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

sorry, i'm out. being held hostage for tea by my folks so will be somewhere around birmingham new street at 9pm.

I'm pretty sure I don't have enough game for HU NL, Ken. If there aren't at least 4 playing at gametime, I'm probably going to withdraw. Sorry, hope you understand.

no worries man hopefully folks will come out of the woodwork.. they're being very silent though!

(if they haven't forgotten e.g. upt0eleven + mark c + pillbox perhaps??) - I'm down. Here's the thing, tho: I have a FT account, but I haven't been playing much & I don't currently have any IRL coinage on there at present. So I'd like to avoid the $50 minimum FT transfer b/c, in all likelihood, most of that will just sit there indefinitely. If any of you are willing to transfer me a smaller sum on FT, I could easily reimburse you through Paypal. I'll play either way but, yeah, would just feel more comfortable not having to drop the full $50 to do so. Hit me up w/ a webmail if you can help a brother out. Otherwise, I'll see yous on the felt.

also: my gf & another friend might want to play as well. I'm assuming this is an open invite sort of thing?

I've got to step out for a minute, but will be re-situated by 3:30. If I haven't heard from any of you about the transfer thing by 3:45, I'll go ahead & drop the $50 & sign up.

Hi pillbox ill sort you out if I can. Just heading home now so webmail me your username

Pillbox, if I have any cash left at FT I'll sub you, let me check. (I'll ask Ken to sub me if not ;) )

Ah x-post. FAO Ken C!

Hey Ken... would you be able to sub me too? Sorry to ask but I cashed out of all the sites I play on other than Stars.

My name is SandInMyVagina - tyvm.

Oh, webmail you. Cool :)

im trying to send to you mark but the page just seems to hang after i click ok! i'll give it another few minutes and let you know if it worked??

argh! Thanks Ken, much appreciated. I just won my warm-up 6max sng on Stars...

bah it doesn't seem to let me transfer for some reason (no error just stuck on the page!!)

im trying pillbox's account now, same result.

Ken C - webmail sent. If, for whatever reason, it doesn't come through, my FT id is Crazylegs Carl. $10-20 if possible, so I can maybe fool around a bit w/ some cash games post-tourney. I can have Paypal transfer to you immediately.

tried on two computers now (one mac and one pc!) you guys may have to load up some cash hope it's ok!

OK, nevermind. u got the message. I'll check my acct. stat.

s'cool bro. thanks for trying.

NEWSFLASH it's worked!

i had to type in your usernames in lowercase or it didn't work lol!

ken it worked! and I got confirmation at EXACTLY the same time as i clicked "deposit" :)

Thank you - I will pay you back, bruv.

OK, how do I get to the point where I enter in the tourney ID to sign up?

Ken, don't worry about me for loot, btw. I just loaded up. thx anyway,tho

Drop down menu "requests", "find tournament by ID".

oh i just sent you the $$s oops! we'll work it out afterwards

registered. Ken, I haven't received any additional funds. Maybe it didn't go through? All the better if it didn't, really.

ok, awake from a short power nap and ready to go.

oh good, 10 minute levels

Five of us. Who's the 5th?

and here we go!!!

6 of us

5 of us

mark c = ><!!!o>

Don't think so

GG everyone.

shall do another one soon. i'll remember to have dinner beforehand next time.

Good game everyone. Look forward to the next one!

Congrats Mark! good game

great work making this happen ken, sorry i flaked, _just_ got off the train. let's do it again!

Very pleased to have cashed. I don't know if you guys remember how bad I was when I first started playing last year, but I was BAD.

hey btw

also: my gf & another friend might want to play as well. I'm assuming this is an open invite sort of thing?

― you just freaked out more than our director of lols (Pillbox), Sunday, November 1, 2009 7:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes definitely do invite them next time more the merrier. happy with folks joining in except for random g00glers!

another one next sunday perhaps? (haven't checked if i'm free yet) is sunday generally a good day for everyone?

should not have called Ken's bluff on that 5. Played that one all rong & twas my downfall. Congrats to you three big earners!

sundays are usually good for me

yes definitely do invite them next time more the merrier.

will do. I misread the time & originally thought this was at 9pm US Eastern, so things happened pretty last minute.

ugh slept right through this. thx swine flu!

aww man i finally have money on fulltilt and i missed this

sry fur the no-show. went and won another £50 bar tab in the pub quiz instead.

priorities nick.

good news though it seems there's healthy interest in this. I can't make it this coming sunday but let me know if you still want to play and i'll have it set up?

i was talking crap by the way i CAN make it this sunday. i might just set it up now anyway actually!

rad styles

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT I FORGOT ABOUT THIS AGAIN!!!!

set an alarm clock next week!

