ILX Poker Players Unite

Just booked my ticket!

kekekeke our site just left beta. i am freaking the eff out.

ok seriously fuck. this is getting ridiculous. i went again and won again (split money 1st and 2nd). This is the 5th time i played real life poker and the 5th time in profit, and whenever i am tempted to think "wow, fuck you must be fucking talented at this" i look back and remember how progressively i get flukier and flukier, like kasper schmeichel's clean sheet record.

I, on the other hand, lost £100 playing a £0.50/£1 no limit cash game and didn't even get to the casino in time to buy into the tournament Ken won above. I might not be a better player than Ken, but I'm not £3,000 worse in 5 evenings!

Ken, that 3rd place at the last Century do is really spoiling your otherwise flawless run of victories.

I know - although two of the "victories" were splitting the money between the top 2/3 places (i was 'technically second' last night because when we decided to split they dealt a free hand to each of us to determine the "winner" so i didn't get my picture taken :( even though i was leading in chips a little!)

I'm really glad to have been to this casino warm-up trip, God, it took some getting used to - there were so many more joyless and angry people compared to c3n7ury. I wonder if it's what all casino games are like.

The cash game was okay - not friendly as such, but the occasional banterful comment and no-one got angry or rude.

also: mark you were unlucky last night to not win though (got sucked out of a big hand?)

Well, my last pot of about £150 I was about 70/30 to win or something, but not hugely unlucky, not like the poor guy to my right earlier. He had A3, opponent had AJ, and he re-raised all in on a A3x flop. Turn 3...... river A, the one card that prevented him taking it all down.

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I haven't been tot he casino since back in the day when i had.... money. But did play eight hours of poker for pints on Sunday. Won five out of the first six games and therefore have very little recollection of what happened after that. Job-----> Money---------> Poker -------> More/Less Money

HI DERE
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can't believe mark c hasn't reported back yet

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U gonna get etc etc etc

Oops, sorry Ken!

As you can see, Ken and I met Doyle Brunson, his son and fellow pro Todd, and the delightful Hoyt Corkins at our regular rebuy do on Monday. Neither of us cashed this time (ken's FIRST time outside the top 3 since I've been playing with him), though I did win a bounty of £70 for busting Mr Corkins which completely made my night (as did his graciousness after busting out).

To complete the set, here's Todd, left, and Hoyt, right:

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Update time - how's everyone doing? Any notable events? I am back playing ring this month (only $50NL 6max for the most part, though I appear to pwn pot limit so I might try a bit more of that) and am up about 3 buyins.

A mate of mine won $70k on Party's bad beat jackpot thing - his king high straight flush beat his opponent's jack high straight flush. His opponent probably wasn't too unhappy, though, as he took home $140,000.

Anyway, most importantly - KEN! How did Vegas go? Tell us yr gambling exploits!

Ke-e-en?

Ken I know you're around today...

(I lost $123 last night. Meh)

dude i'm writing a whole epic journal about this but it takes time.

it was TREMENDOUS FUN that's all i will tell you just now

You never linked it here, Ken!

Just a stab in the dark - any ILXors around right now who want to play a fun game, probably just a $5 heads up tourney or something? I'm likely to be chillin for the next couple of hours, so hit me up gmail style (b0y1nc0rdur0y at the yahoo com designation, numbers changed to letters) if you're interested.

i've been back on partypoker after taking about a month off pokering

i think it's done me good - feel much more composed. i have been winning several SNGS now, was in the money more than i was out of it, and those that i was out i've bubbled each time (something i need to work on i think - i still don't have enough patient to slug it out when it gets to the final 4/3 players). and actually feel like i'm enjoying it again.

Just had an 11-buyin downswing - made $40 last night but I'm waiting until I've had a few more winning sessions before I can say the downswing's over. Here's the graph:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/Octo07.jpg

i had an account on pokerroom from many years ago. i put like $100 in it, grinded up to $300, then got brash and fell to ~$150. i haven't played in 2 years or so, but left the money there in case i ever wanted to play again. i tried to pull the money out last night, but because of the new legal climate US people can't bet real money there anymore, and the only way to make a withdrawal is to use click2pay, a new gambling PayPal clone which doesn't accept US customers.

so how do i yank the money out? any suggestions?

They appear to be rejigging their check options so I'd be surprised if once that's all sorted you couldn't get the cash out via a check.

pocket AA, flop 6 K 8, 2 players, i raise small, got reraise, i reraise again, they go all in, i call. dude had KJ. rubbing my hands for payout, then J came on the river.

bastards.

then i got out to the same player later with ANOTEHR JACK ON THE RIVER.

i drew a little >|||'> picture to that guy

you missed the <

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You guys,
- I suck
- I don't want to suck so bad
- Super System 2 seems unreadable to me
- waht to do?

Start with Harrington?

Losing a $35 pot in a .05/.10 game to a bad beat on the river (she had ONE out and made it), and still coming out $5 ahead for the night, is a very funny feeling.

Anyway,
- I don't suck quite as bad as I did six weeks ago.
- Harrington is THEE BOMB.

I have barely played any ring lately after my desperate first half to the month. I have been pwning tournies, though:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/last20sngs.jpg

nice! what do those W C and H on the left stand for?

No idea - it's the "source" column but I can't find out what the different sources actually mean.

Obviously last night I spoiled it by finishing OOTM in the 2 SNGs I played, but they're not yet tracked by the site (which, if you play SNGs on Stars and want to look at your own, can be found at the Startacker website.

had a pretty good game finally. came 2nd out of a 9 table and should have won it if not for 4 badbeats in a row!

heh i folded, but look!
http://lolrider.com/lol/QK.jpg

fucking bad beat.. got called this on the flop
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OMG finally i am back to +ROI on fulltilt!!!!!! crawled from $400 down over the course of last 2 weeks :D :D :D

Dear Full Tilt::

Blow me.

xoxoxoxoxoxo

Dear internet poker in all its glory:

Blow me first.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

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woah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrews gutted there with the king high straight flush, poor dude!

and it's not even a cash game so he doesn't get his bad beat bonus

actually no idea if fulltilt do those

I think they do, but only in specified games.

That was a $6 sng, heads-up. Maybe my one and only royal flush, and I was able to snag SIX DOLLARS with it.

I'm feeling particularly flush (ba dum chhhhhh) at the moment, not to mention sorely out of practise; any chance of another ilx game?

would love one although don't think i can do it this weekend. next sunday? (or heaven forbid - a weekday!??!?!?!)

I ventured out of my usual SNGs and went to a cash game.

I got severely butthurt.

I can usually at least break even in a cash game, but can't hack it in SnG/tourney play where people are all aggro and trying to chip up in the early going. Patience is not rewarded (usually), and aggressive play is like throwing percentile dice. Not so much fun.

See, I love the SNGs where three idiots will go all-in within the first two hands. Then you can usually take your time after that.

Granted, the blinds can eat you up, but it's amazing how often you can fake out a table with a K 2.