Prose from a Poshboy

[George2Loose]

at dtd later?

[zerofive]

 - "It looks like you're having a Chronicles-esque whinge..."

Agree that enforcing a 125bb effective maximum is perhaps the tiltiest thing a cardroom can do. Tilt factor is most definitely 10.

I must disagree with your TF rating of the chewed/broken/marred/otherwise disfigured cards and chips and the chiprunning system. At the odd time you have enough cash in chip form to riffle, most of your chips look like Tazos and require a precise shuffling algorithm. Not to mention that chips of the same value are sometimes coloured differently. Tilt factor is a resounding 10. Out of 5.

[cambridgealex]

Attention Maths boffins.

How would you go about working out the swings / variance in the flop game I mentioned above? I've worked out that the EV of each board you win is only £7.59, yet Tom and I are regularly having hundred/ two hundred pound swings. I just won a hundo in a single hand infact. The most you can lose in a hand is 140. It's sort of complicated by the fact that the overall EV of the game is 0, there's pretty much no skill in it. Dunno why, just interested and I get obsessive over stuff like this and can't let it go till I work it out lol.

[cambridgealex]

at dtd later?

Yes, but later on I think.

[cambridgealex]

Day started off pretty well winning 250 off Tom at the flop game. Ended up being my biggest ever losing day, by almost double. Not ideal. Probably best I wait till the morning to post more...feeling fine about it, just knackered...

[stato_1]

Gotta have a bit of a moan about the Broadway casino in Birmingham. Will keep it succinct.

• Maximum buyin £250. I have direct position on big fish. Big fish gets in 250 on the flop with AK on 822 and rivers a K to crack my QQ. Big fish now as 1k. I have to reload for 250. TF (tilt factor): 10
  
  
• Average buyin £80. Starting hand requirements change and you have to play hands that make good top pairs. Suited connectors and small pairs go down in value. I hate playing this way. On the upside, you can be sure to get you're money in at least 70% most of the time to stack them. TF: 8
  
  
• Feeder system. You have to ask to move tables and can only do so when the tables are balanced. You go from game 3 to game 2 to game 1. TF: 6
  
  
• Dealers. They are mostly bad tempered, rude and slow. TF: 7
  
  
• Players. All recreational players, little or no regs, all foreign. Not much banter or chat with the locals. Accent - very tilting. TF: 4
  
  
• Chips and cards. Lots of chips broken or chewed. You spend a lot of time playing with cash as the system to bring chips on the table for cash is pretty woeful. Playing with cash is so tilting. Cards, too small, all marked or bent in someway. TF: 6
  
  
• Rake. The one saving grace. It's amazing. £5 session fee per hour. People do leave earlier than they otherwise would've done because a session fee is coming up, but it's still awesome value. TF: 0
  
  

Pretty amusing sequence of events occured- I lose the QQ vs AK hand, and leave the table to get more chips/chill for a bit with Mitch who's grinding Pharaohs again. The fish that stacks me stacks Andy while I'm gone. Andy reloads. I come back, snap double off said fish, which gives the fish an excuse to leave. Never seen Andy look so pissed off at me!

Lost 170 for the session, Andy 500, Mitch 1k, so a pretty awful road trip for team eureka!

My good mate Toby is coming to stay today for a couple of days. Him and Steve were dealers at DTD and we hung out all the time last year, they live in london now - massive heroes.  Zizzis with the mrs later nomm nomm <3 zizzi.

Wasn't pissed off at you mate at all... after me you'd have been my second choice where the money went for sure. Was pleased for u to get it back and just annoyed that he left in general. Perhaps I didn't convey this too well at the time though!

Im never nice to Al, but I have to say that considering the shite circumstances and the fact he lost that disgusting pot to the fish he played great the whole night, and that pot didn't effect him at all. Remember when i first met him and he tilted off roughly half my life roll after losing a big pot at the Ricoh when we swapped action... How he has come on!

[cambridgealex]

Gotta have a bit of a moan about the Broadway casino in Birmingham. Will keep it succinct.

