EDIT: Ok apparently the word rap on the blog page doesn't work and I can't be fucked fixing it
so if you want to read this with proper word rap it's going to be easier to go to this link: http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=157184
But I played at these tables the other night at Crown Casino (Where Aussie Millions is held so it's a decent poker room) and I think they are actually pretty good. The main complaints that people seemed to have in the previous thread was that it distracted from the atmosphere, that it might be easy to cheat by looking at the cards and that it was pointless, I'll address those in…
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I went with a few friends on Friday night and the immediate benefit was no waiting, normally at crown you usually have to wait for like 10-20 minutes and sometimes longer, at least on a Friday or Saturday night, but this time I was able to sit down almost straight away because you just look for a vacant seat and go and sit down. They give you this card thing that you put credit on at the cashier and you just insert it and buyin. One advantage (especially for lower limit players) was the limits at Crown went as low as .5/1$ with a 50bb max buyin, which is good compared to the normal buyins. For example you buyin for $50 max at the $1/2 dealer tables (emetique). They also had $2/4 FL as opposed to the lowest dealer tables being $5/10 FL. I would assume other casinos would adopt a similar policy of offering lower limits on the electronic tables
The coolest thing I found was that you get the opportunity to play shorthanded vs the casinofish, often at the Casino (At Crown anyway) you basically have to play high enough that there aren't enough players for a full table if you want to play shorthanded (like $10/20 or something). But there I was playing 3 handed vs the hilariously bad casinofish and BANKIN! (obv). So that was probably the coolest aspect of the technology
Also the hand rate is MUCH faster and no dealer fuckups (Like the dealer taking your cards when you open raise pf, it's happened to me ) or stringbetting etc to contend with which was a major bonus. Also I always get carpal tunnel at the casino from continuous shuffling so this helped me spare my precious wrist for more fruitful activities . I was probably getting 60 hands an hour at the full tables (9 playaz) and obviously many more when playing shorthanded. Anyone who's played casino NL knows how mindgrindingly slow it is (Full ring hand rates in the teens if your dealer sucks and the game is loose) so this was a welcome change
The atmosphere was still good as well (Chatty players etc, probably depends on table, you get dead table with dealers too) and the play was equally as loose as the normal tables so no complaints there. People also didn’t seem to take losing nearly as badly and I didn’t here any “fucking rigged damn computer” complaints either so normal fish didn’t seem to mind it either
There are also a few cool features like showing high/low cards as well folding and show last to act and all that shit too so your actions aren't really limited compared to normal casino play. There are also functions to automuck and call a floor person over if someone is being a faggot so it’s all there
You can rebuy to the max easily, look at the previous hand and see the exact pot amount and stack sizes, which makes it a lot easier to make decisions in regards to bet/raise amounts which is sometimes a problem at the casino. Also there's a confirm button for actions so it’s difficult to make misclicks etc.
In regard to looking at the other player's hands it's really quite easy to prevent any cheating. The way to show you cards is you put your hand on the touchscreen in a cupping shape around the card animation and the cards kinda flip up so you see he corner like you would normally. Also the screens are covered with some substance which makes it impossible view them from an angle so there’s really only a cheating threat from the players directly next to you which is easy to negate if you use your hands in the normal way. It’s not like people and trying to cheat anyway so it’s not a big deal
Another problem is that one of the tables seemed to randomly lag a little, which was a rare occurrence but a little annoying nonetheless. Also my screen was a little screwy but that seemed to be only a problem with my screen. I used the card to touch the screen buttons as opposed to my hand and it worked fine, probably some aids ridden junkie had wiped his greasy hands on it causing it to not register my finger so it's all good . The touch screens are generally pretty reactive though and don't fuck up much, hardly a major inconvenience.
So yeah overall I think they are cool, of course there is a slight loss of atmosphere without real cards and chips and dealer but I’m not a chip butterflyin’ card flickin’ dealer antagonisin’ balla so I don’t really care. If you’re going to the casino to make money and play some shorthanded low limit live pokah then these tables are the obvious choice. If you like chatting to other players about how gay the dealer is and doing chip tricks then you might want to stick to the normal dealer tables but otherwise poker pro is the way to go
Well,
I actually haven't been playing that much poker, I just haven't found the time to play. I lost about half my roll playing drunk, but thats ok - no biggy. Anyways I don't think I'll have time to play this week either. I'm not dependent on poker since I have a regular job. I work at an IT company as a Site Manager (08:00-17:00). But I will play a poker tournament tomorrow at work. In Sweden we have something called "lagpokerligan" which is a poker league. Our company has a team playing and we finished in 5th place (out of 12) last time. We have 4-5 pro's whom are already in the team. I myself will try to win this tournament so I can get on the team. Next sunday, I might play the 500+100 tournament at the Casino here in Stockholm (depends on when I get back from visiting my friends in the south of Sweden (Malmö). So if any of the swedish fellows are interested in playing the freezout, send me a PM and we can meet up before the tournament starts.
