Prose from a Poshboy

[SuuPRlim]

Like most forms of poker then?

much more so than others i think, if you're a ledge at online MTT, you can stay at home and play as many online MTTs as you can fit on your screen, the best live cash player no good if there are no live cash games to play!

[Rexas]

Like most forms of poker then?

much more so than others i think, if you're a ledge at online MTT, you can stay at home and play as many online MTTs as you can fit on your screen, the best live cash player no good if there are no live cash games to play!

imo, it's a vital skill for anyone who considers themselves as "pro" or plays live cash primarily for the money to try and build games and entertain everyone in those games so they can mitigate that problem.

[SuuPRlim]

Like most forms of poker then?

much more so than others i think, if you're a ledge at online MTT, you can stay at home and play as many online MTTs as you can fit on your screen, the best live cash player no good if there are no live cash games to play!

imo, it's a vital skill for anyone who considers themselves as "pro" or plays live cash primarily for the money to try and build games and entertain everyone in those games so they can mitigate that problem.

obviously...but you cant magic games out of nowhere...

if a tree falls in the woods and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

if there is the most social, fun guy in the world sat playing a poker game, but there is no-one there to play with him, is he playing a game at all?

Unless you're making sarcastic reference to skalies FB posts, in which case,

[Rexas]

Like most forms of poker then?

much more so than others i think, if you're a ledge at online MTT, you can stay at home and play as many online MTTs as you can fit on your screen, the best live cash player no good if there are no live cash games to play!

imo, it's a vital skill for anyone who considers themselves as "pro" or plays live cash primarily for the money to try and build games and entertain everyone in those games so they can mitigate that problem.

obviously...but you cant magic games out of nowhere...

if a tree falls in the woods and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

if there is the most social, fun guy in the world sat playing a poker game, but there is no-one there to play with him, is he playing a game at all?

Unless you're making sarcastic reference to skalies FB posts, in which case,

No, because sound is defined as vibrations travelling through the air which then enter ear, if there's noone there to hear it then there's no ear for the sound to enter

And actually that one wasn't a sarcastic reference to Skalie, I got bored of doing that after the sitter you left me with on the PHA :p

I mean, obviously you can't magic games out of nowhere, but a good entertainer can turn a shit game into a good one and a make people come back and wanna play with them. Think the notts games used to be a good example of an environment where the regs didn't do much to keep the punters in the club, although now with Will and Skalie it seems there just isn't an issue there anymore.

[SuuPRlim]

I mean you're right but that wasn't really the point i was making, if you have a game and your actions affect its longevity negatively then you've clearly made a huge mistake.

If you're a great player, and great to play with but the game you want to play in just doesn't exist then you are doooooomed.

Obviously not the case with online MTT, and not really with online cash games either.

[Rexas]

I mean you're right but that wasn't really the point i was making, if you have a game and your actions affect its longevity negatively then you've clearly made a huge mistake.

If you're a great player, and great to play with but the game you want to play in just doesn't exist then you are doooooomed.

Obviously not the case with online MTT, and not really with online cash games either.

I apologize for changing the subject then

As an aside though, do you think there is any crossover on that skill to online? I mean, if someone talks in the chatbox I usually talk back, but instigating anything in the way of chat doesn't seem to be a done thing and most of the comments thrown about are insulting anyway. Except one hero a few weeks ago who showed a mental bluff and typed 'ty, LEARN".

Something I gathered from the HUD discussion, more so on Facebook than on blonde, was that some people like that interaction, but I never know when it's appropriate/what to say.

[iangascoigne]

       Just to throw in the 'opportunity cost' of playing poker full time. If you are 'earning' £50k net of expenses that is decent and may appear to equate to £75k of salary but I am not sure. Someone with a salary of £75k will usually have a range of other benefits ( phone,pension,Bupa,car allowance,fuel,health insurance). So the 'package' of someone on a salary of £75k is actually a lot more. The other point is what other 'choices' do you have. If your choice is flipping burgers then of course a career in cash poker is a decent one. If you are giving up a potential lucrative career then this is what I mean by opportunity cost. I hate to say it because I really admire the hard work that the proper pro's put into their game and to me it looks like a really hard way to make an easy living. I have given up on the number of pro's who have sidled up to me for career advice and asking how they can use their poker experience as a springboard into more mainstream employment. Like many performance/sports careers I suspect it has a life span unless you bink a massive tournament which to be honest isn't beyond a player like Alex and Mitch.
        The other challenge is that unless there is a continual supply of 'beginners' or 'social recreationals' you end up with incredible survivor biase ie the only people there are to play are really good making the career an even tougher one. Just look at how much work and creativity Skallie has to put into the DTD cash games to keep people like me interested :-)

[cambridgealex]

Some amazing weather changes going about at the moment. I'm not one to talk about the weather, but I took these two photos the first a few days ago, the second just now, both at around 6pm in the same spot in my flat.

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[iangascoigne]

     Living in a flat with a view of the sky lets you appreciate the changing sky. Normally at ground level in a city we are oblivious. It's like going to the country at night,you sometimes see stars!

[cambridgealex]

Not seen a more moving and emotional episode of television than the end of Derek season 1. I can't recommend the show high enough.

