Happy Thanksgiving to All Poker Players and Their Families

From my family to your family - I hope you have a great THANKSGIVING!

If you're playing poker... I hope it's QUADS all day long.

Signing off for a few days. (need a break)

Position raise - goes HAY WIRE!

Ok - Player here in late position - goes with the standard raise here - but he's been doing just a lttle too much.

It gets to the BLIND hand and he goes ALL IN! (Can't say I blame him - it's pretty clear this player late in POSITION is just on a move with any two.

So it gets to me! I figure HELL! I'm going for it!

My logic was - if the BLIND hand player takes me - I still have plenty of chip -

I figured the late PLAYER would fold. I went ALL IN with A9 thinking I was actually the best hand!

Huh! I figured right! But.

We are talking ONLINE here.. (bot DOG HANDS beat me!)

CHECK OUT THIS POT!

Late player does NOT fold after all - but rather puts a major amount of cash on the line and then GETS smacked by the SPADECLUB luck train.

So - here is NOT one dog hand hitting my GOOD move - but BOTH dog hands CRUSHING ME!

And everyone wonders why I think online is rigged against quality players. (it's because this happens EVERY time I get a player online to make the DUMB move) I should - more times than NOT win that pot.

Not online.

Do us a favor?

Hop on over to X-FILES POKER "." COM and make a comment in the new forum (read the fine print when in the forum and HIT avatars to read threads)

Also, say hello in the GUEST BOOK please.

Trying to build an army here and right now... (lol) It's an ARMY of "3"


That's one small ARMY.

HELP!

30K "Bubble Boy" on Spadeclub

THEY SAY a picture is worth a thousand words...

Here are a few more...

SON OF A......




I did everything I could to hang on.. even hit a part of that last flop - problem is... So did the player that sent me to the rail.

Nothing is worse than being the bubble in poker.

In the end abused by some serious BIG STACK poker.. I can't blame them - I'd do the very same thing givin the chance.


Play Online Poker

One of the greats from my garage game "BillyO"

He's on SPADECLUB for only a few days now.. and look at him !

We PICK UP THE POKER ACTION with the FINAL TABLE... He's playing quality poker like Eric Seidel - WOW! BillyO is on the RAIL! (I'm with him on SKYPE at this point and we are talking MOVES to make) All the moves worked out! Even a KEY hand with him holding POCKET 4's READ ON! (Billy plays small POCKET PAIRS looser than me..)
I'm just glad it worked out for him!



















In this NEXT hand - Player MAKES a BLUFF MOVE and BILLY is ALL OVER it (saw it coming he says) He was on the RAIL in no time. (10/8 off??? - Cmon people, try to make your moves with better options.. Make em suited at least)


















Billy does a good job of using his big stack poker - He keeps the others UNDER pressure hand after hand.. He never let up..

If they limped - he raised.. If they raised - HE re-raised.. THIS PLAYER HERE - Just let BIGO take it down at the flop... (Know your players! Play the player!)



















I have no idea why the cards don't show here.. I can't remember the hand - but the other player made the PUSH - Bill with the MONSTER stack - called and TOOK IT DOWN..

You can see the "GG" remarks in the CHAT - but for some reason cards were not showing when I clicked the SCREEN SHOT.

I think BillyO had AJUNK.. but I'm not sure.

CONGRATS! TO my friend BILLYO, xfilespoker.com member and TAJ "Oh My Garage" player from years back! Billy! You come a loong way baby!

Good for you!

My best EVER rant against ONLINE POKER - xfilespoker.com

WHATS THIS NEW SITE ALL ABOUT TOM? Xfilespoker.com

Well.. Some of you know me.. GOALLIN.COM (not mine any more.. sold it a few years back)
I guess this new FANTASTIC site is about.. Oh... About how pissed I am that after all these years.. ONLINE poker is nothing even CLOSE to live play. You see I'm getting back into the ONLINE POKER game (& live, full time) next year and I'd like to see this CHANGE already. Like Obama kind of change!

If you too think something about online poker is .. well.. NOT RIGHT? Read on..

I expect I'll catch some heat with all this.. but to that, I'll just say this.. BRING IT! Some of us know the truth and MOST OF US seen the WIZARD OF OZ and know that "OZ" was nothing more than a SHAM.. a small chubby guy pulling ropes and pushing buttons... (I'm not saying all of poker online is a sham even.. I'm just saying I think we should ALWAYS be looking to improve things.. I think there is a lot of room for improvement) I think others OUT THERE agree with me too and are trying to do the same as me.. THIS SITE is just a TOOL to unite all these link minded lovers of POKER.

THIS SITE WAS MADE FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME. PEOPLE WHO LOVE THE GAME OF POKER A TAD TOO MUCH.

Here is just a slice of who I am and what THIS NEW site is all about... (If you like, you can read more about me and my poker PLUS see images on my blog.. see link above)
PLEASE TELL A FRIEND ABOUT THIS SITE. (EVEN IF YOU DO NOT AGREE.)

