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Lame

Champion.

2014 Stats

January: 71 hours of LHE for +1.77 BB/hour
February: 45.5 hours of LHE for +21.52 BB/hour
March: 52 hours of LHE for +12.08 BB/hour

Confirmed - no money in bad beat jackpots. Everyone is solid.

LOL sample size.

Been avoiding the Internet on this holiday of fools. Seems redundant to have an official day of it.

I'm running at 1.27 BB/hr for 166 hours of live 20. Not that I think I can sustain $51/hr over the long run (and obviously 1.27 BB / hr against weekend rec players is a far cry from doing it against Wednesday afternoon regs), but it's nice, given I went on an > 250 BB downswing after my initial run good at the game. Kind of sucks that making money at live poker now mostly involves shot taking, hoping for rungood, and (hopefully) never having to look back once your roll hits ~ 400-500 BB (or 1000 BB if you play for a living).

you won about 1,600 bb's in 97.5 hours? are you serious?

BBJ shares are included, I think.

Shares

Yes. It isn't very impressive if I just report the < 1 BB/hour win rate I had if I don't include my bad beat jackpotS.

Fun hand. I sit down in an unusually good game and post very early (would have posted utg+1), flop ends up going off 8 ways for 2 bets.... 4-7-8 flop gets checked to guy who bets 3 call, utg check raises and everybody but me sees the turn. Turn is a 5, reasonably playing old guy says who has the 6 and leads, he gets called jn 5 spots. River pairs the 7 and he checks. 2 checks to a guy that has yet to show any aggression and he bets, button cold calls, sb and guy who check raised flop folds. First guy tables 97 like it's the nuts and button shows K7 to scoop.

Stumped me too, so I went to http://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudoku.htm

It shows each step with links to explanations for the strategy that was used. And this is how I found out there are dozens of advanced strategies that I never would have figured out on my own. I still don't understand most of them even after reading about them. The ones I do understand are complex enough to make me quit sudoku for life.

I've won every hand of poker that I've played so far this month.

Both of them?

I've lost every hand of poker that I've played so far this month.

that same site made me have those same realizations and perhaps has soured me on sudoku as well

I generally find things that computers crush not that fun to play

Random question: anyone here ever played the WSOP LHE event? If yes, how is it?

I played 2 a few years ago. My tables were all quite tough (lex velhuis, bill Chen, Allstarrt, professor Ben, and magic the old GC prop were 5 of my 16 co starters) but others said it was super soft.

Afterwards I wished I'd just played at the B which is saying a lot.

I did two years ago. Pretty soft. If you run hot in the middle levels, you'll be fine.

I assume you're talking about the $1500 event. I've played it and early on I was lucky to get a couple really, really, really bad players at the table. I've heard it is fairly soft, so maybe it wasn't that lucky. Those guys busted and the table ended up being fairly tough. There was no open limping and we went many hands in a row without seeing a flop. Easy to lose a lot to blinds. Probably just results oriented, but looking back, I think I shouldn't have played so tight. I think I folded hands like T9s and 44 in MP and those were the best spots I had in the 3 hours before I busted.

That's pretty much how I feel after every tournament.

Do you understand the ICM considerations and other tournament adjustments you'll need to make? Are you such a high stakes LHE crusher that even lacking tournament skills you'll have a big edge? Answer no to both and you're gambling on someone else's turf. No shame in it, but you're buying lottery tickets and paying some vig.

Played all the limit holdem events and they were laughably soft compared to years past. The 5k field was very weak and I somehow got OTR and bugstud 2 players to my right. (Lot of nl superstars played it and really have no clue, stuff like opening J9s utg, or even things like owning utg, getting. 3 bet by me and capping AK). So there weren't a lot of people totally clueless about poker or anything but most would have hard time beating even live 40-80.


The 6 max was stupid soft as well in what's generally a tough field. Sadly I didn't get to capitalize on a good shot to win it last year before they got rid of it this year.

I think reasoning is pretty simple, big holdem 2-4+ never runs during ws and even. 1-2 ran seldom so no point for online superstars to leave whatever countey they moved to so they can come here to play a few tournaments poorly grouped together and mostly grind live 40/80 rest of time.

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