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Llama, have you experienced issues with the Bovada software? I downloaded it and everything is incredibly unresponsive. It legit takes a full 3-5 seconds before registering any action I do or mouse button I click (this includes simply navigating the lobby). I'm suffering no negative performance anywhere else with my computer. Also tried having it be the only thing open, same thing.
Yes Bovada software (since an update about a month ago) has been incredibly laggy. I was playing 8+ mtts but now can only fire up 4 or less. There is a 3 second delay from when you act and from what I've heard it's something were going to have to get use to. They have been making small improvements but it's still pretty terrible sometimes.
Lame.
I've just been playing some $1-$7 SNGs and MTTs to get back in the groove of playing. Ended up getting 4th in a ~50 man MTT so that's not bad. Probably not gonna get serious again though, at least I don't feel like I will. Gotten aces 7 times and haven't won with em yet which is pretty standard.
Looking to make a deep run in this 5k and 3k guaranteed though.
Twelve hours?! How many people join in those? Also have any of you thought about doing that Ivey League poker training thing? One is like $9 a month then the next one up is $75/mo which is ridiculous. But hey maybe you could get it for a couple months then quit it. Even if you learned enough to win one hand you wouldn't have before the training would pay for the monthly payment
I stream my final table of the $22 10k last night. Ended up getting 4th for like $850. Had 80+ viewers after a professional poker player/twitch streamer (KILLINGBIRD) hosted me for over 40 viewers. It was an epic night. You can find the vod on my stream. It was unfortunate because my sound ended up cutting out during my stream. It was also unfortunate I ran my 2nd nuts into the the nuts.
Would you guys play this hand different? Playing 1/2 at a casino. Raise with KK to $15. Get 4 more callers. Guy donks for like 20 or so on a 653 flop. Guy shoves behind for like $12. I reraise to $75. Guy behind me thinks about it and folds. Donker shoves all in, I call. I didn't see his 3 green chips which were 25 a piece or I may not have called. Turn and river were a J and 3 so it was 653J3. Guy flips over j6... luckily hit that damn 3. Guy next to me that folded said he folded 33.. how do you fold 33 off my reraise to 75? Pot wouldn't been close to 200. You have to call that once right?
And played like 8 hours.. came up $320. Lost a big one towards the end. Probably could've saved myself $70 but felt like the price was too good to fold. Also AK can be the biggest pain in the fucking ass to play sometimes.
I kept telling hin I didn't believe him but we were talking the whole time he was playing next to me. I believed him eventually. BUT if he calls the 75 does the guy still shove? If he dies and I call, surely he will fold the 33 seeing how he did already to a $75 raise. That's being too much of a nit
I mean, he would either still shove or fold, likely folding. After a $75 raise and flat call, there's no reason to believe you're live with top pair on that board. If that guy called the $75 and I was the guy with J-6, I could probably call both of your hands even in the moment. One of the things you gotta think about is how deep stacked the table is. Unless everyone is sitting around with $300+ on average in front of them, there aren't really many other plays when someone puts out a $75 bet imo. Especially on that board. If the guy behind you just called, you should immediately know what he has. Nobody calls a $75 bet in 1/2 and is chasing anything, since your turn bet is gonna be at least double that (plus the guy has to act behind him). Any overpairs would just shove to get the third guy to fold and isolate while flush draws and hands like top pair with open ended would likely just shove to get the third guy out as well and hope you had AK. He *can't* really call because if that third guy shoves and you call or re-shove, he HAS to believe someone flopped a straight and is in a position of forfeiting $75 or putting everything on the board pairing. And he might still not even have the best set with you two playing like that. The only person that calls in that position is a flopped straight or a set still though. So the guy behind you really only had two options, shove or fold. He probably knew the third guy was a donk as well and figured there was a high chance he flopped a straight with his random range. Still too tight though.
You need to play at this casino.. like really. I've seen some stupid ass shit. I've seen 3 people go all in on the turn(or maybe flop) after multiple raises with the board being low(pot ended up being like 1300). One guy had aces, another guy with 9s and another guy flopped two pair. 9s and aces both should've folded but one guy said he was trying to rep the set of whatever by flat calling so much. Anyway.... the donker who bet 20? What hand could we put him on? Something with a 4.. Maybe two pair. Guy behind me can't believe him too much yet so he has to worry about me. He should've put me on an overpair to that board. Yeah I raised big, but there's 120 in that pot before I raise. I need to know where I'm at. Him folding bottom set it just too nitty. I don't know what that guy with j6 was thinking shoving there like that with pair of 6s. Also the guy with the 3s called the 20 out of turn so I can't believe he wasn't going to raise. He didn't play bad the whole time he was next to me, maybe played a lot of hands which is never good. It's hard playing against fish.. never can put them on hand and sonetimes you do have to pay them off to see what they play
Thanks dude!
That one was a $2 buy in $500 guaranteed. The one I got 3rd in was a $3 buy in $1,000 guaranteed. It's small ball because I don't have the bankroll to justify tourneys that high (or so says Chris Ferguson). These small investment things will satisfy me for at least a little. And why would you need us to open an account for you?
Because I've tried and was bad at lying to my bank saying I was trying to deposit money to play poker haha. You guys open up me an account, I'll throw $100. $50 for you and $50 to play on the account with. I forgot poker isn't legal online.. and that's a shitty first place for a $500 guaranteed. I don't blame you for playing small ball. If I get an account I'll probably be playing like $10 tourneys to get used to all the players and learning how to pick my spots.
It's not that playing poker online is illegal, it's just some regulatory bullshit.
And not necessarily on the payout. What percentage of the prize pool can you realistically expect for 1st with 341 players?
Also you'd be a retard to play $10 tourneys with a $50 bankroll lol. You'd be out of money in less than a day. Variance is a bitch dude, and you can't play tourneys to get the "feel" of the players with 20% of your bank LOL
Well I figured the prize pool to be more like 600 so yeah what you got for 1st seems reasonable. And I have more to put in than $50 but I'd probably play lower stakes tourneys with $50. So are any of you down to do this for me? If I lived closer to the casino I go to, id play their $75 tourneys or $125 they have every sunday. First place for that is probably a couple grand if you don't agree on a deal
My money didnt go through. Waited two hours and it days canceled. Now it's saying it could take 3-5 business days to look at my account. I fucking hate my bank with a passion. I'm going to try kraken instead of this circle app for getting bitcoins. Edit: Kraken is too difficult to understand. Fuck why do they make it do difficult to deposit a measly 100 dollars into an account. God damn.