So I thought about writing in english once again. This was a nice week, I only had 3 days of classes in the university instead of the usual 5. Carnival started in Brazil so people are travelling everywhere. I wish I could travel far away this carnival but I can't, not enough money right now.
Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd) will play in Brazil in march, and I'm pretty much dying to go there, but again I'll be stopped by the lack of green paper, god that sucks. I hope I can at least gather enough money to go to Sao Paulo in the middle of the year to watch my team win the Libertadores (south american version of Champions League).
I had a friend staying in my house this week. He is cousin of my cousin's husband, and stayed for 4 days. Pretty nice guy. He is travelling down the brazilian coast, visiting many cities in a small amount of time, meeting many places and people. That's something I'd like to do in the future, but since I have a girlfriend it's more difficult. Maybe I can do it with her, who knows?
I went to a weird but fun party yesterday. You dress like if you were in the 80's and in a really ugly way. Many many people were there, like 120k people, and they only play the really bad musics from the 80's and beginning of 90's. Just like in the first (top) picture of this newspaper: http://www.correiodaparaiba.com.br/foto.capa.png
that's it, I hope I can have a nice, peaceful and fun carnival!
I ended up decent I guess. I usually try to quit after Im up like 4 or 5 BI but every time Im about to quit lee jones knows it and deals me all QQ KK AA on all my tables and I lose big pots with all of them so I feel like I need to make the money back.
When I was about to quit the first time i got dealt AA on three tables. I got it all in pf on 2 of them
1) vs 88, spikes and 8 on the turn
2) vs KQo, flop comes KKx
3) third got folded around to pf raise
Second time I got up a few buyins I get dealt 3 tables of KK and 1 of AA. Luckily I only lost with one hand of KK to a set of 10's.
This community is starting to get kind of gay.. everyone is a nerdy real life weak tight nit who takes thing way to seriously. For example I make a thread where I post a few pictures of jonnycosmo woopty doo im not trying to be byrnesam or trying to get attention just trying to make a funny thread. Then out of nowhere few morons decide to take time from their amazing baller lifes to post in my thread how gay Im lol.. I even got called a middle aged man. I guess maybe people think Im some emo since my post about how my life sucked whatever... I dont care
upcoming events this week:
1. 10k hands in nl25 fullring (update on 2.25.07)
2. 250 6.50 sngs (2.25.07
3. video (TODAY!)
For those people that have some sort of vendetta or w/e against me get of my dick you dont know me so stop talking shit its the internet have fun let loose stop trying to be so popular.. christ be annoying be immature once a while have fun this isnt REAL LIFE shocking inst it..
Well today I woke up, it was rainy and I have a long bus ride to university. I was like fuck it, I stay home read the lecture notes and of course play some Poker!
Not a good idea. I am a low variance type of player so this is not standard for me, but I took it well... a bit too well really... maybe I don't care about money anymore... and I am still a poor student. not good.
but hopefully I can make it up this weekend. Its always better on weekends
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Thats poker, and about those prairie dogs, they are not so innocent! they can fuck up your garden/backyard. Me shooting them was only business, nothing personal.
but I was actually making fun of those guys with SNIPER GUNS, apparently they do this everyday for fun.
In my defense I was bored as hell and I only killed 2. I love animals I really do... not cats really... I love dogs, but I can stand cats.. I think.
Im progressing pretty steadily at 10NL ending up +3BI/session on average. Im about to put $200 onto FullTilt for rakeback, free pokertracker, and the deposit bonus. Hopefully I should clear all that fairly quickly.
After I clear on Full Tilt I'm going to move the majority of the money from there onto stars and move to 25NL with about $800 or so. Ill probably play 25NL until about $1,300 or $1,400. I feel like I can safely move to 50NL from there.
