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Just like this
Its my dad's birthday on monday (DUDLYE888) - 69 yrs young.
he loves poker but gets really frustrated early on in MTT.
I want to buy him a decent book to study from one of the big stars. He has cancer and this will really perk him up.
What can you suggest ?
On Thursday 22/9/11, spt classic was playing quiet well at WORK with 7 left and it being midnight and time to go home, having done this a few times with great success, 1st week with in mini primo springs to mind. I left
work got home in the 7 mins it takes. BUT i forgot 2 fully close down sky poker and left window open. DOH
So couldn't continue mtt, but managed to tell other players who blinded me out to 7th.
I believe from Monkeyf that it will shown on 865 tonight at 8
many thank
J3ono
I stumbled across this question and thought I'd offer a possible explanation as the situation you describe is almost certainly impossible.
Did you see the 5 million chips when you hovered the cursor over the players avatar? It is possible for players to make anything they want appear here by amending their location in account settings. I have seen this a few times before.
Do you know of any live events in Berkshire ? -blowed if I can find any.
Thanks.
Hi Tikay.
It`s been a while since i was last on this site. I realised, i just
can`t do without my Sky Poker.
My question for you sir, is........ Do you still play poker on a
professional level. Whether it be with Sky, or when you are not working.?
Cheers.
Mike.
thanks tikay
Thats kinda awkward to answer really, because aggressive players DO tend to win a lot of hands. And lose a lot of hands, too. Same with tight players, or any other players.
Essentially, players who win more pots will gain more points, I guess.
Hope you are running well.
Do I still play poker on a pro level? No, & I have not done so since retiring from the pro circuit some 5 or 6 years ago really.
The game has changed so much, & I'm not at all sure I can go the pace these days. I have a firmly held belief that I could play full time on the Tourney Circuit & not LOSE money, but that can wait until I'm retired. And yes, I honestly believe that if I returned to the Live Circuit & played, say, an entire GUKPT series, I would not lose a penny. But I could be wrong on that. Very wrong....
Curiously, but perhaps tellingly, I've earned more money from the Live Poker Circuit this year ("gross profit" or "roi") than I ever did by playing the game, from staking OTHER players in big Events, which would seem a more efficient way for me to earn money from poker, given that the game is getting tougher, & I am getting older.....
I'm seriously considering playing the Coventry GUKPT next week, although for reasons of time-effectiveness, I may just set light to £1,070 instead.....I'm also off to Vegas in November to play the Venetian Deepstack series.
Online? I just play "recreationally" & smallball on Sky Poker these days. My PTP Account had some money deposited in it 3 years ago, & has never needed topping up or repleneshing, & every time it exceeds a certain figure, Sky Poker remove the "surplus", which they have done once or twice I think. I think deposited £250 in my personal account on Sky Poker years ago, & it currently stands at a small 4 figure sum. So I get by, but not enough to live on!
Confession time. After a particularly bruising time from one particular abuser on the Tables while playing at Sky Poker, (this was a year or so ago) I decided to play a night or two a week Online elsewhere, using an "anon" screen-name (peace & quiet, oooh!) so I deposited $1,000 & spun it up to $3,500 pretty quickly playing PLO. Shame it was Full Tilt they ran away with it before I could lose it, or withdraw it. Marv.
I live the life of riley, really, as I earn a considerable income on "the other side" of the poker table. Earning money by pursuing one's hobby is as good as it gets. Not sure how much longer I can go the pace, to be honest, it is very full-on, but I'll continue as long as I enjoy it. Or until I get the tin-tack.....
Apologies to you (& everyone else) for the delay in replying, I am struggling to handle all the comms I get on various platforms these days, but it's all good.
That hand? You did absolutely NOTHING wrong.
In spots like that, if you are playing properly, you MUST get your money in. If you lose - & you will sometimes - it does not mean you have done anything wrong.
It's important to understand that in poker, in the short-term, it is not always a "fair" game. In the longer term, yes, but short term, no, it can be brutally unfair.
Please remember something else, too - just because you lost a hand, does not mean that you, or your oppo, did anything wrong. Even if you get lucky, it does not make you a "bad" player, far from it. Over time, it all evens out.
"Big on big" often happens, nobody needs ro make a mistake, its just the nature of the game.
Flop a set? There are VERY few situations when you should ever fold.
You played the hand just fine.
Are you the geezer who was showboating in Luton last night with 9-3?
Or are you "I LOVE myself" Ady?
Interesting questions, what with that libellous thread on 2+2 the other day about i-Poker, & all the usual hysterical overreaction to a piece of pure speculation under the guise of "facts".
Q1. I've no idea what other Sites do. I am 99.9% certain that none of them use their OWN bots on poker sites, but I'm pretty sure "player bots" do exist. I really don't know why people worry so much about bots though. They are programmed by humans, & cannot anticipate curve-balls, only "standard" A-B-C plays, so they are not really a threat, even though I wholly disapprove of them. If you really are worried about bots on other sites, perhaps you should stick to Sky Poker.....
Q2. Do they work on Sky Poker? Again, no idea, but I'd be astonished if any existed here. Think of the cost/reward equation, I hardly think it's optimal for them to play at lower levels, & our high-end liquidity is such that it'd be pretty easy to spot one.
I'd be more inclined to worry about the price of sixpenny eggs, how many beans make five, & poor Carlos Tevez, who is getting so much stick recently, poor chap.
There are a couple of Clubs which do not have a full licence though, & I imagine they would be OK.
TC's, in Maidenhead (TC = Tony Chapman, a real old school guy, straight as a die) is pretty good I believe, I've heard pretty good reports about it. Can't think of many others off the top of my head.
If you don't mind going down the M4, there is a decent scene in Swindon, again "grey licence" rather than fully licensed.
Lovely road, the A11 you know, I used to use it to go up to Mildenhall during the first Gulf War & see all the USAF B-52's coming & going, awesome bits of kit, them. I also used to be a regular visitor to Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit, once again, an A11 job. Here's a fascinating page about the A11.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A1199_road
As to your question, I refer you to the replies by John Connor & Dohhhhhhh, which HTNOTH.
Incidentally, never fret about being on the same table as big stacks. We do have one regular here who gets incred tilted about it for some reason, but believe me, it is a GOOD thing if there are big stacks on your Table.
I'm seriously considering playing the Coventry GUKPT next week, although for reasons of time-effectiveness, I may just set light to £1,070 instead.....I'm also off to Vegas in November to play the Venetian Deepstack series.
Just curious if that coincides with the Nov 9 wsop final table? Also curious of your own preference for hotel when in Vegas? And finally if you got the chance when playing the deepstack series will you be tweeting your progress at the tables, as i know for the 1st few levels you would have the time on your hands! Your tweets from vegas with sky this year were brilliant and much appreciated.
Thanks and good luck on the tables if you get out there.
Dave.
Surely we are looking at 50,000 /1 or more... please let me know and again enjoy your evening the pair of you.
PS after winning the mini event £1000 last night and won £288, i am currently running 3rd in the ,mini bh event tonight.
Cheers
Chris Jones (POKEY2011)