ajzepp

MDH: you mean you didn't see Goodwin throwing the ball to himself? He's really fast.

If only we could say the same about the quality of your posts...

LOL! I was playing the smallest stakes cash game I could find last night, "$0.05/0.10 and I did relatively well for getting my feet wet. I'm going to see if I can develop a taste for it. That makes sense...I think it was mainly that I had no idea they were allowing it, so when all of a sudden all these people show up with fresh stacks right when I was really starting to feel a bit fatigued and eager to play the final few tables, it hit me the wrong way. It felt like trying to hit a moving target for a bit there. Yeah, I like that there are tons more people there than there are at Sportsbook...the only tourney I end up waiting a bit for are the multi-table SnG games. I had been misinformed about the laws, so I looked into it and found that there's nothing keeping me from playing poker right now being a resident of GA. There has also been a fair bit of movement in terms of the US-based casinos establishing online poker rooms, which will be interesting to watch. This is where I keep track of the news/rules: http://theppa.org/

Whoa...GSP took a POUNDING by the looks of that I saw hendricks fight several months ago and he looked great...I was thinking I'd order this PPV but totally forgot until Meazza posted about it. Oh well.

I guess we were both a bit off on that one, cause that's what I thought it meant, too lol One thing about Bovada that I don't care for is that they allow late registration on their tourneys up to like 130 mins. The other day I had grinded out a stack over the course of 2.5 hrs, only to see these people jumping in WAY after the damn thing started and just sharting chips all over the damn place trying to double up. I find it very disrespectful of the players who take part in these tourneys to allow THIS long of a late reg period. I can see 30 min, even an hour. But on many of these tourneys, we're WELL past the half way point by the time the 2hr mark hits...and allowing people to come in that late can be pretty aggravating.

Wow, thanks man...this is something I'll be looking to keep in mind as I play. Not sure about the Bovada questions, to be honest...I've only just now started playing there. It was recommended to me by a couple guys I know who have been playing online for years. I had no problem putting down my $25 and supposedly their payouts are pretty quick. I wish they had private rooms...I'd see if we could get something going here on TBD again. I'm trying to become more "process oriented" as opposed to "results oriented"...that was one of the articles i read recently....that was a big problem I was having, cause I would get REALLY damn pissed when I'd outplay someone cleanly, and even put him on his exact hand, only to get screwed. I had Kings earlier today and put this guy on a pocket pair. I hit trips on the flop and there wasn't really any draws I was concerned with, so I slow played him and just called his bets. He went all in on the turn and I called. It was my trips kings vs his pocket rockets...and of course you know what hit on the river. This is the sort of hand that takes me some time to recover from, cause I know I played it exactly how I wanted it and got max value from the slow playing, only to see him suck out and take me down. ANY other pocket pair and it would have been a huge pot for me. So I'm trying to just be mindful of the fact that it took THAT much of a stroke of luck for him to beat me, which means I played the hand well...and more often than not, I'll be the one taking down the pot in that situation.

dang, I forgot all about the fight...

Great post, Dibs! Thanks man, that is fantastic info...and it sounds like yet another reason why I should move to Australia!! haha What you said makes perfect sense, especially regarding relative stack sizes. If I can improve just a little more, especially at the end of these tourneys, I'm really thinking I could turn this into a small profit center. I feel so much less fatigued now that I've opened up my game, so I'm going to digest the advice you guys offer and try to take another step up. It's really starting to get to the point where I'm only getting knocked out to a bad beat or just an exceptional play by another opponent...minimizing my own mistakes has helped a lot. Here's just a quick snapshot of a tourney I was in a little earlier tonight...this is how most of my games have been going lately now that I'm using more bluffs and raises. I just gotta finish a bit better and I'll be golden

Just finished 6th out of 198 in a $1 tourney....1800% return on my investment isn't bad I guess lol. One other thing I'm really trying to work on is not allowing my entire game to hinge on one single hand. I focused on that this tourney today and it really paid off. One time I lost half my stack to a bad beat, but I was able to climb right back up again and get to the final table. I'm trying to greatly minimize the use of "all-in" and "check" lol

lol, what you described is the exact motivation that I used to change my game. I was feeling like I was being restricted by the cards and my stack and allowing that to dictate my game. And when I would come across more aggressive players like yourself, it would really be a nightmare unless I just happened to flop a monster, which rarely happened. I've had the very same experience on multiple times that you describe, where I barely had a decent starting hand all damn game. I started to pay attention to how others were making me feel with their play and that's when I knew it was time for a change. It's SO much more fun now that I've added an aggressive element to my game. The Harrah's Cherokee casino that is only about a 2hr drive into the GA mountains for me has finally added table games, including a full poker room. Used to be they only had this digital table thing where only the cards were real and everything else was digital. That never much appealed to me, so when I recently heard that they added the tables, I started thinking I needed to get back into playing again. Playing live in Biloxi for the first time in 2010 was one of the most fun experience of my life...so I'm hoping I can take my new game to Cherokee and even do so regularly. I communicated with Sportsbook.com a few weeks ago, which is one of the rooms that Fezmid and I used to play at before the legislation went down and realized that there wasn't anything holding me back from continuing there, so that's where Iv'e been getting my game fired up again. I have a 7-year relationship with them so it was a no-brainer. I also have been looking at Bovada as a more active option, cause Sportsbook is pretty slow most of the time. I can't wait to hit the live tables again, though, man...when you get to the point where you can pick up tendencies with so little info during an online game, playing live is like sensory overload to me lol. When I played in Biloxi the first time, it was almost like people were verbally telling me what they had...that's part of what made it so fun. But I know you guys already know that

