ILX Poker Players Unite

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2016/01/antonio-esfandiari-to-donate-50000-to-charity-23798.htm

^^this is my favorite poker story in forever

lol wtf nguyen doin

man that was a sick hand

after running so good this whole week i got coolered out of this satellite tourney this afternoon. UTG+2 opens, i 3 bet to a good size in hijack with KK, button flats, opener flats. flop comes AK9 rainbow, opener checks, i decide to slow play my set and check, button checks. turn bricks, original opener leads out, i shove, button calls with AA. guy rivers quads just for good measure. maybe 3-handed i should have bet flop to charge straight draws and get value from an ace, but no matter what i did i was losing most of my stack anyway

honestly it was a pretty bad flat by button, you should pretty much always 4 bet aces when there's 2 other players in the pot imo

hi folks,
started playing a few online "home games" with friends on pokerstar on sunday nights (20:30 UTC). Currently get around 5-6 players would be fun to have a couple more! Buy in between $5 and $10

let me know if you're interested in joining in.

http://www.youtube.com/dougpolkpoker/live

my favorite poker player dude is livestreaming a 5k final table, and has a lottery going for 5% of his profit

also he's getting pretty drunk lol

yeah Doug Polk is pretty great, one of the few who's legit fun to watch

any US people still playing? I'm going strong on Ignition, for the time being

The only thing I know about poker that is worth knowing is the old truism, that if you don't know who is the easy mark at the table, it's you.

one thing I've started to gravitate towards is the idea that the four pillars of poker are Position, Hand Strength, Aggression, and Pot Odds, and you need at least two of them to make any hand worth playing

starting to get into PLO a lot more...doing well though I am sure I have no idea what I'm doing. that said I don't think anyone else does either.

PLO is so much fun but so easy to be bad at

polk won that tournament last night btw, 271k

wow good on him. definitely one of the most likeable of the newer crop of internet players.

what's really struck me about PLO is just how much different it is than regular NLHE. its such a post-flop game, you really can't ever be more than a 60% favorite before the flop and you can't win big pots if you whiff on it. thus far my "edge" is just noticing which players are unwilling to bet anything but the nuts and which ones get too gung ho about their low straights and flushes. not to mention sticking to the basic principles of aggression and position which people seem to forget in favor of a "limp every hand" strategy.

doug polk and daniel negreanu seated next to each other at the feature table of the 111k WSOP one drop. doug is wearing a "more rake is better" t shirt

is that online somewhere?

that is one of the best things i've ever heard

clay a bunch of the WSOP events are being live streamed on the pokergo app and pokergo.com. it's 10 bucks a month or 99 for a year. the main event will be free

oh thx, i don't keep up like i used to but nice to dive into a tourney on a cloudy saturday

both doug polk and haralabob make the final table of the 111k one drop

doug won and bob got 4th!

aw man the coverage last year on the wsop site was so good
looks like tuchman only doing a lil bit of the coverage on pokergo
think i'm going to leave it, might be tempted with the 10k HORSE final table

seems like a nice wsop so far tho, good to see kurganov win his first bracelet (with liv boeree too + half prize money going to charities)

10k omaha 8 final 17 look like a good bunch
cheering for ray d. obvs

its been a good couple of months for Doug Polk huh

don't really follow players online what's gone down?
i'm trying to catch up on scoop via twitch streams so am v v much behind!

oh sweet there's an 8 hour vid of his final table :)

anyone still playing online? what games/stakes are people on ?

Nah, Black Friday took all the wind out of my sails.

play every now and again on pokerstars
just $4ish tourneys - whatever game is going
play live a few times a week which is enough for me really

I'm still going on Ignition. I kinda like anon poker since it means I don't have to dick around with HUDs and I don't have a whole lot of time to study opponent tendencies and w/e. So its nice to just not have to do it. Plus the playerbase seems pretty soft. Downside is the software is absolutely atrocious.

ha I think we're very different players, don't use any software and just go on betting patterns online, hold em is hard for it - think my only two big tournament wins this past year have been in horse and badugi

honestly I hated having to deal with a HUD and a database. must've been how baseball players must've felt in the 90's - it just seemed like cheating to me, but I knew I was leaving a lot of money on the table if I didn't get one. it definitely helped my game a lot, to the point where I wished I had gotten one years ago. but I would much prefer the world where no one gets to use it.

those HORSE tournaments are the thing I miss most about Stars. Ignition offers PLO and PLO8 but that's it. and there are not a whole lot of players there. if Stars came back I'd probably stay the hell away from Hold Em, the players there are just way too good these days

negreanu mosseri heads up in 10k plo8!

riding a pretty sick heater right now. i moved up to 2/5 a month and a half ago and am +922 BB in 79 hours since then

very nice

well done, that's a solid chunk

this month has been swingy as hell for me, I've had two crazy heaters followed by two crushing downswings. probably gonna finish short of my goal but hey, any month in the plus column is a good month right?

relatively sure that doug polk has developed a cocaine habit

well he did say he was going 100 days without drinking, and despite being relatively well-adjusted that's gotta be pretty difficult in that world

he's lost over 20 pounds in a couple of weeks and his videos are becoming more and more unhinged

oh dear
i think the last one i saw was him ripping alex torelli

worth mentioning that he's big on the cryptocurrency thing (which is why I muted him on Twitter) and things have been going absolutely nutso there. bad time to quit drinking imo

his beefs have annoyed me for a while but there is a definite change in his mood and editing quality lately, it's concerning!

they interviewed that guy miles' mom and she basically compared cheering for him as he played poker to supporting a drug habit or something

commentary is lol norman chad is ranting about how he can name all the times aces has lost in the final hand in the main event, antonio is like 80% solid analysis 20% borderline soul-crushing digs at norman, lon I haven't quite figured out how to nail down even after all these years as anything other than just a solid dad, like if mitt romney smoked weed or something

been watching for the last hour or so. pretty boring hands thus far. who should i be pulling for here?

right on cue big hand by miles there

if I could add up the number of hours of my life I’ve spent listening to norm and lon I’d prob spiral into a really serious depression

Never add up the time you spend on anything, none of it sounds good in that light

only time worth adding up is time spent on ILH

every moment a gem