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1  Poker Forums / Live Tournament Staking / Re: Guy Taylor EPT Malta Sell on: February 17, 2015, 11:40:12 PM
No disrespect mate, I don't know who you are, you are a new face to me, was just wanting to know if any other BM's on here deal with you regularly and can 'vouch' for you in the loose sense of the word. If so I might have a punt....

Hi Woodsey.

Unsure if we know each other personally, but I deal with Guy on a regular basis in relation to hotels, travel and swaps/shares.
He has always paid up correctly and quickly on any agreed arrangements and can confirm he is a honest and reliable stake.

I would publicly post his address and hold his cat ransom if he grims anyone.
2  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: DTD Grand Prix XI: £150,000 gtd 14th-21st April on: April 15, 2014, 11:21:54 AM
gl all the blonds who got through!  how many runners played last night.  what % of the field made it through!??

187 including re-entries I think.
24 got through so average is about 390k.

Also for people playing it finishes about 1230am.
Good luck everyone!
3  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: HAVING change in tournament poker on: March 24, 2014, 07:56:50 PM
lots of change is  bad, quality dealers control the table such that they minimise the need for it, and if they have any competent professionals/regs at the table life can easily be made more smooth.  betting 725 or 700 BET 700 LIVE FFS it slows the game down and is literally pointless live. it's fun and w/e but it's much of a muchness and getting a few hands more in is so valuable.

these comps sound good with the new structure.

As me mentioned the new structure is good. Not bad.
I totally take on board that LOTS of change is bad. Im not on about everyone starting with 3 tiers of 25/100 chips just so we can bet 'silly' amounts. It slows the game down more everyone asking for change everyhand. Aload of people insted of putting a 100 chip in for the 25 ante ask for change from the dealer or a person directly. Majority of the time the dealer waits for the change to be swapped before dealing. Or a player gives inadequate change amounts, ie. change 5k chip and you get 5x1k chips.

If there is not enough change in the pot to cover, surely something is 'slightly' out.
Had a chat with a few and always knew negative feedback would be giving on it. So thanks for actually giving a reply and not a 'shit idea, next' reply. Smiley
But if the correct bet in my mind is 725 i will bet 725. I wont bet 700 cus its easier, I should have the free option to do so.
4  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: HAVING change in tournament poker on: March 24, 2014, 02:56:37 PM
what was the problem this weekend?

50,000 starting and....

constructive feedback good!

Nothing wrong with starting amount (50k) or the structure in general.
It's just mainly as posted above, mistakes being made as a result of having a small amount of change.

Also, nothing worse in a massive pot when you bet a certain amount and the villian doesn't have correct change. Then dealer turns and asks you to fumble around to change it up for them.

EDIT.
PS. You know I am a proper fanboy of eveything DTD does, so in no way a moan or a grip at the 'new' structure at all. Just a small point that has been something I have said to various staff every weekend. Besides not having enough chips in the building to do it, feel it is something that can be easily introduced with no hassle. (besides Ryan counting more chips pre torney)
5  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: HAVING change in tournament poker on: March 24, 2014, 02:52:53 PM
Been referred to this thread from a post on facebook this morning as I was looking at putting up on here myself after this weekends Six Max.

I understand with multiple tournaments happening at once in the card room it may be sometimes difficult to just have chunks of change at the tables, but mistakes are being made by both players and dealers without a reasonable stack. But, there are mistakes being made because of inadequate chip amounts

With the new structure, we remove pre ante levels at start with antes straight away. We started with 8x25 chips and after folding the first orbit, I was already having to stick in a 100 chip or ask for change to meet to 50 ante. The main issue I have is that during the comp and in the past, there is atleast one instance a level where someone wasnt giving the correct change from the dealer or a mistake occurring.

1) Someone sticks in 100 don't get change and have to query it and ask for it back.
2) There is one ante short, or one ante too much and noone knows who it is. Spend a minute arguing over a 25chip even though everyone has 50,000.
This has a negative impact on both the dealers and players and also slows down the overall tempo of the table.

The second issue which is from a recreational player point of view, is that without the correct or variety of denominations within their stack, people arnt betting what they want.
Yes, probably the players fault, but majority of the time it is a confidence or image (Don't speak incase they give away a tell) reason for not verbally declaring the amount. They count there chips, relize they haven't got the right denominations for there required bet and insted of saying 725. They just stick in 800 or even 1000 etc.

