ILX Poker Players Unite

You know I've been banging on about rakeback? Well, the rakeback provider I use provided a freeroll tournament for new members, and I came 10th! In a normal freeroll, 10th wouldn't be much to write home about; but this one had a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool, and I made $200!

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 :)

It's been a decent weekend all round, actually. Made bugger all at NL, but I did manage to win both my first $20+$2 SNG and my first Omaha hi/lo SNG!

congrats dude. i had a great weekend last one -- won $500 in an pr tourney and then $700 last sunday at an in-person game. lost $150 at my in-person game on friday, although there were two pro players there so i didn't feel as badly.

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

Full Tilt are launching Mac-compatible software - which is a proper standalone program rather than a java application, apparently (caveat emptor - I've never used Full Tilt though it seems kosher from what I've heard).

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!

refer me to some too mark!

Well, where do you want to join! Are you on Party, which has by far the most fish as far as I can tell? I can refer you there, though there's no rakeback. Interpoker I'd be delighted to refer you to - 30% rakeback there; Pacific I can do too, and I know that you can get rakeback at Pacific but not through the site I use I don't think; maybe some others. Just tell me what you're after :)

i'm growing to hate partypoker. i don't like the format too much. interpoker sounds fun though!

also. i just clicked the wrong button and called some loser's all in :(

still in but in much worse shape. wish me luck

now some dude caught a flush when he's all in with a worse hand

what a stupid night

new game. got rockets. no fucker calls :(

i even limped in

fucking sick.

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

Was there a 2 on the turn?

oh i may have done the numebrs wrong but they caught a straight

at least i won some money back with the money per hand games

I have got to stop being a little bitch whenever I lose, esp. to a dimwit that's begging to give away his/her money.

I'm back in the game now. At low levels, I've already made £40 so far this week just off limit single table tournaments at pokerroom.... No Limit is a bit too far away for me at the moment.

Oh, yeah - and blah blah won $500 in a $30 MTT on thee PR. Just in time to start paying off college loans WOO HOO!

oh man.

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)

i had the run of the cards too, i suppose. when i was short stacked people kept bullying me when i actually had a hand and i just kept doubling tripling through.

the only annoying thing is that that dude who is AWAY is still there now at the final table!

hey new yorkers: anybody up for a once-a-month wednesday night game? that's my only dependable day off, and i haven't played for ages. (once a month is probably all i can negotiate for with the Other Important Household Member). i'm just looking low-stakes, nothing fancy. if there's any interest, you can email me at the below address, replacing the first 4's and the 0, obv.

(i mean, replacing both 4's, is what i mean)

I have recently started playing with some bros, after one of them came fourth in his IT department's tournament at first attempt and talked us all into having a monthly game.

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.

About the dumbest move I've made recently was in a heads-up. The blinds were $4-$8, and I was the big blind. Other guy just called and pushed in his $4. I looked at my cards, saw an unsuited 5-2, and folded. Other dude shrugged his shoulders and took my eight dollars.

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.

it's gutting when something like this happens.. i think the poker software i use warns me about that (it says something like "DUDE IT'S FREE TO CHECK DO YOU WANNA?" without the dude bit)

I suspect it may have been live, Ken.

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!

i'm back into the mix, i've been playing a lot again. got roughed up last night.

i thought it may be too mark

hey wher's my invite

to your rakeback thing i mean

Ken, I don't send you an invite as such. You go to their site, find the specific link, follow it, then email them and say you have joined and that you were referred by me - my username is Zerbombt and my membership no. is RTR04959.

If you want to join Party, you can also do it through raketherake though it's not rakeback as such, rather it's a sort of odd bonus thing that looks quite good. Or you can let me refer you, in which case I get $50.

im already on party i;m fraid!

(first ever one i joined! way back in 2002!)

Heh!

So, who do you want to join? I can def recommend Interpoker - $100 bonus a month, a great freeroll tourney for new members (the one I won $200 in, above), and $, £ and € tables.

Ok Step 1 : Go http://www.raketherake.com/PokerInterpoker.html and follow the on screen instructions, basically you just need to click on their link which takes you to the interpoker site. This is important – you have to follow their link otherwise you will not be able to have rakeback added, so make sure you click the banner! There are no codes or anything to enter, it’s all automatic based on you clicking their banner.

Step 2 : Once you’ve set up your interpoker account and deposited some money (100% match up to $100 so deposit the full amount if you can), email newplayer@raketherake.com letting them know you have set up a new interpoker account from their link and give them your username and ask them to set up a new rakeback account. Tell them you want the rake paid directly in to your poker account. Don’t forget to say “I was referred by Mark Casarotto, RTR account number RTR04959”.

That's it!

tommorrow i get started on building my own ten person homemade super table.

http://www.homepokertourney.com/tables_build.htm

table almost done, need to put the rail on.

Pics plz Chris!

Anyone here play $100NL? I want advice about whether I could move up to it...

as soon as the rail is on pics will be posted. actually i'll post before and after.

OH, sweet.

the unrailed table. built from scratch.
http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/images/table.jpg

forgive mmy dingy basement

At where else would a poker game be played outside of a casino?

Here's my bad news for the day:

I knew there would come a time where I would finally agree with my friends who think of Game Night as a lame poker party. I think I've just been in denial for a long time. ... After 20 something weeks of hosting the poker tournament I've had enough. Some poker players are consistently rude, inconsiderate, sloppy, and way too serious. Last night D____, a weekly staple at the poker table told me I couldn't cut the deck the way I did. M______ handed me the deck to cut and the top card had practically fallen off, so I just knocked it off the rest of the way. D____ in a very serious no no tone said I couldn't count the deck. D____ had stormed out the week before without saying goodbye so I told him that he couldn't do that and I got pissed off and remained pissed for the rest of the night ... I'm tired of people being impatient and sitting around wanting me to warp the rest of the poker bunch into the kitchen so we can begin. I'm tired of our kitchen smelling like a dirty ashtray. I do not like waiting around after everyone is gone 'til four am so the tournament can end. L_____ and I are both sick of finding beer caps in the garbage disposal. ...And I hate it when people storm out of the house. It's not worth it to me. That's why no one else hosts a weekly 10 to 16 player tournament. ... The poker players also seem to think that if they meet someone that happens to like poker, they should invite them to my house, give them directions, and hand out my phone number. My very good friends have made some very bad judgement calls lately ...I'm sorry if cancelling the poker tournament disappoints some of the friendly poker players whose company I enjoy (you know who you are). But I know you will understand because you know what I have to deal with. It had to end sooner or later.

Dude is completely OTM in his e-mail to all of us. In case anyone was curious, THAT'S how you kill a poker night.

the rail is being shipped...no, i didn't build one from scratch. f-that shit.

COMPLETED TABLE.
http://webpages.charter.net/cmvenuti/images/table.jpg

Looks real good, Chris. When you having us over?

anytime anyone wants to fly out to beantown (well west of beantown anyways) im always down for a game!

Bwah hah hah.