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WSOP ME satelittes on Pokerstars
Yes, but there are very few of these that actually run. And for all others PCA, EPT and AAPT, they run daily / weekly satellites around the clock, but nothing for WSOP.
Posted in: Poker Sites 		Holmesy1978
May 30th, 2012
WSOP ME satelittes on Pokerstars
Wonder why they are so late this year' I know you can win via the Main Event Passport, but usually by now there would be WSOP ME specific sattys running around the clock. Annoying as I would have liked to know if I'm going or not by now.
Posted in: Poker Sites 		Holmesy1978
May 28th, 2012
PokerStars Mobile - Please post your reviews
Have been playing it for the last couple of days for an hour in the morning and hour in the evening whilst I commute to and from work on my ipad and it is just so slick. Love the multi-table functionality. A few things that would make it even more awesome are hand histories beyond the most recent hand (and by extensions possibly a HUD some time in the future'), 1/2 pot, 3/4 pot and 1x pot buttons.
Posted in: Poker Sites 		Holmesy1978
May 24th, 2012
PokerStars Mobile - Please post your reviews
You would need an Australian bank account and address to do this. I used to have a UK and Australian itunes account and switched between the two if the app I wanted wasn't in the Australian store. Even if you manage to download it, not sure you would be able to access it. My daily commute to work is an hour long trainride each way, so mobile poker is going to be brilliant! Although means I'm going to get 2 hours less sleep a day.
Posted in: Poker Sites 		Holmesy1978
May 22nd, 2012
Run bad in Zoom
0.5-$1 It seriously goes way beyond variance. I really want to play it, but I can't afford to run that bad.
Posted in: Bad Beats 		Holmesy1978
Apr 30th, 2012
Run bad in Zoom
I run ridiculously bad in Zoom poker - doesn't seem to matter what I do. If I pot control, villain gets there, if I bet aggressively, Villain is already there. Winning about 20% of my premium hands and find it really tilting when I get stacked and shovelled onto a new table. Keep vowing never to play zoom again but keep coming back and blowing another 5 buyins. My bankroll would look much healthier if I had never even touched zoom.
Posted in: Bad Beats 		Holmesy1978
Apr 30th, 2012
Online poker in australia
Timezone is even worse if you don't play poker full time. I have a job and have to take Monday's off when there are sunday specials (like the Sunday 10mil). WCOOP and SCOOP schedules are horrible as well. I would need to take a couple of weeks off work to play even a handful of them.
Posted in: Poker Community 		Holmesy1978
Feb 14th, 2012
Introducing PokerTube Speed Poker
I just played a few hands against 1 other person and for some reason I had the BB for about 15 out of 20 hands (maybe more - he had the button virtually every hand). Is this supposed to even itself out' Also, I haven't received my €20 bonus either.
Posted in: Poker Sites 		Holmesy1978
Jan 23rd, 2012
Step's challenge why is not more popular?
I played in the 2009 and 2010 WSOP by winning Step 6 tournaments (won 2 entries in 2010). I go through phases where I will grind them for a day here and there and try to build up an army of tickets at all levels so you can just play whatever happens to fill first. If I get into step 6 I just hold onto the tickets until WSOP qualifiers start up, although I think they may be available all year round now with the passport thing' I generally just play 4 at a time and register in the next if I bust or am close to finishing one. I have a 50% strike rate in the step 6 tourneys. Won 1 out of 2 in ...
Posted in: Poker Community 		Holmesy1978
Nov 14th, 2011
Step's challenge why is not more popular?
I really like Steps and have had a reasonable amount of success with them having won 3 Main Event seats starting at Step 1. Frustrating thing is I am now based in Australia and they fill much slower in this timezone. Even Step 1s take time to fill, and it is near impossible to fill a step 5 or 6 unless I play at odd hours. There are definately step specific strategies due to a bigger bubble effect which a lot of players don't adapt to.
Posted in: Poker Community 		Holmesy1978
Nov 14th, 2011
Re(1): Working Full time,family and Poker..
I'm in the same boat. I find that when I do get some time to play, i often tilt badly because I feel like I need to jam as much poker into the small amount of time I have because i don't know when the next opportunity to play might come up. Definately need to find a better solution - not ideal letting my decisions be influenced by how much time I have to play.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Jun 14th, 2007
Re(2): Final P5s WSOP Prelim on Gnuf for Non US P5ers
You seem to be running pretty well in them to me TheHOOS! Nice straight flush to my aces full last time! And you knocked me out of the first one!
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
May 29th, 2007
Re(1): Running Bad.. Any suggestions?
I'm in the same boat. Have been running simply aweful for the last week or so. Had a major bout of tilt earlier, but have since calmed myself down and are still copping beat after beat. Hoping things turn aruond soon because it is frustrating as hell!
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
May 17th, 2007
Re(1): I'm the first one registered for the P5s/Stars $1 rebuy.
Love the 2:30pm start. Living in London, pretty much every other promotional tournament is difficult to play given that they often start around midnight! Nice one P5s! Just have to make sure I get home from work in time. Is there any late registration in case I am 15-20 mins late'
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
May 16th, 2007
Re(1): New Idea For Million Satellite
I would definately play these. Would be even better if you carried your chips through to the next round like the Party shootouts used to (haven't played party in a long time so don't know if they still do). May need to add an extra 1,000 chips to everyone's stack each round to accomodate the increasing blinds.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Apr 23rd, 2007
Re(2): Live cash game hand - can you get away from this?
Thanks Grapsfan - I think you're right there. I think the only realistic hand that I beat that the button would raise on the flop is KQ. I could have perhaps min re-raised on the flop and folded to resistance or check folded the turn. I may even have seen a free river with the button fearing a straight.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Oct 16th, 2006
Live cash game hand - can you get away from this?
I had just been out drinking with friends when I thought I would drop by my local casino on the way home to play some cash games. Now I would like to think I could get away from this if I was sober and definitely if my stack was deeper. This was Pot Limit Holdem, blinds were £3 and £3. I was playing higher than I normally would and had bought in pretty short (£200 where most of the table had stacks >£500). I had about £220 at the time of the hand. I had only played about 5 hands so didn’t have any reads. I will put the details as best I can remember – like I said, I had quite a few ...
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Oct 16th, 2006
Re(1): Your Poker "Office"

Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Oct 11th, 2006
Stars down?
Anyone else having connection troubles with Stars' Was doing pretty well in the $10 deepstack tourney and completely lost connection.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Oct 8th, 2006
Re(3): Dear Mr Bush.
You think Bush would actually know the difference'''
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Oct 2nd, 2006
Re(1): Guess the field in PokerStars' WCOOP main event
3642
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Sep 28th, 2006
Re(1): flame suit zipped up. Help a brother out. PT or CR
You could get Poker Office for free by signing up with one of their affiliate sites. Unfortunately it doesn't yet work with Full Tilt though. If you can get rakeback on a Poker Office compatible site then it could be an option. I believe that they are planning to add Full Tilt in the future. i haven't used Poker Tracker so I can't give you a comparison of the two, but I find Poker Office to be very useful.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Sep 1st, 2006
Re(1): CP_Mag 3rd UB Final Table in 3 nights
Long time reader, first time poster. I used to really enjoy reading CP Mag's articles / analysis on the Cardplayer forums. Would love to see you doing more of it on P5s. I think there are a lot of P5ers who could learn plenty from you. And congrats on the recent run.
Posted in: Poker Discussion 		Holmesy1978
Aug 30th, 2006