Texas hold em

I played for about an hour last night, and did OK (bought in for $600, cashed out with $1800), but the game was plagued by the usual free game problem - many of the players apparently had never heard of any other option besides "fold" and "all in." Knowing 2-3 people will call all in pre-flop every single hand does make the game much simpler, but also very boring.

I ended up playing for about five hours yesterday, playing in three 90 person sit-n-go and three single table sit-n-go tourneys. Sported two first place and one second place finish, then finally blew it all on one hand before quitting. I saw a 7-person all-in very first hand on one of those. Holy shit. XD ...AlphaDawg has it right, you pretty much have to just check the fold button first ten or so hands regardless of what two cards you're holding. I had to fold back to back jacks...

Anyway, yeah, It'd be much more interesting to get an AGN game going than play with randomly assorted insane people who somehow have an automatic call button always checked on their screen...

Let's get something going.

Gleeok wrote:Anyway, yeah, It'd be much more interesting to get an AGN game going than play with randomly assorted insane people who somehow have an automatic call button always checked on their screen...

Let's get something going.

last year some asshole stole $600 from my account

I'm happy to report the 2000-chip 90 person sit-and-go's don't have as many donkeys in them as the 250's. Obviously that is because you only start with 1000 play chips and actually have to play decently enough elsewhere to get enough chips to buy in.

I played in one of these and got knocked out in 55th. On the last hand I went all-in on the flop and had the lead with bottom two pair, only to get outdrawn on the turn by somebody who called with top pair. It was a 6-5 off-suit "big blind special" where it's free to see the flop provided nobody raises, as was the case here.

Here's the log of that hand in case you're interested, I think I played it about as well as you could. I like reading logs of interesting hands. I wish I had the log of one of the hands from the tourney I got 2nd in. I was chip leader at the time, and trapped the guy who was 2nd in chips perfectly and busted him. 😃

Full Tilt Poker Game #7052278970: 2,000 Play Money Sit & Go (53607999), Table 10 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:18:56 ET - 2008/07/02
Seat 2: milo330 (3,515)
Seat 3: bionicfootman (2,915)
Seat 4: AlphaDawg79 (1,400)
Seat 6: ajiinsd (1,980)
Seat 7: Jackson816 (1,365)
Seat 8: raleighnc069 (975)
Seat 9: LIGER2129 (3,595)
bionicfootman posts the small blind of 25
AlphaDawg79 posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AlphaDawg79 [6s 5h]
ajiinsd folds
Jackson816 calls 50
raleighnc069 calls 50
LIGER2129 calls 50
milo330 calls 50
bionicfootman has 15 seconds left to act
bionicfootman calls 25
AlphaDawg79 checks
*** FLOP *** [6h Qc 5d]
bionicfootman bets 50
AlphaDawg79 raises to 300
Jackson816 calls 300
raleighnc069 raises to 550
LIGER2129 folds
milo330 calls 550
bionicfootman folds
AlphaDawg79 raises to 1,350, and is all in
Jackson816 folds
raleighnc069 calls 375, and is all in
milo330 calls 800
AlphaDawg79 shows [6s 5h]
raleighnc069 shows [4d 3s]
milo330 shows [Qs Jd]
JakeG83 sits down
JakeG83 adds 1,650
*** TURN *** [6h Qc 5d] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [6h Qc 5d Qh] [8h]
AlphaDawg79 shows two pair, Queens and Sixes
milo330 shows three of a kind, Queens
milo330 wins the side pot (850) with three of a kind, Queens
raleighnc069 shows a pair of Queens
milo330 wins the main pot (3,425) with three of a kind, Queens
raleighnc069 stands up
AlphaDawg79 stands up
milo330 stands up
bionicfootman stands up
JakeG83 stands up
ajiinsd stands up
Jackson816 stands up
LIGER2129 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4,275 Main pot 3,425. Side pot 850. | Rake 0
Board: [6h Qc 5d Qh 8h]
Seat 2: milo330 (button) showed [Qs Jd] and won (4,275) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 3: bionicfootman (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: AlphaDawg79 (big blind) showed [6s 5h] and lost with two pair, Queens and Sixes
Seat 6: ajiinsd didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: Jackson816 folded on the Flop
Seat 8: raleighnc069 showed [4d 3s] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 9: LIGER2129 folded on the Flop

AlphaDawg wrote:I just donked off a massive chip lead (over 5:1) heads-up and had to settle for 2nd...

I did this twice the last couple I played. Man did I feel pretty stupid after the second time losing with a huge chip lead. There seems to be a much greater amount of good pot limit omaha players than NL holm-em players though, so I guess I don't feel to bad. I'm also kinda realizing that my heads-up game doesn't seem to be that good at all.

AlphaDawg wrote:...I like reading logs of interesting hands. I wish I had the log of one of the hands from the tourney I got 2nd in...😃

Full Tilt Poker Game #7052278970: 2,000 Play Money Sit & Go (53607999), Table 10 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:18:56 ET - 2008/07/02
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Speaking of which; How do you get the logs off the current table?

..Because man would I have one for the archives! I sit down at this nine-person sit-n-go, everybody starts chatting like they know each other, "gl verybdy!" "gl u2 !!" etc.. , first hand comes and the person to my right moves all in, I fold, then the entire table calls!! A few seconds later I'm playing heads up with the short stack. Funny shit.

I'll be in, if we ever get anything organized.

I will look into a client that allows for private tables.