[Alonso]

Like most forms of poker then?

much more so than others i think, if you're a ledge at online MTT, you can stay at home and play as many online MTTs as you can fit on your screen, the best live cash player no good if there are no live cash games to play!

imo, it's a vital skill for anyone who considers themselves as "pro" or plays live cash primarily for the money to try and build games and entertain everyone in those games so they can mitigate that problem.

obviously...but you cant magic games out of nowhere...

if a tree falls in the woods and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

if there is the most social, fun guy in the world sat playing a poker game, but there is no-one there to play with him, is he playing a game at all?

Unless you're making sarcastic reference to skalies FB posts, in which case,

No, because sound is defined as vibrations travelling through the air which then enter ear, if there's noone there to hear it then there's no ear for the sound to enter

And actually that one wasn't a sarcastic reference to Skalie, I got bored of doing that after the sitter you left me with on the PHA :p

I mean, obviously you can't magic games out of nowhere, but a good entertainer can turn a shit game into a good one and a make people come back and wanna play with them. Think the notts games used to be a good example of an environment where the regs didn't do much to keep the punters in the club, although now with Will and Skalie it seems there just isn't an issue there anymore.

Spot on... Also I think lack of 5-6 dudes from let's call it 'Team Bla bla bla' not sitting on the same table each night also helps... And also there was complete denial form 'Team Bla bla bla' over the time of any collusion etc, but strange thing is as soon as those great games for 'Team Bla Bla Bla' ended, few of those participants results changed dramatically, Didn't they? I think regs/semi regs understand what I am on about here...

Fact is DTD for whatever reason indirectly killed cash games in Notts over the years. From the point I made above, to closing club at 3am then 4 full tables running. Finally now it looks somebody woke up and try to reverse damage. Question is isn't it too late? Let's face it, there won't be another Moneymaker coming from nowhere tomorrow, next week or in fact amost likely any time in the future

[verndog158]

Not seen a more moving and emotional episode of television than the end of Derek season 1. I can't recommend the show high enough.

Yep I cried! Now wait for season 2!!

[cambridgealex]

Had a pretty hilar weekend.

Friday I played the UKIPT series main, wasn't much fun, was busted by around 5pm, not ideal time to bust, got a couple of hours to kill before the big games kick off. Obviously end up doing 1500 in a 1/2 game in very short space of time.

Played two ridic pots actually: 4bet called AJo for £420 at 1/2, lost to Q3o. Then vs same guy 3bet river allin for minraise on and whilst he was tanking, showed a ...I was just trying to get him off bluffs, but then realised he had it (was TT maximum) so was pulling out all the stops trying to get him to fold. He was in the tank for a good 5 minutes but alas, did not fold lol.

So I head off to the palm beach pretty steaming, already down £2k on the day before its even started really ha. I see that its going to be a big game so try and get mentally ready for it and put what's just happened behind me.

It took 2 orbits to get over it. I won a big pot with A2 vs KK on 822 to get back my £1500, then got ridic lucky with vs allin for £4k each on a board, rivered the flush.

So out of nowhere the night has turned around and by the end of the night am up around £10k. Happy days.

Saturday started in much the same vein. Played the £1500 UKIPT hiroller, busted around 6, Jake messaged me suggesting drinks, I was kinda on the fence cos wanted to play, and we ended up merging - playing palm beach and drinking...

It was a messy combo. There was 4 of us in the game that were drinking, all in a row so the straddles flowed as nicely as the drinks. The £80 was on pretty much every hand and 2 or 3 hands per orbit could get the £160 on.

One hand culminated in me doing my biggest ever bluff. I believe the book would say I should either check or fold on every street.  

Opened btn to £225 at 5/10/20/40/80. SB is even drunker than me, millionaire art dealer, has spun £1k into around £12k (he's not going below £10k he said lol), he calls, 80 straddle calls.

The flop was (roughly lol), checks to me I bet £350, just SB calls.

SB checks, I bet £1k, he calls.

SB checks, I'm insta allin for £3.5k, he insta folds.

Well thank fk for that.

My other favourite hand might be the one where Jake forgot to straddle, looked at his cards (Aces) then somehow managed to retrospectively put the straddle on with the old "I've been straddling every time" line. Think there was an utg raise to £250 or something, few calls, then Jake tried to make it £1k but just put in one chip and it went as a call. We assumed this was just an continuation of the angleshoot, assumed he wouldn't actually be so donk as to not say raise if he had a genuine hand. Ended up getting to showdown and obv he gets abs rinsed for having aces after these antics.

A few hours of drunken singing at the table, some truly ridic hands and nearly getting kicked out - we decided to head to a nearby club. After they closed we basically went on a casino crawl round London trying to continue drinking and gambling (was just me and Jake by this point, and eventually Victoria after she finished work!). We played blackjack / roulette in Palm Beach, Hippodrome and G Casino, smashing each stop, even played one hand of £1/2 holdem in the empire before coming to my senses lol. Home at 730am.

Just remember Eternal Flame being the song of the night, Jake just kept playing it on his phone no matter where we were. Massive tune obv but was a little weird looking back...

Needless to say, this weekend has encapsulated all that I love about London life.

[tikay]

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[tikay]

Behave yourselves boys, & beware - bracelet winner Gryko lurking itt. Tosser never reads my Diary.