claret75 Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 An extra £200 a month would do me. I need to get good at online poker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Down to the final two tables on Hubble's Freeroll Pokerstars...14 left out of 9000 and I'm 4th. :@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Knocked out in 8th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 rage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Did you win anything at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reality Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 A ticket into another tournament. So not too bad. More happy with the result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted June 2, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2010 My own recent poker exploits, on Monday night, saw me home with a tenner, came third in a side tourney. Main event had my best ever run of hands. Open the game with pocket 5s, hit trips. Follow it with a straight, then a flush, literally the first 3 hands get me up to about triple my starting stack. Went badly downhill from there. And in the first side game, well... 10 handed game, I deal the second hand of the game, look down, see Kings. Play it horribly (my instinct is always to get value and it **** me so often). I called a previous raise on the table, in the end there are 6 of us in and I'm thinking what on earth I've dealt out there... but I felt good with the kings. Board comes something like 256. Bloke to my left raises, bout a quarter of the pot. He gets 2 calls, and an all in from the initial raiser. I put him on nothing and knew he'd been playing like a donkey once his chance at winning the league went with his early exit from the main tourney, so I go all in over the top. Everyone calls, theres about 5 side pots. I still think I'm good. 2 to my left the bloke on the big blind's only called with A3 and flopped the straight. To make matters worse, I hit trips on the river, not that it matters, and he's got us all covered. Mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLN Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 My father is going out with a 37 year old woman since he was 60. Anyone think that he's heard of the rule and chose the girl accordingly? Edit: That is phrased very badly. She also ages. He started going out with her when he was 60 and she was 37. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCLaura Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Gambling is a mugs game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 2, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2010 Gambling is a mugs game.This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 2, 2010 Moderator Share Posted June 2, 2010 Gambling is a mugs game. And yet the stockmarket is deemed a more noble past time. Go figure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 2, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2010 Gambling is a mugs game. And yet the stockmarket is deemed a more noble past time. Go figure I've always regarded the stock market as The Rich Man's Ladbrokes. The really crazy thing is that we run the country on that basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 I want enough money in my life to buy extravagent things. Not islands, planes, huge massive houses or anything too crazy. But i'd love to go into a clothes shop and not have to look at the price tag of everything whether I'm in Primark, Burtons, H & M, Top Man etc etc. I would also like to have a really expensive High Definition 70" T.V with a 7.1 BOSE surround system with Sky HD for the world cup. Im sick of looking like a tramp and having to watch a 32" TV. an extra £1000 a month would do the trick.. Yes, I am a spoilt bastard who needs to re-evaluate my life with regards to how lucky I am considering millions go to be without clean water...but hey, I've been bought into this modern society, I work hard and I rely on winning the lottery to take me to the next step. When this happens I will buy some nice clothes. get a better job? rob a bank/casino? start your own business? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 the trouble with this thread is that it kills all the other threads in Off-topic. at least 3 topics in here in the past 3 pages would have had their own thread beforehand, and would be discussed in detail. now it gets 4 posts, and the thread moves onto something else, and most people on VT never knew it was being discussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 2, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2010 the trouble with this thread is that it kills all the other threads in Off-topic. at least 3 topics in here in the past 3 pages would have had their own thread beforehand, and would be discussed in detail. now it gets 4 posts, and the thread moves onto something else, and most people on VT never knew it was being discussed.Life sucks, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 My own recent poker exploits, on Monday night, saw me home with a tenner, came third in a side tourney. Main event had my best ever run of hands. Open the game with pocket 5s, hit trips. Follow it with a straight, then a flush, literally the first 3 hands get me up to about triple my starting stack. Went badly downhill from there. And in the first side game, well... 10 handed game, I deal the second hand of the game, look down, see Kings. Play it horribly (my instinct is always to get value and it **** me so often). I called a previous raise on the table, in the end there are 6 of us in and I'm thinking what on earth I've dealt out there... but I felt good with the kings. Board comes something like 256. Bloke to my left raises, bout a quarter of the pot. He gets 2 calls, and an all in from the initial raiser. I put him on nothing and knew he'd been playing like a donkey once his chance at winning the league went with his early exit from the main tourney, so I go all in over the top. Everyone calls, theres about 5 side pots. I still think I'm good. 2 to my left the bloke on the big blind's only called with A3 and flopped the straight. To make matters worse, I hit trips on the river, not that it matters, and he's got us all covered. Mad. This is why the number one rule in poker is if a hands worth calling with, it's usually worth raising with. There are only a few exceptions, and they are the hands that get value from seeing multiway pots cheaply, like small pocket pairs where you can hit trips, and suited connectors where you can hit a hidden straight, or when you're playing the player not the cards and you think you can out play them post flop. If you get into the habit of raising everything then you get your value from people seeing you more often with less so there's no need to slow play anything. The only time you should ever slow play a strong hand is against a known overly aggressive player who you know you can get into a heads up pot and who will hang themselves (but a thinking opponent will spot that from a mile off) or when you need people to "catch up" and you have the nuts, like flopping quads or the nut straight/flush, chances are no one else has anything so you need to let them hit something before they'll pay you off, but even then you should be betting if you're usually betting out at all unraised flops you're involved in (which you should). There are two ways to consistently winning at poker, you either play TAG (tight and aggressive) or LAG (loose and aggressive), there's no room for passive play so near enough everything you do should be an aggressive action. Gambling is a mugs game. Indeed, but poker isn't gambling when you know how to play Poker is all about exploiting edges, it's about taking bets when the odds of success are better than the odds you'll be paid out at. Essentially if you bet on a dice roll when someone is giving you 5:1 you're going to break even over the long term, if you getting 6:1 on it you're going to make money over the long term. Poker is about getting into the situations where you're getting odds of 6:1 on a 5:1 shot, and staying away from the times you could be getting 4:1 on it, because that's where you'll lose money. The better you get at it the easier it becomes to spot when you're getting the best of it, and to stay away from when you're getting the worst of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 2, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2010 Meh. Can't be arsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 2, 2010 Moderator Share Posted June 2, 2010 at least 3 topics in here in the past 3 pages would have had their own thread beforehand, and would be discussed in detail. If you (or anyone) think a topic merits it's own thread then please by all means create one for it. No-one has said that can't be done. I think if anything, this thread has stopped the creation of threads that used to get 4 posts and then fall away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCLaura Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 Meh. Can't be arsed. This... Likely for the same reason :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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