• SPORTS
    AND
    GAMING
  • Welcome Guest!
    Posting RulesBluelight Rules
  • Sports & Gaming Moderators: ghostfreak

A serious thread about online poker

Is that legal?

I didn't think gambling losses could be deducted from gambling winnings unless you file as a professional gamnbler.

I have one cash in my last 52 games at the 45 man sngs. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGh!
 
damn. I wish I had 2000 FPPs on poker stars. I have zero. never played a real money hand.

Wait, they allow you a chance to win 100,000 for 2000 FPPS !?

On full tilt, it takes 4400 FTPs to play in the double deuce! And it is harder to earn those points, from what I understand.

I am tryign to use Hold Em Manager. Seems like a pain in the ass.
 
You guys aren't the only ones running bad.

QQ vs 32.. defending his blind? I dunno, lol... but turn is 3, river is a 3.
AK into AQ... Flop comes AQx

Lost pretty much all my coin flips too.
 
If I ever get it figured out I will let you know. It is supposed to be better for tournaments. (this was in regard to Hold Em Manager)
 
Call me an idiot, but why would you re-raise all-in with AQo? Especially if he'd flat-called and then c-bet the flop, villain would surely have had to give him credit for the A?
 
ehhhh....

I am hesitant to question the results of your friend, who has probably matched my career winnings many times over, but .....

How do you ship in 100 big blinds with AQ pre flop?
 
nguboi said:
3 handed final table. The name of the game when short handed is AGGRESSIVEEEEEEe. I don't think anyone can fold AQ 3 handed, when 1 person folded. In short, its impossible to put someone at the final table of a 6 max tourny 3 handed on exactly KK.

Its very typical, i mean, if you were playing someone heads up, would you ever fold AK-AQ to a raise? Its impossible to put someone 3 handed on a huge pocket pair, because that same person would play probably 88-AA A8s-AK the exact same way. Just very unfortunate for him to have AQ when he had KK there.

Also, they had been 3 handed for quite some time, and my friend knew how the opponent plays. And sometimes, when you have a monster and want to induce an all in, you LIMP, knowing they will raise, only to 4 bet them all in. This is the exact situation he wanted to be in. Like when you have AA in the small blind, sometime you limp into the BB hopeing and praying hell just shove trying to steal, and you can trap em.

As we like to say, HOW THE FUCK can he have KK there!!!!!!

Kinda like when you are in the small blind with AKs and it folds to you, and you raise, and get re raised by the big blind, and you shove and he calls with AA. you cant put him on exactly AA there, or any huge pocket pair, ya know what im saying?
Click to expand...

It may be short handed, but it is NOT short stacked. Although, I just realized I made an error. I said 100 big blinds, but it is 50. The Limp was 1000, and the BB raised from 2000 to 10,000 right? So the ship of 100,000 was for 50 big blinds, not 100. Please excuse my error. It is a bit confusing when only a partial HH is posted.

If that is the case, I guess I am okay with it, sort of. 50 big blinds is still VERY deep though. He 's not calling unless he has AK or a good pocket pair (99 and higher? not sure where he would draw the line), so I am not sure if the push has value. It's a tough situation though, so I can certainly understand. The number of times I have folded AQ pre flop 3 handed in a tournament is probably zero.

Then again, I cannot remember the last time I had 50 big blinds 3 handed and was faced with that kind of decision. It probably has never come up.
 
nguboi said:
3 handed final table. The name of the game when short handed is AGGRESSIVEEEEEEe. I don't think anyone can fold AQ 3 handed, when 1 person folded. In short, its impossible to put someone at the final table of a 6 max tourny 3 handed on exactly KK.
Click to expand...

Oh, I certainly wouldn't fold, I'd probably flat call. I was wondering why the big push though. It seems to me that pushing 50xBB, you're only getting called by people who have you beat, or a coinflip. I'm figuring low pairs have to fold there. Mid pairs might call, AK calls, big pairs call. But weak aces probably don't, KQ probably doesn't, lower connectors don't. So one of two things happens: villain folds and hero wins about 10% of his stack, or villain calls and hero is probably a slight or big dog for all his chips.