Man. I played a decent game and then pushed T5o into Goobs who for some reason called with KT. High standard all round, you guys.

is we playing today or am peoples valentining?

silence = dissent

have made other plans for tourney time, will catch you guys in a week

sorry i was chinese new yearing! see you guys next week yes

I was playing FIFA 2010 (fuck you, Bristol City). This weekend will probably work.

Question for Mark and Ken and anyone else with opinions on MTT SnGs: I played a few 45s and one 27 this weekend and cashed in 3 of 8, no wins. Do you guys pay any attention to % in the money, or is it all about ROI? If the former, is there a number you shoot for?

I just tighten up a bit before the bubble as there's no point in busting out one or two short of the money with marginal hands. Once you're in the money, though, you have to take calculated risks as the high paying places are so much more profitable than the mid-low ones.

I've won a couple of 45-man tourneys (but none with more players) and you have to play with balls, keep an eye on stack sizes and grab opportunities whenever you can.

In other words, it's all about ROI. Don't bust on the bubble, but don't play scared.

WmC, have you thought about doing a few heads up tourneys to improve that aspect of your game? I think you're maybe a bit conservative at times and it might help you loosen up.

I've thought about it -- it's a little daunting though, the prospect of getting all or nothing. The funny thing is, in Limit SnGs (STT) I'm pretty strong when we get down to 2- and 3-handed. I have as many wins as I have 2nds + 3rds combined. But you're right, I do tighten up a bit too much in NL -- still getting the lay of the land.

Today I was reading Shaun Deeb's Beginner's Guide to 180s and going "hmmmm" a lot.

wmc i thought you usually play pretty good when it gets to heads up actually.

although i'm no good usually. at the bubble it depending on how the other players play, i guess, usually tighten up and also encourage people to go at each other (and for a 3 places paid go harder at the player with the medium stack as they have the most to lose and tend to get softer)

Tonight, you guys?

i'm in.

Aye

yep

Only 10 mins you guys!

THE VERY FIRST HAND:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/wtf.jpg

And the best thing? I folded J5o, and would have quadrupled up...

And the two of us who got busted wound up finishing 1-2!

Good game, you guys!

Game today?

Suspect not for me - got a friend coming over. I also have a message that WmC won't be able to make it. Have fun if you do play, you guys!

oh oops i just got home and saw this.

can play tonight if on...

yep, i'm in if quorum

Me too.

Guess not, then.

Sorry, you guys! I should have mentioned this morning that I couldn't make it.

PWN CUP missing from the private tourney tab. Did we miss too many weeks and get dropped from the automatic scheduler?

I'm out for at least the next couple of weeks.

ill be in the US as of tonight! can prolly still play though in fact i'll be less hungry and also probably have a better net connection. will check what's up with the pwn cup too don't blame them if they had deleted it though!

greeting from las vegas!

god it has been fun. it's my final day i think it's just about right as i'm exhausted!!

played a couple of tourneys at the caesars palace a lot of fun but no winnings. turned to the student oriented casino "o'shea's" and found the going much easier and chopped between top two for $270.

Today I had the weirdest two hands - first hand, the ace was spade was exposed for one dude. I had QQ and guy immediately before me raised with a short stack (reckoned i stood a good chance with one A gone) and I put him all in, turned out we both had QQ. But sickeningly 4 clubs showed on the showdown and I won, felt a bit ill and think that I had used up all my luck

Very next hand, I was big blind (there's 50 ante and it's 100/200) everyone folded except chip leader small blind who flat called, i had 4 6 and flop was 7 5 10, he raised minimum and i called, turn was 8, he raised again and I went all in, he had 7 5 and I made the low straight, he called and the 7 came on the river.

I had no cause to complain given the immediately previous hand but it is a funny game isn't it? Walked out of Caesar's Palace into the sunshine, think it might be my last game of this trip (down $65 overall due to an ill adviced cash game while i was drunk and waiting in the queue for the cheap steak at Bill's). Reckon if I ever go again I'll have to go with someone else as all the ups and downs is really hard when you're on your own!

final flutter this morning at the oshea again before i left and chopped another at the top for $120, which left me annoyingly $5 down overall in the end. it has been fun though although definitely had enough for the time being now. i will miss the free drinks when i get back to a uk casino (i was knocking back long islands at the caesar's game)