have been playing for a few months (micro, like .02-.04) on cakepoker. it can be alternately boring and thrilling but the overall experience is positive. want to see if anyone else wants to discuss and share thoughts/strategies.
basic questions to get started...
1) what's your level of play/experience? what's your style? 2) where do you play and what are your stakes/bankroll? 3) any memorable hands you want to share?
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1) Been playing competitively for about two years now. I'm pretty tight pre-flop, but once the flop hits, I'm a pure by-the-numbers player.
2) Started with Full Tilt, moved over to PokerStars when I realized Full Tilt was full of ****, then quit online poker completely when they all got shut down. I just play tournaments at the local bars on Wednesdays and cash games with my friends on Thursdays anymore.
3) The one the comes to mind first is back on Full Tilt. I was in the final 3 of a tournament, and got pocket 8's on the button. I raised, the BB re-raised, I called. Flop was 833. He bet, I called. Turn was something like a 4 or 5. He bet again, I re-raised, he called. River was a 9. He push me all-in, I called.
He had pocket 9's.
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1. I'm extremely aggressive, but I would say I'm mid to low tier. Like, I'm still better than the vast majority of play chip players (I'm not wagering my own money, no thank you), but I go a bit too far with hands sometimes.
2. I used to play of FullTilt, which had a far superior interface to Pokerstars, but then that got shut down and I lost my 200k play chips ;_;. Now I'm on Pokerstars and after losing 200k play chips there to suck outs (seriously, I had two people call all-in with gutshots on the flop or turn, and they hit those gutshots on the river), it's really hard to build a stack again.
3. Most memorable for me was when I'd raised with rockets pre-flop and gotten three callers, so I was like "Oh man, this is gonna be awesome." And then the flop was QKK and I was like "Oh God DAMMIT." 'cause I knew any of the callers could have a king and ANY king beat me in that situation. One guy put out a decent bet and I folded pocket Aces. It SUCKED, but I was proud of myself for making a good laydown.
1) what's your level of play/experience? what's your style?
I play fairly tight until I have chips, then I play a little loser (some people call me a bully but it's not like I play complete crap with it)
2) where do you play and what are your stakes/bankroll?
I don't play anymore, sometimes free poker at bars, for like $5 buy-in with friends. Was starting to get into it before the shut down. Cashed(2nd?) in the one $4 + .40 I played. Lost a bunch of it on smaller .25/.10 games.
3) any memorable hands you want to share? I've had a couple bad beats, but I've forgotten them all by now.
Yeah, I play free-roll once or twice a week at a bar I frequent. I'm a tight player, I tend to linger for a long time, very rarely have a huge amount of chips, but enough. I have been dubbed 'Bad Beat Brian' where I play though, have a lot of bad luck with bad beats obviously. My luck recently changed a bit though.
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good stories guys thanks for sharing! a bit disappointed no one still plays online though
read up a bit on stuff recently on how to control the pot size before the river/showdown and tried to apply it (checking more, basically, especially on the turn). tried to apply it today.
big wins: 1) called a bet with A3s on the flop, had a flush draw with a J7x. the turn came up A. he raised big and i reraised to put him close to all in. river came up 3. 2) opened pre-flop under the gun (first after BB) with AQo. 2 people stayed, including the big blind. hit high straight on the flop and BB put himself all-in (KTo, had two pair). the pot wasn't that big before he put went in, but it was tasty to eat his stack. went out on that win.
came out on top, though i gotta admit that i was lucky - got three KK's and a QQ in only 102 hands.
(just discovered stats... so awesome)
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up i guess. was at a table where i sat to the right of the guy with something like 8x the max buyin of the table. i won an all-in off him early with AA, but he started sapping me of my winnings shortly thereafter so i quit while still a bit ahead.
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I had already sold my PokerStars account to my friend (in that I had about a hundred bucks in it and he payed me $100 to play on it rather than put in his own) and it was drained by the time of the big shut down.
Really jonesing for some poker though, and play money rarely gets people who care enough to make it worth it.
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had to fold pocket kings on the river. queen-high flop and i bet huge, but then the third club hit the table on the turn. checked behind, and i had to fold on the river.
fffffff
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Tuesday night I'll be going to my free-roll game. 70+ people usually show up, I like to think I'm a top 20 possibly top 15 player. If anything exciting happens I'll be posting here.
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I have so many poker war stories I wouldn't even know where to begin. Worst story being my 21st birthday at the casino where Jacks lost to 23 off because some broad literally didn't know she could fold and got two pair on the river.
well i lost it all ($1.11) for the first time since i started logging. feels bad man. lost to inferior hands repeatedly... well, we suck it up and play on.
