brky posts a bunch and is still a mod

dsmith lurks sometimes i think

thac hasnt been around for a while

dsmith posts more in ssfr iirc

Yeah, that would make sense. That is his realm of domination after all.

I've never been a live tells man particularly but I've just played 10 hrs with a man who put his palms face down on the table everytime he was bluffing and covered his mouth with his hands everytime he had it without fail. Quite incredible

how can you not be a "live tells man" with the amount of live you play? I thought this would have been where you could gain quite an edge over an opponent.

that must have been an interesting night to say the least.

No...hi I'm Akromah.

Also, where are you in PA? Any chance you've ever been to Parx? It's like 10 minutes from my house.

+1...good ol' Jimmy Fricke

Interesting re live tells as hands over mouth used to mean a bluff. He's maybe watched too much tv?

Ahh...wild! Do you by chance play 10/10?

Not yet, but I certainly have the bankroll and think I've been getting a lot of respect as a solid player at the $2/5 tables that play DEEP. (And by no means is that a brag lol but Parx does have the best poker players in general that I've come across in my experience at 3 different PA casinos in general.), I still consider myself a noob when I come on 2+2 and look into some of my friend's blog updates and hand histories they post from playing higher stakes. This poker thing constantly is making me think of the best ways to play each hand to maximize my EV potential.

Edit: Actually there was only 1 $10/10 game running tonight and it consisted of mostly 5-6 regulars and maybe 1 unknown guy from what I saw.. one of the regulars happened to be Matt Glantz, who has something like $4.2M in tournament winnings to his name already, but that was the highest game running of any kind tonight.. most nights he's there he's playing games like 400/800 stud h/l, and other sorts of mixed games in the 150/300 - 300/600 range.

Hai guys, Nogatsira here, back after like 3 years, can't even find my old password for my 2p2 account back

Lol, Nogatsira, I totally remember you. You were the one that either started up your own pet shop or you helped run one while playing some poker on the side? Didn't you used to play pretty high above your roll back in the day? lol.. like 2/4, 3/6, 5/10 NL?

Yea I still own a petstore. I used to play up to 3/6.

I re-deposited a couple days ago to grind it up again from NL10, but I'm still waiting for the money to be on Stars .. damn holidays.

Any chance you could lend me 50? :$
I'd pay back 60 within 3 days

I could just log into stars to show its me, no need to act like that

Clearly the biggest edge is from the fact most of the guys have hugely inconsistent, unbalanced and resultantly face up betsizing. I try to notice reactions and mannerisms but I'm not particularly good at deciphering them, but this guy was sat directly opposite me and it stuck out like a sore thumb.

yeah, live tells are pretty insignificant and unreliable compared to the same kind of normal behavioral tells that you would use playing online and the fact that everyone is just super horrible at poker. there are some exceptions, but overall its just very overrated imo.

Haven't been around lately - been on a family 'vacation', if you can qualify it as a vacation.

Also haven't been playing - I cashed out my roll on lolBovada for the holidays. I have $9.75 left on the account; any ideas for what to do with that? I have grinded out a roll starting with $25 in the past, but it is soooo boring, my god. Thinking of entering like am $8 donkament or something, seems like the best plan.

Anyway, happy holidays and new years to all, be safe.

omaha is the way to robusto that roll

Ooooooo good idea, thanks

NYE is the BEST day to grind by a factor of 10. Not close. Results no higher than 2/4, mainly 1/2.

Happy ****ing new year.

First day back to the tables in three months. I took the time off because I couldn't get my head around the game by which I mean had begun after a long time to lose my tilt control. I just kept taking bad beats. 60k sample for my last grinding stretch before the break. In those 60k hands I'm negative with KK AIPF and have a total profit of 10.41 with AA all in pre flop with an ABI of 15. I'm down 8 buy ins today. 3rd hand KK vs TT AIPF and KK loses. I've played 124 hands. I put 80 on to 2 tables 10nl to get back into it and I'm back at 0. I've cashed out 21kish since 2005 with at least 3 or 4 scattered years off and never not profited on a deposit except the last $100 one and this $80 one. This is way below the stakes I was playing in 07-09 and the honestly I dont think I can handle the variance. I think I'm done with poker for once. I don't have faith in the odds at all anymore. It's delusional to think that you have worse luck then every one else, but I can't shake it.

had a losing day on new years eve/night. Think im doing poker wrong.

Happy new year kids I am on another planet

mr blonde, a year ago you said you'd review a vid for me...

anyway, happy new year to you and everyone else.