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    Stu Ungar OrionPro's Avatar
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    Default what's a ratholer?

    saw this on =4, what does it mean (in cash games)?

    If it's same as going south, how is this an issue given that poker sites force you to buy in again with the last stack you had, meaning you cannot remove chips from the table?

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    its the same as going south
    f*cking it up for everyone else since 1969.

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    Ratholing is done typically with shortstackers. They play real tight, double up, then sit out and move to another table. It pisses off the other players that want to try to get their money back off a supposedly weaker player.

    "A guy with 10 BBs doubled up off of me then jumped in his rathole."
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    lol

    I joined 2p2 today and started posting, they certainly are a 'different' bunch
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    so like, 1.5 years ago i'm at the casino w/ a friend. were playing the $600 max 1/2 sicko game that i always play and cruuushh for mirrions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ngaskin View Post
    lol

    I joined 2p2 today and started posting, they certainly are a 'different' bunch
    2p2 is awesome for strategy but I actually prefer posting my hands here since I know who I'm getting advice from.

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    Yeah I like these forums better, haven't been a member for that long but you get to know everyone around here fairly quick, 2p2 just has a massive following
    Quote Originally Posted by tightagressive View Post
    so like, 1.5 years ago i'm at the casino w/ a friend. were playing the $600 max 1/2 sicko game that i always play and cruuushh for mirrions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MJPerry View Post
    2p2 is awesome for strategy but I actually prefer posting my hands here since I know who I'm getting advice from.
    read ssnl or the uNL and you learn fairly quickly who are solid solid players and just take their advice as gospel, and then the threads where good regs disagree are the true gold mines

    also amazing how many people there with like 5k posts must be horribly losing players given some of their advice.

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    There are plenty of people on there, however, who intentionally give bad advice thinking they are keeping the games more fishy...I've heard this from winning players before: "When I'm on the bubble of an sng, I tighten up every time and let everyone else fight amongst eachother til I make the money."
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    Unless the good players collude in giving bad advice, which I think is unlikely for anything other than nosebleed stakes, you could always filter it out. Some other reg is going to hop in and say it's nonsense.

    I can imagine some regs posting hands though that were intentionally played stupid

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