You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments.
You might need to refresh your page afterwards.
You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments.
You might need to refresh your page afterwards.
Comments
I need to do this, just for the chuckles.
Question for HU Cash specialists. On another site I am trying to get a game of HU PLO. There are plenty of people waiting but after having a decent session against one of them earlier I now can't seem to get a game. Six different players are either snap sitting out or sitting out after handful of hands.
Is it better to open a table myself and wait if I want a game or should I keep trying? Game selection isn't an important part of this question, I just want a game as I'm trying to improve my HU PLO game.
Managed to score my 4th 8pm main tonight. And who said Bounty Hunters were for luckboxes?
Now regardless of your opinion of the actual protest (I have mixed feelings on it myself) I am again annoyed that they do these evictions at this time of night. I find it somewhat distasteful and feel like they are trying to sweep the elements of society out of view while there is no one there to side with the protesters. Yes it may make perfect sense as a clearing tactic but for me it just feels very controlled and extremely Big Brother like.
At the end of the day while the actual protest is pretty limp and IMO easy to ignore, what harm are they actually doing?
Min raise on the river? Every now and again it's a bluff, but not often.
If you want to protest for a cause, sing a protest song, do something notable; shouting on deaf ears and blocking public place is more of an annoyance tbh. Better alternative is to protest in a more notible and thought provoking way, but the athourities are scoring an own goal here imo by causing a scene.
They should have gone over those barriers and occupied the stock exchange square IMO. They were always going to get moved on, might as well have done some positive action even if they get moved on quicker.
I support the occupy campaign but just want them, us and me to actually do something proactive rather than garner publicity without doing a darn thing.
I just use a fairly big laptop. It's about four months old and runs like a dream. I can normally run 5 SkyPoker games on it with 2-4 other site MTTs running, that's pretty much my own personal limit. My old laptop was a bit of a mare. I had inherited it from my brother after the old one I had blew a fuse. I managed to inherit it because it was rather temperamental after a can of beer was wasted on it's innards. I tinkered with the lappy and realised that it was only the battery which was permanently damaged, so for about a yeat I was playing on SkyPoker with an AC adaptor power only laptop. Did you ever see me suddenly disconnect? That was when I knocked the cord out by accident. Lost the odd big pot that way, always nice to provide yourself with your own original tilt.
I often don't play poker when I'm free to. Lately I have been grinding hard but I can have weeks where I just don't fancy it, just the joy of being a recreational player.
Stories of Harlow? Sure I will tell some as and when, fun place, interesting people. Two words for you though as a local for Harlow, Bingo Bill. What a hero!
As far as taking notice of your ups and downs, I look at the long view. I look at my results over at least a six month period for MTTs, and that's still a small sample size when it comes to MTT variance.
After session/review periods. I just use the HHs, I don'y touch HEN or PT. I have used the trial for HEM manager in the past though and I think it's a great reviewing tool but I wouldn't use the HUD.
I've started PLO rings games in the past with mixed results. Yes I have rarely started a NLHE cash game (been starting more recently, mainly the deep tables) and yes I should try to start more. One thing in my favour though, I do sit with regs and I don't sit out starting a game HU.
I'm an insomniac anyway YG, so I'm used to surviving on little sleep, can't really help other than suggest the ways young men have been getting themselves to sleep for many generations. My website might help
O yes - Bingo - emmmm what can I say :S
Been reading this thread alot, but on my phone at work so cant really post anything. When I get home I tend to play and not post so whilst im just finishing a sessions thought i'd drop by.
Have really enjoyed reading it so far makes those boring hours at work go so much quicker thanks
Great read Tommy as others have stated, a mixture of poker, life and anything and everything, keep it up. Always look to check out the days musings when I settle down for the evening.
