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Message: [QUOTE="Weregoat, post: 1504082, member: 62741"] You missed a few, GB. For instance, familiarize yourself with the house rules. For instance, at Hawaiian Gardens casino in Hawaiian Gardens, CA, everything that goes over the line when you bet or raise is part of your bet or raise, but at the Bicycle in Bell Gardens, only what you leave over the line (for instance you take a stack of 20 chips and leave 15, at HG you must bet the 20 chips, at the bike you can leave the 15). A good rule of thumb I like is this: "Don't give poker lessons at the table." When you've played as much live poker as I have, read books about it, discussed it, etc, you put in the time as risked the money, there is no reason to give the fruits of your efforts away to other people at the table. Sometimes I'll try to steal from the cutoff with 67o in an unopened pot, flop the nut straight on a board of 3d4c5d (dripping wet), and bet to protect my made hand. When I call an all-in jam on the turn and my whole cards are exposed, I'm not going to argue that I'm not lucky, raising with weak holdings, or explain why I bet the flop, because if my opponents can't reckognize a steal attempt, protecting myself from a flush draw, or analyze how other players are playing hands, I certainly want to use that to my advantage. When I have pocket 4's and make a hero call on an opponent I peg for a missed flush draw on his gigantic river bet, I don't want my opponents to know why I made the play I made, I just want them to know I'm capable of making it. So when neighbor on my right says "Did you call him because his hands were shaking?" And the answer is "I called him because he snap-called my flop raise, was shocked when I checked the turn, despite being given outs were I behind, then he stacked his chips up into a single tower when he ussually lays them out in stacks of five," they get the answer "I knew he didn't have a King." [/QUOTE]

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