I cash out if I'm not using it for at period of time, solved.

I've only heard of this on party I think but it's still absolutely terrible Woodsy and  having a fee deducted is a naff way to find out about it!!! I for one didn't realised it applied to DTD.

Has this been since the move or forever? (I assume its forever as it's ecash?).

Does villain not get dealt 66-JJ ever?

FFS can't believe this thread got bumped.

I have spent the past half an hour reading through this thread, looking at the date saying august and I'm wondering why I have missed such an indepth thread.

FML its from a year ago...


Anyway I do find it funny how it all kicked off about one guy on drugs, who we now think isn't on drugs, he's just an annoying arse.


I'm usually a good judge of character, but looking at that pic on the hendon mob he looks like an alright guy. Obv I'm wrong this time

haha I did the same for the first page or so then realised there was no rush and put the kettle on. Have read it all now, pocket lady made some brilliant posts.


For me being somewhat younger and coming from online, casinos are casinos and will always have that element of sleazyness/dodgyness. I know just how widely spread casual drug use is and as someone pointed out those playing circuit event style buyins can well afford a small drug habit on the side. I would like to have that thought tds would kick people out if they were offensive or acted up but considering how many people I have seen that are stoned or on ket playing I have never once seen a problem. However the few people that come to my tables having already drunk a decent amount are always a problem be it intentionally through being mouthy or just through ineptitude. I have no desire to be around people who are on coke not even my closest friends but unless it's obvious they have done something illegal on the premises and/or they are being overly offensive I cant see how they would ever get thrown out.

It is a huge change coming from online to live. You have to learn showdown rules, then you see they're never automatically enforced and everyone just declares two pair on a paired board /sigh. People are also much move verbally abusive  (both drunk and not!) and out of line in a way that there is nothing you can do about it (especially when I would be shooting my sklanksy bux printing machine in the foot) but at the same time i'd love to explain to the person how out of order they are. This is when I really cherish my headphones and just turn my music up to full.

I will say that I have smoked and played before and I dont think it had any affect on my game (not just in my head) but for me there is so little brain power required for live relative to an online session that it just helped me sit there and not just ADD the table to death! Similarly when the drug use is off the premises what is there if anything that the establishment can do about it?

Think this hand is pretty standard but just got me thinking a little about why certain hands would be played like this.

9 handed
300/600/50 average stack about 15k
Im playing 13k villain playing about 23k

Villain has been active and opening a lot of pots and getting most bets through easily
I will reserve my thoughts on him, as I seem to be thinking the same about everyone at the mo, but I think Girgy knows him and may be able to add something.

Villain opens to 1600 UTG+2
Hero looks down at  and raises to 4100
Everyone else folds

Flop comes 

Sure was happy to see the ace, villain shoves

Whats my action here?

With your stack i'd do the ol' fu I cawl line.

If he's really laggy and think's that he folds out KK-TT on a rainbow board then he can do it with 67/JT/QT/9T type hands.

Cant work out who the villain is though i'm terrible with names.

(I'm a 1/2 DTD fish fwiw)

And I agree with greekstein (sp?) that if you're losing it's gonna be like A4 or something proper nawty! :p

Tbf though against alot of players this should be a fold.

I didn't quite realise how epicly people would stall and so early, it just reduced you to shoving any opportunity because you were seeing so few hands.

The whole tournament I was confused about when rebuys were for, when you could add-on could you double rebuy to start etc, and I couldn't find any info anywhere. Somehow managed to have no problem with the add on but it was at a weird time before the end of the level. Very confusing, and with all the stalling at the end in 2 orbits I went from an 18 big bet stack to a 3 big bet stack. Am intrigued to see what it's like to play a 5 day tournament; probably alot of :   


You cant but lol at some of the strategy in that sat aswell, seemed very good value

+ jakally it seems

 

Wd fishy


I was ai on BB and sb folded having himself just doubled up from 6k to 23k when he only had to call 2k lol. So awesome for me. Guaranteed the seat.  The standard was terrible, and the structure combined with the timebanking made it a right crapshoot at the end.

See ya'll in Notts

Yeah saw you get the walk - goldenballs!
WP mate. See you next week.

Ta mate, not quite sure about this whole 5 day idea, you know what i'm like :p

See ya

And sorry Rob, I deposited to re-buy like you'd expect but I did the darnedest thing and hit some cards early. That kind of confused me lol.


Night all.

+ jakally it seems

 

Wd fishy


I was ai on BB and sb folded having himself just doubled up from 6k to 23k when he only had to call 2k lol. So awesome for me. Guaranteed the seat.  The standard was terrible, and the structure combined with the timebanking made it a right crapshoot at the end.

See ya'll in Notts

DTD 300 at the weekend. Still at our starting table, we have a veritable plethora of different styles, Barry Neville , George Geary, Roberto Romanello, James Browning.

In seat one is a young guy who I didnt know of. he was certainly not short of attitude, having already called the clock on George Geary, and I was getting the impression that he thought he was better than he was. anyway, the blinds are 100/200, I have about 14K, young guy has about 10K in the small blind. I am UTG and get dealt  . To mix it up a bit I raise to i think 650, and it is folded round to the SB who calls. GG folds the big blind.

Before the flop comes down young guy extravagantly bangs the table and annouces "check in the dark".

Flop comes  .


your move ?

If he's young "AND a solid online player" then his range for calling an utg raise from sb is going to be very narrow. Something like (22-JJ maybe QQ, AK/AQs+ and some 89ss/JTss hands)

So what part of that is he going to continue with?
Bare A/K h; 44/99/QQ(lol) only 2 pair can be a spaz call pre with Q9s though I cant see that.
He's pretty much always check raising draws/sets or c/c Axhh that flopped the over flush.

That is a very narrow part of his range so i'm not that against checking back the flop as he will then be adamant that you CANNOT have a flush or at least that's a small part of your range and when a 4th heart hits he will never give you credit for a big h having expected you to bet it on the flop as a cbet having raised utg.

If you check back flop and it's a brick and he leads you could ghay raise small, if a heart comes i'd look to call the turn slowly and re-evaluate the river.

Bear in mind that i'm not very good at the pokerz :lol: And would prob just bet flop 100% of the time in reality in this spot because we haz a flush innit.


EDIT - I think our hand means that he has to have the K or A of hearts or JJ with a heart to really continue and put any money in on the flop so slow playing (I literally have only ever slow played about 3 times lol) may actually be the most +EV, regardless of whether we hate the idea of seeing a free turn.

edit- 2

Checking in the dark as has been said is great against weaker players, but against strong players who know when they need to peel and when to bet it doesn't work aswell, I dont like it as much in tournies because it removes your donking range which in alot of instances combined with stack sizes is a great play and can be very profitable.

I check dark preflop when first to act in multiway pots because I am going to check anyway and I think that it gets me less credit as again has been said before when I just c/r huge with the nuts.

Checking dark with strong hands doesn't really make much sense but could be interesting against better players to balance when you call and check dark with 45s.