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I would be very interested to know the percentage of the 6000+ entrants to this year's Main Event that actually paid the $10,000 entry fee out of pocket. The way all of the online sites are giving away trips to the Main Event, and the number of satellites that take place to earn entry, I would be VERY surprised to see that number at or above 25%.I personally think all they need to do is raise the friggin buy-ins. Simple, there, done, now just gimme a check.raise it to at least 20-25kLook at this way... Back when the WSOP, 10,000 seemed like much more money to people than what 10,000 is today. -
I'm not sure where Empire stores its hand histories, or what format they are in, but with my Poker Tracker and Party Poker HH, PT will not import hands where I was disconnected (due to my or PP's network being crappy) and it will not move the file out of the HH folder. PT will import all of the other hands from that particular HH file, but it won't move it to the other folder, so that file will get scanned every time you import. Periodically I'll go into the HH folder, look at the HH files to make sure that they've been imported, then delete them myself.Another possible cause is that you have PT Hold'em and you have Omaha/Stud/Razz/etc. HH in your folder, or you have PT Omaha and you have Holdem, etc. HH in your folder.If the program in general is running slow, you probably need to compress your database.
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Has anyone questioned where all of this money is coming from? They are giving away almost limitless bonuses, paying Very Frequent Players for playing, giving a portion of the rake to affiliates, and running guaranteed pool/freeroll tournaments daily. All that, and you say that they have very little action on most of the tables which means that they aren't making a fortune off of the rake. Isn't this how Dutch Boyd ended up bankrupting his online poker venture and screwing all of his customers out of their bankroll?All I know about GamesGrid is what I have read about on this forum, so there may be something that I'm missing, but it sure doesn't sound like a very profitable site for the proprietors.
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That's what everybody keeps saying, but when you are sitting there losing buy-ins and they are up 3 buy-ins, when is it time to say "This guy is on a rush, his Party Poker is obviously lacking a Fold button, and I'm getting my ass kicked by a Fish!"? Sure, maybe the next night, the cards won't be falling in his favor and he will be donating hard core, but that is not "tonight" so why stay there and lose your bankroll because "this guy is eventually going to lose playing like that"? It doesn't make any sense to me.
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Well, I planned on spending a lot of time this weekend playing solid poker and hoping to make some money off of the fish at Party Poker. Well, I forgot one key element...if you play every single hand like the fish do, you hit a lot of really remote draws and overvalue hands much of the time. I was actually up at one of my tables when the following sequence occurs.Playing $25PL Hold'em at Party...I get dealt TT in late position (not sure exactly what seat), and I raise it up to $1.00 and get 2 callers. Flop comes KTx with one diamond. I decide to slow play for one card, so it goes check, check, Idiot bets $1, guy2 calls, I call. Turn comes x, but it's another diamond. This worries me a little, so I check with the intention of raising, sure enough Idiot bets $1, guy2 raises it to $6, so I re-raise it to $11. The idiot calls down another $10, and guy2 folds. The river of course brings another diamond that doesn't pair the board. I bet $10.20 (putting the Idiot all in), and he of course calls. He turns over J
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!!! I can't believe my eyes. He smooth called $10 with a J-high flush draw and called an all-in with the J-high flush. I guess the thought never crossed his mind that there were 3 flushes that could beat him even if he hit it.So I'm really stewing...few hands later...I limp in middle position with KT, and there are 4 people in the pot and I'm last to act (folded around to the button). Flop comes K22 rainbow. It checks around to me, so I bet the pot (around $1.50). The same idiot is my only caller. Turn is a blank, he checks, so I go all in for $5.50, and he of course calls again. The river is a 6. Guess what? He turns over 66 and I am done.In the first hand, I was a 94% favorite after the flop and a 84% favorite after the turn. In the 2nd hand, I was 92% and 96% respectively. I don't think I've ever been so pissed off at one human being in all my years on this planet. -
