ILX Poker Players Unite

The week's highlight was this. Snazzy, eh?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/royal2.jpg

but, can anyone rec a good underground house in NYC? i used to really enjoy those, one on the ues and a couple on the west side. not that i bet much, mostly tournaments where you'd only blow $60-80 on the early rebuys. i've heard of some really loose games w/ drunk kids in williamsburg.

online just doesn't do it for me, i end up getting bored. haven't played in over a year, but was in a tournament last week that rekindled some interest.

Louis - I got a £17 pot in the end - check/raised Phipps on the river and got a call. Not too shabby.

FWIW, I'm hanging in there - up nearly 2 grand for the year, and won 6 bills @ Foxwoods a few weekends ago. Gonna head up there in a few hours again, actually (to give the money back, of course).

I am ALMOST to the point that I can stop relentlessly bitching about bad beats. Tho it's hard when I raise w/ QQ, catch trips, get 55 to go AI, and lose to a runner-runner straight.

Oh, and RAKEBACK! IS! AWESOME!

Here's the good hands I've received in the last 23k hands, apropos of chap's post:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/biondino/hands.jpg

Cahp, where do you play? How long's it been? I haven't seen you on this thread before, I don't think?

David - the stats are from Poker Tracker - it's an essential (I think) tool for keeping in touch with your stats and those of your opponents. I can't tell you how valuable it is to know that the guy to your left is playing 45% of hands and raising half of them, for example.

Game #2157608863: Hold'em NL (£0.15/£0.25) - 2006/08/12 - 13:38:06 (ET)
Table "Saz" Seat 1 is the button.
Seat 1: pumbar (£18.75 in chips)
Seat 2: Bigpete12 (£26.15 in chips)
Seat 3: sheridga (£28.90 in chips)
Seat 4: Willym (£15 in chips)
Seat 5: FlopAbit (£13.75 in chips)
Seat 6: Zerbombt (£30.01 in chips)
Bigpete12: posts small blind £0.15
sheridga: posts big blind £0.25
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Zerbombt [Qs Ac]
Willym: folds
FlopAbit: folds
Zerbombt: raises to £1
pumbar: folds
Bigpete12: calls £0.85
sheridga: calls £0.75
----- FLOP ----- [Qd 6s 3c]
Bigpete12: checks
sheridga: bets £1
Zerbombt: raises to £2.75
Bigpete12: folds
sheridga: raises to £10
Zerbombt: raises to £29.01 and is all-in
sheridga: is all-in £17.90
Returned uncalled bets £1.11 to Zerbombt
----- TURN ----- [Qd 6s 3c][Qc]
----- RIVER ----- [Qd 6s 3c Qc][Ad]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Zerbombt: shows [Qs Ac] (A Full House, Queens full of Aces)
sheridga: shows [3h 3s] (A Full House, Threes full of Queens)
Zerbombt collects £55.90 from Main pot

Seat 1: amele ($25 in chips)
Seat 2: Micky7763 ($4.50 in chips)
Seat 3: elthomas001 ($1.10 in chips)
Seat 4: kenjuggle [7H,7C] ($27.50 in chips)
Seat 5: v4ImmBa ($27.80 in chips)
Seat 6: Deported ($8.20 in chips)
Seat 7: Richie B ($30.60 in chips)
Seat 8: JBlooms ($18.65 in chips)
Seat 9: despo75 ($21.45 in chips)
Seat 10: DME9 ($20.60 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
elthomas001 posts blind ($0.25), kenjuggle posts blind ($0.25), Deported posts blind ($0.25), amele posts blind ($0.25).
PRE-FLOP
v4ImmBa folds, Deported checks, Richie B calls $0.25, JBlooms calls $0.25, despo75 folds, DME9 calls $0.25, amele checks, Micky7763 folds, elthomas001 checks, kenjuggle checks.
FLOP [board cards 8H,6S,7D ]
elthomas001 checks, kenjuggle bets $0.30, Deported calls $0.30, Richie B calls $0.30, JBlooms bets $3.25, DME9 calls $3.25, amele folds, elthomas001 folds, kenjuggle calls $2.95, Deported calls $2.95, Richie B calls $2.95.
TURN [board cards 8H,6S,7D,JD ]
kenjuggle checks, Deported bets $0.25, Richie B calls $0.25, JBlooms bets $15.15 and is all-in, DME9 folds, kenjuggle calls $15.15, Deported folds, Richie B calls $14.90.
RIVER [board cards 8H,6S,7D,JD,JH ]
kenjuggle bets $8.85 and is all-in, Richie B folds.
SHOWDOWN
kenjuggle shows [ 7H,7C ]
JBlooms shows [ 5D,4D ]
kenjuggle wins $8.85, kenjuggle wins $63.20.
SUMMARY
Dealer: Micky7763
Pot: $72.55, (including rake: $0.50)
amele, loses $0.25
Micky7763, loses $0
elthomas001, loses $0.25
kenjuggle, bets $27.50, collects $72.05, net $44.55
v4ImmBa, loses $0
Deported, loses $3.75
Richie B, loses $18.65
JBlooms, loses $18.65
despo75, loses $0
DME9, loses $3.50

