Congrats on your lucky 7's win last night ! Posted by VespaPX
Cheers Mick,
I think it was watching you Monday night defend an impossible position that gave me the inspiration to get the job done. Wagons circled but still managed to fire a few bullets lol
Its not really sunk in yet that in a few short weeks I have managed to take down 2 decent tournies here on sky & that my bankroll has grown from just £10 to £449.21 I have to keep checking I am not dreaming!! It also feels that I am now properly rolled for the £11 Dym's which is a big relief. Really enjoying it here (which is no suprise) thanks again.
Dont know what you mean Dev, I reckon we are both winning & now you have your 2nd monitor there will be no stopping you. Let me know how you get on with it ok ?
IDCU I have never heard of that site & I reckon your mum will be just fine without me railing as you will make enough noise no doubt :-)
who has created my fantastic new Hit squad Avatar, and its such a shame that it cant be used to replace the avatar's used on the tables, I am a bit fed up of looking like the american golfer Davis Love III.
You never know it might be one of the changes Sky bring in, but there again if they don't sort out the issues with trying to connect to or being disconnected from Sky there might not be anyone here by then.Mind you I was lucky today it only took 3 attempts to connect to the login screen.
Anyway less of the moaning & back to the poker, before I start moaning about that as well.
Event # 47 at the 2012 WSOP Has come under scrutiny after fellow competitors claimed that a player had taken a banned substance (Advil) which had allowed him to sleep his way into a cash in the Pot limit Omaha event,
Mr Anthony Kendall of Ilkeston, Derbyshire UK ( a part time analyst on Sky Poker) if found guilty will recieve a minimum of $2,957
hi mike, not heard from u 4 a while... hope u r ok. still been grinding with my challenge,just seem 2b going backwards atm. stepped up to £5 last night which was great for c4p..386 in 1 session. lol
liking the new avatar btw. best wishes m8, gl at the tables. ian
Huge thanks to Llamas, who has created my fantastic new Hit squad Avatar, and its such a shame that it cant be used to replace the avatar's used on the tables, I am a bit fed up of looking like the american golfer Davis Love III. You never know it might be one of the changes Sky bring in, but there again if they don't sort out the issues with trying to connect to or being disconnected from Sky there might not be anyone here by then.Mind you I was lucky today it only took 3 attempts to connect to the login screen. Anyway less of the moaning & back to the poker, before I start moaning about that as well. Posted by Woogie8688
In Response to Re: POKER IN MY LIFE : Great New Hit-Avatar Mate!! Posted by HITMAN_RV
Cheers Dave,
Can't wait to see yours hit the forums as well.
Sometimes maths & statistics can be misleading, a couple of years ago I had the dubious pleasure of a factory visit in Germany to the company that made the fitted kitchens we supplied and in all honesty it was a complete waste of time watching bits of wood & materials moved around the only thing the computers couldn't do was figure out the best way to load the lorries. On leaving the factory there was a graph on the wall that amused me, with regards to performance & efficiency, you would think if there was no wastage or production time lost then things would be running at 100%. Nope think again only the Germans can have a chart where you can achieve 105%
In my early days of playing poker, on the other site where you can dress characters in things like burgundy jackets or even knotted hankies on their heads, thats the beauty of online poker you can wear what you want in the privacy of your own home. They had a very useful display that showed in "all in" situations the odds of you winning the hand. There was one occasion in a $5.50 SNG when I was dealt KK & the flop came down KKA, all the chips went in & the villain showed AK that gave me odds of winning the pot as 100% flopped quads it doesn't get much better!!
I didnt really look at the turn & river cards as I was typing "unlucky" in the chat box when all the chips went to the other side of the table?????? Ace on the turn & Ace on the river, so much for me being 100% to win the hand, just goes to show that mathematics doesnt always show the true picture. And I think that was what is known as "A Bad Beat"
After all the aggro of monday night it was good just to play a bit of poker yesterday, but again my journey on sky poker is a bit like letting the wife map read, just when you think you know where you are heading you end up taking a totally different route. Have always spent my poker life playing Sng's I suck at cash & I have the attention span of a newt when it comes to mtt's or so I thought. For some reason yesterday I decided to enter the satellite to the semi for the main event & somehow after Solarcarro had reduced me to 155 chips after 4 hands I somehow managed to get a seat for the semi so I am well pleased with myself & like a dog with 2 tails.The semi satellite was just like a giant Dym with 23 seats which I managed to get without too many scares & not much difficulty so mtt's are growing on me.
Again having won a £22 seat for £1.60 I have to enter the mini for £3.30, which is more the buy in level I am used to in mtt's. Both tournies were going ok until within the space of 5 mins I crashed out of both to a mixture of "why did I do that" , "I dont know how they could call down the streets" "Typical 2 outer hits on the river" & a few expletives I am not going to repeat here but again i came away thinking I could do ok in these in future.
