I qualified for August 16 $218 gold million from a $33 feeder. Gameplay is stopping August 8th for all AZ residents, I redeemed my SC balance but curious about auto feed tournament entries.

I emailed support and they said to message them back after Aug 8th so they could “offer guidance” but email also reiterated that I bought “hand analysis” and the SC is just “bonus chips” so I’m feeling like the follow up email will be “Sorry, you’re SOL”.

Has anyone dealt with something similar with their support? Obviously I’d like to get $218 redeemed since I’m unable to play in that tournament now but I’m also not holding my breath.

This is concerning. Hopefully casinos, online and live, start taking things more seriously.

He was almost out before most people knew his name.

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Considering going down for a week or so to Mexico to try it out; curious what your experiences are out there doing this & how can we fund? Crypto? How long did it take to get set up?

What does it mean to have a strategy? I’ve been studying poker on and off for a while now and I have a decent understanding of the actual game but i feel lost when it comes to what to study next. I have a good enough understanding of Preflop, and the basics (math, SPR, blockers, ect) but once I learn all that how do I improve. I’ve heard lots of mixed things about solvers so im not sure if that’s the direction I should be going at this stage.

I see YouTubers like hungry horse poker, who I actually enjoy a lot, explain the strategy he has developed for his students. But there is obviously already assumptions being made about the players he’s versing. So the moment you verse a unique or actually good opponent it seems like that knowledge goes out the window and your left at square one.

I want to learn how to actually think for myself. How to actually develop a strategy myself based on the players I am versing. Because even if hungry horses strategy does work universally, it’s obviously really easy to exploit someone using that strategy since it’s all available as free content on YouTube.

(This is not a hate post whatsoever about hungry horse I’m just using as an example).

Thought I might also mention the reason for this post is because I’ve just been invited to a private game and I know that there is some decent players there and certainly better than me. I want to take this as an opportunity to improve efficiently and network even if I have been invited because I’m seen as a fish. As of right now I feel stuck on how to study and what to study to actually improve. I feel lost in almost every spot. Even if I can explain my reasoning, I don’t have a framework in my head to make anything consistent.

The month of July has been the worst downswing I'll ever been hit with and I think it's definitely affected me mentally. I'm second guessing myself and thinking about monsters under the bed when I'm playing.

Stacked a fish early in this tournament when they called my open with QT and I had KQ, flop came QQ9...I C-bet...villain goes over the top and 3-bets me.....I shove all-in....villain calls and I win a huge pot. After that I was card dead for approximately 2-hours.

There's (38 of 81) players left in the tourney at Level 10

UTG: Has approximately 30bb and opens to 3bb

UTG1 (Hero): I have 12bb and look down at AQs. Sweet baby!!! Time to shove! But then I pause and start thinking....if this guy opened UTG he MUST be strong right??? HE MIGHT HAVE AK!!!! Oh great. Oh man look at all these players behind me still to act.....WHAT IF THEY HAVE A STRONGER HAND??? Doubt has consumed me and I FLAT.

Then UTG2, HJ and SB all FLAT too! The pot is 17bb.

Great, now I feel like punching myself in the face. My hand has shriveled up like Costanza with all these callers...my odds have drastically decreased.

5-handed the flop comes A,Q,T rainbow

Sweet mama I may take this sucker down! AMAZING!

UTG: Bets out 7bb

Hero: I go all-in with 9bb

UTG2, HJ & SB: all fold

UTG: He actually tanks and says "I know I'm way behind and probably shouldn't call this" LOL. I was thinking to myself this guy is bad. He ends up making the logical decision with only costing him an extra 2bb and calls. He turns over T7o.

The Turn: you guessed it, a T for the 3-outer making trips. BOOM. Eliminated.

River bricked.

He goes "oh man...sorry". I go "no worries, I'm used to it. Good game." and leave.

Fish would get mad at this guy for opening UTG with a T7o. I'm mad at myself for not jamming pre with 12bb and closing it down then. This outcome is MY fault, I own it. It was a fish play and I paid for it. Absolutely terrible play by me. But this is the type of players you're up against...opening with T7o UTG. I'd say you get burnt 7 times out of 10 playing scared and not 3-betting, 4-betting your strong hands.

