team event
 

I am up for this if we have three more who will join.

http://poker.ladbrokes.com/en/poker-...m-championship

good man :clap::clap: lets see if we can get at least 1 team in. There will be value in this team event, plus if you play all the games a very nice MTT entry is available for you (this is an individual event after the team evet) .

Yes im sure we can get at least one team and that should give us something to talk about for a few weeks....:cool:


Be nice to have a talksportforum gathering in Vegas....B (:


Just keep me posted....:scribe:

sorry herbie,must of missed this or misunderstood,im happy to participate,struggle to get to vegas this year but will happily play and help team win. taylormade and current holder of $20 laddies 6-30pm trophy. gl

good man!! one more needed for team talksport

I would but, 21st April
 

Ladbrokes Team Championship MTT Schedule
Thursday 24th March 18:50 UK Time - €5 + €0.50 with €5 rebuys for 1 hour
Thursday 31st March 18:50 UK Time - €10 + €1 2nd chance plus
Thursday 7th April 18:50 UK Time - €20 + €2 freezeout
Thursday 14th April 18:50 UK Time - €5 + €0.50 with 1 hour rebuys
Thursday 21st April 18:50 UK Time - €10 + €1 with €5 rebuys PLO
Thursday 28th April 18:50 UK Time - €10 + €1 with €10 Rebuys
Thursday 5th May 18:50 UK Time - €10 + €1 with €1 rebuys
Thursday 12th May 18:50 UK Time - €30 + €3 freezeout

I dont understand WHY is this night (21st) Pot Limit Omaha ?

Maybe others like Captain or CT or Lenny want to play, not sure it's for me, i'll sleep on it ..glk though o:D

Thanks Benny, you could always get someone to play on the 21st for you?

Do we have a 4 then?? I will leave it until after the weekend before entering (I do think this is a team game worth entering). Lets see if we can get another few interested. if we can get to 8 people we could do some sort of draw for the teams. Plus we may spark some poker debate on here again?

Forum trip to Vagas baby anyone!!!!

I've just started a new job thats in London, so long days, early starts.... and not compatable with late night poker games... :C

Really annoyed as I am struggling to think of any other reason why I would not be in on this! Typical - no work for a couple of months and then ....

:-C:-C

not worth it captain,just pack your new job in and come to vegas with us.

Lol - Thinking about it 8-P

Herbie
 

OK put me down as reserve IF 'The Captain' cant play ... but me and Laddies dont like each other .. 3:-) Ever since that 'horse fiasco', They dont even send me emails anymore .. o:D

Right then, I think that is our four? Can you reply with your aliases as I know both Bennys and Tonys have changed since the merger with Microgaming.

The only thing left to decide is the team name “Goodbye Cash” is my vote. But I am sure Taylormade can come up with something more apt.

Benny =

Taylormade = Taylormade

Tony =

on screen alias = BENNYTHE-274 :eek!:

herbie im a little t in taylormade.

i like goodbyecashellovegas,

goodbyecashellovegas
 

it is then, team has been entered.

Team Name: goodbyecashellovegas
Alias1: only1herbie
Alias2: taylormade
Alias3: BENNYTHE-274
Alias4: T0NY2005


First game is Thursday 24th March 18:50 UK Time - €5 + €0.50 with €5 rebuys for 1 hour

Good Luck Guys !!



If anyone is really clueless in the PLO game (probably a Ladbrokes typo though) and wants a ringer to play instead, I'll put myself forward as said ringer.

8-P

I am clueless! I wouldn’t mind some basic guidance. Starting hands etc

If you get 4 aces... throw em away! :)

I am worse than that! I will chase down a flush draw whilst holding 4 different suits.

Lol :)

im just praying,players dont start timing out everyhand hoping to rise up another place , i enjoyed last time laddies did this sort of thing even with the boring time-out play. friday at work will be interesting after late nights when i win every comp at 3am,ellovegasgoodbyecash. goodluck team.

Omaha is OK bit of a gambling game to me, o:D I dont really see it as a tournament game though.. Still it should be a fun change :'D

It's really quite complex to talk about tbh but here goes ...


Your playing with four cards NOT two sets of two cards, remember that it isn't holdem with four cards, the most common mistake I see NLHE players making is playing hands like AK88 - this is a shit hand in PLO, a much better hand is something like JT97, also because of the extensive amount of combinations that can be made with each next card dealt, its very, very, very important to be in position as you get to see how everyone else has reacted, perhaps to that dangerous turn card, before you put your money in the pot, so your vpip stats should be very low for ep and gradually increasing to the button where in 6-max cash games my vpip/pfr is maybe 50%, higher if it's folded to me but this is for cash games not MTT, where the winning strategy is "tight as a ducks arse" as I like to call it.