Just trying to model a bit more helpful response than what had been offered to that point...since SOME people seem to have a hard time doing that...*ahem* Interesting...I've seen others use that strategy, and it does do a good job of masking the hand, which coincides with something I like to do, as well...it has helped to seek out some articles online, cause earlier tonight I was getting frustrated saying to myself, "dammit, I'm so sick of these people pulling the miracle river out of their ass!"....to which someone made the point that that's actually how you know you're playing good poker. If it's always taking them hitting a miracle river to win the hand, then it's confirmation that you likely played the hand correctly and in the long run you'll come out ahead. I just get frustrated sometimes when it happens a few times in a row, but I guess it happens to the best of us. I'm going to start playing the cash tables more, I think, too...I find that the quality of my play improves by enduring a 4-5hr tourney, but it would be nice to bang out some cash grabs on the money tables, too....I wish we could get another TBD game going... I believe he's referring to 3x the big blind...that's usually how we categorize our bets. Some vary the size of the raise depending on seating position relative to the dealer, or how many others limped in to the hand (meaning how many just called the minimum bet and didn't raise), etc. A standard raise is typically 3-6x the big blind, but plenz is advocating a flat bet regardless of starting hand, which can make it harder for others to gauge what he's got. Nothign wrong with being an amateur....glad to hear you're enjoying the game! I taught myself to play back in 2007 and have really enjoyed it since. Simple to learn, difficult to master.

Well sure, AJ...here's an article that may be a good start, at least until others chime in with some helpful advice...hang in there, buddy! http://www.beatthefish.com/poker-strategy/poker-bad-beats.html

lol

Poker isn't gambling...and nothing illegal about it.

I know there are a bunch of us who love playing, and several of you are better players than I am...so hoping I could pick your brain(s) Here's the thing: I have successfully taken my game up a few notches since I started playing again. I used to play very tight, seeing as many flops as possible, doing a lot of check raising and rarely bluffing. My stack stays very stable, but it gets exhausting grinding out a stack like that all the time. So I began implementing more aggression and semi-bluffing, and I've been shooting into the chip lead pretty consistently. I've played several low stakes tourneys recently and I've been knocked out early once and reached the money seats the other four times. Here's where I'm getting stuck...once I get to the money, obviously the blinds are getting up there and people are just betting like madmen. Flops are hard to come by and I feel like all my hard work is being turned into a series of coin flips. Even more frustrating, when I DO outplay someone, they are so damn loose with their stacks that I'll end up taking a bad beat when they hit some absurd draw on the river. Most of my experience is with sit-and-gos, so I'm trying to see if I can figure out a better strategy for the larger tourneys. Any of you guys have good advice? Or am I just pretty much going to have to take my chances once we get to this point? Thanks guys

Whoa, that story really caught me off guard...that's one of the best things I've ever heard.

+1

I was hoping that he was goign to say how wrestling with a bear named Ted was akin to going five rounds with George St Pierre or Johnny Hendricks in a UFC bout.

There was some clip I saw him in recently where he didn't have his makeup on...he looks ROUGH!

Well usually when I see people starting their car, they dont bother to shut the car door. If the kid is standing next to the car with the door open while they start it, if the car were to lunch backward the door would knock the kid down. haha, that's a great idea...I may need to put that into action

Idiotic...I have a good relationship with the office, but I have kept the emails I've sent them asking for them to send a memo to residents...if something ever happens where I do get nicked or worse, or if my roommate gets nicked or worse, it's going to be ugly for them.

Honestly, one of these days I'll be gone from the board because I'll be sitting in a jail cell. I have literally come within inches of getting swiped by a car as it went flying by and not seeing me walking my dogs at night. The speed limit is 10MPH!!! I've asked the office on three occasions to put out a memo to the residents...still nothing...yet I've gotten at least two memos about making sure we pick up our dog's crap.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/65099

Have you guys heard any feedback or rumors about the FINALE survivor season? I was listening to Penner on Rob C's podcast, and he was talking about how they plan for the last Survivor to be a "legends" of Survivor, with like 30 of the best/most popular castaways ever to play. I don't know if that means there is already an exit strategy in place, or if he was just speculating that whenever it does happen that's what will go down. Ratings are still super strong, last I knew, so hard to imagine it would end any time soon.

What about the car door