Could be a person playing on free envelope money.

lol

Took 5th place in a Micro Thunder MTT today



I wish they would change the blind levels from 10 mins to 5 mins, It took foreverrrr.

Nice reward for the weirdo that opened with Q8 in EP lol...it's this over and over right now. Outplaying means nothing.

https://play.globalpoker.com/hand/43...7-109e2e9cd048

More like a slowplaying reward.

Maybe always jamming KK pre is the way you need to play

Yeah I don't understand the just calling with KK there. What was your goal by doing that?

I don't do that often, but I will maybe 10-15% of the time. "3rd hand low" isn't common obviously, but if one of the blinds 3bets I'm sitting pretty for a shove, and if not I trust my postflop reads and read on the initial raiser, who had shown several pretty weak EP raises already, and I didn't think his range included too many 4s but did include lots of weak queens or middle pairs. As was the case here. Being process not result oriented on the ridiculous river, I think this worked out exactly how I hoped it would.

Has anyone here won any trophy packages? I've shipped 2 micro thunders but not sure how to redeem prizes

Send support@globalpoker.com an email. They'll direct you where to go and give you a code to get your prizes.

Q8s is a breakeven open from this position and stack sizes. With a 2x size its probably a pure open.


Whats not standard is passing up a squeeze spot IP with KK. You definitely gave up more EV by flatting KK than villain gave up by opening Q8s.

Thanks!

I have completely acknowledged that it was non standard. Q8 is marginal there pre, at best. But I admittedly don't study preflop GTO charts as much as some.

You completely ignore the postflop play and read based exploitation. Interesting.

I said it was break even, but also completely fine and I would say standard for a min raise.

Your decision to flat vs squeeze is not marginal. It is just straight up a mistake to not squeeze here.

As far a postflop, you played it fine and villain played the flop fine and turn weird. I would have c/jammed turn.


I was mostly going after your "outplaying means nothing" comment. You didn't outplay villain. You made a pretty significant preflop blunder, and preflop blunders are the most common and easiest to fix. So instead of treating this hand as just another bad beat, treat the hand as a learning experience to get better.

Hello just curious for recent experiences playing from Washington state on Global (or Ignition)

I already have an account that I deposited on but want to move to WA and curious if I will have issue?

Any experiences appreciated

Not in Washington state, but Global blocks players from Washington and Idaho. If you are physically in Washington, you won't be able to play.

A few items from this feedback

1. "Standard for a min raise" - do you advocate players changing the size of their raise based on their holding?

2. I would almost never "squeeze" with KK - squeezing with the intent of getting the original raiser to fold, would be a huge mistake here.

3. I 3 bet here 90% of the time, meeting your criteria, and if the post-flop action wrecks my risky move, I can easily lay KK down here and get away extremely cheap. It's only a blunder if I am not able to lay it down, no?

4. I had played on this table for more than an hour and expected a large 3 bet from one of the players left to act. You are making a blanket judgment on my 10% play without considering other factors such as these or my read on the original raiser, who raised a hand I understood was easily in his 35-40% range from that spot. Are you still saying this is standard pre? Around 40%?

5. Serious question and no disrespect intended - is it all GTO charts and solvers for you?

1) No but a smaller raise size means you get to open a slightly wider range because your pot odds are better. So if a hand is a mix open at 2.3x open size its probably a pure open at 2x open size. And probably a fold at a 2.5x open size. Im not saying that one size is better, but the size you choose is going to have a small effect on the EV of a specific hand.

2) You squeeze because you want to play a large pot IP vs 1 player and not have a spot were you are 4-5 ways in a smaller pot. More players in the pot take away equity from you. And if you just take down the 6.5bbs that are already in the pot preflop, thats a pretty good result, and definitely more than you can expect to win seeing a flop 3 ways in a 8.5bb pot.

3) A squeeze is simply a 3bet when you have cold callers between you and the pfr. You seem to think a 3bet and squeeze are different, or maybe I am misunderstanding your 2nd-3rd points? Its not just about getting away from it when you are behind. Its about getting max value when you are ahead, and its going to be harder to get value in multiway pots, because your equity in multiway pots is generally lower.

4) What makes you expect a squeeze from the blinds if you flat? Have you seen them squeeze a specific hand(s) that makes you think they are wide, or have they just happened to 3bet several times in hour (60 hands or so) you have played together? Do you even know what hands are supposed to squeeze from the blinds to even make a baseline to determine if they are too wide?

Same question about the pfr. How do you know he is opening 40%? Global doesn't have HUDs so its going to be based off of hands you have seen villain showdown. Do you even know what a Top 40% range looks like? Because Q8s is a top 22% hand, so to assume he is opening 40% you need to see bad offsuit Ax, Q4s, 96s, 65s, T9o, etc.

5) With preflop.... yea I try to be as close to GTO as I can. It just makes it easier to study that way plus preflop is the foundation to your poker game and it doesn't matter how well designed your house is if the foundation is poor.

With postflop, I try to base my game around sound game theory principles. I dont try to memorize solver outputs but I study them and try to discover different patterns that I can implement in practice. You cant properly exploit people if you dont know what they are doing wrong, and you dont know what they are doing wrong if you dont know what is "correct"

Is there any possible way to see my current table/session stats? Basic VPIP etc would be nice, but mainly talking about my current win/loss or money up/down. Thanks

No HUD stats. But if you look at you Transaction History it shows you your table buyin and how much you leave the table with. You also get hourly updates when playing cash games where they tell you how much you are up/down over the past hour.

I tried to verify my bank account the other day and Global Poker is giving me the run around. I'm getting worried they just want me to give up and never verify my bank details.

The first problem they brought up was "Upon checking, we noticed that the address listed on the bank form is different from the address shown on your Bank Statement."

That's ridiculous, but okay, I gave them my address, my po box, everything they could want to know.

Next hoop: "We are encountering an error when our players opted to use Online Bank Verification for JPMorgan Chase Bank.

We kindly request you to provide an official bank statement."

I said okay, and provided an official bank statement.

Next hoop: "We have reviewed your banking information and upon checking, it was not accepted by the system because the account number was mismatched. We can confirm that the account number in your form is different from your submitted bank statement. For this reason, we would like to confirm the correct account number of your nominated bank account.

We need to ask that you provide an additional attachment of a voided check, direct deposit form, or another bank document that clearly shows the full account number so that we can proceed with verifying your account."

They literally had me log into my bank account via their whatever verification process to verify it to begin with. So I don't know what they're playing at. Will this be never ending? Each reply seems to be by someone new. Never experienced something like this before, genuinely shocked.

I send in another bank statement from the same bank account. EXPLICITLY tell them the bank account number. Which is CLEAR AS DAY in both statements. Their response?

"We appreciate the information you have provided. However, if this is a different bank that you would like to nominate instead, we have a different process.

To proceed with changing your nominated bank, kindly respond with the following below:

1. A copy of your ID.
2. A selfie photo holding your ID. Please make sure your photo is a head-on, straight forward shot, not angled. It must be a close up of both the face so the details are clearly visible and readable.
3.The reason for the bank change.
4. Please fill out our Bank Details Form through the following link below:"

.......


Is this just a scam? "/

My first withdrawl hit my account with no issues. I was also unable to successfully verify the account using their link, but when I uploaded a copy of a statement it worked perfectly after a few days.

I was understanding and polite for however many emails and they kept wanting more. When I asked them if they were legit they got back to me apologizing and verified the account.

Is there a thread where we can see and post cash out histories for global? 2p2 was always my deposit/withdrawal comfort blanket

here u go

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2.../index244.html

hope this helps, GL at the tables =)