The other issue from a recreational point of view is that when they cannot match someones bet, there is always an instance of someone accidentally raising by putting in several higher denominations when they only ment to call.

We all love a tower and I am one that does tell ruin to leave me alone when changing before they need to be changed, but it is mainly so I have enough chips to make bets on amounts I want to make.

More chips please! Smiley



6  Poker Forums / The Rail / Re: HAVING change in tournament poker on: March 24, 2014, 02:27:33 PM
BUMP
7  Poker Forums / Live Tournament Updates / Re: DTD £150,000 GTD March Deepstack Day 2 and Final on: March 12, 2014, 12:28:06 PM
Amazing updates as usual Tighty. True warrior!
Was an amazing final table of DTD regs and one of the best rails for a comp to date imo.
Thank you everyone for supporting all of us.

Got a make plenty of towers this weekend and although I lost 90% of allin key pots (most vs my brother) happy with how I played.

Well done all who final tabled and spesh Jack and Pete for a well deserved 1-2.
See you all soon.
8  Poker Forums / Live Tournament Updates / Re: Sky Poker UKPC @DTD: Main Event Day 1a/1b on: February 19, 2014, 02:28:44 PM
Les Battersby in the house?
9  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: The Wild Rollercoaster - Just A Kid With A Lifelong Dream on: February 16, 2014, 03:52:30 PM
I personally think him deleted everyone is wrong and from how he has avoided consistant questioning on here regarding our concerns, I just hope he isnt using as a strategy for him to hide.

Now the truth has been proven, I feel it is only fair we give him 24 hours to release a statement of resolve to Suzanne. There are many questions which Suzanne needs answers to and how he intends to resolve this situation is key.

Many people have made mistakes, he is not the first. But, admitting and handling acusations and mistakes is most important. There are some super nice guys on blonde who have made a mistake, but their resolve to the matters have been brilliant.
I hope this blog continues to be up, only so trusted people on here are able to offer both Pete and Suzanne advise and monitor the situation with her (if she wants to) so she isn't isolated in trying to get what she feels is fair and hers.

There have been several people who have put their reputation on the line to get the truth out. It was never a witch hunt. I admit, there were several people who had piror knowledge and concerns who were only trying to get Pete to step up and tell the truth. Reading back, it is very easy to depict which answers are false and (as someone has said) it is literally written as a lie.

Poker staking is fragile and is based on trust. Especially when selling to people with small or no knowledge of what poker is.

Please Pete, noone is against you. It is only fair that you keep in touch with people affected to make a mends.

He hasn't deleted Suzanne, who is really the only person that matters in all this.

Suzanne knows plenty of people are available for advice, if she needs it. Issue statements and all that shite counts for nothing really.

The reason for the statement was due to the fact of him owing £400 to her in the past. He spent it and to date she still hasnt got it back.

I don't personally know Suzanne, so was only trying to make sure there is support. Thats all.
10  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: The Wild Rollercoaster - Just A Kid With A Lifelong Dream on: February 16, 2014, 03:00:52 PM
I personally think him deleted everyone is wrong and from how he has avoided consistant questioning on here regarding our concerns, I just hope he isnt using as a strategy for him to hide.

Now the truth has been proven, I feel it is only fair we give him 24 hours to release a statement of resolve to Suzanne. There are many questions which Suzanne needs answers to and how he intends to resolve this situation is key.

Many people have made mistakes, he is not the first. But, admitting and handling acusations and mistakes is most important. There are some super nice guys on blonde who have made a mistake, but their resolve to the matters have been brilliant.
I hope this blog continues to be up, only so trusted people on here are able to offer both Pete and Suzanne advise and monitor the situation with her (if she wants to) so she isn't isolated in trying to get what she feels is fair and hers.

There have been several people who have put their reputation on the line to get the truth out. It was never a witch hunt. I admit, there were several people who had piror knowledge and concerns who were only trying to get Pete to step up and tell the truth. Reading back, it is very easy to depict which answers are false and (as someone has said) it is literally written as a lie.

Poker staking is fragile and is based on trust. Especially when selling to people with small or no knowledge of what poker is.

