Which is the official site. Make you sure get the right one if you have a 32 or 64bt windows OS. Install that and then when it is installed try downloading PT4 again and see if that fixes it.
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Not really played properly in a few days but I did have a mate around last night and we were taking five playable turns each on a micro table, rinse and repeat until we had lost the BI, won a bit or ran out of time and had to go. We ended up losing it in the end as we were both drunk as hell but it was quite fun. I was playing super TAG and he thought any old hand would work. Fun times apart from the BI down but it's nothing really.
Was an alright after as well but had the worst shot ever called a fireball which had vodka, whiskey, sambuca and other nasty's in it which like the name implies kept my throat on fire for god knows how long and nearly urging.
Quite sober so I will win back that BI later hopefully then carry on my poker quest.
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£6. It has been between £6 and £9 for the last week. So basically on a break even run. Last decent bankroll I had was £60 from a £10 deposite but I spewed that away on higher stakes zoom type poker on super tilt.
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It's my 5th bankroll this month, I went spew crazy with the others. Basically this year I have won a lot, but lost more. So not been so great so far and the times when I had a decent enough bankroll to push on and do properly I have tilted away, if not I could have been in the hundreds now maybe.
Trial and error and learning I guess and as long as I have a bankroll everything is good.
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Posted by Phisix: It's my 5th bankroll this month, I went spew crazy with the others. Basically this year I have won a lot, but lost more. So not been so great so far and the times when I had a decent enough bankroll to push on and do properly I have tilted away, if not I could have been in the hundreds now maybe.
Trial and error and learning I guess and as long as I have a bankroll everything is good.
aye,keep at it Phisix i'm sure you will get there in the end mate.
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Posted by teddybears73:
Posted by Phisix: It's my 5th bankroll this month, I went spew crazy with the others. Basically this year I have won a lot, but lost more. So not been so great so far and the times when I had a decent enough bankroll to push on and do properly I have tilted away, if not I could have been in the hundreds now maybe.
Trial and error and learning I guess and as long as I have a bankroll everything is good.
aye,keep at it Phisix i'm sure you will get there in the end mate.
Basically won 90% of what I lost yesterday in a session now. Making money is going slow though but there is a few fish which ripe for the picking.
Edit: Maybe not. It's luck out time with crappy cards time. Sussed him out now and gained some stats on this idiot. He likes to 3 bet a lot with crap which he has gotten lucky with on the river twice now.
------------ Had a good winning session and made nearly £3 profit. Had a few ups and downs and some annoying calling stations but it's been good either way. My bankroll is evens now but my PT4 still says I am £2 down, but that is down to some bonus's I have gotten towards my bankroll.
Hey Phisix, would you want to play The Bigger $2.20 on PS tonight? I'll send you the BI if you say yes. It has 120 min late reg and starts 10 min. from now.
Posted by bowie1984: Hey Phisix, would you want to play The Bigger $2.20 on PS tonight? I'll send you the BI if you say yes. It has 120 min late reg and starts 10 min. from now.
Nevermind, you gone offline. Let me know if you want to play in the next one!
(I am asking cuz their got bigger prizepool thx to the 900mill celebration and the sunday one will be the last with that much of a gtd money with this low of a BI - so let me know if you can be online at that late night... BTW I fell out the saturday one with a nice setup QQ vs. QQ vs. AJs vs. 1010 - setupstars)
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Sorry man I wen't to bed as it was getting late and I never play much after 12. Did you play in it yourself?
------------ And last night's great effort, play and profit gone in two hands. First one was 3 betting a 75 vpip and calling his short stack push with AQs and running into AK. Second was KK in the BB and 3 betting the guy on the button light and he pushed all in and so calling was an easy call. Turns over AK and hits an Ace on the river(thats twice this month now). Add this to calling stations and fish calling with crap and variance always giving them two pairs it's not looking good for me.
This is why I am break even lately as once I start clawing my losses back I get set up against a superior hand or variance gives the villain that one card they need. My poker tracker stats for the BB position stats is now minus £9 which is really bad that is due to a few AA/KK/QQ all in's getting getting cracked. Never has my pokertracker stats been bad and I have more losing sessions that good.
I know it's only one BI and a half but how many times can I keep losing with QQ/KK/AA and getting sucked out lately. Only good thing is I still have a bankroll and can always win it.
------------ Anyone think freerolls are rigged? Every time I have sussed out someone or think they have nothing when I have a low pocket pair or pair the other person who goes all in for no reason always sucks out, especially when they have a damn Ace and always get that ace on the magical river.
Just spent two hours with f**k all chances, f**k all cards and idiot stations keep winning with god knows what and how many hands and the one genuine hand I get(And in the knockout stage as well) I get sucked out on ONCE AGAIN. How many suckouts can I endure until I do well in a freeroll because the variance in these things are always stacked on the losing player for some reason.
Add this to being on the most boring and nittiest cash table ever and I need to stop playing for an hour before I tilt or something.
I don't know about you guys but sometimes this game really gives me a headache and pure hatred towards it.
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Posted by Phisix:
Add this to being on the most boring and nittiest cash table ever and I need to stop playing for an hour before I tilt or something.
just leave, its not worth it really. hate playing vs nits because pretty much the only way to win some money of them is via setups PLUS you to be on the better side of said setup. And knowing you and ur patience, youll probably end up losing ur temper vs those guys anyways, so just run away, and never look back
Really not worth your time, or nerves to play at such a table so just leave as soon as u figure out you got a few nits there.
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Yeah I left them in the end as it was boring me.
