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Q+A with Marty Smyth

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    Hi ya Marty,

    Thoroughly enjoying your well & fair play for taking the time out to do this.

    What advice would you give someone RE bankroll management & also any suggestions on how to keep the TILT :pac: monster at bay.

    Thanks again.

    re. tilt... i used to look at the game as follows - i know i am gonna have winning and losing months at poker and at the end of the year i am gonna be ahead a fair chunk (at least thats been the case every year so far). if someone was to give u a job that paid 6 figures + per year, but the condition was that they were gonna pay u 30k one month and then take back 14k the next then only pay u 7k the month after that etc, u wouldn't really get annoyed the months u paid back the money cos u knew u were gonna still have ur salary at the end of the year. if u think of it like that then there really is no reason to tilt or get annoyed about losing hands or losing sessions. that assumes ur a winning player though, and even if it does make sense then its still hard to follow.
    i've never followed a set model for bankroll management. i just play the stakes i think i can beat. at the minute i have the bankroll for some of the biggest games on the net but i dont play them cos i dont think i have an edge there and i dont feel comfortable, so i really wouldnt be the person to ask about that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    mocata wrote: »
    Do you think the authorities' attitude to poker in the north will ever change? Which bits from which casinos/cardrooms would u pick and choose to make your ideal club?

    - not for a while anyway. there are too many backward thinking ultra-religious types in power up here.

    - i'd try to make it a bit like the amsterdam casino. that's probably my favourite venue. it has a nice restaurant and bar area. i'd have luke ivory involved in the cardroom in some capacity, and i'd probably have the waitresses from the wynn serving drinks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    Mellor wrote: »
    Nice well so far Marty,
    I think you've covered plenty on the PLO. So a few Hol'em questions here.

    1.At the FT of the Irish open, who were you most worried about?
    2.Did you think the irish players are generally under-estimated at big events?
    3.Currently, I am on the FT of a satelite, 9 players. 5 tickets. I'm in third place. First hand after the break I have 55 in the BB. 2 limpers, sb completes ... My action


    1. sorel, cos he's a good player and had the most chips.

    2. i'm not sure really how we're perceived by other countries. probably US players think that they're the best players in the world at everything, and might assume that irish guys who come to vegas to play poker are just rich guys who have made it big in the potato selling business. i think in europe we command a bit of respect though, maybe not as much as the scandi countries, but as much as any other.

    3. i can't properly answer that without knowing more info. what are the stacks on the table? were the 2 limpers were limping a lot or if this was out of the ordinary. i'd almost certainly likely check and try to make my set cheaply though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,429 ✭✭✭✭Mellor



    3. i can't properly answer that without knowing more info. what are the stacks on the table? were the 2 limpers were limping a lot or if this was out of the ordinary. i'd almost certainly likely check and try to make my set cheaply though.
    I just threw that one in as it was my actual current hand, not some attempted at a theory question. Didn't have time to post more info, I checked and missed the set


    Another quickie, is it true that sorel took more cash out of the IO ME than Roland even though he came third. Due to the off-camara deal (that PP don't mention in the ads ;))


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    Flushdraw wrote: »
    Hi Marty,

    Great well so far..I have a feeling it could go on for a while though so i hope you have no plans for the next week or so!

    1. You're invited to play a charity 6-handed event event and you can chose the other 5 players. Who would you pick for entertainment/buzz value?

    2. Same idea as above but its a $20k buyin winner takes all and you can chose 5 players to omit from selection (due to them being complete d1cks or really tough opponents). Who would you chose?

    3. Do you have a favourite non-premium hand that you will (almost) always raise with, or stall on for longer than usual when facing a raise when you know you should dump it!

    4. Do you know off the top of your head, whats the best hand of poker you ever played. Whether it be a bluff or just one of those hands where you're pulling in the chips saying "Wow i played that hand like a fkin genius"

    Cheers Marty and gl

    Tony

    1. danielle lloyd, shannon elizabeth, abi titmuss, someone else like that, and devilfish.

