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TXSooner518

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  1. Ha! No hate for Texas hoops here. I actually have them losing to Mich St in my bracket here bc I figure I get a big leg up if TX goes out early but in my other contest I have TX in the FF.
  2. There are generally two versions - pot limit and fixed limit. They play fairly significantly differently. Biggest keys: 1) Play tight preflop. Don't get sucked into the "oh wow all the potential combos!" People will be in there with hands like KhJs5s3d. Don't be one of those people. 2) You want to have the nuts or be drawing to the nuts. This goes double when you are only going one way in a pot. Tons of people donk off a lot of money with something like A3 low draw, no high hopes, then either they miss the low or it comes and they lose to A2. Or they will put in a lot of money with like Jh9hXX on a board like Th6h2x, and so they are only eligible for half the pot if a low comes, have no real high hopes other than a flush, and when the flush comes, they will frequently be against a higher flush. This is all amplified the more people that see the flop, which in low-limit O8 is usually a lot. 3) Be aware of being "quartered" even with nut hands. This is a worse problem in pot-limit, since the bet sizes you have to be are big compared to the flop. For example if you have A2 but nothing for high in a multi-way pot that is going pot-pot-pot with 3 players in, there is a good chance one or both of the other players has A2 and also something for high, so you will get nothing from the high pot and only a chop of the low pot, resulting in you putting in more than you are getting back. In limit, the bet sizes are small enough that you almost always have to go with it (remember that the previous bets you already have put in are sunk costs and part of the pot now, so you can't think "I'm not getting back the total that I put in" only "will I get more back than I have to put in from here on out?" 4) Be aware of getting freerolled or counterfeited. Again, much more painful/expensive in PL. Say the board is 789hh and you have JTAK. So you have "the nuts" right now. But if a low card comes, you now can only get half the pot. If a T comes, you lose to QJ. If a heart comes or the board pairs, you lose to tons of combos. Against heavy action, it is going to actually be correct to fold this on the flop, which is super counter-intuitive for a holdem player. Similarly, say the board is 678. A hand like A2KQ is MUCH weaker than a hand like A245 or even A23K. On the first, you have a solid high hand to go with your low (you won't always win the high obv, but you can be the person getting 3/4 against another A2XX like I mention above. On the second, you have an uncounterfeitable low. If you just have A2xx, your hand goes to shit if an A or 2 peels. But if you have A23, you still have the nut low. 5) On a related note, get familiar with how to figure out low hands when 4 or 5 low cards hit the board. It is super easy with 3, but tricky with 4, where you pair one of them. For example, 24 is better than A2 on a board of A378K, even though A2 makes a low and people think of A2 as the "nut low".
  3. Love this movie so much but the geography of it drives me berserk as a map nerd and road trip guy. Saint Louis to Chicago is less than a 5 hour drive, but it's presented as a cross-country road trip. No one is renting a hotel for Chrissakes!
  4. MI is done my dude. It's a tie with lots of Detroit left. SHIP SHIP MCGIPP
  5. It's over! NV, WI, MI. Ship it. This feels like being a 28 point favorite before the game, falling behind 35-7, then winning 42-35.
  6. NV should be fairly safe. Biden is up and all that's left is mail-in.
  7. Jesus Christ what an insane night and morning, and still so much to go.
  8. Not dicky at all. Would take $80 for the single
  9. Would take $120 for the single or $650 for the set of 5
  10. Well $109 with fees for a group of 4 yep. Cheapest group of 5 on the site is $180 each. Cheapest single on the site also $180
  11. Would also sell all 5 and then just buy a new group of 4, if anyone needs 5.
  12. It's in the OU side, obviously, Sec. 134, row 22. You can either use it to get in and attempt to relocate, or if you're feeling confident, sit next to me and troll me if the game goes poorly for me. Face value. Can transfer electronically on electronic payment or can meet in Austin today or early Friday or Dallas Friday evening to accept cash monies.
  13. I mean, let's not be ridiculous, they will probably just get a 2 year death penalty. NFL isn't going to do something as drastic as making a team hire that fat moron.
  14. Which of those steps is hard or unusual? Some people like thinking and decisions rather than just doing a mindless snake draft in 30 minutes, then just hoping you're at the top of the waiver wire randomly when a star RB goes down. And my question was technically about Brad's league, not mine. Plus there are TONS of leagues that are way more complicated, such as using IDPs, having long term and short term "contracts" and salary caps, with things like if you cut the guy, you still are responsible for half the salary, etc, etc.
  15. One other note is you can keep for unlimited years, just with the inflation. So if allowed, he could keep Jacobs or CEH for $6 next year, then $11, then $16, then $21, etc. If it was single year keeper thing, I think people would be more inclined to say "hey good one, let's fix it now"
  16. Thanks! 10+5 is an interesting idea. What happens for trades? Say I draft a player for $20, cut him, pick him back up, then trade him to you. Is your keeper value $25 or $15? We discussed no minimums for keepers but thought that was more boring. 1 spot out of 15 shouldn't be too oppressive, esp since you can keep a FA for $6 in our league.
  17. The Barkley issue we already resolved by allowing a player to be dropped and “frozen” for pickup by any other team. Also you can’t add an IR or bench slot in ESPN leagues mid season. And no keeper league would ever disallow keeping any free agent or waiver picks, that would really suck and be a huge overreaction to a problem that has multiple ways to solve it. The problem isn’t “how to come up with a good rule”, it was more “should we address this mid season or nah”. Thanks for everyone’s feedback!!
  18. Keeper values have to be addressed. For example, D'Andre Swift was bought on draft day for $17. He was later cut, and signed from the waiver wire. What's his keeper value next year? $17+5, since draft day value? or $1+5, since he was signed as a free agent? It's not the bidding using FAAB (which is super duper standard) that is screwing anything up, it's a player deciding to "reset" his player's keeper value by cutting him, then immediately picking him back up. If we used a straight waiver wire, this would actually be EASIER, since whoever had the #1 waiver spot could just cut his top player, resign them, and now keep for $1+5. When you have keepers in an auction league, yes, players have to have a value attached. And I have literally no idea what you mean by adding another IR slot, it's completely unrelated to what's going on.
  19. so what do you do with players who are cut, then picked back up? Still draft day value? And yeah, we were trying to implement a change while dealing with covid issues, etc.
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