I am a policeman in the area and would like to know about these goings on. Firstly I require your details, name address and obviously credit card details. We may make a large transaction down at the station from this card into an online site such as William Hill or Ladbrokes to verify your identity.

Thankyou for your swift co-operation.

Officer Greekstein.

Completely unrelated to the topic but was Marcus Bebb Jones in that night?

there's an interview with him on high stakes database website. definitely worth a read if i remember right

talent shows = rigged

What a shame missing out on the insight of one of the worlds greatest players....

yes must admit i'd listen to a few peoples insight into omaha but this isn't one.

lol

the tall blonde one from escala was a lovely bit of cheese!

would love to see signature win but faryl @ 6/5 absolute value. come on i need to ship one time

Well spotted Woodsey...too sharp mate, too sharp! I was hoping i could squeeze that one through!

While some people would have no problems taking £500 off a mate I genuinely would. Especially someone like Pete who helped me out a few times and I'm grateful to him for that. However, if he does ever win the big score, which I don't see why he cant with the fantastic game he plays then I will have no guilt accepting 5 bags off him when he's won half a million plus! In a sense I can't lose.

About a year ago, maybe just over, I had a bet with a friend. We were both playing every night in one of the casinos in nottingham and rather stupidly we would both lose all too regularly on house games and just couldnt keep ourselves away. In order to try and help one another stop donating to the house we made a bet that the first one caught playing house games would owe the other £500. About a week later, after both being disciplined and staying away I caught this person red handed playing roulette. Maybe if he'd been a little more subtle he would have slipped my attention but spotting a 6'5 guy wearing a luminous yellow hoodie and the biggest industrial ear phones you've ever seen whilst ranting 'tier tier' at a crouper, isnt difficult. At this point I went over and said 'come on then, cough up'. He offered me a deal which was that if his bankroll ever reached a million or he ever won as much as a million dollars in a fairly short period of time or tournament he would pay me £5k instead. Knowing that he was due some good runs and has the game to get a result like this I agreed with Mr Linton.

Should I have taken the £500 or was i right to gamble?

 

Must of missed it, but I did switch on in time for Tikay to call John Regis Ainsley Harriot. you couldn't write it....

I like it when fellow pros slag him off, more plz

It seems you are both in the wrong.

Firstly, I wouldn't invite anyone to my home game who I knew 100% wasn't going to cause a problem. You know the guy is already banned from a local casino that you state is pretty hard to be banned from so you must have known the guy you were inviting to your own house might not act like an angel? Apparently the fact that he is a member of blonde poker means he is an upright bloke.

Also, if this guy was niggling people at the outset then should someone not have had a word with him before things got worse? Surely if he was told a lot of the players are not familiar with a proper poker environment and its etiquette then the player would have behaved differently.

On the flipside, I would never go to someones home game and needle people I dont know. Its a home game so the way I behave is gonna be completely different to if I was at a casino. Most people are right in saying that showing the bluff is fine but you may have done it in a poor manner. I've shown plenty of times but never slammed my cards on the table.

This whole thread isnt doing either of you any favours.

After reading the 'What is a winning player thread?' I got thinking about something else.

I was having a conversation with someone I'd met recently at a poker venue and after chatting for a while we were talking about how much rakeback each other gets, money we've won and lost and how much we were making from poker, times we'd donked off a load on house games etc etc. Suffice to say I probably had a greater idea of how much he was worth and vice versa than his parents.

It was weird to tell basically a complete stranger about this but I felt more comfortable telling a guy who was a poker player about my finances than I would friends and relatives who arent poker players. In the same way I would find it a bit unacceptable if at a work do or something someone asked me what my salary was (and would never ask anyone else) yet if i was playing poker would happily tell another poker player I was up or down x amount over a given period.

Do other people find this is the case too? If so why?

As already stated running it twice normally occurs when players are all in with hands like top 2 vs up and down straight flush draw. Neither player is passing on the flop but at the same time in cash games its hardly many people's cup of tea to put their stack on a cointoss. I would never run A6 vs AJ twice.

fran you know i didnt mean you, i wouldnt mess with you at the table or away from it! lol

luckily for women they are better at poker than they are at football. This post is not intended to be a compliment.