ILX Poker Players Unite

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)

I am travelling this weekend, but if I'm near an internet I'm in, so keep this thread updated with any news please!

ok any more offers? I'll email fulltilt for this sunday if you guys are in.. kind of should try and get more than 4 players though!!!

actually fuck it i'll set it up

a small slim chance i'll be around on sun night.

i'm going to set this to freezeout so no rebuys

but would anyone fancy a deepstack?

Read that as deepsack and lolled.

After which I read everything else. I'd definitely be interested if I'm in, which I reckon I will be this Sunday.

lolol

okay i've emailed them will keep y'all posted.

what is a deepstack? sure, why not.

deepstack = more chips (but probably will have to pay more rake - i only asked for a regular one this time!

NEWSFLASH and it's done!!!!
ILX POKER TOURNAMENT #7 (?) Sunday 1st Nov 2009 4pm ET/9pm GMT

WSOP final table happening today, btw.

Live coverage if you don't want to wait for ESPN Tuesday - http://www.bluffmagazine.com/live/

Still going on, about 17 hours now. There were 7 players left when I went to bed, down to 4 when I got up about an hour ago. There are 3 now, and there have been a couple of ZOMG YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME hands just in the last half hour.

Are we playing tonight, you guys?

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.

This is from a few minutes ago.

Queen Mary: im not on tilt just cant stand playing with desperate little boys
Queen Mary: will say you at least had something when you bet but the check raise was not called for
Queen Mary: i played fair the whole game didnt resort to the check raise to win a hand
iLikeBeersss: fair?
iLikeBeersss: wtf are you talking about?
Queen Mary: you wouldnt know what that is i like beerasss
iLikeBeersss: there is no fair
Queen Mary: i noticed that
iLikeBeersss: your dumb
Queen Mary: why because im not desperate like you ok
iLikeBeersss: your dumb
iLikeBeersss: this is a dollar buy in
Queen Mary: ha ha ok
Queen Mary: here dont cry you can have it little boy
iLikeBeersss: there are not rules playing poker
iLikeBeersss: it's a mind game
Queen Mary: i would agree but you dont have a mind
iLikeBeersss: lol

I don't know whether I want this woman driven out of Stars for life because she's such a bitch, or if I want her to hang around because she's so easy to read. I think I got a pretty good read on her the other day when I told her she was a crazy trailer park lady with nothing in her life but a bottle of vodka, 52 cats and a bunch of Poker Stars opponents to abuse. She shut up and busted out of that tournament pretty quickly.

Is there a tourney tomorrow night, you guys?

i might show up, but may not make it. work due monday 9am.

I may skip this week. I've been running really bad the last few days and I need a break.

Will be watching some guys with guitars mostly playing a single E chord. So no.

I'll be building a turtle habitat tomorrow, doods, but I can play next week.

No wucks. Maybe next weekend.

finally, my 1st straight flush yesterday (after 39,444 hands)

are we playing tonight?

i'm in if we have enough

i would play tonight if tis possible?

Yeah, I'll play today.

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

http://pokertube.com/free-poker-videos?movie=12561

Interesting -- I really don't like FT's SnG structure, but the numbers don't lie -- my ROI and % In the Money are a LOT higher there than at PStars.

Yeah but on FT you're at least partly playing against the ILX ><)))'> posse.

totally in -ve ROI territory :((

urgh. I'm on "tilt form" apparently: 4-7 straight losses, I'm told :\

Anybody played Rush Poker on FT? I never lost two buy-ins so fast.

i donked around 50nl and won a little playing lol nit and calling weird flop overshoves (saw like a dozen of these ~1 hour of play)

generally h8 both ft and nlhe but it seems like a good way of shaking up lowstakes from dudes 24-tabling and set-mining

this is kind of fun but scary but yeah guess this suits you if you're a rock? (or a bot lol)

im not sure how much more profitable this is for bots - i mean sure ure playing cards + position but most of the value is postflop - its not that abc isnt going to make u money but itll miss most of the value from ppl flatting 3bets pre and then valuetowning two pair

having put in another hour+ 4-tabling this is crazy fishy - dont know how long itll last but if u can stand the swings its p amazing - theyre adding plo8 apparently lol

Hmmm.

So maybe I am a NL player now, based on the last few days. (Yeah, small sample size.)

heyyy! OUR DAVER is down to the last 3 tables in tonight's daily dollar on ftp! gogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogogo

false alarm, 14/10,420 - but still, congrats!!

So recently taught myself, started playing a bit on games.com and seem to be pretty consistently dominating the rooms I play - can I assume anything about my poker ability from this? I mean I assume I should take no real stakes free rooms with a grain of salt but just wondering.

It's hard to gauge a skill level in play-money games against anyone except the people who play play-money games, which is a small subset of the whole. They're fun for getting a feel for the game, learning how to deal with tilt when some eeedjit playing 83o cracks your KK, learning how "flush draw = 4.1:1 underdog" actually applies in a live situatiion, etc

Time for you to sign up at Full Tilt and join us at the next ILX PWN CUP! (I don't know when that will be tbh.)

been on dire straits on fulltilt lately. may as well change my name to mr bubble.