Is buttoning something you think we should do something about? If so, what? Is it the same people each time? Posted by Sky_Poker
Nothing I can think of that can be done about it, just one of those spots in online poker where it's down to the players to look at themselves. If I was the sort of player to refuse to play regs HU when a 6 max table breaks or when someone joins a table I have started, I'd see that blind as the fine for leaving the blinds button ticked and fold ATC before sitting out. But I'm not that sort of player so I probably don't think the same way.
You generally know who is going to do it, although it is a variety of people. Just to clarify it's not against the rules or cheating. I just consider it poor etiquette and it's really annoying.
In Response to Re: Many Rivers To Cross. A Diary. : I loled heartily at this line. the best bit is when a 6max table breaks and the terrible reg is left vs you and you just KNOW that they want to win this hand because they've already ticked stand. it's hilarious, ive had some unbelievable coolers before in this spot AND had some of the tightest players on the site punt stacks off to me in an attempt to win the hand.lol Posted by beaneh
Very much this.
One that sticks in my mind was versus a reg who I actually really like personally and who I think is a very good player. I have Queens the very first hand as it's broken down to HU, it's a deep table and I think 'I've got you now.' Of course they have Aces and hold. I didn't even bother to switch to normal view to see them tell me how they didn't want to play HU after they sat out. I just went to the bathroom and puked.
Why would a reg be bothered about 1 or 2 bb's ? Can understand someone buttoning from table to table though, surely just note the flea so they can't do it again ) Posted by rancid
they're idiots, the funniest thing is it's often the most terrible of nitty regs that suddenly weird out and do it, makes me laugh so much.
Yes I still suck. I think I'm in Division 7 or something like that. I'm not very good. What I am astounded by which is adding to my general irritation factor is how much abuse I get. Every time I have a FIFA session I usually get at least one PM from someone I played telling me, quite bluntly, that I'm not very good (no offence if you're a fan of these teams but it's normally from someone playing as Chelsea or Liverpool). It staggers me how much they have to go out of their way to do all of this for no apparent reason other than to try to dampen my day. Buffoons. I never reply, no point.
Sigh.
Any how, GTA5 is coming soon, I'll be dropping FIFA for that very very quickly and going around not breaking the law. Somehow I feel I don't get the most out of that game. I like the driving though.
Didn't realise there was a new GTA coming out, I'm so out of touch with the gaming scene these days. I assume it'll be on the 360 (and PS3 but I hate playstation)?
When's that out?
EDIT: Sigh @ the Fifa update - just shows like in poker, you get people in all walks of life that just wanna put people down.
I'm doing alright. Really looking forward to UKOPS obviously. I know Matt really wants to take one down so I expect personal banter between us to hit all new heights of silliness over the next week. The GF is heading North over the Easter weekend, and she's bringing back two mini people with her for the first week of the Easter break. So the plan is to grind myself into the dirt over the weekend because I won't be at the tables much for a week after.
Any whoop, I'm plugging myself into the grid from Thursday onwards. Sorting out a proper multi site schedule for those days with UKOPS at the centre. I don't pre plan MTT schedules enough and it can end up being a little haphazard, which I'm sure is very -ev. I will probably update progress over the UKOPS weekend.
And what's more, I gave up chocolate for lent. Gotta love Christian traditions, other religions and cultures make huge sacrifices, journeys and commitments at various times. Christians give up sweets. And still complain it's tough. Gonna be knee deep in eggs by Sunday evening.
Didn't realise there was a new GTA coming out, I'm so out of touch with the gaming scene these days. I assume it'll be on the 360 (and PS3 but I hate playstation)? When's that out? EDIT: Sigh @ the Fifa update - just shows like in poker, you get people in all walks of life that just wanna put people down. Posted by Lambert180
They said Spring this year. There are a couple of trailers out for it, the second one makes it look immense, plus has a kicking Stevie Wonder song behind it.
I recently re-installed one of my favourite games of all time.
The original driver, from 1998, and it still looks more than acceptable, whilst playing absolutely brilliantly and being awesome fun.
