The pick 'em 2018 rescue thread

[john l]

Aw man don't even joke about me stealing peoples money, for bills or hookers, thats f#cked up.

I use to manage a poker staking outfit back in the day & having a mfer make off with the 1k you just sent him to play poker with & suddenly start to ignore you on skype is some sh^t that'll make you lose faith in humanity.

Dude you made the joke I was just playing along.But meant nothing by it.You still play poker?I just got my money back last week from ULTIMATE BET.The government went after them and I got my 1200 back.Never thought I would see that 10yrs later it was all profit so I was not real sad about it.Did you play online?Made a pretty penny while that was legal here.

[john l]

Good man! But yeah, you're right - I'd be up for throwing in some coin (and I'd be cool with Pandas doing escrow) but if we can't even get this **** together, a money version ain't realistic.

Oh yeah... and, man, I had no idea whether there's mountains in North Wisconsin - damn, I probably couldn't have picked out Wisconsin on a map of the States, but now I've just had to go check, haven't I? ha ha





So the answer is no, unless you're being particularly generous with your definition of the term 'mountain' but it does apparently have some rather pretty hills for Bob to go nude capering in..

lmao did not think there was.

[Eff Pandas]

Dude you made the joke I was just playing along.But meant nothing by it.

My bad you right. Seems worse when someone else jokes about it vs me joking about it somehow lol.

You still play poker?I just got my money back last week from ULTIMATE BET.The government went after them and I got my 1200 back.Never thought I would see that 10yrs later it was all profit so I was not real sad about it.Did you play online?Made a pretty penny while that was legal here.

Yea got got some money back last year from Absolute (or maybe Ultimate Bet idr, iirc they joined together at some point). And nah I don't really play anymore. I dabble every now & again on ACR, but never serious like I used to be. Haven't played serious since 2013. Don't think I've played live since 2009. Fell outta love with the game.

[john l]

Ok, let's try to keep this moving at least. So far we got a general willingness for the thing to continue, but a minimal level of willingness to actually muck in - which is quite understandable... I don't really want to do it myself. I'm thinking if I just had two or three other guys to share the work with it'd be pretty manageable though. I've PMed the ABC Troika to ask about setting up multi-user memberships and am looking into how best to upload a table (since there doesn't seem to be an option for setting tables up in the regular post features - unless someone can help me with that). I'm thinking it may be necessary to tabulate the data using whatever software we all have access to, save it as an image file then upload it before inserting it into a post, but maybe I'm overcomplicating things. If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears.

In terms of keeping it going for now, it's easy enough to just do what Siablo did last weekend for Rungvisai - Estrada, although I'm gonna suggest just leaving out the poll altogether unless we've got someone who can reliably be there at the start of every Pick Em fight to screenshot it. If we just move back to the old format (NAME WINNER KO/PTS DETAIL MULT) eg KOBA RUNGVISAI PTS CLOSE x1 it stores it for the record and time stamps it to ensure the pick was made before the starting bell. OK it's probably a bit more work to collate all the results later but hopefully that won't continue for too long.

I did write down poll#s for last week but have no idea who voted for what since it was not public.

[john l]

My bad you right. Seems worse when someone else jokes about it vs me joking about it somehow lol.



Yea got got some money back last year from Absolute (or maybe Ultimate Bet idr, iirc they joined together at some point). And nah I don't really play anymore. I dabble every now & again on ACR, but never serious like I used to be. Haven't played serious since 2013. Don't think I've played live since 2009. Fell outta love with the game.

Yea there are the same Absolute/Ultimate at least at some point.What is ACR?Yea have not played myself for a while(closest place about an hour away)but made about 20gs online Party Poker had the most suckers but Ultimate bet was my 1st and favorite.Played at Poker stars,Paradise,Pacific.Still love game but don't have time to go up there much and rake much harder to beat when you can only play one game and get about half the amount of hands.You can get about 60 an hour online only about 25-30 brick&morter plus rake is higher and cant play more then one table obvs.

[NC Uppercut]

You used a 2x correct?

I believe so. I also have every leader board screen shot on my phone. I think it was x2

[Eff Pandas]

Yea there are the same Absolute/Ultimate at least at some point.What is ACR?

Americas Cardroom. There's True Poker too.

