someone tried to stop us from taking this pic too. Not sure if it was the tourney director or just a suit but she told him too bad and he walked away.
I will never try and bluff her again , she was directly in the seat to my left for about 5 hours and when I tried to bluff her she laughed out loud then called with 3rd pair no kicker. She is very good at the pokerz. And she was very nice to everyone that stopped to talk to her, never gave anyone any attitude.
The question is - at what point does variance overtake any edge you perceive that you may have? Hardly any of the players you see in deals at PG are scared even a little bit - often they're very very experienced players who are perfectly comfortable playing in any circumstance. But they choose not to.
Anyhow, it's the players' money and they can do what they want with it barring any rules like in a festival. And even then, the carve-out that must be reserved for 1st place is small.
The question is - at what point does variance overtake any edge you perceive that you may have? Hardly any of the players you see in deals at PG are scared even a little bit - often they're very very experienced players who are perfectly comfortable playing in any circumstance. But they choose not to.
Anyhow, it's the players' money and they can do what they want with it barring any rules like in a festival. And even then, the carve-out that must be reserved for 1st place is small.
Mike, I know you are close to the players, but I've made 4-5 final tables at PG in the last 8 months or so, and its not so much that the players almost immediately ask for the chop once the FT hits than it is the seething anger directed at anyone who says no. I have a general no chop policy and the comments of greed, no play left, etc, etc make me feel like they're not comfortable.
I find it different in some of the "bigger" daily events - IE the Monday 6max Ive had a different experience.
However - I honestly believe I have an edge in 10bb poker vs. the average live player, so I don't believe variance takes an edge over how I can exploit such small stacks when the money is jumping.
Didn't end well. Finished 40th or 39th, not sure. Couldn't get anything going at all. My cards were all possible combination of j,8,5 or 3 you could think of.
Great room, very good food (tax free also) and I would rate the players only slightly higher than what I see at Brantford. Maybe it was the Winter Festival bringing in some outliers, but there were more than a few horrible plays I witnessed. There were definitely exploitable players, I sadly never got in a position to do any exploiting.
You're correct that there is a big distinction in the "bigger" weekly events like the 6-Max and others. These players are a lot more experienced and when players who know each other get down to the end they tend to go "no deal, I'll win more next time it's OK" whereas in smaller $60 tourneys there is much more often a large deal.
The players themselves can control a lot of how a deal gets refused though. It's a simple enough thing and totally cool to approach a TD before it gets to that point and quietly let them know that you will refuse a deal and that will stop discussion in its tracks. And you can remain anonymous as well, though that won't stop the players from trying to figure it out.
The TDs all know that some people get frustrated with deals and will do what they can to serve your interests as well - they definitely have no preference for a deal to occur.
Of course a lot of this started well before Playground came along 5 years ago - the trend to do deals was already well in place going back years.
The players themselves can control a lot of how a deal gets refused though. It's a simple enough thing and totally cool to approach a TD before it gets to that point and quietly let them know that you will refuse a deal and that will stop discussion in its tracks. And you can remain anonymous as well, though that won't stop the players from trying to figure it out.
Thanks, Ive never tried this before. Hopefully get an opportunity to try!
Spent the day in around Montreal, a bit ticked to find that the Casino Montreal dailies were cancelled. Got back to the hotel after dinner to find a satellite starting to event #10 $500+50 on Monday. Tossed my $5 entry in, added 2 rebuys and an addon and bingo I'm playing Monday regardless of my main event showing tomorrow. Hopefully I have to deal with the problem of playing two tournaments at once.
So the current tally stands at approx. $100 of buy-ins for satellites on TonyBet to win $1800+180 (3 events) of buy-ins to the Winter Festival. Oh and my $100 CDN deposit is now sitting at $197 US.
Good luck.
This isn't allowed at WPT Fallsview. Can mikelbyl or you let us know if you're allowed at Playground?
Event #10 doesn't start until 7pm so it may be academic. Day 2 of the main restarts at 11 am I believe and may only run so long. I assume I'm not the only person in position to be playing both. Still it would be good to know.
Just finished 2nd in an event 13 satellite. My luck has run out obv.
Second - you are correct that you can not play in multiple tournaments at the same time at Playground. If you're in one tournament and are registered for another, the stack for the "other" event will be put in play when the tourney begins and will be blinded off. If you bust in the earlier one you may then play the stack in the other event. If at any time while you have a stack in the "first" tourney you go to the other one and play even a single hand, you may no longer play that "first" stack and it will be blinded off.
So no you can't play in two - but you can be registered in two. FYI two tournaments running at the same time never use the same chips, so the reason for this is more about players running back and forth and general game integrity than any chip security concerns.
Great to hear someone had some rungood Sn1perb0y. I guess it's pretty obvious now what you can do the next two day 1's. Should be more chips available than today so keep doing what's working.
I believe I can count on one hand the number of times a preflop raise has been folded around. Of course once was the only time in 15+ hours of play at Playground that I found AA and raised to 400 with blinds at 150/300 (le sigh).
I jammed 88 with about 16 BB's into a preflop raiser and they couldn't hold against AK about 5 minutes before the last level of the day.