Please Pete, noone is against you. It is only fair that you keep in touch with people affected to make a mends.
11  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: The Wild Rollercoaster - Just A Kid With A Lifelong Dream on: February 15, 2014, 02:31:35 PM

To some of us who invested at the right time he IS a winning player. To those that invested who are not poker players...isnt it like taking a punt on the Grand National? I do it every year with no idea about horse racing but if its won before it might again?


I totally understand. But...
Its like backing a horse at 20-1 based on information available to you. Everything looks good. But, after information has been collected from your friends in the industry, the real odds are actually 300-1. Regardless of amount, would you still accept the 20-1 odds cus it is a bit of fun or do you want a refund?

With the Grand National aswel, you can watch every moment. Rewind it, zoom in etc. but poker staking is reliant on trust and especially when someone doesnt understand about poker. We can't physically watch every hand.
12  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: The Wild Rollercoaster - Just A Kid With A Lifelong Dream on: February 12, 2014, 01:59:36 PM
Oh the busto hand? JJ into A10 for about 11 bigs, shoved from middle position, ace on the turn...standard really

...apologies for that im basically retarded.

Completely lost it. Smiley
13  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: The Wild Rollercoaster - Just A Kid With A Lifelong Dream on: February 12, 2014, 01:39:37 PM
I agree with wotrthwchances. Assuming he's not on some level, I think the hand is fine.

I also think there are too many people that want to ridicule Peter, and dissect any hand he plays, then disguise it as trying to help.


I am in no way ridicule Pete, at all. I know he may have an opinion of what I have said to him on facebook messenger and shizz. But, I am one of the guys actually trying to tell him how it by being a blunt as possible (to help him out) and not in anyway to be nasty, be funny or insensitive to him.
14  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: The Wild Rollercoaster - Just A Kid With A Lifelong Dream on: February 12, 2014, 01:35:57 PM
Blinds: 100/200/25
Starting Stack: 19,500
BTN With  
UTG+2 Limps, HJ Limps, CO Limps, BTN Raise to 950
Blinds Fold, Fold, Fold, CO Calls

Pot: 2,850
Board  

CO Checks, BTN Bets 1,800, CO Calls

Pot: 6,450
Board   ( )

CO Checks, BTN Bets 4,200, CO Calls

Pot: 14,850
Board   ( )

CO Checks, BTN Bets 8,000, CO Calls

CO Shows   wins an 8 High Flush
BTN Shows   loses with 3 of a Kind - Tens

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Right, i'd been pretty active...I was very aware of that, and the cutoff had not been getting tricky (in fact very few people had) and had in fact been VERY face up, the two hands he had made monsters of had been raised in peoples faces, so him calling the flop roughly told me a decent equity hand, but not much past that, 10's down, suited connectors, that sort of thing....when the flop came down and i c-bet his call wasnt all that quick but he displayed no sign of weakness...im not putting him on 8's or a 10 because given how he's been playing they get stuck in my eye on the flop...I'd imagined either a pocket pair or a single eight...When the turn hits and i fire the second bullet im 100% confident im still ahead, but aware of the second heart im trying to price that kind of crap out (Was this enough to do that?), this time however he's staring me out...and i mean intensely staring me out, it struck me his hand was crap and he was just wondering if i had the ten...so im basically commiting to my read at this stage, most likely an 8 given how he calls the flop. He eventually dwell calls. When the river hits (Wrongly) im not too scared of the flush. Im fairly confident in the idea nobody on my table was loose enough to call the flop with nothing more than a backdoor, and if ive got him on the 8, he straight up can't have two hearts...that said his dwell-stare call made me feel a river bet gets called by worse almost all of the time given how active ive been...i thought the shove could put him off given that it was an effective all in for him (roughly the same starting stack)...the 8k was purely a value bet basically...

Now im probably the worst. And will likely get abused for this hand. But i had my reasoning behind it all...I just could not put him on the flush given how the hand went down, i didnt think he was that daft to call off on the flop. And i stand by the idea stronger hands on the flop would have made themselves aware...he had not demonstrated any way to be tricksy...

