Is there any efficient way to play live poker small stakes without relying on luck?
Sitting at the table, 1-2NL game, been folding mostly and observing people around me. I get A-Q suited in the cutoff. I raise 3 limpers to 8x the bb (16 dollars), trying to isolate the best I can. Behind him I get 2 callers, and the original 3 limpers call. 6 players at a 9 player table seeing the flop at the price of 8 big blinds.....
Anyways, flop comes Q-3-4 rainbow. It gets checked to me and I bet a little over half pot. 3 people call, 2 fold. 4 people going to the turn in a monstrous pot. Turn brings an 8. First limper shoves, and gets called. I figure my A-Q has to be no good and fold it. Last guy calls behind me
Guy shows 3-8 OF DIAMONDS. The guy that called him shows POCKET FUCKING 10'S and says "I didnt think ya had it so I called." Last guy called the huge pot with 5-6 offsuit. Turn brings a blank, and 3-8 takes it down....
I was utterly stunned by what I had seen, and was left thinking, with the amount of hands these people are willing to take to showdown over huge bets no matter what the bet size, pot odds, implied odds, etc., is there an efficient way to play against these types of people, especially when there are many of them at the table?
Seems like the big hands you do get really don't have that much equity if you have to play against more than 3 players every flop : /
god i fucking loved starcraft broodwar. i wonder if ill ever get another game/activity that will make me so passionate and happy that will bring me to the level of interest bw brought. i hate that game for this lol
i dled pt2 from website and it says "ptrack2.exe has stopped working" when i click on it. do i need a special setting or does it not work on win7 or what? has anyone got pt2 running on windows 7?
In 1 hour, at 6 pm aka 11 TL.net time there will be a lot of frenchies that'll sitout in order to talk about Pstars and their insane "more than what it was supposed" rake. If there's any .fr players fell free to do the same.
We will, including myself, sitout from all the tables we can and protesting for as much as we can until pstars hears us.
Sorry for those who went to .fr to play at this hour.
Hope you understand.
Clinton: Activists Being Crushed By 'Steel Vise' Aby k2o4, July 03
Got the title from Huffington post where they talk about how Clinton is doing some good work trying to raise support for social change and government watch dog groups around the world. But then I saw this sentence and was like ?????
She recommended that the organization set up an independent means of monitoring repressive measures against social advocacy groups, and that the U.N. Human Rights Council do more to protect civil society. She announced that the U.S. would contributed $2 million to support the work of embattled nongovernmental groups.
$2 million? $2 million??? that's all? It's like they said "1 million isn't enough, let's make it 2". They couldn't even go to the double digits and at least do 10 million. But there's trillions of dollars for war spending?
If you want to know a person's priorities, look at the places he spends his money. If you want to know a government's priorities, look at where they spend their money.
looking for a stake. 3bb/100 winner at 100nl, i'd like to play there for about a month or two (approx 100k hands in total). i would also consider a stake for 50nl. i have had a total of 5 successful stakes through LP (iirc) with 3 different people. all of them have been successful for both parties. i've done 3 deals with my last backer, but after leaving him a few msn messages without a response up to this point, i'm opening up the deal to others.
if you're interested and want to discuss references/further info/terms of a deal, you can add me on msn, shiporgtfo@hotmail.com
Fairly happy with these results. I had about 3k hands at 50nl, but due to some variance, needing to withdraw, as well as pay my backer (thanks hub!), I was unable to continue playing that stake. I shall be back tho! This is the relevant stuff anyways. All 25nl/pl.
Ive been 8-13 tabling since I started playing again and when you adjust for ev, my BB/100 is like 2.1 so i suppose that is improvement from my 1.5 BB/100 24 tabling. Feels good to have a drive for poker, tho its easy when my personal life is in turmoil. Poker is a good distraction. Very easy to lose myself and put aside everything else for the moment. Mostly been working out/smoking weed/playing poker/soccer. Hopefully this shit keeps up (poker that is haha).
Time to go smoke a couple bowls! Me gusta tripping pelotas.
does anyone play on ongame? im having some problems
1. hud not working, hands are importing but i cant get the numbers to show up?
2. is there an auto reload button in the P5 software?
3. how do i make it remember i want to wait for big blind and always post blinds? right now i have to manually click this everytime i go on a table
4. are there any popular mods available? the chips and numbers are pretty small and hard to see >_>
please let me know if you know the answer to any of these!
I'm going to test out coaching to make me feel more productive. There was a day a while ago when I cleaned my house and did some other chores and it made me feel productive and it in turn made me more confident in my poker game.
I'm not new to coaching but the only people I have coached for long periods of times are friends. I will start out with exceptionally cheap and inexpensive rates and depending on demand and how I like it, adjust those rates. I also may want to do something where I take a couple people who have been break-even 100 or 200NL players for a long time and start coaching them for a % of their gain. Since they will have been break-even players for a while, they will not be able to deny that their jump in hourly is a direct result of me fixing up their game. This will align both of our incentives IE what's good for student is good for me and visa versa.
If anyone is interested, PM me ur Skype and I will add you. There will be no rush though and I will take things at my own pace. I will provide references and information about myself as necessary but I will only take on a couple students at first and I assume most of you know who I am.
I can provide graphs which extensively show that I solidly beat up to:
1kNLHU
1kNL6m
50nlFR (i don't play FR at mid stakes and my PTR has me as a small winner at 100nl because I 24 table it sometimes to get a break from high stakes when I'm on life tilt)
HU sitngos up to 50$ sitngos
single table FR sitngos up to 25$ sitngos
I can provide references and other such stuff but I'm trying to keep most things on a need to know basis. I do a lot of the time start from scratch when I've been losing for too long. I made a bet like 3 years ago with floofy that I could turn 1000 play chips into 6K (using rake back FPPs I made during that time) and easily beat it. I had a big downswing something like 14 months ago where I cashed out my roll and started from 50$
I remember I slacked off a bit too and wasn't averaging 14 hours a day even during that stint. People routinely tell me I waste so much time by doing this but it's also this caution that redisciplines me and has been the reason I have never had a shortage of money or scare that I will have to go find a real job in many years.
Also my 6m mid stakes graph on PTR is not that impressive and for a long while I barely played any 6m because I always thought I sucked at it. I looked at my holdem manager results (PS barely played means 125k hands over 2 years or w/e)
and I realized that I don't really suck at 6m. Since then I've played some 1knl 6m on the side just a table or two now and then and have been doing very well over a considerable sample size.
Anyway, I'm a little hesitant to release my specific stats or what my screen names are across all sites but if I decide to coach someone, I will provide ample information if they play high enough that I respect their concerns. As it is, right now, I'm actually looking maybe for more lower stakes people to coach, 1/2 to 50nl say.
Write down any questions you may have and I'll get respond to them tomorrow if I can't tonight as I am in London and it's about time to head out.
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