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Quick story -

Last week I got Quad Queens and unfortunately, it was a bad hand and nobody went in (was 2Q on flop and 2Q in my hand). Only won about 4$ =(.

Then 2 hands later 3K drops on board and I've got the 4th in my hand. Nobody believed I could have quads 2x in a night so it was a pretty massive hand with people going for highest fullhouse. My quad Kings won of course. =) I think I won over 100$ that hand.

Following hand 1K drops on flop and I've got pocket K in my hand again (rofl) and take another massive pot.

3rd hand I pull K2 and 2K drops on flop so I take pot again (full house Ks and 2s haha) for yet another massive pot.

4th hand (no joke) I get the same cards - K2. Yet again I win with 3Ks.

People stopped betting if K's came up on the board after that lol. =)

Usually nothing like that happens tho and I limp through the night maybe coming up 20$ or so. That night I was getting cards like I couldn't believe though.
 
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Hi

Hi, Im new to bluelight and a avid poker player. I mostly play online micro limits. I was playing allot of $1-$2 short handed limit and $2-$4 limit full ring on stars about 6 months ago. I lost my job in January and had to withdraw most of my roll:( I'm playing micro's frequently at FullTilt now and plan on moving to cake once I get a job and caught up on my bills.

A few online tips
1. Take advantage of rakeback and bonus offers. I know a couple of pros that live off rakeback. I'm not going to drop names, but from April 1st to the 18th, a mid limit semi pro true stats from FullTilt are, $3,635.41 in rake and $981.56 in rake back playing $1-$2 NLH.

2. Invest some of your profits in poker tracker or poker office. These programs are useful in finding leaks in your game. I would also recommend in investing in a poker training site membership.

3. Study bankroll management and the Kelly Criterion formula, this is going to be the foundation of your game. Lot's of good poker players go bust or fail to maximize profits because they do not practice good bankroll management.

See ya at the tables!
 
Anyone play on Bodog? I've just started there, and I'm very impressed. I'm playing the $500 or $1000 guaranteed freerolls, and the standard is OK but they seem beatable. Unlike Absolute or Full Tilt, you don't get 5 people going all-in preflop for the first 10 hands. I've gone reasonably far in the two games I've played, without yet cashing. Would have made it last night if not for a sick hand:

I have K7 in SB. Cutoff raises 2xBB and I call (he's loose/crazy and has raised something like 60-70% of hands, and folded the rest preflop). Flop comes Q87 and he bets out. I've already decided that I will re-raise if I get any part of the flop, so I do - usually, he's folded to my re-raises. Then I notice that he's bet a lot more than he usually does. Too late. I'm basically all-in, and he raises me my last few chips.

He shows me A4 - he has nothing at all except an overcard. Turn is an 8 giving him 88 and me two pair. River kills me - it's a Q, giving each of us QQ88. My 77 is useless and his kicker is higher than mine (A to K). I did the calculation afterwards and I was an 85% favourite when the money went in. Grrrr. I'm so annoyed that I read him perfectly, played the hand exactly right, and still lost :(
 
Sim0n said:
I'm so annoyed that I read him perfectly, played the hand exactly right, and still lost :(
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that really sucks but it's going to happen. there are hands we're all never going to win and that was one of them. take pride in the fact that you read it perfectly and leave the hand behind...

alasdair
 
Yeah, I used to play at Bodog quite a bit when they had the 10% Bonus on ALL deposits. They stopped that around the time of the Neteller Fiasco, and I haven't been back since.

I used to swoop in for a small deposit, 2-3 table the Beginner's Sit n Go's they have (pay top 5 players - you can literally fold into the $$) and clear it in a day and usually make a tidy profit too.

I might give 'em another try if they offer me a reload bonus sometime, but I don't have really any way to get the $$ out from there except paper check. We'll see what happens.
 
ranting is fine, simon as i'm a willing listener :)

i just got done playing for about 3 hours online and a few things struck me:

- in my experience, there's very little subtlety online. most people seem to have two bets: check and all-in

- the best hand normally wins. one of the things i love most about poker is that you don't need the best cards to win but online it seems to come down to the best hand so often.

- why do people show cards when they have a monster hand, make a monster bet early and everybody folds. like they have AA and flop an A. the blinds are 20-40 (or whatever). they move all-in and everybody folds, they win 80 chips and they show their next-to-unbeatable trip As? what's the point of showing that? all it tells me is you can't make a winning hand pay...

- i always go out by making a stupid out of position bet. yet still i do it. :)

- the smack talk is really tiresome. i normally have to play with chat disabled because i can't stand the boring, loud-mouthed player at the table with the short stack and tons of advice for everybody else.

a few months ago, i got involved in a heated exchange with a guy over something stupid. he actually put me out and then, ever time i logged on for about 2 or 3 months he'd appear as an observer at my table and give me a torrent of abuse. if i had given him an appalling beat, i might understand his being bitter but he beat me! anyway, i just ignored him for months until he popped up again and i finally said to him "do you even remember why you're mad and me?" and he couldn't. i never heard from him again. what a waste of energy. :)

what do love and hate about playing online?