Tis a bit of a ridic game because of the first 'test' level at the very start to get your undercover job you have a ridiculously hard task, though once you can complete that you know you'll be able to do the game.
Tis absolutely brilliant, and how a game should be. You load it up and the creators images come up, but you press any button and it snap fast forwards to your first set of options no messing about. You click quit and it says yes/no and then quits none of this extra few winsows are you sure, did you not mean this etc etc.
the abuse problem is very much apparent on the gaming community. problably auch.worse iasue than poker has. ever since cod 4 and the introduction on kill death and win lose ratios its gt even worse. "my win ratio is 2.1% yours is 2% that means your a total noob scrub" is a very common kind of thing. Tommy are you playing on xbox if so would you fancy a game at somepoint? ive only lost 1 game on seasons and in div 8. prefer my silvee ultimate team whiv has me floatong from.div 1&2 but got bored of it after the last title update killed my noob skills.
Is buttoning something you think we should do something about? If so, what? Is it the same people each time? Posted by Sky_Poker
its pretty scummy for some rats to do this. sky shoud run some filters/analyse if there are certain IP addresses doing this and then insta freeze stolen funds as its probably taken place against alot of table starter regs playing 100nl+
Can someone please what people benifit from buttoning. I mean i like £1 as much as the next guy (NL100 example) but surely sitting on a table winning £1 and leaving at these levels just isnt gravy. It just seems soo pointless
yep but this kind beaviour should be logged as if they are silly enough to be doing this for £1.5 or 50p... think about other forms of cheating they could be a part of. More then likley its someone who just doesnt know better... but if trends start to occur sky should be all over it.
I really want to hear that sky are serious about punishing theft.
yep but this kind beaviour should be logged as if they are silly enough to be doing this for £1.5 or 50p... think about other forms of cheating they could be a part of. More then likley its someone who just doesnt know better... but if trends start to occur sky should be all over it. I really want to hear that sky are serious about punishing theft. Posted by TPTP123
it's cash you can leave whenever you want, in the case of games breaking it's just kind afunny, and you get a reg pecking order of who ALWAYS sits out first, I can normally tell you the order and speed with which a table that i'm playing on will break when the other fish apart from me leaves.
it isn't theft, or immoral, it's borderline ethicy but given no one tells anyone when they are quitting anyway I don't see a problem. it adds a fun dynamic because you know that if they go mental aggro trying to win a pot then they may well have already ticked stand lol. nothing more tilting than someone who clicks stand with a 120£ stack at nl100 say and then when they leave the table at the end of the hand they have sub 100 from bluffing it off. it's hilarious and all part of the game.
Grind update I'm doing alright. Really looking forward to UKOPS obviously. I know Matt really wants to take one down so I expect personal banter between us to hit all new heights of silliness over the next week. The GF is heading North over the Easter weekend, and she's bringing back two mini people with her for the first week of the Easter break. . Posted by TommyD
I've NO idea why, but when I read this I had visions of your GF arriving back with Gordon Strachan & one of the Krankies! Oh and the cat saying "Jeez that's all I need! Another ginger Tom in da house" ;-)
Grind update I'm doing alright. Really looking forward to UKOPS obviously. I know Matt really wants to take one down so I expect personal banter between us to hit all new heights of silliness over the next week. The GF is heading North over the Easter weekend, and she's bringing back two mini people with her for the first week of the Easter break. So the plan is to grind myself into the dirt over the weekend because I won't be at the tables much for a week after. Any whoop, I'm plugging myself into the grid from Thursday onwards. Sorting out a proper multi site schedule for those days with UKOPS at the centre. I don't pre plan MTT schedules enough and it can end up being a little haphazard, which I'm sure is very -ev. I will probably update progress over the UKOPS weekend. And what's more, I gave up chocolate for lent. Gotta love Christian traditions, other religions and cultures make huge sacrifices, journeys and commitments at various times. Christians give up sweets. And still complain it's tough. Gonna be knee deep in eggs by Sunday evening. Posted by TommyD
Wow, didn't think the buttoning rant I had would get that reaction. Anyway, moving on until we return again:
That was UKOPS1. Disappointed.