• Maximum buyin £250. I have direct position on big fish. Big fish gets in 250 on the flop with AK on 822 and rivers a K to crack my QQ. Big fish now as 1k. I have to reload for 250. TF (tilt factor): 10
  
  
• Average buyin £80. Starting hand requirements change and you have to play hands that make good top pairs. Suited connectors and small pairs go down in value. I hate playing this way. On the upside, you can be sure to get you're money in at least 70% most of the time to stack them. TF: 8
  
  
• Feeder system. You have to ask to move tables and can only do so when the tables are balanced. You go from game 3 to game 2 to game 1. TF: 6
  
  
• Dealers. They are mostly bad tempered, rude and slow. TF: 7
  
  
• Players. All recreational players, little or no regs, all foreign. Not much banter or chat with the locals. Accent - very tilting. TF: 4
  
  
• Chips and cards. Lots of chips broken or chewed. You spend a lot of time playing with cash as the system to bring chips on the table for cash is pretty woeful. Playing with cash is so tilting. Cards, too small, all marked or bent in someway. TF: 6
  
  
• Rake. The one saving grace. It's amazing. £5 session fee per hour. People do leave earlier than they otherwise would've done because a session fee is coming up, but it's still awesome value. TF: 0
  
  

Pretty amusing sequence of events occured- I lose the QQ vs AK hand, and leave the table to get more chips/chill for a bit with Mitch who's grinding Pharaohs again. The fish that stacks me stacks Andy while I'm gone. Andy reloads. I come back, snap double off said fish, which gives the fish an excuse to leave. Never seen Andy look so pissed off at me!

Lost 170 for the session, Andy 500, Mitch 1k, so a pretty awful road trip for team eureka!

My good mate Toby is coming to stay today for a couple of days. Him and Steve were dealers at DTD and we hung out all the time last year, they live in london now - massive heroes.  Zizzis with the mrs later nomm nomm <3 zizzi.

Wasn't pissed off at you mate at all... after me you'd have been my second choice where the money went for sure. Was pleased for u to get it back and just annoyed that he left in general. Perhaps I didn't convey this too well at the time though!

Im never nice to Al, but I have to say that considering the shite circumstances and the fact he lost that disgusting pot to the fish he played great the whole night, and that pot didn't effect him at all. Remember when i first met him and he tilted off roughly half my life roll after losing a big pot at the Ricoh when we swapped action... How he has come on!

Cheers, drew. I think I played better at monopoly that night actually. My trading and bartering with the artificially extremely intelligent computer was masterful, if I do say so myself.

***

Last night was a bit annoying. More annoyed that I even sat in the game in the first place than the money. Toby arrived yesterday and I was just gonna chill with him and have a laugh all night, wasn't really bothered about the 2/5, although if the game was really good I would've sat. So I'm playing 50/1 with Toby and its going well, winning 300, having a laugh. The 2/5 is tough, the fish keep getting stacked and going home. Toby decides if he spins up his 50/1 buyin to a 2/5 buyin he'll take a shot in that game. I'm content chilling on 50/1 but once he goes over, I felt obliged to follow. Looked like a ridic fun and interesting game as well, and I can't be that big of a dog. Plus 1.5x hours for 2/5

I sit with what I had on 50/1 which is about 600 and made a bad flat pre with TT oop in a multiway straddled pot, in a spot where it was a definite 3bet. Ended up c/raise/getting it in vs Toby on 724ss, he had 77 and won. Was his biggest ever pot he said, so I was happy he was enjoying his visit to Nottingham! Toby had less than me son that left me with 200. Before I could reload I was dealt in and 3b shoved ATss over a straddle, raise and a call. Caller had 22 and called it off and held on kqqxx. Cash desk time.

Lost 300 to Mitch with AQ on T9xQ9, he had J8. Then I made a very questionable cold 4b bluff shove which was alllllmost perfect timing, both the raiser and the 3bettor had shit, but someone in-between had flatted with aces. The door card gave me 60% of a straight flush for a sweat, but no further help.

Lost a two smaller pots where I'd 3b QQ and boards had ran out horrible. Then with a few hands to go I get dealt the ladies again, raise utg to 15, Ajit calls, Keith 3bets to 75, Jim makes it 250 cold, I'm fist pumping vs Keith, but Jims range is pretty strong here. But QQ still a monster in this spot, and I happily shove 700. Keith hollywoods it massively and reshoves. Jim tank folds AK. Mitch caught the result on video...

[cambridgealex]

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[giveyourcash]

the fish keep getting stacked and going home

Yup

3 bet, bet, bet, shove = obvious bottom pair is good.

[titaniumbean]

Keith your a bad person, you're awesome!

[Dubai]

You drive to these places together and all play at the same table? And you are all "mates"? Seems v odd- I know people who have "mates" like this but they are normally Eastern European and wealthy.

[Dubai]

Surely its just retarded to travel to play together?

[Mitch]

Surely its just retarded to travel to play together?

usually the softest games tbf

[Dubai]

Like its funny stacking ur mates etc when everyone young, winning- but there will come a point when the money means more to some than others, people will be playing above their roll, out of their comfort zone and the laughter will go. Will be a longer drive home for sure

[celtic]

Like its funny stacking ur mates etc when everyone young, winning- but there will come a point when the money means more to some than others, people will be playing above their roll, out of their comfort zone and the laughter will go. Will be a longer drive home for sure

Make the losers get the bus home.