I'll start us off with an old joke.

Irish Petrol Station!
A petrol station owner in Dublin was trying to increase his sales, so he put up a sign that read, 'Free Sex with Fill-Up!'

Paddy pulled in, filled his tank and asked for his free sex. The owner told him to pick a number from 1 to 10. If he guessed correctly, he would get his free sex.

Paddy guessed 8, and the proprietor said, "You were close. The number was 7. Sorry. No sex this time."

A week later, Paddy, along with his friend Mick, pulled in for another fill-up. Again he asked for his free sex. The proprietor again gave him the same story, and asked him to guess the correct number.

Paddy guessed 2. The proprietor said, "Sorry, it was 3. You were close, but no free sex this time."

As they were driving away, Mick said to Paddy, "I think that game is rigged and he doesn't really give away free sex at all."

Paddy replied, "No, no, it's genuine enough Mick. Me wife won twice last week."

When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's only difficult for the others.

It's the same when you are stupid.

hahahah..brilliant Buzz

(enter thread OMB)

There is much concern on Skype bike, tell us you aren't busto?

It's amusing that he is talking so much **** to Khuns. I don't know what their results are with each other in O8 but Khuns is an all round top tier poker player in O8 and mix games and has been for many years.

Maybe OMB's stupid run good is coming to an end. What a shame that would be. I have seen it so many times before anyway. A recent example would be Beethoven. Played like a maniac for a year or 2 and ran super hot and everyone thought he was great. Then he starts losing and had to totally change his game after realising it isn't quite as easy to play like a massisve spewtard when not running in gode mode.

I'm guessing he's barely a winning player these days.

Same will happen with OMB.

[ ] Beeethoven is losing
[ ] Billy is as good as Beeethoven

QFT

Funniest thing I've heard for a while.

Not hard to either a. Use sharkscope or b. Ask any good reg.

The only people who hate Beethoven are salty regs who haven't figured out the game is passing them by.

I mean seriously billy your posts on here are so polarized. Sometimes u bring the truth and sometimes you say literally the dumbest **** I've ever read on here.

What's got your goat Dacus?

And yeah coz i'm obv not a good reg I wish I was though

Of course I talk **** sometimes on here but I sure as hell know that I am not only better than Beethoven at o8 but streets ahead of him in the other games we both play. He is actually well below par in stud games but you will have to take my word on that.

I'm not salty towards Beethoven at all I just have my opinion about his game. And I have seen way way more of his game than you and I know how he played for a year or too when he was running golden and he has admittedly changed his game a bit. As I have most regs on stars seeing as you weren't around for a long time.

But pls top thinking you are have the almighty word on such subjects as you aren't and have never been a top reg in any form of o8. Sorry to say that as I had no gripe with you at all but you seem to have with my at times for no apparent.

Over and out.

Since we're all throwing **** at each other, what do you guys think of my game?

I'm rbkgutt BTW.

^ green tag.
which means winning abc player.

Have been donating lately alot to beethoven.
I cant seem to win a flip vs beethoven & Wind1987

But hey Manddl cant win a single flip vs me so I shouldn't be complaining.

In tourneys **** yes!

I just chose Beethoven as just an example anyway ha. I don't have anything against him but in the old days when his button mashing was at its peak and running just as crazy I would get rather 'salty' towards him using your words. But that was a long time ago. Not as salty as quantum used to be about him though .

But I would say after seeing him possibly more than anyone else as I played so many of the same mtts as him that, like any decent button masher running golden, they can be very formidable and frustrating/difficult to play against and at the same time i'm pretty sure in he was about as deep thinking in his strategy as my 6 month old Cocker Spaniel. I give him credit that he started to realise this and has changed his game somewhat in the last year or so.

And that would apply to a bunch of mtts regs who are big winners.

Put many of these guys in a good cash line up and they would get utterly destroyed.

I hope Dacus doesn't get all salty again with me and read me the riot act. I was having nightmares about poker passing me bye after his hurtful comments .

Over...

I think you are a magnificent.

Beeethoven has won about $70K from over 20,000 games this year, how do u criticise that? Other than win often he must have high stamina

OK let's criticise anyway. This player runs like OMB on a WCOOP final table. On many days I have been crushed by him, run 20 flips when I'm 55/45 and lose all. He made me stop playing satellite to higher O8 mtt when several weeks it seem he won ALL (!!!!!!) the tickets to every mtt and I lost at least 200 buyins directly to him

I think he is a good but honestly not much better than any name mentioned here - DaCus or Billy or RBK or Belg or Quantum or PLO8 or Streity. There are hundreds of players in every mtt who know how to play the game to high standard but there are only 4-5 who run good enough to win any game using any strategy they like.