Small cash in the main, pure bubble on the side but with a head, got some heads in the mini and micro to give us a small profit on the first day. I've made money so why am I down about it? Well it's tournaments, deep runs and big stacks don't happen as often as you think. I had two shots to made a big score and failed. What gives me a whole meh feeling about it though is I really didn't do much if anything wrong.
In the main I was pretty controlled and lost my first effective flip. I say effective, it wasn't your classic pair v overs, I open with KTs, AJ in the BB flats and we see a 89T flop. I call off the check jam and they hit. I think we only started 23 odd BB effective so it's pretty standard. I win, I sit 3rd in chips with 18 left. I know and have turned these spots into FT seats a respectable amount of times so now the dust has settled I'm happy with my play. I guess I could check back the flop to kill equity holdings which will be about with the intention of getting it in on a turn brick, the downside of this is there are a lot of very non bricklike cards. I'd be looking for 2 through 5, board pairs and kings. Everything else kills either the action or my hand. The upside of winning that flip is probably too big to shy away from getting it in so yeah, I'm ok with it all.
The side bubble was fun. The table was short apart from the young whippersnapper Andrew1947 who had position on me. One of those spots where Andrew doesn't want the bubble to pop as he can nick plenty and I really want it to go so some chips can flow again and I can get a double. So I took on the micro stack twice, getting it in a 60/40 fave both times and not holding. Then I lost a flip to Andrew. Ba da bing, ba da boom. I guess I could have nitted it up for the cash but I was playing something like 12BB at this point. So no regrets.
So here's the thing, I can't play much better than that. Which means I'll probably play worse than that for the rest of the series. So it's hard to see where a score is gonna come from.
Anyway, rebuys tonight. Because that's always a cheap endeavour for me.
Wow, didn't think the buttoning rant I had would get that reaction. Anyway, moving on until we return again: That was UKOPS1. Disappointed. Small cash in the main, pure bubble on the side but with a head, got some heads in the mini and micro to give us a small profit on the first day. I've made money so why am I down about it? Well it's tournaments, deep runs and big stacks don't happen as often as you think. I had two shots to made a big score and failed. What gives me a whole meh feeling about it though is I really didn't do much if anything wrong. In the main I was pretty controlled and lost my first effective flip. I say effective, it wasn't your classic pair v overs, I open with KTs, AJ in the BB flats and we see a 89T flop. I call off the check jam and they hit. I think we only started 23 odd BB effective so it's pretty standard. I win, I sit 3rd in chips with 18 left. I know and have turned these spots into FT seats a respectable amount of times so now the dust has settled I'm happy with my play. I guess I could check back the flop to kill equity holdings which will be about with the intention of getting it in on a turn brick, the downside of this is there are a lot of very non bricklike cards. I'd be looking for 2 through 5, board pairs and kings. Everything else kills either the action or my hand. The upside of winning that flip is probably too big to shy away from getting it in so yeah, I'm ok with it all. The side bubble was fun. The table was short apart from the young whippersnapper Andrew1947 who had position on me. One of those spots where Andrew doesn't want the bubble to pop as he can nick plenty and I really want it to go so some chips can flow again and I can get a double. So I took on the micro stack twice, getting it in a 60/40 fave both times and not holding. Then I lost a flip to Andrew. Ba da bing, ba da boom. I guess I could have nitted it up for the cash but I was playing something like 12BB at this point. So no regrets. So here's the thing, I can't play much better than that. Which means I'll probably play worse than that for the rest of the series. So it's hard to see where a score is gonna come from. Anyway, rebuys tonight. Because that's always a cheap endeavour for me. Sigh. Posted by TommyD
Morning Tommy,
Good railing you last night as always. It's a good feeling knowing you have played well, even if the big score did'nt happen.
All joking aside- do you set yourself a "budget" for the number of rebuys, or will you just rebuy as many times as required? Do you play extra loose in the rebuy period, or do you still play your normal game?
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You generally know who is going to do it, although it is a variety of people. Just to clarify it's not against the rules or cheating. I just consider it poor etiquette and it's really annoying.
