just take it as a compliment, it usually is!

I don't get why you guys are so hell-bent on playing good players

I just wanted to start a game, I didn't particularly want to play him. All the tables were full so others would join pretty quickly. I sat across from him so we each had two seats to our right. Personally I think fish join games with two players more often than than one, but whatever.

Just playing your button is most certainly not within the rules. I have reported people for doing this, and Stars has taken action against them. It's the same as sitting in a new 3 handed game, getting the button the first hand, then quitting. It's cheating. Sometimes it's an accident, like forgetting to report something on your taxes that you didn't know was income. But it's technically against the rules, and if you do it on purpose, there's nothing to call it besides cheating.

i actually get where he's coming from. I mean if i want to play now, and all the tables are full except one with one player sitting at it, and i sit down, and he insta-quits and opens a new table, thats kind of bs. now i'm sitting here at a table by myself and if theres anyone who does want to play me, theres a 50% chance they go play him instead, even though i'm the one who just wants to play, and he's trying to hunt fish.

that being said, repeatedly following him to tables where he is by himself is very rude, so dont do that. also cubfan is single-handedly responsible for starting most of the 5/T tables going at any given point so i give him some leniency, and occasionally even give him a couple hands w the fish before i join

You people act as if you can't just join the table once a fish sits in. You still get the fish 100% of the time, so wtf are you talking about?

exactly, just make them choose between playing u and a fish or starting a new table. I did feel a little bad today when a reg had been sitting trying to start a table for a while, and as soon as a fish finally joined i insta-sat to his left, reg sat out and leaves, then table filled with fish a second later. good times.

Scorcho is taking clients right now. What your asking for isn't free btw, even for people who actually contribute.

They're talking about the sunday mil on the 2+2 Pokercast. They're interviewing the guy that came in 2nd, and talking about OX45AL. check it out.

Link? I don't know anything other than SSSH.

idk i get it from iTunes, but it cant be too hard to find

it's around the 1hr40min mark where they are talking about it. They talk about the deal-making attempt, good stuff. I guess the guy team-pokerstars guy taht was trying to butt-in got chewed out by the MTT community and might get repremanded by stars.

http://pokercast.twoplustwo.com/

I have no chat. and im not gonna play you hu obviously. pm me i will be nice enough to ship you the money back.

No, that's OK, I was wrong. Thanks though.

I want a discussion, I am more than sure that you can assign certain value to my opinion as well.
Just want to clear some things - did not want to offend anybody, did not say that I suck, just said that I am now on a 300BB downswing and just want to discuss some hands w good players over skype without hiring a coach, spending 500 usd to regain confidence.

if you want to discuss one-off hands here and htere, come to IRC #minbet on EFNet

it also defaults as the SSSH whine and cry room

we just ask newcomers not to be a douche (though we still let skillgambler come around)

IRC is NOT dead? You live you learn...

what's that?

No one is going to take time out of their day to get on skype to go over your hands for free. If you offer an exchange, where you look at some of their hands as well, you might find some takers. Also, the coaching you are looking for would be much cheaper than 500 usd. Probably more like 30-50 an hour, which is pretty reasonable for what you are asking.

There's no need to play 2 hands. I always leave after the first one which is the same ev.

If someone wants to take advantage of it then meh doesn't happen often enough to worry about it.

All due respect to the beast but I don't know about this so much. 5/T has what, the highest rake of all LHE tables.? There's about 3 regs (non-2p2) I know I'm marginally +ev on that I'll play because variance owes me like 50BB back from each for their rolls but I just don't get the idea of (especially 2+2 regs) hacking at the rake for 20 hands before 1 fish sits in with 10 bets. I start loads of tables and have to give up most of them to the regs that slither in between me and the fish after the 1st ****ing hand. I don't see the point in playing someone HUHU equally matched in the worst rake trap you can find.
Happy to be involved in any HUHU league / practice in the future though PV ;-)

Even if I play 2/4 it doesn't necessarily mean that I'm stupid. I offer exchange. What I wanted to have is exchange of 2 winning players. I play 30/24 style.
And - yes, 30-50 usd/h is reasonable.

it's the official limit hold em chat room of the stars

get a free client like mIRC, connect to EFNet, /join #minbet

Poker Stars $1/$2 Limit Hold'em - 6 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

Pre Flop: (1.5 SB) Hero is BB with T K
2 folds, shagsi raises, 2 folds, Hero calls

Flop: (4.5 SB) K K A (2 players)
Hero checks, shagsi bets, Hero raises, shagsi 3-bets, Hero calls

Turn: (5.25 BB) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, shagsi bets, Hero raises, shagsi 3-bets, Hero calls

River: (11.25 BB) 6 (2 players)
Hero checks, shagsi bets, Hero raises, shagsi folds

Final Pot: 13.25 BB
Hero mucks T K
Hero wins 12.75 BB
(Rake: $1.00)

ty fish

That turn / river line doesn't really make sense. Shagsi always ammused me when he would type 'ty' after every pot he won . I need to get all my lifetime hands from stars and look at my 1/2 hands. I wonder if ive played more or less hands than Scorcho or like shagsi for instance since I havent played 1/2 in about a year but when I did I grinded out the cheeseburgers

I only played the turn/river so I could trifecta him to rub it in he hasn't done it.