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Q&A with NickyOD

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  • 04-12-2006 6:08pm
    #1
    Lafortezza
    Registered Users Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭


    Next up is Nicky. Standard stuff applys as with the other threads.

    1) What games/levels are you playing right now?
    2) How many tables at once?
    3) Are you running good or bad in the last few days?

    4) Who do you think is the biggest knobjockey on the poker forum?

    5) M&M's, with peanuts, without peanuts?


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    ntlbell
    Registered Users Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Do you think you're starting to loose your love for poker?

    Have you any regreats about going pro?

    What was the hardest thing about turning pro?

    What's you're opinion on the current state of poker in Ireland?

    What part of your game do you spend most time on trying to improve?

    On a scale of 1-10 how do you rate your reading ability in...

    NLHE

    LHE

    Who on the poker scene in Ireland do you admire most and why.

    How highly do you rate Keiran Walsh? Have you played against him much? if so was it cash/tournaments

    Who is the most "creative" poker player you know personally.

    If you have music on in a tourney what are you usually listening to?

    How did you get involved in writing poker articles?

    Have you considered it as a full time job?

    How do you rate K4o?





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    shoutman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭shoutman


    1)What is the best hand you have ever played?

    2)What is the most memorable hand you have ever played?

    3)If there is one hand you would like to have played differently what is it and why?

    4)Do you think you have good bankroll management?

    5)Is there any mistakes that you know you are making but can't seem to stop making?

    6)At the final table of a EPT event and everyone at the table has exactly 10bb left. You are in the bb, every player up to you has gone all in and you look down at kk. Do you call? or hope to get headsup with a distinct chip disadvantage but with a healthy amount of money in your pocket for coming at least second.

    7)What is your favourite post-poker tourney late night snack food?


    cheers


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    LuckyLloyd
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    handsfree
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    do you feel you have improve or disimproved since taking your job in the casino


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    lafortezza wrote:
    Next up is Nicky. Standard stuff applys as with the other threads.
    1) What games/levels are you playing right now?

    Right now I'm playing 50 1 on Tribecca and Irisheyespoker. Before I did my brains in Vegas I was comfortably beating 1-2 and 2-4 on Party.
    lafortezza wrote:
    2) How many tables at once?

    I'm 3-tabling at the moment. I used to 5-table, but I'm still not totally confortable with more than 3 tables on the Tribecca interface. When I started on GJP I 4 or 5-tabled and made lots of mistakes.
    lafortezza wrote:
    3) Are you running good or bad in the last few days?

    I'm running really well right now. As everyone probably knows I was broke not so long ago. About 3 weeks ago I put $500 online again and since then I've made about $2200 on top. I've been very unlucky not make more, as I've taken a couple of nasty beats when close to 4 figure cashes in tourneys. One was the 20K Gtd on Party and the other was the 20K Gtd on Stars where I was 12th of 3078 runners when I lsot with AJ V AT AIPF. My confidence is very high right now. I can't remember when I've played better to be honest.
    lafortezza wrote:
    4) Who do you think is the biggest knobjockey on the poker forum?

    lol! haven't heard that term in a while. An uncle of mine used to think "Have you got a jockey" was a good chat up line and for some reason you just reminded me of him. :)

    Honestly I think think there is almost no one on this forum that I dislike, and that really says a lot about boards coming from someone like me. If I had to pick one person who posts here, I would have to say Pokerevents is the biggest knobjockey.

    lafortezza wrote:
    5) M&M's, with peanuts, without peanuts?

    I like nuts. :)


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    El Stuntman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    Hi Nicky,

    I enjoy reading your blog - it's painfully honest!

    and now for de questions.....

    what factors led to you going broke?

    what have you learnt from going broke?

    can you see it happening again?

    have you any defined poker goals for the next year?

    have you ever been to the Sin Bin?


