ILX Poker Players Unite

I get the rakeback through a rakeback website who seem pretty decent. The downside is you can't get it on sites where you are already subscribed. However, if you swap to a site which does offer rakeback and uses the same network (e.g I used to play at William Hill but now play at Interpoker, on the same tables only with a slightly different interface and 30% rakeback) then effectively nothing has changed other than the money coming into your account :)

If you want to email me I'll happily give you all the details and refer you!

It was all a blur. Flop was showing Q-A-9. He called all-in with $33. I had close to eighty with K-Q suited in the pocket. I figured that he might have the Ace, but I had the three spades and a pair already. Really, like an idiot, I called him. He had A-3. The next card was the ten of spades. I had four spades now, but was still nervous as hell. The river was a Jack, giving me a straight.

I feel kinda bad because I beat the host (who's been a great host), and he's never won one before. But he went all-in first, which was a good move though maybe not in hindsight.

Anyway, maybe you could say I showed some (blind, dumb, wreckless, stupid) BALLS and came out ahead. Nine out of ten times I would've lost, but I got it this time.

Anyone else feel guilty for winning hands that they walked backwards into? It's hard to feel that bad when you did what you were supposed to even if you weren't supposed to that.

I've had a good few days playing at Party, with my last six $10+$1 SNG results coming 2nd, 1st, 2nd, 2nd, 7th*, & 1st. If anyone's interested, I posted the complete hand history (i.e. the 32 hands where I saw a flop or was in the last three) of the SNG I won yesterday on the bijou poker forum on which I also post - you can find it here. Comments more than welcome!

*99 in pocket, pushed when shortstacked, came up against AA. Flop Q9x, woohoo! Turn Q, river... Q, giving him a higher full house. I HATE being beaten by the board.

i had QQ and made these two folks go all-in pre-flop with their one A.

Flop: 2 Q 5
Turn: 4
River: 3

heh. i roffled.

and also. when i have the slicks it had to be when someone else has rockets.

I haven't played online, so what do I know.

I once won a shorthanded SNG in 11 hands - I got great cards, played them hard, and took out each of the players one by one in the space of 5 minutes. It was brutal and beautiful :)

it's only beautiful when your great cards don't get knocked out by A 2 3 4 5 far out straight draw

I played one single hand on the final table (99 vs AQ) and bust out, but it didn't matter, as 4th through 10th all got the same prize :)

i'm getting kinda sick of pokerroom tho. does anyone know of any other mac-compatible sites?

Also, Pacific supports Macs, and it's supposed to be full of fish. There are some fun turbo tourneys there too.

If you decide to go for either, then I'd be delighted to either refer you to Pacific for bonus fun, or set you up with my rakeback provider for Full Tilt (I think they offer a 27% rakeback scheme) - let me know if I can help!

someone went all in with A5 to buy the blinds. I had KK and called it. he catches 436 and then 8 on the river. sick.

fuck party poker

i ended up 12th in a 320 people tourney! it was amazing. i was totally down and out with like 900 chips left and went all in under the gun. somehow held on to the money bits (40th) and then slowly worked all the way up to loitering around the top 3 spots for best part of 40 minutes! it was mental.. it was such a good feeling.

then stupidity struck.. first i couldn't resist holding onto a nut flush draw from the flop. THEN i was on small blind and the big blind dude was AWAY, previously this happend i forgot to RAISE and gave him to chips. this time i remembered to raise BUT I DIDN'T SEE THAT SOMEONE ELSE ALREADY RAISED and i lost all the cash lol.

i could have been in serious money tonight but still it was a nice 2 hour adventure! i dunno whether i can ever play as well as this again (up to the stupid bits)

first up: came fourth out of five, no real idea what I was doing tbh. went and read a little afterwards to prepare for...

second game: chip leader for about half the game after pulling off some big wins early. then I got a run of totally useless hands which chipped away at my pile (we were playing antes rather than small/big blind). key moment: folded while on A-2-4-5 with one to come because it was getting way too pricey for me. should've backed myself in because guess what came on the river! and they were bluffing too. was out within three hands.

third game: useless, had mind on other things so probably subconsciously threw it. lucky it's only ten bucks to play.

I can take a little comfort in the fact that he probably had a better two-card hand, but hell. I could've seen the flop for free and then folded. Or hell, it could've been something crazy like 3-4-6 or 2-5-2.

Dumb move. It was late.

key moment: folded while on A-2-4-5 with one to come because it was getting way too pricey for me. should've backed myself in because guess what came on the river! and they were bluffing too.

You can't let yourself be results oriented, though. Unless you were getting 10:1 odds to call, you were well off out of the pot (and I'm sure you weren't if it was getting pricey). Your fold was good - you need to make sure you do the same next time, rather than remembering that the miracle card came last time and paying bad odds in order to see the river.

Guess what I saw on telly last night? A certain bearded lotherio winning $1.4m with rockets!