played anothr game of texas hold em' on saturday night after work, my brother cleaned up, beating me and my mates fairly easily. game went for fucking ages though.
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played anothr game of texas hold em' on saturday night after work, my brother cleaned up, beating me and my mates fairly easily. game went for fucking ages though.
Anyone here play on World Poker Exchange? My brother is pro and its the only place he plays online now.
Since the site get most of its money off of sporting bets, they give you some of the rake at the end of the week. My brother claims he makes between $250-500 per week on the rakeback, thats from playing over 500 hands a day on multiple tables though...I dont know what tables he plays at...I think its mostly $10-20. Apparently the site also pays you if you give them a game number where you lose with AA. So if it is at the $1-2 tables you will get $25 back.
Anyone want to see a limit hold em final table?
If so, go to absolute poker and look for tourny # 1504503 freeroll limit HL
7 people left out of 4000 look for beautifulrok
wow, that was grueling. 6 hours and 28 minutes later I finished an unbelievable heads up match. It was like a tug of war. We were back and forth for about 30 minutes, (a lifetime for internet poker heads up) but alas I finished 2nd. Limit hold 'em probably is my worst game so this finish was surprising to me. At one point in the tourny I was shortstacked and all in preflop with 3s. After hitting a boat and quadrupling up I went on a run and took the chip lead just before the final table. I played extremely tight from then on whittling my chips away until I made my move 3 handed. What a tourny!
I always end up around 100th out of a few thousand in those freerolls so I end up getting a few cents.
Of course the tight players always last a few hours in any tournament but then there is a time when you need to start changing gears before you end up playing against those monster stacks so its even hard trying to steal the blinds since the blinds + ante will pretty much double your stack and give you 2 more bets. So of course I end up blinding out.
Around that time of the tourney I expect those players to play tighter but in fact players per flop is like 40%.
In those freerolls I find it more effective to play a little bit looser in the first level when the blinds are only 20/10 with 1500 chips. Then tighten up after 20 mins when the later blinds in the hour dont affect your stack as much if your not catching cards.
What time do the freerolls usually start on absolute and how much? On Paradise they are at 1:30 pm EST and 11:00 pm EST. I might give absolute a try.
Not to sound like a smart ass, but I'm really, really tired of the whole poker craze in the last few years. I don't know why they put poker on like 10 different tv channels. It's about as exciting to watch as golf. And what's with putting it on ESPN? I wouldn't really consider it a 'sport'. Every bar/club across the country has those poker tournaments now, and it gets to be rather annoying hearing about them all the time. I never even heard of Texas Hold Em until about two years ago, and since then it's become more popular than two dollar Sally.
I guess thats the catch of the game. I probably started playing the game about 6-7 years ago....it was kind of popular then but not nearly as it is today...with the TV...poker sets you can buy anywhere for like 20 bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by check two
There is so much more strategy involved in the game above traditional poker. I guess sometimes those strategy games are seen as sports.
The concept why it got so popular is there are so many people that think they are better than they really are at the game and think they can win. Therefore there is even more money for the true players in the game to actually win.
I consider anything where you keep score a sport. Check two, you obviously have never actually played poker, or else you wouldn't talk that way. It is one of the most fun and addicting things on the planet.
Absolute just changed up their freeroll format, now all the freerolls are also 50c rebuys so the pot is bigger than usual. They play about every 2 hours on the 15 minute mark. sign-ups are limited to 4000 and 1st pays anywhere from 30-60 dollars depending on the game you play. 63 places pay
I am thinking of going back to UltimateBet (Hellmuth's site) and see if its still fun. They're gimmick is ultimate points...so for every dollar or something you put into a pot you get an ultimate point....also if you play with play money for an hour you can get 1 ultimate point.
When you get enough you can play with your ultimate points as your chips. The ultimate points get get you a list of prizes and I think you can enter certain freeroll tourneys with the ultimate points where the pool is like $500 instead of $100 and stuff.
You need like millions of U.P.s to get the expensive prizes...so in reality 1 U.P. is worth a fraction of a cent.
I guess Paradise has their point system too...I play in those $1000 freerolls sometimes...they only have around 250 entries.
I never went on pokerstars in a while...even though I wear the pokerstars.com cap around all the time...lol Dont even think I have it installed anymore.
i reged to absolute, yeah they have NL, PL and Limit tourneys all on the same day....I dont know about limit poker tourneys with that many people....that would take forever unless the blinds go up fast enough....its easier to count your bets out though.
