Effing Mensa, Less is More Strategy, SDMB Poker 1st Qtr 2015

The Game Room
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Last Quarter Thread

New players are welcome. We’re a friendly and social group; we play the game seriously, but not cutthroat. As always, here are the instructions for anyone who wishes to join us:

For those in the know, this is the thread for our 1st quarter of 2015.

For those not in the know, there is a group of us from the SDMB that play poker online every Thursday night at 10 Eastern/9 Central.

We will continue to play on PokerStars using the “Home Game” club that was announced here. The games are still free.

If you would like to join us, then follow the steps below:

  1. Go to www.pokerstars.com and download the software.
  2. Send a PM to MentalGuy(me) to have him send you the invitation code (it is no longer cecilville).
  3. After installing the software, find the Home Games tab.
  4. Click on “Join a Poker Club”
  5. Enter 42585 as the number of the club to find.
  6. Enter the invitation code sent to you by MentalGuy.
  7. Wait for MentalGuy to approve you. (He will do it as soon as possible.)

This should make you a member of “MentalGuy’s poker club.” Once you are there, you should have no problem finding the tournaments.

The Thursday night game is our “official” game that Oslo Ostragoth keeps the standing for each quarter, but we sometimes have additional games. If there is a game you would like scheduled or a certain time you would like to play, just let us know and we should be able to accommodate you.

We also usually have chat going on AIM while we play (there is a chat window at the table, but AIM allows a bit more freedom and does not get interrupted with hand descriptions).

If you join us, we would appreciate it if you fill out your information on this spreadsheet. This helps us keep players straight with their doper and AIM handles.

Please come join us! We need more players.

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And so I don’t have to reply to myself, Last Nights results.

  1. CraneOp
  2. MentalGuy
  3. Dag Otto
  4. Ast
  5. Frosty
  6. Effing Mensa
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Brazilian Soccer Mega Start Ronaldo is making a deep run the PCA Main Event in Bahamas. Golfer Sergio Garcia has been on his rail. He has got an above average chip stack (about 1 Million at the 1k/6k/12k level)

He is at the featured table and you can check the live feed here

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Well this week we had another paltry turnout…I was able to eek out a close win from Asterion…He was preceded in his losing ways by Dag Otto who took third place honors, And Not From Mensa dragging up the rear…

Sure missing our poker playing buddies!

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Jan 22 results:

2 ast
1 dag

(I thought they would abort a game with fewer than three players.)

And the first standings of the quarter:

1 asterion 51.5
2 Dag Otto 51.5

Dead even to however many decimal places it calculates.

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Strike those results from last week, there was no game. Ast was a bot.

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Well, I downloaded the lite version for my iPad, and can’t join a poker club or find 42585. Any suggestions?

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I’ve got a Dell laptop running Vista you can probably have. And I definitely have an even older one running XP.

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I ended up stealing TheKid’s laptop and downloading PokerStars. Now I’m just waiting for the invitation code.

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We played last night. I finished second and Frosty was first, but I do not remember how everyone else finished. I would have posted immediately afterwards if I knew I needed to.

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I thought I saved the results at home but I am not 100% on that. I will check later tonight and post the results if I find them.

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I was 3rd, Size 12 was 6th.

That leaves Crane and Mensa to fill 4th and 5th but I don’t know the order.

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Results are logged in the Club Lobby. Under the Results Tab

  1. Frosty
  2. MG
  3. Dag
  4. Mensa
  5. Crane
  6. Mr Duality
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  1. Mr. Duality, after a hard fought see-saw heads up battle with
  2. Mathinator
  3. Dagbot
  4. Frosty
  5. Adamanthaea
  6. Crane!299
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standings:

1 Frosted Glass 71.4
2 MentalGuy 61.2
3 notfrommensa 59.7
4 Dag Otto 53.8
5 asterion 46.5
6 Craneop2 43.1

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The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is in town, so you must carry on without me.

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Films, schmilms - we had a game
Results:
1 dag
2 missy
3 crane
4 mensa
5 frosty
6 root
7 asterion
Standings:
1 Frosted Glass 65.3
2 Dag Otto 62.9
3 MentalGuy 61.2
4 notfrommensa 57.5
5 Craneop2 47.6
6 asterion 41.0

btw, apologies for the botting last week

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Results 2-26-15
ME!
Dag
Adamanthea
Frosty
Size12wshoes.
Looking forward to a great turnout next week!

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Standings:

1 Dag Otto 63.4
2 MentalGuy 61.2
3 Frosted Glass 60.4
4 notfrommensa 57.5
5 Craneop2 56.7
6 MrDuality 53.3
7 asterion 42.6

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Results:

1 dag
2 ast
3 crane

Standings:

1 Dag Otto 65.1
2 MentalGuy 61.2
3 Frosted Glass 60.4
4 notfrommensa 57.5
5 MrDuality 53.3
6 Craneop2 53.2
7 asterion 43.7

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Results 3-12-15
6-Roooot
5-Dag Otto
4-Mental Guy
3- Frosty7
2- Asterion
1- Tha li’l ol’ beekeeper …ME!