ILX Poker Players Unite

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (1562 of them)

I remember reading an interview with Daniel Negreanu where he said the reason he turned pro was because he woke up the day after his 21st birthday and realised he drunkenly gambled away all the money he'd won the past two years playing as an amateur.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i figured i was all good after i had taken home a good chunk of change from my weekly home game at my friends house earlier. well as the night wore on and the more drunk i got the worse i was. i was calling Phil- Ken on AIM and making a drunken buffoon of myself. Of course like I've said a million times...i think online games are fixed.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend says that too - i don't see too much evidence of that. but i'm guessing there are people who join the same tournament table together and collaborate (i don't know how good pokerroom are at spotting those).

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

it just amazes me that the same person always hit the river card to win every time. its complete bullshit. im thinking of writing a complaint to pokerroom.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

When you win it's skill; when you lose, they're fixed ;-)

(NB: you could well be right for all I know)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yep!

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It barely seems worth bothering any more, but PLEASE can we get 5 or six of us together tonight and start a private table, or at least all hook up for the same tourney or something? 2200 GMT? Anyone?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

im off of it for a while....or at least until i get paid.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to apologize for my previous bouts w/ flakiness. Mark, I can be on around 2300 GMT - please to post the name of the table to this thread, and I'll be there.

FYI - there's a POKAH! area on the site where one can set up a "personal" page & possibly list folks one plays w/.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, make it three, I'm in.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

im on aim and i'f im feeling lucky i'll play. chrisv1918 6pm?

― chrisv1918, Monday, 7 March 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

So we're going for 2300 GMT/1800 EST/1700 midwest time or whatever it's called? I'd most like to be part of a one-table tourney, if we can wangle it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

im dumb i don't know fancy times. i know est.

― fuckie fuckie river card, Monday, 7 March 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

aim me.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I only aim marriage, Ken.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

2300 GMT = 11:00 PM GMT = 6:00 PM EST

Right?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

= 5pm Republican time, 4pm Cowboy time, 3pm Hippy time.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

All time is Republican Time in Jesusville!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(bump)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

More dudes needed! Check Markelby on AIM or post here - we're setting up a private table.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, count me in

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm logging in right now! Tell me where!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Markelby da Sharkelby!

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha - db, before you joined I was down $40 at one point - didn't get back to breakeven, though only $8 short in the end. Good game chaps! Six of us, whoot!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i hate poker.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm happy to know I'm not the only one that cusses & swears when they lose hands and/or get jobbed.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i played foolishly, i could have cared less...thats my problem. i get bored easily and start to play like a shithead.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG - I was just in a tourney, went all in w/ pocket Js and a 9-7-3 on the flop. The two big money baggers called me (both not on the blind), & the bigger one got the other one to fold, and he flips over a 7-3? That is 13 types of godforsaken @&!#$!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i took a lot of mark's money but then mark replentished a lot of the money from others.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I can already tell this is something I'd like to do again, but keep as a limited thing. I'm going to stick to ilxor buddies as fellow players as my limitation.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Awww, my best showing ever just happened - 26th in a 277-person tourney. Just 6 spots away from finishing in the moolah. My 2 Ks were submarined by pocket 3s and a 3 on the flop. Alas.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It just occurred to me when telling my mate about last night's session that we might as well have been out of the fucking Sopranos - with the exception of Mr Chu and Mr Debonair, we all had Eye-talian surnames (I am assuming that David R is of Italian origin)!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

don't understate my Greek/Canadian mafia rootz!

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

What on earth are you doing up?

That was some pretty attritional two-man poker last night, db :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahah! attritional to my deposit, yes. (I'm about to head to bed.. it's, ur, "only" 2:45am)

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Woo, I've found my driving license and registered! So now, even if we're not playing for real money, I should still be able to see you all? Right?

(so, is anyone up for a game tonight?)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah man, earlier on, 300 player $5 tournament on Ladbrookes, top 30 pay, top prize $450, I was chip leader for ten minutes! And then I lost it all off of two bad hands and finished 40th. And to add insult to injury, I lost to a four of a kind Kings (had AJ suited).

