Haven't been around for awhile, and haven't been able to play any poker in the last week. Came down with the stomach flu on Wednesday which caused me to be sidelined for Thurs and Friday and spent the weekend getting a few hours of work in and recuperating. I'm all better now so I hope to get some hands in this week. I've been mostly browsing the 2+2 forums, and man, I really think I can beat the higher stakes ($5/$10 NL). There's one hand I read that was quite interesting. I made an observation to myself before I read the replies which nobody in the thread thought about. Here it is: Basically we want to think about hero's image here. There's two key questions to ask 1) Does villain believe that hero would bet into 3 opponents on the flop without an A? 2) Does villain believe he can push hero off one pair with a flop shove? Those questions to me are the most important to ask, and nobody brought them up. I would believe that at this level the players at lea...
Not so long after my last post I checked my email and find that UB gave me a free $10 to play with. Take that along with the other $2.25 in my account and sit at the highest stakes possible, NL $50 full-ring. It just so happens to be a Bad Beat Jackpot table as well. Need to lose with quad 8s or better to qualify. Jackpot was around $189k, but some of that gets split between the other players at the table. Anyway, sit down, post in the CO. First hand 85o. Get a limper and a raise to $2.50 in early position, so fold. Fold the next crappy hand, and then get A 6 . Limper in EP, I decide to muck. Nice looking hand if I was deeper stacked. Flop comes A68 with 1 , turn blank, river 6. Would have coolered a guy who had 86. Someone else went to showdown as well, forget what he had. But Lame. Next hand I get dealt T T . Folded to me somewhere in middle position, I make it $2.50, five times the big blind. It gets folded to the blinds, who both call. Again, lame. Flop comes Q 7 2 . Checked to me...
So I have been too busy with other stuff to be involved with anything poker related but saw that Grand Poker finally relaunched their room. I logged into my account and saw an extra $150 in there; I assumed they had given me the bonus that I originally was chasing after when I joined the site. Great, decided to make a cashout of $140 and leave the rest in there so I could still play. NO option on the website or poker room to cash out so I had to go through their ridiculous live chat. The agent made me verify my password though the chat to proceed which was ridiculous since I was already logged in and that could be a security breach. Anyway I found out I had to send an email to cash out with my acct # and amount (fine) but the only way they process cashouts is through bitcoin (not fine). So I went through with a cashout and today I got an email saying it was denied and that they made a mistake with giving me the bonus when I had not cleared it. Not only that but they took the liberty ...
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