The Poker Thread

Can't win a flip at the moment. AA vs 33. River's a 3. A10 vs T8. River's an 8. QQ+TT vs Ax. Flop's an ace. QQ vs QQ. River completes his 4 card flush.

This is the poker I know and love. It's a shame because I've been on a bit of a good run recently. Managed to work my roll up to $130 through some good play and good cards obviously. I thought I'd cut some of the anger out of my system by just closing the window immediately if some guy make a bad call but with situations like the above happening I've taken to swearing at the computer screen since it's not really anyone's fault.

EDIT: In the last of the 4 games I've been playing, the blinds are 75/150, just about to go up and out of the 60 hands we've had, I've played none of them.

Sorry about always moaning in this thread by the way but I need a place to vent sometimes even if no one reads it.

It's cool, we've all felt(Feel atm ) the same at some point.

I played two games of poker in the pub tonight and in the second one I got knocked out in exactly the same way as I did on Friday night .

Seems legit, Dimil. Stop being such a pussy and go for it.

Do you ever play poker, Scrote?

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Do you ever play poker, Scrote?

Only in real life with friends. Badly. For very little money. And not very often.

Join us .

I'm too much of a n00b.

Tourney at the casino from my perspective then.

It started badly. First I was drawn in the dealer seat and said that I couldn't deal along with a few white lies. Fortunately someone else took over and we switched seats. I took both stacks at the start and got involved in a hand early with AThh. There were one or two limpers and I made it 4x to go and got two callers. The flop came A78. I bet out and they both call. Turn is a jack. I bet, one call and a min raise. This reeks of strength to me but I called to see what the river might bring. This time again I bet, first guy calls and again a min raise goes in from the guy to my right. I figure that I'm probably behind but he's giving me great odds to call, I figured he may have hit a random two pair but he called my flop bet with 9T for an open ender, meaning that I've lost close to a third of my stack within ten hands.

I ran hugely card dead until two hands before the first break when I had TT in the big blind. After a couple of limps the guy who I switched seats with pushes all in which puts me all in if I call. I thought about it for a few minutes and had seen him do this with raggy aces and small pairs earlier and called as I didn't think he'd be doing this with a strong hand, and just had a hand that given his stack and the blinds he did not know how to play. He flipped over A5ss and I win to move up to 8.2k. Jamie GR also moved to my table just before the break.

The second period was pretty gooseberry fool. I picked up 77 in middle position and raised it up. I got two callers one of which was Jamie. Got an epically bad flop with A98sss and gave it up after a cbet, putting me back to where I started (6k). After that I blinded down for a little while to 5.5k and get A9 in the BB. There were three limpers and I considered pushing in pre to pick up the blinds as I was in ten big blind territory, however I decided to just check. The flop came AxJcQc with two clubs of which I have none. The small blind checks to me and I deliberated for around a minute before pushing the rest of my chips in. It was a dangerous board so I felt this was a good decision. I got two callers, one flips over A8, and the other reveals K9cc. Turn was a blank but a third club on the river made his hand. Interestingly Jamie later told me that he'd folded two clubs with one being the ten.

Was great fun though and would definitely love to do it again at some point, many thanks to everyone who came and to Aaron and Rex for hosting.

Just on coach back from the meet.

Yesterdays £50 satellite we had 60 runners, 10k chips 30 min blinds.

Started off slow passive table lots of limpers etc.

Had AA once got called took it down with a c-bet on the flop, then got unlucky with J9 turning 2 pair to make the villian a straight put me down to about 7k.

After that ran pretty card dead after break got it all-in pre AcQc against AhQh to chop the pot only to win a big pot a little later when I limped the button with K9 and the flop was 899 managed to isolate on the flop and took the other player remaining 7k he had the 8.

Managed to grind to about 20k but then picked up AQ twice inlike3 hands raised got called c-bet and got bet off the hands taking me back down to about 15k.

After that shipped it 33 UTG got called by AK off she missed the flop JQX but then the turn gave her extra outs with a second J but she hit the river 10 and I busted about 23rd.

Awesome meet cheers guys

FYI Drummy

Board: As Qc Jc
Dead: Tc 5c

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 37.696% 37.33% 00.37% 16530 162.00 { Kc9c }
Hand 1: 23.150% 07.03% 16.12% 3114 7137.00 { A8o }
Hand 2: 39.153% 23.04% 16.12% 10200 7137.00 { A9s, A9o }

Cheers to Rex and Aaron hosting again.

As far as I can remember, here is how my tournament went:

I did the rebuy early on giving me a 6k starting stack and then I was completely card dead for about an hour. With so many limpers at the table I didn’t make many bluffs and saw quite a few cheap flops with average hands but never managed to hit anything. I got AA once but that was the one time where everyone folded and so I just picked up the blinds. Near the break I started to take advantage of my nitty image and picked up some chips with cbets. So I had 8k at the first break.

