*** Mo' Money May Chat Thread ***

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Im confused. Is this thread about how I suck at poker or about how eNTy came up with a sucky title? If it is suppose to be about how we have been playing then okay I guess. Offline is going better than online for me. If its about eNTy's title than I would agree with most of you in the regards that it is a hard one to follow.
 
Did I play this right?I went with my gut feeling this guy was bluffing he raised almost every pot?? If you were in my seat would you of played it liked that on the turn?

Full Tilt poker game #12095146838: Table Bolt (6 max) - $0.10/$0.25 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:44:38 ET - 2009/05/08
Seat 1: SmurfeHits ($30.68)
Seat 2: fish hunting ($40.93), is sitting out
Seat 3: BOstarN1 ($30.73)
Seat 4: robmixalot ($2.72)
Seat 5: Zenva ($25.95)
Seat 6: zmcguire19 ($32.42)
BOstarN1 posts the small blind of $0.10
robmixalot posts the big blind of $0.25
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to zmcguire19 [6h 6c]
Zenva has 15 seconds left to act
Zenva folds
zmcguire19 calls $0.25
SmurfeHits raises to $1.10
BOstarN1 folds
robmixalot folds
zmcguire19 calls $0.85
*** FLOP *** [Jc 2s 9h]
zmcguire19 checks
SmurfeHits bets $1.75
zmcguire19 calls $1.75
*** TURN *** [Jc 2s 9h] [9s]
zmcguire19 checks
SmurfeHits bets $3
zmcguire19 raises to $15.05
SmurfeHits has 15 seconds left to act
SmurfeHits has requested TIME
SmurfeHits folds
Uncalled bet of $12.05 returned to zmcguire19
zmcguire19 mucks
zmcguire19 wins the pot ($11.45)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $12.05 | Rake $0.60
Board: [Jc 2s 9h 9s]
Seat 1: SmurfeHits (button) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: fish hunting is sitting out
Seat 3: BOstarN1 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: robmixalot (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 5: Zenva didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: zmcguire19 collected ($11.45), mucked
 
If you thought he was bluffing you'd be better off calling and calling and then check calling the river I think. Also don't limp pre flop.
 
Am i the only 1 who thinks it would be massively profitable to become a god at mtt's? Since all games are supposedly getting harder all the time and less profitable, although still juicy, whereas MTT's will forever be juicy and full of fish. If only they didnt make you want to kill yourself and if you have sick tilt control they are probably the best game in terms of profit
 
i mean over considerable time. Not that i would know because i didn't play then, but like 18 months ago, 400nl+ was a lot easier, like equivalent to todays 100nl according to comments and people, so if that keeps up, in time its just going to get harder and harder. It will obviously still be profitable, just winrates will drop
 
switch0723 said:
Am i the only 1 who thinks it would be massively profitable to become a god at mtt's? Since all games are supposedly getting harder all the time and less profitable, although still juicy, whereas MTT's will forever be juicy and full of fish. If only they didnt make you want to kill yourself and if you have sick tilt control they are probably the best game in terms of profit
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Nope, I agree. Rings for the grind, MTTs for suddenly getting rich one day imo.
 
Maybe. But you'd have to accept constantly losing money for a big spike once in a while..
 
switch0723 said:
i mean over considerable time. Not that i would know because i didn't play then, but like 18 months ago, 400nl+ was a lot easier, like equivalent to todays 100nl according to comments and people, so if that keeps up, in time its just going to get harder and harder. It will obviously still be profitable, just winrates will drop
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Lately id say its getting a little harder because the economy sucks and online poker is fcked for the US. Two thing should happen that would be wonderful and make games juicy again. Economy improves significantly, and online poker becomes "legal" in the US. If both these things happen then I can see alot of dead money drifting back into the games.

Imagine if the uigea didnt exist anymore, lol the amount of bad players sifting into the games would be sick, plus they could advertise the .com site more etc etc.....
 
switch0723 said:
Am i the only 1 who thinks it would be massively profitable to become a god at mtt's? Since all games are supposedly getting harder all the time and less profitable, although still juicy, whereas MTT's will forever be juicy and full of fish. If only they didnt make you want to kill yourself and if you have sick tilt control they are probably the best game in terms of profit
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I think I would probably want to spend the rest of my days with cocktail sticks propping my eyelids open, and someone pouring acid on an open wound on my body, than playing MTT's on a regular basis. The thought of grinding them makes me wanna 😛uke:

Winning a biggy though would be nice 🙂
 
switch0723 said:
i mean over considerable time. Not that i would know because i didn't play then, but like 18 months ago, 400nl+ was a lot easier, like equivalent to todays 100nl according to comments and people, so if that keeps up, in time its just going to get harder and harder. It will obviously still be profitable, just winrates will drop
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Even if this was the case, if you were a good nl400 reg 18 months ago, your rate of improvement should be greater than that of lesser regs over the same period of time. Hence, although games may have become harder, you should still have been able to maintain a large edge.
 
switch0723 said:
i mean over considerable time. Not that i would know because i didn't play then, but like 18 months ago, 400nl+ was a lot easier, like equivalent to todays 100nl according to comments and people, so if that keeps up, in time its just going to get harder and harder. It will obviously still be profitable, just winrates will drop
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So the solution is to get better obv. My philosophy is that Phil Ivey or Tom Dwan are good enough that no matter how tough poker gets they'll still be able to make decent money. So I'll just get better than them.

Jurn8 said:
but will the UIGEA thing ever go away?
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Likely this year, the bill just hit the House floor and is projected to pass. Then the politics game of getting a similar bill in the Senate passed, reconciling the two versions, compromising, amending, including funding for random projects amended along with other random pet projects to win votes, and finally getting it passed Congress and having the President sign it. So not any time really soon, but hopefully in a few months and by the end of the year.
 
zachvac said:
So the solution is to get better obv. My philosophy is that Phil Ivey or Tom Dwan are good enough that no matter how tough poker gets they'll still be able to make decent money. So I'll just get better than them.



Likely this year, the bill just hit the House floor and is projected to pass. Then the politics game of getting a similar bill in the Senate passed, reconciling the two versions, compromising, amending, including funding for random projects amended along with other random pet projects to win votes, and finally getting it passed Congress and having the President sign it. So not any time really soon, but hopefully in a few months and by the end of the year.
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Sweet thanks Zach
 
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