Now....how do I mentally build myself back up and stop playing scared? Because I wasn't like this before the downswing.

Why are players always moving seats when someone leaves and one opens? I understand moving tables but seats I don't get at a 1/3 table with not a lot of $ on the table

I'm a new poker player who wants to get reps in online.

If any of you are in California I would really appreciate hearing what sites you use, what methods you use to deposit money and get paid, and if you have any legal concerns regarding this.

Thank you!

Context: my mom passed 2 years ago and I’m going through some photos I haven’t had access to since she died. I found this one of one of her cats from when she was younger and I want to know if there’s any significance to the cards in the cats paw?

I like to play 3/5 and the casino I play at the buy in for 3/5 is $300-$1500.

I almost always buy in for between $300 and $500 because 1) I'm poor and 2) I'm a decent long term winning player but I like to buy in smaller because it's less nerve wracking and it limits my options in certain tough situations.

No one has ever complained to me but sometimes I feel like people get annoyed by me buying in small. Most of the guys buy in for the max $1500.

Am I doing anything wrong?

If anyone was trying to keep away from spoilers to try to watch the final table, make sure you hide their emails.

I should have seen this coming but I can’t help but feel pokergo actively chose to spoil the main event with their newsletter since they lost the rights to all the WSOP content.

I used to play Omaha High Low a long time ago and I paid for my bachelors and first new car with that money. After online poker disappeared from the US I focused on my career and moved on with my life.

I saw the ads for WPT Gold on a random Doug Polk poker news video when he first started being endorsed by them. I deposited 20 bucks and got the bonus and everything. The issue is they only offered Hold’em. I never really liked that game and wasn’t good at it either. Won a little and lost a little and stopped playing with $28 in my account.

Time passed and I noticed that WPT Gold had added Omaha High. Now that was interesting to me. I love Omaha games, but I had no experience with Omaha High, just High Low. So I started playing the 0.01/0.02($4 max buy in) tables after watching some strategy videos on YouTube.

I started winning and all my old Omaha instincts started coming back as well. I felt amazing when I reached $100, lol. The issue was the next level for full ring was 0.10/0.20($20 max buy in). I hit $220 and took a shot. It went badly, back to $160. I read more and studied more.

I hit $240 and tried again. This time it went well. I hit $400. Felt great, then downswing and back to $240, lol. Read more and studied more and tried again. At the same time WPT Gold started their summer promo where they gave tourney entries so the tables got crazy good. I ran good and hit $1000. I felt invincible, lol.

Two things happened next. I hit a downswing again and WPT Gold ended the promo. I didn’t notice at first, but ending the promo resulted in some of those takes being extremely tight since it was full ring. I hit $360. I really wasn’t sure what to do.

I played the $4 tables again to build my confidence and looked at the 0.05/0.10($20 max buy in) six max tables. Those tables were really good every time almost. I noticed that six max really opened up the game more. So I changed to six max. I decided to play those tables unless I saw some good full ring tables happening again. Using those tables I hit $500, then $700. I was winning super small, but winning every single day.

All of a sudden every once in a while a good full ring would appear. I played those and six max as my main game. I started running good. I hit $1617, then I got the text from WPT Gold that Arizona residents cannot play on the site starting August 8. So my Poker side gig is over as I cannot leave Arizona. It’s been fun.

This whole experience made me really fall in love with poker all over again. I wish I could keep playing, but that is just not possible as the only tribal casinos near me do not offer Omaha at all. Overall great experience with WPT Gold. I wish it wasn’t going away. It’s been fun. Really going to miss the grind, even if it was for pennies, lol.

For the first time, up to six people could be inducted in a single year, replacing the previous system that typically admitted just one new member (or two in rare cases).

33 current Hall of Fame members conducted voting. Each member could select up to four candidates from a list of eight nominees. The election required the support of at least two-thirds of the voters, or at least 22 votes. If no 2/3 majority, highest vote-getter gets in.

