but that leaves 2 options, fold or bet/raise. I'm still trying to break old habits where I defaulted to fold if I didn't want to call. Raising is often the more favorable option. The pot is bloating so the guy sitting on TPGK has to have a perfect read on me to call my raise. I find my FE is huge with bullets fired on flop and turn. It's become a big winner for me. And occasionally you get called down and make that flush. Wooo woooo, pay day. Against most rec players, it looks like the outcome I feared just hit. They might raise or at least call another bet. I'm doing the same thing when I flop 2nd pair. If V is leading out with a CB that I think gave him TP, he often will fold to my raise and if he doesn't, I've still got my trip and 2P draws. Of course some super sticky Vs are bad candidates for this strategy.

FreeCardRegular50 posts
Posted Aug 24, 2026, 6:10 AM#6

I don’t believe we’re dealing with a skilled player here, but rather someone who chases every draw. Certainly, I appreciate semi-bluffs executed in many different ways, but the circumstances have to be appropriate. It’s an old saying from the limit-poker era when bluffing was more difficult.

Kurn, son of MoghMicro-Stakes Grinder18 posts
Posted Aug 24, 2026, 12:24 PM#7

From the era when fixed-limit hold'em was still popular: "A flop raise is frequently deceptive, while a turn raise tends to be genuine."

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