ILX Poker Players Unite

I'm in an off-period right now, and I kinda miss it.

this would leave jams murphy out though unless we go for just play money games.

I'm curious, what does everybody play? It seems like Texas hold'em is everyone's default (maybe partly because that's what they play on TV), but I like 5- and 7-stud too.

what the hell

[working a job recording an event] i think i will do a crime during this

wow he's a reporter: https://lvchronicle.com/author/bryans/

Garrett seems to think this is going to vindicate him somehow, sounds like he knows something. or maybe he's bluffing

yeah but even if he is bluffing you still can't call there

This is getting really weird

I received the following statement from @RobbiJadeLew regarding the recent @HCLPokerShow revelation that $15K was taken off her stack.

More coming an an article that’ll appear on @PokerNews. pic.twitter.com/8ik91wWwgh

— Chad Holloway (@ChadAHolloway) October 7, 2022

pretty charitable of her which is cool.

sadly while all this was happening D.B. Cooper came out of hiding, stole the rest of the chips, and parachuted out of the building

What is going on here

So I got a message … @Joeingram1 pic.twitter.com/4S2zvR5BmQ

— Robbi Jade Lew (@RobbiJadeLew) October 7, 2022

This woman is…incredibly odd

https://t.co/0Ac06b5DkQ

I don’t think that mysterious box in her pocket was anything but cmon it was not just glare

just got on GGpoker, had to hold some BTC while waiting for my affiliate to come through. he took forever and I lost $300 thanks to the dumb crypto market. I know it's probably keeping online poker alive, but still, fuck Bitcoin

WSOP $1,500 7-Stud is streaming on YouTube (I've never had a PokerGO subscription), and it's been a good watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIStzOpRN44

lol just clicked on it and theyre talking about pokemon

Fantastic stuff cheers

Stayed up past midnight (Pacific Time, even!) watching the last three play this out for hours. Loved it. The wholesome rail vs. the rail of mooks added to it, but mostly it was the first time I had watched an unedited 7-stud tourney for hours.

$3.1 MILLION POT!! THE BIGGEST POT IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISED POKER!!@TomDwan vs @CryptoApprenti1

Tom Dwan is now winning more than $2 MILLION tonight pic.twitter.com/Fiv7ldVykt

— Hustler Casino Live (@HCLPokerShow) May 31, 2023

this stream was incredible

that's a 1550BB pot which would be the biggest I've ever seen in a cash game by some measure

lmaooo "all in? is that for sure? I'm gonna go get a water"

the big blind ante makes it a little smaller effective but yeah there were some insane hands

I haven't watched Tom Dwan in a while I had no idea he swore that much

dwan’s really the goat man

lol I remember when he turned 21 and started playing televised games a lot of people said he'd be broke in a year

the percentage of biggest tv hands ever that hes been involved in is very high

that High Stakes Poker hand where he bluffed Barry Greenstein and Peter Eastgate w/ QT on the T22 board is still my favorite televised poker hand. blocker bluffing wasn't really a thing back then, especially not in big 3-way pots. it really blew a lot of minds when people figured out what he was doing

its crazy how much better people are now at poker

Yeah I think your average 25NL reg is probably better now than the high stakes pros were during the poker boom. Thankfully there still seem to be enough whales and shitty rakeback grinders that you can still turn a profit. It’s definitely harder now though. Live poker on the other hand hasn’t really changed much at all.

we need legal online play in order to usher in another poker boom

the other day I listened to a podcast which argued that the biggest change in understanding between now and 20 years ago is in how much variance there really is, especially in PLO where it's possible to have hot or cold streaks which last years. ultimately he says that in the pre-online era it really wasn't possible to play enough hands to get a good handle on who the best players really were, and that virtually every "pro" who played big and made a lot of money pre-Party Poker was either rich enough to ride out the variance or just started on a heater. he thinks there were probably dozens of potential Tom Dwans and Junglemen out there but few of them ran as good as they did where they could really commit themselves to the game. definitely rings true for me at least, had I not run well my first few months playing online I probably would have given it up within a year. poker is so uniquely frustrating when you're on an extended downswing, it just feels like there's nothing you can do but give up.

whenever this thread pops up I end up watching an hour of poker highlights on Youtube and I don't know why - I haven't played a hand in a decade and I was absolutely terrible even among friends who were also bad, I don't have the attention span to play cards for more than like 20 minutes at a blackjack table.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDt90EyZnWA

incredible - was laughing throughout the entire section with Hellmuth and Gus. though his math on the Gus Hansen section is way off - that only applies if you get called by everyone, and if you did technically you'd only have to win once to win the tournament. I would guess just blind shoving every hand in a 6 person sit n' god you'd probably have like a 6-8% chance of winning it all.