    2. he seems to have gone into semi retirement, but alan betson would have been one. i always felt a bit intimidated when i was in a pot with him. devilfish has out-played me both times in the tv 6 seaters i've played with him. tony G and phil helmuth, because they're both good and i don't like the way they behave at the table, and phil ivey as he's probably the best player.

    3. honestly - no.

    4. again - honestly no. i've made a lot of very good calls and reads, but nothing stands out (i've made a lot of bad calls too)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    cuterob wrote: »
    thankyou for doing this

    you mention that tony bloom has a big bankroll? does he play online or has he made money outside of poker?

    i think roland de wolfe is an average player at best who doesn't have a very deep understanding of the game..this is my opinion only though..i could be horribly wrong of course..but from watching any poker he has played on the various televised cash games, tourneys, interviews and any strategy he has written for magazines he seems to be pretty bad and on a sick sick run.. from playing with him for a long period of time did you find his results match his play?

    - tony bloom is the most successful sports bettor in the world probably, and poker at any stake or any buy in can not be more than fun-sized stakes for him. i don't know his wealth but it's certainly in the hundred of millions

    - i've only been at 2 tournament tables with roland so i don't know his game that well. people who play that sort of style often seem like their playing bad because they sometimes end up with all their money in the middle with a bag a sh1t. but they pick up loads of small pots to make up for it when people just keep passing while they wait on genuine hands to take him on with


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    corkie123 wrote: »
    congrats first of all nice read so far

    1 nicnic v flipper
    2 who u think is best omaha player here in ireland or few in order if u like
    3 best way to clear poker room or would your farts be enough ?:D:D:D

    1. diplomatically - i'll say flipper at omaha, and nicky at NLH.

    2. i already mentioned winters, cooney, tom hanlon, and dave c is earlier posts. i haven't really played all that much with dennis and cooney, so their inclusion is partly on reputation, but they're names that come up time and time again when people talk about the best omaha players in the country. but dave c and tom hanlon are probably the 2 best i've played with any regularity.

    3. i'd been on the guiness for 3 days...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Doc Farrell


    -

    first of all u are officially 'Da Man'. That is your new nickname, i have spoken.

    here's a quote from u:

    - i think i said that if i won the million, it wouldn't really change my lifestyle that much, it would just be an extra bit of security. before the final i'd been winning consistently for about 4 years - i'd already bought an apartment and probably had a bankroll of 2 or 300k which was plenty for the games i wanted to play and for the lifestyle i wanted

    tell me what kind of limits and for how long did u play them to get you there and did u play mostly tournies or cash?

    and finally do you believe in the armies of the Undead and if so, do you think there's a way to harness their power in order to take over the world, and if you do, do you think it wise?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    What is the best thing to combat tilt?

    Have you ever made an effort to annoy or tilt someone at the table, what
    consequences?

    Whats your golf handicap?

    If you could choose one person to stake in the Irish Open who couldn't afford it themselves, who would it be?

    Favourite number on Roulette?

    Favourite sporting hero?

    Biggest influence on your life, non-person.

    Would you rather be bald like Nicky or ginger, like yourself?

    One rule you would change in poker?

    Also you think this is bad, try a 2+2 well!

    - i've discussed my thoughts on tilt a few posts ago - i've never made any attempt to annoy or tilt someone at a table

    - i'm not a member of a club and never have been so i dont have a handicap. i'd probably be about 24 or 26 i suppose. best ever score was 92, but rest of my scores are all over 100. i'm getting better though.

    - there's absolutely no way i'm answering this as i'd be opening the door for a fone call from him round about next march.

    - if i ever play roulette i bet on a couple of random numbers that happen to be close to where i'm standing

    - no one immediately springs to mind. football's my favourite sport and zola is probably my favourite player of recent times as he seemed like a genuinely nice guy as well as being obviously brilliant. le tissier too for the same reason and the fact that he stayed at southampton where he was happy instead of moving to a bigger club for more cash.

    - beer

    - it doesn't really matter as it looks like i'll be bald and ginger, sorry - i mean strawberry blonde, in a few years anyway.

    - already answered this one in smuphs post a few answers back


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    mdwexford wrote: »
    Do you have an in depth knowledge of the maths and theory side of the game or are you more of a live pro feel player??

