ILX Poker Players Unite

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 <

><)))'>

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
http://www.lolrider.com/lol/fish.jpg

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

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1662/royalku9.jpg

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.

yeah i always think patience rewards you way more in SNG.. cos you don't necessarily have to be the one who knocks people out to win - survival is more the game than necessarily to build up an early chip lead (you can't cash out like you can in a cash game), it's when the blinds go up in the end-game that agressive play rewards you.

I have no idea why I do so well when I play @ casinos, yet turn into a sack of mush when I play online tourneys. After a really bad losing streak, I was holding my own of late for a while playing $5 / $10 SNGs (tho I got submarined plenty of times), but had a bad run and then decided to play a $50 regular tourney because OF COURSE donks and tools play low buy-in tourneys, and got bounced within 30 minutes. (I only play 1 or 2 days a week, if that, so that doesn't help my stats, tho it sure helps my stress level.)

And I really need to stop mouthing / typing off when I get beat by someone because they're either a fish or a big stack that could afford to chase a sketchy hand.

Honestly, I'm gonna blame the retarded internet gambling ban thing -- I was doing just fine @ PokerRoom before they decided to lock out all US players. Now I'm FullTilt's and PokerStars' bitch. Because obviously the problem's not me. :\

x-post definitely. although turbo S+Gs are bitches because there just isn't time to be patient before the blinds eat you up. don't really suit really tight players I guess.

and Ken i'd be happy to play a midweek game but I guess doesn't work for Mericans who will be at work when we want to play.

oh that is true.

I have a 20% ROI at the Stars $13 and $16 turbo SNGs - and patience definitely IS the way, even when the blinds go up quickly.

Today I cashed out from and uninstalled two of the Crypto skins - was pleasantly surprised to discover $3,800* sitting in them!

*a good proportion of this - say half - is from money deposited for bonuses, rather than winnings, though.

I still need to "wire" you back a deposit (while I still have it.)

burnt through $50 at 6 player $6 SNGs before finally placing. I'm not sure I have the patience for this (where "patience" is a face-saving synonym for "skill").

Got back from the pub pretty loaded last night, accidentally joined a $10 Omaha Hi SNG when I meant to join a Texas Hold 'Em SNG. I have never played Omaha before. I've only gone and won the bloody thing, haven't I. I guess I was completely impossible to read because I didn't know any strategy at all and was drunk, so was pretty much guessing when I had a good hand.

the good thing is i don't think most people who play omaha has much of a clue what's going on so probably helps that you may well have been actually thinking about what you're doing, having not played it much before!!

i think it's time to spend some of those winnings at c3n7ury mark

damn it. got in the money at the vic again - but busted out 6th despite chip leading at one point with 9 players to go. called someone half the stack all in with my KQ vs A3 and nothing hits. and about 10 all ins from other people all went the all-inners way (including one who hits the only one out card on the river)

my chips was dwindling but then i got AK suited on the big blind (i have about 4x left), one dude all in (similar stack) and another big stack calling, i went all in and dude all in was Q 6 and caller had 7 7.. of course the Q comes and nothing else so crashed out. shame.

maybe given the circumstances of being sixth (£75 verses 5th which would be like £150) i should have folded when the other guy called. but i just couldn't resist.

omg and one of the girls from sky poker was there!

So I played poker for the first time (Hold 'Em) against a bunch of dudes, one of whom looked exactly like Tuomas and talked about politics and Rambo the entire time. I lost, but I lasted a while. I want to become killer at it.

Harrington on Hold 'Em, first 2 volumes, are very good in my opinion. Those focus on tournament play, but he has a new 2-vol. set on ring games that I'd like to get. (Buying poker books costs more than playing poker!)

Small Stakes Hold 'Em by Miller/Sklansky/Malmuth is also good, but its focus is limit hold'em, not No-Limit.

I've switched from .05/.10 NL to .25/.50 Limit, with better success. Apparently I just don't have the cast-iron cojones for NL. I'm okay with people who refuse to limp in, but if they're going to raise 10BB if they play at all, they're just freaking me out and they can play amongst themselves.

Been following this year's WSOP here.

hi dere

do you guys still play?

i have had an awful few months of just total losing streak on the online poker places. strangely it all started after I went for a real life tourney again - i was up about $400 on fulltilt and then somehow ended up losing it all.

but i think i'm finding my rhythm again - made $100 back from the beginning (the final $6 left in party poker lol), i think my mistake before was while playing tourneys I got overly obsessed with deceiving people and controlling the table with my bets, and totally overlooked the fundamentals i.e. looking at the value of each bet etc. getting better now and got some discipline back. there are still moments when i'm still a bit like OMG i will call you just to see what you have, but i put those down as payments for learning as i still have lots to learn i think.

I play free poker sites with prizes. I won $10 in a game of 316 players.

Where do you get to play for free prizes?

I rode Mark C's $5 donation on FT for a year before I got drunk one night and blew it all. But in the meantime, I've gathered a lot of FTPs, so I still have some capital.

My live games are doing pretty good. I only won $14 the other night, but I have been taking home between $30 - $70 a night recently.

In the meantime, I found this batshit insane site. I'd be real tempted to call up one of those games in my state, but being here in the Bible Belt, you'd probably later see me on TV telling a reporter "I knew this was a trap..."