In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : You should read James' biog. Strangely, Tikay's biog doesn't mention anything about playing against James! Posted by MereNovice
I did actually look for his blog after a tip off......but after looking through 10 pages + of some bloke called Tiny Tokay.....I couldn't find it!!!
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : I did actually look for his blog after a tip off......but after looking through 10 pages + of some bloke called Tiny Tokay.....I couldn't find it!!! (and no, i aint spell checking this ^^^^) Posted by MAXALLY
This is why spelling is soooooo important.
You mistook biog (short for biography) for blog (a contraction of web log).
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : This is why spelling is soooooo important. You mistook biog (short for biography) for blog (a contraction of web log). I hope that this helps. :-))))) Posted by MereNovice
yeah.....cheers Vince....it helped. But trying to find that Biog was like looking for a sober person at a SPT!
tikay i love skypoker but you dont have enough big tournies to play in.my sharkscope results are better than any other player on the site i can find, even dantb10. will sky be running more £10 £20 tornies as site seems to favour cash players and as i have worked out at long last i dont cut it at cash.i want to stay but other sites offer more tournies what do you suggest i do because after tournies i turn to cash and then lose my profit.please help
First of all, I would like to thank you (and the other forum members) for their advice on this (and other) thread/s. I played my first bounty hunter tournament last night and came 10th (or 11th!? it was late!) out of 60(ish). Quality result! Couple of heads as well!!
I'd like to pick your brains again if I may, i'd also be grateful for the thoughts of the other forum users regarding my play last night.
So far, i've been playing the hands according to my position on the table (tight aggressive), occasionally "knocking it up a notch" to keep the other players on there toes so I don't become predictable. At the moment, my lack of experience means I lack the "flamboyance" of the better players when it comes to playing my hands out of position. By that I mean, last night I was sat with a relatively large stack compared to other players on the table, however when it came to part with my chips on what I thought was a nominal/not bad hand (still like those pretty face cards!) I was reluctant to play:
Big blind was 800. I was sat with around 15,000 chips, I held K 10 unsuited on the large blind. The two kids ahead of me had around 4-5000 chips apiece both called. Flop showed (i think) 8 J 7. The lad in early position raised it up to x2 BB, the next lad called, I folded. Turns out the turn and river would have got me an unsuited straight and won the hand, all for the price of 1600 (roughly) chips in total.
I know from reading the forums that I need to calculate risk v reward, stack sizes, odds etc, but to be honest because i'm still learning it's all a bit complicated and i'm still trying to keep it simple. My own personal feeling on the matter is i'd rather not risk my chips on a gut shot, but it happened a couple of times during the tournament and I reckon I probably could have maybe got rid of a couple of those loose players.
Your advice about "calling stations go busto" has stuck in my mind, so I'd rather bet it out than 'limp' (still guilty on that a few times unfortunately! ), but it seems that relative to my stack size I might as well have a go? The girl with the largest stack on the table (i'd be surprised if she didn't end up winning?) seemed to be doing what I was avoiding and looked like she was doing ok. Maybe sometimes it's whether lady luck is smiling down on you though?!
Sorry if it's a bit lengthy/waffly. I also realise that this post is similar to a previous post I made, however for me! the theory is a lot easier than the application, and my understanding changes when I put this knowledge into practice, and so my understanding of the situation changes.
Hi I finished 14th, my name is STUPENDOUS and although I was pleased with my performance, I am slightly annoyed with myself for going out. I had about 178000 chips and raised 4times the blind 32000 with AK suited and chewy42310(who made the final table) went all in. I wasnt sure whether to fold and lose 32000 chips but still be in the tournament or go for it. As I had AK suited, I went 'all in'. Chewy had a pair of 7's and needless to say they held up and I went out. I know I would have made the final table had i won the hand, was my move understandable or reckless? I think Chewy was brave as I think I would have folded a raise with a pair of 7's. Regards Posted by STUPENDOUS
Hi
Ok, we are late in the tourny, you raise 4X the BB, you Opponent pushes all in, suddenly, you have a question or two to ask yourself, you have A high sooted (only makes about a 2% difference), what am I beating?, is it possible he has a PP, he pushed imo it would be very possble, so you are about 50/50, but if you miss as you did, your whole tourny is on the line, is it worth putting your tourny on the line for a 50/50 shot?, or wait for a better position?, are you sure your opponent would have folded his PP, what had he been playing like?, if it was me, I would have folded like a shot.
