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I wish I could play in the WSOP. One, I'm not 21 and two, it's expensive! No chances of winning a seat online anymore though. Best I've placed in a big tournament was 7th out of 11500 players. I felt pretty accomplished. It was a free tournament but I still won money out of it. It's not that hard though, dumb players equals the numbers dropping quickly.

What was the cutoff for cashing out this year? Even if I cashed out and only made $1, I would still feel very proud of myself. That is a true accomplishment to outplay and outluck 8000 other players.
 
you could always play in a circuit event. last spring, there was a wsop circuit event in south lake tahoe and the entry for the qualifiers was about $240. myself and 7 friends played a kitchen-table qualifier for $30 each and the winner was dispatched to the lake tahoe event.

there were over 200 people, i think, in the qualifier and he lasted until there were less than 100 so it was fun while it lasted.

if i ever win the lottery, i know exactly where the first $10k is going :)

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
^ good luck. i mean, how did it go? :)

alasdair
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had 9 of my good mates over. cash-in game. the pot had about $500 in it. at the end of the night I finished +$15, not great. but Ive been on a good winning streak lately. ive won a few hundred in the last couple of weeks. we play 2 or so times a week.
 
Yeah I hear you. Usually I like to play tournys. But with the boys, it's also a good time to hang out and catch up after work, so it's hard sending someone home after a few hands once they are out. This way there is also a lot more money in the pot from re-buys and add-ons, and there is usually 2 or 3 people that win $100 or so. And as the game goes on, some players are on tilt, and bigger money is being thrown around, it gets interesting.
 
Poker story, and weird occurance question.

This thread has not been used in a while so I will write up a little report on my latest game.

Every wednesday on campus there is a ring game. We play 40 dollar max buy in with .25 and .50 blinds. Sometimes a 100 dollar game will start up also. It usually attracts around 20 people and we have 2 full rings playing. This week has been terrible for me online, I have blown off 400 big blinds in the last 2 days.

I came into the game hoping that I can turn my luck around in a live game. I play a couple orbits and nothing large has happened. I folded top pair when villain had a set and was pretty damn proud of myself. Only lost 15 bucks on the hand. I took down a couple more pots and had built up a decent roll.

Then I get dealt my favorite hand....what do I do?

I raise preflop and get a caller. Flop comes 233 with 2 to the flush hearts. Naturally I bet at the pot. Villain comes over the top with a big raise. I decide to push. Did I mention my favorite hand is aces?

So anyway villain calls. He turns over 44 and he has the heart. So he has plenty of outs: the up and down draw, backdoor flush draw, and he can hit a boat. The flop is a three. Boom, I eliminate all but 2 of his outs. I am stoked and looking forward to raking in those beautiful clay chips. But of course I get too excited and the 4 hits on the river. He has a boat full of 4s, mine is full of 3s. There goes another stack.

I decide to rebuy and have the terrible feeling that I am on tilt and will probably donk off another stack. Cards are dealt and holy shit.....aces again! To make a long story short I double up against queens.

I get aces another time in this game and take a decent pot.

From here on out I play smart aggressive poker, I win a couple pots with complete air against weak tight players. I take down multi pots that have been raised with strong reraises.

From being down 70 at one point I leave the building with over 200 bucks, not too bad.

I hope this read was not too boring, but after a game like this there is no way I am going to sleep.

Oh I got one other question for you guys. Later on in the night a very intersting situation occured. I want to hear your guys takes on it.

OK, I am looking for some help on this.

Luckily I was not involved in the hand. I do not really know how the betting went but basically player one flopped the nut flush, player 1 bets and player 2 calls. The turn comes a blank and one of the players moves all in. River is the ace of spades giving player 2 a full boat. So he wins the pot right? On further examination an ace of spades appeared on the flop as well. Counting the cards reveals that there was an extra card (the ace of spades) with the same back. What happens to the pot? Who takes it? Player 1 is less likely to hit his flush with 15 spades in the deck but just as well the river ace made the boat so player 2 is less likely to suck out. What happens?



Luckily we had only been playing this deck when we combined with the other table late at nite, so we had not been playing with it all nite.

We wound up letting the player with the flush take most of the chips but he let player 2 keep some of it. Not sure exactly what the amounts for but everyone agreed on it. Does anyone know the exact ruling on this? If not what would you guys have done.
 
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Re-deal, return initial bets and blinds to everyone who was in the hand at any point. (I am not a poker expert by any means, but I think it's the only possible answer).
 
yep. the hand is dead.

i was playing a kitchen table tourney the other night. i was short stacked and the small blind. everybody folded round to me and i have:

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i move all in to try to take the blinds and get called by the big blind who has:

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the flop comes:

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he makes trips and i figure i'm out. then the turn:

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i laughed at the false hope. then the river:

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i nearly shat my pants - eights full of sevens beats sevens full of eights!

i went out the next hand when the guy to my right raised with 7 & 8 spades. i had AQ off. i moved over the top all-in. he called and flopped a flush :)

two hands later, two others go all-in with pocket 6s against AQ off. the flop was AAA!

now that i'm back in tahoe, i played a casino tourney the other night at and cashed in third place. the same night as the hand above, we played two more kitchen table tourneys and i got 2nd in both. so i feel like i'm batting .750 this poker season so far.

on sunday mornings here, a local casino has a $500-pot guaranteed freeroll. nothing to lose!

alasdair
 
i was playing in a local tournament last night and experienced a bad beat.