Was then talking to Lambert 180 on the Hitsquad Facebook page with wacko90 about soft tournies & Paul mentioned a £5.50 rebuy starting in 5 mins, so having been bitten by the mtt bug I reckoned I would give it a bash, managed to make it to the Add on stage without having to rebuy which was only because NIHIGUN & I swapped our stacks when both times the worst hands [totally dominated] managed to catch the river. So I am know playing an £11 mtt with 27 runners & top 5 places paid, things progress quite nicely for a bit I am mid field for a while & then the table gets joined by GREGHOGG he is SB to my BB & the man is a complete nightmare to play!! I was even able to have comments written in the chat box knowing he was gonna raise/reraise/go all in every BB. Next time I see he is registered I am outta there. Eventually Greg gets busted somehow & I find myself on the final table again. Easy game being short stacked in this situation there is not a lot of thinking required, which suits me down to the ground. One by one a player leaves & now I have cashed £36.90 then £76 & at this point with 3 players left & me still short stacked I get pocket 5's on the button, so all the chips are shoved in happy to take a race if I am called, until the chip leader & big stack calls & turns over AA .Big oops never mind happy with the £65 profit, that is until the miracle 5 lands on the flop, & I type an embarrassed "ul" in the chat box but really am grinning like a cheshire cat. His luck returns & he soon takes out the other player so its now heads up £110 locked up & £176 to the winner. Having played 1,000's of sng's I have been HU loads of times but wonder how many mtt players on here have experience playing that part of the game, but all of a sudden his style changed & he became so passive, just let me have too many Blinds for free until I had a small chip lead until I shove his min raise with my A6 hearts & I am happy to see pocket 3's & its a race at least I have 2 overs & the flop of 566 kinda helps a little, now a small sweat but Q on turn & another 5 on the river seals the deal & £11 has been turned into £176.00 Happy days!!
So now my journey on Sky poker is going from A-G I really have got to get a new map reader or better still if anyone know the best Sat Nav for Sky poker please let me know !! Am not complaining that I have turned the £10 of 3 months ago into £492.95 with £51.00 c4p to come but i cant play mtt's but 3 wins from 3 x final tables in tournies i am confused. I just wish I had some of Tikay's Advil tablets, and I don't mean the sleeping pills!!
Wow, had to go back to page 15 to find where i had left this thread its been that long since i last wrote anything on here. Not because I have nothing to write but because I seem to feel more comfortable as i get to know more people within the community & therefore contribute to other threads like the WSOP one which I have to say was the best that I have seen in my short time here, it epitomised everything which is so good about the Sky poker community.
I don't intend to start a war over which is the best team but to be a part of Team Hit Squad is the "absolute nuts" and to anyone who isn't in a team, get yourselves involved its such a help to your poker & its enjoyment.
As far as my poker goes Dym's at the moment are a thing of of the past & flavour of the month seems to be mtt's, with the exeption of Monday night which is DTD night ,( & please don't anybody suggest changing its name, it is beyond me why some people get enjoyment out of aggravating/antagonising others just for the sake of it...moan over... ) I am now trying to satellite during the day into the main events as cheap as possible, otherwise its the smaller buyin mtt's & Timed tournies which have been quite enjoyable & helped me maintain a stable bankroll.
i was a bit dissapointed last night when I sent in a hand from the main event to the show & Anna announced that because of another players alias it couldnt be shown, I had moved tables so I had to check my hand history, and when you are sitting next to "oneyedcock" she had a point, although at times dont you feel like that player is somewhere on every table!!
blimmey mike sorry i havnt read up on your page for a while and have a lot of catching upto do so still reading but very wd m8 on your wins thats fantastic, your br is BOOOMED right up nicely really chuffed for you and long may it continue.
Hi Mike Couldn't agree more about the team thing and the Monday night DTD, its great. It amazes me how people get these stupid/rude alias's through the system (doesn't anyone check?). I'm having a really bad run at the moment , so my house move next week will be a chance to take a break for a couple of weeks. Probably be back on sometime in August. Good luck at the tables buddy. Mick Posted by VespaPX
Thanks Mick,
Hope the house move isn't too stressful for you m8. Look forward to seeing you when you back on & am sure the break will change the run your on at the moment.
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I'll be in the lucky 7's on Thurs after winning a Tikay comp on here yesterday.
See you at the tables.
Mick
good 2 see at least one of the "Devon Mafia" is winning lol
keep it going m8,
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ian
not heard from u 4 a while...
hope u r ok.
still been grinding with my challenge,just seem 2b going backwards atm.
stepped up to £5 last night which was great for c4p..386 in 1 session. lol
liking the new avatar btw.
best wishes m8,
gl at the tables.
ian
Nice read as usual and very well done on your win ! :-)
Couldn't agree more about the team thing and the Monday night DTD, its great.
It amazes me how people get these stupid/rude alias's through the system (doesn't anyone check?).
I'm having a really bad run at the moment , so my house move next week will be a chance to take a break for a couple of weeks.
Probably be back on sometime in August.
Good luck at the tables buddy.
Mick