Alone in the Dark - The poker musings of an also ran

[sovietsong]

great thread. but then again the one about keeping chickens was one of my favs

Me too. Have you ever kept chickens Jacearoony?

my grandad has bantums and whippets when i was a kid. that was about the only experience i have. my grandad also looked after a guys horses who only owned rileys crisps that were a scunthorpe company. should this be on the b listers thread

I would have liked your Grandad.

100 % you would tom. he was a farrier.  nh by the way

Was he Jase? Farriers worked their bollocks off back then. They earn good money nowadays. (Not that I begrudge them)

he spent a fair amount on woodbines and ale. my gran was from indonesia and they met during the world war ll. she bought up 4 kids almost single handed as most women did then. she the set up a nursing home in formby where caroline now lives

There are some great stories out there. Everyone has them.

My dad had a computer shop.

Went out of business.

[kinboshi]

Now you're learning!!  Get it in behind, and hit runner runner quads!  Mitch will be so proud.

I crushed that fecker.

You haz parsley.  was always coming home to ya.

So behind the times.

FML - I tried.  Sigh.

To be fair, where you live you're normally a good 20 years behind - so not a bad effort.

[RED-DOG]

This 6 Max is bad for me nerves. Playing two tables now. Shattered 8 teeth already.

[doubleup]

This 6 Max is bad for me nerves. Playing two tables now. Shattered 8 teeth already.

I think you should move on to heads-up now before you get bored.

[RED-DOG]

Back on FR. 6 Max too scary.

SBR $245.57

[AlexMartin]

Also interested in peeps thoughts on short-stacking FR. Even good players seem to make really bad plays against me when I sit with a short stack. It seems to tilt the crap out of them for some reason.

Do you think short-stacking FR is a viable strategy?

Tom I refer you to my post of the other day

Shortstacking has been referred to as

1. cheating
2. unbeatable poker
3. moral-less
4. why would you do anything else
5. annoying
6. .................i could go on

If done with immaculate application  short stacking is unbeatable. I guess the issue is most people dont do it well - those that do have made a lot of money.

Someone on here will link you to a good 2+2 thread - im not very good with 2+2 so it would take me 4 days to find it

As an example - if you sit with 20bbs and everyone else has 100 - in a 6 max  c/o opens his opening range, button calls his 100bb calling range and you jam 20bbs! You are gonna make a lot of money of you play a specific range of holdings (helps to run good too)


stars have now changed their tables to combat this, tilt havent as far as i know

iv played with a lot of shortstacker pro's over a number of years and hundreds of k's of hands. none of them have a positive bb/100, the best simply lose at a lower rate and the rake they generate plus ridic promotions gets them paid. They are usually (albeit tiny), value in the game because they have ridiculously exploitable tendencies. Many of the shorties on euro networks belonged to a spanish staking company (we referred to them as the spanish armada) who had to play by a set standard, iirc badbeats serbian shortstacker outfit was also forced to play to a set standard. They basically try to open in excess of 80% of buttons and sb's, but they dont adjust and cbet 90%+ almost regardless of board texture. They are simply parasites of the game because fish hate them, they reduce the preflop fun of poker and they take money out the game in rb.

[Woodsey]

^^^ lol at a pro referring to others as parasites of the game 

[jakally]

Blimey. I've only been playing 10 minutes and I've been in more hands than Britney Spears's tits.

Blue, Bearded or Great?

What, Britney Spears's tits?

Great.

Enjoying this thread.... especially this little exchange.

[dreenie]

Absoloutly love this thread!

So honest and funny, please keep this going, and glglglgl in your cash shenanigans...

p.s - Jason, keep on smoking them crack pipes!! lolololol

pp.s Men in white coats are coming - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[smashedagain]

Absoloutly love this thread!

So honest and funny, please keep this going, and glglglgl in your cash shenanigans...

p.s - Jason, keep on smoking them crack pipes!! lolololol

pp.s Men in white coats are coming - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

you should of  heard me back in the day  when drugs were drugs. you could half an E with your mate and both be buzzing all night (instead of having to neck 15 like folks do today), your coke actually had coke in it (and not baby laxative or creatine) and your crack was washed up with amnonia and more pure (instead of magic which dont burn off all the crap). not had the experience of brown but understand the cutting agent of choice is rat poison.

[dreenie]

Absoloutly love this thread!

So honest and funny, please keep this going, and glglglgl in your cash shenanigans...

p.s - Jason, keep on smoking them crack pipes!! lolololol

pp.s Men in white coats are coming - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

you should of  heard me back in the day  when drugs were drugs. you could half an E with your mate and both be buzzing all night (instead of having to neck 15 like folks do today), your coke actually had coke in it (and not baby laxative or creatine) and your crack was washed up with amnonia and more pure (instead of magic which dont burn off all the crap). not had the experience of brown but understand the cutting agent of choice is rat poison.

Never tried @coke@ and never will - only ever smoked that wacky backy stuff, and that's no good when I'm trying to earn some bread by playing till 4am for 50$ :-( - What's it like?

[RED-DOG]

Had a real blast with the pokerings y-day. Got ridic coolered in a few big pots, but by the same token I sucked out more times than a chav with a petrol can and a syphoning pipe.

I had a ponder about it overnight, and I think that 6 Max is probs the way to go. I'm just not ready for it yet. My brains don't work fast enough. I played two tables for about an hour, and by the end I was so confused I didn't know if I was in York or Cork.

Gonna be grinding like a gigalo with a 3 rock crack habit.  

SBR = $169.73

[RED-DOG]

Also interested in peeps thoughts on short-stacking FR. Even good players seem to make really bad plays against me when I sit with a short stack. It seems to tilt the crap out of them for some reason.

Do you think short-stacking FR is a viable strategy?

Tom I refer you to my post of the other day

Shortstacking has been referred to as

1. cheating
2. unbeatable poker
3. moral-less
4. why would you do anything else
5. annoying
6. .................i could go on

If done with immaculate application  short stacking is unbeatable. I guess the issue is most people dont do it well - those that do have made a lot of money.

Someone on here will link you to a good 2+2 thread - im not very good with 2+2 so it would take me 4 days to find it

As an example - if you sit with 20bbs and everyone else has 100 - in a 6 max  c/o opens his opening range, button calls his 100bb calling range and you jam 20bbs! You are gonna make a lot of money of you play a specific range of holdings (helps to run good too)


stars have now changed their tables to combat this, tilt havent as far as i know

iv played with a lot of shortstacker pro's over a number of years and hundreds of k's of hands. none of them have a positive bb/100, the best simply lose at a lower rate and the rake they generate plus ridic promotions gets them paid. They are usually (albeit tiny), value in the game because they have ridiculously exploitable tendencies. Many of the shorties on euro networks belonged to a spanish staking company (we referred to them as the spanish armada) who had to play by a set standard, iirc badbeats serbian shortstacker outfit was also forced to play to a set standard. They basically try to open in excess of 80% of buttons and sb's, but they dont adjust and cbet 90%+ almost regardless of board texture. They are simply parasites of the game because fish hate them, they reduce the preflop fun of poker and they take money out the game in rb.

Thanks for taking the time to post this Alex, and for dumbing it down enough for me to understand it. 

[RED-DOG]

Nice to see Dreenie in here. She scares the living crap out of me when we share a table. (But don't tell her that obv).

[outragous76]

Alex

Like I said, it needs to be done right, which is playing inexploitably! What you described clearly isn't.