Sounds like a good strategy. Any players who you had it out with on Day 1a, tilt the shit out of them and just 3bet everytime they are in the pot and put players on massive tilt. Then day 2 play tighter and watch them donate.
Well hey, if your stack at the end of the next 2 flights is less than yesterday, you pissed away 2k! So go ahead and push your luck. It's s no lose situation.
Go Sn1perB0y !! I cannot imagine the feeling of being chip leader and still having to play the other Day 1s (that you sattied in to). Talk about no pressure. Nice job,
I late reged at level 4, 3 bet or opened the first 7 hands won 6 of them ran stack to 45k in 15min. Then got called/stationed every time cz I didn't stop. Stack down to 8k then told them I was donating my stack. It's amazing how the dynamic changed and how loose the table got after they found the fish who was playing 100/100. Still got 5k behind.:D Edit: busto altho i won an all in pre with 27cc #bucketlist
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someone tried to stop us from taking this pic too. Not sure if it was the tourney director or just a suit but she told him too bad and he walked away.
I will never try and bluff her again , she was directly in the seat to my left for about 5 hours and when I tried to bluff her she laughed out loud then called with 3rd pair no kicker. She is very good at the pokerz. And she was very nice to everyone that stopped to talk to her, never gave anyone any attitude.
Doubled up recently to 30k, blinds going to 400/800 with 72 of 115 starters left.
GL
Anyhow, it's the players' money and they can do what they want with it barring any rules like in a festival. And even then, the carve-out that must be reserved for 1st place is small.
Mike, I know you are close to the players, but I've made 4-5 final tables at PG in the last 8 months or so, and its not so much that the players almost immediately ask for the chop once the FT hits than it is the seething anger directed at anyone who says no. I have a general no chop policy and the comments of greed, no play left, etc, etc make me feel like they're not comfortable.
I find it different in some of the "bigger" daily events - IE the Monday 6max Ive had a different experience.
However - I honestly believe I have an edge in 10bb poker vs. the average live player, so I don't believe variance takes an edge over how I can exploit such small stacks when the money is jumping.
Great room, very good food (tax free also) and I would rate the players only slightly higher than what I see at Brantford. Maybe it was the Winter Festival bringing in some outliers, but there were more than a few horrible plays I witnessed. There were definitely exploitable players, I sadly never got in a position to do any exploiting.
The players themselves can control a lot of how a deal gets refused though. It's a simple enough thing and totally cool to approach a TD before it gets to that point and quietly let them know that you will refuse a deal and that will stop discussion in its tracks. And you can remain anonymous as well, though that won't stop the players from trying to figure it out.
The TDs all know that some people get frustrated with deals and will do what they can to serve your interests as well - they definitely have no preference for a deal to occur.
Of course a lot of this started well before Playground came along 5 years ago - the trend to do deals was already well in place going back years.
Thanks, Ive never tried this before. Hopefully get an opportunity to try!
Spent the day in around Montreal, a bit ticked to find that the Casino Montreal dailies were cancelled. Got back to the hotel after dinner to find a satellite starting to event #10 $500+50 on Monday. Tossed my $5 entry in, added 2 rebuys and an addon and bingo I'm playing Monday regardless of my main event showing tomorrow. Hopefully I have to deal with the problem of playing two tournaments at once.
So the current tally stands at approx. $100 of buy-ins for satellites on TonyBet to win $1800+180 (3 events) of buy-ins to the Winter Festival. Oh and my $100 CDN deposit is now sitting at $197 US.
Event #10 doesn't start until 7pm so it may be academic. Day 2 of the main restarts at 11 am I believe and may only run so long. I assume I'm not the only person in position to be playing both. Still it would be good to know.
Just finished 2nd in an event 13 satellite. My luck has run out obv.
I'll probably be wearing brown pants, trimmed beard, eye glasses.
Second - you are correct that you can not play in multiple tournaments at the same time at Playground. If you're in one tournament and are registered for another, the stack for the "other" event will be put in play when the tourney begins and will be blinded off. If you bust in the earlier one you may then play the stack in the other event. If at any time while you have a stack in the "first" tourney you go to the other one and play even a single hand, you may no longer play that "first" stack and it will be blinded off.
So no you can't play in two - but you can be registered in two. FYI two tournaments running at the same time never use the same chips, so the reason for this is more about players running back and forth and general game integrity than any chip security concerns.
keep it up. Wire to wire.
I believe I can count on one hand the number of times a preflop raise has been folded around. Of course once was the only time in 15+ hours of play at Playground that I found AA and raised to 400 with blinds at 150/300 (le sigh).
I jammed 88 with about 16 BB's into a preflop raiser and they couldn't hold against AK about 5 minutes before the last level of the day.
See you Monday at some point Sn1perb0y.
They knew it was a clear angle shoot.
I appreciate the clever use of french there.
My strategy is to 3 bet blind and hit the streets
Good luck, gogogogog
You can really practise your live reading skills.
Have fun with it.
Haha. Now it makes sense. Actually that's a 3:45 am after driving six straight hours typo. The raise was to 700.