Forum: Brick and Mortar
11-01-2005, 11:22 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 139
Re: Foxwoods WPT O-8 Tournament - Life saved
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Any chance you were at table 6 or 7? If the doctor you were referriong to was the man in the Harvard sweatshirt, then yes he was a very nice man and very quick to act when Billy went...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
11-01-2005, 09:57 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 139
Re: Foxwoods WPT O-8 Tournament - Life saved
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Talk about karma. I clicked on Pokerpages and see that Dr. Will Noyes is going to the final table with 58000 chips. I know Dr. Will pretty good as we've played against each other a lot...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
11-01-2005, 09:55 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 139
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
11-01-2005, 12:10 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 139
Foxwoods WPT O-8 Tournament - Life saved
Played in the WPT O-8 tournament yesterday (placed 53 of 280 which for a second time live event was not a bad performance - made only one significant mistake).
Non-poker stuff first. An older...
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Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em
08-29-2005, 03:44 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 22
Re: Quickie narrow questions
Thanks for the input.
FYI I bet the flop on hand 1, got raised, called the raise and extracted a bet on both the turn and river. I think that's as good as I was going to do there but I had to ask...
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Forum: Small Stakes Hold'em
08-28-2005, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 22
Quickie narrow questions
Live 4/8
Pick up QQ in BB, 4 limpers, CO raises to 8, Botton and SB fold, I reraise, limpers fold, CO caps, I call
Reads/images - CO is fairly tight for a low limit game, could have AK, AA, KK,...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
08-15-2005, 03:52 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 175
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
08-14-2005, 07:40 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 84
Turning Stone - when the lights went out
Was anyone there on Saturday morning at about 1:30 when the lights went out in the poker room?
I was playing 5/10 (there were only two 5/10 tables running) and my table broke up almost...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
08-14-2005, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 175
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
03-11-2005, 03:48 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 274
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
03-03-2005, 07:00 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 162
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
03-03-2005, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 162
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
03-02-2005, 09:17 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 162
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
02-28-2005, 09:15 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 164
Re: Foxwoods 1/2 NL - worth the time?
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If you can't beat that game, you do indeed suck.
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I get a kick out of this kind of quote. I suppose it may be true but when they accompany a story about hitting ONE big...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
02-26-2005, 08:03 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 164
Re: Foxwoods 1/2 NL - worth the time?
Too bad I wasn't in that game. And yes, you take a ton of bad beats (like the time this week when I had QQ cracked when a guy with ace high called a big bet of mine and rivered you know what -...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
02-26-2005, 03:30 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 164
Foxwoods 1/2 NL - worth the time?
I was there Thursday (after taking a terrible beat early in the 250 person NL tournament - I promise no bad beat storues) and played NL for most of the day. As I got a horrible run of cards and...
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Forum: Multi-table Tournaments
02-22-2005, 10:44 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 66
Re: Tournament Strategy Summarized...
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Yes, the chip leaders early are usually out before the money. From what I have seen these are usually the super loose super aggressive players who catch miracle cards back to back early...
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Forum: Multi-table Tournaments
02-21-2005, 06:35 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 40
Re: Dead carded
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Re-steal from the table bully, that should be like 4.5 big blinds.
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Assuming you aren't playing junk and showing down bad hands, the table bully is the guy who may fear...
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Forum: Multi-table Tournaments
02-14-2005, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 85
Re: Two Part Question (Winning Players Please)
Distracted? - play limit
Focused? - play no-limit
Tournament? - after you get into a good chip position realtive to the field and blinds, get focused
I realize life is more complicated than...
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Forum: Multi-table Tournaments
02-13-2005, 10:06 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 44
Re: Slowplaying a set heads up?
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meaning he may have have a pair or two pair, both you can beat, or pocket fives or sixes
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If he's got pocket 6's that would make 5 in the deck. I know online poker is...
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Forum: Multi-table Tournaments
02-13-2005, 02:11 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 41
Re: Best plan
Isn't the key word in this problem REBUYS?
Assuming you're willing to rebuy, you're not out if you lose this hand. Because there are rebuys, it is more likely that at least one of these guys is...
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Forum: Multi-table Tournaments
02-13-2005, 09:53 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 35
Re: Make a move?
I probably should have added that I had played very few hands and showed down only premium hands.
I pushed and she folded. I showed 88 and she got very upset like she may have tossed an overpair....
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Forum: Multi-table Tournaments
02-12-2005, 09:56 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 35
Make a move?
UB 50+5, 7500 guaranteed
Doing well, about 60 players left, 20 pay. Checkgirl is tight and moderately weak.
Hand #4408346-107 at Sat7pmA-006 (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
02-07-2005, 09:54 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 140
Re: Underage at FW - word of warning
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is an expired driver's license acceptable ID?
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I've seen someone turned away at FW with an expired ID. Worst part about it was the she was the guy's date and he did not...
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Forum: Brick and Mortar
01-31-2005, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 81
Re: 2 rules questions - FW 1-2 NL
Hand 1
If he didn't verbalize a raise I would take his actions to be a call but the danger in that is apparent from your question. As you were heads up, turning your hand over before "calling"...
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