I’m Tom Dwyer and I’m just a regular 41 year old poker playing dude. (hopefully like most of you reading this) Being a lover of the game of poker player since 1991 (a game so pure - so REAL! I just love it.) I spent many of my early playing years jetting off to Las Vegas and taking trip after trip to Atlantic City... Foxwoods. Mississippi, and Turning Stone in NY. Given the economic times today (late 2008) - it seems like millions of years ago. I did over 50 trips to Vegas in the 90's.. up to 9/11. Then my wife and I had a little girl and poker took a back seat – for the most part.

I’ll return to the ring – Next year (fall 2009) when she enters Kindergarten. Watch out for me! Remember – There is no shame in folding a hand against me.

I was never KNOWN or a big shot.. But I made money. I made good money too! (Well.. I'm KNOWN in NE Pennsylvainia) I'm like the KING of Pennsylvania poker... (not POLKA!) Well.. I'm at least a prince baby!

I made enough from poker to build a few buildings and a sweet 4 stall garage for my toys. I bought countless keep sakes that I still enjoy today. And that's about it. (Hey.. "shhh" I’ll give you a major poker tip.. LEAVE A WINNER.. Be sure to buy yourself or someone you love something, anything... with some of the extra loot from your winning sessions.. That way – the other players can NEVER, ever.. get it back.)

I even won a nice CRYSTAL trophy in Vegas and with it won a DOYLE hardcover book - signed. He handed me the trophy and the book.. HOW SWEET IS THAT??? I have all that and a picture of.. oh him and I. shucks.. I just love it.

I got to talk with Doyle for a good 1/2 hour a few years back.. One on one (I sure doubt he'd even remember it) but I asked him a question - What is the biggest thing I need to learn about poker Doyle?

He answered....

(Lets ship you off to my blog and I'll tell you DOYLE'S ANSWER when you make your first comment) You are just going to have to trust me here.. Getting to hear his answer to my question... It's worth it.. at least I think it is.... I'd get on over to my blog (see link above) if I was you.. (after you read all this)

Anyways..

I started my epic poker journey in a small casino… playing a “new” game… Texas-Holdem, it was a "fake money game" Casinos ran these to show people how to play. Usually when they needed to try and start a new table.. (Poker was not as BIG back then)

I figured what the heck.. and sat down. It was a joint called SILVER CITY in LAS VEGAS... on the strip. I was just going in for a free bag of pop corn or a cheap hot dog.. (hey people.. I was young and I had my BOOKLET of coupons like everyone else…) BAM! They snagged me at the door… “Want to try a new game??? FREE POKER LESSONS! Right over here…”

I went in looking for cheap or free food and instead I was HOOKED into Holdem instead.

I played that FIRST game and I swear on my daughter - FIRST HAND after the FREE SESSION - They started a REAL CASH 2/4 limit game... I was dealt a ROYAL FLUSH... (Later I decided that the dealer must have SET the deck for the instructional game.. Just to make it more exciting.. That… and to SUCK ME IN to POKER!)

I won like 8 bucks in that hand! HOW AWESOME is THIS STORY? It's 100% true. I expect it 100% true for about 80 thousand other tourists like me.. ha ha.. that took that FREE POKER LESSON at the SILVER CITY casino.

Hey! GIve them credit! It worked. It got me playing a new game.. (Now my only game) TEXAS HOLDEM (only thing now is - mostly it's NL or POT LIMIT for me)

I left that game and bought books.. I hung out at Benny B's place in downtown Vegas. I seen the game go from Doyle and PUG and Tom McAvoy, ect.. and yes.. Young Phil Helmuth - to well.. what..

WHAT We have today. CONGRATS MR. EASTGATE on your win. (You seem pretty cool to me)

Through all those years OF POKER PLAY and TRAVEL of course came the movie ROUNDERS (You shouldn’t have folded those K’s Mike) and of course the "Moneymaker" YEAR. All this did was put fuel on the FIRE.. FOR ALL OF US ROUNDERS... (I mean.. How SET UP is all this.. It even SEEMED FAKE TO ME... Is the DEVIL himself calling these shots? MONEYMAKER??? For SHITS sake?) MONEYMAKER is the BEST NAME to ever win the WSOP.

Of course the game BOOMED! (And to beat SAMMY… right? Cmon!) Moneymaker.. Wtf.. What are the odds...


With this kinda BOOM going on.. I went from back room game to back room game (as a player).. all over the Poconos... Some big games, some not so big and then I eventually learned how to run a game myself.. (One with class and Dealers that knew what they were doing.. ha ha... ) I hung a chandelier in my garage - made a few custom tables.. Put a bar in.. Sheet rocked the joint and the "Taj "O" Tom's Garage" was born.. Players heard about my game and within oh.. 2 years.. We had a nice stable of serious players.. And a pretty good list of non playing players... (donks) Which makes for a great mix. It was a garage - but when you got inside - you never knew it...

What a time it was... Oh.. the cash! Wow!

