Poker

MTT variance brutal

man, i’m feeling this one lately. dropped into a few small field tourneys this week and the up-and-down swings are actually driving me nuts. got it in good more than once, watching two-outers hit over and over. i keep telling myself it’s no…

acr table froze on river and hand auto folded me with top two pair

Table froze right when the river hit and I was sitting there with top two pair, pretty much counting the chips already. After a few seconds everything unfroze, but my hand was already folded. No time out warning or anything, it just kicked…

Cash game rake too high?

Been trying to grind some low stakes poker lately and man, the rake is just eating into every pot. Like you hit a decent hand, rake swoops in and takes a piece before you even stack your chips. Makes me wonder how much you're actually suppo…

won a pot with disconnect protection then room reviewed it for “unusual play”

so i was grinding some late night tables, nothing huge, just low stakes cash. lost my connection right after shoving with a mid pocket pair, came back to see i’d won the pot thanks to disconnect protection. then a few hours later got a mess…

bad beat jackpot question

Wondering if anyone’s seen a bad beat jackpot hit in a live room lately. Last night at my local spot the table started arguing over what actually qualifies for the BBJ - somebody mentioned that a straight flush losing to a higher straight f…

888poker withdrawal pending after weekend series win and kyc already done

won a decent chunk in the weekend tourneys, put in for a withdrawal, and now it’s just sitting there “pending.” got all the kyc stuff sorted last month and it’s marked as fully verified. i know they say withdrawals can take a couple days bu…

Tournament late reg worth it?

I've always had mixed feelings about late registration in tourneys. On one hand, I get why players want to avoid early-phase showdowns against wild all-in guys who just want to double or bust in the first few levels. But the math changes a…

online poker hand history missing the biggest pot from my session

my hand history from last night is missing the one hand that actually made my night. i flopped a set against a guy who’s always running wild in chat, got stacks in by the river and it was by far the biggest pot i played. weird part is, ever…

HUDs still allowed?

Used to see a lot of people using HUDs when I played more online poker but I've stepped back a bit, mostly focusing on blackjack lately. Now I'm wondering if HUDs are still even allowed on most of the major poker sites. Seems like some room…

partypoker support asking for source of funds after years of small deposits

so out of nowhere i get this email asking me for "source of funds" even though i've only ever put in like $20 here and there over literally years. it's not like i'm suddenly dropping high roller amounts or anything, just the same low-level…

Short stack strategy?

Short stacks always throw me off my rhythm. I’ll get comfy sitting on 80 or 90 bigs then catch a bad run and end up at like 18. At that point I feel like most of my tools are out the window - no more floating flops or tricky 3-bets, just wa…

casino says my poker bonus got voided because i sat with same players too often

Had a weird situation at an online casino last week. I was grinding out their poker bonus and everything looked fine until I tried to cash out. They emailed saying my bonus was voided because I played too many sessions with the same set of…

Table change annoying

every time i'm just starting to get a read on the table, the dealer calls for a table change and i have to pack up and move. it's like, i finally sort out who the loose cannon is, who's actually bluffing, who just gets lucky on the river, t…

pokerstars spin and go jackpot graphic popped then lobby froze before result

Spin and go jackpot graphic showed up for me just before my lobby completely froze, couldn’t see the buy-in multiplier or anything. I’ve seen posts about people getting booted during big hands but I’ve never had the jackpot animation happen…

rakeback worth chasing?

so i’ve been grinding mostly micro to low stakes and started paying more attention to the rake lately. some friends keep saying rakeback is where the real edge is, especially if you’re not running hot. i get the idea, but at my level, i’m n…

played nl25 zoom all night and same regs kept showing up with weird timing

sat at nl25 zoom longer than i care to admit and kept running into the same three regs over and over, even with the pool supposedly being deep on these nights. all of them seemed to snap cold 4bet me at weird spots or insta-left when i join…

Bad beat or bad call?

Sat in a hand last night, playing online at one of the crypto joints I use for sportsbook action, and got rivered so hard I actually checked the hand history three times. I had pocket 9s, got two more on the flop, so pretty set. Guy calls m…

ggpoker flagged my account after one decent mtt cash, now withdraw stuck

yeah, i know the sites have to do kyc and all that when you have a decent win, it keeps things in check, fine, but this is getting ridiculous. i made a single, not even life-changing, cash in a mid-stakes tourney and now everything’s frozen…

river always kills me

Running so bad lately, it’s always the river that crushes me. Feels like I’m making decent reads, going in ahead most times, but the last card just never holds. It’s making me question if I’m playing it too safe or missing value by not prot…