muttley

Yeah. Like i said, I'm no mathematician. The truth is, even very good players wouldn't necessarily know the answer to the original question, though it is solvable.
 
In play, you really only need to know the percentages for hitting your outs, like "What are the chances of hitting my flush with one card to come?" (20%), or "What are my chances of sucking out on Andy Bell if he calls my all in bluff when all I have is Ten high and a gut shot?" (98.5%)

Yeah. Like i said, I'm no mathematician. The truth is, even very good players wouldn't necessarily know the answer to the original question, though it is solvable.
 
In play, you really only need to know the percentages for hitting your outs, like "What are the chances of hitting my flush with one card to come?" (20%), or "What are my chances of sucking out on Andy Bell if he calls my all in bluff when all I have is Ten high and a gut shot?" (98.5%)

I'm not a mathematician, but I'll have a go.
 
The chances of being dealt an Ace preflop is 6/1. Therefore the chances of four players being dealt one Ace is approx 6x6x6x6/1 or 1,296/1
 
This assumes that there were only four players dealt in. If it was 6 handed or more, the odds drop considerably (don't ask me)
 
It also assumes no-one 3-bets with their hands forcing out the raggy Aces, and it also assumes no-one (correctly) folds their raggy Aces preflop.

Euro Semi=Final Denmark v England Wednesday July 7th 8pm
 
Just saying.....

He definitely is! Well played McG.  Not sure who got 3rd place in the league....

Many thanks to Ian for his regular screenshots, and to Helen for the table updates, to Punters Lounge for their continued financial support, but most of all to Kevin for keeping Paul off top spot yesterday as (by my calculations) we would have had a tie for 1st if he had won and I don’t know what happens in the event of a tie.
Good fun, as always, with none of the vitriol found in other online poker games.  I don’t understand why more of us don’t try it.
Here’s to next month ?
Stephen (McG)

Can't believe it's been a year already Paul @Sir Puntalot. Hope we're looking after things here OK for you.  Can't wait til everyone can get together to celebrate properly what you did here at Punters Lounge.  ??

Great to see lots of returning players taking part again this week.   Well done to Paul who gets early points on the board with the first leg win, and Donna runner up.  
Still plenty of time to join in this month, we have the same again next week with NLHE. 

The Punters Lounge Poker League continues this week for May running on Wednesday nights. Once again we have £150 added to be shared between the top 3 in the league at the end of the month. Games start at 8.10pm, with a 20min late registration period on top of this.  All games are played in the PokerStars Home Games PL Poker Club. 
This month we have a NLHE 3000 chip tourney in Legs 1 & 2 and a 5000 chip NLHE for final leg.   Leg 3 is our PLO Leg with 5000 chips.
 > Leg 1 : Wednesday 5th May at 20.10 BST in the PL Poker Club Home Game - NLHE 3000 chips
 > Leg 2 : 12th May - NLHE 3000 chips
 > Leg 3 : 19th May - PLO 5000 chips
 > Leg 4 : 26th May - NLHE 5000 chips - (double entrants in points formula)**
Buy in is $5.50 per leg.
Your top 3 scores of the 4 legs will count towards your league total. We will be using the usual PL poker league format, which will be updated in this thread. (The PokerStars own league scores will not be used.) Formula is -Log(position/Entrants)x100
To help boost numbers overall and in particular in the final leg we are continuing the system of doubling the number of entries used in the calculation in leg 4 (**so if 10 entries the formula will use 20 entrants). This will increase the number of points available in the final leg to make it more competitive.
All members are welcome, however you must post in this thread if asked to let us know your forum username, otherwise your placings and scores cannot be included in the league.  New players are always welcome to join in, so please spread the word and invite your friends to the forum so we can keep the weekly numbers up.

£150 Added Value

The £150 added will be split between the top 3 players of the league end, with £75 to the league champion, £45 to 2nd and £30 to 3rd.  This will be payable via PayPal at the end of the league.  Big thank you to Punters Lounge for the added funds.  The league winner will also get Punters Lounge merchandise.

Punters Lounge Merchandise

You can now win unlimited Punters Lounge merchandise, even if you have won them before. It consists of our logo mug and pack of 10 pens. Unfortunately due to supplier shipping restrictions we may be unable to provide these to members who live outside of the UK.
 
To join the PokerStars PL Home Games Club:
club id = 744199
password = PLPokerClub
 
We also have a PL Poker Club Facebook group where regular reminders are also posted.
Please request to join.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/524375907722928/
 
Good luck!
 
