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Rex McGee wrote:What imageshack?

I clicked on the link, and its sent some kind of trojan to the family computer - now its not working.

:fp:

The link to to the image. I just changed it to the direct link instead. It's imageshack, not 4ch*n.

Last edited by satriales on Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I think the standard of play at Stars may actually be even worse now that the Americans aren't playing:

I thought broudie was weak and so didn't want him seeing a flop, but 100BB and the guy calls all-in with Q5 :fp:

Just had another nice hand, running good so far today :mrgreen:

Rex McGee wrote:The link to to the image. I just changed it to the direct link instead. It's imageshack, not 4ch*n.

I'm not blaming you - but I DID get a virus - called MS Removal Tool. Trying to get rid of it is a bit of a headache at the moment.

Currently on FT of $44 6max.

On Stars

Edit: Finished 4th. strawberry floated up a bit. V agressive final table and I perhaps strawberry floated up a bit. With a pair of 8s and a pair of 7s. For $580

I've got the day off work so decided to try my hand at the fifty50s on Stars. So far they are going well with 7/10 cashes and 68% ROI, but more importantly I think they are great fun with an interesting structure that greatly rewards bullying :mrgreen:

How do they work again? I remember playing a couple then not bothering again.

Ten player tables, top 5 cash. Prize money is split so that half is awarded equally between the top five, and the remaining 50% is split depending on stack sizes.

It's a bit like double or nothings except you don't have to fold every hand. The interesting part comes when you are down to about 7 players as shorties will be trying to fold into the money, and big stacks will be trying to get more chips. If you are a big stack it's even sometimes better to keep the short stacks alive so the game doesn't end until you've got more chips of the mid-stacks.

Apparently at the $20+ levels there are tons of regs and it's hard to make a good ROI, so i'll just stick with the $5 and $10 ones for now as they are super soft.

How you getting on?

I didn't play very many in the end, just fifteen $5 games (could do that in an hour 6-tabling :fp:

) but I'll probably play a load more tonight. I'd already played a few games yesterday too, so results so far:

21 games
ITM: 76.2%
ROI: 42.9%
Profit: $47.80

While my sample size is obviously tiny, so far I'm finding it a piece of cake to cash but it's not so easy to cash with over 3000 chips which is what you need to double up. I did triple up in one of my games though, which was nice.

Fellow Warwick poker player Rupert Elder just took down the EPT San Remo for 930,000 Euros. :shock:

I'm pretty deep in a $5 FO.

There were just under 4000 entrants and currently i'm 36/130. Money is extremely top heavy though so you hardly get anything unless you reach the final table.

Just what I needed:

It was all-in preflop, not sure why that guy called me for half his stack with A4 though. I can't remember the last time I got a royal, definitely a long time ago.

Update: 22/39.

Update: Just scraped through to the final table in 9th place...

Update: Thought it was all over then. Big stack raised and I thought he was doing that with any two so I shoved and we get it in pre:

Update: Down to 8 now and the run good continues. All in pre flop again and the card were dealt extra slowly:

The run good is getting silly now, I just want to go to bed.

All in pre flop once again:

If my calculations are correct then the odds of me winning all three of the last hands I posted is just 2.7%. :lol:

Update:
And it's over! I finished 2nd earning a nice $2,321.86, so it was worth the long, sleepless night :mrgreen:

I should have won the final hand (I got it in on the turn as 82% favourite) but after all the luck I had, I can't complain about that.

With 3969 entrants I think this is the biggest field where I've made final table.

I see you've managed to patch godmode.exe.

Well done Sat

Well done Sat! Some epic hands there, mind :lol:

Jesus christ! I'd give my right arm to run that good! Theres about three runner-runners....

:lol:

Nearest thing I could find to a poker related dealwithit.gif :lol:

To be fair I did have some run bad earlier on in the tournament but yeah the poker gods were on my side for that final table. I was 9th and very short going in, so to get 2nd is way better than I had expected. It didn't take long for someone else to bust out in 9th but then going from 8 players to 7 took ages and I really wanted 7th place at the minimum as it was $450 which was almost double what 8th place gets.

I really ejoyed the whole tournament. The general standard of play was very poor, more so than usual. When it was down to about 100 players I was looking up everyone that sat at my table and very few were profitable players. Even on the final table there were only one or two, and they weren't hugely profitable either.

I just noticed that it's my second biggest cash at Stars. :mrgreen:

DML wrote:Jesus christ! I'd give my right arm to run that good! Theres about three runner-runners....

Indeed, obv Sat still had to wade through a done of other cards, though!

I'm sure you earn your run-good, Sat. Just good timing of it!

satriales wrote:

strawberry floating LOL :lol:

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