I went from a full time professional photographer to a part time pro photographer and a full time runner of a back room card game. It started out simple. 2/4 limit Texas-Holdem - from there.. in a matter of only a few years ended up a POT LIMIT game with $1500 pots. (Big for our area - trust me) It was exciting 2 - 3 nights a week and the games went on until the early morning hours.. Sometimes for 1-2 days.. Oh - such action.

Then, As quick as it all started… it stopped. It got too ugly. People got in too deep - and started losing too much..

I watched one very close friend almost kill himself. He lost his great job and family over this game. (Not in my game.. I shut mine down for this very same reason.. I hate the ugly DARK side of this game.. BE CAREFUL EVERYONE.. it happens.)

Other players just plain got ugly when they lost. When they WON and I was paying them the $1000.00 + at the end of the shift.. Oh.. THAT WAS GREAT.. Butttttt, if it was their money going to another player or me.. LOOK OUT. Doors would be ripped from the hinges. Harsh words flung back and fourth and threats made…

I looked at myself in the mirror one tired early morning and said.. Whoaaa - Stop the train. That game was about a 6 year run. Not bad.

In the early years of this entire BOOM - I started a web site called GOALLIN - "goallin.com" and actually had 1500 sign-ups.. Sadly, I shut it down when the UIEGA bill was passed. (Not one of my better moves) Today - It's run by some other company.

NOW LETS TALK ABOUT ONLINE POKER TODAY – SHALL WE?

While playing in my back room games of course, I found ONLINE POKER. You had to back then.. It’s all people were doing.. Playing live.. Then playing online. Most back room games that I’d visit had banks of computers… (The game runners were making rake online too!) It was crazy...

After I shut down… I still kept up with many of the players.. At least the ones that were not complete assholes.. And let me tell you - some of these guys and gals I played with were (ARE) JUST AS GOOD as any poker pro I seen on TV. (Big Al, Barry, Mario, Chunky, “Nick from Vegas” – Old Nick played gin with Stuey Unger himself… )

I shit you not – People came to play in my games from as far away as CHICAGO.. If you don’t believe me.. Go ask the DEALERS at the SHOWBOAT in ATLANTIC CITY.. See if one of them knows what I’m talking about..

So.. Online poker got a hold of some of us.. And, JUST LIKE in my LIVE POKER YEARS in Vegas and my back room I started to watch the action of ONLINE (like REALLY study it all)

But guess what..

Not one of my big players.. Ever seemed to get ahead? Hows this? I mean - Even a complete donkey “tool” should have had a huge winning night from time to time..

It happened in my LIVE games.. (Why not online?)

NO... Not a one of them reported a positive statement about playing online... All losers - month after month. (now - I will tell you - they put more money into the live games.. as they never really did have that TRUST a player needs to play ONLINE.."Older players want to see the deck of cards being dealt.. they want to see a shuffle)

Online - no go. You will never get that??? (or MAYBE not.. Look around my site here .. I see the future coming!)

I could go on and on for hours about poker.. But to be nice.. I'll sum it up. (I'm a bit of a talker)

Over the years.. I paid (cashed out) my better players in the games... Many more times than the poor players.. but, even the POOR PLAYERS had big nights from time to time..

Get this.. (It might be shocking to ONLINE ONLY PLAYERS) THE BETTER PLAYERS.. PLAYING BETTER QUALITY CARDS (usually with position and loads of talent.. “SKILL”) won MORE than POOR PLAYERS. Also, BETTER PLAYERS - MAKING PROFESSIONAL MOVES WITH LOWER END CARDS.. (& reading players) WON MORE MONEY.

CRAZY RIGHT? WRONG! It's the MATH! you can't BUCK IT!

Huh? (are you shitting me Tom?) No – it’s the truth. I swear to God!

But get this… PLAYERS WITH LITTLE EXPERIENCE OR PLAYERS JUST LOOKING TO CHASE ALL NIGHT - LOST HUNDREDS A NIGHT. (They went home with bunny ears…) I’m not shitting you here either. I swear to God!

BAD PLAYERS LOST ALL THEIR MONEY! CRAZY HUH? NO!

It's the math!!! THE MATH I TELL YA!!!

That was in LIVE ACTION POKER.. (REAL DEALER... REAL DECK OF CARDS, REAL SHUFFLE)

ONLINE???? This is a whole other beast....

FOR THE MOST PART.. ONLINE POKER = THE TWILIGHT ZONE! (That's my take on it anyways)

WHY? hell.. (If you are still reading this.. you are probably shaking your head YES here..) So - I'll keep going.

(NO! People. – “More hands per hour” will never cover the “difference..” More hands per hour should only mean MORE money **WON** “per hour” for skilled players... Online should mirror LIVE...)

But – Online does not mirror live poker.

