As for Neptune.... He's a little worm! He looks down at people playing in £15 freezeouts as he did that blackbelt thing! Critising play! Always makes comments like... How did u make day 2 at DTD girgy?

I'm Neptune's brother and he's always making comments like that about me too... except I've never even made a day 2. Anyway he mentioned this thread earlier to me so thought I'd take a ganders and do my brotherly duty and the first thing that stands out is that there's some quotes from Neptune on page 8 that don't appear to originate from any posts he's actually written? So it's probably stating the obvious but they were almost certainly written by somebody else.

Plus he considers you a very good mate so less of the 'little worm' stuff however accurately that describes his appearance.

Right, I think that's my brotherly duties fulfilled. Just didn't like seeing him getting dragged into this titanic battle between salfi and the world.

Nice swonging Mr. Hawes, GL!

Rich Hawes for the win.. please

Seconded!

Thanks for that. At $0.10/$0.25, you're always facing new players so it's probably correct to play ABC stuff as you won't have a read on most people. This leads to the problems I'm having - with no read and marginal hands what is the correct play? For example, when you raise in position with say AJs, flop comes A 9 T with two suits that don't match yours, then you're check raised, how do you proceed? Should you lay it down until you discover the opponent's a donk? I realise it depends on how much you're raised, stack sizes etc... but I'm having trouble controlling and keeping pots small with marginal holdings.

In my experience this doesnt happen very often at these stakes (check-raise a pf raiser on A high board). I call 100% of the time shorthanded here with AJs if I wasn't reraised pf and because I have position, and re-evaluate the turn. Sometimes I would just check the flop if it's headsup and give the free card for pot control and because I'm likely best, then bet the turn regardless if he checks again. What you don't want to do is end up getting all your chips in with AJ here, unless as you say you know the opponent is a total donk who might be checkraising with Ax (and this happens too!). Just try not to stack off with one pair, and wait for better spots I guess. The better spots always come eventually.

Very helpful Longy thanks. Getting a wee bit frustrated at these stakes at the mo. Played about 1700 hands, full ring & 6-max about $105 down total at the mo. It seems at this level there's about 25% pure donks, 25% tightys (but can't let go 2-pair at showdown or AA-QQ post-flop), 25% nits and 25% decent players. I feel the only way to make some money is to get in cheap against the donks and tightys with speculative hands, hit and try and stack them.

Retrospectively, for the hand above, I see I didn't have enough info on opponent to figure out how he played, it's just very tempting to try and stack these min-raisers even with junk. Anyway got PT3 up and running so hopefully after a few thousand hands I'll have some donks to track down. In the meantime I'll try and fold junk even to a min raise.

Anybody have any legit strategies at this level to make a profit?

I play a lot at .15/.25 and .25/.50 and have done for ages cos they just seem like a license to print money (not much money, mind you, but a few hundred a month and that's fine and dandy by me). Winning strategy? Er, well first I play at OnGame rather than Stars/FT etc. - divide your 25% of decent players by 1000 and you have about the right figure for decent players that seem to frequent the OnGame micro-stakes tables.

Secondly, I think it's a fallacy to play the 'everybody limps/minraises at this limit so I should try to see as many flops as possible with any old crap' game. You're just spewing away those 25 cents to hit miracles, which often won't get paid anyway because you're not in big enough pots for the other players to get frisky. I set myself a rule ages ago, 'try not to play unraised pots, and try to be the raiser in the pots I'm in'. This changes a little when you and your opponent are deepstacked, but as a general rule it seemed to do the trick and plugged my major leak, which was playing limpy poker and calling minraises 'on principle'.

ABC poker works best. Forget about bluffing. I play 5-max only, fire up 3 or 4 tables a time, and just play the cards as they come. I raise and 3-bet a lot in position, c-bet like 80% of the time, rarely cold-call, and play super-tight OOP. To be honest at these stakes I don't think you need to do any more than this to sustain a 4BB+ winrate.

Congratulations! This is brilliant, brilliant news. Justice has been served.

I don't know if it's relevant but one part of the demographic that has never really shown a demand for a regulated poker game is that of students...I'm lucky enough to have done OK online over the past year and be able to play the odd £1/2 game at gala, but I know for a fact that a hell of alot of people are put off by these limits which are very high for any student. I have encouraged plenty of people to play but a £0.50/1 game or even lower is as high as the majority are prepared to go, and gala don't even do 50p chips anymore. They seem perfectly happy to throw away £40 on blackjack but then £40 at £1/2 is blackjack...Offering a wider range of limits is hopefully something DTD will do and I think you will then see far more young players then willing to take the plunge...Basically current provision for young players without so much money is utterly non existent, I don't know if that's something you can stress?

As an ex-student at Nottingham I was still going along to their games last year and there is HUGE demand from students for decent poker. If DTD could work with the Unis poker societies at say a £.25/$.50 game (or maybe £.50/£.50) and ran it once every couple of weeks the students would flock to the club, guaranteed. I chatted with quite a few who would simply never take several hundred quid to a casino game but would happily sit down with fifty quid in a well-run cash game.

I would like to play at Dusk Till Dawn because I want to play in a legal poker room that understands poker players and caters for their requirements, outside a casino environment. I have zero interest in playing casino gambling games, and I believe that only Dusk Till Dawn will offer the sort of poker tournaments that I want to play. I resent the fact that if I wish to play poker I currently only have the choice between visiting casinos who are eager for you to gamble, or illegal poker clubs. I also think that Dusk Till Dawn will firmly place Nottingham on the map as the heart of poker in Europe, attracting players from all over the UK and the rest of the world. As a local resident I am hugely excited by the potential of what Dusk Till Dawn will offer Nottingham as a city: a world-class venue dedicated to poker, for poker players, by poker players.

Simon Shaw
Beeston, Nottingham

Long-time lurker here, I play in a couple of small-stakes pub leagues around Notts and just want to say that we all read this thread and wish you all the best for DTD. Been following the saga pretty much from the start, and will be totally devastated if you lose in September - there is definitely a 'silent majority' of people from around here who all support you and who want to play 'proper poker' rather than the casino rebuy crapshoots. And I'm doing my best to get them signed up pre-opening!