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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.

Last day in Vegas, finally played some cards. 2+2 message boards recommended the daily tourney @ Sahara -- good structure, soft. $45 + optional $20 rebuy. I think there were 19 or 20 @ the 11 am this morning? We played down to five and chopped. I can def. recommend. Just wait for a hand and get paid. After tipping tourney dealers I'm up $115 -- might play the 7 pm. W00t!

you should also try the tourneys at o'shea if you fancy some easy money.. usually just a single table full of tourists/students.

oh this may be too late.

I played the 7pm that night...made some loose/stupid calls, busted about 2 hrs in. But I was near the chip lead when the rebuy deadline came, so I passed on that and the tourney only cost $45. So I made $70 on that trip.

A++, will play more live poker.

whooohoo, after a flat October (up only 24 cents for the month), I won a 90-player SnG tonight. Love seeing those spikes on the bankroll chart.

430% ROI so far this month

beats the Lipper Average iirc

Having good success in 90-player tourneys, but once we reach heads-up, I'm terrible. Winning 14 buy-ins is great, but winning 22 would be greater. Advice on HU play? Would studying HU SnG strategy be the way to go, or is there a different strategy for the HU portion of a larger MTT?

it would be although depending on what your leak(s) is you might be able to just do some work on your effective ranges vs. standard opponent types in sng wizard & u can avoid playing boring hu sngs.

even if you think youre playing loose you probably just are pushing wide enough fwiw ime

*are NOT

even if you think youre playing loose you probably just are [not] pushing wide enough fwiw ime

I'm sure this is the situation. I need to find a Mac equivalent of SnG Wiz.

Push/fold HU.

Running so bad lately...the club comes, gives me the ace-high flush...and gives the villain a straight flush. FUCK! A monthlong cooler has got me playing scared and defensive. Hate this game so much right now!

Anyone know any Online Poker sites that aren't rigged to give action hands like flushes, straights and full houses.

Please help me find one. I just want to play free games against other online users while using a fair deck.

Do ppl really have hard and heavy conversations during the poker meetup, or is it something they have people do during intense conversations during TV and movies so everyone has something to do with their hands/reason to be together & getting real?

In most IRL games I've played in, you could've heard a pin drop 95% of the time.

No one really ever gets confrontational. Someone will pull some weird move and the guy on the spot will lean back and put his arms around his head.

And you're a dick if you even try wearing sunglasses.