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Hands

12 Mar

Ryan Williams posted at 1:09am

has anyone got a push/fold chart for M values in each seat in MTTs (9 handed)?

11 Mar

Neil Channing posted on 9 Mar, 3:28pm

 Hello everyone,

 Boyles have just let me know that they've put the odds up on Black Belt London Live.

 If anyone fancies a bet just click on the link below.

 James Akenhead is the favourite at 33/1 with Praz Bansi and Julian Thew at 40/1. There are a bunch of people at 50/1 including me. I notice that Nik Persaud is on 66/1.

 Boyles received the list from me yesterday and obviously there might be the odd drop out and the odd person who comes in through the last satellites.

 If somebody has been missed off then post here and I'll email and get the price added.

 Boyles tell me that as this is a novelty market where the prize money is low compared with golf tournaments, snooker and other poker tournaments they cover, they will be keeping the stakes fairly small. I think it'll be easy to get a tenner on, or maybe more on the favourites.

 http://www.boylesports.com/Areas/SportsHome/template_1_UK/index.html?navigationtypes=HOME#navigationtypes=OTHERSPORT&bo-navigation=top,24.1,576.1,13347.1&market-group=43090.1


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Neil Channing posted on 11 Mar, 5:33pm

Only 220%. I thought it was quite fair. How come we didn't get you into it James?

James Keys posted on 11 Mar, 9:06pm

Yeah I guess offering 300-1 on anyone is pretty much suicide for a bookie, I'll bow to your superior judgement on these things. I'm not there because I wouldn't travel more than 5 miles from my house for a $200 donkament, too balla yo. Just doesn't make sense from a financial point of view, nothing personal. Will see you for the GUKPT in a couple of weeks. GL with the tourn.

Niall Farrell posted on 11 Mar, 9:37pm

not when u can ut 200 quid on yourself @ 150/1 :-)

Niall Farrell posted on 10 Mar, 11:19pm

1/9 in the 50 cubed on ftp

7.6k to frist

VAMOSSSS

firaldo87 yo

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Simon Mairs posted on 11 Mar, 4:06am

GG WP etc. Shouldn't there just be a button we can press to congratulate Niall on a nice score. All this typing is getting very tiresome:-)

chris poutashi posted on 11 Mar, 2:24pm

Im in the VIC waiting for my pint.lol.wd

Gareth Warke posted on 11 Mar, 8:12pm

[x] learn to close ;)
[x] tied of saying congrats
[x] Sick life

matthew gilbert posted on 9 Mar, 5:35pm

anyone find that the minimum stack all in or fold strategy actually works in the long run.  It goes against everything cash is about, but find it such a common practice these days...

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matthew gilbert posted on 11 Mar, 3:55pm

thanks for comments, trouble is, i think we know their ranges mostly.... often AJ - AK, or just about any pair that i bloody witnessed!!! SO it's all about taking the gamble, which i am often loathed to do @ cash... god damn Short stack specials.. go play a tourney.

grant (betyama) darnley posted on 11 Mar, 4:34pm

Just sit there with pokerstove and work out how wide you should (profitably) be calling v that range

Gareth Warke posted on 11 Mar, 8:10pm

Yes it works! Yes they are scum of the earth. You need to be playing it properly though, most of the fish don't. Its also supposed to be a low variance way of making a bunch of money. Mark Vos is a short stacker I think

Niall Farrell posted on 11 Mar, 2:55pm

Get in to london @ around 3pm on Friday. Will try head down to the vic for 5ish to have a look around before my 1st day (1b).  

Anyone playing 1b should come down for a couple pints/dinner imo :-)

Ill pm my phone no. to any folks who wanna meet up and we can ty get a group together for beers and shit :-)

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matthew gilbert posted on 11 Mar, 3:56pm

good luck people.

grant (betyama) darnley posted on 11 Mar, 4:33pm

Landing at 5.30 so probably there back of 7pm

Mark (Ranny) Ranson posted on 11 Mar, 5:58pm

About 8.30ish.

Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 11 Mar, 1:09am

Mini FTOPS EVent #1 Thread

Who is in?