League Table
 

The Punters Lounge Poker League returns this week for April running on Wednesday nights. Once again we have £150 added to be shared between the top 3 in the league at the end of the month. Games start at 8.10pm, with a 20min late registration period on top of this.  All games are played in the PokerStars Home Games PL Poker Club. 
This month we have a standard Bounty format in leg 2.  League points will be calculated only on finishing position, and bounty payouts will be made according to PokerStars normal rules.   Leg 1 and 4 are standard NLHE, and Leg 3 is our PLO Leg.
 > Leg 1 : Wednesday 7th April at 20.10 BST in the PL Poker Club Home Game - NLHE 3000 chips
 > Leg 2 : 14th April - NLHE 3000 chips Bounty
 > Leg 3 : 21st April - PLO 5000 chips
 > Leg 4 : 28th April - NLHE 5000 chips - (double entrants in points formula)**
Buy in is $5.50 per leg.
Your top 3 scores of the 4 legs will count towards your league total. We will be using the usual PL poker league format, which will be updated in this thread. (The PokerStars own league scores will not be used.) Formula is -Log(position/Entrants)x100
To help boost numbers overall and in particular in the final leg we are continuing the system of doubling the number of entries used in the calculation in leg 4 (**so if 10 entries the formula will use 20 entrants). This will increase the number of points available in the final leg to make it more competitive.
All members are welcome, however you must post in this thread if asked to let us know your forum username, otherwise your placings and scores cannot be included in the league.  New players are always welcome to join in, so please spread the word and invite your friends to the forum so we can keep the weekly numbers up.

£150 Added Value

The £150 added will be split between the top 3 players of the league end, with £75 to the league champion, £45 to 2nd and £30 to 3rd.  This will be payable via PayPal at the end of the league.  Big thank you to Punters Lounge for the added funds.  The league winner will also get Punters Lounge merchandise.

Punters Lounge Merchandise

You can now win unlimited Punters Lounge merchandise, even if you have won them before. It consists of our mug with a wraparound 3D logo and also a pack of 10 pens. Unfortunately due to supplier shipping restrictions we may be unable to provide these to members who live outside of the UK.
 
To join the PokerStars PL Home Games Club:
club id = 744199
password = PLPokerClub
 
We also have a PL Poker Club Facebook group where regular reminders are also posted.
Please request to join.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/524375907722928/
 
Good luck!
 
League Table

 

Final table is up and it's success for some PL legends this month!  A final leg win for muttley lifts him up to the top of the league   as this month's champion.  2nd place this week for pistonbroke but just falls short of making the league podium.  Andybell stays on the podium in 2nd overall and a 3rd consecutive weekly 3rd place brings Ian up into (yes, you've guessed it!) 3rd place  
All 3 on the podium had a relatively poor first leg so it just goes to show that it's worth hanging in there for the month.    For those wondering about the final leg multiplier, this month it hasn't affected the result of the top 3.
Thank you again for everyone who has played over the month.
Winners, I'll message you to check payment details
1st  @muttley  £75 + PL Mug and Pens
2nd  @andybell666 (MVP)  £45
3rd  @ian309  £30
 
Next week we have a spare Wednesday in March so I've set up a $3 fun game, progressive bounty for those that need their crazy fix.  League will be back on 7th April and we'll include a standard bounty in leg 2.
 

Enjoined yesterdays game vm bit unlucky with my AK versus JJ. Looking forward to meet you all next game. ??

The Punters Lounge March £150 added Poker League starts this week and will run for 4 weeks on Wednesday nights.  Games start at 8.10pm, with a 20min late registration period on top of this.  All games are played in the PokerStars Home Games PL Poker Club. 
We're going to move to running a Bounty leg in alternate months so this month will be a standard NLHE in Leg 2, but as we have an extra Wednesday in the month I'll set up a Bounty game for our Fun week game on 31st.   Leg 3 continues as our PLO Leg.
 > Leg 1 : Wednesday 3rd March at 20.10 GMT in the PL Poker Club Home Game - NLHE 3000 chips
 > Leg 2 : 10th March - NLHE 3000 Chips
 > Leg 3 : 17th March - PLO 5000 chips
 > Leg 4 : 24th March - NLHE 5000 chips - double entrants in formula **
Buy in is $5.50 per leg.
Your top 3 scores of the 4 legs will count towards your league total. We will be using the usual PL poker league format, which will be updated in this thread. (The PokerStars own league scores will not be used.) Formula is -Log(position/Entrants)x100
To help boost numbers overall and in particular in the final leg we are continuing the system of doubling the number of entries used in the calculation in leg 4 (**so if 10 entries the formula will use 20 entrants). This will increase the number of points available in the final leg to make it more competitive.
All members are welcome, however you must post in this thread if asked to let us know your forum username, otherwise your placings and scores cannot be included in the league.  New players are always welcome to join in, so please spread the word and invite your friends to the forum so we can keep the weekly numbers up.

£150 Added Value

The £150 added will be split between the top 3 players of the league end, with £75 to the league champion, £45 to 2nd and £30 to 3rd.  This will be payable via PayPal at the end of the league.  Big thank you to Punters Lounge for the added funds.  The league winner will also get Punters Lounge merchandise.

