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Agreed, rake will cause all low limit games to be a wash. If the guys charging a rake and your playing a 20 buy in, if its the normal 10% up to 4 dollars that casinos use you will never be able to beat the rake.

Playing 50 max buy in ring games at Stars with a 5% up to 2 dollar rake (I think, not sure about those numbers but that is what i recall) takes half of my profit all ready.

Rake is no fun.
 
lol ok..rake is no fun right? but..rake+a TIME FUCKING LIMIT? WTF+BGOEAUFB . honestly, the time limit thing is the biggest factor.

also, cash games are cash games for a fucking reason. there should be no fucking "hardcore reason" to want to leave the table. you play at your own pace, and that's that. sitting at a table for ANY (relatively high) time limit to play is fucking bullshit. it's a stressful factor..he was saying yea u just gota go all in blah blah. but wtf kinda reason is there to go all in for? none. unless u are tiltin cuz u gota leave czu ur dog got ran over and u gota go home, and can't help but give ur money away.
 
Unless you're playing me and I have TPTK, and call, and hit runner runner Aces for a bigger boat ;). To the guy's credit, he didn't abuse the hell out of me, which he should have.
 
update: After withdrawing a bunch of my bankroll from online after the recent recession of online poker I have turned a new corner.

I dropped 1/2 of my remaining roll (around 450 dollars) on the bears and the under!


DA BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
i was playing tonight in a home game - 14 players at two tables and we started with 500 in chips. blinds were low - perhaps 20/40.

one pot got down to two players and the shorter-stacked player moved all-in. there was about 600 in the pot. it would have cost the other player 15 more to call his all-in. she thought for over a minute and then she folded...

this game never ceases to surprise me :)

alasdair
 
That's a travesty. But if it weren't for people that ignorant, it would be even harder to succeed at poker.
 
I've seen that happen a few times online Ali - never understood it.

I organised a home game last weekend, was a lot of fun. I just wish I could get my friends to understand the concept of preflop raising - they were limping in even with AA, and then getting it cracked by the BB with Q4 or something. Or else they'd limp in with 82s.
 
is it just because we play so many hands online we seem to see so many crazy beats or is it really just that bad? how many appalling one- and two-outers do you see on a regular basis?

i thought i had seen it all recently until i saw this last night. i don't recall the amounts bet but it was down to heads up. also, the suits may be wrong but they don't matter in this scenario:

my friend has:

jackofdiamonds.gif
jackofclubs.gif


they both end up all in and the opponent has:

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tenofspades.gif


obviously my friend is feeling reasonably good. the flop comes:

threeofclubs.gif
jackofhearts.gif
threeofdiamonds.gif


giving my friend a full house, jacks full of threes. she's feeling pretty unbeatable now, right?

the turn and river come:

threeofclubs.gif
jackofhearts.gif
threeofdiamonds.gif
threeofspades.gif
threeofhearts.gif


giving the opponent quad threes with a higher kicker. what a miserable, miserable beat.

alasdair
 
Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

44 games 0.094 secs 468 games/sec

Board: 3c Jh 3d 3s
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 02.273% 02.27% 00.00% 1 0.00 { QhTs }
Hand 1: 97.727% 97.73% 00.00% 43 0.00 { JcJd }


Also, how do get those graphics for the Hand History? I don't know where to find a Bluelight HH Converter, let me in on that secret, would ya?
 
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Yippee Skippy said:
Also, how do get those graphics for the Hand History? I don't know where to find a Bluelight HH Converter, let me in on that secret, would ya?
Click to expand...
just look at their properties and do the rest yourself :)

alasdair
 
So on FullTilt, I entered a satellite tournament today; 24+2 buyin, 90 players involved, top 4 get entries to the main event. The main event is a yearly tournament hosted by Chris Ferguson, with 500+35$ buyin and a 1.5 Million guaranteed prizepool. Well, I got 4th in the satellite, so tomorrow at 6, I have my opportunity to take a shot at a $275,000 first place prize. The crazy thing is that as of right now, there are only 785 people signed up for the main event, and they are paying out 405 people. I'm not sure if they overestimated demand for such a large tournie, and are paying off way more than they will get in entry fees, or if they are expecting a lot more people to sign up between now and tomorrow night.

Either way, I'm pumped about it. I'll have to let you guys know if I end up cashing big.
 
Nice work. As far as the guarantee goes, in the last few weeks since the Neteller fiasco, Full Tilt has had to cover the overlay out of their own pockets (although the fees, aka the rake, will go towards that prize pool too). Bodog's guarantee tournaments often involve the site making up the difference too.

It'll sort itself out in the next couple of weeks as new payment processors become available. And people will be trying very hard to satellite their way into that tourney all day tomorrow.

If you feel comfy posting your screen name, do so and I'll stop by for a sweat.

GL Buddy!
 
I'm huntmich9741. Feel free to drop in and make fun of a poor play that I make.
 
Nothing good to report, unfortunately. It ended up being huge, 3200+. I ended up losing with AK; I caught two pair on the flop, but ran into a guy who was slow playing a set of aces (He had pocket aces and didn't raise preflop, the prick). So I ended up losing at about 1600th place. Disappointing, but it was fun while it lasted.
 
^
Pretty much every poker player in the world is going broke there, I'd bet. You're only losing to a set, and with you holding AK the chances of anyone else holding AA or KK are minimal, obviously. (And you'd expect them to have raised PF with those hands). I'd only be scared of running into a set of whatever the third card on the flop was.
 
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