Straights, flushes and top set/FH probably win the most pots in PLO, so your starting hand should reflect this, a simple rule of thumb is out of the possible 6 hand combinations you hold preflop at least four combinations should be live.

The best hand is PLO is AAKKds or AAJTds* me I'd prefer to have AAJTds as I'll get action from KKxx. Other good hands are possible straights where if you hit the flop you create a wrap, a powerful drawing hand, for example ..

KQJTds is a monster hand preflop and I'd 3-bet with this type of hand BUT it can be dead post flop, if the flop was 388, your hand is worthless now as anyone who called the 3-bet is sure to have KKxx or similar but your representing AAxx with your 3-bet so if the flop comes QJ4ss with the suits matching yours, can you see that this is a powerful drawing hand?
You already have top 2 pair+bdfh, straight draw and flush draw, my money can't get into this pot fast enough, even if the flop comes 89J with my suits matching, I'm all in here too, as I'm drawing to the highest nut straight with flush draw. This starting combination example above is valid down the scale to perhaps 5678 at the bottom (where of course, as your going down the scale your less likely to be putting more in the pot preflop) I'd not play it any lower than this as your always gonna be drawing to the bottom end of any wrap, or "the sucker straight" as I like to call it, a nasty newbie habit.

Hands like KKxx QQxx JJxx are maybe worth a call in late position but they are only to be played as set mining, you can overset people, do not get overset yourself by playing junk like 99xx 88xx. Hands like TT88 are perhaps left alone as a newbie but I might look at the flop in late position in a 6-max cash game as you have two chances of hitting a set.

Be wary of hands like 899T, they look pretty but are actually not that successful as you need to hit the flop precisely in order to create a wrap/powerful draw, if the flop comes 67Q for example your looking to hit any 89T in order to hit the nut straight but you've got two 9's in your hand, that's an extra 25% of the 9's available for you to hit, already taken out of the equation.

Also if someone is betting the pot, on all streets, you can be almost sure they have the goods, bluffing is rarer in PLO than NLHE in my experience, it's also rarer than it should be to 3-bet preflop with anything other than AAxx, something I was trying to do more when I was playing cash PLO was to widen my 3-betting range.

Anyhoo, good luck and I'll maybe come back to this if I remember owt.


*ds = double suited, ss = single suited, x = any random card, bdf = back door flush, bdfh = back door full house

Thanks for that Tired. Worth it for this alone, I know I would have commited to hands like this.


"most common mistake I see NLHE players making is playing hands like AK88 - this is a shit hand in PLO"

Nice one 'Tom' ...yes Richard Ashby love this game at cash 'nose bleed' stakes ...mind you there all 'sick' gamblers at that ($50/$100) ..
I was with him in Baden, sat behind him chatting, he said then his fav hand was suited connected cards , like you say, KQJ10 or QJ109, what surprised me though was how few hands he played, maybe only 2 or 3 an hour :eek!: However that was live and cash, I think it's a bit different on-line and in a tournament ... many thanks again , great in-site :clap:

I feel like newcastle united playing in the champions league,theres a few tuff looking squads playing,but every now and again the underdog has its day,over 8 games think we have as good a chance as any,interesting scoring system,think last time laddies done this sort of thing points were scored for top 100 places,I've come up with a plan,think if we fill the first 4 places for the first 4 tournaments we should be going to vegas, gl goodbyecashellovegas.

lol Tony
 

Now come on mate, you have to believe, have faith, build your confidence , become aggressive,:cool:
Never before has so many, relied on so few !!!..
It's not the end, it's not the beginning of the end !!
We are going to the colosseum, we are the gladiators ,,,:loveme:
One for all and all for one !!!

I think we can win! The last type of comp on Laddies like this I played in (cant rememnber which one). In the final game we had to knock out vaioius people before they scored a certain ammount of points then one of us had to go on and win the mtt. We did get everyone knocked out and I got to heads up with gangster22 (i think) but he battered me and I came second. so we failed :C but I think we have a much better team then we did then and therefore the win is on!!

herbie wot u doing posting at 4-49am,hope its a sign u final tabled and found some luck and its not nerves keeping you up in anticipation of the big games coming up.
we are finally tuned athletes and need our rest.

o:Do:D:clap::clap:

Its a consequence of years of playing poker into the small hours and then getting up for work at 6am, i now dont sleep much :C:C:C

24th
 

First game this week, 5 euro re-buy ...
Registration opens Wed 23rd for the Thursday 24th event :eek!: ...... Armageddon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73cWfFEKAfE

Lets get this thing done ............... ;)