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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

im on aim and i'f im feeling lucky i'll play. chrisv1918 6pm?

― chrisv1918, Monday, 7 March 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

So we're going for 2300 GMT/1800 EST/1700 midwest time or whatever it's called? I'd most like to be part of a one-table tourney, if we can wangle it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

im dumb i don't know fancy times. i know est.

― fuckie fuckie river card, Monday, 7 March 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

aim me.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I only aim marriage, Ken.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

2300 GMT = 11:00 PM GMT = 6:00 PM EST

Right?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link

= 5pm Republican time, 4pm Cowboy time, 3pm Hippy time.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago) link

All time is Republican Time in Jesusville!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

(bump)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

More dudes needed! Check Markelby on AIM or post here - we're setting up a private table.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

hey, count me in

― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm logging in right now! Tell me where!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 March 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Markelby da Sharkelby!

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha - db, before you joined I was down $40 at one point - didn't get back to breakeven, though only $8 short in the end. Good game chaps! Six of us, whoot!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i hate poker.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm happy to know I'm not the only one that cusses & swears when they lose hands and/or get jobbed.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

i played foolishly, i could have cared less...thats my problem. i get bored easily and start to play like a shithead.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG - I was just in a tourney, went all in w/ pocket Js and a 9-7-3 on the flop. The two big money baggers called me (both not on the blind), & the bigger one got the other one to fold, and he flips over a 7-3? That is 13 types of godforsaken @&!#$!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i took a lot of mark's money but then mark replentished a lot of the money from others.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I can already tell this is something I'd like to do again, but keep as a limited thing. I'm going to stick to ilxor buddies as fellow players as my limitation.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Awww, my best showing ever just happened - 26th in a 277-person tourney. Just 6 spots away from finishing in the moolah. My 2 Ks were submarined by pocket 3s and a 3 on the flop. Alas.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

It just occurred to me when telling my mate about last night's session that we might as well have been out of the fucking Sopranos - with the exception of Mr Chu and Mr Debonair, we all had Eye-talian surnames (I am assuming that David R is of Italian origin)!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

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