Hi I finished 14th, my name is STUPENDOUS and although I was pleased with my performance, I am slightly annoyed with myself for going out. I had about 178000 chips and raised 4times the blind 32000 with AK suited and chewy42310(who made the final table) went all in. I wasnt sure whether to fold and lose 32000 chips but still be in the tournament or go for it. As I had AK suited, I went 'all in'. Chewy had a pair of 7's and needless to say they held up and I went out. I know I would have made the final table had i won the hand, was my move understandable or reckless?I think Chewy was brave as I think I would have folded a raise with a pair of 7's. Regards Posted by STUPENDOUS
Hi Stupendous.
EXCELLENT question.
We have some VERY good players on this Site, so what I have done is posted your question on our Poker Strategy Board, & hopefully, we will get a few good & varied answers on there, & then you can decide which ones make sense, & maybe be re-assured as to how to deal with this awkward spot in future.
Tikay, One wonders whether Sky Poker has any plans to employ sattelites into the WSOPE Main Event later in the year, or is this hush hush? Posted by Wilhelm
Hi Mr Willhelm.
I have no idea, is the straight answer. Probably because, as you say, it's "hush-hush"!
I will ask the question of the Suits, (though not in iambic panatmeter.....) but I'm a seller, as there are a number of issues mitigating against it, which, collectively, suggest it might be awkward.
1) It takes place in September. With the focus very much on WSOP, which does not end until mid-July, it would only lave 1 month - August - for Super-Satellites. Three is much preferable.
2) Online Poker is extremely seasonal, & traffic is lower during the summer months & school holidays.
3) WSOP-E has an Online room as a Sponsor, so it's slightly less marketeable for Sky Poker. WSOP (Harrahs) do in fact have their own Online Room, but thus far, they don't really market it, & the WSOP brand is "clean". Which, by the bye, may well change for 2011, along with a raft of other WSOP upcoming changes I fancy.
4) WSOP-E is a great event, but in relative terms, compared to the real deal, in Vegas, it's very much the poorer relation. Si I would think, right now, that Sky Poker would prefer to focus on the Vegas WSOP.
But that's not to say that Sky Poker will not have some WSOP-E involvement, as they might. Watch this space.......
tikay i love skypoker but you dont have enough big tournies to play in.my sharkscope results are better than any other player on the site i can find, even dantb10. will sky be running more £10 £20 tornies as site seems to favour cash players and as i have worked out at long last i dont cut it at cash.i want to stay but other sites offer more tournies what do you suggest i do because after tournies i turn to cash and then lose my profit.please help Posted by swiper
Hi Swiper,
Congrats on your results! They are not "the best on Sky Poker" by any means, but they are certainly very impressive.
More £10 & £20 Tourneys?
Yes, they will. But it's a very young site - just 3 years old, & it is not on a network, so it takes time to build liquidity.
The Tourneys here are selected to satisfy the demand, & it's quite odd, or unusual, the sort of Tourneys which are popular here.
They used to have a 5k stack Deepie at 7.30 every night which was a thing of beauty, a good player could not fail to turn a profit in it over time. But despite constant lobbying & urgings from the "7.30 Gang", we could not get the numbers above 40, & it gradually sunk to 30, 20, & then 10 runners. A great shame, imo.
And yet, every night at 8pm, they have a fairly "sharp" structured Tourney, with 2,000 chips, & it attracts 400, 500, 600 even 700 runners night after night. Last night the £22 Main Event was "all seats sold", capped at 700, & yet it was over in less than 4 hours!
Yes, you can go to other Sites who have bigger Tourneys, & more variety, but it's as broad as it's long, & as you are making good money here, why change? I should urge cautuion, too - it's notoriously hard to turn a profit on the "worldwide" Sites.
But whatever you do, & wherever you do it, I wish you well, & hope your run continues.
In Response to Bounty tonight : Hi Stupendous. EXCELLENT question. We have some VERY good players on this Site, so what I have done is posted your question on our Poker Strategy Board, & hopefully, we will get a few good & varied answers on there, & then you can decide which ones make sense, & maybe be re-assured as to how to deal with this awkward spot in future. The Thread is HERE . Hope that helps, & if you have any further questions, fire away. Have a good weekend. Posted by Tikay10
You have about 10 replies already - all of them excellent, imo, too.