Online Poker.. I have a question for you??? – WHY IS IT? My friends online are losing game after game or getting to a certain point in chips (cash) and then losing within ONE OR TWO major hands (This happens every session) in an all in.. no way you can fold – beat by QUADS on the river kind of hand…

Hand after hand we see great cards being called by rags (not against the rules of course) but.. Having these RAGS win time and time again?? - CRUSHING the quality players QUALITY CARDS? (You can get sick watching it happen all day and night online)

Online WE see too many “4” to the flush boards. And the cards that hit the felt are more apt to be CLOSE TOGETHER.. HARD TO FIND WIDE GAPS in the board with ONLINE POKER. (C'mon.. YOU SEE IT TOO) EXAMPLE – Board will be 4h6h7c - rather than 2h9cQs (Rainbows should happen more too.. just like live)

I want an ONLINE GAME with MORE ****FREAKING BLANKS!!!!***** or rocks or bricks.. or what ever.. (A card that will not effect the action) It happens LIVE people - I SHIT YOU NOT! (why not ONLINE.. as much)

Dog hands winning too many times. TOO MANY TIMES! Online - many cases you EXPECT it will happen. ONLINE HAS CONDITIONED PLAYERS TO THINK THIS IS THE NORM! TRUTH IS… you're shocked if they DON'T HIT the LUCK TRAIN and your quality hand HOLDS!

WTF! (It's insane! People.. THINK!)

The BETTER my AK looks on the FLOP – THE MORE I’M SCARED… (Sound familiar to any of you?) Ak btw – Loses ALL THE TIME online to "A10off" online. (everyone knows this online fact) (I suggest you play A10 off harder than AK)

INSANE!

It's the MATH!!!! YOU CAN'T BUCK THE MATH (at least not as much as online!)

(If online poker was a HORSE BETTING TRACK.. YOU COULD MAKE A MILLION ON BETTING THE UNDER DOG "Long shot" horses... ALL DAY LONG.. The quality horses would most likely DIE while still IN THE GATE) lmao.

ONLINE - LONGSHOTS get a little nudge of luck or a BOOST.. from the “LUCK TRAIN”.. River .. or as I like the call it .. The LUCKY “NOT SO RANDOM” RNG. (Random Number Generator) Seems RNG’s love to throw a bone to the RIVER!

DO I NEED TO GO ON HERE??? YES! YES I DO! CUZ it's THAT FEAKING STUPID...

Rng's - Cute little buggers... I really think they TRY to be random.. - But they don't even come close... (How about I see a RANDOM winner over here please - from time to time.. huh??) No – that will only happen in the small hands….

YOU GET ME POKER PLAYERS..?? You feeling me?? I "know" you "know" that what we speak of here is closer to the truth....

ONLINE is just a little FUZZY with the math.. (Quality cards=LOSER Rags/bad plays=WINNER)

Deal the TURN.. (Rare to see a BLANK right? It’s got to be an ACTION CARD. A flush card or the BONUS.. STAIGHT and FLUSH card) Deal the RIVER.. Add more options..

(YES! I KNOW IT HAPPENS! But NOT every hand!!!!!!)

Live games - more times than not - poor moves by players send them to the RAIL. Poor players are sent back to the cashier or ATM... To RELOAD… to REBUY!

I don’t know people.. I've seen it for years. No one will ever get me to believe that ONLINE is random. If so - how about a random HUGE NIGHT for me or “ONE OR MORE” of my 50 plus poker playing friends.

I'll add this too.. For years I've played in these online games - waiting for the hands.. (I was patient) only to be beat by the dogs.. I watched “in horror” it happen to OTHER patient players I watched too (Yes.. Virginia.. Some of us watch hands after we fold)..

I read the CHAT too... I read the countless players in chat that wrote (typed in) how frustrated they were - lines like.. "Expected" “How do you CALL there??” "BS" "WTF - that always happens" "you got lucky there... or did you? Maybe I got scammed?" You read this too.. But most CONT all this OFF.. It’s POKER… what.. It can happen.

So that's where this is going... I’m NOT FEELING the LOVE for much of the ONLINE POKER today… For the most part... I think it’s a sham… I’ve been ripped off by a good number of companies.. (FULL TILT POKER not being one of them)
The ALWAYS PAY and they PAY FAST! (I like this) I’ve been ripped off huge by a site called POKERDREAM. (But this is another story)

I started this web site the other night with only a few goals (I expect we will add a few as time goes on)

Xfilespoker.com

This sites purpose. To build a group of like minded players (Players that thing the %'s or math of the RNG's are off) Players that think something about online poker is FUZZY.. or BROKEN. Who knows.. Maybe set up our own system of play (Our own site) or at least play on a site with a whole new system. Maybe I’m just a big DREAMER!

