rizzie
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Been playing a few Rush MMT's on FullTilt and min cashed in each so far. I was wondering what peoples thoughts on how fast or slow playing at different points in the tourney may or may not help. I wondered if slow playing i.e. not fast folding and waiting till it came round to you if short stacked near the bubble for instance was the right play. I figured you didn't want to blind out before the bubble so slowing the play here may help. Equally if you were to have a big chip stack you might want to see as many opportunities to bully the shorts stackers around the bubble or payout jumps. I may be over thinking this and there is no big gains so would appreciate some other opinions.
Jan. 27, 2013 | 3:06 p.m.
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If you are using a Mac you can use Quicktime already installed. From the menu File, New Screen Recording and use the keyboard short cuts to start and stop so it looks seamless.
Jan. 27, 2013 | 9:27 a.m.
Is your profile pic smaller than 512kb and 512 x 512 pixels? The settings screen stipulates it must be so you may need to down sample your image.
Jan. 7, 2013 | 2:25 p.m.
Great Video for me as a micros player trying to move up through the stakes and often finding myself in frustrating situations. I benefited from hearing what your thought process was with some of these hands. Look forward to watching more of your videos, Thanks.
Jan. 5, 2013 | 2:15 p.m.
Hi John, you can download a trial copy of fusion here http://www.vmware.com/uk/products/desktop_virtualization/fusion/overview.html
and try it out for a month before buying a license. If I recall it downloads as a .dmg (disk image) which you double click to mount and then run the installer package within. Once installed and you fire up you get a wizard kinda thing that will guide you to create a new virtual machine and then install Windows for which you will need your own copy of windows for. On my Macbook air i decided to use a copy of XP to keep the image size down and not use too much of the Mac's disk up. I set the disk size at about 15GB which is about enough for XP but can be changed later if need be. I had to access an XP install CD from another machine as my Air has no drive :-) or you could use an ISO image if you can get one. From then on in it is just like installing Windows and your windows programs into your virtual machine. 2 key components to getting it running sweet are the virtual machine settings for processor and memory allocation. You can set these in advance and change them later when the virtual machine is logically powered off. I settled on allocating 2 processor cores and 1.5GB of memory to the vm however don't be alarmed it is as easy as point and click in the vm settings menu.
So far mine is working great and I can keep my Mac but still have access to the windows poker tools and HUD. As it's an 11.3 inch air it is hyper portable which is great for me but I also plug it in to a huge monitor at home via the mini display port to HDMI converter and I get all the big screen goodness for multi tabling.
Happy to try answer any questions you have in the mean time. I'm no exert but was desperate to make this work on my Mac.
and try it out for a month before buying a license. If I recall it downloads as a .dmg (disk image) which you double click to mount and then run the installer package within. Once installed and you fire up you get a wizard kinda thing that will guide you to create a new virtual machine and then install Windows for which you will need your own copy of windows for. On my Macbook air i decided to use a copy of XP to keep the image size down and not use too much of the Mac's disk up. I set the disk size at about 15GB which is about enough for XP but can be changed later if need be. I had to access an XP install CD from another machine as my Air has no drive :-) or you could use an ISO image if you can get one. From then on in it is just like installing Windows and your windows programs into your virtual machine. 2 key components to getting it running sweet are the virtual machine settings for processor and memory allocation. You can set these in advance and change them later when the virtual machine is logically powered off. I settled on allocating 2 processor cores and 1.5GB of memory to the vm however don't be alarmed it is as easy as point and click in the vm settings menu.
So far mine is working great and I can keep my Mac but still have access to the windows poker tools and HUD. As it's an 11.3 inch air it is hyper portable which is great for me but I also plug it in to a huge monitor at home via the mini display port to HDMI converter and I get all the big screen goodness for multi tabling.
Happy to try answer any questions you have in the mean time. I'm no exert but was desperate to make this work on my Mac.
Jan. 4, 2013 | 11:49 a.m.
Thats how I ended up with vmware running windows as a virtual machine just for the Poker. It works rather well and keeps things separate. Here is a screen shot, if it works.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9vou6yu1zydyei/MB%20AirDesktop.jpeg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9vou6yu1zydyei/MB%20AirDesktop.jpeg
Jan. 3, 2013 | 9:51 p.m.