Washington passed a ban on online gambling for all state citizens. I'm not kidding.

I guess I need to cash in my money somehow. :/

Here's a hand for y'all. Read: guy was strong, aggressive, maybe a bit overly so. Likes re-raising and betting big, but has a very good grasp of the game. Bear in mind it's 6max, too.

***** Hand History for Game 4938540012 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, August 13, 04:59:49 ET 2006
Table Table 107985 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: honeychook ( $49.93 )
Seat 4: Zerbombt ( $41.06 )
Seat 6: davidstb ( $15.46 )
Seat 5: stu2472 ( $48.70 )
Seat 2: russell77772 ( $23.15 )
Seat 1: ClemsonTGR5 ( $49.50 )
Zerbombt posts small blind [$0.25].
stu2472 posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Zerbombt [ 7s Ks ]
davidstb folds.
ClemsonTGR5 folds.
russell77772 folds.
honeychook calls [$0.50].
Zerbombt calls [$0.25].
stu2472 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Tc, 8d, 6d ]
Zerbombt bets [$1].
stu2472 folds.
honeychook raises [$2].
Zerbombt calls [$1].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
Zerbombt bets [$3].
honeychook raises [$6].
Zerbombt raises [$11.16].
honeychook calls [$8.16].
** Dealing River ** [ Kd ]
Zerbombt is all-In.

Thoughts?

my esteemed mentor tells me that the blind play is the smart choice. the probability of the dealer qualifying is 2/5 hands over all so you're likely to pick up a touch on the ante. it's bread and butter wins of course but the house HATES this type of play - it really irritates them. jolly amusing wot.

Hey SennaS
yeah
is that ur last name?
nah its for A Senna I'm a big fan
oh
*extended pause in conversation*
he's dead
yeah
very
*extended pause in conversation*
i named my son after him... so he lives on...
just dont let him take any sharp bends :)
it's ok... he's blind...

[Scotty990] Hey SennaS
[SennaS] yeah
[Scotty990] is that ur last name?
[SennaS] nah its for A Senna I'm a big fan
[Scotty990] oh
*extended pause in conversation*
[SennaS] he's dead
[Scotty990] yeah
[SennaS] very
*extended pause in conversation*
[SennaS] i named my son after him... so he lives on...
[Scotty990] just dont let him take any sharp bends :)
[SennaS] it's ok... he's blind...

Update time y'all!

I have started playing mostly £50NL (roughly equivalent financially to $100NL, though I am pretty sure $100 is trickier) and am owning it so far, which is nice since my last experiment at moving up cost me a little over $800.

Since I moved sites at the start of September I have managed to make almost $2,000 which is EASILY my most successful period - it's probably taken me 12k or so hands to do it.

I am playing almost exclusively 6max cash games nowadays with the occasional SNG (and the very occasional MTT) thrown in for fun. I get in maybe 12-15 hours play a week 3- or 4-tabling.

If anyone is interested I have a poker blog on the excellent Flopturnriver.com. Say hi if you get a chance to read it.