Oh! But wait! Others out there in the universe dream like me as well.. Like take this GREAT looking poker program out.. http://www.gioiasystems.com/cut-n-shuffle.html"

X-FILESPOKER.COM is a site that will try to take on the BIG DOGS of the online poker industry. If.. that is.. Enough of you players join up with us (and GET MAD! TAKE ACTION!) – We need to wake up! Get active and post (no better yet report) our online outcomes.. We need to keep better records.. "takes SCREEN SHOTS" of all the bad beats and NON GAP boards - or “take” “copy” notes on the players/hands that called off entire stacks (HOW COUDL THEY DO THIS????) Only to catch that "1 - 2" outer. Look out for patterns. (They are not even hard to see)

Xfilespoker.com BEGS (on its hands and knees) for players to ask MORE SERIOUS questions... DEMAND RIGHTS.. ASK BETTER QUESTIONS MORE OFTEN.. And yes.. ASK the question that provokes or SPARKS more "you're a donkey comments"

WHAT IF ONLINE POKER COMPANIES ARE SCAMMING POKER PLAYERS.. Basically - What if we are being ripped off blind. (I love to read countless online players DEFEND this question.. it’s as if they are afraid We’ll come and pull the power chord out of their electronic FIX (drug) of choice.. “Their online poker…”

We don’t want to take away poker… We want to team up with a group MILLIONS – that want to and CARE to have online poker.. BETTER.



We as players have the right to ask these questions and we also have the right to ask the MEGA MONEY MAKING POKER SITES to PROVE how safe their system is time and time again.. We are also within our rights to ask that IF a better system (more fair, "proven to be 100% more fair that is) comes along.. The BIG COMPANIES look into these systems (software) and of course add them FOR us..

Yes sir.. Someone needs to be a watch dog on all this online play..

To be a good watch dog.. We must become a huge DOG.. To become huge.. We need many members..

WE NEED YOU! WE NEED YOUR IDEA’S! WE NEED YOU TO CARE ABOUT THE GREAT SPORT GAME OF POKER.

It's that simple.



Consider joining today and investing you time, money, energy into this task.

The truth is out there - We must organize and then go out and find it.... If you are reading this somewhere other than on xfilespoker.com Please visit our site and join our NEW poker forum @ http://forum.xfilespoker.com – Let’s get this party started!

When you are playing poker for years.. you tend to forget some things..

It's no secret that I'm playing poker since 1991. Pretty long time. I've however played with many rounders that played many, many, more year than I ever did.

A good number of years ago - when I was in a pretty long slump - One of my teachers suggested that I STOP playing and just watch... Choose a player that YOU know to be better than average and just watch.

Tonight - I did just that... (Not that I'm in a slump) I searched for the player and JUST watched him play..

Then came this hand..

I'll try and remember the action..

He was in late POS.. It was raised to him and he re-raised - It got capped before the flop. Then came a board (see image) and the first to act BET OUT.. one caller, two caller... (no more raises) Turn.. Same. River.. (4th heart) Bet out - , FOLD.. and RAISE... Hmmmmmm (Anyone want to guess what LATE POSITION has?)

Time...

and a call..

Late position takes in a NICE pot.

Anyways... I don't even play at this level.. and I sometimes QUESTION the hell out of the PLAY I see when I do.. but over all.. This player just KEEPS sitting there with some major cash.. So - let's face it.. He must be doing something right.

I sprayed his name out - because it does not seem fair to him.. for me to exploit him like that.. or to make him a target for future banter in chat.

The point of this little blog today is to tell you - ONE THING. If you ever get in a rut or if you start to question your play (too loose or too tight) - Give a look at some other players play for a few hours....

Who knows - you might even learn something. (without losing a dime)

Best of luck to all of you.. I hope you all will POP on to my new poker site X-Files Poker! CLICK HERE! JOIN UP AT THE FORUM and maybe sign our guest book..

X-Files poker is a NEW way at looking at online poker.. It asks tougher questions... or at least it will - HELL, it's only a few days old.

Anyways.. Here is a picture of one really sweet CASH pot from a game on FULL TILT POKER.

Snow in PA - Again

What - is it going to be a rough winter or what? Snowing again. (yuk)

I'll be on SPADE CLUB today.. "Biggiesmalls" - I can't focus on games while at work - so NO MONEY ACTION is about all I can do right now.

Hit the LINK and come check it out - GREAT first month offer from spadeclub.

IN OTHER NEWS - I'm working on the new site X-FILESPOKER over at

X-FILESPOKER - CLICK HERE

It's really rough - but it's getting there.. Maybe you can HOP on over and join the new forum. I expect it will fill in the next 6 months. It offers a fresh new set of questions I think we as players need to be asking.

I hope many of you agree...

Keywords YOUR HELP NEEDED

will my readers please help us with KEYWORDS?

Here is a list we use now.. Any suggestions?

They are.. poker,full tilt,wsop,poker forums,cards,nl,nl poker,nolimit poker, no limit poker, spade club,free poker,goallin,harrahs,las vegas,world series of poker, srip poker,online poker,rules for a poker game,strip,cards,card rooms,poker tables, craps,slots,gambling...

X-Files POKER site and FORUM.

I started another site for poker... (with a UFO slant to it..)

Web site - http://www.xfilespoker.com


Forum - http://www.forum.xfilespoker.com

A more true FLOP, TURN and RIVER is out there... It's our JOB to find it.

Ok - So.. The final table.. "9" lucky bastards - some that could actually play... some.. eh?