Only just got it myself to be honest ;-)
Jan. 3, 2013 | 8:32 p.m.
Take the text file you get from the hand history and paste it's contents into the filed on the Add Hand History Option when you click the new topic link at the top of the page. Chose your various options and click next and it gets made pretty for you :-)
Jan. 3, 2013 | 7:26 p.m.
Wonder how many other players out there are using a Mac for their Poker client and what their set up was? Are you using Mac tools? It was a tweet from Phil earlier this week that got me thinking. Although Stars and FT have very good Mac clients the other necessary tools seem to be largely Windows based.
My solution to all of this is that I run vmware fusion on my Mac Book Air and boot a windows virtual machine on top of the Mac within fusion. My windows virtual machine is XP with HM2 and all my poker clients and tools built in. I found HM2 a bit slow to start with till I tweaked the virtual machine config. I upped the virtual memory to 1.5GB and gave it 2 processor cores. It's all pretty straight forward with the hardest bit installing the windows OS. I quite like the vmware set up as it runs the windows virtual machine alongside my Mac applications. It all runs pretty sweet and is as quick as... Other options would be using Parallels which is a similar virtualisation solution to vmware or boot camp on the Mac to boot Windows natively but I don't like that Idea.
Would be interested to hear others view points.
My solution to all of this is that I run vmware fusion on my Mac Book Air and boot a windows virtual machine on top of the Mac within fusion. My windows virtual machine is XP with HM2 and all my poker clients and tools built in. I found HM2 a bit slow to start with till I tweaked the virtual machine config. I upped the virtual memory to 1.5GB and gave it 2 processor cores. It's all pretty straight forward with the hardest bit installing the windows OS. I quite like the vmware set up as it runs the windows virtual machine alongside my Mac applications. It all runs pretty sweet and is as quick as... Other options would be using Parallels which is a similar virtualisation solution to vmware or boot camp on the Mac to boot Windows natively but I don't like that Idea.
Would be interested to hear others view points.
Jan. 3, 2013 | 6:52 p.m.
UTG: $6.75
UTG1: $5
UTG2: $4.12
LJ: $12.04
HJ: $1.53
CO: $11.44 (Hero)
BN: $12.42
SB: $10
BB: $10
UTG1: $5
UTG2: $4.12
LJ: $12.04
HJ: $1.53
CO: $11.44 (Hero)
BN: $12.42
SB: $10
BB: $10
Preflop
($0.15)
(9 Players)
Hero was dealt
T
T
UTG calls $0.10, UTG1 folds, UTG2 folds, LJ folds, HJ calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.40, BN folds, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls $0.30, HJ calls $0.30
UTG calls $0.10, UTG1 folds, UTG2 folds, LJ folds, HJ calls $0.10, Hero raises to $0.40, BN folds, SB folds, BB folds, UTG calls $0.30, HJ calls $0.30
Flop
($1.35)
A
4
K
(3 Players)
UTG bets $0.40,
HJ calls $0.40,
Hero calls $0.40
Turn
($2.55)
Q
(3 Players)
UTG bets $0.80,
HJ calls $0.73,
Hero calls $0.80
River
($4.88)
J
(3 Players)
UTG checks,
Hero bets $2.54,
UTG folds
Final Pot
HJ has
A
J
Hero has
T
T
Hero
wins $0.13
,
Hero
wins $4.51
Jan. 3, 2013 | 6:32 p.m.
Happy New Year guys, just signed up Jan 1st so my new years resolution is improve my Poker and move up the stakes. 1st training site I have signed up to so coming to it with an open mind.
Jan. 1, 2013 | 12:06 p.m.
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Is there ever likely to be a Mac Compatible HM? I have read in the forums of some intentions in the past but these seem to have came to nothing. Is this in the pipeline or is it as I suspect not going to happen?
Running a Mac now I am having to run Windows in vmware on the Mac just to run hm2 but will likely consider PT 4 when released for Mac if there isn't a HM2 equivalent on the horizon.
Feb. 5, 2013 | 10:02 p.m.