Hi Tikay! First of all, I would like to thank you (and the other forum members) for their advice on this (and other) thread/s. I played my first bounty hunter tournament last night and came 10th (or 11th!? it was late!) out of 60(ish). Quality result! Couple of heads as well!! I'd like to pick your brains again if I may, i'd also be grateful for the thoughts of the other forum users regarding my play last night. So far, i've been playing the hands according to my position on the table (tight aggressive), occasionally "knocking it up a notch" to keep the other players on there toes so I don't become predictable. At the moment, my lack of experience means I lack the "flamboyance" of the better players when it comes to playing my hands out of position. By that I mean, last night I was sat with a relatively large stack compared to other players on the table, however when it came to part with my chips on what I thought was a nominal/not bad hand (still like those pretty face cards!) I was reluctant to play: Big blind was 800. I was sat with around 15,000 chips, I held K 10 unsuited on the large blind. The two kids ahead of me had around 4-5000 chips apiece both called. Flop showed (i think) 8 J 7. The lad in early position raised it up to x2 BB, the next lad called, I folded. Turns out the turn and river would have got me an unsuited straight and won the hand, all for the price of 1600 (roughly) chips in total. I know from reading the forums that I need to calculate risk v reward, stack sizes, odds etc, but to be honest because i'm still learning it's all a bit complicated and i'm still trying to keep it simple. My own personal feeling on the matter is i'd rather not risk my chips on a gut shot, but it happened a couple of times during the tournament and I reckon I probably could have maybe got rid of a couple of those loose players. Your advice about "calling stations go busto" has stuck in my mind, so I'd rather bet it out than 'limp' (still guilty on that a few times unfortunately! ), but it seems that relative to my stack size I might as well have a go? The girl with the largest stack on the table (i'd be surprised if she didn't end up winning?) seemed to be doing what I was avoiding and looked like she was doing ok. Maybe sometimes it's whether lady luck is smiling down on you though?! Sorry if it's a bit lengthy/waffly. I also realise that this post is similar to a previous post I made, however for me! the theory is a lot easier than the application, and my understanding changes when I put this knowledge into practice, and so my understanding of the situation changes. Thanks everyone, Pete - 5caramanga Posted by 5caramanga
Hi Pete.
This boils down to two or three things really.
1) Calling for gutshots.
It's simple maths. You are usually on a 4 outer, so that's about a 16% or 13/2 shot on the Flop, If you have the odds, fine, but you almost never have, & in Tournaments, as opposed to Cash, it's a no-no usually. And it's ALWAYS better to be the aggressor anyway. 13/2 shrinks if you can bully every one off, but you rarely can.
A pal of mine, John Gale, was a whizz at playing poker by maths. He got a very unlucky 2nd in a Pot-Limit WSOP Event in '05 I think, & then won the same event the very next year. If you gave him "the right price", he's call for his Tourney with ANY TWO, if he did not have the price, he'd Pass, simple.
2) Calling Stations.
Yes, when they are catching flops, they are unplayable, & there's nothing you can do aboit it, nor should you, let them have their moment of glory. They ALL go busto soon enough, & they get about as much respect in poker as multi-accounters, who are the lowest of the low.
3) If I'd called, I would have won.
NEVER think that way. You may pass 100 hands in a night, almost all correctly, but the one where you would have hit, you remember.
In Live Poker, you do hear THE most stupid things said from time to time. It goes Raise, re-raise, re-re-raise, rinse repeat, all-in, Call, & EVERYONE knows it's K-K v A-A.
The Flop comes 2-2-7, & some eejit jumps up & says "nooooooo!, I woulda flopped quads". Yes, he would. But it would still have been a shocking call.
Glad to hear you are getting a few results, keep it up.