A 22-year-old Danish poker professional won the World Series of Poker. Good for him!

Congratulations Peter Eastgate!

Of course.. like all the rounders out there - I watched.. (I think it MISSED something.. something was missing.. can't put my finger on it..) I'll get back to you on this..

I'll follow this subject and learn more about the new crowned king of poker. Maybe he's more a prince (being only 22) either way - I expect he will have NO problem getting a date for the next million years or so...

I watched the table.. I think ONLY "3" of them had game.. (few others had some basic talent and just held on for the next JUMP in cash, not that I blame them) and... others got there on the LUCK TRAIN and were like FISH out of water.

NO BIG NAMES... No Phil Hellmuth, no Jesus, no NOBODY... huh? Kinda supports my idea that WE ARE ALL LIKE SPAWNING SALMON when playing in poker tourneys... Skill is a factor - but LUCK plays it's role.

I think it will be good for poker overall, the young man beat Phil Hellmuth's record... He played with skills.. He's easy on the eyes.. and he was pretty cool about the whole WIN.. (and NO sunglasses) Let's face it - there are millions of young guys and gals that are not thinking hey.."I can do THATTTTT!" (I know I said it... I'm still saying it... lol)

It's all going to depend on weather or not Peter Eastgate wants to DO THE TOUR and help BUILD poker... (I hope he will) I can't even THINK of what it must be like AFTER you win that tourney. Globs of people wanting a piece of the WINNER.

Here is a good interview with Peter - http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=23423

To ALL VETERANS! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!

I was up on my roof today doing repairs. I thought of all of you!


THANKS FOR DOING WHAT YOU DO!

THANKS FOR DOING WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.

Many of us love you for it EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.

My family prays for you and hopes you stay out of harms way.

God bless each and every VETERAN.

SpadeClub - HAND OF THE DAY (so far)

Well - here we go again...
Yet another case where the COIN FLIP will not go my way..
The problem I have with it.. is 90% of the time when its me... (and I'm rare to call a hand like this with lower than 99) THEY spike the A.

The math is OFF when I'm holding the POCKET PAIR.

Hey - he won the hand.. More power to him.. But I'm laying that hand down...

NOTE - like I mentioned (PATTERN) Note the TRIP 7's on river..

Here is the action...

I sit about an hour until I even get into action.. Mid pos - I raise with AQ suited.. I RAISE extra due to the million or so limpers.. I get a call from NEXT player after me and AN "ALL IN" from the seat after that...

Normal for me when online. (I'm SO freaking used to it) I'm used to people NOT taking any notice to how little I play a hand. OR how many call a raise.. WHO CARES.. The site will cover your bad move - with a BIG payoff..

JUST CALL PEOPLE! JUST CALL! Don't THINK - JUST CALL.

Better yet! Just write the online company and ask that your FOLD button be taken OFF - Who needs a FOLD button.. NOT YOU!

Son of a BITCH people.

- Oh! All the limpers before (they folded) So, I'm sitting there and It's BUGGIN me.. I've folded this hand many times.. but I can't help it... I say - "I got to see this..."

I call.. so does the next guy. WOW!

My AQ vs. A? (10 I think ?? see image) and POCKET 7's... (Hmmmmm HOW ABOUT THAT... - I can't win by playing 7's as hard EVER.. but to me! BAM! - ...)

The FLOP - NO A's... But Alas.. another 7 in the river.... just to spice up the retarded board. Online always keeps it FRESH and EXCITING and So ahhh.. EXPECTED!

EXPECTED BULL SHIT THAT IS....

It bad enough that in poker you have to choose your spots with care - but then to do it against what I consider ANYTHING BUT RANDOM action.. is well.. lame.

THEY ALWAYS HIT THE TRIPS... (look out for the pattern) I mean.. there are only 2 more in the deck and BOOM.. they always HIT em...

Odd? I think so - How about you?

Spadeclub is JUST AS BAD as the rest...

Only thing SPADECLUB has going for it - "It's not taking us to the cleaners - It's a bargain scam - lol - far less than the Other online cash sites that GET players for hundreds or thousands a month"

This POST here.. started OUT small - but became another RANT. (I'm not sorry... read this post at your own risk)

I'm sorry folks.. I just don't think we are ever going to get a fair shake online.

EVERY other TIME me or my friends get a quality TWO cards to play poker with online, we run into two things -

1. Way more callers than in the previous 10 hands of action.. (you can laugh.. but we always get more than the correct amount of action.. and ITS NOT DUE to poor table image.. It's the other players PLAYING badly.) And why shouldn't they play bad.. THEY have learned the site will pull a winner out of their ass for them....

2. We get TRIPPED or 2 outed by the river... Or the guy calling with 45 off hits a ST. (you know the GUY.. The one that should not have even been close to being in the hand.. Yeah.. THAT GUY) OR .. One of my FAVES.. You get it all in with your AK and get called by JUST ONE PLAYER.. with A9, in other words - UR CRUSING HIM! NOPE! Whammo! QUAD 9's "A" kicker.