Punters Lounge Merchandise

You can now win unlimited Punters Lounge merchandise, even if you have won them before. It consists of our mug with a wraparound 3D logo and also a pack of 10 pens. Unfortunately due to supplier shipping restrictions we may be unable to provide these to members who live outside of the UK.
 
To join the PokerStars PL Home Games Club:
club id = 744199
password = PLPokerClub
 
We also have a PL Poker Club Facebook group where regular reminders are also posted.
Please request to join.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/524375907722928/
 
Good luck!
 
League Table

 

This must be one of the tightest finishes we've had.  I had said that the top half of the table was in with a chance and it proved to be so.  For the second month running Barry takes the final leg win, and with it climbs up to the top of the table   just getting past Rivrd by 3 points who fell just a couple of places short tonight of holding onto top spot.  Muttley takes 2nd place on the night, although it's not enough to move into the added value places, but the_dak gets a podium finish in 3rd for the second time in the month to finish 3rd overall in the league table.
A great turnout all month, thank you to everyone who has joined in.  
Well done to our winners, I'll update the thread tomorrow with full details and message you to sort out the payment details.
We'll be back next week for March.

I`ve started playing remotely. The very first thing I have done was to pick the right online platform. To the best of my knowledge, there are two major sites which are good as PokerStars and 888poker. They both have pretty good options for online games. All you need is to make sure all players have accounts and make deposits. You can pick players, set preferences and make your poker club after you invite friends to play. All those who join the club are able to see scheduled games and play in them. It`s pretty cool, to be honest, however, I miss the live poker. 

The Punters Lounge Poker League continues this week for February running on Wednesday nights. Once again we have £150 added to be shared between the top 3 in the league at the end of the month. Games start at 8.10pm, with a 20min late registration period on top of this.  All games are played in the PokerStars Home Games PL Poker Club. 
Our Bounty leg seems to be popular so we will continue to hold this in Leg 2.  This month is a Progressive Bounty format (your own bounty increases by 50% of the bounties you collect).  League points will be calculated only on finishing position, and bounty payouts will be made according to PokerStars normal rules.   Leg 1 and 4 are standard NLHE, and Leg 3 is our PLO Leg.
 > Leg 1 : Wednesday 3rd February at 20.10 GMT in the PL Poker Club Home Game - NLHE 3000 chips
 > Leg 2 : 10th February - NLHE 3000 chips Bounty
 > Leg 3 : 17th February - PLO 5000 chips
 > Leg 4 : 24th February - NLHE 5000 chips - (double entrants in points formula)**
Buy in is $5.50 per leg.
Your top 3 scores of the 4 legs will count towards your league total. We will be using the usual PL poker league format, which will be updated in this thread. (The PokerStars own league scores will not be used.) Formula is -Log(position/Entrants)x100
To help boost numbers overall and in particular in the final leg we are continuing the system of doubling the number of entries used in the calculation in leg 4 (**so if 10 entries the formula will use 20 entrants). This will increase the number of points available in the final leg to make it more competitive.
All members are welcome, however you must post in this thread if asked to let us know your forum username, otherwise your placings and scores cannot be included in the league.  New players are always welcome to join in, so please spread the word and invite your friends to the forum so we can keep the weekly numbers up.

£150 Added Value

The £150 added will be split between the top 3 players of the league end, with £75 to the league champion, £45 to 2nd and £30 to 3rd.  This will be payable via PayPal at the end of the league.  Big thank you to Punters Lounge for the added funds.  The league winner will also get Punters Lounge merchandise.

Punters Lounge Merchandise

You can now win unlimited Punters Lounge merchandise, even if you have won them before. It consists of our mug with a wraparound 3D logo and also a pack of 10 pens. Unfortunately due to supplier shipping restrictions we may be unable to provide these to members who live outside of the UK.
 
To join the PokerStars PL Home Games Club:
club id = 744199
password = PLPokerClub
 
We also have a PL Poker Club Facebook group where regular reminders are also posted.
Please request to join.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/524375907722928/
 
Good luck!
 
League Table

 

Pretty fine to be honest. I found more free time to improve my skill at poker I even made some extra money to play some slots. In addition I found a website where I can play slots, poker and do bets (EDITED to remove link - ADMIN) Fortunately my results become better, I spend more time playing cash I even can afford to play cash during my worktime as my work become online As well with bets I have more time to watch football and other sports I do bets and I gain much more profit from it. For example yesterday I made a brilliant bet and got 900 dollars(Later I'll share a screenshot in another theme). So I can make a conclusion that Covid had a good influence at my playstyle  

Well done to the_dak our winner of the PLO leg   and good to see a turn around of fortunes for those on the podium tonight
Top of the league has had a little jiggle round and it's now McG taking the lead. 
Another brilliant turnout, leaving us a the prospect of a race for the top in our deciding leg next week. We have a 5000 chip NLHE for the final leg

Yes finally a hand, this is going to be sooo...... oh wait it's PLO.... doh!