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

[blonde17]

You boys are sick!!
Black belt in what ? Oregami ?...Used to be reasonable at Taekwondo...but now I`m old, so give it a rest!
Jeff, it was the Bike in LA, late 80s, and the rascals were Vietnamese pickpockets , went outside to retrieve around $100 met the rest of em who had fckn shooters, gave it up as a bad job.... not worth getting dead for $100!
And Tom my run in was at Blackpool with a guy who is sadly no longer with us,  and again.. when I found out who he was... not worth dying for. We ended up as mates after the incident, kind of mutual respect thing.

[I KNOW IT]

Yeh that Trickett will never get anywhere tho, u mark my words. It was? I haven't even been to Walsall in at least two years, dno who this Bill charachter is but I like the sound of him. He doesn't sound like an internet wizard but he has to know I always have it, us old guys always do

Bill is an old guy. One of the oldest in fact. He's a great player, won all sorts.

You would know him if you saw him.

Unfortunately, Bill passed away last year Tom.

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You boys are sick!!
Black belt in what ? Oregami ?...Used to be reasonable at Taekwondo...but now I`m old, so give it a rest!
Jeff, it was the Bike in LA, late 80s, and the rascals were Vietnamese pickpockets , went outside to retrieve around $100 met the rest of em who had fckn shooters, gave it up as a bad job.... not worth getting dead for $100!
And Tom my run in was at Blackpool with a guy who is sadly no longer with us,  and again.. when I found out who he was... not worth dying for. We ended up as mates after the incident, kind of mutual respect thing.

I knew who he was at the time. That's why I was making those faces at you.

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Yeh that Trickett will never get anywhere tho, u mark my words. It was? I haven't even been to Walsall in at least two years, dno who this Bill charachter is but I like the sound of him. He doesn't sound like an internet wizard but he has to know I always have it, us old guys always do

Bill is an old guy. One of the oldest in fact. He's a great player, won all sorts.

You would know him if you saw him.

Unfortunately, Bill passed away last year Tom.

Oh, I didn't know.

That's one less true gentlemen in the game.

You will be missed Bill.

RIP 

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Been thinking about Jason's rantings re on-line satellites.

For smallish buy in events, say up to £300, (Live or on line) are they good value time investment wise?

What I mean is, would I be better playing a $20 re-buy sat into a $200 event, or would I be be better off just playing a $20 re buy comp proper?

If I play the comp and finish in the minor places, I will probably win enough for the entry fee. If I finish top 3, I will win a lot more....

[millidonk]

Been thinking about Jason's rantings re on-line satellites.

For smallish buy in events, say up to £300, (Live or on line) are they good value time investment wise?

What I mean is, would I be better playing a $20 re-buy sat into a $200 event, or would I be be better off just playing a $20 re buy comp proper?

If I play the comp and finish in the minor places, I will probably win enough for the entry fee. If I finish top 3, I will win a lot more....

I see what you doing here, it sounds nice, but when you actually try it out, i think the MTTs would have a lot more and probs a lot more capable players making it X amount harder to get into the top , obv the Sats would have smaller and what is perceived as generally more weaker fields. Maybe some Maths bod can do the workings out of the %more you would win in top 3 of the MTTs, by the % of times you would cash in them vs the % of Seats won or something.  Variance in the MTTs would probs be too swingy imo. Would probs rather play 3 $10 MTTs or 4 $5.

I don't know, its early, I could just be talking pish.

That make any sense at all?

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Been thinking about Jason's rantings re on-line satellites.

For smallish buy in events, say up to £300, (Live or on line) are they good value time investment wise?

What I mean is, would I be better playing a $20 re-buy sat into a $200 event, or would I be be better off just playing a $20 re buy comp proper?

If I play the comp and finish in the minor places, I will probably win enough for the entry fee. If I finish top 3, I will win a lot more....

I see what you doing here, it sounds nice, but when you actually try it out, i think the MTTs would have a lot more and probs a lot more capable players making it X amount harder to get into the top , obv the Sats would have smaller and what is perceived as generally more weaker fields. Maybe some Maths bod can do the workings out of the %more you would win in top 3 of the MTTs, by the % of times you would cash in them vs the % of Seats won or something.  Variance in the MTTs would probs be too swingy imo. Would probs rather play 3 $10 MTTs or 4 $5.

I don't know, its early, I could just be talking pish.

That make any sense at all?

Yes it does. That's the other side of the quandary.

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Mickey who was eating pie n mash and was getting so into telling the floor what they should be doing he had peas and steak flying in his beard.