    Do you prefer cash or tournaments??

    Which was sweeter, Irish Open or WSOP bracelet??


    At Clonmel a couple of years ago you were the big winner in the game against Fred the English guy, Mr PT was the other winner in the game from here as far as i remember while a lot of good internet players from here sat in and got busted, do you think this is because you two were more willing to gamble with him and had more live experience or you simply ran better over the few days??

    Thanks for doing this and good read so far.

    - i like to think i have an in-depth understanding of the game - i just don't use forums/books/training sites etc, so i'm not familiar with this new sort of poker-speak. it's only very recently i've started to learn what all these new terms mean like 3 and 4 betting, stop-and-go plays. i just found out where the cut-off position was, and i've very recently indeed encountered "the hi-jack position"??? - i've still no idea where that is. and i don't know what a balanced re-raising range means either.
    i've always made decisions very much based on mathematics though, taking lots of things into account like pot odds, what i believe the different probabilities are of my opponent having certain hands, and how my hand plays against the range of hands that they are likely to have (or how a bluff works against their range of hands).

    - much prefer tournaments

    - bracelet. already went into a bit more detail in previous response.

    - a lot of guys think that game was bent. i don't think that at all although i can understand how they thought that, as pretty much all the 'internet guys' including myself were very unlucky at the start. one well know player who i consider to be every bit as good as me lost 50k or something, and i was only one pot away from losing 50k and quitting. thankfully i won that pot - which was the first time i got into a big pot and didn't get outdrawn or else find myself in a bit of a cooler situation. after that i ran ok and ended up doing quite well in the end, but it could have been very different if i'd had one more bad beat. i don't think i ran all that well over the 2 days, but i certainly think the other good internet players who lost big ran very badly


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    bohsman wrote: »
    KP next in the well imo.

    strongly agree


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    Yeah i didnt think you could dish all the details of what went on as you said public forum and all, ive played with KP a few times in the last couple of months and i always wanted to know what he is like away from the table.

    But i do appreciate the time thanks very much. Drop a joke in my 1000th post thread if you get the time :D Just one last very quick one, favourite prop hand?

    will do re. joke... sorry - i may be showing my inexperience here, but i really don't know what a prop hand even is


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    Mellor wrote: »
    I just threw that one in as it was my actual current hand, not some attempted at a theory question. Didn't have time to post more info, I checked and missed the set


    Another quickie, is it true that sorel took more cash out of the IO ME than Roland even though he came third. Due to the off-camara deal (that PP don't mention in the ads ;))

    sorel took more than me...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 Apathy


    lol i like the sound of that... unfortunately it won't be shown over here for ages, otherwise we could have had some kinda simultaneous transatlantic booze-a-thon with international heads-up drinking battles!
    we'll have to wait until the next day and hope its up on pokertube, which i'm sure it will be. i think the plan is to try to get it onto a DVD and then have a bit of a party for the screening on friday night...

    i thought your post was one of the irish guys messing around at first, but then i followed the link onto leggopoker, so i'm assuming it is really you until i learn otherwise. i was just surprised that you would ever have heard of this site... are u coming to london for the wsope and ept by the way?


    One of the members at leggopoker who I guess is a member here sent me the link to this thread so I thought I would stop by :)

    I don't have any plans to come to barcelona or london but I may decide to go last minute.

    The show doesnt come out for a while in Canada to so I'm planning on having people over to watch sometime next week. You can get the torrents somewhere


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭30something


    Hi Marty,

    Have had the pleasure of playing you once in a tourney many moons ago but can't remember details.

    May I have your expert critisim of this, the last hand I just played...

    Background, I had been stealing this guys blinds for the last 3 rounds. His WSD is 19% so I figured he would fold the river.

