PokerStars hand # 4.96B milestone thread

[Silent A]

I'm predicting 11:30PM ET +/- 20 minutes for the next milestone.

At 10:00 ET I'll post a final predicted time and a time I'll start hosting tables/looking for dennisa.

Same basic procedure as before.

PokerStars has told me that they're OK with us openly agreeing to fold to the blinds.

[DonkeyKongSr]

Anyone know how long you can sit out for until Stars boots you from the table?

[jjigglers]

3 rounds, unless the whole table is sitting out

[DonkeyKongSr]

Thanks. I guess I can play a hand every 10-15 minutes to keep myself going.

[theben]

anybody have an idea of how many real money games operate during the milestone times?

anybody have a good feel about the expectation per table for this? im guessing it is much much less than 1$/table and it probably takes a while to get setup if you just play nanos for the chance at 2k

[pa3lsvt]

Sitting at a nano PLO8 table right now. Not because I'm any good at O8.

[grouchie]

wasn't R3vbr playing nano limits when he won the last promo?

[Silent A]

OK, here we go. My final prediction is:

<font color="red">11:15 pm ET </font>

I don't think I can host any tables this time since this coincideds with a number of parental duties that my wife won't let me miss. I will try to join you guys later though.

GL

[bulldawgblue]

so who wants to host, because this kind of won't work if someone doesn't do that

[jjigglers]

lets get 6 people who would do 8 tables each, its the only way it will work

i know denissa is in, I'm kevinjenkins on pstars.

check in?

[jjigglers]

anyone?

[chitwood]

I'd be up for it. chitwood on P'Stars. I wasn't around on the earlier one today, how do we do it (I know the folding of the blinds, I just meant how do we get on the same table).

[golfinguy5]

If you guys want to try to join a post and fold table join the AIM chat "MilestoneHand". It looks like it would be easiest to join .50/1 tables or 1/2 tables and as long as we say it in the chat and all join an empty one at the same time I think we can do it

[Vlorg]

I'll do it but I don't use AIM though.

Vlorg

[chitwood]

yeah, I don't have the chat either. How about the 10NL? Are they too full?

[golfinguy5]

the 10NL fill up to fast... Do you guys have any way of chatting?

[chitwood]

I don't. Don't worry about me, you guys go ahead. I might have some parental things to take care of anyway.

[grac]

Being peak hours we could probably only get 1 10nl and 1 10 fixed going at this time. I'll be up and will do it if 5 others are in.

EDIT- They fill too fast. We can arrange to do it next time I guess.

[golfinguy5]

the fixed limits don't fill too fast, join the chat if you want to try

[Thalmodan]

how do you join an AIM chat?

[golfinguy5]

at the bottom of AIM go to chat, and where it says the room name it will be something like Chat:4894750987234, change that to milstonehand

EDIT: Or post/PM your SN and ill send you and invite.

[Thalmodan]

Check your PMs

[JackOfSpeed]

interested.

[golfinguy5]

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interested.

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Check your PM's

[jjigglers]

join the chat to get a table with us, Milestone Hand on AIM, or PM me with your AIM and i'll invite

[grac]

Don't have aim on this comp so I can't join the convo, anyways good luck guys. I'm on 5 tables so whatever we'll see, even though these idiots make every hand last 45 seconds lol.

[Vlorg]

I was on a few good tables where everyone was sitting out..but they don't last. People start playing /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[grac]

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I was on a few good tables where everyone was sitting out..but they don't last. People start playing /images/graemlins/frown.gif

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Yea I'm just playing with these donks.

[Artsemis]

If this is like the promo Party had awhile back for the 3B hand, private tables don't count. Is stars that stupid?

[bulldawgblue]

Any 2+2ers win?

[jjigglers]

Sigh, nothing close. We had some pretty effecient folding though, and nobody stole our blinds. Closest was 259 away. They definately are easier during the day.

[golfinguy5]

nope, and we have 8 tables of 6max all posting and folding

[Boondah]

the hand just passed :-/

[actyper]

luckycor won, sounds familliar. 8 tables all at that level, I chose the wrong ones. I wonder how many of those were open

[jjigglers]

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If this is like the promo Party had awhile back for the 3B hand, private tables don't count. Is stars that stupid?

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Does stars even have private tables?

[FloppyJ]

Anyone else feel pained folding AA and KK repeatedly? Good try. I was up $0.75 in folded blinds somehow. I'll call it a success.

[Olin Prefleup]

I tried to sit in as many tables as possible, but %#&amp;$ people insisted in playing their hands /images/graemlins/frown.gif Maybe you guys would want to gather in other place rather than AIM, so I can join you /images/graemlins/smile.gif
Maybe a general web-based chatroom?

[jjigglers]

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Anyone else feel pained folding AA and KK repeatedly? Good try. I was up $0.75 in folded blinds somehow. I'll call it a success.

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I actually paused once when I got KK, thinking to myself, "this is one time where it's right to fold KK preflop".

[4_2_it]

missed by 37

[Silent A]

In the end we got some very good tables at the .50/1.00 limit HE, even though i lost about $2 overall.

i'm satisfied. The real trick will be sticking with this for hours on Friday/Saturday.

[Dennisa]

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Being peak hours we could probably only get 1 10nl and 1 10 fixed going at this time. I'll be up and will do it if 5 others are in.

EDIT- They fill too fast. We can arrange to do it next time I guess.

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Earlier today, we were trying to sit down at tables an hour before. If you have 6 people just sitting, you can then come back and start up the table just before the milestone. There is a slight chance another hand will happend before 1:00 AM pacific time. I will post closer to 12:AM Pacific time to organize tables.

[Dennisa]

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Anyone else feel pained folding AA and KK repeatedly? Good try. I was up $0.75 in folded blinds somehow. I'll call it a success.

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No, I play higher than 10NL so I just dont look at the hands much.

[jjigglers]

.50/1 limit works very well, as long as we can get a full 2+2 table because there isnt that many people trying to sit.

one non 2+2 who doesn't know the rules really donks it up.

[grac]

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.50/1 limit works very well, as long as we can get a full 2+2 table because there isnt that many people trying to sit.

one non 2+2 who doesn't know the rules really donks it up.

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I don't have time to do it all the time but I lost like 4 bucks at 6 25/50 fixed because one idiot insisted on stealing blinds.

[bulldawgblue]

This is the first milestone I tried. I had all my tables spread across both of my monitors, but it retrospect would it be easier to just stack them all and keep clicking where the fold button would be?

[Silent A]

I agree with the .50/1 fixed idea from now on. it seems everyone tries for the min NLHE tables.

This next milestone will be hard to predict because it includes the peak playing time (now) and the low playing time (6am-10am ET). But the basic pattern is 1 hour or so earlier than the day before so I'm picking tomorrow at 3:00 pm ET for now.

[grac]

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In the end we got some very good tables at the .50/1.00 limit HE, even though i lost about $2 overall.

i'm satisfied. The real trick will be sticking with this for hours on Friday/Saturday.

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Who has hours to spare on Friday and Saturday. I would feel bad taking my seat in our 6 max's and then not being there for all the milestones

[Silent A]

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In the end we got some very good tables at the .50/1.00 limit HE, even though i lost about $2 overall.

i'm satisfied. The real trick will be sticking with this for hours on Friday/Saturday.

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Who has hours to spare on Friday and Saturday. I would feel bad taking my seat in our 6 max's and then not being there for all the milestones

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Well, not all, since that would be a bit crazy. But I intend to try to hit as many of the last ones as possible.

[Azalin]

I have and i am in. Do i join in the same chatroom in AIM?