I had pocket 10's.

Horrible river with majority of chips in already!

Cheers Jez.

I really cant justify the other players call on the turn.

Esp when he/her turned over Q8...and I called the river cause it was 1500 left and i was willing to pay $3 to see the hand. lol

[OnTheCards bets 240]

Full Tilt Poker Game #7718330421: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (58702391), Table 5 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:46:54 ET - 2008/08/19
Seat 1: elenacw41 (9,913)
Seat 2: sarah_jean8 (6,775)
Seat 4: OnTheCards (2,885)
Seat 5: tubbs8863 (3,095)
Seat 6: ontiltpat (5,615)
Seat 7: erconde07 (2,980)
Seat 8: cyack6 (4,380)
Cracked_1234 folds
elenacw41 calls 140
*** FLOP *** [ ]
elenacw41 has 15 seconds left to act
elenacw41 checks
OnTheCards has 15 seconds left to act
OnTheCards bets 240
elenacw41 calls 240
*** TURN *** [ ] []
elenacw41 checks
OnTheCards bets 960
elenacw41 calls 960
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
elenacw41 bets 2,880


I had no reads on this player as im not watching the table close - multi-tabling

Can someone tell me how to play this hand correctly. I was confused on what to do and suprised by the fishy all-in on the river.

Thanks for all your advice. I did fold the hand in the end.

On a side note when the right time to move up levels?
I have a BR of $70 and play $3 level. At the $3 level I get a good ROI. But my $6 ROI is in the minus. I haven't dared to go any higher.
What kind of bank roll do you guys think i should be aiming for to move up and to what level. I play FT btw $2 & $3.

Thanks for your comment.

Folding is a very viable option. Especially around the bubble.
Think for one minute if you weren't around the bubble. SB has put a weak raise in and BB a player with no poker knowledge pushes. This push could be a steal of the small bet? When it happened A7 looked very fitting as the BB's hand, any ace to an amateur is a good hand hit or not. If i had position on SB and saw a fold it probably would have gone in with no hesitation.

[Me 25k]

was at a live game so i can't remember much.
but i'll try and fill you in.

6/7 players left - NL Hold'em - Amateurs playing

Button - Me 25k
SB - Knows how to play - Loose-Aggressive - 45k
BB - Has no clue, fishy fishy - 20k

Blinds - 1000/2000

I raise to 6000
SB Calls
BB Calls

FLOP
    

POT = 18000

SB bet 6k (was a small bet)
BB - shove

Pot = 44000

Action on me....[8, 8]

Lost is on of the best shows I've ever seen.

Like every other fan I'm fked off by all the writers strikes and gap between episodes!
Can't we just see the whole damn series.

I was playing in a tournament day before yesterday, holdem NL. I had about 25k at the time and 7 people were left, 6 payed.

I was sitting with pocket 8's. I seem to remember being dealer and pumping it up pre flop 3x BB to which i had two callers.

Flop came


SB raises and BB re-raises all in (i wouldnt be knocked out but severely battered if i lost.
Both players didn't really know what they were doing and both amateur players. So I put them on a range of hands.

What to do?

[always]

plus my AK always loses out to A rag, my QQ always sees a flop full of As and , and my flopped straight always gets called by someone with 2 pair who makes a FH

That's just the rant of a losing player (not neccessarily saying your a losing player) but your AK doesn't always lose out to Arag and your Q's don't always see a flop of overcards. Poker is about accepting that sometimes the better hand loses and you have to deal with it. It can be a c*nt but the 'deal with it' part is always the hardest part to cope with in most players and thats the main reason of me starting this topic...to try and deal with it.

Thanks for the advice snoopy.

Lee Nayler FTMFW closely floowed by franny

I play mostly MTT. Sometimes when i play I get a really good start to things and find myself in the top 10% of players. Whenever I lose quite a large portion of my stack e.g. 6000 ----> 3000 in one hand I tend to play more reckless and take more chances. Even though, after I have the chunk taken out of my stack and I'm still at average chips, I tend to go on a 'minor' tilt and start playing hands for the sake of it to try and recoup.

Do any of you more expereinced players find that when you lose a large % of your stack you go a little crazy and take more chances and if so how do you deal with losing a big hand. Because I'm finding that a little difficult...

Summer Time - Mungo Jerry

when your depressed this song just doesn't help, and i find it so cheessssssssssy!

Fix Up Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal - played stupidly loud and too much on chavs phones

T-Pain Ft. Flo Rida - Low (if you don't know this song then your the lucky one)

Happy Birthday, I share nearly the same birthday (yesterday) and turned 16 too.

Only difference is I finish my exams tomorow, not today!

If its your first hand why are you not on the big blind?

First hand I played and saw a flop, wasn't first first hand.

It's $0.05/0.10 on tilt. I sat with the full amount.

I didn't know what to put the other guy on as I had no read, top set or draw?

[Seat 2: OnTheCards ($10)]

First hand on a small limit cash game -

Seat 1: AllInToDisturbU ($4.45)
Seat 2: OnTheCards ($10)
Seat 3: Karazhan ($9.75)
Seat 4: Jevor Wonder ($10.40)
Seat 5: slapnik ($10)
Seat 6: DonKeyCaLLMe ($10)
Jevor Wonder posts the small blind of $0.05
slapnik posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to OnTheCards [ ]
AllInToDisturbU folds
OnTheCards raises to $0.35
Karazhan folds
Jevor Wonder calls $0.30
slapnik adds $0.10
slapnik folds
*** FLOP *** [ ]
Jevor Wonder bets $0.80
OnTheCards has 15 seconds left to act
OnTheCards raises to $2
Jevor Wonder raises to $10.05, and is all in
OnTheCards has 15 seconds left to act
OnTheCards has requested TIME
?