    PokerStars Game #19793422710: Tournament #102283168, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/08/21 - 17:45:32 (ET)
    Table '102283168 36' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
    Seat 1: adamyor125 (3400 in chips)
    Seat 2: mement_mori (4140 in chips)
    Seat 3: KidCardiff6 (4118 in chips)
    Seat 4: 3Osomething (3880 in chips)
    Seat 5: bigchipshi (3555 in chips)
    Seat 6: astonwilli (2765 in chips)
    Seat 7: Horneris (3100 in chips)
    Seat 8: posidonas (2595 in chips)
    Seat 9: shrty (2427 in chips)
    bigchipshi: posts small blind 50
    astonwilli: posts big blind 100
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to 3Osomething [Js Tc]
    Horneris: folds
    posidonas: folds
    shrty: folds
    adamyor125: folds
    mement_mori: folds
    KidCardiff6: folds
    3Osomething: raises 100 to 200
    bigchipshi: folds
    astonwilli: calls 100
    *** FLOP *** [Kd Qh 2d]
    astonwilli: checks
    3Osomething: checks
    *** TURN *** [Kd Qh 2d] [3d]
    astonwilli: bets 300
    3Osomething: calls 300
    *** RIVER *** [Kd Qh 2d 3d] [8d]
    astonwilli: checks
    3Osomething: bets 700
    astonwilli: folds
    Uncalled bet (700) returned to 3Osomething
    3Osomething collected 1050 from pot
    3Osomething: doesn't show hand


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭nicnicnic


    Apathy wrote: »
    One of the members at leggopoker who I guess is a member here sent me the link to this thread so I thought I would stop by :)

    I don't have any plans to come to barcelona or london but I may decide to go last minute.

    The show doesnt come out for a while in Canada to so I'm planning on having people over to watch sometime next week. You can get the torrents for the shows and easily put them on DVD from thepokerbay.org

    careful you might get banned for discussing torrents and not be able to improve your game here:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    -

    first of all u are officially 'Da Man'. That is your new nickname, i have spoken.

    here's a quote from u:

    - i think i said that if i won the million, it wouldn't really change my lifestyle that much, it would just be an extra bit of security. before the final i'd been winning consistently for about 4 years - i'd already bought an apartment and probably had a bankroll of 2 or 300k which was plenty for the games i wanted to play and for the lifestyle i wanted

    tell me what kind of limits and for how long did u play them to get you there and did u play mostly tournies or cash?

    and finally do you believe in the armies of the Undead and if so, do you think there's a way to harness their power in order to take over the world, and if you do, do you think it wise?

    don't know about that nickname... i'd prefer something a bit more understated. it's all well and good for now, but it's going to look a bit silly when i have a run where i don't cash for 6 months...

    - i started playin 1-2 and 2-4NL on the net around sept/oct 2002, which was the biggest they had at the time. a few months later they had introduced 5-10 and i immediately moved up there despite not having a huge roll. it was a while b4 they started 10-20 but i immediately moved up again, although as i said in an earlier reply, this wasn't like it is these days, as EVERYONE just moved up a level when they created a bigger table so the standard was pretty much the same. i played 15-30 and then 25-50 when it started, but that was really as high as i've played regularly.
    i don't remember exactly - and to find out i'd have to leave the comfortable seat that i'm in now and go upstairs and turn on my computer up there where i keep all my records... but i'd say i had a BR of about 100k or so after the first year i played online and maybe 250 or so a year after that... i cashed a lot out of course. i played 95% cash btw.

    - i'd say it would be unwise. the armies of the dead have shown themselves to be very unpredictable, and have scant regard for authority in any film that i've seen them in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭Doc Farrell


    hmm, interesting, I shall take your opinion under advisement.

    good day to you, sir.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    Hi Marty,

    Have had the pleasure of playing you once in a tourney many moons ago but can't remember details.

    May I have your expert critisim of this, the last hand I just played...

    Background, I had been stealing this guys blinds for the last 3 rounds. His WSD is 19% so I figured he would fold the river.

