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played in a single table $10 tourney today, came in first. won $50

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice one Chris. You around?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah well. Another constructive night's play. Came 4th in my first pretend tourney, then won my second after a titanic battle (with blinds up to $1,500) with a cool bloke who played honestly and cautiously and complimented my game. Made a nice difference compared to last night.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 3 March 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i've found that when i play tourneys i will have Kenny Rogers "The Gambler" going in the background.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

it's really useful!! Sometimes I forget and I would start counting my money, while still sitting at the table.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

what's really useful, Ken? "The Gambler"?

Next time I play (prob tonight) I am going to have Tep's 1991 mix playing in the background.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i just end up with 'the gambler' in my head when i'm playing a lot of poker, regardless. and i think of when kenny rogers was on the muppets, riding on that train and playing poker with rolf if i remember right.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"The Gambler" is legitimately one of my twenty favourite singles of all time. The pathos of "Somewhere in the darkness, the gambler, he broke even" is too much to bare sometimes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i like the Tetris connotations of "If you want to play the Game, boy, you gotta learn to play it right"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

markelby which room are you in?

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 3 March 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Chris - sorry, haven't been on this thread. Just watched the most amusing thing - three people away at our play tournament, so they stayed in till nearly the end. Julia happened to be one of them, and she won AT LEAST 6 hands without being there! Julia, you came 2nd :) The best moment, though, was when one of the away guys (away since the very beginning, this is), was forced all-in and was dealt FOUR ACES.

A game of skill, you say? Ha!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

four aces? that's insane. sorry about having to leave so abruptly. i was even doing well before i left, which is unusual for me...though maybe i play better when i'm not there!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay - my first real-money (one-table) tournament success - 2nd place and $15! I should have won, though - I was about $10,000 up on the last remaining guy, but he played phenomenally and I made like 1 mistake and the tables were turned.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone up for a game tonight? i need to win some money, pokerroom.com's blackjack room sucked me dry in two hands.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

When? I could do w/ s'more losing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

if i'm in (the house), i'm in (as in up for the game)

although might be out later on. will check this thread though.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

6 or so or later whatever.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe, but doubtful - I'm hoping Sgs will have finished her studies for the night so I can spend some quality time with her.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Dudes? Anyone around? I fancy a torunament/game of some description. Does everyone have AIM? I'm Markelby on that too.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

crap markelby im on my third tourney. 8th and 4th.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I play without registering or paying money or anything (I have totally skimmed this thread)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm in a play game playing like an absolute arsehole. Haven't I learnt *anything*?

Ailsa, you can play pretend poker, yes. www.pokerroom.com - it's pretty straightforward.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

hi honeys i'm home

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

ken, i think chris was looking for you tonite

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 5 March 2005 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 5 March 2005 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link

man i did pretty good in a 135 people tourny today. but this guy beat me on two seperate hands on the river when i had the better hand. shame!

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 5 March 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Where did you come, Ken? Ailsa, did you give it a go? What happened to Caitlin and Ste?

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 5 March 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah i was wasted and thought phil was ken on aim...hehehe. we had a good talk anyways about kings of convenience.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Saturday, 5 March 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

mark, read your post again.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Saturday, 5 March 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry Chris, not sure what you mean.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 5 March 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

haha

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 5 March 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

roffle.

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh I think I get it now.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 6 March 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone around tonight?

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 6 March 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Since this thread is so moribund, here's a question from a play tourney I'm in:

Two dudes go all in; their cards are turned face up. One has two kings, the other has two fives. The flop and turn are useless; the river is a third king.

Why did the 2 fives win a side pot? And why was this side pot almost twice as big as the main pot, won by the three kings guy?? Was it anything to do with the amounts they respectively bet (kings guy put in much less cash than fives guy)?

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Long answer: Player A goes all in. Player B wants to raise.* Because A is all in, he can't call B's raise. So, the pot gets split into 2. Out of each player's bet, an amount equal to A's all-in bet goes in the main pot, and the rest goes in the side pot. If A has the best hand, s/he wins the main pot but the side pot goes to the next-best hand. If someone else wins the hand, they win both.

* or, equally, A wants to call but doesn't have a large enough stack, so goes all in without meeting the previous player's bet.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 6 March 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

funny. i was really drunk last night and managed to get 3rd in a tourny (whereas day before i kept getting 4th place)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 March 2005 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Some friends of mine said that their best ever performance in a real-life tourney was when they were really, really badly hungover. Their explanation was that there was no way the other players could tell whether or not they were bluffing, because most of the time they were feeling so ill that they couldn't remember what their cards actually were.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I lost all my pokerroom.com winnings on Saturday night in a drunken frenzy. Im laying off online poker for a while.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I remember reading an interview with Daniel Negreanu where he said the reason he turned pro was because he woke up the day after his 21st birthday and realised he drunkenly gambled away all the money he'd won the past two years playing as an amateur.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 7 March 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i figured i was all good after i had taken home a good chunk of change from my weekly home game at my friends house earlier. well as the night wore on and the more drunk i got the worse i was. i was calling Phil- Ken on AIM and making a drunken buffoon of myself. Of course like I've said a million times...i think online games are fixed.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link

my friend says that too - i don't see too much evidence of that. but i'm guessing there are people who join the same tournament table together and collaborate (i don't know how good pokerroom are at spotting those).

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

it just amazes me that the same person always hit the river card to win every time. its complete bullshit. im thinking of writing a complaint to pokerroom.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

When you win it's skill; when you lose, they're fixed ;-)

(NB: you could well be right for all I know)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 7 March 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link

yep!

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

It barely seems worth bothering any more, but PLEASE can we get 5 or six of us together tonight and start a private table, or at least all hook up for the same tourney or something? 2200 GMT? Anyone?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link

im off of it for a while....or at least until i get paid.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I have to apologize for my previous bouts w/ flakiness. Mark, I can be on around 2300 GMT - please to post the name of the table to this thread, and I'll be there.

FYI - there's a POKAH! area on the site where one can set up a "personal" page & possibly list folks one plays w/.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

OK, make it three, I'm in.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

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