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Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread, REGISTER HERE FOR LAST LONG

Sarah_CSarah_C Member Posts: 263
edited February 2014 in Poker Chat
So how are we all doing today?  If you were at the UKPC I'm looking directly at you...  Recovered yet?  How was it for you?  Any tales to tell? Bad beats? tikay's coffee count?  All welcome...

We're back to the live shows this week then and tonight we're asking 'Do you feel lucky, punk?' (I'll see if Ross can do a decent Dirty Harry later)  And before you get all James Hartigan on me I know that's not the line, the line is 'Do I feel lucky punk' but it's been misquoted over the years and for the purposes of discussion I'm asking you... Do you consider yourself to be a lucky person or an unlucky person?  What's your knee jerk reaction to that question?

When it comes to flips, does your heart sink?  Do you think it's 50/50 so I'm bound to lose this! or are you more of a glass half full kinda player?  We know poker is ALL skill of course but when you need just that little bit of help does Lady Luck shine on you? Or do you dismiss this very discussion as nonsense because there's no such thing?

It's an interesting one to me and one on which many experiments have been conducted, Derren Brown devoted an entire show to people who consider themselves 'lucky' and 'unlucky' with some interesting results.  The main finding really being that people make their own luck.

Anyway I've waffled enough for now, I'll dig out a couple of free entries for those of you who indulge me with your thoughts on this show thread so thanks in advance and best of luck on the tables *if there is such a thing* ;-)

Sarah xx


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  • SlipwaterSlipwater Member Posts: 3,707
    edited February 2014
    UKPC bad beats? Gee, I don't think I have any of those.

    I shoved twelve big blinds in the Main Event with pocket 7s, but it's perfectly standard to be called by someone holding 3 4; and then it's absolutely fine that the flop came down with nothing for either of us, keeping me miles ahead. It is then, of course, completely correct and expected that the turn was a 4 and the river was another 4, because everyone knows that live poker is rigged!*

    *not really, but I'm still sore.

    So - you tell me Sarah: lucky or not? ;)

    You should have been there Sarah - you could have bought me drinks to drown my sorrows.
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  • Sir-GarySir-Gary Member Posts: 1,052
    edited February 2014
    Am I unlucky? was I unlucky in the UKPC?
    Well 4 times I was in an all in situation with cards up on the table. First time it went in on the turn, and a rivered flush beat me, I was damaged but I was still in. The second time I pushed with AK with about 13 big blinds, I was called by the Big Blind they also had AK we spit the anti's and small blind. The 3rd time I pushed with about 14 Big blinds with AQs I was called by the short stack with 44, the 44 held up. Now down to about 4 BB's I pushed with QJ and was called by 87s, they hit their flush and I was out. Still I got to day 2 and 303 out of 621 is not a bad effort, and above all I enjoyed it.
    Do I believe I was unlucky? No not really, luck is just a statiscal blip, somedays you are the hammer other days you are the nail, it's just that we tend to only remember the bad beats against us, more than the bad beats for us.
    Have a great show.
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater Member Posts: 3,707
    edited February 2014
    ...I was sitting next to Gary for a few hours at the UKPC - what a nit ;)
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  • DiminuendoDiminuendo Member Posts: 222
    edited February 2014
    Rumor has it that Liv Boeree was going to play the UKPC until she found out Slipwater was going and then decided to play the £5 rebuy at her local casino instead :)


    In for the last longer if there is one :)

    Have a good show guys
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  • TeddyBloatTeddyBloat Member Posts: 1,419
    edited February 2014
    poker is 90% skill and 10% luck [in an upswing]

    poker is 10% skill and 90% luck [in a downswing]

    meh.

    i have a mate who is walking, real life variance. he is the only person i know who has actually slipped on a banana skin that was lying in the street. to balance that he once dropped a full pint in a bar, and had it land bolt upright with nary a drop spilled.

    aces cracking under the strain of off-suit junk are merely banana skins in the street. the next night your T8o 4 bet bluff will run into kings and your pint will land upright, my son.

    never fear.
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater Member Posts: 3,707
    edited February 2014
    In Response to Re: Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread*****:
    Rumor has it that Liv Boeree was going to play the UKPC until she found out Slipwater was going and then decided to play the £5 rebuy at her local casino instead :) In for the last longer if there is one :) Have a good show guys
    Posted by Diminuendo
    Haha.