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    ntlbell wrote:
    Do you think you're starting to loose your love for poker?
    I love poker now more than ever. I write about poker for pokernews every week which is great because its different, I enjopy writing and its a chance to do somthing creative. My new poker room in Ennis will be in full swing before Christmas so now would not be a good time to lose my love of the game. :)
    ntlbell wrote:
    Have you any regrets about going pro?
    None at all. I have regrets about many things I have done in my life but that is one decision I will always feel was the right one.
    ntlbell wrote:
    What was the hardest thing about turning pro?
    The change to my sleeping habits and the effect it has had on my social life has been the most difficult thing to deal with. I used to go swimming before work every morning and play football at work twice a week. Now I'm really out of shape, I don't exercise enough and you're as likely to find me awake at 4am as 4 in the evening. That's obviously very unhealthy and something I need to change.
    ntlbell wrote:
    What's you're opinion on the current state of poker in Ireland?
    I think its great. You can find a game almost anywhere now. The only problem I have with Ireland is the difference in standard between the way things are done in Dublin and outside of Dublin. Dublin have very good dealers, the cardroom managers know what they are doing. Everything is done to a very professional standard because its expected of them and players realise this. Outside of Dublin there are a lot of very poorly run games, dealers are not being traned properly, they are very sloppy, the games are bad value and worst of all players don't seem to expect better service. That's not to say there aren't good poker rooms outside of Dublin. There are some excellent ones with fantastic people involved but unfortunately the terrible games far outnumber the good ones.
    ntlbell wrote:
    What part of your game do you spend most time on trying to im
    prove?
    Recently I've been trying to speculate more and make more aggressive moves in tournaments. Players are getting better and harder to read, so when the ABC TAG approach doesn't cut it, you have to try and be more creative in a tournaments.
    ntlbell wrote:
    On a scale of 1-10 how do you rate your reading ability in...
    NLHE
    LHE
    Tough Question. I think I have to give myself a 9 for No Limit. I think it's the strongest part of my game. Limit is entirely different and reading players isn't as important. Making big folds on the river is the last thing you worry about in that game. I probably give myself a 6 because I don't play limit so much any more.
    ntlbell wrote:
    Who on the poker scene in Ireland do you admire most and why.
    I like colourful characters because they are needed in the game, and I like those people to be thick skinned because you need to be to survive in Poker, and they need to have some gamble in them to be winners. Dave Masters probably fits that mould perfectly, although I don't know Dave very well I think if I had to pick the next Irish player to have a breakthough in a major tournament he would be the most likely. I also think anyone who wants to know how a poker room should be run perfectly could learn a lot from Luke Ivory.
    ntlbell wrote:
    How highly do you rate Keiran Walsh? Have you played against him much? if so was it cash/tournaments
    I've never played with Kieran. I remember when Keieran, Fatboydim, Damien Kavanagh and I made the second day of the Main event at the E-WSOP in Vienna. I got to know him a bit then. I think he's probably one of the nicest guys in Irish Poker. I have a lot of respect for people who are as graceful in defaet as they are in victory and that's why I like Kieran. Like I said though I have never been at his table so I can't comment on his play.
    ntlbell wrote:
    Who is the most "creative" poker player you know personally.
    Pat Coleman. No question. He is the fiercest and most fearless cash game player I know. The **** he pulls makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and he is no fish. He's a winning player and he probably sees over 60% of flops 9 handed.
    ntlbell wrote:
    If you have music on in a tourney what are you usually listening to?
    In a live game I usually listen so pretty heavy stuff. Rage against the Machine, Foo Fighters, Skunk Annasie, AudioSlave, that sort of stuff. It helps keep me awake and focussed.

    At home when playing online I prefer to be much more relaxed. There I listen to a lot of Reggae, and more chilled out stuff like Morcheeba, Zero7 and I really like Blur.
    ntlbell wrote:
    How did you get involved in writing poker articles?
    At the Pokerevents festival in Dublin back in June I met Paul Sandells weho is the editor for UKPokernews. I knocked him out of of the 800 event, then we were both at the final table of the 300 event. Then I spotted him in a cash game in Vegas and went up and said hello. We were staying in the same hotel and got talking. After Vegas he sent me a message asking me to cover some irish tournaments and it grew from there.
    ntlbell wrote:
    Have you considered it as a full time job?
    No, not at all. I'm not good enough. I was so afraid of writing a piece of **** article that i'd get flamed for I asked Vicky Coren to give me some pointers and she was really helpful. I'm no journalist, but I'm getting better. There's not enough money in it for someone like me anyway. You have to be exceptional for it to be worthwhile financialy and even a writer as good as VC has said its almost like doing "charity work".
    ntlbell wrote:
    How do you rate K4o?
    It's fourking ****e[/QUOTE]


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    shoutman wrote:
    1)What is the best hand you have ever played?

