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Anyone playing much of late?

Old uni mate has just won 100k the twat, quit his job and buggered off to Oz and Thailand.

Managed a decent 40th out of a 5k freeroll to win a £200k free package to the world champs and a $220 7th placed spot the other night.

The big win is just elluding me but it's on the way I can smell it.

I'm playing now, Lucky $1 on pokerroom. Definately finishing in the Top 100 of 1,200, already in the money positions 8)

Nice one brother.

I've cut down on the low stake comps, and have upped it to the $10-$20 level.  

Suits my style of play where I can sit back and play decent hands aggressively rather than wade through a sea of loose players willing to call anything on a whim.

Haven't really played much recently, due to lack of time.

I was getting pretty good at the low stakes pot limit ring games on royal vegas, had made about $80 just playing 5 cents big blinds on the 6 player tables, long term plan is to build up a decent bankroll and then move up to higher limits. Being very cautious though and I've taken a lot of my winnings out so it'll take a while.

I withdrew all the money I won on pokerroom so I can only play freerolls but I haven't really played since winning $25 for 6th/2400.

Finished 41st, only won about $9, but it's better than sweet fa 8)

i credited my first £28 the other day, lost it in about 20mins

I'm not going to play real money games again until I start working as I'm too skint at the minute.

Might start doing freerolls again though, not really given them too much of a go.

id love to play online but dont know how to play  :oops:

Finished 19th tonight, in the same tourney. $15 better off.....i'm improving 8)

Party poker gave me a $20 bonus as I hadn't played there in a month so I entered a $1 tournament, got kk early on. Raised got reraised raised again with two other people calling, got rereaised again so went all in, three people called.

They had A8, J6 or something and 22, I was winning until the river which was an ace, so the guy with aces won. That site is fucking crazy! three people calling all in with shit hands. Don't really care though as I was only playing with the bonus they gave me.

The players on party poker are crazy, standard is shit, but they are lose and aggressive. Means you either win big or lose big. This time I won.
#Game No : 4118542950
***** Hand History for Game 4118542950 *****
$5 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, April 28, 10:42:03 ET 2006
Table Beginners #1240620 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 8: Pinppi ( $9.73 )
Seat 10: esgesmintman ( $4.92 )
Seat 7: benwahballs2 ( $4.26 )
Seat 5: love2win112 ( $8.54 )
Seat 1: ch47c ( $4.16 )
Seat 9: Cpete80 ( $2.97 )
Seat 3: sedat271080 ( $8.77 )
Seat 6: TedddyKGB187 ( $4.60 )
Seat 2: winterhk ( $5 )
Seat 4: Dagazz ( $5 )
love2win112 posts small blind [$0.02].
TedddyKGB187 posts big blind [$0.04].
winterhk posts big blind [$0.04].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to benwahballs2 [  As Ac ]
benwahballs2 raises [$0.15].
Pinppi calls [$0.15].
Cpete80 folds.
esgesmintman calls [$0.15].
ch47c folds.
winterhk calls [$0.11].
sedat271080 folds.
love2win112 folds.
TedddyKGB187 raises [$0.96].
benwahballs2 raises [$2.85].
Pinppi calls [$2.85].
esgesmintman folds.
winterhk folds.
TedddyKGB187 calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, 5c, 3c ]
Dagazz has left the table.
Zzen09 has joined the table.
TedddyKGB187 checks.
benwahballs2 is all-In  [$1.26]
Pinppi raises [$2.52].
TedddyKGB187 is all-In  [$1.60]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8s ]
Pinppi shows [ Th, Ts ] two pairs, tens and eights.
TedddyKGB187 doesn't show [ Ah, Kc ] a pair of eights.
benwahballs2 shows [ As, Ac ] two pairs, aces and eights.
Pinppi wins $0.92 from  side pot #2  with two pairs, tens and eights.
Pinppi wins $0.68 from  side pot #1  with two pairs, tens and eights.
benwahballs2 wins $12.45 from  the main pot  with two pairs, aces and eights.
Game #4118554186 starts.

Always tough on those low stake tourneys and freerolls for the first hour there's to many loose players who will call anything on the back of the pot and very little else.

I think KK is something like 38% chance to get beaten on all in so I'll always try and least see the flop before rsking my entire chip stack.

Played that last one spot on though Ben.

With the KK I was trying to get rid of a couple of the callers just because it's not so good against a lot of callers but I was reraised pretty much all in anyway so got to the point where if I'd have had to go all in after the flop anyway.

Managed to finish 3rd out of 232 on a super deep stack tournament last night - $464 in fact, should have at least finished 2nd thugh.

Nice win! What site were you playing on?

Pacific Poker. First time on there as well. Did find it a lot better as you start with 5k in chips. Just have to be very patient really. Even on the last table I just waited for others to blow themselves out and my stack got fairly low, but still managed the top 3 leading for a fair bit.

Haven't found a better alternative to Ladbrokes yet.

Uncluttered simple poker and by far the best deposit and withdrawal options.  Just suffers from a lack of Yanks and idiots to milk.

I've got an account on pacific poker, seems alright. My favourite is royal vegas at the moment, haven't put any money in and I've got my free $10 up to nearly $100 now (taken $50 of that out).

Pokeroom has probably got the best software, I'll probably try pokerstars some time.

Pokerstars is a bit of a bad one for withdrawing cash.

You have to wait 48hrs to take anything back out and it has to go via cheque or you have to sign up for one of two online payment scheme things like Paypal.

That said despite the horrible software it's an easy money maker.

Is one of the payment things neteller 'cos I've got a neteller account now. Complete bastard to get it set up and for them to approve your account but once you've got it working it's ok.

I'll probably try ladbrokes some time as well, good thing is you can sign up on loads of sites and just clear any bonus they give you and withdraw the money if you don't like it. I've done 120 of the 200 raked hands I need to do to get my party poker bonus so far so should be just free money.

Aye, NetTeller that's the one.  I tried three different email addresses and each time it crashed.  Went for a cheque in the end, which to be fair only took a week.   Easy site to make money but a real eye bleeder to follow the action properly.

Definitely check out Ladbrokes though cracking site and loads of tourneys.