Ok Beautiful Rock, you got me. lol I never have actually played poker before. I'm not into card games a whole lot. But even if I did play, I would most likely still think that they are over doing it by showing it so often on tv, on so many different channels.
perhaps they are, but watching on tv is part of the learning process. I personally watch them all.Quote:
Originally Posted by check two
i can tell you from personal experience (last night) that they last at least 6 hoursQuote:
Originally Posted by Prolifical ENG
Thats always where there is confusion. Darts is a sport too but there are those sports that are faster paced and actually require athleticism along with the strategy. Call those "active sports"?Quote:
Originally Posted by beautifulrock
Thats not too much longer....NL freerolls are usually around 4 hoursQuote:
Originally Posted by beautifulrock
actually on absolute, the NL freerolls last at least 5.5 hours now that I think about it. I won a few of those. They used to pay only 10 bucks for 1st, but with the rebuys, that # went up to about 50-60 bucks but there are twice as many people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prolifical ENG
professional poker player adam shoenfeld disagrees with our assertion ENG. He says any activity where you can eat or drink a beer while you are doing it is not a sport. Does that mean golf is not a sport? lol
On the professional level when you are actually competing you wont drink a beer on the course...don't think Ive seen a pro eat on the course either. Do many people drink beer on the WSOP? But I guess you need to put emphasis on the word "can".Quote:
Originally Posted by beautifulrock
I guess that could be the difference.
The ones that want to do, as part of the game they're playing. Men "the master" Nguyen is always seen drinking at the table. I guess they are trying to showcase that "drunken style poker" where they appear reckless but are setting people up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prolifical ENG
I joined the world poker exchange...it is a relatively smaller site. The pocket aces always win has a scale...so $1-2 gets 25 when you e-mail support of the game number you lost with them...its only wed through sat 1pm-1am...lol
they have 6 $50 freerolls throughout the day...smaller than on AP and such...paradise has 2 $100 but at stupid times....but it looks as if they have an average of 500 entries in them instead of the other ones in the thousands.....depending how many entries...i guess top 50 pays.
oh yeah beautfulrok i was watching you play omaha earlier..lol
So, what online gaming site is everyone playing on?
if it was the freeroll i dumped in that. im in a $5 hi lo right now headed toward the money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prolifical ENG
nah it was just reg .10/.20 omaha
i seen you ranking in that game towards the money...i dumped the freeroll because im doing better on the world poker exchange one. the thing that i noticed because of all that traffic on AP the servers are super slow...so im off AP for now.
really? I have dial up and have no problems, try erasing the program and downloading again, it worked for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prolifical ENG
hey whats ur poker name again i forgot
on AP i just made it Prolifical...lol
Freeroll or Ap? Why not Full Tilt?
Whats the AP url?
the freerolls on absolute pay more spots and more money
www.absolutepoker.com
So ya'll playing real money?
I was limping after not catching anything in dozens of hands after the final 4 tables and ended up with $0.22 ranking 33rd :(
I kinda liked that shorter toureny even though it was less money...faster server = more hands played...tourney will probably be over in 3 hrs.
nice finish anyway prolifical, like i said before, I dunno why ur server is so slow. I have dial up and the only problem i have is when im downloading somethin otherwise its fine. I had problems b4 and I simply redownloaded the software. I'm sure youre probably running like a million programs, you seem really busy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prolifical ENG
my server isnt slow....its the AP server....its not *that* slow but I was playing 2 freerolls at the same time at AP and WPE I got twice as many hands in at WPE...I noticed that there is a short delay between rakes and bets at AP while WPE was going very smoothly.
Its slow because the place is HUGE and WPE is relatively smaller. AP is bigger than Paradise, UB, and maybe even Pokerstars...although I havent been there in a while.
It all evens out no matter where you play in those freerolls. AP has a bigger purse and would have got more change for 31st or whatever...but it would have taken a few hours longer.
me and my boy are playing the omaha hi lo freeroll , doin very well, check us out he's abarley6
goin nuts in the pl omaha hilo freeroll made the money 42 left out of 3912.
i helped my boy make the $$$$ too.
I was just watchin you in that omaha freeroll...your dominating that shit...think you are in 4th now...your boy isnt too far behind...congrats on your finish....I got work tomorrow....guess I need to start catching up....lol
thx bro
i appreciate the support, if you have aim we can talk during the tournies.
nah only got MSN.
Haven't been able to get off the ground yet on AP....haven't entered in too many freerolls, but on WPE I can get into the moneys just over half of the time even though I haven't got a top 3 finish yet...its adding up....I will try for bankrolls on both sites. It harder playing in 2 tourneys on 2 different sites...delays in switching windows...hahaha
WTF they don't have a chat on these pokersites like full tilt?
to prevent cheating, I just use aim
you can chat with others on the tables however.
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Originally Posted by beautifulrock
Oh OK using AIM actually aides cheating....Ya'll can tell each other what cards you hold as a matter of fact how is this prevented when playing with real money online?