The Poker Thread

I hate poker, it's incredibly annoying. I'm still only just starting out and I'm determined to succeed but your determination is definitely tested when you're knocked out of 6 SnGs in a row in stupid hands. AK lost to 97o? Yep. QQ lost to 23? Yep. Trips kings lost to 22 who hits the other two 2s on the turn and the river? Yep.

And nothing is more infuriating to a newbie who's genuinely trying to better his play than a perpetual raiser who'll reraise you with 73o and then show his cards when everyone else folds.

It can be very frustrating, but as long as you are getting your chips in with the better hand then I wouldn't worry too much about the results. Just take it on the chin and hope your luck holds next time. It's the reason why you should have a bankroll of ~50+ buy-ins, as no matter how well you play you can't win them all and luck will play a big part in your short-term results.

Well my return to poker has been fairly poor

Will see what we can do at the Team Game before I decide on an iPoker roll.

Was doing well in the Daily 100K left. About 100 left have slightly below an average stack, then my touchpad stops working. Spend 20 minutes trying to get it to work, eventually turns out I pressed a button which turns it off. (Most useless laptop button ever btw) and when I work this out I have about 6 BB left.

I use a (wireless) mouse because I hate touchpads. Should be buying a PC in a couple of months so will really be able to grind the multi tables.

Igor wrote:I hate poker, it's incredibly annoying. I'm still only just starting out and I'm determined to succeed but your determination is definitely tested when you're knocked out of 6 SnGs in a row in stupid hands. AK lost to 97o? Yep. QQ lost to 23? Yep. Trips kings lost to 22 who hits the other two 2s on the turn and the river? Yep.

And nothing is more infuriating to a newbie who's genuinely trying to better his play than a perpetual raiser who'll reraise you with 73o and then show his cards when everyone else folds.

Pretty much what satriales said. In the long term, we should be grateful for these players making terrible plays. At the low stakes you can just concentrate on value betting your good hands and letting others make mistakes.

Where are you playing and what's your username?

$25,000 WPT Championship Final Table:

Official Seating & Chip Counts
Level 25: 30,000-60,000, 5,000 ante

Friday's televised WPT Final Table is set with the final six players. Here are their seating assignments and chip counts:

Seat 1. Galen Hall - 5,095,000 (84 BBs)
Seat 2. Justin Young - 1,750,000 (29 BBs)
Seat 3. Tony Gargano - 3,550,000 (59 BBs)
Seat 4. Roger Teska - 3,600,000 (60 BBs)
Seat 5. Scott Seiver - 5,075,000 (84 BBs)
Seat 6. Freddy Bonyadi - 2,470,000 (41 BBs)

We will be providing live hand-for-hand coverage at the final table, scheduled to begin at 4:00 pm on Friday. (Thursday is an off day.)

Going to grind the iJoker MTTs today. Who is with me?

$1,250 Freezeout - 12:45
$500 Freezeout - 13:05
$1,000 Freezeout - 14:10
$3,500 R/A - 15:00
$750 Freezeout - 15:40
$3,000 R/A - 16:30

Considering all of the above.

I'm going to the seaside at lunchtime so will miss most of those. Got lots of revision to do this weekend too, so not sure i'll be able to play much. I do have a $20,000 raketherake freeroll tomorrow night though, and there are only 98 players registered so far, so i'll definitely play that.

satriales wrote:I'm going to the seaside at lunchtime so will miss most of those. Got lots of revision to do this weekend too, so not sure i'll be able to play much. I do have a $20,000 raketherake freeroll tomorrow night though, and there are only 98 players registered so far, so i'll definitely play that.

Who is the Raketherake freeroll with?

Drumstick wrote:Going to grind the iJoker MTTs today. Who is with me?

$1,250 Freezeout - 12:45
$500 Freezeout - 13:05
$1,000 Freezeout - 14:10
$3,500 R/A - 15:00
$750 Freezeout - 15:40
$3,000 R/A - 16:30

Considering all of the above.

Yeah I'm in all of them + like 20 more obv. See you on msn. (Get mumble FFS )

@ DML think it's jokerstars

Rex McGee wrote:Yeah I'm in all of them + like 20 more obv. See you on msn. (Get mumble FFS )

Will do when I buy my PC next month

Rex McGee wrote:@ DML think it's jokerstars

Yep Stars, starts at 8pm tomorrow.

I'm deep in another donkament

7/35 from 3659 entrants in a $3 FO. Money isn't very good though unless you final table.

Edit: 1/31 now:


Yeah I played this hand terribly, but looking back at the odds I was still 48% to win after calling his shove. The main reason I called was because his bet was so large that I thought he was bluffing with AQ, AJ sort of hands and that would give me another 6 outs.

Update:
Finished in 5th for $466.52 Called an all-in with QQ and was up against AQ but he hit an ace on the flop. Next hand I get it in with 77 against his AT and he makes two pair.
As usual I can't complain really as I had quite a few lucky hands to reach the final table. One of the biggest I remember was getting it in as a short stack with 77 v JJ v AK and flopping the set.

Also:
Down to 43 players from 812 in a $11 deepstack...

So breakevenament lately. Search me on donkscope and you'll see 200 games of up and down at breakeven. Where's the big cashes mayne?

This freeroll is pretty good value. There's $20,000 in prizes and only 148 players, so each seat is worth about $135.

Come on Sat!

Sorry buddy - I went out. Sick hands.

A-Qd into Aces - halved my stack - A-10-6 flop. Check called turn and river, and he showed the set of Aces.

Raised pre with K-K - one caller UTG - flop A-J-10 guy goes all-in.

Then suck out with mini stack A-3s vs A-K.

All went in eventually on Q-J-4 flop - K-Q vs Q-J. Turned a spade for a draw but missed on the river.

Such gooseberry fool luck - but to the format. Five minuite blinds for that much money?

Yeah not impressed with the format, especially with only 1500 starting stack, and a guy on my table keeps stalling.

Edit: And now i'm out. Had 1400 chips blinds are already 200/400, I shove with Q7 from MP as I can see that most of the other players are on around 2k and so it's my last chance with some fold equity before I start getting blinded out. Called by AK and it holds.

Urgghhh....Sat - saw you go out.

What a horrible horrible cruel format.

Honestly - some of the play was pretty awful - why couldn't it have a decent structure? So sick of this gooseberry fool happening to me in poker. When IS my big pay-day happening? Its so demoralising. If this bollocks happens again in Southampton....

It's not just the five minute blinds, compared to a turbo 180-man, the blinds increases are much steeper.
Annoying to have a potentially great tournament ruined by poor structure and idiots stalling.

Edit: Just checked and the format is identical to the 2xTurbo tournaments.