If you go to PokerShark.com (or whatever that tourney-tracking site is) and search for 'sinnermann' on the PokerRoom network, you can bask in my awesomeness.

i played 3 $24+2 multi's in the last few days, came in 14th in one with 600+ and 12th in a 500+. won like a hundred in each - so annoyingly close to the real money (and in the second one i was in 1st w/25 to go). won $900 for fourth a couple weeks ago. used to be more into s&g's but i'm getting my multi game together now. which makes a lot of sense since i've actually won way more from multi's, even though i've played them less.

in the one i didn't cash i got wounded early (and knocked out soon after) when i limped w/aces from 1st position and one of the many callers caught a boat on the flop. of course then the chat window lights up with that's why you don't slow play aces - yeah - u suck - (various simple minded treatises on poker strategy follow) and i'm all because someone catches a boat every time? i try not to be annoyed at these dumbasses, but gdamn!

also those pokershark stats - totally not accurate. or maybe they just don't go back v far or something.

Yeah, I don't know how far back PokerShark goes, but my stats are pretty accurate (except for one or two rebuy MTTs - they only track the initial buyin). Of course, I've only been 'sinnermann' for a few months, so that's probably why.

Hey, I use Neteller, too! So that means that doing the bank-to-Neteller-to-site handjive is still legal?

Whatever you do, though, be CERTAIN to make sure you get rakeback before you sign up. Email me if you want to be shown how (Stars don't offer rakeback but Full Tilt and most of the other sites do).

Personally, I prefer playing at the sites which offer £ tables as I think they're better value, and Sun Poker (my current main site - I am Zerbombt there) has the lovely Cryptologic bonus structure that I used to praise at Interpoker, who changed their requirements, boo.

Oh - and £50NL means £0.25/£0.50 blinds, so pretty low level. it's roughly equivalent to $0.50/$1.

might play again soon though. um, and when i get my credit card back from the bank. although i still have a load of money in pokerroom.

xxxxpost haha i thought mark meant £50 bb too!!

My understanding is that Neteller is a good deal cheaper than firepay. Check their website for details.

The problem with using credit cards is that you have to withdraw onto the credit card, at least a certain proportion of your winnings. Of course this doesn't need to be a problem, it's up to you. Americans of course can't use their credit cards on poker sites because the card providers don't allow payments to gambling businesses.

Likewise, if you're using a Mac, you're pretty much limited to Full Tilt at this point, right?

But yeah, I'd def go with Full Tilt if I had a Mac - they're pretty much the no. 2 after Stars now, they have the most impressive celeb affiliations (good for attracting fish - why don't you like fish, btw?), and they're the fastest-growing site I believe.

fulltilt has my endorsement: 9 handed tables, good blind structures, nice feel, funny avatars. being a mac user i've only ever played @ pokerroom and pacific, which are both wicked retarded.

(not sure if you were actually taking to me)

I used to prefer 10-handed to 9-handed and I still do in SNGs - the way I see it (because I see myself as one of the better players at the table) is that the 10th man will be a net donator to my prize pool and therefore I want him in.

But in cash games I am pretty much totally converted to 6max. Same winrate - actually I'm running better at 6max - but 50% more hands - it's easy to see how much more profitable it is. Also, you actually play more poker, which is more fun and much more educational - it's not the nut-camping grind you get at 9- and 10-handed tables.

I had a couple of almost unbelievably bad beats on Pacific before the ban; the worst was losing with AA (and trips on the A-8-2 flop!) to 7-2 offsuit, when some genius decided to call my pre-flop raise and my post-flop raise with his pair of twos and got 7-2 on the turn and river. There's just no accounting for people like that.

I was off sick yesterday and played a little bit of poker and managed to fluke my best day ever! Up $440 or so in under 600 hands, thanks to an SNG win and some good times at $50 and £50NL 6max.

Highlight was hitting the nut straight on the turn and pushing all-in over a guy re-raising with a set - hello $280 pot! What might have been the highlight, but for a tremendous laydown on the villain's part, was my last hand - AA, hit a set on the turn (which also brought three to the flush), bet 3/4 of what was already a massive pot and a guy with a lower (flopped) set managed to find a fold. Considering we both had 3 x buyins at this point, I was looking at a $570 pot if he'd been a tiny bit braver/more foolhardy.

p.s. why does my firefox no longer recognise the poundsign? Do I have to start writing GBP from now on?