On my second session before and everything is going s**t. I cant pull off a hand or any bluff and I feel like im some kind of stupid fish player. Guy calling my JJ 3bet with 64s and hitting a second 6 on thw river has just put me on some calm tilt. £3 down so putting last £4 on the lowest speed poker table as had enough of grinding my ass off for f**k all and constant s**t this month. Maybe I will get lucky and double, who cares.
Just blew most of my remaining bankroll chasing a straight and flush draw after folding most of my hands PF or never hitting on the cunting flop. Funny how this s**t happens when I am on tilt, unleash the s**t storm on me as usual. Funny how with decent odds I cannot hit but people with no odds at all luck out against me. Funny.
God this game is such a f**king set up merchant it really is. Get JJ and have 3 limpers before. Nice 8x 3 bet and they all call. c Bet out as there is only one over card and the giant stack obviously calls. Turn brings the Ace so I check and obvious middle bet comes out. What can I do then fold and lose money I just spent ages to win back. Then call two short stacks with 88 one has QQ and the other AKs, of course, set up city.
Before I also got set up with AKs on the SB so 3 bet and bb called with j10. Flop gave him a straight and me two pair(Been in this position millions of times) Lucky he slow played it and I hit a full house on the river to win my BI back before losing £3 of it to the fih and set up hand above.
AK on the SB again so just limp in. Get re-raised so 3 bet and he pushes all in. Thought why not since he only had half my chips and everyone who has AK against me in an all in always wins so why not me. Flips over 99 and I hit nothing. Standard.
Posted by Phisix: Anyone think freerolls are rigged?
Not rigged per se, but definitely uses different algorythm in their RNG if I had to guess. The amount of setups, bad beats or magical one outers on the river doesn't mean that much there since 75% of the playerpool in a free.roll is playing it like theres nothing to loose. For example I like using a really-really wide 3bet/push range there and going into crazy situations post-flop where in a normal MTT I would even bothered to call somebodys raise with rags. I couldn't be bothered if that starts the name calling after I donk somebody out with this attitude since I'm not there to win the WSOP, I'm there to have some fun... Cuz if you think about it, todays free.rolls (almost anywhere) pays terrible if you don't end up in the top5, so playing long hours for cents in return is not really +EV in my book. I like every now and then the Weekly Round 2s and the occasional ones where you could BI with FPPs, but I'm not there to make serious dough, since they are useless for that.
I don't know if I answered your question, sorry, I just like to ramble...
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That was what I was thinking. Not rigged as for a certain person but a rigged RNG or something. Maybe for the weaker players so they win something and give them a reason to come back to the site, lose it on the site an and deposit again. Something like that, maybe.
Some how I managed to not go busto on that tilt last night. Don't know what came over me but nothing went right last night. Maybe half of my problems are down to me and my play. I am not exactly some great player, but I have crushed 2NL many times before before Ladbrokes went to Ipoker. Maybe players have just got better or the variance is sicker I don't know. All I know is I have to get better.
------------ And I am busto again. The BB and the SB for seem to be real losing places whatever cards I have and it is starting to fucking wind me up. Wen't out with 1010 vs someones 22. After 2KK flopped. He bet showing he did not have a K and I was right but I did not really think about him having a 2 since he was on the button. Thing like this keep happening when I am the BB or SB, whether it's a set up, suckout or my 3 bet with AK+ gets called by some fish in position and of course I don't hit and have to fold after a Cbet call or resistance. The amount of times I have come up against someone with 22 and they keep hitting a set or boat now is getting ridiculous but I never hit when I have them.
Not happy with some of my calls and play since I won that bankroll, but I am not happy at some of the shite I have encountered as well as everything has felt against me in my grind since the start, my PT4 graphs show that too. Big loser is SB and BB but in the green for the rest, and a up and down constant yo-yo on winning and losing.
Maybe it's me...
------------ Oh and I have enough points for a couple of those small man MTT's again so maybe I can win another bankroll. I was thinking of depositing but what is the point when I cannot even stay over the profit line or crush anything, and before anyone says take a break, a break is not going to get me playing any better, maybe I am just not as good as I think, although I don't think I am that great anyway tbh.
------------ Edit:
I need to start learning from books and videos and see if that improves my poker.
First I will start with David Skalinsky's No Limit Hold em Theory and also Practice Hold’em Poker For Advanced Players and see if that helps me improve. I hear David Skalinsky books are quite good so I may as well start with these and then maybe some Dan Harrington after.
------------ Done really well in a 9000 man freeroll today once again showing I can play and do well in MTT's when I used to be bad at them. Done so well I was 50th with 200 or so people left but as usual I get set up with AA on the button and someone going all in UTG. KK/QQ for sure right as he had nearly the same amount of chips I did(80k). So easy call for anyone and he flips over 88 and hits his magical two outs and basically knocks me out of the freeroll.
1: who donks 88 UTG when they have so many chips and is dominated by over hands(probably) in position?
2: Why is it when I play really well in MTT's and have a chance to do even better when I have the odds I always lose. Funny old game for me lately.
3: When does so called variance turn into general bad luck?
Anyway I won a special freeroll ticket and $3.50 to play with on 888. Which is cool anyway. Ending up playing two SNAP cash tables and I am bossing both tables until one table gives away a massive pot suckout and the other table carrys on crushing. I banked the good table and reloaded two tables and I was up to $7 and kicking me more ass until I get KK(on CO) and get a small re-raise. Small story short we get into a re-raise marathon and I push(as it cant be KK vs AA again for the 10th time this week can it) and it is and I lose $2 of the hard earned money and bringing me back down to $5.
It's poker I know and maybe I should have realized and folded but once again it shows when I am playing well and on a roll the set ups and suckouts have to come into play.
