** Official August Chat Thread: The White Swan **

[diebitter]

Grouchie, aim for this (last 2 days):

[RiverMustelid]

Its an interesing discussion on what level you play at.

I started at 200NL as I won a couple of medium size donkaments, and first month aside, was a winning player. That was pre US leg, and if I played like that now I would get my ass handed to me.

However, I was only 4 tabling. I recently dropped to 100NL to learn multitabling and am up to 9 with improved hourly win rate.
Now taking the higher number of tables back to 200NL on occasion.

Also I have now decided all the sites are the same. Party>>Stars>>Tilt>>Party. I used to have a thing about Stars, but the luck has evened out over larger smaple sizes.

[RiverMustelid]

Also, Im off to New York tomorrow! (I'm English so it is a brag for me). First time in the US for 15 years so pretty excited about it. Girlfriend might kill me if I started trying to meet poker players, but may have a stag do in Vegas in early January if anyone is out there around then.

[TheProdigy]

Hello, GrandMelon!


2.5k hands:

[D.L.M.]

I just bought a car and if my bankroll online get too low i may end up at nl100 for a month. I thin not wanting to move up is fine.... i mean where do you draw the ling? a guy who plays 400nl but wont move up past that is the same guys as the nl100 dude who wont move up. Just make some [censored] money.

[D.L.M.]

the car btw. its white and semi ballaish

[twoblacknines]

I'm telling you guys, the action hands are insane on stars.
I think MTTR or someone was talking about this earlier...

I took my cool down break from stars, then today in the first 100 hands I get AA vs KK all in and then KK vs AA all in and both times the KK wins. Then, unfortunately for Prodigy, this hand came up...

POKERSTARS GAME #11652049160: HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($1/$2) - 2007/08/23 - 17:39:09 (ET)
Table 'Lederle II' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Schwallie4 ($217.40 in chips)
Seat 2: texasbobby ($68.90 in chips)
Seat 3: cannonball37 ($28.75 in chips)
Seat 4: juampi_29 ($200 in chips)
Seat 5: scorpionfish ($172.45 in chips)
Seat 6: jacklabelxx ($133.85 in chips)
Seat 8: illu1212 ($39 in chips)
Seat 9: devolve ($245.80 in chips)
Schwallie4: posts small blind $1
texasbobby: posts big blind $2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to devolve [Qd Qs]
cannonball37: folds
juampi_29: folds
scorpionfish: calls $2
jacklabelxx: folds
illu1212: folds
devolve: raises $10 to $12
Schwallie4: calls $11
texasbobby: folds
scorpionfish: calls $10
*** FLOP *** [6s 6d Jc]
Schwallie4: checks
scorpionfish: checks
devolve: bets $24
Schwallie4: calls $24
scorpionfish: folds
*** TURN *** [6s 6d Jc] [5h]
Schwallie4: bets $25
devolve: calls $25
*** RIVER *** [6s 6d Jc 5h] [Qh]
Schwallie4: bets $60
devolve: raises $124.80 to $184.80 and is all-in
Schwallie4 said, "lol if you have qq"
Schwallie4: calls $96.40 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
devolve: shows [Qd Qs] (a full house, Queens full of Sixes)
Schwallie4: mucks hand
devolve collected $445.80 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $448.80 | Rake $3
Board [6s 6d Jc 5h Qh]
Seat 1: Schwallie4 (small blind) mucked [Jd Js]
Seat 2: texasbobby (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: cannonball37 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: juampi_29 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: scorpionfish folded on the Flop
Seat 6: jacklabelxx folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: illu1212 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: devolve (button) showed [Qd Qs] and won ($445.80) with a full house, Queens full of Sixes

Now I still believe its probably all just some crazy variance, and obviously it takes millions of hands before we could even begin talking about meaningful statistics, but I can't help but to think these kind of hands happen a bit too much.

Cliff notes: I'm not a conspiracy theorist and think it is more than likely variance that this happens so much, but think it is strange especially compared to some other sites I have played on.

[checkmate36]

I'm moving up to 10NL. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I earned $62 @ NL2 and then $72 at NL5 so I think Im ready. Plus I earned another $52 playing 6max (.02 and .05).

LOL looks like some kind of a pattern... $52/$62/$72 [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Too bad chess didn't create patterns such as this [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Jeff76]

I play purely for recreation. Which is why I play one or two tables at a time- I just try to enjoy the strategy, the reads, etc.

So I will probably keep moving up as much as I can. I don't really take money out, so as soon as I'm rolled for the next level I will start taking shots.

[BT2]

congrats on the new car daladiesman