Monkeyman

Well, sure, but a poker contest doesn't give Daniel a logo, now, does it? He needed a logo, so he held a contest to get one. He wanted something good, so he came up with a prize good enough to get people to supply their best work.I don't think we can expect Daniel to just randomly create a poker contest and give away his money and his time (ESPECIALLY his time) just because his career and his website are focused on poker. It makes way more sense to have contests that accomplish something for him while rewarding his fans.I mostly emphasize this point because the number one message I take awa

*shrug* Live isn't fair. I don't have a problem with the idea of the contest (heck, I think it was a great idea, and I love the result), I was just saying that it's too bad I can't draw.Maybe someday Daniel will have a contest where he wants us FCPers to calculate the pressure losses in a mile-long oil and gas pipeline. When that day comes, I am totally going to own you all. ;-)

I gotta say, I loved this journal entry. Maybe it's just because it sounds like you're in a better mood, Daniel, or maybe it's the insights you draw from Reality TV.I gotta say, though, that I'm jealous of the guys who get to go hang with you. I would have loved to enter that contest, but I'm pretty much the stereotypical engineer when it comes to artistic creativity -- I could never even conceive a cool logo, not to mention actually draw it up. C'est la vie, I guess.One odd little paradox from this last journal entry was the bit where you asked readers to think twice about wanting to meet

Is there any chance you'd be willing to plug the CD here on the Forums? I have insanely bad clutter issues (made scarier by the fact that I'm moving in a month) and I would love to get my hands on something that might motivate me and/or give me tips.Cheers.

Well, this comment has certainly taken the discussion in a new direction.

Nice comment re the New Poster. You always this welcoming? 'Newbies' might actually know something about the game.Obviously the number of posts has no bearing on poker knowledge... otherwise you would've answered the OP's question correctly.I can't be sure I'm right here, but I took Royal's comment to mean "new to the table posting the BB to start playing", not "new poster to the forum". If that's the case, he's just describing the two situations in which you can see the flop for free with a terrible hand.Of course, I tend to side with other posters on this thread about what hands should be

Duuuuuuuuuuude! :canadarocks:

Damn right it was!

ive, um, tried it out?Best possible answer to this question. Made me bust a gut. :-)is that serious? please dont sue me!Well, it was a quick trip to the ER, a little surgery, and I have a mandatory six weeks of taking it easy now. But don't worry, I won't sue -- I'm Canadian, and we generally don't know HOW to sue.

ive, um, tried it out?Best possible answer to this question. Made me bust a gut. :-)

I agree that you need to try to unlearn this. Seriously, it sounds like you have a good enough handle on the math to make a killing on Party. I too tend to remember the bad beats, but I just think of them as fun stories to tell my friends. The good wins also make great stories (see my recent post about flopping quad jacks :-) ) but what really matters is that I don't let myself worry about individual hands, as a general rule. Sure, I'll analyze my play of an individual hand to see if I should have played it differently to lose less or win more, but in the end, I just care about my long-ter

Mr2jt gave a good answer on the time it takes to clear the bonus, in line with my experience at FT. To answer the quoted question: FullTilt releases your bonus in increments of 10% of the total bonus or $20, whichever is less. If you deposit the full $600, every time you earn 333.33 points, another $20 will be released into your account.

I have two new favorite hands: Q J and J T . The QJ was Thursday or Friday on PokerRoom. I think I had raised it pre-flop from middle or late position, but I don't recall how many saw the flop with me. The flop came J J J and somebody (who I think either had a high pocket pair or a strong desire to bluff) led out on the flop. I called, hoping to entice other callers to stay in, but it was heads-up for the turn. He bet out again, and I decided to call, hoping to get more out of him on the river. (I still don't know if I might have gotten more out of him if I raised the turn, but I d

Just wanted to point out that a post-flop aggression factor of 2.0 means you're betting and raising 2/3 of the time and calling 1/3 of the time. Stuff I have read seems to indicate that a post-flop aggression factor of 2 is OK, and above 3 is very good. Below 2 (like my 1.44) indicates maybe a little too much weak-tight play after the flop. (I'm working on it.)wrto, it looks like you're playing a pretty solid game overall, and just getting cold cards. I went through a 100 BB+ downswing recently at 2/4 (well, some was at 1/2 because I moved down -- I had just started playing 2/4 and wasn't

Folding the turn doesn't work for me, because UTG+1 bet the flop. He bet the flop, and then checkraised the turn. He doesn't have the straight based on this betting pattern. He either would have check raised or checkcalled the flop...or he would have reraised you assuming that MP3 ain't folding to one more when he already cold called twoHe also raised pre-flop out of position. I didn't have a note for him as an especially tight player, but I know that in general, pre-flop raises out of position aren't common at the games I tend to play. I couldn't really see him raising QJ from that posit