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One of the good guys
I was contacted by PM the other day by an old friend from the glorious Tribeca days. That may not mean much to some of the newer players but trust me they were glorious At least for us golden oldies they were.
Anyway this guy has been away from the game for afew years due to work commitments and now that he's back on the scene he decided to look me up so to speak, and tracked me down to this place. You will probably come across him at the tables (he's getting back into the game in a modest, slowly, slowly, catchee monkey way by playing some low level stuff atm) and his playing name is Ironm - real name Mike.
The guy was/is/will be again, a formidable opponent at the tournament tables, but more importantly, he really is one of the good guys. I'm sure he will pop up on here when he plucks up the courage so please make him welcome. He will be an asset to this community I'm sure.
Welcome back to poker Mike.
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Ta Pod1 for the warning re the rake - better get me stake up to a decent level asap!
Liking the mtts over here - have a sort of tribeca feel to them - well a lot more than pokerstars or fulltilt.
The rake isnt too bad, as i started on sky i guess im used to it, what i will say though is i think these tournaments are soo much harder than that to Pokerstars, i havent played on fulltilt long enough to comment on that, long story sick first hand and withdrew the rest of my money. lol.
Im sure the rest of the community will welcome you too - bit late for them now i suppose, but tomorrow.
I think most people will dis-agree here donny, i have played in pokerstars dont find it too hard but the standard is worse here
anyways Iron welcome to the forum, best of luck & maybe see you at the tables
Regards
John
May you cards be hot and your wife understanding ;o)
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maybe its the level im playing on stars but cooler and bad beat preventing which is happening alot just now i think id cash in 80% of tournament on stars, the amount of crazy plays ive seen and players there maybe regarded as a higher standard but i dont think so. I think maybe if 1 in 10 players in a tournament are good obviously on stars that means theres more good players there because of the sheer numbers they have.
The only thing that i believe make sky tournaments easier is simply the fewer numbers means a win is slightly more achieveable on a regular basis.
Unfortunatley not managed to win myself one of those yet - as the saying goes: Unlucky in love, lucky at cards.
I'm currently in 2 minds about the 6 seater tables here - i certainly cannot complain with a win on a mtt deepstack the other day - but think for the stt a 9 seater may be better as on the double up people seem to double through and then just sit until another 2 are taken out - bit boring not much sport in that is there?
Welcome aboard ironm - I'm from next door, where the thread started.
Good to see you here. Enjoy.
To think, after all that time that so many of us played there, & it was "home" to so many of us, those nice peeps from i-poker came along & snap destroyed the software, literally, just like that, overnight, now you see it, now you don't, come play on i-poker or get lost. Lovely.
Very sad, I thought. Of course, almost none of us went across to i-Poker, & no wonder, I could not half tell you some horror-stories from those people. Very nice people, mind, obv.
When peeps come on here & say they can get this & that super-duper rakeback deal at i-Poker, I just have to keep schtum, & hope they have their eyes & ears wide open. Good luck them.
As ive stated im playing at low stakes so this is maybe why.
However i think for all these tournaments are harder to win, they are easier to cash in. Im actually very disappointed to be down on that sitem, playing MTTs only, however ive looked over my exit hands and not a single one would i want to play different. Getting my stack as low sometimes yes i would play hands before hand different,
8% is MUCH nearer.
'Stars is a great site, no doubt about it, but even though I'm on the other side of the fence, & pehaps biased, you can't go telling people they can achieve an 80% cash rate in Tourneys on any site, anywhere, any time! It's simply not possible. Anyone who thinks otherwise is heading for a nasty shock, I'm afraid, & I'd rather we did not mislead anyone. There's a lot of gullible peeps around, & we must (imo) be responsible in what we tell them.
"lesser abilitied" players are not as easy to beat as you may think, they are not, that's why poker is so popular - ANYONE can bink a win here & there.
If Hellmuth or Dwan or whoever played 10 Main Events on Sky Poker, they'd be lucky to cash twice from 10, & win 1 in 100. If they get lucky. Poker is a great leveller. Thank God.
We dont die off we just take long sabbaticals.
Well done on the win, too.