It's the sound when the pot is shipped to you.

This thread died. I am going to Vegas on Saturday and will get to play these games for real money again! Anyone interested in saying hi, come to the "Quad" (RIP Imperial Palace) at 7PM Sunday and play the "Mix Game from Hell" with me...lol

GL tringlomane. Any chance for a trip report?

I think the IP is still there. Do they actually have poker games there? A mixed game? Good god.

I could try, but I can't promise much. I generally have terrible hand recall when sober, and I plan on indulging on comped drinks while playing. I'll hopefully remember a key pot or two though.

Barely, but yes, they do. With their construction, the poker room is now next to the sportsbook on the 3rd floor. Lately it's been one of the few games running other than 2/4 LHE that tries to abuse the "Aces Cracked" promo in the morning...lol

What's this thread doing on the second page?

Poker Stars $30/$60 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Pre Draw: (1.5 SB) Hero is SB with A 8 6 5 3
UTG calls, MP folds, CO folds, BTN folds, Hero raises, BB calls, UTG calls

First Draw: (6 SB) (3 players)
Hero draws 1, BB draws 3, UTG draws 2
Hand: Q 8 6 5 3
Hero bets, BB raises all in, UTG completes, Hero calls

Second Draw: (5.85 BB) (3 players - 1 is all in)
Hero draws 1, BB draws 1, UTG stands pat
Hand: 8 8 6 5 3
Hero checks, UTG bets, Hero calls

Third Draw: (7.85 BB) (3 players - 1 is all in)
Hero draws 1, BB draws 1, UTG stands pat
Hand: 8 6 5 5 3
Hero checks, UTG checks

Final Pot: 7.85 BB
Hero shows 8 6 5 5 3 (Lo: a pair of Fives)
BB mucks 7 6 6 4 3
Hero wins 2.3 BB
Hero wins 5.5 BB
(Rake: $3.00)

lol perfect gifs!

I like that it would have been a bad pat even if flushes didn't count.

+1

huge HS game @ ftp happening right now

Does anyone remember the link to fourflush's blog, where he had all the starting hands charts? I couldn't find it at the moment.

OK, found it in my copybook. http://www.winatdrawpoker.blogspot.com/

I can't tell how much he lost on PokerStars playing 2-7TD via HighStakesDB, but Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has won about $1.2m on Full Tilt since it came back, including about $1.45m in the past month, over ~6k hands.

Has anyone been watching (or playing)? Has his game changed so significantly since he was written off as a losing agro monkey on Stars? Or is it just some crazy run good period? I mean, at $1.5/3k, $1.45m is only about 240BB, over ~6k hands, roughly 4BB/100.

Can you be a losing player and run that hot over a 6k hand period? I think I've heard of people going on similar/bigger heaters, but I'd have assumed they were winning players.

Isn't $1.45M, 480BB? And a win rate of 8BB/100? This makes a BIG difference.

If Isildur has an SD of 25BB/100 (likely to be close to this since he is LAG and shorthanded), then the 95% confidence interval is roughly +/- 387BB (2 SDs in each direction). So a breakeven player would expect to have a win rate ranging from -6.45 to +6.45BB/100 over 6k hands. So if he had a 4BB/100 run (1500/3000 blinds or 3k/6k limit), then he definitely could have a losing longterm winrate. If it's 750/1500 blinds (1.5k/3k limit), then a breakeven player running 8BB/100 would have to run 2.48 SDs above normal which and should only happen about 0.66% of the time. He could be on a massive heater, but it's more likely he has improved in the game.

Basically, 1.5k/3k TD is just a variance joke. In the poker world, I doubt anyone is really rolled to play it longterm. Considering isildur's past though, I wouldn't be shocked if he has significantly improved at HS TD. I personally haven't been watching though.

Yeah, my bad, thought I was doubling the bb when doing my sums, was actually doubling the BB.

Wow that's a hell of a heater, and if your numbers are right, can't all be luck. I wonder if he's been getting coaching given that is such a dramatic improvement in a short period...

I have been watching and he has gotten better for sure. Not drawing to ridic stuff and generally have a better understanding of the game. That said, he is on an epic heater. Destroying experts at HU TD you need insane rungood.

im starting to think that you need epic rungood to even play HUTD.

is stars ever gonna add 2-7TD HU tables?

If anyone wants an open faced chinese game on the iphone app I am aba20.

I dont rail any of the action these days....is Wrasse still playing a ton of 8Game and TD?? Winning??

I have not seen Wrasse since black friday.

Ya, I these days it's seb and alex mostly with a few other guys playing high. Oogee continues his up and down ways, which must be super tough!

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He seems to be a bit of a family man from that video interview from a few years back....makes sense that he would not relocate and just focus on live play.

I guess its possible that he's not playing much anymore though....he kind of hinted in that video that he may back off at some point.

I think he used to be a Comerce-regular. Maybe DD knows more about him if he has been there lately.

Aww this thread got to the second page.
I cashed out of Carbon in July due to work reasons, but I left 4K points on there (I think?) that I figured I would convert to $ via SnGs if I ever got the time/urge to play again. I come back here a few months later to discover:
1) VIP points expire apparently (oops), or I am imagining that they were there
2) Merge is doing away with all rakeback deals (I had 35% + vip points from signing up in 2007 or something)
Sad. I really don't like finding ways to deposit. Maybe it's a sign I should hold off playing again for a while.

On the plus side, maybe I can get myself to the Horseshoe Hammond to play some live triple draw at some point!