Our Vicarious Hero!!!

BTW can anyone recommended anything to do in Nashville for the night we are there ?

Not a huge fan of country music but obv im aware its big there

I kinda feel bad about this; I used CO chat to my advantage:

Full Tilt Poker $0.50/$1 Pot Limit Hold'em - 8 players
The Official 2+2 Hand Converter Powered By DeucesCracked.com

SB: $58.55
BB: $102.80
UTG: $75.60
UTG+1: $15.30
MP1: $19.95
Hero (MP2): $114.05
CO: $160.90
BTN: $100.00

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is MP2 with Q Q
UTG raises to $2, 2 folds, Hero raises to $7.50, CO calls $7.50, 3 folds, UTG calls $5.50

Flop: ($24.00) 5 J T (3 players)
UTG checks, Hero requests TIME, Hero bets $14, CO says "dammit", CO says "JQ", CO says "tough fold here.", CO folds, UTG calls $14

Turn: ($52.00) T (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero checks

River: ($52.00) 4 (2 players)
UTG bets $52, Hero calls $52

Final Pot: $156.00
UTG shows 7 7 (two pair, Tens and Sevens)
Hero shows Q Q (two pair, Queens and Tens)
Hero wins $153.00
(Rake: $3.00)

CO was a fish - seemed like your typical live player - and I figured he was telling the truth. If he folded a jack, there are less JJ and JT combos, so villains polar bet on the river was slightly more weighted towards air.

Obviously I can't do anything about it, but I kinda feel bad for villain.

hmm i just received a 25$ "cash" deposit on ft with some odd transfer number. should i expect to keep this money or will ft zap it out of my account as quickly as it showed up?

i am not signed up for any promotions, the transfer was not from a player, and it just appeared 3 hours after my session on monday.

thoughts?

dont feel bad for the stupid **** people do.
you didnt force him to bet pot there, people can make their own decisions and should live with the consequences

rakeback ?

Looks like I haven't totally forgotten how to play cash games... 8 BI in 1700 hands at the dime today. Moving up tomorrow
/bbv

Luka, why would you feel at all badly about it?

FWIW Why would he play JT or JJ like that anyway? he'd be raising the draw heavy board IMO

quarter is cursed

Full Tilt Poker $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players
BTN: $50.00
SB: $17.67
Hero (BB): $29.00
UTG: $26.57
UTG+1: $50.00
UTG+2: $27.70
MP1: $23.64
MP2: $32.67
CO: $14.12

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BB with 4 4
3 folds, MP1 raises to $0.85, MP2 calls $0.85, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.60
Flop: ($2.65) 4 Q 2 (3 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $1.44, MP2 calls $1.44, Hero raises to $4.75, MP1 folds, MP2 raises to $12, Hero raises to $28.15 all in, MP2 calls $16.15
Turn: ($60.39) 5 (2 players - 1 is all in)
River: ($60.39) 3 (2 players - 1 is all in)
Final Pot: $60.39
Hero shows 4 4 (three of a kind, Fours)
MP2 shows Q A (a straight, Five high)
MP2 wins $57.39

3% ftw !

Whats a decent earn rate for the quarters guys ?

I have a fairly smallish example on FTP ... probably around 20k hands ... just wondering what you would think was reasonable .. ?

I have no intentions of moving upto $50nl as my bankroll is way too small and im a bankroll nit / compulsive withdrawer type of person

hard to say. it is safe to say however that 20k is not a sufficient sample to determine your true winrate.
i say 3+ptbb/100 is probably good/beating it provided its over a large sample
just worry about improving and the winrate will follow.

Find some intent to move up imo! Unless you need the money, grow your bank roll for a while. 50 is not that much harder than 25. Plus, let's say you move up to 50 and end up moving back down... well then 25 will suddenly seem easier. I played a few sessions of 25 when I has having a DS at 50 and I LOL'd at how I used to think 25 was hard.

@ Enty: It might still be rigged, but you are still getting it in good.

i am now 12/260 in the $26 KO deepstack 14k guarantee and just got my first knockout bounty. 25k stack 10k avg.

$4k for furst 1 time ?

maybe if i head to 200NL from 50NL for awhile, then "drop down" to 100NL.... hmmmm....

cant fail

Take it from a chronic withdrawer (lol count it), play less tables, get better, and make one of your goals moving up.

WTF
i have KK vs KK against this one guy
3 hands later i have QQ vs QQ against the same guy.

tilts donkament rng is on the fritz imo

lol and a few hands later same guy gets aj vs aj against the fish

GOGOGOGOGOG!

My thoughts exactly!!!

But EN, if you are rolled for 100, mix some in on the weekends. Seriously. Just make sure you have a reason to be at the table, i.e... a drooler. While trying to win the droolers stack, you will be tangling with better regs who will be looking to exploit you, uncovering more of your leaks and forcing you to play better -> faster progress. I don't mind mixing limits in a single sesh, so if that tilts you it will be a bit harder.

My progressions has gone like this so far:

Mix in 100 on weekends.
Mix in a couple 100 tables all the time.
Table select (read bum hunt) between 50 and 100, without paying any attention to the proportions.
Finally grow a pair and play 100 exclusively. If there are absolutely no good 100 tables running or my BR drops below 40 BI I will mix in 50 again.

After this, 50 absolutely feels easier and the big 50 pots don't phase me in the slightest anymore. So the added benefit is that I can move down to 50 and feel good if my confidence @ 100 gets soul crushed.

So anyway I definitely recommend everyone, replace limit x and x+1 with your personal situation and go for it.

********** EDIT: Before I encourage anybody to bust their roll, make sure you have very strict BRM and absolutely stick to it.

Like: If I'm above $XX I mix in YY level, but I will stop if my BR drops to $ZZ.

I have confirmation from FT of my ipod touch order on Oct. 21, but still no shipment confirmation.

I'm at work enty, update?

5 more BIs at 50NL then I will do some weekend shots at 100NL.

I remember seeing decorated pine trees in the countryside starting beginning of December; a couple of years ago, people started to decorate their houses.

Hollywood, expansionist branch of the US government ;-)

(PS: Switzerland)

Big thanks to the regular posters on this thread for the rake-back advice! From the time I contacted Full Tilt (and rakebackpros) it took about 7 days to start earning.

I guess I should get moving then...

small-mid pairs in SB... i'm swaying between 3b and flat against ATS from 19/13, ft3b 53%, ATS 48% (55% BTN; 37% CO; 60% SB). i'm playing super-azzed nitty though today on regfested DS 50nl. being card dead isn't helping.

thoughts?

Hmmmmmmmm.... that's interesting. His range is wide... so set mining against a wide range is bad. But he doesn't fold to a 3 bets THAT much, so 3betting as a bluff is kinda meh. Low pocket pairs can't really be 3bet for value....

Head asplode