I was scouting the FullTilt 10NL and 25NL tables today just to see what the games there were like in comparison to stars, and I saw this funny little hand
Submitted by : tae-g
Full Tilt Poker Game #1795364478: Table Sparkling (6 max) - $0.05/$0.10 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:00:03 ET - 2007/02/14
Seat 1: Buster dawg ($1.65)
Seat 2: SteelerWheeler ($1.90)
Seat 3: Feinschmecker ($4.30)
Seat 4: golferdolphin ($4.20)
Seat 5: CPORET ($10.15)
Seat 6: Jenniina ($9.40)
Jenniina posts the small blind of $0.05
Buster dawg posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #5
Holecards SteelerWheeler raises to $1.90, and is all in
Feinschmecker folds
golferdolphin folds
CPORET calls $1.90
Jenniina folds
Buster dawg folds
SteelerWheeler shows
CPORET shows
Flop (Pot : $3.95)
Turn (Pot : $3.95)
River (Pot : $3.95)
SteelerWheeler shows a straight, Ace high
CPORET shows a full house, Jacks full of Aces
CPORET wins the pot ($3.60) with a full house, Jacks full of Aces
SteelerWheeler is sitting out
Summary Total pot $3.95 | Rake $0.35
Board:
Seat 1: Buster dawg (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: SteelerWheeler showed and lost with a straight, Ace high
Seat 3: Feinschmecker didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: golferdolphin didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: CPORET (button) showed and won ($3.60) with a full house, Jacks full of Aces
Seat 6: Jenniina (small blind) folded before the Flop
Just a quick comment on the hand i posted last time. I talked it over with some very good players and the one who's opinion i consider highest (i wont say who cause he likes anonymity) told me he shoves here cause of stacksizes and folding with that little less on a paired board seems really hard. But if we were a bit deeper he thinks flat calling he could be a very very smart play. I agree with him (assuming we werent too too deep, in which case it would become very hard to get any value out of sets on a flush board).
Ok, so my first full month at 25/50 is over (I got back from pca on the 11th and started playing on the 13th). here are my stats for the month for PLO and NL respectively:
Things went pretty well for my first month at higher stakes, I dont think I ran particularly well or bad, so I hope this is sustainable. Ran pretty bad in omaha at the end there but I still feel I have a pretty significant edge in the games on stars.
ok, so i basically made 150k the past month. Now for the ballerism:
So I called my credit card company earlier because the limit on my card was $1900 a month and I needed it raised a bit for hotels and flying to tournaments and stuff. I'm on the phone with some lady when the following mini-convo comes up:
After that, she asked me if I wanted my credit card limits raised up to 35k, the highest I offer. My mom (also on the phone, it was a 3way call) yelled at me for telling her I made that much and I decided to just raise them up to 6k, enough for hotels/flights/creditcard roulette degeneracy at restaurants.
Oh yeah, one little tiny rant. Pokerstars wont sponsor me for the monte carlo tournament, WTF.
Hello Ryan,
My name is xxxxxxx, I work in marketing at PokerStars. I recently
received an email from Tamar regarding a sponsorship for you to our Monte Carlo event. Unfortunately we are choosing not to sponsor any additional players to Monte Carlo at this time. This decision has been made in part because of the ever-changing state of online gaming in the U.S right now. We are scaling back much of our U.S marketing and sponsoring players located in the U.S falls under this part of the budget.
Please feel free to reply with any questions, and I'll be sure to be in
touch if our U.S marketing strategy changes in the near future.
Best regards, and congratulations on your PCA win!
Talk soon,
xxxxxxx
That sort of sucks considering last year's champion is on team stars. I hope the US online stuff clears up. I really wanted to be a part of team stars and bring a young face to some of the tournaments. Oh well, its just donkaments.
My new goal for the year is to have my cash game winnings for the year surpass my PCA win total. I think it's attainable, ill be playing a lot of poker this year, and I basically have to avg 130k a month or so, which is hard but doable if i put him like 40k hands a month.
Just a quick comment on the hand i posted last time. I talked it over with some very good players and the one who's opinion i consider highest (i wont say who cause he likes anonymity) told me he shoves here cause of stacksizes and folding with that little less on a paired board seems really hard. But if we were a bit deeper he thinks flat calling he could be a very very smart play. I agree with him (assuming we werent too too deep, in which case it would become very hard to get any value out of sets on a flush board).
