In a recent game, I got to a position where I was short stacked and looking to push in.  A 10 suited and I did just that...  I got 3 callers... Main pot  and 3 players in a side pot...  Player 1 and 2 checked..  Player 3 put in a sizeable bet...  (Player 3 ofter bluffs)...

Player 1 folds, but player 2 calls and at the same time says to player 3 "you are not checking this down then?"..

Player 3 then checks the turn and the river to my complaints..  I also went out...

Player 3 is not experienced enough to know about checking down to get better odds against a small stack..

To me this is a form of collusion, but I may be wrong..

At the time, I really just did have a single chip in my stack (or is it a stack when there is only 1 LOL)...  The same could have happened when I had a lot more, but my question is...  What can I do in this situation while I am still sat there and hear 2 players chat to take me down?

Cheers
Carl..

They probably want you to wear their clothes for the entirity... I would be telling them whee to get off...  Hope you get final table and tell em you qualified from Blionde..!!

LOL..  Know what you mean..!!

Last Saturday, friend of mine in Nottingham, house broken into, stole his laptop and car keys, stole his nice fast Audi RS6 as well...  Police caught the dumb bar stewards on monday night, still driving around in it..  Dont ask me how a police car could catch one of them cars..!!  Think they radioed ahead.  Seems the 2 robbers jumped out of it while it was still moving, car ended up in a ditch, robbers still locked up..!!

Hi,
I am new to Blonde Poker Forum, and came across this thread.  I guess I read maybe 200 - 300 of the 1500 or so posts and found it very interesting reading.  I would hope that all is eventually good for you Rob.

While reading, I did come up with a thought, which may have already been brought up, but not in the msgs I have seen yet anyway.

Seem that the location for DTD is ready to run but cannot have customers because of the Gaming people..  My thought was why not maybe open it up for maybe some accademy type things..??  Maybe a dealers accademy, where people can come and be tought dealing..!! Who knows, maybe even set a standard for UK...  I know there are loads of croups out there that would love to add dealing poker to the list of quals..  Or even to teach players etc...  Surely the licence is not needed for this type of thing?

Just a thought, may sound rubbish and may not even be a consideration, but maybe a room full of tables can be used some way or other like this..

Aha,
now I know who you are from that teeny Avatar picture..!!

LOL...  So, I guess you saw my pic  but which one where you?  met so many..!!

I remember about 10 years ago, I was in a casino with a friend of mine who has a love of roulette.  I was there just watching and having the occasional go on the £200 slot machines..  One day I saw a group of guy in a section playing poker.  I asked my friend how I could play that, because I knew the rules..

His response to me, which I shall never forget, was a question...  If I was to offer you, for entry £100, a round of golf against Nick Faldo, playing him at the same handicap, would I play him?....  My response was, no, don't be silly, he is a pro, I would want some shots...  Well, he said, you don't have a handicap system at poker, and these guys have been playing 5 card draw in this casino for years...  You will get eaten alive..!!!  So I took heed to his advice and never played...  

So with that advice, I though, one day I will be good enough not to be somebody's meal ticket...  I got involved downloading stuff from the internet and one day saw an application called Hoyles Poker..  I downloaded it, and realised I was playing against other people and not playing a computer..  This was cool..  Eventually I found that it was just a different application for pokerstars.net where players could ONLY play for pretend money...  Someone told me that the .com site lets me play for real money and has lots more features, like finding your friends on tables...

I started with my $1000 play money and started to realise the resons why I was getting beat, why I was making bad calls, not looking at the community cards well enough and not seeing hands..  Until one day it clicked into position...  3 of a suit, possible flush out there, pair on display, possible full house out there, or quads even..  And my sill betting changed to be a little more controlled and conservative.  Saying that, I had to realise that I was still playing newb idiots like me who were all-in with any old garbage...  I had to get more play money to play the bigger entry fee tournaments to get away from the idiots who don't care about losing their free $1000...  I managed to do that and eventually built up my stack to 8 million chips..  I even played in a freeroll tournament for 300 play chips entry with 5000 people, and 6 hours later I made the final table and eventually came 2nd..  Was gutted because only 1st place got a seat in a real money game..

I played for like 3 months, and found out my next door neighbour was also using the same site, also he and some of his colleagues had just started to play a home game.  I got an invite and have never looked back..!!  I hate missing my Wednesday poker night..  I am also happy when the extra Friday night deep stack is played..

I play cash tournaments only right now because I don't like the idea of cash ring games just yet.  Won a $20 x 180 player game on pokerstars a few months back ($1080 first prize), just waiting for the next one lol..!!  Also won a lunch time guaranteed turbo on Laddys which was brill..

I then head about APAT from a friend, and joined because I liked the idea.  First on-line game was a qualifier for Edinburgh.  Top 10 get a seat..  I was 4th or so I think when the game eventually stopped.  That was a big thing for me to qualify for the first ever thing i tried for..!!  Saying that, lasted about 7 hrs in Edinburgh, mid table or so..  the I also played Dublin, not lasted as long as Edinburgh..  The postion I went out did not bother me, I had a great time, and my experience grew..

April 2007, 5 of us went to Vegas primarily to play poker, played at least 1 tournament a day, won1, in the money and final table in most...  Also while there got to see the WPT final event at the Bellagio, and saw for real some of the players like, Doyle, Helmuth, Matasau, Hachem, Hansen (Doyle and Hansen were even on the same table by the door)..  Great time was had by all..  Some of the other guys also had tournament wins there..  Now next may, back there again...

Am  I addicted?  lol..  

Love the game, just want to get better..!!

Carl..

Thanks all for the nice welcome...

Signed up for the Blonde Poker gaming site, now gonna have to get used to the application being different from what I am used to..  Played a few "play Money" games to get the feel...

Tikay mentioned the Blondepoker league, where can I find out details about that?

RichEO mentioned our home game, it has only 1 link, and that is to APAT website, anyways, here is that link, lots more yet to go on that site..  www.chezger.co.uk (It is held in Ger's house LOL)...

Cheers for now

Carl..

LOL, reminded me of this..!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCrlHEhxzFI

Hi All,
new member to Blonde.  After a few small issues with signup, I am now able to post my first post.

Have been playing poker for a couple of years, mainly on Pokerstars.  I have played in the last 2 APAT events and noticed lots of people wearing Blonde Poker adverts, so thought I would come along and see what it is all about.  I do a few forums for various interests i have like my 4x4 off-raoding for instance also a bit of shooting. 

Poker has been my main interest for past few years, playing mainly at a home game every Wednesday and also quite often on a Friday also, 10 players, NL Holdem.  We do have a website just for showing the results of the Wednesday league, but I am not sure of etiquet for posting web links...  It is not an advertising site or anything, just a results page for the regular players to see how things are going.  I live just outside Chester, so it is quite far from where I see all the Blonde games going on, but who knows, I may get down to some of these in the future..

Occasional visits to casinos for a game, mainly in the North West, (Stanleys Birkenhead, Grosvenor Salford, would be great if there was a place in Chester!!) ..!! 

Met a lot of blonde players at the pub just around the corner in Dublin, was even sat next to a few blonde members on table 9 in Dublin, and enjoyed it tremendously.  Not the same as playing at the local casino where most people dont speak or give 2 hoots who you are.

Anyways, that will do for my first post, not sure if I will catch up the 21000 posts of tikay, reckon his keyboard must be just about worn out by now..!!!

Cheers for now

Carl..