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Thursday Night Live Show 7pm CH861 with Fowler, Jen Mason and special guest Charlotte Jackson ******
Good evening guys,
nice and early with the show thread, as I want to give you all the chance to get your questions in for the very gorgeous Charlotte Jackson, our very own SkyPoker ambassador. She is joining us for the very first time on the sofa tomorrow night, all the way from the SkySports studio accross the road, from 7-10pm (part timer 
Not just your questions, but your answers.... I spoke to Charlotte and asked her for 3 poker questions that she needs help with, from you...
1. "If you have a shot at a flush, 1 card away and someone else has a medium raise would you go for it?"
2. "When raising, how much of the pot should you raise, I always get raising amounts wrong!"
3. waiting on this one !
Buut have a go at the first 2, and also any general questions for Charlotte, including your usual warm welcomes get them in
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Also on the show;
7pm-8pm – Tonight on Sky Poker – MasterCash coverage 8pm-9pm – Sky Poker School – As we have Charlotte on the show, we’ll be looking at ‘MTT Fundamentals’ to try and give her some advice. Your advice as always is welcome, show her your skills!
9pm-10pm – Analyse My Play – Hopefully we will be analysing Jen's play.
10pm-11pm – Top Of The Pots – Top 15 biggest cash hands of the week from the Televised cash tables11pm-12pm – Sky Poker Highlights – 6k Sky Sports Bounty Hunter – Live coverage of the late stages, we could potentially get down to the final table during the hour.
9pm-10pm – Analyse My Play – Hopefully we will be analysing Jen's play.
10pm-11pm – Top Of The Pots – Top 15 biggest cash hands of the week from the Televised cash tables11pm-12pm – Sky Poker Highlights – 6k Sky Sports Bounty Hunter – Live coverage of the late stages, we could potentially get down to the final table during the hour.
Hope you enjoy it!!
see you tomorrow
A xxx
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Fowler, Mason and Jackson......I've just apologised to the old man for not being able to make his 60th
wolf whistle!
Abridged answers to your questions:
1) "If you have a shot at a flush, 1 card away and someone else has a medium raise would you go for it?"
If the bet's small enough we can call to see our draw. However, it depends on how tight our opponent is and how much money we're being charged to see the river, as well as how much more we might win if we hit (Pot odds, implied odds, etc). We could even raise if we have fold equity.
2) "When raising, how much of the pot should you raise, I always get raising amounts wrong!"
Pre-flop raises should always be the same size with any hand we intend to play. We shouldn't be making a raise of 3BB with pocket Aces, but 6BB with 56 suited. Add an extra big blind to your raise for each limper. Pre-flop re-raises (3-bets) will usually be three times the size of the opening raise, unless we're playing fewer than 20BB or so, when we should just 3-bet all-in.
After the flop, bets and raises should always be in relation to the size of the pot. As a guideline for a relative beginner, doing as Cenachav has said and always betting between half and three-quarter pot is good advice. However, we should generally bet more on wet flops than we would on dry flops.
Jen will now explain all of the things I've confused you with. They sound like simple questions but the answers are nuanced and situation dependent.
This game can be pretty complicated if you want it to be. All of these are just rough guidelines and, as you progress, you'll learn when to follow these and when to diverge from them.
I hope that's not too long... I suspect it is.
Here goes...
3) "If I'm dealt a low or mid pair, and I was raised, would you fold or chance it and be aggressive - with the potential for a 3 of a kind?"
Our chance of flopping a set is 7.5:1 which is about 12%. That means to purely set mine (so we always give up when we miss) we must be able to win 7.5 times the bet we're being asked to call, just to break even. In reality we need to be able to win considerably more, as sometimes we won't have the best hand with our set and other times we won't win all of our opponent's money. As a guideline, you should only call to set mine with implied odds (which Jen will explain) of 12 times the price of the call or more. Bear in mind that tight pre-flop players are better to set mine against than loose ones, because they're much more likely to have a big hand to pay us off with.
Of course, we don't always need to give up after the flop if we miss. Our pair may still be good and some flops will allow us to continue. This will be much easier in position.
Playing our pairs aggressively by 3-betting is an option. If we have 15BB-20BB we can definitely 3-bet shove with our pair. Some of the time we'll force our opponent to fold and win without a showdown, and the times we're called there's a good chance we'll be in a 50:50 race, which isn't too bad. Loose pre-flop players are the ones we want to 3-bet.
That's still quite long. Honestly, I've shortened it a lot and missed out some things. These are very general questions with very nuanced and situation dependent answers...
Have a great show lassies.
If you have any other questions for Charlotte; football, golf, diving or winter thermals.... related get them in.
xx
Whats your handicap?
Do you agree with the ban on anchored putters?
Have a good show ladies.
Mick
I'll give my answers to the questions even though BorinLoner is a boss and obv already has the Primo seat locked up. I haven't read his answers but they look long so I'm guessing he's covered everything so apologies if there's duplication.... I'll try to keep them short and sweet.
1) "If you have a shot at a flush, 1 card away and someone else has a medium raise would you go for it?"
When we only have 1 card to come, we'll hit a flush about 1in5 times which means we want to be winning more than 5 times the call amount when we hit. So if we have to pay £1.50 to potentially win a pot of £10 that's a great proposition and we can call. If we have to pay £3.50 to win a pot of £10 then it may not be so good and we need to think about the the following question .... 'If I hit my flush will my opponent be willing to call a bet/raise on the river?'
2) "When raising, how much of the pot should you raise, I always get raising amounts wrong!"
When we raise preflop, I would recommend keeping all our raise sizes the same to not give any clues away as to the strength of our hand, generally 3 times the big blind. At later stages of a tournament we can lower this to 2.5 times the big blind and eventually 2 times the big blind (min-raise).
Postflop, again keep the same bet sizing with your value hands and your bluffs to not give away the strength of your hand. As a default I would recommend that we generally never bet less than 50% of the pot, and usually around 60-70% of the pot.
You should adjust your bet sizing according to the board texture. In short, on wet boards bet more, on dry boards bet less (not less than 50%). For wet boards, it will get us max value when we have it and charge them more if they're drawing. On dry boards it is harder for people to hit them so betting smaller allows us to get calls from weaker hands and likewise because dry flops are hard to hit, it means we can bluff very cheaply
3) "If I'm dealt a low or mid pair, and I was raised, would you fold or chance it and be aggressive - with the potential for a 3 of a kind?"
We will flop a set roughly 1in9 times so like any drawing hand, we want to win 9 times more than we have to call when we hit. For this reason, pay attention to your opponents stack size and make sure that it's probably around 15 times more than the call. So if you have to call £1 to see a flop, you have him to have at least £15 left behind, if you're calling £1 to setmine and he only has £7 left, that's gonna be a losing proposition.
An important thing to remember is that once we miss the flop, we should not be tempted to 'just call once more' purely hoping to hit a set because our chances of doing that on the turn are now only 2%
I'm an Everton fan who was obviously sad to see Moyes go... in your opinion how do you think his first season will go at Man Utd and how do you think Everton will get on in their first season with Martinez?
I'm an hour and a bit behind and now I'm hearing "You don't even know!" from Fowler... what's that all about. I'm cool and get all the ladies. Prrrfffff... Wait, I'm not finished... prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfffffffffffffffffff...
Insulted!
Also, I tried my best to be brief. I'm just not good at brief. I like my words, I do.
Was surprised that so few people played the escalator tonight. It was a great structure which made sure it wasn't a total shove fest. Loved it.... oh and i won it
I suggest you don't google it, though. Unless you want a shock.
I realise the show is over but I'm a little behind.