If only the first part is true (random draw), then it doesn't make card counting any less effective. When you count cards, you only know that there are more/less big cards in the deck...you don't know that the next card is a 10, you just know that it is more likely. It doesn't matter if the card comes from the top, bottom, or middle of the remaining shoe, it still has the same probability to be a 10. If the 2nd part is true (reshuffle), then the count doesn't matter because there is a 24/312, or 7.7% chance of getting a 10 on the first card of any given deal because all of the cards in the shoe are in play on every deal.I would tend to agree that staying in a land based casino is better than an online one. I also think that technology in the casino is starting to combat card counters a lot better. Companies are starting to make blackjack dealing machines. The basic premis is that wach card that it spits out isn't necessarliy the next one in the "shoe."Basically, you could get one card from the top and one card from the bottom of a 6 deck shoe. And I think the machine continues to shuffle the entire time. Not 100 percent sure about the last part so much.But as mentioned before, the big money is made at the poker table. -
I think it would have been really funny had the Republicans changed the rules to stop the filibusters from blocking their nominations. Sure, it would help their cause in the short term, but what about 10 or 20 years down the road when the Democrats regain control of Congress? The Republicans will be bitching twice as hard about how they are powerless to block Democratic nominees. The whole situation is ludicrous.For the record, I am neither a Democrat or a Republican. I am a fiscal conservative which is currently a non-entity in Washington (with the exception of Ron Paul, the only Libertarian in Federal Government). The two party system is inherently flawed, and it has gotten to the point where it is self-perpetuating, so unless the American people wake up and realize that the Republicrats are the same party and they are hood-winking you into voting for them every year, no actual progress is possible.Also for the record I think the democrats are being entirely unconstitutional with their filibusters, and the Republicans have no spine. -
I played in that damned thing for 4 hours and I ended up finishing in 66th place...top 50 paid out. Worst part is that I went all-in pre-flop with AA, got called by KJ and the flop was KJx. Oh well, didn't lose any money, but I'll never get those 4 hours of my life back.
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I'm a fish (glub, glub).I was really playing like a retard in my first few thousand hands, which is throwing off my rating. Once I started winning, I actually started getting into strategy. I don't claim to be even a pretty good player, but I have definitely changed my fishy ways. Now I wait for the premium hands and bet/raise agressively both pre and post flop. I have been doing this for about the past 1500 hands out of 8500, so it will be a while before I get rid of that icon. I have definitely noticed a difference in my results (for the positive) but the bad beats piss me off more now.
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Wow...I'd be crapping through a strainer for a week trying to pass that chip and go cash it in (or have somebody else cash it for me if I were in the Griffin Book).did you read bringing down the house? i loved that book. in it they make a known card counter swallow a 10 thousand dollar chip, just wondering. seriously, good book though. -
Hey, if he had raised me on the flop (enough to get my attention) I probably would have never seen the turn. I can't remember what the x card was, but I put him on 2 pair Kings and x's when he called my flop bet. I never said that I played this hand perfectly, but I think I did have reason to believe that my 9's full were just as good after that 7 fell as they were on the turn.Also might not qualify due to the fact you were a 2 to 45 dog on the flop. -
I was in late position (don't remember exactly) playing $25 PLH on Party Poker. I was dealt 99. I made it $0.75 to go (a pot bet would have been $0.85), and got one caller. Flop comes KKx. The caller checks, so I value bet $0.75 just to see if he hit a set, and he smooth calls. Turn comes 9, making my 9's full boat, he checks, I bet $2, he smooth calls again. River comes 7, he fires out $5 (so I put him on a slow played King), I make it $15, he re-raises me all-in, and I call. He shows K7 to beat me with a Kings full boat on the river.Before you say it, I know that I got out played, but that doesn't change the fact that he was 5-1 underdog going into the river. He had three x's, three 7's, and one King that could beat me...so Eddie, he had 7 outs and I concede that this doesn't meet your qualifications of a bad beat.