    It's hard to pick one hand. I remember it took me about 3 seconds to fold Kings preflop against James Browning. He showed me Aces. That wouldn't be the one I'd pick though.

    My favourite hands usually involve making plays for pots from the blinds, trying to represent raggy or paired boards. The hand I played against Ocallagh in the recent boards game where I 3 bet the turn and he called me down with Queen high and won (He had QJ, I had Q9), that was a lot of fun.

    Here's one on the bubble ont he 20K Gtd on Stars the other night that I enjoyed. The Villain said he folded A-9.

    PokerStars Game #7261440704: Tournament #36701433, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII (1000/2000) - 2006/12/01 - 23:27:33 (ET)
    Table '36701433 43' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
    Seat 1: KGBCI (11060 in chips)
    Seat 3: Socks0814 (12847 in chips)
    Seat 4: superman1975 (111923 in chips)
    Seat 5: jp28810 (40076 in chips)
    Seat 6: NickyOD (34885 in chips)
    Seat 7: TomWy (16900 in chips)
    Seat 8: slcikjim (28770 in chips)
    Seat 9: cousinb1971 (22515 in chips)
    KGBCI: posts the ante 100
    Socks0814: posts the ante 100
    superman1975: posts the ante 100
    jp28810: posts the ante 100
    NickyOD: posts the ante 100
    TomWy: posts the ante 100
    slcikjim: posts the ante 100
    cousinb1971: posts the ante 100
    jp28810: posts small blind 1000
    NickyOD: posts big blind 2000
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to NickyOD [ 2c 6h]
    CardShark_yB is connected
    TomWy: folds
    slcikjim: folds
    cousinb1971: folds
    KGBCI: folds
    Socks0814: folds
    superman1975: folds
    jp28810: raises 2000 to 4000
    NickyOD: calls 2000
    *** FLOP *** [Ac 5s 5h ]
    jp28810: bets 2000
    NickyOD: calls 2000
    *** TURN *** [Ac 5s 5h ] [Ts]
    jp28810: bets 2000
    NickyOD: raises 6000 to 8000
    jp28810: calls 6000
    *** RIVER *** [ Ac 5s 5h Ts ] [Kh]
    jp28810: bets 2000
    NickyOD: raises 18785 to 20785 and is all-in
    jp28810: folds
    NickyOD collected 32800 from pot
    NickyOD: doesn't show hand
    CardShark_yB said, "nb"
    shoutman wrote:
    2)What is the most memorable hand you have ever played?

    Smooth calling a raise with Aces from Nick Gibson in Vienna when he raised my BB for the 3rd time and then talking him into to calling down with 3rd pair. He's so tilty it totally changed the dynamic of the table afterwards. There's also hand I played against Badgirl which I remember for all the wrong reasons. Let's just say I somehow found a way to overplay T-7o.

    The biggest cash game pot I won was about €2100 and was with Queens full in Omaha. I'll never forget that one because the villain in the hand was somone I dislike very much.
    shoutman wrote:
    3)If there is one hand you would like to have played differently what is it and why?
    Another hand form the E-WSOP. This guy went on to come second in the Main event. He was overaggressive and he probably pegged me as being too tight. (which was probably right at the time). The very first hand of the second day he button raised my BB and I reraised with AT. He thought for a while and then pushed all in and covered me. It was the longest I've ever dwelled over a hand in my life and I took 5 minutes to fold. To this day I still think I should have called.
    shoutman wrote:
    4)Do you think you have good bankroll management?

    Yes I definitely do. My problem isn't playing above my limits its my spending habits away from the poker table. :)
    shoutman wrote:
    5)Is there any mistakes that you know you are making but can't seem to stop making?

    Misplaying AK from the blinds.
    shoutman wrote:
    6)At the final table of a EPT event and everyone at the table has exactly 10bb left. You are in the bb, every player up to you has gone all in and you look down at kk. Do you call? or hope to get headsup with a distinct chip disadvantage but with a healthy amount of money in your pocket for coming at least second.