TFMonty is me

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Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 11 Mar, 3:46am

am out too pushed 66 on a 922 flop after big stack donked into me, decided if i want sleep deprevation then i needed some chips to do it :P

Simon Shaw posted on 11 Mar, 4:30am

yeah two limpers at 60/120 i make it 515 with a stack of 4200 and AdQx, flop 389 all diamonds, bet 1100 or summat get flatted, shove 9 turn, get called by a boat gg me. no getting away from that really.

Andy (Redkite) Brisland posted on 11 Mar, 8:52am

I think realistically I will be playing my first FTOPS on Sunday night ;-) I think there are 3 in total that suit me. GL all.

Rob Weston posted on 10 Mar, 2:49pm

Just noticed the spotlight has gone from the new skin.

Hurrah!

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Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding posted on 11 Mar, 3:12am

Hi there. iPoker are definitely listening to feedback, and I'll be looking to send more where possible. The most recent update saw the following changes:

· Pocket cards animation was changed in Texas Hold’em from 2 cards one on top of another to 2 cards one next to another. This improves the cards visibility when the table is resized to its smallest size.

· Player’s own turn time indicator size was increased significantly and is now more visible also when the table is resized to the smallest view.

· The size of the latest resized window is now automatically saved

· The player has now an option to auto-center his/her position on any table

· Player can now choose to disable the spotlight that appears in front of each player in the hand when it is time for the player to act.

David "Grafter" Eakin posted on 11 Mar, 3:28am

The new software works great in combination with the latest minimaxmod beta

David "Grafter" Eakin posted on 11 Mar, 3:35am

Sorry, new here. If there's a better way to post a pic, can someone tidy it for me

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v508/grafter67/newbelt.jpg

richard hinds posted on 10 Mar, 5:35am

Just a thought... I was reading Snoopy's blog there a minute ago and he referenced an article by Nik Persaud called 'Creative Thinking' and I went to look for it, and there seems to be no organisation of the articles on this site whatsoever. It strikes me as a slight hinderance for someone who wishes to read up on a certain aspect of the game and having to sift through all the recent trip reports and reviews and player profiles just to find the nugget of information they are looking for.

Would it not be more beneficial for the community as a whole, if the articles button did not lead to page 1 of 20+ of scattered articles about everything and anything, but instead linked to a clearly marked out contents page allowing users the opportunity to view select sections of the articles relevant to the wants and needs of each individual user~?

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Jamie Burland AKA StilettoMafiosa posted on 10 Mar, 8:24am

there are very rough sub-divisions in place but agree that a contents page would be the nuts

Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 10 Mar, 11:20am

its not too bad atm as you can subselect whether its strategy or interviews etc that you are looking for, but certainly as site content grows then it will not be optimal.

Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding posted on 11 Mar, 3:09am

Hi, definitely something that I've had in my mind from the start, just thought we need to build up the content before implementing some sort of structure. Ideally, I would like everything to be categorised and accessible from a drop-down menu or something so you can always find what you are looking for.

David Macleod posted on 10 Mar, 4:17pm

Hi all.

Is there any software that will allow you to play two (or more) ipoker skins at the same time?

Many thanks.

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kyle (dixxxiehaze) milne posted on 10 Mar, 6:09pm

reason ebing you could enter a sng from bbp and say titan and play two people at the same table which is an unfair advantage to the rest

David Macleod posted on 10 Mar, 6:52pm

Oh I fully understand that, there could be major "underhandness" going on. My reason is that I qualified for two different tournies particular to an ipoker site.

David "Grafter" Eakin posted on 11 Mar, 2:10am

If you have two tourneys on different ipoker skins then Yes you can play on two different computers from the same connection at the same time. Just don't try two entries to the same game, obviously.

Kevin Williams posted on 8 Mar, 8:42pm

Hi guys, some shameless self promotion but Oliver posted a question up here on implied odds the other week and I promised him an article was on the way on the subject. It's a three part series and Part 1 is now up. Hope everyone find's it useful and I'd welcome any questions or feedback.

http://blackbeltpoker.com/articles/read/Implied-Odds-1

Happy reading!

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Adam 'Snoopy' Goulding posted on 10 Mar, 2:50am

Excellent articles, Kevin. The third and final part will be up soon.

Gavin (TFMonty007) Hall posted on 10 Mar, 11:19am

plus one. nice work

Kevin Williams posted on 11 Mar, 1:01am

cheers guys, part 3 now up!