Oh! Don't get me started.

Yes sir.. My friends and I.. We are SO darn lucky! We always get mega action - with many players calling with a garbage hand.. We get 2 - 3 BAD HANDS CALLING.. Hands, that LIKE MAGIC - hit the board with a loud smack! "if the sound OF THE SMACK had words to it.." It would sing out like this... "Quality cards and play will lose here more than normal %'s and math allow.. BEWARE suckers..." (Oh.. You are reading this blog thinking - I KNOW THAT SONG - Sure you do.. WE ALL DO! We are ALL getting the shaft 24/7. Fucking online companies! I hate them.. (spit)

Quality hands mean nothing online.

(A very bad..and sad.. but expected flip side to all this however - "If WE (me and friends) choose to play connected low cards..MAN! WATCH THE HIGH CARDS or OVER CARDS SMASH THE BOARD.. ) It's like the system crushes better plays.. and PLAYERS. (yes.. it's that simple) THE SYSTEMS LEARNS AT WHAT SKILL LEVEL YOU PLAY...

So - More images... (I have years of PROOF in images on this blog of what I speak)

In this hand on SPADECLUB.. I HIT my "A" , Holding AK. (ha ha ha - I'm almost pissing my pants laughing, cuz I knew the outcome already BEFORE I made my pre-flop raise - Anyone OUT THERE that is playing SERIOUS online hours, knows the BETTER IT LOOKS AND FEELS on the flop - the worse off you are.

(If you don't know this ONE simple and oh so TRUE rule of online play - KEEP playing and get back to us after a few years OF NEVER CASHING OUT.. NEVER having even ONE super duper LUCKY can not LOSE sorta night..
These nights only HAPPEN at real life games.. )

(Online sites will have nothing to do with you WINNING enough to cash out - NOT GOOD FOR BIZ.. Plus.. If they let you BEAT all the POOR PLAYERS.. "the fish" the FISH will no longer swim in their waters.. Cuz the cute little fishies will be ***DEAD****)

THIS IS NOT IN THE PLAN OF ONLINE COMPANIES! (Nobody is really watching them either.. Nobody is really watching after us - THE PLAYER.)


WASHINGTON DC? PLAYERS? Can we please CHANGE ALL THIS??? For the LOVE OF GOD!

But.. SPADECLUB? Oh yes - Lets get back to SPADECLUB. The same shitty outcomes - Bad players catching the LUCK TRAIN on the river.. (calling off all sort of chips to CATCH) I seen it there - I seen it on POKERSCHOOL ONLINE? What - All the RNG's are SCREWED UP the same.. What the hell is RANDOM? Can I have a RANDOM WINNING DAY PLEASE??? ONCE!

If online poker was a HORSE TRACK - I'd bet on the LONG SHOT in every race... "SCAM" I tell you.. Scam.



AA, KK, AK, AQ, mean squat online. (you know it people) How CAN THEY BE WORTH ANYTHING on a SYSTEM that is set up to GIVE weaker players the edge in a hand by hand basis.. Meaning - If a player plays his AK or AA correct.. the site will just help the poor fishy out a little with oh.. I dunno a 2 outer. Lol...cmon.. already

Too many times you go in with the best and get NAILED. (Just too many times OK "anyone who wants to chime in with BS I'm playing wrong statements" - I don't have exact numbers.. but lets just say 80% of my action)

I raise rather than call.. I raise - I do not LIMP.. Tell me all you MIT smarties.. what else can a player do? I make them pay like the DOGS they are up to the river and THEY HIT! "They always HIT!" "WTF"

Soooooooo Frustrating!

BELOW is a little SCREENSHOT I call "Not Enough" - Or may be it should be called "It will hardly ever be ENOUGH"... STOP! Already! With the POCKET pair hitting the TRIPS against my Pocket AA KK and AK (hitting the A on flop)

IT SIMPLE HAPPENS TOO MUCH ONLINE. Of course this site is dedicated to the fact that ONLINE RNG's are a hoax... A complete hoax...





All online players are like MOTHS on the back porch light. Silly, stupid and well suckers ABOUT to be FRIED like a bug.

will I live long enough... to not LOSE to these calls

OK! So.. It's late in a tourney on SPADECLUB everyone..

I get AA - (super mega fast fold around table) Ever been there? All the previous action 50+ hands SLOW as can be.. I get a hand.. BOOM. Everyone else has blank cards.

then this happens...



874 players - the player limps.. OK.. But the call? How? I'll just sit here and drink more and stay quiet.. I'll let all the SPADECLUB players that have been here a while explain this one.

First time ever.

I had a quick $300 win at full tilt poker and CASHED IT OUT - See you next month FULL TILT!

Get yourself in on the action - HIT one of our banners an look out for me at the tables.. Say Yoooo Hooooo if we meet at the felt.

Kings held

refreshing when it happens...

On Spadeclub.

John Blowers - Gave it to me good. (In a quiet sorta way)

Over on PPSN (see banner link on left side of page) - A poker pal of mine had this to say...