One that sticks in my mind was versus a reg who I actually really like personally and who I think is a very good player. I have Queens the very first hand as it's broken down to HU, it's a deep table and I think 'I've got you now.' Of course they have Aces and hold. I didn't even bother to switch to normal view to see them tell me how they didn't want to play HU after they sat out. I just went to the bathroom and puked.
Can understand someone buttoning from table to table though, surely just note the flea so they can't do it again )
Yes I still suck. I think I'm in Division 7 or something like that. I'm not very good. What I am astounded by which is adding to my general irritation factor is how much abuse I get. Every time I have a FIFA session I usually get at least one PM from someone I played telling me, quite bluntly, that I'm not very good (no offence if you're a fan of these teams but it's normally from someone playing as Chelsea or Liverpool). It staggers me how much they have to go out of their way to do all of this for no apparent reason other than to try to dampen my day. Buffoons. I never reply, no point.
Sigh.
Any how, GTA5 is coming soon, I'll be dropping FIFA for that very very quickly and going around not breaking the law. Somehow I feel I don't get the most out of that game. I like the driving though.
When's that out?
EDIT: Sigh @ the Fifa update - just shows like in poker, you get people in all walks of life that just wanna put people down.
I'm doing alright. Really looking forward to UKOPS obviously. I know Matt really wants to take one down so I expect personal banter between us to hit all new heights of silliness over the next week. The GF is heading North over the Easter weekend, and she's bringing back two mini people with her for the first week of the Easter break. So the plan is to grind myself into the dirt over the weekend because I won't be at the tables much for a week after.
Any whoop, I'm plugging myself into the grid from Thursday onwards. Sorting out a proper multi site schedule for those days with UKOPS at the centre. I don't pre plan MTT schedules enough and it can end up being a little haphazard, which I'm sure is very -ev. I will probably update progress over the UKOPS weekend.
And what's more, I gave up chocolate for lent. Gotta love Christian traditions, other religions and cultures make huge sacrifices, journeys and commitments at various times. Christians give up sweets. And still complain it's tough. Gonna be knee deep in eggs by Sunday evening.
Also, do that to someone for £1, 10 times a day = £10
Play for say 250 days of the year = £2,500 - nice pay rise
That was UKOPS1. Disappointed.
Small cash in the main, pure bubble on the side but with a head, got some heads in the mini and micro to give us a small profit on the first day. I've made money so why am I down about it? Well it's tournaments, deep runs and big stacks don't happen as often as you think. I had two shots to made a big score and failed. What gives me a whole meh feeling about it though is I really didn't do much if anything wrong.
In the main I was pretty controlled and lost my first effective flip. I say effective, it wasn't your classic pair v overs, I open with KTs, AJ in the BB flats and we see a 89T flop. I call off the check jam and they hit. I think we only started 23 odd BB effective so it's pretty standard. I win, I sit 3rd in chips with 18 left. I know and have turned these spots into FT seats a respectable amount of times so now the dust has settled I'm happy with my play. I guess I could check back the flop to kill equity holdings which will be about with the intention of getting it in on a turn brick, the downside of this is there are a lot of very non bricklike cards. I'd be looking for 2 through 5, board pairs and kings. Everything else kills either the action or my hand. The upside of winning that flip is probably too big to shy away from getting it in so yeah, I'm ok with it all.
The side bubble was fun. The table was short apart from the young whippersnapper Andrew1947 who had position on me. One of those spots where Andrew doesn't want the bubble to pop as he can nick plenty and I really want it to go so some chips can flow again and I can get a double. So I took on the micro stack twice, getting it in a 60/40 fave both times and not holding. Then I lost a flip to Andrew. Ba da bing, ba da boom. I guess I could have nitted it up for the cash but I was playing something like 12BB at this point. So no regrets.
So here's the thing, I can't play much better than that. Which means I'll probably play worse than that for the rest of the series. So it's hard to see where a score is gonna come from.
Anyway, rebuys tonight. Because that's always a cheap endeavour for me.
Sigh.