CBG Poker Club

[CBG]

We have added a new weekly game. This game will be on Monday at 5:00 PM ET.

[quintas]

My PokerStars player name is: quintass

thanks!

[freeringo]

Winning totals as of 2/21/12

Eejit 0
mikejjc 1
RGChan 3
Pokerkitty 2
Catlicker 2
Scarecrow 2 aka: Easymoney
Breadstik 2
BruceJ 2
Tomturkey 1
Taco ?
Panam ?
Freeringo 14

I am ashamed

[freeringo]

Winning totals as of 2/22/12

Eejit 0
mikejjc 1
RGChan 4
Pokerkitty 2
Catlicker 2
Scarecrow 2 aka: Easymoney
Breadstik 2
BruceJ 2
Tomturkey 1
Taco ?
Panam ?
Freeringo 14

since I have won the most games I guess that makes me qualified to critic everyones game.

Mikejjc - unknown
Eejit - played only once and he took me out early, have had a history and he has enjoyed the upper hand HU against me< I am still waiting for the cupid arrow to get out of his eyes so I can seek some revenge
RGChan - grinder, was pretty predictable early on but has changed up his game nicely last 2 weeks and has got me guessing half the time now
Pokerkitty - rarely trys to buy a pot but loves to stay in a hand, she makes very quick decisions that keeps us off guard most of the time. Hard to put her on a hand until the blinds get to 300 then she plays a bit too conservative, solid game non the less and one person who seems to have my number
Catlicker - brave game and am still watching closely
Scarecrow/Easymoney- loves to gamble, patience is not a strong suit, love sitting behind him and not in front
Breadstck- I haven't played enough to comment yet
BruceJ- loves to mix it up early and starts to play better when blinds get 200 plus, I like his style a little bit but he takes too many chances early, like to see 10 more folds in the first 50 hands, love to set him up if I can around the 100 blind level
TomTurkey - needs to play more but I have had a long history with Tom, very patient player, maybe too patient sometimes, solid game, I don't like to mix it up with Tom, not 1 of my target players at all
Panamheist - needs to play more and is fun to play with
SJtaco - not enough history to comment

OK since I have won too many games, I will tell you all my secrets and see if it helps any of you beat me more often.

Freeringo - changes style of play constantly, NO FEAR 98% of the time, sometimes I play too passive and I can't seem to get out of it, when I go all in more than 3 times in a row means I am in a hurry to go somewhere and if you fold I might have to leave, I am very shy about playing small pocket pairs,
I will call an all in from a short stack most of the time with any 2 cards especially when conditions are right, I keep an eye on my stats during game and I know if I win too many hands in a short time that the algorythms will set me up soon if I play a pushy game, I also believe that if I fold a larger percent of hands that good luck usally will reward me soon following, I also believe that the algorythms favor the BB and I hate to fold BB. Last but not least I try to avoid three way hands as much as possible. example: is I have AJs in small blind and 2 people raise in front I will fold, but if 1 person raises I wil call.
75% of the decisions I make in poker depend on what everyone else is doing and what position I am in, I never play 2 cards the same. Did I mention that
I am one of the luckiest people on Earth? LOL

Hope that helped
Please feel free to add any comments but please be kind

[quintas]

Just curious how does the winnner actually take possession of the Amazon card?

[CBG]

Just curious how does the winnner actually take possession of the Amazon card?

The winner of each tournament is contacted via private message here on the forum and after they supply me with their email address the Amazon.com gift card is then sent to that address.

[quintas]

The winner of each tournament is contacted via private message here on the forum and after they supply me with their email address the Amazon.com gift card is then sent to that address.

Thanks again for info!


ps - sorry, I hit the report tab by mistake

[CBG]

Congrats to Rgchan on winning today's game!

[quintas]

Yes my congratulations RG, and my apologies to all at the table for not making it. Wife dragged me to Target, never made it back till 9:30. I'll be at my seat next time though.

[addysaw]

HI.. Everyone

[iGaming Diva]

HI.. Everyone

Hello addysaw, welcome to CBG!

[Rachel Charlie]

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Rachel

[iGaming Diva]

Thanks for your thoughtful insight Rachel Charlie and welcome to CBG

[KurtisMckinley]

Very useful information.
Muchas Gracias.

[AKAworceracs]

lol they do it to maximize profit, which is done every day in buissness everywhere in the world, especially when no regulation is involved ... Bush jr. cut regulation on wall street and look what happened, the F'ers purposly took as much as they could, running companies into the ground and almost the entire country... knowing exactly what they were doing and what could happen from it.

I imagine the sites know they are fueled by people w gambling addicitions and people who get bored and deposit 20$ at a time, off and on ... so they design a system to appease these people.

the people that dont understand this, dont know anything about buissness, look into the stock market, people run companies into the ground everyday to make money, when it folds u know what they do?... they make another company, lol

That argument thrown out is retarded. Its not my burden to prove the sites are on the up and up, they want me to give them my money, thats on them...

go give your money to offshore book, win a couple of big scores and see what happens... u get banned... but why? the book has no investment in winning and losing, they make money on the vig/juice 10%, people win and lose, it all evens out. Thats built into the buissness plan... HA!

Im sure there have been people who have made money playing online poker in a long run... Thoses people went on a heater, then got sponsorship to play for free or have figured out the system and molded a game to grind out some $, ie multi tabling, math programs, trackers, etc (thats not really poker, thats more like being a good penny stock trader).

Thats what most people are saying when they call the sites "Rigged"

[AKAworceracs]

and I do agree with ringo and eejit, the sites want the money to stay on the sites, and really the only way to combat cheating and make the game completly fair is to just set up situations w pre determined outcomes and spread those out evenly to the players ...

I think people use to make money on multi tableing, etc, but I think the sites curved it...

just like how the books use to allow you to bet on say The Blues -1.5 and parlay it with the over, cuz common sense would say that if the Blues won by 2 it would likely go over... they dont allow you to do that anymore

[eejit101]

Here are my slightly more in depth thoughts....

I know a few people who work in the industry. As in for the sites. And I know for A FACT (Ive been shown) that older sites are blatently rigged. Jetset, PokerHost, those kind of sites. So are most of the old casinos. winnings not being paid, %'s changed.

But, the point in question here is Stars. Is Stars rigged?

Yes. But not much. I fully believe that lower raked table are not, for these is no point. Change your game list to show all full tables, and see how many there are. They are making millions (literally) off the rake.

However as you go up things change. I took stats on Chris Moneymaker in our session. Which ended when he ****ed me. He was either running hotter THAN THE SUN, or something was up.

Hand history is similar (exact) to this.

Me (BB) - AK diamonds.
Moneymaker (Button) - xx

Preflop - $5/$10 blinds. Both sat with around $2k.

Folds to moneymaker. He raised to $35. SB Folds. I raise to $105.

Moneymaker reraises to $275. I call.

Flop A J 6. I bet $400. He shoves. I call.

I show my AK. He shows.... J6.

Turn 2 River 4.

Yes this is only one hand. But my point is, its a $4,000+ hand. And I believe to this day I played the hand perfectly. This is not a cooler. It wasnt AA JJJ. Or A K J 6 6 on the board. Its just the only flop I go broke on.

Go figure that out