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
- the smack talk is really tiresome. i normally have to play with chat disabled because i can't stand the boring, loud-mouthed player at the table with the short stack and tons of advice for everybody else.
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I HATE table coaches - scum of the earth! Conspiracy theorists are a close second though. You know, the ones who "know" the site is rigged, yet they continue to deposit and play.

I usually keep my smack talk to "You're cute - do you have a boyfriend?" and "Are you going to rebuy?"
 
when does the bother of losing affect you players? for me, i find losing two buyins is quite debilitating, whether it was from bad luck, or bad play. i will just stop playing until i can get my head straight. i've also realised how delusional i have gotten playing this game, in terms of how i percieve the game itself. its hard to explain but at a time, i was basically only playing my cards, and unfortunately running into bad luck/stronger hands and it kind of struck me that i wasn't playing right. i was in another out of tihs world mindstate for some reason, which was like not being able to see anything outside of your own cards. i stopped playing for a couple days, and got back to how i normally played (observing as much as possible, not jumping in glee that im holding kings) and obviously my results have improved. it astounds me how much losing forty bucks into your computer can upset me (add countless hours and commitment to the money) , and i find only a long break can really put losses behind me (i don't like "playing to win back what i've lost" )
 
alasdairm said:
what do love and hate about playing online?

alasdair
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Very much the same things as you (I was hoping they didn't apply at higher levels, I guess they do?).

* The overbets: 5 people all in preflop. Which leads to the second problem - it's impossible to bluff people, because you'll end up all-in anyway.

* people who don't understand the value of starting hands, and abuse you for "sucking out" when you have KK v AQ and your Kings hold up.

* even worse when they start giving lessons.

* ditto the people who go all-in with giant hands, and then show you, like they've done something amazing - like the goal is to have the best hand or to win the most pots, not to win the most chips.

* the people who get into flame wars - I had one funny one where a guy was threatening to drive from Philly to Jersey or NYC or something to get into a fight with another player!

* f**king calling stations who flat call with 3rd pair or a gutshot straight and hit on the river.

Like I said earlier, I like Bodog from what I've seen so far - people actually play some poker and raise 3-5xBB rather than going all-in blind.
 
alasdairm said:
what do love and hate about playing online?

alasdair
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i love doing the victory dance winning a big pot, or the pre-victory dance, holding aces with huge preflop action before you . i love the privacy . i love bad players. i love that online poker provides stakes low enough for the people who don't have the roll to play in casinos.

i hate bad players(lol) .i hate 8+hr sessions ending with bad results. i don't like people who (seem to) play like me.
 
zzITCHY420zz said:
when does the bother of losing affect you players?
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if i'm happy with the way i play the hand, i'm over a loss by the start of the next hand.

alasdair
 
I dislike smack talk. When players put down a obvious bad player, I tend to stick up for the bad player because I want their chips. I don't want the worst player at the table to get hurt and leave, thats major -EV, I want their money. If someone sucks a 3 outer on the river on me, I don't talk down to them, I just type VNH so they don't change their game or leave the table so I can get my chips back. Variance makes poker more like a marathon than a sprint, bad sessions are easy for me to shake off as long as I can honestly tell myself that I played well. If I have a couple of bad weeks, I take more time off and study hand histories to find out what my problem is so I can fix it.

I am most thankful for the lessons I have learned playing poker that I can apply to other parts of my life. Lot's of players talk about the importance of patience as it pertains to poker, but few talk about the discipline thats needed to study your game, manage your bankroll, and stop if you are having a problem and fix it.
 
Made a $65 profit in my home game tonight. I'm on a real roll with the home games. I've finished first or first equal (split pot) in the last three mini-tourneys we've played. Taking between $50 and $70 profit from each. Sweet times :)
 
It seems intrest has spiked again in the poker thread. I really would like to get a private online tournament together for all the bluelighters. I tried this a while ago but could not get enough people interested. PM me if interested and include what site you play on and what stakes you would be willing to play.
 
^ i would play (i play on absolute and full tilt) but i think it would be quite hard to bring a game together.

does anyone have suggestions on things to avoid if /while playing poker?
dont use stimulants (mindset balance gets thrown out the window)
avoid playing when hungry
 
For me substances don't really affect my play as long as I am not wasted. Things I do avoid.....

No TV on.

No music, unless its relaxing stuff.

Basically no distractions, and be able to think clearly.

*EDIT* And Itchy if you are down for a sit n go that is 4 people together, so we would need at least 2 more.
 
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