i had jack/8 off suit. would have layed it down had i not been in the small blinds. plus, almost everyone ahead of me folded.

flop came. jack/8/ace.

i raise the big blinds. try and milk it a bit and not scare him off. i get re-raised. i thought that maybe he had a bigger two pair with ace and all, but i figured he was just playing the ace. so i pushed all in. he calls with ace/king.

turn comes up ace.

lost most of my stack. out a few hands later. i came in 12th. not bad but i was pissed because i just missed the final table.


but yeah. when poker first started getting big. i hated it. i could not understand why they were showing poker on my beloved espn. then i got talked into playing at a friend's house and since then i've become addicted to it.

so why doesn't everyone say which online site they play on and give handles so i can search for you and take all your money. as for me...

party poker: dopala
full tilt: dplaukonis
 
party poker is defunct for us americans, i withdrew my roll and have since moved to absolute. i am thinking about moving to poker stars as well after clearing my 100% deposit bonus. some of you guys should check out absolute, the ring games are tight but most everyone is very very weak. Also maximum buy in is 200 BB so playing for stacks can be pretty profitable.

How is full tilt? What is the player base like? How do the ring games play? I heard the interface is pretty unique. Do they offer a deposit bonus? I might have to go fish hunting over there.
 
It seems poker has replaced snowboarding as the recreational activity that has spawned the most annoyingly esoteric slang.

Wait for the pierced river, flop the rabbit hole and go for pure guava.
 
hola,

who else is pissed about the poker ban? just one more thing that we can't do in this "free society".

but fuck stupid laws, we should all get a game going! I'm on absolute right now and its preatty good. Haven't been playing for a while, but a nice living room game with my hommies is going down tonight, which should be fun.

BTW, thizz: I think everyone should have taken their bets back and had the hand re-dealt.

Alasdairm: lucky!!!

peace like a puzzle ya'll
 
Hey mehm whats your handle on absolute? I am there as well. I am not too sure about that cardroom, almost too many rocks for me.

By the way I am thizzSC on there. You can find me at the .25 .50 limits of NL hold em.
 
I'm Infinite Jest on Absolute. I play exclusively low-limit tournaments. I get my ass kicked in the ring games. I can't figure out why, but I'm no good at NL ring games, but I'm one of the better players at the table at low-limit tourneys.

I'm SxyFemmeFatale (don't ask ;)) on Full Tilt. Seem to be doing OK there. I've only been playing free rolls (didn't deposit anything) and I've finished ITM in three tournaments there.
 
ihateecstacy said:
i was playing in a local tournament last night and experienced a bad beat.
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i wouldn't define that as a bad beat - he had top pair and a great kicker.

if he moved with 9/4 off suit and caught cards, that would be a bad beat. tough beat? sure. bad beat? i don't think so.

:)

alasdair
 
one of the local casinos here has a freeroll on sunday morning. for $0 i got $100 in chips. the people who bought in (for $35) got $1200 in chips. big disadvantage. about 20 people showed up of whom about 8 paid and 12 played free.

i cashed in second place and got $150 for my trouble. i definitely needed a bit of luck to get to around $400 chips but then i had enough to start playing a bit more poker.

i've recently been approaching tournament play - especially as the number of players dwindles - with a "play to win" strategy rather than a "play to not lose" strategy and i think it makes a huge difference to my approach.

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
i've recently been approaching tournament play - especially as the number of players dwindles - with a "play to win" strategy rather than a "play to not lose" strategy and i think it makes a huge difference to my approach.

alasdair
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Would you like to elaborate on the key differences in your tactics?

Good result for the tourney, btw. I'm still feeling proud of myself when I make the final table in an online freeroll donk-fest ;)
 
OK, I have to post about this.

Playing a nine-person SnG on Absolute. $2 buy-in (still as high as I go - I want to keep my $50 bankroll going as long as possible).

Down to 4 handed, all fairly evenly stacked at about 3000, weak tight table so lots of hands are being folded and the blinds have gone up to 300/600. So basically you have to put 1/5th of your stack into the pot every time you're in the big blind, which is once every 4 hands. So it's kinda crazy. No real betting, just people going all-in and the blinds folding most of the time.

I'm picking up a lot of blinds going all-in. I've also already knocked out a short stack who went all-in on my blinds. I called with JQ, he had AQ and hit his A on the flop, but I hit a runner-runner straight and knocked him out.

Few hands later, the same thing happened. I'm all in, get called by someone who has me covered, and hit a runner-runner straight. He's low-stacked, I've got half the chips. Few hands later, he's out.

And then it happens again: I'm in with junk and hit a runner-runner straight to knock out someone with 2 pair.

What are the freaking odds on that? :D

(I then won the tourney by going all-in with 10-5 and hitting a full house....but that was a legitimate bet, because I only had to put 500 chips in to call the other guy's all-in).
 
^ a rough estimate of the odds of hitting 3 runner-runner straights in a row is about 350000:1 (hard to calculate without knowing the exact cards dealt).

"$2 buy-in (still as high as I go - I want to keep my $50 bankroll going as long as possible). "

is a good example of playing-to-not-lose thinking. if you were playing to win, you'd play a couple of $20 and a $10 :)

from a tactical point of view, it's natural at this level to tighten up the closer to the end you get - you're trying not to lose. i told myself that it had cost me $0 to buy in so i had - literally - nothing to lose. i took a few chances and it paid off.

alasdair
 
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