Ok, so my first full month at 25/50 is over (I got back from pca on the 11th and started playing on the 13th). here are my stats for the month for PLO and NL respectively:
Things went pretty well for my first month at higher stakes, I dont think I ran particularly well or bad, so I hope this is sustainable. Ran pretty bad in omaha at the end there but I still feel I have a pretty significant edge in the games on stars.
ok, so i basically made 150k the past month. Now for the ballerism:
So I called my credit card company earlier because the limit on my card was $1900 a month and I needed it raised a bit for hotels and flying to tournaments and stuff. I'm on the phone with some lady when the following mini-convo comes up:
After that, she asked me if I wanted my credit card limits raised up to 35k, the highest I offer. My mom (also on the phone, it was a 3way call) yelled at me for telling her I made that much and I decided to just raise them up to 6k, enough for hotels/flights/creditcard roulette degeneracy at restaurants.
Oh yeah, one little tiny rant. Pokerstars wont sponsor me for the monte carlo tournament, WTF.
Hello Ryan,
My name is xxxxxxx, I work in marketing at PokerStars. I recently
received an email from Tamar regarding a sponsorship for you to our Monte Carlo event. Unfortunately we are choosing not to sponsor any additional players to Monte Carlo at this time. This decision has been made in part because of the ever-changing state of online gaming in the U.S right now. We are scaling back much of our U.S marketing and sponsoring players located in the U.S falls under this part of the budget.
Please feel free to reply with any questions, and I'll be sure to be in
touch if our U.S marketing strategy changes in the near future.
Best regards, and congratulations on your PCA win!
Talk soon,
xxxxxxx
That sort of sucks considering last year's champion is on team stars. I hope the US online stuff clears up. I really wanted to be a part of team stars and bring a young face to some of the tournaments. Oh well, its just donkaments.
My new goal for the year is to have my cash game winnings for the year surpass my PCA win total. I think it's attainable, ill be playing a lot of poker this year, and I basically have to avg 130k a month or so, which is hard but doable if i put him like 40k hands a month.
You think I'm joking? I can keep putting these up!
On another note, aba20 aka sbrugby plays like a monster in yesterday's episode of High Stakes Poker. It's really something that you guys shouldn't miss.
You think I'm joking? I can keep putting these up!
On another note, aba20 aka sbrugby plays like a monster in yesterday's episode of High Stakes Poker. It's really something that you guys shouldn't miss.
Ahh, I've been playing pretty poorly lately and not running so great either. (Kudos to whoever called out the downswing in my earlier blog post). Fortunately I played a solid 2k hand session today and sorta broke out of it. Only recouped about half the losses though
It's been really cold up here, and I'm happy I haven't been called out to work the docks lately (I work for a commercial lobstering company from time to time, it's a friend's family run business so sometimes they're desperate and have me drive up since I go to school right near Maine). It would really suck and I'm all set financially thankfully. Plus last time I worked an 8 pounder snagged my right hand and ripped a good peice of skin off, I'll try and get a picture up later, but the scar looks kind of viscious.
Lately I've been all weirded out and thinking about life and stuff, I think it's because I'm approaching senior year of college and I really have to think about things seriously. My uncle is a hot shot CPA and called me today to talk about interning in Manhattan with him which would be interesting but is frankly fairly intimidating. I'm too hood for the real world.
Also, there's a really interesting thread over at 2+2 about some guy who is mimicking SBrugby's bankroll building strat (Start with 1k, play 100nl until 10 buyins for 200nl etc all the way up to 5/10.) I think it's interesting and I don't have the thread off hand but if you can find it it will be real interesting.
Check out my recent hands for todays session (Feb 12th), the tables were kinda nutty there is some real gems in there (Calling 4 bets with 35dd is standard?).
I dont know what I did but I am finally able to login to these blogs instead of getting an error that doesnt make sense.
Anyways,
I am 22, student, and I started playing poker 2 summers ago. Playing very long low-stakes games with friends, but they were too easy, except Capaneo, he was always lucky.
I deposited my first $50 into Stars while visitng family in US.
I had nothing to do for 3 weeks really, so I spend alot of time drinking beers and shooting prairie dogs in that small town in Arizona.
oh yea 1 shot 3 targets:
Now you might think this is unrelated to poker but you are wrong. These fuckers are fast and they dig the ground like a mother fucker. It takes alot of patience to find one in close shooting range ( I had a crappy gun).