god I used to love watching this stuff in college. better than any game show if you ask me. watching these dudes in the WSOP go on 3 day heaters, suddenly finding themselves at a featured table and allowing themselves to think just a little about the possibility of a big payout and some TV fame, only to get doinked by an 8 on the river. after which the camera just lingers on their face as they realize they will almost certainly never have this opportunity again. tough to watch I guess but still, great people-watching. also so many of them were massive dicks so it was easy to figure out who to root for.

https://philgalfond.beehiiv.com/p/elephant-poker-room

galfond could certainly use an editor, but I completely agree. doug is an amazing player and peerless analyst (when he puts work into it…he doesn’t prep as much for his videos these days) but he’s a bully and his non-analysis videos suck

Charlie Carrel is an antivaxxer who I had to block because he shares too much LibsOfTikTok bullshit, seems like one of the last guys who should be talking about "empathy". Regardless Doug is a total dick whose brain has been infected by YouTube disease, he's a great analytical player but shockingly unnuanced when it comes to any other topic.

the JNandez thing was real bullshit too, I primarily play PLO these days so I know his stuff pretty well, dude definitely seems legit to me. Doug feels like he's trying to be some Fantano-type personality whose appeal expands beyond poker while JNandez really is all business. dragging his name through the mud was a real dick move.

I like Galfond, like DNegs he seems like one of the actual good guys in poker, but yeah that sure was a lot of words

just catching up on this doug polk is a bull story ten months later and i dont think its necessarily wrong that doug is a bully but i think theres some nuance missing in galfonds essay and other talk ive seen on the situation which is that matt berkey is a weird dick whos always "speaking his mind", prob a bit of a cry bully sitch going on here, got into a beef with doug which i dont totally know the origins of but i remember he said he was gonna play in a game doug was playing in and was talking shit like these math guys may be good online but get them on the felt where im king and well see whats up and then backed out, so berkey is beefing with doug hes pretty unlikable not totally honest he runs a coaching site thats prob not very good and doug is like this guy sucks i hate him which is a not unreasonable conclusion, but he doesnt really consider his position of power or maybe he just thinks its cool and good that hes powerful and its his right to crush berkey, whatever it is he obvs took it way too far and deserved to be called on it, but berkey jumped in the octogon and got wrecked too

i watched an episode of that show where the players wear headphones to block out the sound so they can talk about the hands while they play and berkey and his protege were on and they were just not cool or nice guys very arrogant and lame, so i can understand how when a guy who sucks steps to you its just insulting, even by poker standards they came off as notably low quality guys

wait a sec what is this show, feel like even if you can't hear exactly what people are saying there are still all sorts of tells you could pick up just hearing a guy talk about what he's actually thinking in a hand

I agree most big name poker players are arrogant and obnoxious, comes with the territory I guess. I mean the way the game works even the best players still lose a ton so maybe they always feel like they have something to prove. Polk in particular is a guy I wouldn't mind never seeing again.

its called poker out loud, pretty cool idea, they dont really get top players on there tho, i mean theyre much better than me but still would be cooler to hear the top guys

really been enjoying nick shulman and brian rast commentating on the last triton series

yeah the triton broadcasts are top notch

this final table is going to be over in like 3 hours

mizrachi’s run over the last couple of days is so insanely legendary. says he just needs “an hour” to close out (44 minutes). wins the tournament and is immediately inducted into the HOF.

how much cocaine does will kassouf consume per week?

is this the first time in the Moneymaker era that a fairly well known pro has won the Main Event?

oh and what's with Kassouf not being allowed to play for a year? is he the first player ever to eat a suspension for being too annoying?

you could make an argument for aldermir perhaps xp

but what a run after winning his 4th ppc - just incredible

tbf he wasnt just being annoying he was breaking the rules re abusive language he called the whole table little bitches when he busted, he did a bunch of other stuff was warned did not care and so forth

yeah the kassouf case is pretty open and shut, you enter a tournament you agree to abide by the rulings of the floor personnel. there’s no freedom of speech or anything like that. if anything they were far too lenient with him, he honestly should have been disqualified

given he's sort of a name player I figured he had to have been way over the line, I didn't see any clips but did hear a lot of people complain he was singlehandedly ruining the broadcast

he seemed genuinely unhinged

he was in full tony montana act three mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyv1bv7JKIQ

this is such a great video haha