― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
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".
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Never fails.
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link
haha many xposts now
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
if they use the "speed" button to fold.. surely that's a tell-tale sign that they DON'T have something!!
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
straightflush191: ul wpDAN_THE_GOD: tx
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
blah blah blah wins $4383 with a ROYAL STRAIGHT FLUSH!!
like that. i felt very special indeed.
― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I came 2nd last night for the third time. Yet to win one though. Probably about $20 down on tounreys so far.
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 21 March 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 25 March 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 26 March 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 27 March 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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)
― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 31 March 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 31 March 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
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.)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 31 March 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
www.ultimatepokerbankroll.com
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
(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!
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, don't bet against someone who is consistently but unostentatiously raising - every single bad game I have, I lose all my $$$ by being overconfident with my 2 Queens or whatever.
If you feel it's going away from you, rein yourself in - fold all but the best hands, but maybe play a little looser on the ones where you've paid the blinds/where everyone else has folded.
I'm sure the advice of a mediocre beginner like me ain't worth diddly, but that's what has worked for me in its own small way. Losing $5.50 in one game and then winning $15 or $25 in the next seems to be my MO, and it's one I'm pretty happy with.
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I tend to play loosey-goosey before the blinds go up to $50 / $100, & then I tighten up. My problem is getting burned during the loosey-goosey stage by a decent hand, & me not recognizing what could be out there to beat me. (I'm always afraid of being bluffed out of a pot, w/ usually gets me in deep shit more often than it gets me a win.)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Let the bluffers win sometimes, but keep an eagle eye out for when their hands are revealed and it proves that they bluff.
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 April 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I just won another $5 + $.50 tourney (bringing my tourney profit to $71 after 38 tourneys - yes, I am anal, but it helps me keep tabs). I'm beginning to think of moving to $10 + $1 - anyone want to give me reasons why I shouldn't?
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link