Phate

From what it sounds like your brother is feeling like absolute garbage over the situation (as he should). As brutal as losing that money is, he's your brother. I can only imagine what it would feel like to lose even my meager roll but if you have a full time job, and are making some ok bank, then maybe you need to not take EVERYTHING he has. I mean he gave you anything of value to him. I think you need to just sit down with him and explain just what that bankroll meant to you. From what I can tell it wasnt just that it was $1100, it was the time, effort, management, and everything else th

DrPhate. 25 bucks to blow or build. Should be fun.

and I'm done. guy called my raise with 4,5 and flopped the nuts with 6,7,8. Check, check. Turn is a K and I am holding K,Q. bet, call. river is rag and all the chips go in. gg me. Good luck man. I need some sleep cause the sun just came up.

name is Phate. I'm down to 7800 and just getting ancy. Need to make a move relatively soon or I will be stuck pushing sub-marginal hands.

I'm starting to bleed it seems. Down to 9k and not catching anything.

struggled my way back up to 17k. Looks like I may actually have to try and finish well in this instead of getting any sleep whatsoever. fingers crossed... don't bubble, don't bubble, don't bubble....

was up to 14000 then held QQ and with the board reading J,8,3 rainbow called an all in only to see those nice cowboys staring at me. Down to 3000 and will now go balls out to build or bust. Too tired for this.

doing well so far with about 9500. I'm hoping to either get a monster stack or bust out cause it is already almost 4 am eastern time.

out at 119. could have done better

2nd break, sitting at 16000.

was barely breathing for a while but now back at 7500 after getting lucky with my K,Jo against A,Qo. Wait, now at 9500 with my J's full against trip Q's.

well I got aces in the bb and reraised preflop, this got the initial raiser to push all in and I happily called. Saw his jacks and was sitting pretty till the flop of K, J, rag. Turn is a 10 and I need a Q or A on the river and get nada. Now down to 900 instead of 8000. Eh, what can you do.

I'm at 4077 at the first break. Havent had too many hands but I've doubled up off the same guy twice. How nice of him.

I'm in too. Name is Phate. Might be a little distracted as I am also doing a ton of other things but thats why this is a freeroll right...?

eh, I got unlazy for about 5 min. Here are two sites that do the trading and buying. www.cashmanbrian.comtradepoker.com

check the forum history. Somebody else asked about selling $T and I remembered the name of a site that both buys and sells those and $W but now I can't remember the name. Its in there somewhere though. Sorry I am only marginal help but I'm eating my high class frozen dinner before my home game starts. Good luck.

sounds like good times for you all weekend. I especially like the new suit at the end and the "I payed cash". haha. You should have gotten a cane with it and just strut around your house to boot.

I don't know if your going to find anyone besides one of the pro's that can answer your question with 100% confidence but from my understanding the biggest games are almost always mixed. I'm sure if you have money though and are really want to only play NLTH then you could find a very high game. I know when I was in vegas the highest strictly NL game I saw at the bellagio was not quite at the 500-1000 level but then again I was not up in the high roller section checking every single table. If your lucky DN will answer this ? for you though.

I'm pretty sure its not a rule that you must display them for the best view of others but I do recall that in a tournament this year or right after one a tournament director commented on how there was frequent "barber poling", which is when the chips of varying denominations are mixed in with each other so that an easy chip count is not possible. I believe that in this tournament players were frequently asked not to do this as it was unethical but I don't believe it to be illegal. Its not exactly top class poker but having some higher chips behind smaller ones isnt the worst thing that could

I havent subscribed and don't plan to but I have heard almost nothing but positives from those who have. I also frequent the www.pocketfives.com website and forum, (where Todd Arnold, NSXT2, the owner of realpokertraining.com posts) and there are numerous posters there who have joined and sing its praises. For example, http://www.pocketfives.com/49EB9C75-CBBA-4...B9A404C621.aspx (I'm not promoting another forum here just trying to help a guy out!!!) The guy seems accessible to all who look for him and I think that would be a huge plus. If its only $60 for one month of videos I wou

there are a couple sites that will buy your T$ from you though. I'm pretty sure one is www.tradepoker.com That will give you cash for them although it obviously won't be $215 for $215 but it isnt a bad deal if you just want real cash.

One is going off now. Crazy to watch with that structure. The railbirds make me want to scratch out my eyes though.

to be honest you answered all of your own questions. The only thing left open was whether or not you should have called pre-flop but you liked the odds (I would have called too). After that you had already decided what your read on your opponent was, AA or AK. You wanted to flop trips and did, you stuck by your previous read and called his all-in. You did almost everything right except for that your initial read was off. You said you knew he had a big hand but think that could ONLY be AA or AK? KK is better than AK, why made you rule this out as a possibility? Even with that said, I thi

I play in a friendly college home game once a week too. We play for $10 buy in but that often turns into $30 for the weaker players (which is great for me). Even so we play that you give a 15 min. warning of when your leaving and that seems to work fine. Yes, the guys could just post and fold for 15 min but at least we have some warning. It sucks that these guys did a drive by on you but the best option for next time is either a tournament or don't invite them again. I know some of the people on here are saying that it doesnt even matter cause its just 5 bucks but I can relate to the plea

I'd love for Ivey to take this one down. Also for the grinder to continue on his absolute tear this year so far would be fun to watch. Raymer is actually quite a talented player and is reaffirming this with his showing thus far.