    Ugh! I hate these question because I often end up changing my mind later. I would fold because i'd expect someone to have Aces, and even if they don't i'm getting positive equity from the huge jump in money. You should fold Aces here. Plus if I am at a table of 9 players with equal abillity then my chances of coming first should be 1 in 9 which should be the same as the odds of wining heads up with a 8-1 chip disadvantage., but in the second scenario I make a lot more money, so yes I definitely fold.
    shoutman wrote:
    7)What is your favourite post-poker tourney late night snack food?

    pancakes. the lemon and raisin ones you can buy in Tesco are fantasic :)


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    LuckyLloyd wrote:
    Do you have long - term ambitions within poker? By this I mean - can you see yourself using poker as your sole source of income (whether it be writing about it, running a card club, playing etc) in the long - term or do you have plans to move onto something else?

    i don't want poker to define my life, but I'm sure it was always be a huge part of it. I'm very ambitious and I won't be totally happy unless I win an international event, but I can think of 1000 more important things to worry about. unless the poker bubble bursts at some point I think I will be working in poker and playing poker for the rest of my life, but I wouldn't rule out anything else, except IT. I'll never go back to working in IT.
    LuckyLloyd wrote:
    From a purely playing perspective, do you believe that grinding out a living would allow you to maintain an interest in the game, or is it a case that you would need to move up levels and start taking big tourney scores to still have a desire to play in 10 years time?

    Grinding sucks if you''re a professional. Your brain would crack if you kept it up for too long. It would just take over your life. You've got to have other interests or other ideas brewing to keep your mind active. From a playing perspective, you've got to keep trying to raise the bar, test yourself and keep trying new things. While I would always rely on a solid cash game as an income from poker, I defintely always have the urge to try and win a big tournament.


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    handsfree wrote:
    do you feel you have improve or disimproved since taking your job in the casino

    I feel like i'm getting better all the time. I still play a lot even though I don't play as often. Plus you can actually learn a lot from watching begginners play from the common mistakes that they make, then using that to your advantage when playing similar oponents. Some new players can surprise you. I dealt a game last night where a player folded Kings against Aces preflop and he was getting seriously good odds to call. He was a beginner but he read the villain perfectly. That really impressed me. A lot of begginers can really surprise you like that sometimes and when they do you learn something new and can add it to your own game.


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    kincsem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Good evening captain.

    I hope you are keeping well.

    Do you take any lengthy breaks from poker? I'm talking weeks and months.

    At all times are you aware of how interested you are in the game, the effort you are putting into it, and your tilt angle?

    Do you have someone to offload your bad beats to, or to discuss the game in general?

    Like all Limerick people, do you go to work on a horse?

    Happy Christmas, cos I'll probably not see you until you are playing a tourney in Dublin.


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    El Stuntman wrote:
    what factors led to you going broke?

    Basically it was Vegas. The funny thing about it was. I didn't go broke playing poker I actually broke even in Vegas from poker thanks to a big tournament win at caesers. I lost a fair bit in a few brutal cash game sessions bt overall I tihnk I was even or up slightly from playing poker in Vegas. My downfall was the table games at the Rio, mainly Craps and Texas Holdem Bonus Poker. I did not have one good session. It was so bad that at one point where i was shooting dice with a couple of Boardsters They would bet together I I would bet against them for a while and I would lose, then started betting with them and we would all lose, then I'd switch back again and they'd start winning and I'd continue to lose. It was awful.

    When I returned from Vegas I still had enough money to generate an income from poker but I was suffering from burn out and was lacking confidence. I overspent on a few things, I didn't play much poker to compensat for my spending habits and eventually had to relinquish my online backroll to pay the bills.
    El Stuntman wrote:
    what have you learnt from going broke?

    Basically that I need to manage my money better I guess. Also when you are at the point of being so broke you're living off bread and soup it helps you to appreciate that there is are lot more important things in life than poker, and that having money is actually more important than I thought it was. That sucks actually. I'm not a material person, I like spending money but I don't have a huge desire to be rich. I guess the most imprtant thing I've learned is that no matter how good thinfs are going for you, you always have to have a plan B. I didn't have one at the time. In future I will always have a back up plan.

    El Stuntman wrote:
    can you see it happening again?

    Nope, Statistically Variance has to swing my way the next time I go to Vegas, so next year I am devoting my entire bankroll to hammering the craps tables and I'm certain I will take the house down.
    El Stuntman wrote:
    have you any defined poker goals for the next year?

    Play more big festivals. Get more European Ranking points. Win a big event. Firstly though i need to get back to being bankrolled to play 2-4 online.
    El Stuntman wrote:
    have you ever been to the Sin Bin?
    [/QUOTE]

    Yeah a couple of times. I hate the place. Every night at the Sin Bin is Grab-a-Granny night.


