^ wait, I thought you couldn't use credit cards for these anymore

When is this madness going to stop and the govt will just let people play poker online? I guess it won't happen until they can get their cut of it

1/18/2007 9:01:19 AM

Yeah, that blows. Luckily I think I emptied all my accounts right before party poker got shut down.

1/18/2007 9:02:19 AM

Quote :

" When is this madness going to stop and the govt will just let people play poker online? I guess it won't happen until they can get their cut of it "

well, that and the fact that hundres of thousands of americans are committing tax fraud

Quote :

"Yeah, that blows. Luckily I think I emptied all my accounts right before party poker got shut down. "

me too.

i put like a few hundred on the other night when i was bored. its not worth the extra $25 to get a $700 check couriered.

fucking lame

1/18/2007 10:08:19 AM

1/18/2007 1:47:57 PM

Did you seriously just paintshop out all the icons on your desktop?

1/18/2007 1:54:35 PM

david, you know the my computer icon is a sacred part of one's privacy

[Edited on January 18, 2007 at 1:57 PM. Reason : e]

1/18/2007 1:56:42 PM

ditto

1/18/2007 1:57:11 PM

oh noes.. the sky is falling(again)

1/18/2007 3:38:13 PM

But who needs Neteller when you have such reputable sites as Instadebit, ePassporte, ATMonline at your disposal.

1/18/2007 5:18:11 PM

myeh.. I can get get free courrier checks

I don't really need to move money around anymore, my rakeback accounts are well funded

1/18/2007 6:38:59 PM

noidroid was involved in one of the most quasi retarded hands last night that could only happen in casino no limit.

i was stuck hard and decided to sit at his table

we ran it over

but im pretty sure that this pot was the largest he's ever won.



(btw, back to one of my world famous "lets get destroyed for an entire night, then blow up in the end to get even, that's the challenge" absolutely retarded nigts)

[Edited on January 21, 2007 at 12:23 PM. Reason : e]

1/21/2007 12:11:28 PM

So.....you going to post the details?

1/21/2007 3:25:39 PM

I already know them

1/21/2007 3:28:10 PM

Fine, so post them.

1/21/2007 3:29:34 PM

hes sitting on my couch now

he's gonna post it in a few

Quote :

"So.....you going to post the details?"

yeah, i was at the table and almsot pushed for $800 on the flop

[Edited on January 21, 2007 at 6:57 PM. Reason : e]

1/21/2007 6:57:22 PM

almost???

yawn

1/21/2007 8:00:03 PM

i tanked out for a good bit there

its actually quite interesting, justin's in the shower, but ill make him post it before he leaves to drive back to ac

1/21/2007 8:18:43 PM

You realize you could just post the hand yourself Ben.

1/21/2007 8:21:50 PM

yes, i could

but why steal the thunder

1/21/2007 8:23:44 PM

Because it's there for the taking?

1/21/2007 8:24:09 PM

meh

ive got my own thunder about getting scammed by a fake deaf mute woman

thats comming later

1/21/2007 8:25:16 PM

Did you get that investment calc working for you?

1/21/2007 8:29:36 PM

nah, i never tried

ok, well for the hand..

2/5 nl at borgata.

1 limper, i limp with Ad5d

justin, in the CO raises to $35. button cold calls.

the button was this lady who was really, really bad, but had been making large bets and not having to show down. i felt it was a matter of time till someone broke her.

I started the hand wtih over $800, and was the shortest stack in the hand

anyways, back to it...

button cold calls, SB cold calls. bb folds.

1 limper folds, i decide theres enough justification to call on a suited ace, and do so.

that, and well, im a nl donk.

flop comes Kd Td Qh

sb checks, i check (planning on C/Ring)

justin leads for $80, button cold calls, SB raises to $180.

now im stumped.

what is he cold calling with pre, then raising such a small amount with?

what the hell is the button have?

ive got one move here, thats to push all in, assuming that if the sb does in fact have the straight, ive got ~10 outs

im scared that justin may have a set, and that the button may have a similar draw to me.

i tank out for a but, then justin doesnt see that im still in the hand

i have my cards protected with a $20 chip, and was standing up in the 1 seat while i was thinking, so i guess it may have seemed like i wasnt in the hand.

he calls out of turn, and that makes me even go into the tank harder....

after a bit, i fold, but show the dealer (whom i sort of know and joke around with lots). he's pretty surprised after knowhing how i play....

justin calls the $100, button just calls the $100

now, there is ~$700 in the pot.

turn is a random black middling card

sb leads turn for $200. into 700

justin just calls. button smooth calls (???)

river is the Qd.