It's sad we still waste time talking about "the best" and who is worthy of winnings. None of us are worthy but some of us are handed huge riches by the PokerStars software. Anyone who doubts that should play someone like beeethoven when they are running hot. I don't care if you are HeroValue, OMB, Billy or some random u will not win a hand with any real meaning. Look at OMB on WCOOP FT hitting the quads on the river or Isildur1 shove pre and can't lose in WCOOP ME or bokkie87, trelskig, beeethoven87 who always run off the chart hot in big mtts and make HU, win bracelets. Every dog has his day but on PokerStars it is groundhog day, that is only reason these guys keep winning everything going. Think about it, even if they are best ever player the odds of crushing O8 with aggro style against good players are close to zero as u need to win so many flips. That a small group win all the big prizes online doesn't prove they are the best, only that the software has questionable legitimacy.

Anyone here fancy some O8 tourney strat talk?

PM me.

Made a video today, heads up FLO 27.5 top 3 got payed out since there was a small overlay.
It only took 15 minutes... since i ran pretty good. But would like it if some of u guys watched it. (to maybe point out some leaks)

And if u guys like it (or hate it) just say so no hard feelings
27.5 flo with some 82ploko on the side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1H3...ature=youtu.be

Does anyone get action on 888? Seems most people just sit out there all day long, apart from the micro full ring tables, which run when full. No short handed or hu action at all

Asking for "better players" I am probably posting in the wrong place but:

I think you had a good read on the HU game and played just fine with the info you had. A couple of times set vs set, one for, one against, running was decent, villain wasn't putting you under any pressure

On the other table you made a few plays I maybe wouldn't have. The first (A3)TK limp/call to the player you mark as TAG, that looks like leak to me. I think you know there are very few hands TAG will raise there and be giving us good odds at high OR low pot. So limp/fold if we limp pre

Again limp pre after no action (A 2)3 9. I think I prefer to KO the trash hands with standard raise pre. If this TAG you have marked is tricky I don't think it's ever smart to give a free flop unless you think he will try to steal any pot that you don't first try to steal. It's better if TAG put chips in pre so we can have partial read on the hand. If TAG is tricky here and the flop is paired high or some other random that doesn't fit standard ranges, TAG will bet out quite often with any 4 cards.

Again limp pre (A 2)(4 K). I don't mind limping here at all but why are we doing it? You say something like, "I don't want to jump but if someone else wants to jump I will give them the rope and let them hang". Are we limping here to want to be raised or to control the pot? If we get raised by a bigger stack do we flat call or 3-bet like against the shorter stack? Imagine 3 limpers (villain, SB, BB) and give me the scenario we win the pot. You were talking about limp (A 3)T K to hit nut flush vs 2nd flush. OK but it's more likely to get 3/4 or scoop with your A24K vs standard hands. Again I prefer to raise because A, K, flushing and A2 boards are easiest fits for random hands to get away from - but when called pre we often dominate in one or both directions. If BB plus one other player limps we always have < 50% equity.

With AAJQ you can play it any way you like. The limp gives disguise and the raise maybe gets a walk so 6 of one. On the flop I'm not certain that is a good fold. We still have outs (we have A hearts too) and I'm not convinced we are behind by a margin greater than our pot odds. Quite often the big stack has draw combos/2 pair and the turn card should be OK for us to read or even rep something ourselves depending on how villain continues. My read is you don't even want to try that against a bigger stack which is fine, but if me I am OK with putting in 12 chips here to win 30 + chips

I don't mind limp pre strategy and it's great for mix up but what do you think your opponents think of this? If you limp that range what hands are you raising, top 2% only, none? You gain scare equity for your raises by playing like that. If I was at the table I would give you 1 or 2 free raises but when you limp I would figure pretty fast that you don't want any resistance, looks a little like playing scared and fit/fold the board.

Overall I think you played fine or good if you know you should be making the adjustments and gear changes you were saying your HU villain wasn't making, or was too slow to make. You also rate your HU villain the same as krokotopus or whatever his name is. You may not like kroko but he's better than your HU villain based on this evidence.

not gonna quote all the bs before, but for what its worth if dacus and the rest are truly good enough then there's a russian guy open sitting pretty much anyone all day long on all the o8 hyper husngs on acr from 50-400. whoever's been playing on that william account has already tried and failed it seems like, they started to make a bit of a comeback and then quit playing him for whatever reason.

I'll even kinda be rooting for whoever tries it, since he doesn't like to share the lobby it would help me chip away at him

15 Min blinds & no antes, yes i was playing scared rather fold and let the chipleaders ( a maniac ) bust a few ppl. Place 9-6 pay out nothing compared to place 5<. Thank you for your reply. Did u Lolled irl when i gave u a shout oot?

And also its superweird to talk to myself in a mic.

sadly true


guess i have a green tag too...

Yeah I did lol, you sound kind of Scandinavian to me and were entertaining

If I was playing scared with your hands I would have folded or limp/fold one hand and raised 2 maybe 3 others. I think that way is the least risk to our chips. I would limp A234 type hands only, raise anything with high potential like (A2)(4K), fold everything else like

is anybody complaining about update on Stars yet? When table below a certain size we lose the suit detail from cards. Does this effect how many tables people play?