Yes, it’s true that a raise might win the pot instantly often enough to make it worth doing. If so, go ahead and do it with seven-deuce, not ace-queen suited. Either way you will have to fold if reraised. But if you do it with ace-queen, you have in fact, made it no better than seven-deuce. — David Sklansky, Tournament Poker for Advanced Players (p115).
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.

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Behold the power of The Hammer! It has made AQ obsolete!
Can someone send that to the stripper?
and the hammers is so much more fun to fold face up!