    I was totally up for the (self-imposed) challenge ;)
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  • Sarah_CSarah_C Member Posts: 263
    edited February 2014
    Ha ha!  Great posts so far guys keep em coming!  I'm sure there will be a last longer comp just waiting on confirmation from Sky Dan, anyone seen him?  Did he make it back from Notts!?
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  • MAXALLYMAXALLY Member Posts: 17,666
    edited February 2014
    In Response to Re: Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread*****:
    Ha ha!  Great posts so far guys keep em coming!  I'm sure there will be a last longer comp just waiting on confirmation from Sky Dan, anyone seen him?  Did he make it back from Notts!?
    Posted by Sarah_C


    Still filming Tikay's 'winners' interview there, I heard.

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  • Sir-GarySir-Gary Member Posts: 1,052
    edited February 2014
    In Response to Re: Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread*****:
    ...I was sitting next to Gary for a few hours at the UKPC - what a nit ;)
    Posted by Slipwater
    Easy to be a nit when you are dealt Sodall
    About the only time I got dealt anything was when the fellow in the (it would not let me put the name in here) shirt on my right opened :-)
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  • Sir-GarySir-Gary Member Posts: 1,052
    edited February 2014
    In Response to Re: Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread*****:
    Ha ha!  Great posts so far guys keep em coming!  I'm sure there will be a last longer comp just waiting on confirmation from Sky Dan, anyone seen him?  Did he make it back from Notts!?
    Posted by Sarah_C
    They left Dan behind, bet they are all saying "You know I knew I forgot something"
    In for the last longer please sexy, and no Ross I didn't mean you.
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater Member Posts: 3,707
    edited February 2014
    In Response to Re: Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread*****:
    In Response to Re: Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread***** : Easy to be a nit when you are dealt Sodall About the only time I got dealt anything was when the fellow in the (it would not let me put the name in here) shirt on my right opened :-)
    Posted by Sir-Gary
    Haha.

    It's a good shirt!

    I will be lasting longer, Sarah :)
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  • wynne1938wynne1938 Member Posts: 20,573
    edited February 2014
    Have a good show!
    In for the last longer!
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  • Sarah_CSarah_C Member Posts: 263
    edited February 2014
    In Response to Re: Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread*****:
    Have a good show! In for the last longer!
    Posted by wynne1938
    Lovely!  Yes you'll see we now have confirmation from the powers that be *Sky Louis, Sky Dan still MIA* and we will be running the usual last longer comp so register here guys and gals!
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  • Matt237Matt237 Member Posts: 1,785
    edited February 2014
    Last longer please.

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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited February 2014


    last longer please




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  • MrStarch1MrStarch1 Member Posts: 63
    edited February 2014
    We're back - woohoo! 

    The UKPC was awesome. If you went - let us know how you did! 

    See you at 7pm chaps...
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  • Sir-GarySir-Gary Member Posts: 1,052
    edited February 2014
    Ok if I am not allowed to name the shirt, I will just have to describe it.
    So the shirt was:-

    Stunning
    Heroic
    Impressive
    Thunderous &
    Expansive

    Actually not that bad a description, but that is actually what it said on the shirt, assuming you can work it out.

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  • MSD1982MSD1982 Member Posts: 17
    edited February 2014
    Last longer please

    Have a spiffing show

    xx
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  • FCHDFCHD Member Posts: 3,178
    edited February 2014
    I'm having a rare go at the Main tonight, so in for the last longer please
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater Member Posts: 3,707
    edited February 2014
    In Response to Re: Turbo Tuesday Night Live with Sarah and Ross *****Tonight's Show Thread, REGISTER HERE FOR LAST LONGER COMP!*****:
    Ok if I am not allowed to name the shirt, I will just have to describe it. So the shirt was:- S tunning H eroic I mpressive T hunderous & E xpansive Actually not that bad a description, but that is actually what it said on the shirt, assuming you can work it out.
    Posted by Sir-Gary
    HEY!

    I have three of them! Awesome use of my credit card... ;)
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