The Poker Thread

Would be cool, we'll probs have to find somewhere to stay though.

That wouldn't be a problem hotel I'm staying in is close and pretty cheap at £38 a night.

Slayerx wrote:That wouldn't be a problem hotel I'm staying in is close and pretty cheap at £38 a night.

Nice. Dunno how expensive it would be to get up there from Soton though, will check now.

Played an absolutely insane hand in a cash game with mates last night and hit quad aces (beating quad sixes) and a royal flush in one hand! Possible, because my mate ran it twice.

I capped it with A-K of diamonds and got a call from 6-6. He decides to run it twice. First hand is awesome. The flop is 6-6-A, the turn is an A and the river is the final A! The second hand is nearly as good, if a little less dramatic. The flop was Q-10-J, all of diamonds, giving me the royal flush (for the first time ever). I am a complete luckbox.

Do you guys only play together on Stars?

Nice Phatman!

Clarky, for the GRSOP, yes, but some of us play on other sites.

I've been trying to grind out some tournament dollars today but haven't gotten amazing endgame results. Still, combined with my profitable shot at $50NL today, my bankroll is up to $1165/£725 If I can get to 1.5k by the end of the year then I'll probably move a lot over to Celeb Poker for the RB and iDonks at 50NL.

Clarkman wrote:Do you guys only play together on Stars?

Yes we currently have the yearly GRSOP running which is a series of private tournaments only for people from GRcade. Other than that we sometimes all register for a 180-man tournament together or a random scheduled MTT.

If you play on stars then share your username and post in this thread if you are about to play a tournament and I'm sure someone will join you. Also take part in the GRSOP if you can, thread is here: http://www.grcade.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21872

Was doing well in a $5 MTT and quite deep into the cash then I get this hand:

Poker Stars $5.00+$0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t1000/t2000 Blinds + t200 - 9 players - View hand 1003794
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): t59387 M = 12.37
UTG: t36506 M = 7.61
UTG+1: t76018 M = 15.84
UTG+2: t115602 M = 24.08
MP1: t38002 M = 7.92
MP2: t10885 M = 2.27
CO: t54163 M = 11.28
BTN: t77599 M = 16.17
SB: t68512 M = 14.27

Pre Flop: (t4800) Hero is BB with J J
3 folds, MP1 calls t2000, 4 folds, Hero raises to t12000, MP1 calls t10000

Flop: (t26800) 4 6 7 (2 players)
Hero bets t12000, MP1 calls t12000

Turn: (t50800) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t14000, MP1 calls t13802 all in

River: (t78404) 4 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: t78404
Hero shows J J (two pair, Jacks and Fours)
MP1 shows A 5 (a straight, Four to Eight)
MP1 wins t78404



The very next hand I am down to 10BB and shove with AQs but run into KK and get knocked out.

Ul Sat That's why I just take the odd shot at MTTs now, at least in cash a cooler/misplay is an isolated incident, and if it's a donk, you can get it back

Yeah it's annoying but I was playing a few others at the same time and have just reached the cash in another one so hopefully i'll do a bit better this time.

Didn't play that hand very well but I had put almost half my stack in pre and so was comitted despite the horrible flop.

Check out this hand

PokerStars Game #51948425085: Triple Draw 2-7 Lowball Limit ($0.10/$0.20 USD) - 2010/10/31 13:10:32 WET [2010/10/31 9:10:32 ET]
Table 'Aphelion IV' 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: satriales3 ($5 in chips)
Seat 2: kisyonysh ($1.41 in chips)
Seat 4: tunezmad ($1.60 in chips)
Seat 6: que no,paso ($1.70 in chips)
que no,paso: posts small blind $0.05
satriales3: posts big blind $0.10
*** DEALING HANDS ***
Dealt to satriales3 [8c Qd 9s Qs Kh]
kisyonysh: calls $0.10
tunezmad: folds
que no,paso: calls $0.05
satriales3: checks
*** FIRST DRAW ***
que no,paso: discards 2 cards
satriales3: discards 5 cards [8c Qd 9s Qs Kh]
Dealt to satriales3 [3c 5s 6h 7s 2c]
kisyonysh: discards 2 cards
que no,paso: checks
satriales3: bets $0.10
kisyonysh: calls $0.10
que no,paso: calls $0.10
*** SECOND DRAW ***
que no,paso: discards 2 cards
satriales3: stands pat on [3c 5s 6h 7s 2c]
kisyonysh: discards 2 cards
que no,paso: checks
satriales3: bets $0.20
kisyonysh: calls $0.20
que no,paso: folds
*** THIRD DRAW ***
satriales3: stands pat on [3c 5s 6h 7s 2c]
kisyonysh: discards 1 card
satriales3: bets $0.20
kisyonysh: calls $0.20
*** SHOW DOWN ***
satriales3: shows [3c 5s 6h 7s 2c] (Lo: 7,6,5,3,2)
kisyonysh: mucks hand
satriales3 collected $1.34 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $1.40 | Rake $0.06
Seat 1: satriales3 (big blind) showed [3c 5s 6h 7s 2c] and won ($1.34) with Lo: 7,6,5,3,2
Seat 2: kisyonysh mucked [7d 5c 2s 4s Jh]
Seat 4: tunezmad (button) folded before the Draw (didn't bet)
Seat 6: que no,paso (small blind) folded after the 2nd Draw

That was my first hand at the table and everyone left after that

sick!

Haha that's quality!

LOL 2-7

Went back to Dusk Til Dawn to rail the tourney they have a tv table played some cash.

Slayerx wrote:Went back to Dusk Til Dawn to rail the tourney they have a tv table played some cash.

What were the stakes? How did it go?


Anybody playing at the moment?

So Dusk Til Dawn was awesome

Walked through the door and Simon Trumper was there he's a cool cat

Spent most of my time drooling the female staff, who all happen to very good looking *droool*

Anyway the tourney started bad but avoided losing all my chips when I ran set into another set.

Doubled back to starting stack with AA vs QQ just before the 1st break.

Then got moved to the chip leaders table, he was a really good player making some great hero calls and always been spot on with his reads he had about 60k and average was about 14k.

Knocked a player out with AK vs K9 on a 9AK flop

Then got card dead, managed to win a nice pot with AA vs KJ later on all-in pre but then lost a big race against a loose player with AQ vs 66.

Overall I was very impressed and I should be on the website sometime soon as we all had pictures taken and had to sign a disclaimer with the press been there etc.

Cash tables I played some .50 - 1 and 1 -2 as the standard wasn't great won a few hundred quid so that made up for the tourney.

What was the tourney buy in?

The buy-in was £58 with 10k starting stack and 45 min levels.