Hi Tikay! First of all, I would like to thank you (and the other forum members) for their advice on this (and other) thread/s. I played my first bounty hunter tournament last night and came 10th (or 11th!? it was late!) out of 60(ish). Quality result! Couple of heads as well!! I'd like to pick your brains again if I may, i'd also be grateful for the thoughts of the other forum users regarding my play last night. So far, i've been playing the hands according to my position on the table (tight aggressive), occasionally "knocking it up a notch" to keep the other players on there toes so I don't become predictable. At the moment, my lack of experience means I lack the "flamboyance" of the better players when it comes to playing my hands out of position. By that I mean, last night I was sat with a relatively large stack compared to other players on the table, however when it came to part with my chips on what I thought was a nominal/not bad hand (still like those pretty face cards!) I was reluctant to play: Big blind was 800. I was sat with around 15,000 chips, I held K 10 unsuited on the large blind. The two kids ahead of me had around 4-5000 chips apiece both called. Flop showed (i think) 8 J 7. The lad in early position raised it up to x2 BB, the next lad called, I folded. Turns out the turn and river would have got me an unsuited straight and won the hand, all for the price of 1600 (roughly) chips in total. I know from reading the forums that I need to calculate risk v reward, stack sizes, odds etc, but to be honest because i'm still learning it's all a bit complicated and i'm still trying to keep it simple. My own personal feeling on the matter is i'd rather not risk my chips on a gut shot, but it happened a couple of times during the tournament and I reckon I probably could have maybe got rid of a couple of those loose players. Your advice about "calling stations go busto" has stuck in my mind, so I'd rather bet it out than 'limp' (still guilty on that a few times unfortunately! ), but it seems that relative to my stack size I might as well have a go? The girl with the largest stack on the table (i'd be surprised if she didn't end up winning?) seemed to be doing what I was avoiding and looked like she was doing ok. Maybe sometimes it's whether lady luck is smiling down on you though?! Sorry if it's a bit lengthy/waffly. I also realise that this post is similar to a previous post I made, however for me! the theory is a lot easier than the application, and my understanding changes when I put this knowledge into practice, and so my understanding of the situation changes. Thanks everyone, Pete - 5caramanga Posted by 5caramanga
In tournament poker the way you are seen at the table matters the most. If you are seen to be a tight player then you will make more chips by playing the opposite to what the table regards you as playing so far. Vary your game accordingly if you are playing tight and your good hands are being paid off keep playing this way but if you see that your hands are not being paid off change to a looser style until you get resistance then change back to your original tight image do this as often as is required and you will win a lot more tournaments. As to your play with K 10 there was nothing wrong with the fold and drawing to a gutshot although sometimes is correct most of the time i would muck them.
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And it was, as you suggest, a yes or a no.
Strangely, Tikay's biog doesn't mention anything about playing against James!
You mistook biog (short for biography) for blog (a contraction of web log).
I hope that this helps. :-)))))
One wonders whether Sky Poker has any plans to employ sattelites into the WSOPE Main Event later in the year, or is this hush hush?
First of all, I would like to thank you (and the other forum members) for their advice on this (and other) thread/s. I played my first bounty hunter tournament last night and came 10th (or 11th!? it was late!) out of 60(ish). Quality result! Couple of heads as well!!
I'd like to pick your brains again if I may, i'd also be grateful for the thoughts of the other forum users regarding my play last night.
So far, i've been playing the hands according to my position on the table (tight aggressive), occasionally "knocking it up a notch" to keep the other players on there toes so I don't become predictable. At the moment, my lack of experience means I lack the "flamboyance" of the better players when it comes to playing my hands out of position. By that I mean, last night I was sat with a relatively large stack compared to other players on the table, however when it came to part with my chips on what I thought was a nominal/not bad hand (still like those pretty face cards!) I was reluctant to play:
Big blind was 800. I was sat with around 15,000 chips, I held K 10 unsuited on the large blind. The two kids ahead of me had around 4-5000 chips apiece both called. Flop showed (i think) 8 J 7. The lad in early position raised it up to x2 BB, the next lad called, I folded. Turns out the turn and river would have got me an unsuited straight and won the hand, all for the price of 1600 (roughly) chips in total.
I know from reading the forums that I need to calculate risk v reward, stack sizes, odds etc, but to be honest because i'm still learning it's all a bit complicated and i'm still trying to keep it simple. My own personal feeling on the matter is i'd rather not risk my chips on a gut shot, but it happened a couple of times during the tournament and I reckon I probably could have maybe got rid of a couple of those loose players.
Your advice about "calling stations go busto" has stuck in my mind, so I'd rather bet it out than 'limp' (still guilty on that a few times unfortunately!
Sorry if it's a bit lengthy/waffly.
I also realise that this post is similar to a previous post I made, however for me! the theory is a lot easier than the application, and my understanding changes when I put this knowledge into practice, and so my understanding of the situation changes.
Thanks everyone,
Pete - 5caramanga
Morning.
I'll get up to date on the questions later this morning - I just need to address my PM backlog first, then I'll do this Thread.
Loving the questions, nice variety, keep them commg please.
I'll be back to get them answered within the hour.