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That's probably why I don't remember it...I always went north to Indy then west to T.H. I always said that I was going to try the west to Evansville, north to T.H. route, but I never did.Yeah, Rose has lots of technology, but if you are looking for a current book, you've gone to the wrong place. I swear we had the worst library on the face of the planet. Every time I had to write a humanities paper, I had to go to ISU's library.Indeed it is. Birthplace of Red Skelton, too, for all you old school comedy lovers. Vincennes is 55 miles south of Terre Haute on highway 41.Interesting story: In 1993-94, I used to sneak into Rose-Hulman's computer lab at night because they were the only place within 100 miles that had a free internet connection. Used to telnet out from there. Awesome place. -
In which sport would that be? Football where we kick your ass every year and are ranked above you and go to bowl games while you lick your wounds, or Basketball where we beat you every other year, steal your coach, and then go to the final four?The Wildcats may have us in Badminton, but really, is that something to brag about?Edit: Louisville sucks more than the Hoosiers (even DOOK) ever will. When will y'all get over your inferiority complex and realize that no one loves you and that the true king of the bluegrass dwells in Lexington? -
Yeah, it was Rose-Hulman. I don't know where Vincennes is, but I probably have been through there a couple of times...I've been a lot of places that I don't remember.Bah, Cardinals stink too ISU is a nice school if that's where you ended up... actually, wait... dean of engineering... Rose-Hulman? I grew up in Vincennes, you probably went through it once or twice going back and forth to Louisville, Kentukiana :wink:
Amen. I root for the Cardinals first and the Tide second.In an effort to keep with the southeastern love... Roll Tide Roll. -
I agree that the Wildcats suck!Born and raised in Louisville, went to Terre Haute, IN for shool, worked in Northern KY/Cincinnati for 3 years, then moved back to Louisville.BTW, my sister graduated business school, my mom taught, my dad is the dean of engineering, and I am currently a grad student at the Univerity of Louisville.
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I have been playing cards for about 6 years now, but I'm finally taking it seriously and trying to improve my play. I played everything in college, including the lame wild card games (baseball, etc.), but towards the end of school and since I have been playing mostly Hold'em (Limit, NL, and PL). My main focus is PL Hold'em. I like the small initial stakes with the possiblility to go all in with the nuts (or bluff) if the pot is properly built up. I have been venturing off into Omaha 8/b, which was always my favorite game, and 7-Stud because I get bored playing Hold'em all the time.That being said (I felt the need to explain myself, since I'm a 'noob'), I really get lost early in the hand when I'm playing Omaha and Stud. I know that the betting and reading principles are the same, but I have trouble putting a value on my hand. In O8/b, I know that AA23 double-suited is about the best hand you could start with, but from there, I have no idea what the Top 10 hands are. Same thing in Stud...obviously starting AAA is ideal, but what hands are playable and which ones are junk? It's so easy in Hold'em because the math was simple enough to produce charts to show the odds of winning each possible hand. When you have 4 or 7 cards, that math becomes almost impossible.Are there any charts or basic books that explain the basics of getting started in Omaha, O 8/b, and 7-Stud?Thanks in Advance, Dan
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I have been playing cards for about 6 years now, but I'm finally taking it seriously and trying to improve my play. I played everything in college, including the lame wild card games (baseball, etc.), but towards the end of school and since I have been playing mostly Hold'em (Limit, NL, and PL). My main focus is PL Hold'em. I like the small initial stakes with the possiblility to go all in with the nuts (or bluff) if the pot is properly built up. I have been venturing off into Omaha 8/b, which was always my favorite game, and 7-Stud because I get bored playing Hold'em all the time.That being said (I felt the need to explain myself, since I'm a 'noob'), I really get lost early in the hand when I'm playing Omaha and Stud. I know that the betting and reading principles are the same, but I have trouble putting a value on my hand. In O8/b, I know that AA23 double-suited is about the best hand you could start with, but from there, I have no idea what the Top 10 hands are. Same thing in Stud...obviously starting AAA is ideal, but what hands are playable and which ones are junk? It's so easy in Hold'em because the math was simple enough to produce charts to show the odds of winning each possible hand. When you have 4 or 7 cards, that math becomes almost impossible.Are there any charts or basic books that explain the basics of getting started in Omaha, O 8/b, and 7-Stud?Thanks in Advance, Dan
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Almost all of the casino chips that I have in my collection are the Top Hat and Cane design (the exceptions are Caesars Indiana and Horseshoe Indiana). Who makes that chip and can you buy them for personal use?