ILX Poker Players Unite

I still need to "wire" you back a deposit (while I still have it.)

burnt through $50 at 6 player $6 SNGs before finally placing. I'm not sure I have the patience for this (where "patience" is a face-saving synonym for "skill").

Got back from the pub pretty loaded last night, accidentally joined a $10 Omaha Hi SNG when I meant to join a Texas Hold 'Em SNG. I have never played Omaha before. I've only gone and won the bloody thing, haven't I. I guess I was completely impossible to read because I didn't know any strategy at all and was drunk, so was pretty much guessing when I had a good hand.

the good thing is i don't think most people who play omaha has much of a clue what's going on so probably helps that you may well have been actually thinking about what you're doing, having not played it much before!!

i think it's time to spend some of those winnings at c3n7ury mark

damn it. got in the money at the vic again - but busted out 6th despite chip leading at one point with 9 players to go. called someone half the stack all in with my KQ vs A3 and nothing hits. and about 10 all ins from other people all went the all-inners way (including one who hits the only one out card on the river)

my chips was dwindling but then i got AK suited on the big blind (i have about 4x left), one dude all in (similar stack) and another big stack calling, i went all in and dude all in was Q 6 and caller had 7 7.. of course the Q comes and nothing else so crashed out. shame.

maybe given the circumstances of being sixth (£75 verses 5th which would be like £150) i should have folded when the other guy called. but i just couldn't resist.

omg and one of the girls from sky poker was there!

So I played poker for the first time (Hold 'Em) against a bunch of dudes, one of whom looked exactly like Tuomas and talked about politics and Rambo the entire time. I lost, but I lasted a while. I want to become killer at it.

Harrington on Hold 'Em, first 2 volumes, are very good in my opinion. Those focus on tournament play, but he has a new 2-vol. set on ring games that I'd like to get. (Buying poker books costs more than playing poker!)

Small Stakes Hold 'Em by Miller/Sklansky/Malmuth is also good, but its focus is limit hold'em, not No-Limit.

I've switched from .05/.10 NL to .25/.50 Limit, with better success. Apparently I just don't have the cast-iron cojones for NL. I'm okay with people who refuse to limp in, but if they're going to raise 10BB if they play at all, they're just freaking me out and they can play amongst themselves.

Been following this year's WSOP here.

hi dere

do you guys still play?

i have had an awful few months of just total losing streak on the online poker places. strangely it all started after I went for a real life tourney again - i was up about $400 on fulltilt and then somehow ended up losing it all.

but i think i'm finding my rhythm again - made $100 back from the beginning (the final $6 left in party poker lol), i think my mistake before was while playing tourneys I got overly obsessed with deceiving people and controlling the table with my bets, and totally overlooked the fundamentals i.e. looking at the value of each bet etc. getting better now and got some discipline back. there are still moments when i'm still a bit like OMG i will call you just to see what you have, but i put those down as payments for learning as i still have lots to learn i think.

I play free poker sites with prizes. I won $10 in a game of 316 players.

Where do you get to play for free prizes?

I rode Mark C's $5 donation on FT for a year before I got drunk one night and blew it all. But in the meantime, I've gathered a lot of FTPs, so I still have some capital.

My live games are doing pretty good. I only won $14 the other night, but I have been taking home between $30 - $70 a night recently.

In the meantime, I found this batshit insane site. I'd be real tempted to call up one of those games in my state, but being here in the Bible Belt, you'd probably later see me on TV telling a reporter "I knew this was a trap..."

Yow, I finally won a tournament! (9-player Limit Hold'em)

i play at turning stone sometimes when i'm at home (ie not at college)
here's a story from my last time playing cash there, a few months ago

blinds are $2-3 (kiddie tables, i know). the button's one seat to the left of me i believe. nothing much going around, but dude two seats to my right makes it $20. dude to my right calls. i look down at QQ. think for about two seconds and make it $60. folds around and they both call. flop comes T-8-3 or some shit, so i've got a huge boner. dude #1 open shoves the rest of his shit for like 95-100 bucks. guy to my left instafolds. i think for a minute, laugh out loud, say "you've got aces, it's obv, but i'm calling anyway". dude shows AA, catches an ace on the turn, and i laugh and go home. not my best hand.
not that much dough to drop i guess but i'm not a regular player up there by any means so it was kind of a downer

that's harsh - it's so hard when those happens, you feel shit either way even if you fold them and they show you the AA.

guys do you fancy another fulltilt game sometime soon (next week?)

