awesome. His sizing petrifies me but its too big a fold.

If the table is as poor as you suggest, why take the risk so early?

You can outplay them for the rest of the day without risking much of your stack.

Not poor, just softer than other tables i saw and the rest of the day and "outplaying" people is pretty hard to quantify.

What happened here is you arrived late and missed all the info you need in this hand.

Not out of choice, can only guess you don't do much driving around London between 4 and 8pm.

Point is pretty moot anyhow, in the 6max the day before i was luckily early and still got moved after 20 mins.

The fact that he doesn't actually out them makes his piece a bit worthless.

£250 full ring side event.

Have arrived little late at the beginning of level 2 and joined what looks like the best table in the room. 2 very poor players seated. 10k starting, 50/100 blinds, 30 minute clock.

Very good player opens utg to 300, i flat QQ utg+1, called by both the poor players in mp/btn, SB unknown 40 year old smartly dressed chap makes it 2.5k from 25k stack (has been arguing with someone on the table). Utg passes somewhat reluctantly, action?

21k @ 3rd break

PokerStars Hand #142076208532: Tournament #1331705046, $200+$15 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2015/10/11 21:46:10 WET [2015/10/11 16:46:10 ET]
Table '1331705046 26' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: ImDaNuts (14198 in chips)
Seat 2: Jymaster11 (22855 in chips)
Seat 3: mr.salgado30 (14355 in chips)
Seat 4: nafnaf_funny (6917 in chips)
Seat 5: leitalopez (15681 in chips)
Seat 6: GaggleoKings (15680 in chips)
Seat 7: peledazmogis (6515 in chips)
Seat 8: dragonwarior (6466 in chips)
Seat 9: E.D.B.T.ZUK (22719 in chips)
ImDaNuts: posts the ante 30
Jymaster11: posts the ante 30
mr.salgado30: posts the ante 30
nafnaf_funny: posts the ante 30
leitalopez: posts the ante 30
GaggleoKings: posts the ante 30
peledazmogis: posts the ante 30
dragonwarior: posts the ante 30
E.D.B.T.ZUK: posts the ante 30
peledazmogis: posts small blind 150
dragonwarior: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to GaggleoKings [ ]
E.D.B.T.ZUK: folds
ImDaNuts: folds
Jymaster11: folds
mr.salgado30: folds
nafnaf_funny: folds
leitalopez: folds
GaggleoKings: raises 300 to 600
peledazmogis: folds
dragonwarior: calls 300
*** FLOP *** [ ]
dragonwarior: checks
GaggleoKings: bets 495
dragonwarior: raises 1096 to 1591
GaggleoKings: calls 1096
*** TURN *** [ ] []
dragonwarior: checks
GaggleoKings: checks
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
dragonwarior: bets 4245 and is all-in
GaggleoKings: calls 4245
*** SHOW DOWN ***
dragonwarior: shows [ ] (a pair of Threes)
GaggleoKings: shows [ ] (a pair of Threes - Ace+King kicker)
GaggleoKings collected 13292 from pot

wow, fun one!

Iv been staked for the last 8 years, via various people and the relationship is the most important thing. If you are really struggling a good backer will help you out, its a human industry after all and based heavily on trust. When that trust is established there is way less likelihood of any horses reneging on a deal, not playing optimally and im sure we have all heard of worse. Reputation is ultimately key in this industry, for backers and horses.

[the DTD overlay thing is turning into a bit of a farce]

Lets be honest the DTD overlay thing is turning into a bit of a farce now, they push themselves beyond all measure at so many events then complain that their neck is on the line always.....well clearly  but its not your first rodeo. I thought it was really funny, if she got banned for penning that it would be a travesty.

Cant agree with you Alex , any poker organisation that is willing  to put their" neck on the lines " by promoting guaranteed tournaments is greatly contributing towards the  industry .

If  tournament numbers are  falling short and a rallying cry is needed then surely that is just good business practice .

Good business practice?!......id argue its the opposite, of course its being used a marketing tool and its like the boy who cried wolf now (probably just pissed off the overlays are not on my doorstep).

Lets be honest the DTD overlay thing is turning into a bit of a farce now, they push themselves beyond all measure at so many events then complain that their neck is on the line always.....well clearly  but its not your first rodeo. I thought it was really funny, if she got banned for penning that it would be a travesty.

great description (be amazing if all op's gave that much detail), nice hand, think seeing a decent turn here is smart 3 way.

Little less advertising would be great! i understand you need to advertise the club but feel like you will lose a fair bit of passing trade if its too advert heavy on the stream. Great idea though!

People will find a work-around. They always do...

Lowering rake significantly would have been a more genuine shot at improving the ecosystem.

[AK is pretty gross spot. hard to consider him to be particularly light when he continues to a 4way cbet even given those positions.]

geeeeeeg

AK is pretty gross spot. hard to consider him to be particularly light when he continues to a 4way cbet even given those positions.

horrific spot, really rough, especially because your range looks awfully AQ/AK heavy.

The donkbet with KKK on the river though after you get raise on the flop and c/c turn, thoughts on that one Dan? Didnt like river personally.

Id raise and call all but the super tight guy. Interesting how all the mtt guys are 100% jam though.

meh, stoved some reasonable ranges, hate most runouts, GII.