****July Poker Chat Thread****

[Pokertron3000]

I have an account at Betfair. No personal experience at that low level, but I just fired it up and had a look. It`s just about peak time in the UK right now. There are currently about 20 6-max tables in play, but only one full-ring.

Do you have any knowledge of how their sngs are?

Does anyone know how the uk based sites sngs systems are and how busy they get?

I have lost any dicipline in my playing, maybe its just because I havnt been playing. I suck big time.

 

[The Shrog]

Been trying not to post beats in here...really hard. Just frustrating to grind a really nice session or two and then have the QQ>AA stuff happen .

 

[Deltafrost]

Cool, my vpip/pfr for 6max is around 17/15 atm and i've been thinking i need to loosen up a bit, just to get a bit more action really, i just seen that and it was more like wholly s**t i really do need to loosen up!!

But yeah with villain stats as they are i can understand, still i dont think i would be opening with 93o though lol i dunno if i have the balls, then again i do play micro 6max so plays like this are quite bad in general as you get called down so bloody light!

really its all about table dynamics. once i actually started adjusting i play a hugely varied game depending on the table. ive run like 28/23 on one table while a 16/13 nit at another before.

Stakes dont matter if villain has the right stats though, I've isod super wide at 10nl as well, you just have to spot the right opp to do so against.

 

[Egon Towst]

Do you have any knowledge of how their sngs are?

Does anyone know how the uk based sites sngs systems are and how busy they get?

Sorry, no. I don`t play SNGs very often any more. I used to do so about three years ago when I was still building my BR, and at that time I kept notes on blind structures and the standard of opposition at the sites where I played. I`m afraid all that info will be out of date and useless now.

 

[eNTy]

dont believe wv's sig
it's all lies

 

[Deltafrost]

dont believe wv's sig
it's all lies

its true story. a very squished pancake that seeped into the seems ldo

 

[cAPSLOCK]

dont believe wv's sig
it's all lies

Crinklecakes.

 

[Lemlywinks]

Wee!

Bought Sklansky and Miller's No Limit Holdem: Theory and Practice today!

Reading ftw

 

[kleitches]

Let me know if it helps. I have it but I'm too lazy to read it, lol.

 

[Suited Frenzy]

I love generous river cards...

Full Tilt, $0.01/$0.02 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

BTN: $1.56 (78 bb)
Hero (SB): $2.13 (106.5 bb)
BB: $1.98 (99 bb)
UTG+1: $1.38 (69 bb)
UTG+2: $2.04 (102 bb)
MP1: $0.38 (19 bb)
MP2: $1.87 (93.5 bb)
MP3: $0.38 (19 bb)
CO: $0.75 (37.5 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is SB with 6

J

2 folds, MP1 calls $0.02, MP2 calls $0.02, MP3 calls $0.02, CO calls $0.02, BTN folds, Hero completes, BB checks

Flop: ($0.12) J

J

Q

(6 players)
Hero bets $0.06, BB folds, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $0.06, MP3 folds, CO raises to $0.36, Hero calls $0.30, MP2 calls $0.30

Turn: ($1.20) 4

(3 players)
Hero checks, MP2 checks, CO bets $0.37 and is all-in, Hero calls $0.37, MP2 folds

River: ($1.94) 2

(2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: $1.94 pot ($0.12 rake)
CO showed J

5

(three of a kind, Jacks) and lost (-$0.75 net)
Hero showed 6

J

(three of a kind, Jacks) and won $1.82 ($1.07 net)

 

[Debi]

Wee!

Bought Sklansky and Miller's No Limit Holdem: Theory and Practice today!

Reading ftw

I have that too and need to start it soon. Let me know what you think.

 

[S93]

Wee!

Bought Sklansky and Miller's No Limit Holdem: Theory and Practice today!

Reading ftw

Its good.
Witch reminds me i have to re-read it

 

[Tygran]

Wee!

Bought Sklansky and Miller's No Limit Holdem: Theory and Practice today!

Reading ftw

I think you can make a case for it being the best NLHE book on the market right now personally

 

[Cheezymadman]

Anyone else hate cash games, and play nothing but MTTs and SnGs? Or am I all alone there?

 

[Lemlywinks]

Good..... Good. From the comments I believe i made the correct choice in my purchase. I think I must have stood in the bookstore for 20 minutes trying to decide between that and Harrington on Cash Games.