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    kincsem wrote:
    Do you take any lengthy breaks from poker? I'm talking weeks and months.
    Last year I took a month off and when I came back i had the best month ever online. After the first year and half I played online. I took a break of almost 9 months (during which I almost got married). Before then I was a losing player. When I became single I started playing online again. I didn't make another deposit for over 2 years.
    kincsem wrote:
    At all times are you aware of how interested you are in the game, the effort you are putting into it, and your tilt angle?

    I guess there isn't a day that goes by where I don't think about a poker scenario. I'd prefer to take a couple of weeks a year off completely but at the moment I don't have someone to spend that time with.

    I'm not sure what you mean by tilt angle? I don't think I ever go on tilt. I have gotten very upset through poker but I've rarely let that change the way I play. I think I'm one of the best players at putting others on tilt though. :)
    kincsem wrote:
    Do you have someone to offload your bad beats to, or to discuss the game in general?

    Yeah I have a couple of friends who I share my poker stories with. They are obviously poker players too. It's a two way thing. It wouldn't work otherwise. I think if I met a non poker playing girl who would still look at me with loving eyes when I told her I just got my Kings cracked by 7-4o I would ask her to marry me on the spot.
    kincsem wrote:
    Like all Limerick people, do you go to work on a horse?

    I live in a 4th floor aprtment and there isn't enough room on the balcony for the sulky, plus I don't think the landlord would let me keep my horse in the front room so unfortunaltely not.

    By the way not a lot of people on boards realise this but i actually consider myself more of a Donegal man than from Limerick since that's where I grew up.


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    sikes
    Registered Users Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭sikes


    why dont you post advice as much as you used to on boards? you were one of the players i took a lot from when i started playing a year ago and i delved into the archieves for some very good threads.


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    El Stuntman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭El Stuntman


    NickyOD wrote:
    I took a break of almost 9 months (during which I almost got married). Before then I was a losing player. When I became single I started playing online again. I didn't make another deposit for over 2 years.

    I'm confused

    Are we talking about sex here?


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    sikes wrote:
    why dont you post advice as much as you used to on boards? you were one of the players i took a lot from when i started playing a year ago and i delved into the archieves for some very good threads.

    I try to, but I guess there are lot of better players here now who get there before me and i'd just be repeating what has been said many times before. I'm actualy embarassed by a lot of those old thread. I don't think i've always given the best advice, but I definitely tend to put a different spin on hand analysis sometimes which is a good thing.


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    El Stuntman wrote:
    I'm confused

    Are we talking about sex here?

    no i think that was about 2 months, but I'm willing to answer questions on any non poker related topic too.


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Favourite memory from playing poker (or poker trips)?


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    DeadParrot
    Registered Users Posts: 2,764 ✭✭✭DeadParrot


    even though you are pro, do you still pull the scratcher?


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    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Do you watch the Sky News interview at least once a month?


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    DeVore wrote:
    Favourite memory from playing poker (or poker trips)?

    My most vivid memory is probably the first time I walked into the Fitzwilliam card club, which was actually only in April 2005, so not that long ago really. I had been to the Macau a few times before that but back then it was smaller and the players in the Macau have never come across as very welcoming IMO.

    But my first time in the Fitz was a different story. I played the Saturday €15 round of each rebuy and came 4th. It was the first time I'd been around what I would have considered real characters of the game like Vivian and Player X. The kind of players who frighten the crap out of you. In Limerick at the time i was afraid of no one because they were all the biggest donkeys ever. Back then there was no player in Limerick that I knew who had real character or staying power. I was at a different level to everyone else and I was only a very average player at the time. When I first played in Dublin I was a just little fishy really, playing with the big boys, so this was a new experience. That weekend was also the first time I played Pot limit cash games and did really well. for a month afterwards all i could think about was going back to the Fitz again. It was the first time I felt I knew that I wanted to be a professional poker player.


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    DeadParrot wrote:
    even though you are pro, do you still pull the scratcher?

    I looked this up in the urban dictionary and I still don't know what it mean's. I always just thought a scratcher was a bed but apparrently it means a lot more.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scratcher


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    RasTa wrote:
    Do you watch the Sky News interview at least once a month?