See its very much like set hunting, you have to wait for them to stick their head above the ground or come out of the hole completly and BAM! they squil take few steps and die. but its tough.
Once you hit them, well it feels as good as stacking some2 with your set of dueces.
These guys know what I am talking about:
Anyways shooting these fuckers and drinking beer was allright but I had to find a way to entertain myself at nights (oh GROW UP!) and thats how it all began. I deposit $50 into stars and started with 2nl.
I am now at 50nl. I thank Capaneo and this website for the poker knowlege, but I hope to stack each and everyone of you and break your BRs...
Thats all for now, I post random stuff poker or non-poker related. Random is good.
drk_sde: i forgive you for sucking out just cuz i can jerk you around in the chat and let u think your pwning me JonnyCosMo: but u wanna know what's funny drk_sde: what? JonnyCosMo: i AM pwning you JonnyCosMo: and i dont need a chat box to do it JonnyCosMo: SHIP THE BUUURRRNNNN! drk_sde: ...
Apparently I made this poor guy cry when I sucked out on a hand. What's he expect? I run infinitly good. How can he possibly think that his hand is going to hold vs me? Moron. On another note, true to my word, here is the Tom pic of the day for everyone to enjoy.
TalentedTom and some girl that swore Tom looked exactly like her brother. Wtf? There is only one TalentedTom! Bitch plz~
drk_sde: i forgive you for sucking out just cuz i can jerk you around in the chat and let u think your pwning me JonnyCosMo: but u wanna know what's funny drk_sde: what? JonnyCosMo: i AM pwning you JonnyCosMo: and i dont need a chat box to do it JonnyCosMo: SHIP THE BUUURRRNNNN! drk_sde: ...
Apparently I made this poor guy cry when I sucked out on a hand. What's he expect? I run infinitly good. How can he possibly think that his hand is going to hold vs me? Moron. On another note, true to my word, here is the Tom pic of the day for everyone to enjoy.
TalentedTom and some girl that swore Tom looked exactly like her brother. Wtf? There is only one TalentedTom! Bitch plz~
Ive started playing a little more loose pf especially in position. I watched Daut's FR video again today and realized that I could loosen up a bit, and I liked the way he raised his pairs pf even utg. It worked out pretty well, and just about every time I made a set I stacked someone.
I ended up +3 BI bc I got drawn out on once or twice, but this style was a little more fun and kept me interested so I think ill stick with it for a while.
So yesterday we got a semi-LP.net home game together with mfcmurray, Avi8tion, tbc79, luminous, and myself at a NL25 6-Max table. I proceeded to do my usual ass kicking and built up a nice stack of $125+ through these hands:
Then Lee Jones seemed to have enough of me pwning ass for one night, as I proceeded to be souly responsible for rebuilding luminous' bankroll in the following hands:
JonnyCosMo: bets $84.60 and is all-in
KOSTALATA: calls $28 and is all-in
Showdown JonnyCosMo: shows (a full house, Fours full of Eights)
KOSTALATA: shows (four of a kind, Eights)
KOSTALATA collected $76.10 from pot
Summary Total pot $78.10 | Rake $2
Board
Seat 1: JonnyCosMo (big blind) showed and lost with a full house, Fours full of Eights
Seat 2: mfcmurray folded on the Turn
Seat 4: KOSTALATA (button) showed and won ($76.10) with four of a kind, Eights
Seat 6: tbc79 (small blind) folded before Flop
Ouch ! I ended up down $27.50. so lame! You know what I need right about now to cheer me up? A TalentedTom Picture!!
AhHhhh that's better. :-) Where is our poker instructional video Tom? We are all waiting.
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) or stringbetting etc to contend with which was a major bonus. Also I always get carpal tunnel at the casino from continuous shuffling so this helped me spare my precious wrist for more fruitful activities 
. I was probably getting 60 hands an hour at the full tables (9 playaz) and obviously many more when playing shorthanded. Anyone who's played casino NL knows how mindgrindingly slow it is (Full ring hand rates in the teens if your dealer sucks and the game is loose) so this was a welcome change
. The touch screens are generally pretty reactive though and don't fuck up much, hardly a major inconvenience.
(four of a kind, Eights)
! I ended up down $27.50. 
so lame! You know what I need right about now to cheer me up? A TalentedTom Picture!!
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