Thought about this line while I was in bed last night and couldn't stop laughing.

Good job I was alone, I must have sounded like a mental case.

[smashedagain]

Shoving with monsters is a pretty STD play in the tourneys I play. Rule number 1 in the ABC poker guide is idiots can't fold. And even more so in s rebuy comp because they have the excuse "it's a rebuy innit".

U calling me an idiot? 

lol sorry. should have realized you were susannie when it showed your hole cards,  AK is a little different but 66 A10 etc are hands that idiots hope they are in a race with

[smashedagain]

Been thinking about Jason's rantings re on-line satellites.

For smallish buy in events, say up to £300, (Live or on line) are they good value time investment wise?

What I mean is, would I be better playing a $20 re-buy sat into a $200 event, or would I be be better off just playing a $20 re buy comp proper?

If I play the comp and finish in the minor places, I will probably win enough for the entry fee. If I finish top 3, I will win a lot more....

I see what you doing here, it sounds nice, but when you actually try it out, i think the MTTs would have a lot more and probs a lot more capable players making it X amount harder to get into the top , obv the Sats would have smaller and what is perceived as generally more weaker fields. Maybe some Maths bod can do the workings out of the %more you would win in top 3 of the MTTs, by the % of times you would cash in them vs the % of Seats won or something.  Variance in the MTTs would probs be too swingy imo. Would probs rather play 3 $10 MTTs or 4 $5.

I don't know, its early, I could just be talking pish.

That make any sense at all?

i may be killing the golden goose here Tom but i feel that the sats are the easiest comps around atm. i always look for value and its is honestly the only thing on line i have any success with. the times suit me coz my kids are all in bed by 7.30 and they dont often go on till the early hours. when dtd offered 5 seats gtd  it was like printing money and obv suited my style and the style i teach to my friends and pupils. now there is only 2 seats gtd it obv is much harder to win a seat so i had to adapt my style of play. as a natural nit the more seats the better but as a natural gifted player i know how to adapt. tbh winning a seat this month i think i played well but you would have to ask colin young and steve holden for an honest opinion. at the business end its often all in or fold and you have to hold up.

most ot the tournies i play live i have won a seat to but as i have probably said before (sorry for being repetative jeff)  i judge my success on the results of my pupils. i can take a kid who cant even spell poker and after a few lessons can play ABC and that holds him in good stead from home/pub games through casino small re buys and upto and including DTD deepstacks and ukipts.

i think i may have to put my money were my mouth is and look at playing dtd sats 10 seats gtd on line on the monday/tues and live wed/thurs. cant make friday coz its alisters birthday but will return saturday for the deepstack.

george geary taught me that the most important thing in poker is winning. make sure you prove that you are a winner by getting paid.

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Do you think this applies to online sats in general or just DTD sats?

Do you play other satellites, like the WSOP or EPT ones on Stars for instance? Do you play sats into online comps?

[smashedagain]

Do you think this applies to online sats in general or just DTD sats?

Do you play other satellites, like the WSOP or EPT ones on Stars for instance? Do you play sats into online comps?

lol trying to get off this gotta go to scarborough.... not ept the std is too good with all these young guns trying to get there on the cheap.    wsop/irish open defo soft and the live sats for these are ridic soft imo...ukipts are easy on stars as you are up against poor p[layers as the superstars are just buying in direct to this....not played online tournies for years but may occasionally play an odd sunday million and will sat into it without too much trouble. when i was playing full time on line i would just buy in to all the torunies i played.

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Right oh.

You can go now.

[blonde17]

Do you think this applies to online sats in general or just DTD sat

lol trying to get off this gotta go to scarborough.... not ept the std is too good with all these young guns trying to get there on the cheap.    wsop/irish open defo soft and the live sats for these are ridic soft imo...ukipts are easy on stars as you are up against poor p[layers as the superstars are just buying in direct to this....not played online tournies for years but may occasionally play an odd sunday million and will sat into it without too much trouble. when i was playing full time on line i would just buy in to all the torunies i played.


Errr TOM, is this guy THE GOD OF POKER?
Or is it the guy I sat next to at DTD 300 last month , nice enough and well meaning...  but never shuts up!
He sure makes this poker lark sound pretty dam easy....I must be missing something.

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I'm experimenting with 6 man stts speeds today.

Normal - blinds increase every 10 hands.

Super turbo - Every 5 hands.

Extreme - Every 2 hands.

Technique obv varies depending which I play, but I have a feeling that the Extreme is more beatable. Players seem to make such horrible mistakes.