    PokerStars Game #19793422710: Tournament #102283168, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/08/21 - 17:45:32 (ET)
    Table '102283168 36' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
    Seat 1: adamyor125 (3400 in chips)
    Seat 2: mement_mori (4140 in chips)
    Seat 3: KidCardiff6 (4118 in chips)
    Seat 4: 3Osomething (3880 in chips)
    Seat 5: bigchipshi (3555 in chips)
    Seat 6: astonwilli (2765 in chips)
    Seat 7: Horneris (3100 in chips)
    Seat 8: posidonas (2595 in chips)
    Seat 9: shrty (2427 in chips)
    bigchipshi: posts small blind 50
    astonwilli: posts big blind 100
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to 3Osomething [Js Tc]
    Horneris: folds
    posidonas: folds
    shrty: folds
    adamyor125: folds
    mement_mori: folds
    KidCardiff6: folds
    3Osomething: raises 100 to 200
    bigchipshi: folds
    astonwilli: calls 100
    *** FLOP *** [Kd Qh 2d]
    astonwilli: checks
    3Osomething: checks
    *** TURN *** [Kd Qh 2d] [3d]
    astonwilli: bets 300
    3Osomething: calls 300
    *** RIVER *** [Kd Qh 2d 3d] [8d]
    astonwilli: checks
    3Osomething: bets 700
    astonwilli: folds
    Uncalled bet (700) returned to 3Osomething
    3Osomething collected 1050 from pot
    3Osomething: doesn't show hand

    firstly i don't have a clue what a WSD of 19% means, and i can't even imagine what WSD could stand for. also, i don't really want to start answering questions like this as it might open the flood gates for loads of them. but i will this one time...

    to be honest a lot of the time i think there are a lot of ways to play a hand and more than one way can be perfectly fine. i don't think u did anything particularly wrong, but if u want to know what i would have done differently then...

    i would have raised to 300 or 350 preflop, as by doubling the BB u are laying him 3.5 - 1 to see a flop, which he should really do with any remotely playable hand since u are both reasonably deep... and i think with JT o/s ur objective should be to take the blinds and not invite a call.

    i would have continued with a bet on the flop.

    once u decide to check the flop and he bets the turn, i may have passed or else just called like u did.

    if i'd played it like u did up to the river, then i too would probably have tried a bluff as it can look like u checked the flop with nothing then picked up a draw to call the turn (which from his point of view, is probably more likely to be a lone Ad or something than just a str8 draw)

    as i said, there are a lot of things u could have done, and there is more than one way to play a hand properly... but that's probably how i would have played it if u want my opinion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    Apathy wrote: »
    One of the members at leggopoker who I guess is a member here sent me the link to this thread so I thought I would stop by :)

    I don't have any plans to come to barcelona or london but I may decide to go last minute.

    The show doesnt come out for a while in Canada to so I'm planning on having people over to watch sometime next week. You can get the torrents somewhere

    i should be hoping u don't come over - it should make things that bit easier for the rest of us... regardless though, i'm sure i'll bump into u soon enough and we can grab a beer.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭marty smyth


    i can't believe i've caught up with these... i'll be off to bed then, and i'll check back in a day or 2 to see how it's lookin


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 585 ✭✭✭a147pro


    Hi Marty,

    Have had the pleasure of playing you once in a tourney many moons ago but can't remember details.

    May I have your expert critisim of this, the last hand I just played...

    Background, I had been stealing this guys blinds for the last 3 rounds. His WSD is 19% so I figured he would fold the river.

    PokerStars Game #19793422710: Tournament #102283168, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2008/08/21 - 17:45:32 (ET)
    Table '102283168 36' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
    Seat 1: adamyor125 (3400 in chips)
    Seat 2: mement_mori (4140 in chips)
    Seat 3: KidCardiff6 (4118 in chips)
    Seat 4: 3Osomething (3880 in chips)
    Seat 5: bigchipshi (3555 in chips)
    Seat 6: astonwilli (2765 in chips)
    Seat 7: Horneris (3100 in chips)
    Seat 8: posidonas (2595 in chips)
    Seat 9: shrty (2427 in chips)
    bigchipshi: posts small blind 50
    astonwilli: posts big blind 100
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to 3Osomething [Js Tc]
    Horneris: folds
    posidonas: folds
    shrty: folds
    adamyor125: folds
    mement_mori: folds
    KidCardiff6: folds
    3Osomething: raises 100 to 200
    bigchipshi: folds
    astonwilli: calls 100
    *** FLOP *** [Kd Qh 2d]
    astonwilli: checks
    3Osomething: checks
    *** TURN *** [Kd Qh 2d] [3d]
    astonwilli: bets 300
    3Osomething: calls 300
    *** RIVER *** [Kd Qh 2d 3d] [8d]
    astonwilli: checks
    3Osomething: bets 700
    astonwilli: folds
    Uncalled bet (700) returned to 3Osomething
    3Osomething collected 1050 from pot
    3Osomething: doesn't show hand