for a second, im pissed, then i realize it paired the board.

i lean over tot he guy next to me, and point to my yellow $20 chip, and whisper in his year (i bet this the guy in the panthers jersey has kings full... "nah man, i know he does too" ahaha)

sb checks,

justin pushes for $450ish

button immediately calls off for $430.

sb folds

monster fucking pot

sb had AA
button had j9o
justin had KK for kings full

a nice $2200 pot in 2/5... not bad.

the possible worst possible plays of AA and a flopped straight on the face of the planet

funny thing was, after talking to justin, i think he may have actually folded to my push on the flop

huge, huge fucking hand

and of course, it was strange since the table was so deep, and no one had any greens at all, it was essentially $2200 all in reds ahahaha

im pretty sure he didtn really know how huge the pot was till i was talking to him while he was trying to stack up "dude that was over 2k right"

"holy shit, there are so many stacks.."

1/21/2007 10:38:44 PM

Max extract:

Tell me what i did wrong here:

2/5 no limit

effective stacks:
me ~ $1300
talker ~ $1700
bling ~ $900

limp in eMP with 5d 5h (blah blah blah, shhh.. debate this if you want, i could argue for or against it)

CO limps

SB completes (talkative)

BB riases to $30. (bling)

talkative is pretty solid.

however, ive got a great read on him, and have him totally baffled by my plays. we've been involved in 4 hands thus far, none of which went to show down. however, 2 of the 4 ive opened my hand. one was on 3rd nut no pair when i popped the river for $200 into ~ a $190 pot where i knew he was on a pair of aces with a weak kicker. the other was when i was pretty sure my KJ on a K high board was good anyways, but played it like a flush draw and donk bet out $250 into a $300 pot when the flush card hit on the river. He seems to have been the table captain thus far, and since im new to the table after mine broke, he doesnt like the fact that im the new talkative guy pushing people around with bets, jokes, verbalizations, etc.

however, he knows, and the table for certian knows that since ive sat down, ive moved almost each one of them at the table off many hands already, usually with brute force and positioning while very thin to pure air.

Bling is probably tilting, he's on his third buy in the last 2 hours. Overly solid player, hasnt shown the propensity to get in and gamble however. seems to get married to hands and doesnt like to lose big pairs. you know the type.



im kinda buzzed, and it's nearly 5 am.


I call, other limper folds (this guy is mega weak, and it pisses me off too. he seems to think im just maniacal and tries to follow me around table to table... its funny though b/c he's so serious about me being his target. constantly short buys and tries to fanagle shorty plays at me. its pretty irritating.)

talkative calls.

flop comes 6c 5s 4h

yippeee. start the train up, chips are gonna fly

in particularly hish, who has seen me play with large stacks of small denomination chips knows how i like to stack my chips.

its funny, and i think it's almsot intimidating in some silly way...

40 stacks of reds ($5), in a triangle (3 stacks, 2 stacks, 1 stack), with all large denom. chips on top in their own stacks.


If i get there, before i expand the triangle dimensions, itll go to 60 stacks int he 3-2-1 triangle. mmmm yummy.

anyways, thats an aside, but comes into play sorta.

talkative checks, bling bets $60.

this, seems a bit odd. c-bet from AK? large pair (god i hope so)? middling pair?

i raise to $160.

talkative tanks out, and then folds, instructing the dealer to keep his cards aside, so that he can show "what an awesome laydown" he made. meh.. prly middling pair.

bling immediatly calls.

turn is a 3d.

bllx.

bling checks

i slide out a $5 spire for a $200 bet.

bling looks confused, i say "$200"

"can you count it?"

i chop it down. whatever.

it's just fun to wheel out a 40 stack of chips ahaha

after a little debate, bling calls.

river is the 4s.

bling checks

i run 2 spires out this time.

he folds after about 40 seconds. QQ for bling.

now, tell me why i failed to extract the most value here, and why both my flop raise, turn, and river bets were wrong.


FWIW, talkative had 77

would have sucked out on the turn, then if i wouldh ave actually seen the river, i would have resucked.

[Edited on January 22, 2007 at 11:36 AM. Reason : e]

1/22/2007 11:32:48 AM

If he has AK the raise on the flop will pretty much mean a fold from him. I'd call hoping he would continue to bluff or preferably hit top pair on the turn or river. Even if he had a high pocket pair the raise on the flop would probably slow me down. Unless he's just a total donk and you hope he'll 3 bet you.