Don't get me wrong, I love "action Dan", but I was flipping through the indexes and some of the examples of both books and Sklansky's seemed to be the best option. Going to the beach with the fam this weekend, so I hope to accomplish a good portion of it then. Will definitely update on it then

 

[slycbnew]

Anyone else hate cash games, and play nothing but MTTs and SnGs? Or am I all alone there?

I hate donkaments and love cash

jk, I enjoy playing MTT's but the variance tilts me like there's no tomorrow. Getting my money in good all in and getting sucked out by bottom pair drives me absolutely up a wall! So I play two or three MTT's a week, but grind cash.

 

[cAPSLOCK]

Anyone else hate cash games, and play nothing but MTTs and SnGs? Or am I all alone there?

I am kinda the opposite Cheezy.

I don't HATE SnG games or MTTs but I feel much more at home in the clean simple world of the cash game. They are operationally the same game at their core but the format makes the strategy quite different. There are times going all in makes sense in one but not the other and vice versa.

Theres a thread up right now talking about a hypothetical situation where in a tourney I would fold aces pre flop, while this would almost NEVER be the case in a cash game, if not never.

Anyway.. I hope to increase my tourney skills over the years to come, but at the moment I am a cash player at my core.

 

[Deltafrost]

I hate donkaments and love cash

jk, I enjoy playing MTT's but the variance tilts me like there's no tomorrow. Getting my money in good all in and getting sucked out by bottom pair drives me absolutely up a wall! So I play two or three MTT's a week, but grind cash.

this

 

[switch0723]

Starting that session winning 5 buyins sick quick, funky heater etc, fist pumped several times, finished the session up <1/10th of a buyin, fun game this poker

 

[slycbnew]

Starting that session winning 5 buyins sick quick, funky heater etc, fist pumped several times, finished the session up <1/10th of a buyin, fun game this poker

My sessions are all the opposite - drop 5BI's sick quick, swear alot, then fist pump at ending the session down a BI...

 

[eNTy]

u finished a session up ?
rogged

 

[Stick66]

Wee!

Bought Sklansky and Miller's No Limit Holdem: Theory and Practice today!

Reading ftw

I have that too and need to start it soon. Let me know what you think.

https://www.cardschat.com/forum/general-poker-13/book-review-no-limit-holdem-theory-157129/

 

[WVHillbilly]

NLHTAP is a great book. I've read it completely through at least 5 times. fwiw I think Miller new eBook, SSNLH, is better though. I'm just starting my 3rd read of that now.

 

[slycbnew]

NLHTAP is a great book. I've read it completely through at least 5 times. fwiw I think Miller new eBook, SSNLH, is better though. I'm just starting my 3rd read of that now.

I've never read NLHTAP (will after reading Mr Sticker's review), but SSNLH is fantastic - I've only made it through once, it was so eye-opening and exciting that I haven't had time to re-read it because all I want to do is try the ideas online.

Has anyone on this site done a review of it?

 

[Suited Frenzy]

I love when people don't raise correctly pre-flop...

SB specials FTW!

Full Tilt, $0.01/$0.02 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

MP: $0.74 (37 bb)
CO: $0.33 (16.5 bb)
BTN: $0.38 (19 bb)
Hero (SB): $1.94 (97 bb)
BB: $1.58 (79 bb)
UTG: $0.62 (31 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is SB with 2

6

UTG folds, MP calls $0.02, CO calls $0.02, BTN raises to $0.04, Hero calls $0.03, BB calls $0.02, MP calls $0.02, CO calls $0.02

Flop: ($0.20) 4

3

5

(5 players)
Hero bets $0.12, BB folds, MP folds, CO calls $0.12, BTN raises to $0.34 and is all-in, Hero raises to $1.34, CO calls $0.17 and is all-in

Turn: ($1.17) 5

(3 players, 2 are all-in)
River: ($1.17) 3

(3 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: $1.17 pot ($0.07 rake)
Hero showed 2

6

(a straight, Two to Six) and won $1.10 ($0.72 net)
CO showed 8

7

(two pairs, Fives and Threes) and lost (-$0.33 net)
BTN showed J

J

(two pairs, Jacks and Fives) and lost (-$0.38 net)