ILX Poker Players Unite

Right?

That was some pretty attritional two-man poker last night, db :)

(so, is anyone up for a game tonight?)

late tonight is good, or tomorrow night all night.

(but AIM me anyway - as I'm not at work I'm not at my PC all the time)

I've been cleaning up on the $.25-.50 tables, even as they've been cleaning me up - started w/ $30 yesterday, went down to $6, then ended up w/ $46. And I also played in some tourneys, too, where I was teh suck.

I'd love to take the big-chip cockfarmer playing 4-2 offsuit non-blinded and pop him in the mouth with a shotgun. You should NOT get 3 4s from that crap. Nor should you play 5-7 offsuit and get a straight on the river! (Sez the guy that was riding the river like a white water rafter last night.) (I also won w/ pocket 9s against 2 all-in guys w/ A-J off-suit.)

Yeah, I'm part Italian. Can you tell? :)

Worst suck-out ever - going all in w/ pocket Queens & no face cards on the flop against A-Q, and getting beat by a STRAIGHT. Almost as bad as the time I had two pair, and was housed by a flopped / turned / river'd 4-card FLUSH.

I've been playing every day, & I might need a break just to appreciate my recent good fortune (& get something done away from the PC). However, I'll probably be on, as I am weak, and need to pay off my vig, so lemme know what the plan is (on thread, preferably).

Also, really, you big-stacked bastards lucking into hands because you play EVERY SINGLE HAND even if you have 7-2 offsuit - blow a Bunsen burner three times. (I say that because I am teh jealous, of course.) Also, if I run into any other reckless dorks that raise $5 on crap flops when my hand is crap enough to make me wary of playing said hand, they will also be invited to suck on some natural gas.

It's not like I want the poker gods to continually bless me w/ last-minute saves & pocket As every hand - just don't switch from blessings to pissings at will every 3 days. I can only withstand so much whiplash.

My system seems to be, "play your As & Ks if they don't raise, slow play non-face-carded pocket pairs, scare folks off if you think you got deez nutz, raise if the flop is teh crap and you have top card, and wait to get jobbed by the river".

Never fails.

Also, Dom's system was my system for the first couple of weeks - oh, if I had a nickel for every time I folded K-2 and saw two Ks come up.

So, how often do you like to make a big play then? Say there's ten seated at a table, how often do you need to make a chipmove that's gonna have people sitting up and taking notice?

Then I came across folks that didn't give a shit, and just played regardless of what I did, which is where my strategery was submarined. Also, I wasn't getting any breaks - my A-K suited would be grouped w/ a 7-4-9 off-suit (w/ some jerk holding pocket 7s), and my lowish pocket pairs would run into Q-Q-6 (w/ some jerk holding the 3rd Q). Stupid jerks.

Or course, now that I've told you all this, I can never play w/ you ever again for phear of this knowledge being used against me.

Seems like the biggest problem w/ aggressive scare-tactic betting is not knowing when to get over yrself and just step away from a losing situation - it's better to turn tail after the turn than see the river through & show yrself to be full of it.

& also, & this seems really stupid to say but it's probably worth saying anyway, it helps to have the cards - during one stretch, when I was really feeling my testosterone, I was getting decent playable hands (Q-6, K-4, 5-5), and playing them like they were King Shit Nutz hands, and getting burned by unfavorable flops & my own half-ass kamikaze betting style (i.e. betting just enough to look like a sucker and simultaneously lose 3/4ths of my stack).

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Ha - I use the "speed" buttons usually because I'm either playing 2 games @ once & don't want to be bothered all the time by YOUR TURN reminders, or I'm doing something non-poker related. Motherlover, to play in a tournament where the guy before me doesn't treat a $20 bet like an essay test every damn time. JUST CALL, FOLD, OR RAISE, YOU SLOTH.

haha many xposts now

if they use the "speed" button to fold.. surely that's a tell-tale sign that they DON'T have something!!