Yea have not played myself for a while(closest place about an hour away)but made about 20gs online Party Poker had the most suckers

Haha. Dude Party Poker was the greatest site everrrrrrr. I don't think I ever printed money as easily & less stressful as I did when Party was open for US players. I remember when they were getting ready to close down for US players. I took all my money offline & left 1 SNG buy in just to play another game & see if I could run it up. Think I was still playing $5.50 SNG's back then. Was still young in the game. Ran that up to a couple hundro before they closed down the next day.

but Ultimate bet was my 1st and favorite.Played at Poker stars,Paradise,Pacific.Still love game but don't have time to go up there much and rake much harder to beat when you can only play one game and get about half the amount of hands.You can get about 60 an hour online only about 25-30 brick&morter plus rake is higher and cant play more then one table obvs.

Ahhhh the memories. You ever play on Mansion Poker? That was a print money ez site too. They used to have a show, Poker Dome(iirc) in Las Vegas you could win a trip to play on, you could win $100k or $1M (idr which) vs 3 or 4 other players in some speed poker game. They had a tournament to get on the show. I made the final table of that f#cking tournament like 5 or 6 times & got 2nd or 3rd 2 or 3 times.

And yea it just is easier to get in more hands online with less rake. Its +ev to play online vs live. You can bankroll manage easier too. Scope out games better. Lotsa advantages playing online vs live.

[john l]

Americas Cardroom. There's True Poker too.



Haha. Dude Party Poker was the greatest site everrrrrrr. I don't think I ever printed money as easily & less stressful as I did when Party was open for US players. I remember when they were getting ready to close down for US players. I took all my money offline & left 1 SNG buy in just to play another game & see if I could run it up. Think I was still playing $5.50 SNG's back then. Was still young in the game. Ran that up to a couple hundro before they closed down the next day.



Ahhhh the memories. You ever play on Mansion Poker? That was a print money ez site too. They used to have a show, Poker Dome(iirc) in Las Vegas you could win a trip to play on, you could win $100k or $1M (idr which) vs 3 or 4 other players in some speed poker game. They had a tournament to get on the show. I made the final table of that f#cking tournament like 5 or 6 times & got 2nd or 3rd 2 or 3 times.

And yea it just is easier to get in more hands online with less rake. Its +ev to play online vs live. You can bankroll manage easier too. Scope out games better. Lotsa advantages playing online vs live.

Never played at Mansion but played at about 5-6 and kept them all separate and came out ahead on all.Yea Party had crazy fish.Also loved that friend thing they had on UB(AND OTHERS) mine was filled with fishes so could know when and where they were at lol.One of my very best friends turned me on to it he lost his wife and his house over it.He could never understand it was a skill game.I lost like 250 and then bought a book(1 of about 12 at the end lol)and after that never had a losing week I don't think.Deff not a losing month.Yea it was great none of those you listed take American's do they?

[john l]

Americas Cardroom. There's True Poker too.



Haha. Dude Party Poker was the greatest site everrrrrrr. I don't think I ever printed money as easily & less stressful as I did when Party was open for US players. I remember when they were getting ready to close down for US players. I took all my money offline & left 1 SNG buy in just to play another game & see if I could run it up. Think I was still playing $5.50 SNG's back then. Was still young in the game. Ran that up to a couple hundro before they closed down the next day.



Ahhhh the memories. You ever play on Mansion Poker? That was a print money ez site too. They used to have a show, Poker Dome(iirc) in Las Vegas you could win a trip to play on, you could win $100k or $1M (idr which) vs 3 or 4 other players in some speed poker game. They had a tournament to get on the show. I made the final table of that f#cking tournament like 5 or 6 times & got 2nd or 3rd 2 or 3 times.

And yea it just is easier to get in more hands online with less rake. Its +ev to play online vs live. You can bankroll manage easier too. Scope out games better. Lotsa advantages playing online vs live.

Did you play just hold-um or did you get into Omaha or Razz(7 card stud played low)?

[Eff Pandas]

Did you play just hold-um or did you get into Omaha or Razz(7 card stud played low)?

I've dabbled in almost all of them, but yea HE was my primary game. I knew this PLO specialist who I got coached by for awhile, but I never got that deep into other games. You?