    I've never watched it again. I hated it. The TV3 one was better, but the Sky News one was really negative. It was a stitch up really. They asked me a lot of good questions, then only aired the negative ones, relating to gambling and addiction, then brought out some idiot psychiatrist who said all these people playing poker are just degenerates who are fooling themselves. I'll never do an interview for sky again. lol! I'm just waiting for that phone call so I can say no to them. It should be any dny day now. :)


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    dacman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 444 ✭✭dacman


    Hi

    1. As a poker pro describle a normal day.
    2. Whats you biggest tourney win.
    3. Are u tight with money or are u the guy that always buys the last round.
    4. Whats your favourite poker move if u are card dead to accumulate chips.
    5. Whats the best online tourney in your opion at the moment.

    Cheers

    Dac


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    Daithio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,679 ✭✭✭Daithio


    NickyOD wrote:
    It was so bad that at one point where i was shooting dice with a couple of Boardsters They would bet together I I would bet against them for a while and I would lose, then started betting with them and we would all lose, then I'd switch back again and they'd start winning and I'd continue to lose. It was awful.

    LOL. That was hilarious. Betting against you on that table was probably the reason I DIDN'T go broke in Vegas, cheers Nicky!:)


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    Lafortezza
    Registered Users Posts: 8,806 ✭✭✭Lafortezza


    How do you think the poker forum could be improved?
    Do you think the mods do a good job? Should they be harsher? More lenient?


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    DeadParrot
    Registered Users Posts: 2,764 ✭✭✭DeadParrot


    NickyOD wrote:

    I looked this up in the urban dictionary and I still don't know what it mean's. I always just thought a scratcher was a bed but apparrently it means a lot more.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scratcher

    Apologies, some of our Dublin posters may have got it, are you on the Dole, with your years of PAYE, you should be entitled. I was just wondering if pros are also on the Dole.


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    califano
    Registered Users Posts: 5,440 ✭✭✭califano


    1.)What did you think of the book 'Angelas Ashes' by author Frank McCourt?.

    2.) Did you ever bonk into a swimming pool or cinema or public facility without paying and what was your modus operandi?.

    3.) How long ago was the last physical fight you were involved in and what was it over?


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    dacman wrote:
    1. As a poker pro describle a normal day.

    I don't really have a routine because i'm involved in a lot of different things right now. I basically play when I find time. Usually at night time. Also because I have a deal with pokernews to write for them every week I sometimes just start writing as soon as I think of an idea. That could mean getting up at 3 in the morning, writing until breakfast time, then I might go out and get breakfast and afterwards go to bed until the afternoon. :) I do that at least twice a week. Other days I might have a normal 9-5 schedule. I'm also travelling to and from Ennis a lot at the moment, and won't be moving there until the new year. My sleeping patterns are all over the place right now.
    dacman wrote:
    2. Whats you biggest tourney win.
    4.5K on party. I've probably had about 15 4 figure cashes in the last 2 years online, so i'm a little unlucky not to have had a bigger win. I don't really play many tournaments anyway. My online income is about 80% from NL cash games.
    dacman wrote:
    3. Are u tight with money or are u the guy that always buys the last round.
    I love spending money. I have very expensive tastes.
    dacman wrote:
    4. Whats your favourite poker move if u are card dead to accumulate chips.
    It would usually involve some sort of speach play. One that I tried recently is moving in after the flop after I've faced a bet. i'd have a bit of a dwell up and then say something like "I think you have pocket Jacks". Then move all in on some sort of dodgy draw. Only a very clever player or a very stupid one will call me with worse than Jacks.
    dacman wrote:
    5. Whats the best online tourney in your opion at the moment.
    The 250K on UB is pretty sweet. UB have their online championship at the moment with over 2 million in the prizepool. I'd rate their structure higher than stars, because there is so much play early on. I also really like Full Tilt. A softer blind strucure with running antes. I always feel like I have lots of room to meneuvre in their tourneys.


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    NickyOD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,124 ✭✭✭NickyOD


    Daithio wrote:
    LOL. That was hilarious. Betting against you on that table was probably the reason I DIDN'T go broke in Vegas, cheers Nicky!:)

    Well I glad you won it and not TJ Cloutier. Apparrently he actually went o cash out $26 in chips. Even I wouldn't bother with that. He probably needed it for the cab fare. :)


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