ILX Poker Players Unite

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!!

straightflush191: ul wp
DAN_THE_GOD: tx

blah blah blah wins $4383 with a ROYAL STRAIGHT FLUSH!!

like that. i felt very special indeed.

I came 2nd last night for the third time. Yet to win one though. Probably about $20 down on tounreys so far.

I won $79 today, between finishing 3rd in a single-table tourney ($10), and getting really good cards at the real-money table ($69). I'm now playing real-money w/ "steve albini" (& 8 other folks). Up $6, too.

So far: 24 tournaments; 2 x 1st; 4 x 2nd; 1 x 3rd; 17 x no place.

(I can't really deal with chess - it requires a level of skill/thought that is beyond my willing)

In my last two tourneys I've come 1st and 3rd, which means I am now in the black after twenty-seven $5 + $0.50 tournaments. This makes me very, very happy, this profit of, I think, two whole dollars.

What do people think of multi-table tourneys? Ever really worth entering, especially if you don't have like eight hours free?

I like the multi-table tourneys, because it's longer, there's more of an investment, there's more chance of a big payout, there's a sense of being part of SOMETHING BIG, and the one time I finished in the money in a tourney (after almost 3 hours of play), it felt like I had, um, beat death? Even if it was only for $29. I DID IT MANG.

Also, I seem to have 8 hours to kill all the time, even though I'm working full-time & writing on the side - usually, I just throw on some MP3s, get a glass of water & maybe some snacky foods, and ready my cursor over the FOLD button for the next hour+. (If I make it out of the first hour, I consider it a moral victory.) (If I make it through Hour Two, I consider it sheer luck.)

www.ultimatepokerbankroll.com

Having said that, after spazzing out of a tourney in 10th and, with my 2nd attempt, getting down to $400 (notional) with no-one else under £1k, I managed to pull of an unlikely win, which has had the effect of raising my account to a record $67! Admittedly $10 of this was pokerroom.com's bonus, but hell.

(I suspect when Sgs is in the States I might enter a few multi-table tourneys - then I won't be disturbing anyone if I stay up till 5am playing...)

How are you all doing? Y'all give us an update!