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'm "caitlinpigtails" on AIM, if anyone wants to get in touch)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi dudes - I'm playing a real money tourney on my day off :) Haven't had much luck lately - play tourneys are easy as all you need is patience - although I was called a pussy who shouldn't be allowed to play throught my last game! (I came 2nd, seems reasonable to me). Still only finished in the money in one real-money tourney, so I've still got a lot to learn.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i can teach you but i'd have to charge

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s. who's up for another game soon? i quite fancy a tournament game with all of us in it. but whatever's cool.

late tonight is good, or tomorrow night all night.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

God I fell apart at the end there. Just made mistake after mistake, then tried to bluff a win on a piar of 6s and got righteously fucked. This is happening too often - I think I am frightened of the blinds increasing to scary amounts.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

So I played a bit Friday night in the $2-$5nl room. Mostly losing blinds with garbage for a while. Some fuckwad went all in every hand before the flop everytime! Finally I got dealt pocket bitches....i call his all in. I hit 4 of a kind. His $75 was mine. FUCKO. I may play a bit this afternoon after my dr's appt if your still online mark. maybe we can hop in a tourney...i'll aim you.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris, I've just come 5th and 9th in two tourneys and I think I'd be too soft a target today. Fuck.

(but AIM me anyway - as I'm not at work I'm not at my PC all the time)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 March 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I finished 9th in a $5 tourney this weekend (out of 300+ entrants)! I was chip leader for a good 45 minutes (out of 3+ hours of play)! I got hosed by pocket Jacks!

I've been cleaning up on the $.25-.50 tables, even as they've been cleaning me up - started w/ $30 yesterday, went down to $6, then ended up w/ $46. And I also played in some tourneys, too, where I was teh suck.

I'd love to take the big-chip cockfarmer playing 4-2 offsuit non-blinded and pop him in the mouth with a shotgun. You should NOT get 3 4s from that crap. Nor should you play 5-7 offsuit and get a straight on the river! (Sez the guy that was riding the river like a white water rafter last night.) (I also won w/ pocket 9s against 2 all-in guys w/ A-J off-suit.)

Yeah, I'm part Italian. Can you tell? :)

Worst suck-out ever - going all in w/ pocket Queens & no face cards on the flop against A-Q, and getting beat by a STRAIGHT. Almost as bad as the time I had two pair, and was housed by a flopped / turned / river'd 4-card FLUSH.

I've been playing every day, & I might need a break just to appreciate my recent good fortune (& get something done away from the PC). However, I'll probably be on, as I am weak, and need to pay off my vig, so lemme know what the plan is (on thread, preferably).

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigh. Why am I so bad? I might be up for playing tonight, though I really don't want to lose my whole $50 which looks totally likely.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi dere!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and Ken did a tourney together last night - I came 2nd, which slightly resurrected a terribly disappointing poker-playing day. I always fail horribly at the last - I invariably have like $13,000 to their $2,000, but in three hands they completely turn me over.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I was playing real-money tables last night, & was up $27, but ended up down $10 overall (due to playing 2 $5 single-table tourneys where I got jobbed) (some fuctard going all-in against me - I had pocket Qs, he had pocket 9s - lucked out w/ a 9 on the flop, & then said "later beeotch" as I was leaving the table) (stupid program closed the window before I could reply w/ "eat my fuc").

Also, really, you big-stacked bastards lucking into hands because you play EVERY SINGLE HAND even if you have 7-2 offsuit - blow a Bunsen burner three times. (I say that because I am teh jealous, of course.) Also, if I run into any other reckless dorks that raise $5 on crap flops when my hand is crap enough to make me wary of playing said hand, they will also be invited to suck on some natural gas.

It's not like I want the poker gods to continually bless me w/ last-minute saves & pocket As every hand - just don't switch from blessings to pissings at will every 3 days. I can only withstand so much whiplash.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

ah the joys of online poker. i started reading doyle brunsons "super/system 2" last night. FEAR ME NOW.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 1462 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.