Ok, we are late in the tourny, you raise 4X the BB, you Opponent pushes all in, suddenly, you have a question or two to ask yourself, you have A high sooted (only makes about a 2% difference), what am I beating?, is it possible he has a PP, he pushed imo it would be very possble, so you are about 50/50, but if you miss as you did, your whole tourny is on the line, is it worth putting your tourny on the line for a 50/50 shot?, or wait for a better position?, are you sure your opponent would have folded his PP, what had he been playing like?, if it was me, I would have folded like a shot.
EXCELLENT question.
We have some VERY good players on this Site, so what I have done is posted your question on our Poker Strategy Board, & hopefully, we will get a few good & varied answers on there, & then you can decide which ones make sense, & maybe be re-assured as to how to deal with this awkward spot in future.
The Thread is HERE.
Hope that helps, & if you have any further questions, fire away.
Have a good weekend.
I have no idea, is the straight answer. Probably because, as you say, it's "hush-hush"!
I will ask the question of the Suits, (though not in iambic panatmeter.....) but I'm a seller, as there are a number of issues mitigating against it, which, collectively, suggest it might be awkward.
1) It takes place in September. With the focus very much on WSOP, which does not end until mid-July, it would only lave 1 month - August - for Super-Satellites. Three is much preferable.
2) Online Poker is extremely seasonal, & traffic is lower during the summer months & school holidays.
3) WSOP-E has an Online room as a Sponsor, so it's slightly less marketeable for Sky Poker. WSOP (Harrahs) do in fact have their own Online Room, but thus far, they don't really market it, & the WSOP brand is "clean". Which, by the bye, may well change for 2011, along with a raft of other WSOP upcoming changes I fancy.
4) WSOP-E is a great event, but in relative terms, compared to the real deal, in Vegas, it's very much the poorer relation. Si I would think, right now, that Sky Poker would prefer to focus on the Vegas WSOP.
But that's not to say that Sky Poker will not have some WSOP-E involvement, as they might. Watch this space.......
Congrats on your results! They are not "the best on Sky Poker" by any means, but they are certainly very impressive.
More £10 & £20 Tourneys?
Yes, they will. But it's a very young site - just 3 years old, & it is not on a network, so it takes time to build liquidity.
The Tourneys here are selected to satisfy the demand, & it's quite odd, or unusual, the sort of Tourneys which are popular here.
They used to have a 5k stack Deepie at 7.30 every night which was a thing of beauty, a good player could not fail to turn a profit in it over time. But despite constant lobbying & urgings from the "7.30 Gang", we could not get the numbers above 40, & it gradually sunk to 30, 20, & then 10 runners. A great shame, imo.
And yet, every night at 8pm, they have a fairly "sharp" structured Tourney, with 2,000 chips, & it attracts 400, 500, 600 even 700 runners night after night. Last night the £22 Main Event was "all seats sold", capped at 700, & yet it was over in less than 4 hours!
Yes, you can go to other Sites who have bigger Tourneys, & more variety, but it's as broad as it's long, & as you are making good money here, why change? I should urge cautuion, too - it's notoriously hard to turn a profit on the "worldwide" Sites.
But whatever you do, & wherever you do it, I wish you well, & hope your run continues.
This boils down to two or three things really.
1) Calling for gutshots.
It's simple maths. You are usually on a 4 outer, so that's about a 16% or 13/2 shot on the Flop, If you have the odds, fine, but you almost never have, & in Tournaments, as opposed to Cash, it's a no-no usually. And it's ALWAYS better to be the aggressor anyway. 13/2 shrinks if you can bully every one off, but you rarely can.
A pal of mine, John Gale, was a whizz at playing poker by maths. He got a very unlucky 2nd in a Pot-Limit WSOP Event in '05 I think, & then won the same event the very next year. If you gave him "the right price", he's call for his Tourney with ANY TWO, if he did not have the price, he'd Pass, simple.
2) Calling Stations.
Yes, when they are catching flops, they are unplayable, & there's nothing you can do aboit it, nor should you, let them have their moment of glory. They ALL go busto soon enough, & they get about as much respect in poker as multi-accounters, who are the lowest of the low.
3) If I'd called, I would have won.
NEVER think that way. You may pass 100 hands in a night, almost all correctly, but the one where you would have hit, you remember.
In Live Poker, you do hear THE most stupid things said from time to time. It goes Raise, re-raise, re-re-raise, rinse repeat, all-in, Call, & EVERYONE knows it's K-K v A-A.
The Flop comes 2-2-7, & some eejit jumps up & says "nooooooo!, I woulda flopped quads". Yes, he would. But it would still have been a shocking call.
Glad to hear you are getting a few results, keep it up.