Mostly as a precautionary measure to safeguard against credit card fraud and money laundering.

There are other good reasons too, but I can't think of them at the moment.

well at least we are in agreement then

Hand #1
Poker Stars $5/$10 Limit Hold'em - 2 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

Pre Flop: (1.4 SB) Hero is BB with Q 2
BTN/SB raises, Hero calls

Flop: (4 SB) 8 8 J (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB folds :-)

Final Pot: 2 BB
Hero mucks Q 2
Hero wins 1.95 BB
(Rake: $0.50)

armor32: lol
armor32: I liked that one
villain: me too


Hand #2
Poker Stars $5/$10 Limit Hold'em - 2 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

Pre Flop: (1.4 SB) Hero is BTN/SB with J Q
Hero raises, BB calls

Flop: (4 SB) 7 2 Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, BB calls

Turn: (3 BB) A (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (3 BB) T (2 players)
BB bets, Hero calls

Final Pot: 5 BB
BB shows 4 6 (high card Ace)
Hero shows J Q (a pair of Queens)
Hero wins 4.95 BB
(Rake: $0.50)

armor32: lol, liked that one too
villain (sits out): okay ium way to pissed right now to play

+0.87 BB/100

thinly thickly veiled brag imo

50k breakeven stretch and I would quit the game. I only get about 5k hands a month and couldn't take a year of losing.

pretty sure there are like 5+ of us regs who have currently been on over 50k+ breakeven stretches, keep in mind i play alot of 6max also tho bc lol at the hands u can get in just playing HU

The day is full of gems today...

Megalomanic1 <sits in>: wait no longer - super uber fish arrived at your table
<... 10 hands through, I lose some and sit out as he is not too bad>
Dealer: Game #41798106566: Megalomanic1 wins pot ($4)
Dealer: Game #41798113454: armor32 wins pot ($4)
armor32: you are not an uber fish
Megalomanic1: oh come on
Megalomanic1: look at my TR which I'm sure you saw
armor32: you are not bad enough
armor32: you just lost the rake
Megalomanic1: then huhu has definitely dried up for you if you can't even play me lol
Megalomanic1: :P
armor32: you are marginal
armor32: pls don't sit with me any more, I will not play you
Megalomanic1: ok i will make a note
armor32: ty
Megalomanic1: gl and i respect and appreciate your honesty
armor32: np
Megalomanic1: if only others here were the same
Megalomanic1: gl and gg

For sure 6max is different, but HU would be brutal. Mostly because I just don't get the hands in.

i think my worse is about 40k all huhu

prob like 20k hands are HU, by breakeven i mean like winning at 2BB/100 or so which is brutal but losing at high stakes so even or so monetarily wise

Mixing stakes is so frustrating. I've only played three $500 HU SNGs and they were against the same fish I beat at lower stakes and of course I lost all 3 at FT. I definitely think Stars SNGs are much less tilting, in FT I find the blinds too big and you are soon shortstacked and it's like a crapshoot.

yea telll me about it, i regularly sit 5/T-100/200, considering putting in 3/6 and 200/400 but 2/4 just feels like alot of money and when u feel the money u cant play ur best imo

ya im actually on a 60k but its because i was playing 3-6 - 50 100 and a shot at 100 200 put me in the gutter

probably you don't play pro and more power to you haha ur probably a real person, 5k hands a mo and ur results are just going to **** with u if u care about them and no chance of variance evening it out esp given the lack of true long term at HUHU,

i assume you have another job and poker it for the side income, once again this is good

if u played every limit up to 2 4 u could concievably have quarter million hand probably more B/E's if u ran bad at superbad at highstakes

one -100 bb downswing at 2 400 would take u 2000bb of wins at 10 20 more bbs if ur playing lower

im by far at my peak BB wise but still down maybe 1.5k from my profit standpoint runbad highstakes is the worst ever

I could not resist...

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
Limit Holdem $3(BB) Replayer
Hero ($97)
Villain ($75)

Dealt to Hero K 2

Villain calls $1.50, Hero checks

FLOP ($6) K 7 2

Hero checks, Villain bets $3, Hero raises to $6, Villain calls $3

TURN ($18) K 7 2 T

Hero checks, Villain bets $6, Hero raises to $12, Villain calls $6

RIVER ($42) K 7 2 T K

Hero checks, Villain bets $6, Hero raises to $12, Villain calls $6

Hero shows K 2
(Pre 68%, Flop 66.1%, Turn 6.8%)

Villain shows 2 4
(Pre 32%, Flop 33.9%, Turn 93.2%)

Hero wins $65.50

Do you get in more than 6 hands per month?

lol, also used guys real sn in posts, such a fish

**Notice to all fish**
Come play me at 15-30, guaranteed easy money, I'll get 90% mediocre hands but you'll out kicker me on all of them, fantastic stuff.
Moan over, back to grinding back my 1k everywhere else. Again.

But stay away from 3-6, I pwn there

xx: perfect
xx: lol
havingatinbath: 10 20
havingatinbath: chase losses
xx: ill keep playing if we go to a different table
havingatinbath: yes
xx: but im not playing higher
havingatinbath: ?
havingatinbath: hows that work

Yes, I do more than 6 hands per month. I played 11K hands since beginning of the year (all HUHU at 3/6,5/10 and 10/20)

yes, I am a little happy fish.

There are some European red pros who play at the FTP low stakes HU limit tables sometimes, and it's so unfair, come on, I also want 100% rakeback and I'd play 2/4 all day, and I don't want to pay you my rake give it back to me! Anyway, some red pros have such bad results at cash games it appears the rest of players have to support them with our rake, ridiculous.

i'm def not a pro, and big bankroll nit. Never even played higher than 5/T, partially because I've ran awful there.

I just shoot for making 1 or 2k per month, don't really do anything with the money; fund my trips to Vegas, and random cool purchases. I guess we'll see what a massive break-even stretch does to me, losing 2 or 300 BB hasn't been that bad, especially because I play low and rakeback is pretty significant.

This probably belongs in 4L or something, but whatever, this is home.

How long do you wait to tell a girl you've just met that you play poker?

I've got a first date today with a really cute girl* (didn't even have to pay her), and I'm wondering whether it's +EV to tell her about how the majority of my day is spent thinking about whether to donk or check raise.

With the last girl, I waited three dates. "You play poker online?" Yep. "For real money?" Of course. "I don't gamble." Neither do I.
And she never called me back.

A while back, though, I slipped in something about how I know a guy who went deep in the Main. She was like, "I wish I could make money at poker," so we made out, and I offered to teach her. Unfortunately, she took off for someone more handsome.

In any case, it's gotta come up at some point, right? If there's going to be a relationship, she's going to find out. I mean, girls usually tell me right away if they have a cat.

Anyway, I've had a few bad beats, and don't want to misplay this one.

So, rec players: How long before you say, "I literally made hundreds of dollars in pokerz last year -- on the innerwebs! How bad do you want me now?"

And pros: Do you admit straight up that you get crushed at 100/200 but you kill 10/20, or do you just tell them you're a "volatile risk analyst"?

*sorry, no pics yet.

Well im not sure its +EV to advise u in these matters cuz if u land this one there will be less for the rest of us but since strategy discussion is the backbone of 2p2 Ill go ahead

If you lookin for a LTR then imo you wasted 2 dates on the last one but if ur just lookin for a more casual/physical type thing then tell her u work in the online shipping business

ezgame

Dunno how about new relationship, but I can tell you for granted that poker can easily get you a divorce