OcUK Poker Thread.

Lima · 3 Mar 2013 at 20:09

DAIR said:
Blinds still going up i guess?!

I think they were for a short time but they paused the tournament till they resolved the lag problem. All seems good now.

DAIR · 3 Mar 2013 at 20:10

Lima said:
I think they were for a short time but they paused the tournament till they resolved the lag problem. All seems good now.

Ridiculous.

They never paused the blinds for the satellite. Good Luck anyways

tombrr · 5 Mar 2013 at 20:32

How did it go Lima?

el_dazza · 5 Mar 2013 at 22:18

Tommy how the hell did you win the ocuk poker league :eek:

Lima · 6 Mar 2013 at 00:58

tombrr said:
How did it go Lima?

Went terrible! I lasted a little while, chips going up and down like a rollercoaster, was completely card dead for about an hour, then when I was desperate for a double up, I got it all in pre with qq against 2 players and lost to kk.

I should never have played really, i spent about $230 on satellites which failed then bought in direct.... My bankroll on pokerstars has taken a little spanking lol

Back to playing Omaha cash games on full tilt!

DAIR · 6 Mar 2013 at 13:11

Lima said:
Went terrible! I lasted a little while, chips going up and down like a rollercoaster, was completely card dead for about an hour, then when I was desperate for a double up, I got it all in pre with qq against 2 players and lost to kk.

I should never have played really, i spent about $230 on satellites which failed then bought in direct.... My bankroll on pokerstars has taken a little spanking lol

Back to playing Omaha cash games on full tilt!

WOW.... I gave up after the madness that kicked off during he big SM satellite. Annoyed me so much that I've since opened a carbon poker account. Sadly carbon poker doesn't lookup to scratch just yet. Will give it another 12 months or so before making a deposit... Any of you use it?

arc@css · 6 Mar 2013 at 17:33

I'm having connection issues with Stars atm. :/

Jas1222 · 6 Mar 2013 at 17:59

I'm a casual player and play a couple of weeks with friends but just for little cash, nothing serious at all, would you recommend playing online just for a bit of fun?

arc@css · 6 Mar 2013 at 19:14

^^ Sure. All you need to do to get started, is to deposit the minimum on PokerStars and play the 1 / 2c tables.

Jas1222 · 11 Mar 2013 at 00:24

arc@css said:
^^ Sure. All you need to do to get started, is to deposit the minimum on PokerStars and play the 1 / 2c tables.

Played the minimum and lost every game I played :confused:

Rotty · 23 Mar 2013 at 18:24

has everyone seen this, play at Wembley stadium with a 1m Euro 1st prize, nice

http://www.dusktilldawnpoker.com/ispt/

Nursie · 23 Mar 2013 at 18:26

Was an absolute joke for ages, seems like DTD taking over the running of it might just save it.

dowie · 23 Mar 2013 at 19:22

Nursie said:
Was an absolute joke for ages, seems like DTD taking over the running of it might just save it.

Well DTD getting involved and changing the whole event into something rather different to what was originally proposed has saved it to some extent.

The original proposal was an unfeasible joke a 30 million 'guarantee' (which has now gone - seemingly the french don't understand the meaning of the word guarantee) and the previous proposal had the idea of thousands of players playing on laptops in the stands - when questioned on the practicalities of this and quite importantly whether the organisers had ever tried something like this on a smaller scale (players in the live venue on laptops then progressing to playing live) the rep on one forum didn't seem to fully grasp the concerns.

Its now turned into a more modest 'guarantee' which apparently is now an actual guarantee and the Day 1 is simply taking place online... not some rather dubious idea of 1000s of people supposedly bringing laptops along to a stadium.

Rotty · 23 Mar 2013 at 19:30

Nursie said:
Was an absolute joke for ages, seems like DTD taking over the running of it might just save it.

yes, was a laughing stock but if anyone can rescue it DTD can

Rotty · 23 Mar 2013 at 19:31

dowie said:
Its now turned into a more modest 'guarantee' which apparently is now an actual guarantee and the Day 1 is simply taking place online... not some rather dubious idea of 1000s of people supposedly bringing laptops along to a stadium.

there will also be live Day1s at various venues

G-MAN2004 · 24 Mar 2013 at 21:43

Wow, how annoying is this... Cleared me out.

I'm one in the middle.

DAIR · 30 Mar 2013 at 17:56

Have recently decided to have a break from tournament games. Doing so has given me more time to play cash games.

So far I'm on a decent run - Some highlights

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/2640371_75A33A4954

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/2638110_D8DB78E0FA

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/2627856_7AE40B9B58

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/2625769_09959D74DC

Overall I'm doing pretty well and have only had a handful of bad beats.

One of my more frustrating moves....

http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/2640524_421362DBA0

RoboCod · 31 Mar 2013 at 12:30

Called a reraise pre flop with 10 Q? I'd be cursing you so much

tombrr · 31 Mar 2013 at 12:42

Captain Planet said:
Called a reraise pre flop with 10 Q? I'd be cursing you so much

Captain deserved to win that pot anyway with that duche thinking he was still 'winning' with AK on the river with ace high.

Elixir · 31 Mar 2013 at 13:30

Indeed, calling 10x big blind with Q10 off suit? :confused: