ILX POKER TOURNAMENT #7 (?) Sunday 1st Nov 2009 4pm ET/9pm GMT

obv the rebuy worked for me today, A++++ would play again

i dunno about rebuys, something a tad galling about someone you've knocked out jumping right back in. otoh i made it to the money anyway!

i think the game on sunday has done me good. or maybe just reloading so i have some bankroll.

my game has calmed down and i don't get agitated when i lose with decent cards or whatever. came 2nd and 1st now (after the 2nd on sunday).. hopefully this will mean a swing back to the up!!!!!

certainly paying attention to what other players are doing helps (rather than playing scrabble on the other window)

fwiw, I should be up for regular tourneys again as of this Sunday. lookout!

The ILX tournaments are probably my most successful poker playing. Probably because everybody's playing civilized cards and not aggro-monkey high-speed chicken. In fact, it's possible that I'm seen as the aggro-monkey.

What stakes do you have to get up to lose the maniacs? Or are they at all buy-in levels?

i dunno, i definitely feel happier when i play $10+1. whenever i start on $5 and lower people start to annoy me and i go on tilt cursing everyone chasing lost causes and finding them

this could also be to do with me being shit, though

it's all just laws of averages though, you'll still find maniacs chasing gutshots at $30

Yeah, I've told people this year that I hope their children die in a grease fire. Big suckouts have shown me how ugly my soul is. (So I make sure to pet kittens and puppies whenever possible to make up for it.)

and i have no idea what kind of player would play some mad shit buy-in tourneys online. i mean, if you have $160+9 to spend why the hell would you want to play in a SUPER TURBO 9 seated with 300 starting chips??!?!?! go to caesar's palace????

I've finally realized that anything with quicker than 6-min. levels is just stooopid (for me). I like Stars' structure better, with 10-minute levels.

like to think that quicker the structure, more it has to do with luck, less ROI, more rake to the pokersite.

please look at these 4 consecutive hands!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/Picture2.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/Picture3.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/Picture4.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/Picture5.png

who shuffled these cards srsly

So who's playing tonight? Would like to hang out with you guyz.

Maybe if its on but who's in?

I'm even warming up for it! Well, I was, until this bitch:

PokerStars Game #38310225002: Tournament #233224412, $6.00+$0.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2010/01/17 14:38:42 ET
Table '233224412 1' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: profiblanker (1580 in chips)
Seat 2: Misterlis (3405 in chips)
Seat 4: kosorich (2510 in chips)
Seat 6: efil4elbmow (1505 in chips)
profiblanker: posts small blind 25
Misterlis: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to efil4elbmow [As Ad]
kosorich: folds
efil4elbmow: raises 100 to 150
profiblanker: raises 300 to 450
Misterlis: folds
efil4elbmow: raises 1055 to 1505 and is all-in
profiblanker: calls 1055
*** FLOP *** [Ts 7h 6h]
*** TURN *** [Ts 7h 6h] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [Ts 7h 6h Jd] [Kc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
profiblanker: shows [Ah Qs] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
efil4elbmow: shows [As Ad] (a pair of Aces)
profiblanker collected 3060 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3060 | Rake 0
Board [Ts 7h 6h Jd Kc]
Seat 1: profiblanker (small blind) showed [Ah Qs] and won (3060) with a straight, Ten to Ace
Seat 2: Misterlis (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: kosorich folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: efil4elbmow (button) showed [As Ad] and lost with a pair of Aces

So just mark at the mo? I'm at pub now need to know whether or not to come home

I'll play if we get 3 or more.

3-some Mark-Ken-Wm would be prett hardcore.

The way I've been playing this last week, I don't know about that. Zero cashes since winning last Sunday.

Ok I'm on my way home hope its on!

Texted andre

Someone should also email gooblar maybe he will play

i'm in for the yucks

Sweet! I don't have gooblar's email but can someone else?

just sent him an ILXmail, but apparently his last post here was 9 months ago...? maybe he's graduated from all this!

andre is in. ok we're on!

up211 is in as is gooblar

mark have you signed up?

This is the closest I get to a home game, I guess. Someday I'm going to go to Tunica or Dancing Rabbit and play live.

oh god i'm so hungry

hahaha

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/slaphead.jpg

A proper LOL!

Well played Goobs - you are a very tough opponent for an impatient aggro dude like me to play.

I think I should be glad I'm still up $0.95 for the week (last week's PWN CUP being my only cash).

that was a good cash though!!

srsly i had a $70 downturn the week before last. playing absolutely stinking poker too (i was so desperate for good cards when i had some i keep playing them too hard, going for too many coinflips and it was a vicious circle). playing these ilx games is actually quite therapeutic, actually playing with people you know rather than faceless fulltilt accounts really put the game back in the correct perspective

saying that i'd probably start a massive losing streak again soon

Never seen you play so nitty, Ken!

hi dere

i'm back! let's rock.

(assuming i don't fall asleep at office and have to go home to stolen wireless before 10pm, which is not certain)

keep drinking coffee (also it's at 9pm!)

oh i see what you mean maybe

10pm german time!

i should move to the azores or something

I have to pass today, sorry guys.