That's the way it looks to my (noob) eyes. Obviously I don't have the same read on villain that hero would have. Thanks for responding.
 
18000 in two weeks?

I am envious!

ok, ATs in the BB and someone shoves from the button, I am probably calling almost all the time. I have too many tables going to bring up OPR on every player who shoves late position with 10 - 12 BB. But yes, if the player is break even or better, it is an instacall.

I use OPR a lot, but not for minor details like that one.

uh... you found someone with 955K winnings and 350 K profit !?

That is including large Multis right? You mentioned it in the context of a STT, but I refuse to believe anyone has a 56% ROI in STTS with that large of a sample size.
 
Infinite Jest, nguboi is right. That you are thinking about the hand analytically shows that you are not a noob. I like the flat call as well, especially since the hero in question is significantly better than the other players.

I must correct something though --

"villain would surely have had to give him credit for the A?"

This doesn't entirely make sense, as there may or may not have been an ace on the flop had he flat called. Unlike a "real" hand dealt with "real" cards, The flop is not predetermined.

So, yes, if he flat calls AND there is an ace, he will be given credit for the ace. But the flop could be queen high as well, which is a disaster.
 
"official pokerrankings doesn't show single table sngs"

I see the confusion. They do for full tilt players. They track HU and STT SNGs. I guess they do not for any other sites.

Yeah, Shaundeeb... I busted to him deep in the 750K on full tilt, losing a crucial coinflip for a big pot. He went on to take 3rd. Grrrr!
 
theres a nightly poker game at my buddies(bunch of us who graduated college but still dont have jobs) any way the last 2nights i just about killed somebody

im holding K-J .50 big blind i call ...dealer raised to 2.00 to go..the person in front of me calls and i call flop comes J-J-7. i check the person who raised bets the pot..the other guy fold i call..to make it short the turn and river come and im able to get all my chips in the middle thinking i was golden finally i push all in the fucker flips over pockt 7s...

next day playin again its getting late this kid whos a big fish was already down $120 but we keep him playin...this donkey goes all in with J-3 after the board hit like J-10-6..figureing he had nothing, with Q-J i called sure enough the board ended up pairing and we split the pot...very next hand he rivers quads to my fullboat and took my money...

between the 2night i only lost $100, i just played real good poker and took a couple bad beats..literally felt like i got bodied and just beat the fuck up


no poker for a week at least
 
rough hands, but, limp calling a raise with KJ OOP is about as serious an error as you can make pre flop.

Home games for .50 big blinds are not going to be very serious though.
 
Fjones said:
"official pokerrankings doesn't show single table sngs"

I see the confusion. They do for full tilt players. They track HU and STT SNGs. I guess they do not for any other sites.

Yeah, Shaundeeb... I busted to him deep in the 750K on full tilt, losing a crucial coinflip for a big pot. He went on to take 3rd. Grrrr!
Click to expand...

pwned by TedsFishFry :!
 
This is not directed at anyone in particular, just a general note about "running bad." I have seen some complaints about running bad that don't really meet the criteria. If you lose 8 in a row, you are not running bad. Losing with KK twice does not constitute running bad.

If you run like this seen here, THAT is running bad.

badrun.jpg
 
nguboi said:
hahahaha, hes so good, and running so hot, I really wonder what it feels like to be the craziest/best poker player online at any one time.

His poker savvy videos are insane, I saw him lose on the final table bubble of a tounry once calling an all in with 10 5s for a 1st place stack. PLAY FTW!
Click to expand...

Do you have a link for the site that hosts the videos? I was thinking about checking out to see what they are like. Sharkscope has some interesting ones too.
 
Fjones said:
This is not directed at anyone in particular, just a general note about "running bad." I have seen some complaints about running bad that don't really meet the criteria. If you lose 8 in a row, you are not running bad. Losing with KK twice does not constitute running bad.

If you run like this seen here, THAT is running bad.

badrun.jpg
Click to expand...

That is pretty brutal. How are you dealing with that, Fjones?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top