*Cowers in the corner*

IMO, there are several things wrong with this hand and also your reasoning behind it. If we base everything on your reasoning and break it down.
Firstly, you've been shown to be active (as quoted), so after 3 limpers being on the button this early in the comp and isolating with J10o is incorrect imo. Yes, antes are in etc. But in a Grand Prix, a £50 comp. Generally 90% of the time anyone who limps is calling a raise. So you end up just buillding a big pot pre with a marginal/dominated hand vs 3-4 players. Limpers in this comp, know people are gona call behind them and not reraise behind them as they want to see a flop. So I find it kind of hard to have three limpers before you both fold in this spot or get only one to call (especially if you have been active as quoted). If this is the case, the original imper expects you to raise anyway, so he is either trapping and gona reraise you, or call any raise as he is expecting you to. Then the chain of call, call, call takes effect.

Anyway, only one calls. So we see a 10 10 8 flop. Nearly 3k in the pot and we bet 1800. OK np. I prefer alot smaller, 1100-1400 something along them lines. He calls.
"im not putting him on 8's or a 10 because given how he's been playing they get stuck in my eye on the flop"
If is he is the sort of person to put it in your eye if he has it, why would he in this spot on this board? if he has 10X, 10 8, or 88. Why would he raise, allowing AK, AQ, KQs etc to fold easy? He would be holding the deck and just wouldn't raise.

We go to the turn and our read is he doesn't have a monster cus he would raise us on the flop. So why bomb 3/4 pot? There's no combos that allow him to continue to this bomb. We put him on marginal at this spot so against marginal, villian is pretty much drawing dead. So why again give him to chance to fold? If we go along to lines of your CBet, there's 6450 in the pot. Bet 2000-2500, even less. Then we are setting up funky spot where we can get funky on the river and have him guessing. We don't need to charge him to see river and hit his draw as we can't see how he has a draw! I would much rather you keep it small throughout on this dry board and take the extreme of a BOMB river. Betting small aswell, opens it up for opponent to raise us on the turn for alot smaller. If we bet, 2000. He can easily go 5000+ etc. Where as if we bet close to 5k. He can only jam and will only do so if he has a monster cus he is that sort.

river.

'Im fairly confident in the idea nobody on my table was loose enough to call the flop with nothing more than a backdoor, and if ive got him on the 8, he straight up can't have two hearts..'

Why would we bet 8k if we feel he only has an 8. IMO, all stages have allowed him to fold hands we can/should be getting value from. If we take the line of small, small, BOMB. Atleast we should be guaranteed 2 streets and him hopefully leveling himself on the river. With a bomb, bomb, bomb, (at this stage) he has a chance to fold each street. And as he is the sort (as quoted) to tell you he has a big hand, we are fairly certain we are winning, he doesnt have full house, doesnt have flush, doesnt have 10X and only has a pair of eights. So why scare him off?

And then he calls and shows ze-flush.

There are a few things that don't add up in my opinion. Firstly, why would he just call river? He has a flush so should stick it in your eye when he has a monster.

So really, what fullhouse combos that WE have play this way that make him just call?

OK.. 88, 55, 33, 108 etc. Really?!
Even X 10h. Yes suppose so, but would we really take this three street line vs this player?

So what is he scared of? Why would he call a flop bomb and turn bomb and to hit is backdoor to just call? If he is the sort that tells you he is strong, why would be "sigh, i got flush, call." We having him beat just doesn't make sense imo.


Couple of other things. And this isn't a witch hunt, I am just wanting to know facts thats all.

1) You posted on facebook we lost to runner runner 68o.  not .
On here this is your key hand ( ) but your bust out hand was a standard JJ v A10 for 11 bigs?

So what relevance does the 86o play?

2) It is very likely, imo that we are the limper. The hands were reversed. We have J10o. Decide to peel an active player on the button and flop trips. So we don't raise flop, cus we should have his range crushed and trapping. He bombs turn as he has a flush draw and straight draw and wanting you to fold 99 8X, 77, 66 etc. We just call expecting him to bet river big. He hits river and bombs. We can't put him on a flush. Only call as there is no value in raising as no worse hand can call. That makes sense.

3) I am in no way a Hand History coach, Pleno, Tomsom or another sicko, so maybe completely incorrect about the whole hand. Wink


15  Poker Forums / Diaries and Blogs / Re: The Wild Rollercoaster - Just A Kid With A Lifelong Dream on: February 10, 2014, 06:22:52 PM
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