    30something what is WSD and what is the software that tracks it?
    why min raise when stealing blinds? why not bet the OE?
    nice steal?

    thanks Marty enjoying this but only Q was about De Woulfe as I found the coverage of that final fascinating, but you've more or less said as much as you're going to say about him above. i imagine he played so recklessly cos the deal was already done.

    you're obviously a great ambassador for the game and for irish poker, keep it up and congrats with the sponsorship


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭DEEP THROAT



    - there's absolutely no way i'm answering this as i'd be opening the door for a fone call from him round about next march.

    I know you are referring to me so I'll PM you my phone number ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭30something


    a147pro wrote: »
    30something what is WSD and what is the software that tracks it?
    why min raise when stealing blinds? why not bet the OE?
    nice steal?

    thanks Marty enjoying this but only Q was about De Woulfe as I found the coverage of that final fascinating, but you've more or less said as much as you're going to say about him above. i imagine he played so recklessly cos the deal was already done.

    you're obviously a great ambassador for the game and for irish poker, keep it up and congrats with the sponsorship

    WSD = "Went to Show Down". It shows, amongst other things, how willing a player is to look you up although the principle reason for the stat is to identify how strong a player needs to be before he will go to the river. If his WSD is 100% he goes to the river every hand, if 1% he hardly goes there and only plays the nutz.

    I use PT3 which is where I get the stats from.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭tylerdurden94


    will do re. joke... sorry - i may be showing my inexperience here, but i really don't know what a prop hand even is

    Like what some of the guys do on High Stakes Poker to kill some time when there not involved in hands, calling different suits picking A10 for example and if the flop is AA10 you get paid by the people at the table.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,881 ✭✭✭bohsman



    - a lot of guys think that game was bent. i don't think that at all although i can understand how they thought that, as pretty much all the 'internet guys' including myself were very unlucky at the start. one well know player who i consider to be every bit as good as me lost 50k or something, and i was only one pot away from losing 50k and quitting. thankfully i won that pot - which was the first time i got into a big pot and didn't get outdrawn or else find myself in a bit of a cooler situation. after that i ran ok and ended up doing quite well in the end, but it could have been very different if i'd had one more bad beat. i don't think i ran all that well over the 2 days, but i certainly think the other good internet players who lost big ran very badly

    Was talking to someone whos been on the poker scene since before holdem at the Irish Open a few months later, not having known about that big game he pointed out one of the players from the game and said he was a well known cheat between marking cards and having people positioned behind other players.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭a-k-47


    Hi marty thanks for taking the well, must be tough going, i dont have any questions for you, congrats on a recent run of results.

    hows does marty 'the bomber' smyth sound ..:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭nicnicnic


    bohsman wrote: »
    Was talking to someone whos been on the poker scene since before holdem at the Irish Open a few months later, not having known about that big game he pointed out one of the players from the game and said he was a well known cheat between marking cards and having people positioned behind other players.

    so someone knows someone who cheated sometime makes a cash game run by a respected organisers at one of there festivals a bent game ? I had a nice touch in the same game a year before it wasn't bent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,881 ✭✭✭bohsman


    nicnicnic wrote: »
    so someone knows someone who cheated sometime makes a cash game run by a respected organisers at one of there festivals a bent game ? I had a nice touch in the same game a year before it wasn't bent

    No, if someone in the game was cheating - not saying they were just that they are well known to do so, its not the organisers fault. It in no way implicates the organisers, if I remember correctly they were very generous to some of their punters at that festival.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,873 ✭✭✭RichieLawlor


    re. the bracelet, i may swap it for the bounty if u knock me out, but u'll need to convince boyles to put up 100k for the bounty.

    you would sell the bracelet for 100k, am i reading it right


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