After the break I start to play a few more hands and I slowly build up a stack but then I lost half of it when I raise from UTG with AK and the BB goes all-in with 77. Sevens hold and I am now down to 4.5k. Shortly after that comes the most epic hand of the night. I had TT and raise from early position. Some woman a couple seats to my left reraises all-in and then fatdonk to her left calls. Then another short stack also calls all-in and the action is back to me. I have both of the short stacks covered and so if I just beat fatdonk then I will be left with 2k which isn’t too bad, so I make the call. The woman has AJo, fatdonk has 88, other short stack has AT, so I just need to dodge and ace, jack, and eight, and I do . I’m now up to about 14k. Just as the break was about to start I raise 4.8k with 88 after lots of limpers and the short stack to my left reraises all-in for 9.5k total. All the limpers fold and I call for 4.7k more. She flips over 77, my 88 holds and I go into the second break with 32k.

Soon after the break I lost half my stack again with AK when I raised from middle position and a short-ish stack reraised all-in with 44. His fours held and I was back down to 15k. I then get JJ in middle position and the guy UTG raises to about 2.6k, I just call and then another guy re-raises all-in to 9k. The UTG raiser calls and I decide to fold. They both turn over QQ and no jack appears on the board, so I dodged a bullet there.

A few more people get moved to my table and they all have large stacks. I have QQ in the CO and I raise to 4 k. The BB calls and the flop is 79x. He bets 7k and I reraise all-in to 21k. He calls with JT just hoping for an eight to make his gutshot. Thankfully it doesn’t come and I now have over 50k. When we get down to 10players I have KQo in the BB, the button limps and I re-raise him. He bets about 90% of his stack on the flop and I call. Then we get the last bit in on the turn. He has KT with a flush draw and doesn’t hit a club or a ten so I knock him out. He didn't realise at first as he thought he also had KQ and so was shocked when he realised he was out.

So I get to the final table with about 85k, average is about 60k but the big stacks had loads of chips so I was probably 3rd or 4th entering the final table. I played tight for a while folding lots of marginal hands like TJ as the short stacks could easily go all-in and they would still do lots of damage to my stack. Whenever aaron was in the BB I was UTG and for 3 orbits in a row I raised with AK, AK, and AQ picking up the blinds each time.

The most notable hand for me at the final table was when I had a nice large stack and the guy two to my right went all-in. I had AQ and really wanted to call but it was over half of my stack and with lots of short stacks still left I didn’t feel it was worth the risk on what I thought would be a flip. The guy then shows A7 and I regret folding.

Once we down to 4 or 5 players there weren’t too many notable hands. It was all pretty standard stuff. The blinds were now very big compared to the stacks so people were shoving very light. Aaron then gets knocked out with KJ against 63 and we are down to 3 players. I easily have the shortest stack as I only have 60k and there are over 500k in chips in play, but then the big stack proposes a deal. 3rd place is £240, 2nd is £375, and 1st is £525. He suggest we each take £350 and leave £90 for the winner. No way I'm turning down that deal and shortly after I shove from the SB with 22 and the BB calls with Q8 and hits a queen.

So I finish in 3rd but win £350, more than double 4th place The other two players play for a few more minutes and then decide to split the £90 and so they both take £395. Most impotantly ofcourse is that I won the 'long laster' bet.

Cheers to Tom and Aaron for letting us stay round, and everyone else who came. I had a great weekend and would love to do it again sometime. Alton Towers was also good fun but very tiring having not had any sleep

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Hellmuth

Haha "If I played with these guys day in day out I would make a fortune."

Now Hellmuth is an interesting debate....

Hes clearly weaker at cash games, but do think people think he has genuinelly lost it? Or do people think hes still capable of being one of the best? He obviously brings a load of the criticism on himself - and rightly so, and his recent results are very poor, but would you fancy your chances against him?

Honest question for everyone.

He's still one of the best at exploiting weaker players in large tournament fields, but I can't say I've thought of him as a good cash player. I read an interview with him where he even admits that he's not been great the past couple of years due to a loss of focus so it'll be interesting to see if he returns to the form he loves to mention.

He's obv good at poker and I wouldn't want to play him. Well, not with my own money anyway. Playing him for fun would be amazing.

It's jsut the fact that he thinks he is good at cash and not just good, he thinks he is the best.

Track Mania installed

Hellmuth is still a great poker player at the tournament level, while I don't think he hasn't final tabled for a while he still has quite a few cashes in the last couple of years. Cash doesn't seem to suit him as much though, that said the last few cash games I've seen he has got pretty unlucky. I don't think his image helps him as people like to try to make him tilt and bet aggresively into him.

HSP has started to be uploaded on Pokertube