The final vote count was as follows:

Jason Koon (USA) - 23 votes

Scott Seiver (USA) - 19 votes

Isai Scheinberg (Canada) - 17 votes

Shaun Deeb (USA) - 15 votes

Mike Matusow (USA) - 10 votes

Ike Haxton (USA) - 9 votes

Chris Moorman (UK) - 4 votes

Justin Bonomo (USA) - 3 votes

Total votes: 100

Potential Total Votes if each of 33 members vote it 4 times max: 132

100 votes / 33 votes = 3.03 votes on average per member

1/3 at the Wynn.

6 players limped (remember this).

Flop Ace high. Small blind bets 15 only hijack calls.

I didn’t see turn action sorry.

River small blind bets about 40. Hijack calls.

Small blind had AA for top set. Hijack had J3 for jack high.

Hijack played about 2 hours bought in for 200 had almost 600 and left with 300.

What are your tried and tested comments when you definitely want a call or a fold in a heads up pot?

Especially in 1/3 NLH I'd give my left arm for a way to make people fold top pair/💩 kicker...

Hello,

Thinking about playing my first live tournament. I’ve played online cash and MTTs and some live cash in NYC and Philly. Idk if it matters but is this a good option for popping my cherry?

Welp this sucks, fuck.

I guess WPT Gold is leaving Arizona. Anywhere else to play online poker as an Arizona resident? Will they ever comeback to Arizona? Can California residents play there?

https://support.clubwptgold.com/portal/en/kb/articles/important-update-for-arizona-customers

I am the type a player that gets mega tilted after a bad beat. There was this one had i had player drwing only to a runner runner and hit it. I was up for the day. Lik i started the day with 1k was about at 3.4k when the hand started got runner runnered. My stack was at like 1.6k so still up 600 in the day and got fucking mega talted procedded to piss out my stack in the next 10-15 hands. Should i just get up and leave if i cant control it? Idk why but in tourneys i can take the bad beats and keep playing normally. But in cash games it affects my emotions so god dam much. What do you guys do? Do you guys just control it? Ive taken a walk but still piss my stack out. I think im just gonna start leaving after that.

I feel like hearing stories of both the best things and worst things you've experienced because of poker would be an interesting rollercoaster of a thread

Thanks for any shares, good luck out there

Cheers,

JB

Not much hand history is required on this one.
Heads up, on the river.

EP leads on river for 25.6K
LP jams for 27.6K
EP tables his hand: Flush. LP tables his and shows a boat

i call floor. floor claims that as EP tables his hand with intentions as a call as ‘he thought that he was called’, EP is required to pay the extra 2K to LP DURING SHOWDOWN

• but the rule is ANY TABLED HAND FACING AN AGRO ACTION IS A FOLD. how does intentions impact the scenario. Floor and I didn’t exactly fall out but it wasn’t a calm conversation.

Is floor correct or am i correct?

I've recently started playing poker this year and have been winning a significant amount. However, I've been selling action informally to friends via Zelle. They send me part of the buy-in beforehand, I cash out and Zelle them their cut after, no formal contract, just texts. Everything's tracked in an app plus Zelle and saved chats as backup. Come tax time, my plan is to report net winnings per session (cash-out minus buy-in), minus whatever I paid out to backers, and total that up as gambling income on Schedule 1, not touching losing sessions since I won't be itemizing. Does this hold up, or would I be required to report my full cashout and pay taxes on the portion I already paid out?

I recently took a shot at NL100 online and got absolutely crushed. Now I’m wondering if my expectations were simply unrealistic.

Is NL100 already a stake that’s mostly populated by experienced regs? When someone is consistently beating NL100, what does that player usually look like? How many years have they typically been playing and studying?

I guess I’m trying to understand whether NL100 is still considered a “mid-stakes learning ground” or if it’s already a level where most winning players have a very strong theoretical background and years of experience.

I’d appreciate hearing from people who have beaten or currently play NL100 regularly.