ErikW Posted January 18, 2007 Author Share Posted January 18, 2007 As you may be aware, NETeller has announced that it will no longer accept transfer requests from U.S. customers to online poker sites or allow withdrawals from online poker sites to your NETeller account, effective immediately. Son of a bjtch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZ38super Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Signed up on FullTilt, my first ever online poker attempt. Got up to over 3500 on a 9 seat 5/10 NL table and played for hours before I got bolder and burned it down. Was just testing how different people played the game. It's easy to be bold with play money, we had some pots over 5K. Time to build up a bankroll... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlockSpeed31 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 (edited) Poker? Didn't even know her! Sorry, couldn't resist and I felt like being a smart a$$. Carry on! Edited January 18, 2007 by GlockSpeed31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazos SC Shooter Posted January 19, 2007 Share Posted January 19, 2007 You poker, you brought her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 We had a full week of poker. My gf played in an event on Friday that was for her industry (well, the building industry...she is a mortgage loan officer at a bank..does lots of new construction business). Yesterday, we went to a tourny in Dayton with a shooting buddy and his wife. It was a qualifier for the final (later today). She didn't see a pair or an Ace all day, and got bumped right before the bubble (they took the top 30 for the final). I made it. My buddy's wife played a cash sit-n-go and left that up $150. It was still early and my buddy knew of a game at home, just down the street. So, we hit that. My gf and I were the final two so we played loose. I went All-in preflop, she called...was behind...but sucked two pair. $200 for her, $75 for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 Head to head with your girlfriend? Might as well chop it right there. Wednesday night I got busted again at the final table by the same gunsmith's pocket pair. Meanwhile, it turns out the owners of Neteller were arrested for "money laundering." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 FullTilt: Don't they have any fast games? PokerStars you can go to a normal or fast, the 'normal' tables take forever. FullTilt: I was paying two tables at once, some glitch made me lose 4K. One table I was up 4K+, the other about even, closed them both, next day, I was back at 1K total. I like the tourneys - as soon as the first 10 all in people crash and burn. People seem to play more 'normal', if that's possible with play money. PoerStars: I've been playing the 27 and 45 play money people tourneys there, I haven't tried FullTilts yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott R Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 FullTilt: Don't they have any fast games? FullTilt calls them "Turbo", not sure if they exist in play money though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted January 23, 2007 Author Share Posted January 23, 2007 I noticed a "phara" in FullTilt's "Ferguson" NLH tourney last night. Was that you Paul? Finished 104 of 722, in the money. I finished 14th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4444 Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Played in a 10,000 seat freeroll on Pokerstars the other day. Made it to the 400/800 blind level with a $50.00 ante. Was sitting at about 40th place with a stack of about $57,000.00 When the following hand comes up. I'm on the big blind, facing a moderate raise but there were a boat load of callers,,,,so the pot got pretty big fast. I was holding King Jack, not a great starting hand facing lots of callers,,,,,,it is easily dominated, but there was enough money to warrant a call. Flop comes, J, J, A. I Made my set. With an over card on the board, there really wasn't much that could beat me, so I pushed all-in.......to try to take it down uncontested. This was a mistake. It looked like I was trying to buy it, so the only guy on the table with a bigger stack called. He was holding Ace Queen. I think Cool, I got him dominted......Doubling up would put me in the top 5 probably and I could just about cruise on in..... Then comes,,,,,,,yup,,,,,,,runner runnner,,,,,,queens, H-mans all done'r. Talk about a suck out,,,,my Jacks full fall to queens full....... Bye Bye $57,000,,,,,vanished like a fart in the wind. I should have make a smaller bet on the flop, but still much bigger than the pot,,,,then it probably wouldn't have looked like a "buy" This would have given my one other opportunity to end the hand on the Turn when the first queen fell. I could have taken another shot and hopefully gotten a fold out of my opponent. Lesson Learned,,,,you can't win a tuourney on one hand till you're heads up,,,,but you can sure as hell lose a tourney in one hand. Went from about 40th to out at 444th. Out of 10,000, I'll take it. H4444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 h4444, I've played your hand over in my head a number of times now. Lots of different ways to go with it. I'm guessing they raised to something like 1600, with about 4-5 others still in ? So, the flop comes, small blind checks and you are looking at action on a pot of around 10k, right ? At this point, with your set made and no hand out that is even close to you (odds are, what, 10-1 in your favor...or better...that anybody can hit a hand?) - You are setting on a good chip stack (70x the big blind)...so, you are right...no pressure there. - But, your hand is so dominant that I'd be looking to get paid on it. - You did over-bet the pot (5x the pot or so)...from an early position. I'd have put you on an Ace or Jack. Sounds like your were playing tight, which would make it very unlikely for you to bluff into all those possible hands (Aces). So, you bet more than you needed to. But, depending on the players at your table, that may have been the thing to do to get them to throw in some chips. (remember...at this point it you have great odds) - Your opponent made a bad call. He has to hope you are on A-10 or worse. Not likely. Somebody had to hit...you were the only one putting in money. He is calling 55k on a chance to win 65k...on the strength of his kicker. Just a bad beat. He got incredibly lucky. Might have been better to bet between 50% and 100% of the pot (100%+ if you are thinking somebody has Q-Q...but they should have bet that pre-flop). But, as far ahead as your were on the flop...you should get paid off. The odds don't get much better...so I wouldn't have been trying to end that hand at the flop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4444 Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 He hit the nastiest (for me) of the few outs he had. Being tight/solid with a decent pot, I hoped to take it down and not get ran down,,,,like I did. I do play somewhat tight, thought at times I'll play drawing type starting hands and I do get aggressive once I'm in a hand. Ss soon as the big stack called at first I was jubulent, but then I realized,,,,,he had outs. But, if he'd call the all in,,,,I'm guessing he'd have ran me down after the turn was a queen and he improved his hand giving him top two of a/q.....and then how do you get away from jacks full of queens on the river...... That's a tough one, in a casino it would have been a little easier as I would have more information to make a judgement on,,,,,online and in this case, the math didn't work out in my favor, but overall,,,,,I'll take that advantage after the flop everytime especially if I get callers.....you can't beat math. ;-) H4444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted January 25, 2007 Author Share Posted January 25, 2007 Last night I was well into a real money tournament with around 5500 in chips. Leader had 7000+. I get 44 and reraise, and three of us are in the pot. I flop a set with a couple other little cards. Dude goes all in with just under 5000 chips, I move all in, and the third guy gets the hell out of the way. Dude has 77, he's toast, and I'm looking forward to my 12000+ chip stack. Dude gets two runners to make a 7 high straight and suddenly I'm looking at the second-worst chip stack deep in the tourney. I came back to win the tourney. And I put only one bad beat on someone on my way up. Damn that felt good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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