The first was a double shoot out, top 4 made it… I was #5.

The second was a pot limit tournament, with 60 players, 62 rebuys and 30 addons. Top 4 move on to Event 13. It was rebuy, duh, but I never re-bought or did the addon

Here was the last hand of the tournament. (I know hand histories suck balls, but this one sucked major balls. So two ball suckers null each other out, or a good time.) Wouldn’t have helped me if I did in the end.

PokerStars Game #11364524128: Tournament #57259335, $15+$1 Hold’em Pot Limit - Level XV (2000/4000) - 2007/08/07 - 18:25:31 (ET)
Table ‘57259335 6′ 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Plotkaek (22000 in chips)
Seat 2: rockets23 (41590 in chips)
Seat 5: StatikKling (36530 in chips)
Seat 6: acecatcher26 (42690 in chips)
Seat 9: sekme (24190 in chips)
rockets23: posts small blind 2000
StatikKling: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to StatikKling [Kc Ks]
acecatcher26: raises 10000 to 14000
sekme: folds
Plotkaek: folds
rockets23: folds
StatikKling: raises 22530 to 36530 and is all-in
acecatcher26: calls 22530
*** FLOP *** [2c 5h 7s] Kicked in the junk. Fsck.
*** TURN *** [2c 5h 7s] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [2c 5h 7s 3s] [Qc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
StatikKling: shows [Kc Ks] (a pair of Kings)
acecatcher26: shows [7h 7c] (three of a kind, Sevens)
acecatcher26 collected 75060 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 75060 | Rake 0
Board [2c 5h 7s 3s Qc]
Seat 1: Plotkaek (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: rockets23 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: StatikKling (big blind) showed [Kc Ks] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 6: acecatcher26 showed [7h 7c] and won (75060) with three of a kind, Sevens
Seat 9: sekme folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

I could have slept until the next person bailed.. and probably should have, but I would make the same moves every time. I play to win.

The only positive is that I have more in my bankroll now, then when the day started. At least the bubble pays..

Oh.. I played under Ubuntu and wine, as the WinXP running on this POS laptop locks up after 2-3 minutes of use. Blah.

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For the HOWTO: Install and Use Poker Client in Linux, I’m in the process of getting installation media for ubuntu linux 7.04, on an old Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop.. So far any CD I burn, the damn drive will not recognize. I’m downloading the DVD file via bittorrent to see if it will read DVD’s (after all, it IS a DVD rom..) So hopefully I will update the howto to use ubuntu as well as Fedora Core [456].

For the 2007 Donkey Challenge, I think I have either completed or damn near close to completing the $10 level. I have been really bad about updating the DC page.

I also think it’s time to re-read Harrington v1 and v2. My tournament play has gone from ok to poor.

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If you installed wine via my rpms from the HOWTO: Install and use Poker Clients under Linux with Wine, I’ve updated Fedora Core 5 to the latest rpms, patched and all, to wine-0.9.36-2.

Fedora Core 5 rpms.

tags: linux, software, wine

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If you installed wine via my rpms from the HOWTO: Install and use Poker Clients under Linux with Wine, I’ve updated Fedora Core 5 and 6 to the latest rpms, patched and all, to wine-0.9.32-1.

Fedora Core 5 rpms and Fedora Core 6 rpms

tags: linux, software, wine

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Introduction

This document will help the poker playing Linux user install wine, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and optionally, BoDog, UltimateBet and Internet Explorer (which is required to run BoDog and UltimateBet). Some of the topics discussed here are for the more advanced Linux user who is not scared to recompile applications and patch source code, but this is not required if you are running Fedora Core 4 or 5. I am currently running Fedora Core 5, so that’s what this HOWTO will reflect. Any section of the HOWTO that looks like the following is run from a X terminal, or the command line.

# command

Requirements

To help weed out other bugs and configurations, we do not want any type of wine configurations installed on the system. I would assume for the most part that you do not have wine installed yet. If you do and you have a lot of data and Windows applications working, this HOWTO shouldn’t interfere with the data you have now, but you never know what could happen. Please backup any data before starting the steps outlined in this HOWTO. On my Fedora Core boxes, the data to backup is in ~/.wine

# tar -cvf wine-bakup.tar ~/.wine

Here is the list of files that you will need to download. When to download and where to download then to are described below.

1. wine
2. PokerStars Client (PokerStarsInstall.exe) or Fill Tilt Client (FullTiltSetup.exe)
3. Internet Explorer Optional
4. BoDog Client (BoDogClientPoker.exe) Optional
5. UltimateBet Client (ubsetup.exe) Optional

(more…)

tags: bodog, full tilt, linux, poker, pokerstars, ultimatebet, wine

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Since I started to see what poker clients I could get to run under wine (version wine-0.9.24-1.fc4), here is the list of sites and status for the different sites:

PokerStars

- runs perfectly. Tournaments and cash games run fine. The only thing I had to do was add the line f5redrawtable=1 into the user.ini file under [Options] to make it so I can resize the windows properly. Yes, the sb and bb folded to my Hammer raise.

Full Tilt Poker

- installs fine, fails to connect to the server so far no issues found after patching wine.
GetCurrentHwProfileA (0×7d4fdeec) semi-stub
There is a fix to this.. released in Feb of 06 that still hasn’t merged with the source. Other people have merged it into local copies and have gotten Full Tilt to work. I will try with CodeWeavers Crossover version of wine (non freeware) to see if it works there and then fix and recompile the source if the CodeWeavers version of wine doesn’t fix it.
Update: CodeWeavers Crossover is in the same boat as wine. Makes perfect sense.. wine and crossover share the same core code.
Update : After I patched the wine code for GetCurrentHwProfileA, recompiled wine, updated wine and created a machine GUID I was able to connect to Full Tilt and everything ran just fine! If anyone is interested I have FC4 rpms that you can use.

BoDog

- installs fine, runs fine. Haven’t had any issues so far. Cash tables seem to work fine (at least on the play money side). I haven’t played a tournament yet, but I plan on it in the next new days.

UltimateBet

- installs fine, fails to load. looks like its a winsock, actcttx errors. I get an invalid file handle error. UB Fails to run on my Win 2k machine, reboots my machine much like BoDog does, but at least the BoDog client loads all of the way and I have to login to make it reboot. UB flashes the lobby then reboots my machine.
Update : After I patched wine and redownloaded the latest version of UltimateBet v6.9.0.0 Release 2006.11.9.b (the auto update failed) I was able to run, login and sit at a play money table.

I now have 4 out of the 4 poker clients that I have tested in Linux with my patched version of wine working.

Yes.. this is a because I can type of thing.

Please also see my HOWTO: Install and use Poker Clients under Linux with Wine

tags: bodog, linux poker, wine

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I like to be punished. Here are the top two reasons why I think so.

1. I played the WPBT Stud Eight or Better last night — and I like to chase draws. Without a hand that can scoop. (I know..)

2. A picture is worth 1000 words. (click for a scaled down version of the image)

Yes.. that is Internet Explorer 6 running under Fedora Core 4. Ultimate Bet requires it.

tags: poker, stud, wine, wpbt

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