ILX Poker Players Unite

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?

i would be up for another full tilt tournament at some point btw

hey n1ck - argh i just called it off as many people are away and i could only get 4 in (would have been 5 with you)

BUT there's been lots of interest so I'm going to do one in early august i think! i have your email don't i i'll let keep in touch there!

yes to a full tilt tourney

Would be up for full tilt tourney. Especially if i could hold of this AI which predicts bets to three decimal places:

http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/07/ai_predicts_poker_be.html

had a game with friends last night, and it was one of those nights where one guy keeps getting cards. to an almost ludicrous degree. even hands he thought he'd lost he ended up winning. i've had those nights too, and it's always a weird feeling -- you feel chosen by god or something. but being on the losing end of it can be frustrating. the temptation is just to fold against him on every hand, but that seems superstitious, so instead you play your cards and ... lose. anyway, he's a nice guy so it was hard to begrudge. as long as he comes back and loses next time...

ha that's happened to me the time when i ended up playing poker with steve a1b1n1 at ATP this year.. first night there was one guy who just kept getting boats or hitting a lucky second pair on the river and ended up like £140 up. but next day went back i played sensible poker and fleeced a many a few (it helped that loads of groupies aka poker n00bs found out about this and joined in).

if i try to set up another fulltilt game would you guys be interested??

Possibly... though if there's one thing I've learned in the last year, it's that my game is Limit, not NL.

There's a hilarious crazy woman who haunts the microstakes SnGs I play at Stars -- she has this idea that any preflop aggression is cheating, and god forbid you should check-raise her. That REALLY sends her into orbit. But she's easy pickings because she's apparently unable to bluff.

also, my poker must have got progressively worse since 2 years ago (those two months of 3 money positions in a row). as i don't seem to do so well in tourneys anymore, it could well be because i never went back to that place where i won twice (where everybody were loaded and so were chucking money about going all in every hand and then rebuy)

i had never lost at the tournament at the vic either though, so maybe i should head back there to have a go again sometime.

xpost that is awesome! you should get her to play headsup with you!

are you around this sunday WmC? I might set one up 4pm ET/9pm GMT, like old times? (just a $5 flutter?)

Possibly!

If anyone knows of a realtime odds calculator for Mac OS that can't be detected by the FT/PS software, I'd love to know about it.

I could be in too, Ken (email me bro)