sry, cant attend to nottingham tho, my university just starts early april and i obv. have to be there

just come to berlin one week later

Woke up pretty ill today so decided to give drinking a miss and decided I'd grind a long session instead. Planned on regging like 2pm till 12 but from 6pm onwards I've been experiencing the worst lag ever. I had like 16 tables and like 2 seconds to make each decision. I was 3 handed in 27ko which I came 3rd in, I was deep in a 35 180 in which I somehow came 2nd. I'm now 4 tabling and I'm 8/16 in 2r 2x turbo but I'm probably getting see 1 out of every 3 hands because I'm sat out for the others. It's absolutely infuriating and it's been happening at stars for a while now (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61...stars-1172544/).

So I decided to unreg (obv) and I'm going to email stars to discover what the issue is (they claim it isn't on their end but they do that to everyone)...as I write this I just got 14th in 2r 2x turbo lshdlkshgdlkh. I thought the minor lag I experienced a few days ago was bad but this is beyond a joke Was looking like a really good day. Hopefully we resolve the issue and I am refunded for the tournaments affected somehow but I just can't see that happening.

I'm now pretty unsure what to do throughout the micromillions now since that is probably what is causing it. I'm considering withdrawing majority of $ and spreading it across euro sites until stars sort their shizz out. I'm really apprehensive about regging a huge schedule tomorrow on stars and then watching loads of equity burn in front of my eyes again but we'll see how stars respond to my email,

/rant

/sigh

with 50 left in 44 turbo rofl


PokerStars Hand #77351367859: Tournament #530532335, $40+$4 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXII (1000/2000) - 2012/03/17 19:45:17 WET [2012/03/17 15:45:17 ET]
Table '530532335 31' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: SP3WMONKEY (58513 in chips)
Seat 3: ProdigyXII (33096 in chips)
Seat 4: mezzias (21786 in chips)
Seat 5: Rise45 (26450 in chips)
Seat 6: NicolasdeC (29496 in chips)
Seat 7: _JMCD_89 (25398 in chips)
Seat 8: bigdog6391 (22339 in chips)
Seat 9: Zapiello (14647 in chips)
SP3WMONKEY: posts the ante 250
ProdigyXII: posts the ante 250
mezzias: posts the ante 250
Rise45: posts the ante 250
NicolasdeC: posts the ante 250
_JMCD_89: posts the ante 250
bigdog6391: posts the ante 250
Zapiello: posts the ante 250
_JMCD_89: posts small blind 1000
bigdog6391: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ProdigyXII [Ah Kd]
Zapiello: raises 12397 to 14397 and is all-in
SP3WMONKEY: folds
ProdigyXII has timed out while being disconnected
ProdigyXII: folds
ProdigyXII is sitting out
mezzias: folds
Rise45: folds
NicolasdeC: folds
_JMCD_89: raises 10751 to 25148 and is all-in
bigdog6391: folds
Uncalled bet (10751) returned to _JMCD_89
*** FLOP *** [Kc 9c 7d]
*** TURN *** [Kc 9c 7d] [3c]
ProdigyXII has returned
*** RIVER *** [Kc 9c 7d 3c] [4c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
_JMCD_89: shows [Td Ad] (high card Ace)
Zapiello: shows [Qh Kh] (a pair of Kings)
Zapiello collected 32794 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 32794 | Rake 0
Board [Kc 9c 7d 3c 4c]
Seat 1: SP3WMONKEY folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: ProdigyXII folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: mezzias folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Rise45 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: NicolasdeC (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: _JMCD_89 (small blind) showed [Td Ad] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 8: bigdog6391 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Zapiello showed [Qh Kh] and won (32794) with a pair of Kings

SIGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHG

currently 1 tabling 4/16 in a 44 turbo and it's just unplayable I get to make a decision every 1 in 3 hands or something and I'm sat out the other 2 :P Pretty f gross. 4k ftw though so heaaaat pelase. Chilin_dude here too

A6<45s to go 1/14 bleh. Missed about 4 resteals because of lag rofl.

Will update tomorrow with todays results and stars response to my email Sorry for spamming but this has stressed me out a little

Looking forward to our 100e round of Jaggers with Marc (sun)

Saturday Session Update

Decided to play Saturday because I woke up kinda ill and I didn't want to go to a different city and get really drunk, yet have to go to the toilet every 10 minutes :/ But meh. Last time I cancelled plans to play poker the gods rewarded me.

Graph for the session:



I'm pretty happy with the results obv. but having the session cut short by lag was pretty annoying. I was running really good and had a bunch of stacks but had to sit out on a bunch of tables and ended up coming 14th in 44t and 2r 2x turbo, both with a bunch for a win. Luckily I managed to get 2nd in a 35 180 and 3rd in a 27 tko to make it a pretty good day. I'm still awaiting an email from stars to confirm any refunds but I really doubt I'll get any compensation.

The good news however is that I decided to play today despite the possible lag and everything ran super smooth apart from the actual results. I think I dropped about 1.6k (will have to wait till tomorrow for a graph). Nothing really happened for me today...FTd a 15 180 and came 4th I think. Had loads in a 55 regspeed and a 75 regspeed but I lost flips for loads in both and ended up unregging due to a combo of me getting slightly annoyed (still pretty pissed about the lag the day before) and my brother organising a film and takeaway night for Mother's Day (in the UK).

I'll update with interesting hand histories in the future when I don't experience freaking lag Pokerstars seem to be keeping really quiet about the subject atm in the MTTc thread which I think is a huge fail by them. We should be working together to put an end to this.

In other news, I've decided to add Pokerstars.FR back into my daily grind. The only problem with playing there is that the deposit limits are ridic. small so it takes a while to get a meaningful amount on there but I played a couple of mtts on there today and the schedule seems to have really improved to I look forward to grinding there again. My SN there is 'VaVaVoomXII' fwiw.

I'm gonna have a day off tomorrow. Just going to hit the gym, possibly see a girl I've been speaking to (bargs) and then go play 7-a-side football (soccer) for a team I just joined. football. Was quite sad to see what happened to Fabrice Muamba (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17419654). He basically just collapse on the pitch during a game and it looked quite serious but it's nice to see how the football world has pulled together in support and I hope his condition improves asap.

Thanks for reading and good luck guys :')

Gl Cory! Missed this the day you made it

Hero gunna Hero but why you run so bad bro?

confirmed hero irl
Will be following the thread. Seems you will have no problems continuing the
HEATTTT. Say hello on skype if you want to discuss 18mans, I have a depressing
amount of experience in these.

Thanks, good to see you're staying motivated etc

people who work hard run good, time to start working hard again

Haha cheers, was nice to meet you too. Coincidentally I read somewhere on here and some dude mentioned your sn, saying you were now playing the higher stakes 18 mans so scoped you and yeah you seem to have played a lot of them with a pretty good roi so grats! I'll try and get on skype a lot more, I do miss discussing spots with people...I assume you're coming to Notts?

thats a fkkn lie and u know it

haha yeah it's a pretty massive lie but I'd rather make a positive statement than a negative it's quite true in a lot of cases though

supppp
I wish you great success bro
See you and notts, and yea being on skype more would help with the studying part.

hai cory gl with your goals and see you in nott's no doubt
lol gif, i like how the dog has a sweater