Not threadworthy.

But thanks for playing. Better luck next post!

Lol. Thanks. Likewise apparently.

2-5 ... Both players have at least $2500 behind. R, 3-bet and 4-bet ...

V1 - "Really?" (tanks) ... V2 - "Yes, Really, I'm not soft playing you."
V1 - "Well then we should run it out and see if we hit the BBJ."

V2 - "Do you know how small a chance we have at it?"
V1 - "But we have a chance at $1M."

V2 - "You need to fold, the chance is too small."
V1 - "I really want to check it down." Shows JJ

V2 - "I'm not letting you see all 5 cards for free. You need to fold."
V1 - "OK, I'll let it go ... but we had a chance."

V2 - Shows KK ... "I'm not going to soft play you, but I offer you a chance to fold."




Same guy, V2, an orbit later offers a short stack with AA a 'call' if he will 'catch up' with him later if they don't hit the BBJ. SS says he wants him to fold but agrees to 'catch up' later. V2 holds KK and runs out clean for the AA. V2 indicated he would muck if a K hits the Board.

V2 - "I'm an honest man so you do need to 'catch up' with me later. I see you've had bad luck lately."

What was interesting is that these events were in front of two different Dealers who said nothing during either hand. GL

77s never lose

Let's call it what it is: stealing.


--klez

That's the GTO response for tilt equity and meta-game. In fact I would really sell it as I answered and look him right in the eye as I stack his chips in dirty sloppy stacks of ten.

Hope you call your congressman and complain about the Social Security program, which does the same things.

Not the same, because the full faith and credit of the US government, its ability to print money, and the political muscle that supports Social Security are not comparable to some offshore poker concern not segregating its accounts.

They still totally lie about where the money is going. "Lock box", lol.

And it's still a Ponzi scheme; much moreso than FTP ever was.

speaking of absurd thinking.......

you do realize a countries ability to physically print money does not mean it can just print money to pay back debt, right??

They do it so as not to incur new debt. Practically the same thing.

Take it somewhere else losers

Not true, but I understand your inference. Madoffs pyramid had already crumbled. He was not able to keep paying people off which is why he got caught then. Full tilt still was paying people off. If the old have got their accounts in order before the pyramid did crumble I'd doubtful but still,possible. Subtle but real difference.

Nope. Tilt was not adequately capitalized to meet the sudden loss of revenue and payout all the us based players. Stars was capitalized enough to manage this. It was effectively a cash flow issue. Now the reasons behind why Tilt was not adequately capitalized are very complicated. The simplest way too look at it was that they were pulling future profits from current revenues. This is not inherently illegal if they are booked correctly as say negative retained earnings or something similar. But it is risky, especially when. Your current revenues drop by 75% and you simultaneously are hit with massive outflow demands on your working capital. Nothing necessarily illegal has to occur for such a business model to collapse. In this case the precipitating event was the govt actions on BF. But that doesn't mean those actions were wrong. There could have been many possible events that became the trigger: a cheating scandal, a major sw flaw, the regulating entity pulling their license, ect. This is not really that different from an highly or over leveraged business collapsing when their credit gets pulled.

Only if there was an agreement or legal requirement to keep players funds separate from operating funds.

Actually that is exactly what it means and many countries have done just that. As long as the debt is in that countries currency, you can print as much as you want and pay it off. Might cause all kinds of other problems though. This is why debt to such countries is usually in dollars or some tie to US dollars.

The difference is the the US dollar is the world reserve currency so if it collapses it is not a localized problem

Homegame freeze out SNG

We're down to 5. I'm in the SB holding K K with about 20 BB and the UTG (Hijack) opened to 3x. Folds to me, I shove over him, BB folds. Back to him, he says " give me a second". He thinks for about a minute and a half and calls. He had about 50-55 BB. He tables 10 c 4 c. He flopped a FD and rivered the flush busting me. I asked me what did he thought about while contemplating what to do to which he said:

"I was trying to feel if I would make my flush". Good play, sir!

Knowing how your opponents think is beneficial.

Well as long as it was asked in a friendly tone of voice, that doesn't seem like tapping the tank to me.

I wasn't mad at him for calling. I was actually amused as his expression when tanking was that of a man in a deep contemplation state. So I was just curious to see his thought process, that's if there ever was one.

The other day at 5/10 NLHE I was on a short stack, raised over some limpers and got jammed on for not too much more considering the dead money. I thought for about a minute with 86 suited because I was calculating the pot odds, decided to call and win. Similar to the above story, guy asked me what I was thinking about for so long. I snap responded, "I was trying to sense if this was a good time to gamble." My image was set for the session.

Well there's zoom poker, there's rush poker, tournament poker, now we'll even have power up poker! ( yay, Stars )

But nothing tops "feel" poker!

There's this old guy with a Greek accent I usually see at card room A. I bump into him at card room B, and he tells me that they're all cheaters at A, and that he's not going to play there any more. "Don't you know that?" he says. "I thought everyone knew that." Mind you, we have played together at A for a decade or more. When I ask him for details, he tells me that the office at A has a computer that controls all the shuffling machines; when the shift managers and floor supervisors go into this office, they program the computer to give winning hands to their friends and off-duty dealers. "That's why I never win there," he says. "I always lose."

In other words: Live poker is rigged!

And tonight an older Asian woman who works as a dealer said while playing, "I would rather have pocket nines than pocket queens because a nine comes out much more often—haven't you ever noticed that? It's true."

Lol. You didn't ask Mr. Greek about the dealer card cut changing the card order after the shuffler rigs the cards?

Why on earth would you say that? Doesn't sound +EV to me.