Running 2006 World Series Of Poker Thread

A lot of times, I overbet on trips because, especially when there's a possible four-flush on the board. I want someone to know that I very likely have the best hand right now and if you want to see if your flush hits, you're going to have to pay for it. In home games, the strategy works well. You'll usually get the guy to fold.

Online? Not so much. I went through a run (I counted) where I lost trips on the flop to a flush nine straight times. I shit you not. It's ridiculous.

 

Lennox Lewis was just knocked out -- no pun intended -- by Carlos Mortensen's wife.

 

Bullshit; I know he's a big stack but you don't play 7-5 in the face of two raises. Fuck that action.

 

Does anyone use a stats site when they play online?

I've seen one. It was a trial and I used it in a sit-n-go and it seemed to help, I could weed out the fishes better but I dont know if anyone else has used one with any success or what kind?

I play mainly at paradise poker

 

All I'm saying is, he's representing ace all the way there. I wouldn't have done it, but if I were the other guy I also wouldn't have called his all-in.

 

Not trying to troll here, but this is one of the things that drives me nuts about poker players -- especially watching it on TV. They'll sit there and insist all day long that it's a game of skill. And to a large degree it is. A skilled player will win a lot more often than an unskilled player. But when the novice player calls and draws out hands, and eventually gets lucky and hits one, the pro players will start bitching because the novice "isn't playing right." Although the novice may not be doing the smart thing, what they're essentially doing is taking skill out of the equation and boiling it down to a game of chance. And it's like the pro players can't accept that, for all their insistence that it's a game of skill, luck still plays a big part. Then they throw the hissy fits, look like total jackasses, and sulk off into the smoky night.
Sorry for the rant, but that just really drives me nuts. Feel free to resume the thread now and pay no mind to the threadjacking troll...

 

The true pros won't bitch about the donkeys sucking out ... they realize they're what keeps the paychecks coming in.

 

I'm outing myself here, but anyone who's on MySpace already knows who I am anyway, so I have little worry.

I went to the WSOP this past weekend and did a series of stories for my newspaper. The first is a link to my column from Sunday, about my playing in the media/celebrity event; I took 26th of 220. I also did a main poker phenomenon story and a story on poker's legality and also some follow notes.

Sounds like we have some poker fans here, so I thought I'd throw my stories out there for you guys. Enjoy.

COLUMN: http://www.pjstar.com/stories/073006/WES_BAH4PVPJ.077.shtml

MAIN STORY: http://www.pjstar.com/stories/072806/SPO_BAGNR935.BRW.shtml

LEGALITY STORY: http://www.pjstar.com/stories/072906/SPO_BAGSU575.BRW.shtml

FOLLOW NOTES: http://www.pjstar.com/stories/073106/SPO_BAHGFSKP.BRW.shtml

 

I've never covered the WSOP, so I'm just curious. What's the buy-in/prize structure for the media event?

 

There is no buy-in and anyone with a media credential can sign up. The top 10 finishers get money for a charity, the winner $10,000 and second $1,000 and so forth. It's a pretty nice event -- even if the blinds were obscene. We started with $1,000 and the blinds doubled every 20 minutes. Needless to say, it was an all-in fest.

 

CI -- I liked the dual structure of that column. Not an easy thing to pull off in a newspaper, but it worked.

Thanks for sharing.

 

By the way, George Lopez is going into tomorrow's Day 2 with 98,000 in chips.