Here is a picture of John from his PPSN page.





"I checked out your blog the other day, but couldn't figure out how to contribute."


SIDE NOTE - (I hope anyone reading this site/blog will GIVE ME HELL if they choose.. in my comments..) I like reading sites pertaining to poker, - Like John's over on PPSN. I hope that anyone ready to JUMP my way of thinking.. however, will then teach me how to win online with poor card selection and playing out of position. Because playing quality poker IS not getting it done...)


Actually - to add to the last thought.. I tried playing the poor cards for a short while.. FOR ME, they lose. huh? Odd. For others - against my great flops - THEY WIN.. Me - they lose (same goes for all my friends) Random??? THINK ABOUT IT.


so anyways..


I responded to John like this..



Yeah.. John... I know - I'm like the X-files guy of poker. It's just I'm not as good looking and of course with a few extra pounds. (I've never seen a UFO)

Http://www.standbackworld.blogspot.com (my poker blog) is really just a place for me to POST screen shots of my goofy hands. And of course to RANT...

For anyone NOT knowing.. (I think ONLINE is a complete scam.. and yet - I play anyways..) It's the only game in town.

To me - The action ONLINE is "SET" to get you on tilt. (Something you know all about John)

I guess when people visit my BLOG it's going to be a problem if they can't get a GRASP on all that it is saying/showing (mostly with proof in screen shots of my play ) - If they will never believe that ONLINE IS A RIGGED JOKE.. or at least that this COULD BE SO.. (That we are being ripped off blind) then I guess it's hard to take my posts/rants... and makes no sense.

Plus - I guess it kinda a DOWNER top have a stranger tell everyone that the GAME they love (are addicted to) is a scam. Yeah.. I'm no favorite.

I love the game... All I'm saying is this.... Either the online companies PLAIN can't get the cards to be true random (it's not possible) OR The cards (site) knows each the outcomes "BEFORE" the hand starts... and they do it for a reason.

I think the reason is this.. If players were sent to the rail by the better players - Business would be cut in half. (THEY WANT MORE.) Greed.

It's like - MAN... I find it hard to believe that SO many players getting crushed by poor moves (poor card selections of other players) OR that so many times A player that is the DOG will hit quads...

We all see it - EVERY OTHER HAND.. (they call them BAD BEATS for a reason - no?)

I make a motion on the floor - that when we play on line.. WE start calling them what they are.. EXPECTED BEATS.

BAD BEATS can happen.. yes. But should it happen to the degree that we see online. The number of times I'm beat by the BAD low % hands.. are AGAINST ALL ODDS. (Same thing happens to my many online playing pals)

Yes... MORE HANDS PER HOUR.. (I get it..) But winning hands should be WINNING more per hour... (THIS IS NOT HAPPENING)

See what you did... John..

lol

I hate Mondays.

I guess when you visit my blog you can do two things.. TEACH ME HOW TO WIN with the worst hands.. OR.. TEACH ME HOW TO WRITE BETTER - lol - I know I'm weak... Or maybe just plain - say "YO" - Hows it going.

I get many players that are with me on all this AND THAT WILL NEVER PLAY ONLINE AGAIN... I get many that tell me I'm whacked.

Problem is.. My "whacked play" gets me paid and paid well in LIVE games 8/10 times. Online... I'm always smashed in ONE or two KEY hands.. After I get UP.

Suspect.

ANYONE care to read a good book - http://www.pokerplayerssocialnetwork.com/profile/JohnBlowers

Hey - All the best everyone - I just want online to be fair and to me - it appears anything but.

Check out this COOLER hand in the 5K Qualifier on SPADECLUB

The first picture here.. says it all.. (NO! On-line SITES don't PRODUCE action or anything like that.. NO no.... Lmao.)

YOU SEE HANDS LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME ONLINE (all my friends REPORT this sorta thing "everyday" "night and day") - ANd ALWAYS "LATE IN THESE GAMES..." CMON! Cooler after COOLER after COOLER! (Why can't these player JUST go to the rail like in LIVE games) At least more often.. THEY just GIVE these bad moves the LUCK TRAIN turn "AND" river in most cases.. (ALL OF YOU with a brain KNOW IT'S TRUE)



It's OK - It has a happy ending..

ONE MORE COOLER...



(I will PLAY TIGHT and get back into the game) Yeah.. that's the ticket!

I finished 8th - (MY SEAT WAS RIGHT THERE - "in that BIG EMPTY GREY AREA OF THAT TABLE") I managed to grab MY ENTRY INTO THE NEXT 5K match I guess.. Looks like 2000 players though.. so it's an UPHILL CLIMB..

I don't really know - I'm very new to SpadeCLub.




SPADECLUB is about all I can handle (on line) - I can't get over HOW many SICK sick hands I'm forced to watch happen - AND THEN - to be forced to believe (I never will) that it's not FORCED - "non random - "known action"

You decide for yourself.. (Dig deep and GO with your gut)

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