Lurker finally saying hello
Hey everyone, just a friendly greeting from Newmarket. Been immersing myself in all the valuable information here for a couple of weeks. This forum is awesome. I was looking for Canadian online poker playing places and google brought me here first. I'm sure glad it was the first place I looked before even downloading any software.
I was kibitzing the nlhe event on stars last night and enjoyed the atmosphere, hoping to get involved myself once I get out of the aquarium a little bit (proud of his jargon knowledge)
I'm also a Linux user, but I use a program called VMWare to run Windows within Linux. Everything seems to work great.
I'm registered in Hubble's Freeroll on stars starting in 10 minutes, so wish me luck. I'm sure some of the information here will come to good use for me.
Hoping to meet some of you in York Region when I feel a little more comfortable with my skills and read a book or two.
Cheers,
orth
P.S. Playing nick is eightoften (I'm eighth born of ten in my family)
I was kibitzing the nlhe event on stars last night and enjoyed the atmosphere, hoping to get involved myself once I get out of the aquarium a little bit (proud of his jargon knowledge)
I'm also a Linux user, but I use a program called VMWare to run Windows within Linux. Everything seems to work great.
I'm registered in Hubble's Freeroll on stars starting in 10 minutes, so wish me luck. I'm sure some of the information here will come to good use for me.
Hoping to meet some of you in York Region when I feel a little more comfortable with my skills and read a book or two.
Cheers,
orth
P.S. Playing nick is eightoften (I'm eighth born of ten in my family)
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welcome fellow York Regioner ...thornhill over here.
Hubble is a fine way to start as the price is right and a fun way to amass some chips. Enjoy.
So how did you do in the Freeroll?
I didn't fare so well, got knocked out pretty early on what I think were some bad beats (probably combined with some bad bets, need to work on my math)
Though I'm probably not the best judge of that right now. I could show the hands where I got beat, not sure if anyone cares to criticize though.
Thanks again for the welcome, take care.
we live to criticize...post em.
Welcome to the forum.
D
p.s. seriously, post the hands if you are wondering about your play, there are some seriously smart individuals that will share their wisdom, I won't be one of them, but, I'll learn from what they tell you.
Some that are long registered still 'lurk'.
I wish more people would.
I find it very difficult to play in the early stages of these tourneys when the play is so crazy, I amost think I'd be better to just fold the first couple hours heh.
Table '11248312 22' Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: eightoften (820 in chips)
Seat 2: G_OFF28 (2280 in chips)
Seat 3: Carlisler (1010 in chips)
Seat 4: StorminJ55 (1450 in chips)
Seat 5: tubbyturtle3 (3160 in chips)
Seat 6: AJacks726 (2005 in chips)
Seat 7: slikster8 (1490 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: tonni3000 (1850 in chips)
Seat 9: julieanne4 (1475 in chips)
StorminJ55: posts small blind 10
tubbyturtle3: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to eightoften [6d 7d]
AJacks726: folds
slikster8: folds
tonni3000: folds
julieanne4: calls 20
eightoften: calls 20
G_OFF28: calls 20
Carlisler: calls 20
StorminJ55: calls 10
tubbyturtle3: checks
*** FLOP *** [8d 4h 5c]
StorminJ55: checks
tubbyturtle3: bets 100
julieanne4: raises 1355 to 1455 and is all-in
eightoften: calls 800 and is all-in
G_OFF28: calls 1455
Carlisler: folds
StorminJ55: folds
tubbyturtle3: calls 1355
*** TURN *** [8d 4h 5c] [Kd]
tubbyturtle3: checks
G_OFF28: checks
*** RIVER *** [8d 4h 5c Kd] [8s]
tubbyturtle3: checks
G_OFF28: bets 805 and is all-in
tubbyturtle3: folds
*** SHOW DOWN ***
G_OFF28: shows [5s 5h] (a full house, Fives full of Eights)
julieanne4: shows [Ts Td] (two pair, Tens and Eights)
G_OFF28 collected 1965 from side pot
eightoften: shows [6d 7d] (a straight, Four to Eight)
G_OFF28 collected 3320 from main pot
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*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5285 Main pot 3320. Side pot 1965. | Rake 0
Board [8d 4h 5c Kd 8s]
Seat 1: eightoften showed [6d 7d] and lost with a straight, Four to Eight
Seat 2: G_OFF28 showed [5s 5h] and won (5285) with a full house, Fives full of Eights
Seat 3: Carlisler (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: StorminJ55 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: tubbyturtle3 (big blind) folded on the River
Seat 6: AJacks726 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: slikster8 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: tonni3000 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: julieanne4 showed [Ts Td] and lost with two pair, Tens and Eights
Scared of a full house when the board hasn't paired? I think you made a good play. Short stacked like that you probably aren't going to get a better chance to get your money in. You had the trips beat!