I've been going to the same dentist all of my life and while she is an absolutely lovely woman, I cannot look at her without that pang of fear and dread. I just can't stand going to the dentist and to be fair I'm the same with the hairdressers. I really don't like being touched for that long as well as being pretty powerless in the chair, perhaps I'm a control freak. I should chat to her more and be friendly but to be honest I practically run out of that place. Maybe I'll take flowers next time. Then again they do deliver....
can oddly relate to this, at least i'm not the only freak. I hate the dentist so much i actually stopped going, feel so helpless sat in the chair, while a random man sticks fingers in my mouth and crazy dentist tools, while asking me to open my mouth wider and wider . "I'm opening it as wide as i can u *****".
Tonight I said something in the chatbox which is the closest I have come to insulting someone in at least the last five years. It's not something I'm proud of, feel a bit bad about it because I know what I was thinking as I typed it. What I was thinking was stronger than what I put.
It's something about PLO MTTs that make me go a little funny in the head. The way I bust in the UKOPS PLO event sent me on a bit of life tilt, and a similar thing happened tonight in the All Rounders League PLO MTT.
While I've been cruising in the top three for most of the tourny, I have recently dropped into the pack as the blinds get deep and the stacks get shallow. I'm still 5 of 11 and cruising along. I get dealt bad aces, I raise TBH happy to pick up what's there, someone 3bets, I shove and they call off most of their stack. Totally their decision, their money their choice, I know this, I say this and you might say I even preach this.
They flip over AK84 rainbow and get there on the river. If this was Holdem I type gl all and move on, have done this for years. But this is another PLO MTT fail for me in a game I think (rightly or wrongly) I have a big edge in. I'm still not up to tilt level though. A few of the others at the table type the usual sick or wow. Then the fellow who bust me types. 'Right, sick. But I like eet.' I don't know if it was the chirp, the fact AK84 rainbow is a bag of broken spanners or the fact he insisted on typing in a regional accent, but I had to say something.
So i typed 'I take it this is the first time you've played PLO.' I instantly regretted it, that's really not what I do or how I play the game. The fellow replies as if I was asking a genuine question and told me about the PLO SnGs he plays on another site, seemed quite pleasant. Guess I got it through.
And one of the plusses of a balding napper, buy a ten quid shaver and go over my head once a week and I then do not have to look at the back of my head in a hairdressers mirror say, yes, thanks, nice ta, when all I want to do is run.
ive been chat tilting alot this month, not had a winning week since 2012 came around gets pretty frustrating. i make sure to just give abuse to regs though dont want to tap the tank and all that
On a personal note it's the second live show in a row that's really exposed the holes in my game. I'm making too many mistakes at the moment. Time to use a Jack Lemon monologue to illustrate where I am right now. In the not so great but good popcorn feel good movie 'The Legend of Bagger Vance' Jack explains the playing style of two real life golfers. The first is Bobby Jones who's described as making tough shots look easy and average shots look even easier, flawless poetry in motion. The other is Walter Haggen, a man who will shoot more bad shots in a round than most golfers shot in a season, but who knows that one great shot makes up for all of the bad ones and more. In poker I've always been a bit of a Walter. I need to work hard and become a Bobby.
There is one hand I want to look at though. The action in question is whether or not to raise/fold the river. I want to give my logic as to why I thought it was a call and I'd like this logic to be dismantled. I will probably argue my case but in no way think this is me being stubborn or not having an open mind, what I'm looking for is, if it's right, to have accepted conventions broken.
To the hand, I make my set on the river, happy days. What has stopped me raising is the strange line taken by the other player I don't know this player, don't think we've played this player before so please treat him as an unknown. He's limp/called pre which weighs his range heavily in the small pair/Suited cons area. It could be a rag ace, seen a few people at this level limp/call with those type hands. The next odd action is the lead on the turn. It worries me as it's a straightening card. The river brings my set but also completes a flush and we are led into again. I think I am getting value by raising from 77 pretty much exclusively. It just doesn't feel like other sets. I also think that raising here is exploitable, but as I have no history with the villain I don't know if they are capable of this. In summary my opponent's weird line just confused me into caution, lately I've been a little spewy and I've been taking cautious routes when unsure, got to get out of that habit. I also really need to work on knowing when to raise rivers with non nut or near nut value holdings.
The hand: