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Join Date: May 2005
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As promised, I went to play cash last Friday at the River Rock. It wasn't as busy there as usual because the casino downdown, Edgewater, had a special tournament hosted by Brad Booth. From what I heard, it was a $550 buy-in and there were two Day 1's. If you busted during the first Day 1, you could apparently rebuy and play on Day 2, too. I've never heard of that before.
Anyway my first day of record-keeping when it comes to live cash has started on a losing note. I both ran bad and played bad on Friday, and I ended up down almost 3 buy-ins ($580 to be exact) over 6 hours. It was really frustrating because I just couldn't seem to find a good table to play at. I played at three different tables and I changed seats a few times within those table changes, too.
Does anyone have a strategy for table changes? If the table you get is bad, do you walk around and watch other tables for a while to figure out where you want to go? Hands go by so slowly at cash game tables that you have to stand and watch a table for while to get any idea of how it's playing. I had no strategy and just told the floor manager that I wanted a table change to anything that became available.
I can't think of too many interesting hands from the night. I flopped two flushes with s00ted cards, both times diamonds. The first time it happened, someone called my push on the turn with a higher flush (we both flopped flushes). The second time it happened, it was with a guy who flopped a straight and somehow folded a blank turn after calling my flop bet. WTF? People can fold flopped straights in that cardroom? Maybe that's a bad sign ...
Here's a hand I had trouble with:
10-handed table and I have ~$240 in my stack.
Raise to $6 in EP and I call behind in MP with suited connectors.
The flop has 8 players and so there is ~$50 in the pot. It checks around and a player to my left bets $15. Someone else in LP calls, and it folds around to me. Both players have position on me and both players have me covered. I called (I call $15 and the pot is $80).
I hit the flush on the turn and bet OOP for $50. In hindsight, I really should have bet much more, $80 perhaps? But anyway, I bet $50, and both players behind me called. So now the pot is ~$250 going into the river.
The river pairs the board, I have around $170 left in my stack and I'm OOP. What is the best play??
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