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Well, if you want a story on the other end, I was playing a bar tournament last Thursday, and I was playing a lot looser than usual. I bluffed one guy out of two straight hands and mucked, but he showed me his AQ once, so I'm sure he wasn't too pleased with me. Next hand, I got pocket Q's and raised again. Only got him to call. Flop was all less than the queens. He checked, I bet, he called. Flop was another garbage card, but now there were 3 spades out there, matching one of my queens. He bet into me, so I figured he was just trying to let me know he wasn't giving up this particular hand. I wasn't either. I tripled his bet. He shoved, so now I'm well aware my read was off, but the bet wasn't much more than I had already put into the pot, so I had to call. He had Aces, neither a spade. River was the fourth spade on the board.
ha, that's the type of hand that got me out last night in my first buyin last night MSG.
tilted last night. on my third buyin (2nd one died due to lack of players) i just couldn't get folds i wanted before the flop and wound up calling pre-flop AI with KJs. needless to say i ran into rockets and got smoked.
on my fourth and final one, i managed to go up to about 6x or 7x. once did AI with rockets and beat pock jacks. had another where i called down with AKo after hitting A on the flop. wound up outkicking AJo for a sizable pot. finally, took a garbage hand (one of those superstitious ones i like) into the flop from UTG+1, since i had just won. hit two pair on the flop and full house on the river. paid back all my losses and then some, was the perfect hand to exit on.
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Used to play, not so much anymore, i actually play at casinos more often now, but i'll do the questions anyway and keep this topic tagged
1) what's your level of play/experience? what's your style?
Been playing for probably about 5 years, moved in to casinos more recently which is a COMPLETELY different ball game. Online i'm pretty aggressive and it usually works, but in the casino im far more conservative, unless i win a few big hands, and then i like to bully people, and usually walk away from the cash tables if i've tripled up.
2) where do you play and what are your stakes/bankroll?
Online, i play at PokerStas mainly, but also have a Full tilt and PKR account. I like to play tournaments, usually around the 10 dollar mark when i do play.
I like to see a lot of cheap hands. I think a lot of people these days play conservatively because they can't actually play very well, they are easy enough to identify. I don't play much online because I have no patience for it.
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all the wisdom says to play tight as hell, but i've unfortunately found some success in betting before the flop at the .02/.04 range. maybe as the stakes go up and the competition gets fiercer it'll make more sense to tighten up. hopefully i'm not developing bad habits.
could have walked away a big winner after 20ish hands (rockets - people keep going in against me with this and i've been getting way too many of these). but i wanted to go more 'rounds.' went down almost to even before clawing my way back up to where i'd been after 80ish hands.
grr
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- Blinds are 2 and 4 thousand, I have 31k left. Wake up with pocket kings. - I raise to 16 thousand, 4 times the blinds, half my stake. - Folds around to the big blind, he calls. - 3 low diamonds on the flop, I happen to have a king of diamonds in my hand. All in for 15 thousand more. - He calls and flips over Ace of diamonds, 3 of clubs. I have to avoid a diamond or an Ace. - Turn nothing, diamond on the river.
Now I understand why he called after the flop, but why he called my big raise pre-flop has me baffled. Granted he had a pretty big stack, but call 12k more with A3 off suit? I don't know, I would have insta-folded there, but I guess.
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Ax is underrated imo. especially when in position.
someone with huge stack raised the flop. i had pocket kings and was considering folding when the guy right after him 3-betted, but i thought better of it and got two people to call my all-in.
... he had kq offsuit.
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lost a lot of money last night. had 2-pair against overpair, and he hit a pair on the board. i also had a godawful round where i was obsessed with bluffing. hit a king-high flush (4 spades on board) and lost to the ace, though thank god i was smart enough not to lose it all there (though it did all get lost)
won it back today, largely off the strength of an Axx flop where AK beat AJ. a second hand where pocket 8s completed a 10-high straight (the guy had 2-pair LOL) and suited connectors gave both flush- and straight draws on the flop gave me enough to make up my losses from the previous night.
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Ooh, I just had a nice one in a heads-up sit-and-go. I've got A9 suited, flop comes out 4Q4 and my opponent checks. I don't think he's got anything, so I min-raise and the opponent just calls. 9 comes on the turn, he checks again and I raise the pot, and the guy comes over the top, 1.5x the pot. Now I'm a little worried that he was slow-playing a queen, but I call anyway because I'm not entirely sure I believe it because he didn't check-raise the flop. Another 9 comes on the river, and he bets all-in, and I'm sure I've got him. Sure enough, he had flopped a set--A4, and I've got him boat over boat.
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