1/22/2007 11:38:53 AM

Quote :

"6c 5s 4h"

how you gonna flat call on that board in nl? (with another to act behind you)

[Edited on January 22, 2007 at 11:41 AM. Reason : e]

1/22/2007 11:41:11 AM

Quote :

"i bet this the guy in the panthers jersey has kings full..."

I guess he was either wearing that or the jack daniels t shirt.

1/22/2007 1:03:06 PM

Sitting here @ working killing time, so for my quarterly post I'll respond to Ben's quiz -

Raise on fllp - was too small with two cards to come in a 3-way pot... you have to defend your hand @ this point. The raise put ~$300 in the pot giving small small blind 2:1 on a call and BB 3:1. If you're not going to raise @ least $200 here, you might as well just flat call and see how the hand develops.

bet on turn - you were fortunate to get a call here. Betting this card is very likely to only get action from a hand that has you beat. Also, assuming you have the best hand here, your opponent is probably drawing pretty thin. Showing weakness here is likely to get him to lead into you on the river which is what you really want.

bet on river - he didn't raise on the turn so you're confident he doesn't have a straight meaning it will be awful hard for him to call a big bet. You could certainly debate the correct amount, but I probably would have bet another $200. If he called $200 on the turn it is likely he will put another $200 in on the river.

1/22/2007 1:05:48 PM

Quote :

"how you gonna flat call on that board in nl? (with another to act behind you)"

Like Mike D said, with that pot size there is no way he was going to fold for that small of a raise so why not just call him instead.

1/22/2007 1:10:58 PM

To get straight draws out.

I think a check is okay on the turn, he isn't very likely to have a straight and you can call an induced bet on the river if you don't improve.


And yes Jon, I was wearing my gambool jersey and JD hat.

1/22/2007 6:47:44 PM

guess you got home ok.

good trip?

1/22/2007 6:51:30 PM

Just got a message from Jon Turner,

"chiplead in the $2500 tourney @ borgata, 18 left, 577k, 2nd stack has 285k! 192k for first"

my go down tonight and sweat his action

1/23/2007 2:27:12 PM

baf

1/23/2007 3:12:53 PM

totally baf

1/23/2007 3:19:18 PM

Psh, he barely has a 2-1 chipload over stack #2. That amateur.

1/23/2007 3:22:13 PM

Where can we get online updates of that? I checked pokerwire but didn't find anything.

1/23/2007 3:23:38 PM

Probably too small to have updates.

1/23/2007 3:27:59 PM

annnd btw

Quote :

"$2500 down to 18 and done for the night Submitted by webmaster on Tue, 2007-01-23 04:37. Borgata Winter Poker Open 2007 With two tables remaining play has stopped for the night. A man to watch is John "PearlJammed" Turner, oneof the top onlineplayers in the world, is amongst the chip leaders. "

http://blogs.cityatlantic.com/poker/

gettin some pub


there are apparently updates somehwere

ive i go tonight, ill call someone for postin' updates... someone that'll be around a comp will have to give me their number though.

[Edited on January 23, 2007 at 3:30 PM. Reason : e]

1/23/2007 3:28:01 PM

oneof the top onlineplayers in the world?

1/23/2007 3:30:17 PM

and it's totally JoHn too

1/23/2007 3:31:20 PM

I wish c-flake would have caught on.

1/23/2007 3:43:50 PM

Jon came in 3rd if anyone cares. Not sure what the payout was yet.

1/23/2007 10:05:44 PM

payout $59K

1/23/2007 11:23:08 PM

gg turner

1/24/2007 4:57:07 AM

if anyone is interested int he HH on theh and he busted on:

blinds at 10k/20k 3k ante.

big stack at like 1.3mil, turner about 700k, monkey about 750k (ish)

turner in small blind with red 89

big stack in bb, monkey on button limps

turner completes, bb checks

flop is Js Ts 7s

check, check, button open pushes for like 10x the pot

after much contemplation, turner calls, guy has Qs 9c

s on the turn, goodnight.

pretty brutal hand.

1/25/2007 10:59:48 AM

damn, that's rough, but if I had to have guessed, I figured turner would go out on suited connectors

1/25/2007 11:07:38 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkIdBWY2iNg

1/26/2007 7:07:45 PM

lol.. "they all know i folded this hand so i'm gonna push all in next hand"


ROFL.. it gets better.. "i have four to a straight.. what? I HAD FOUR TO A STRAIGHT!"
idiot

[Edited on January 26, 2007 at 8:41 PM. Reason : .]

1/26/2007 8:38:23 PM

Gotta good giggle out of that one.

1/26/2007 9:27:53 PM

Funny, but not nearly as good as the guy that kept 3 betting with low pocket pairs.

1/26/2007 10:02:03 PM