Possibly.

OMG I won another one! Limit is definitely my game.

hurrah!

Possibly.

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THREEPEAT

(this is kind of creepy...I'd only ever cashed three times before yesterday, and now I've won three SnGs in a row.)

jesus christ suckout city today

seriously this dude will just call you all in preflop with everything. QQ vs KT, and hits a K

then TT vs A5, two 5s at flop.

that made me angry

i think i need to be more careful as to what hours during the day i play

and adjust my game accordingly (or not play at all to save my sanity)

What hours are better to play than others?

Are you getting the sloppy aggressive players more at night?

it seems at the moment, folks are proper loose (you re-raise them pre-flop with a massive hand they will call you with shit like A 5)

so i guess whatever US time is equiv to around 18:00 GMT!!

on a sunday

i should write a program that measures people's betting pattern according to time of the day/day of the week

Those murrikans really need to be watching their football instead of playing games online.

I'm doing both.

lololol

take sides: fixed-limit vs. no-limit

No limit is to whiskey as fixed-limit is to wine.

Each has its own merit, and each will get you where you want to be if you use them right.

FUUUUCK!!

I just lost $50 on Full Tilt. My bankroll was $185, so I still have quite a bit left, but still. Here's what happened:

5 player cash game at .25/.50 blinds., max buy-in $50. I am 3 left of the dealer & check on pocket 4s. BB raises $1.50 & I call. Flop is A34. BB raises $3 & I call. Turn is a 3, giving me a boat. BB raises $6. I deliberate (for show) & then re-raise $14. BB re-raises again, I go all in & he calls. At this point, I'm scared of AA or 33, the only two hands that could beat me, but I decide to chance against it. I figure him for AK, a 3, a low straight, or, at best, A3. If I had lost to AA or 33, I wouldn't be so pissed, b/c I would chalk it up to not trusting my instincts against a possible nut hand, but dude had A3 & I had him covered. Well guess what: river was another A, giving him the better boat. Fucking goddam luck.

Aaargh! Oh well, at least I blew off some steam just then by typing really, really hard!

heh, last night at a live sitandgo.

it was like the 5th level or something BB was like 400 (2500 starting chips).. 3 limpers i had 8000 on the button and I put in a 2500 raise, all folded except one (he had like about 4000 left) flop J 4 7 or something crappy, he goes all in, instant call, JJ vs QK, running cards 10, 9. fucker.

actually hung on despite crippled for ages and got back to about 3200, when the levels were at 600/1200 one dude raised and same dude went all-in, I called with A 10 as it seemed the best opportunity i'd get. A 10 vs A 4 vs K Q (that dude) and fate would have it that I'd lose out to the same hand to the same guy again

boo hoo.

last hand wasn't so much a bad beat obv. but still

wow

today in one game i lost 5 hands calling the same guy all in pre-flop, him hitting his 3-outer each time (one was split pot).. works for full tilt??

My sympathies...I've been getting a faceful of variance lately. Can't afford to play at the stakes where people play poker instead of high-speed chicken, and getting a lot of ugly beats on the river.

Nothing more hilarious than NL players who accidentally get into FL SnGs and scream "I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS PUSSY GAME YOU PEOPLE WOULDN'T LAST FIVE MINUTES PLAYING NL" until they bust out by level 3.

haha
it is annoying though when you get to the wrong game

ARGH. got to final table in a live game. first hand someone raised crazy amount i folded AJ as dude was fairly tight, and indeed he had AK - someone further down called A9 all in. 9 hit and J would have hit, made the right move but could have tripled through

about 6 hands later someone else raised and i went all in AQ, he reluctantly called with A5 and of course, 5 came and no Q. maybe i need to play crappier poker sometimes..

anyone free in london this friday and up for a game? might try and organise one

Wish I could.

Anyone else following the WSOP? Main event whittles down today from 27 to the November 9.

i haven't followed but will!

I keep a browser tab open here throughout the day.

ken! been meaning to ask if i could join you for a game for ages. def in.

this still likely/possible?