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Xanadu
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12-25-2006, 06:55 PM
Post subject: B&M session this weekend
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Full House
Join Date: May 2005
Location: st. paul, MO
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Went to play some live poker this weekend for the first time in almost a year. Played the 4-8 half kill with overs table, which is the highest stakes available here in limit. The table was juicy. Lots of regulars, but average to the flop was >5, and very loose/passive both pre and post flop. (money, money, money, money). Was up a little over $350 after 6 hrs. I was starting to get tired, but stuck around because the table was down to 5-handed where I really have an advantage as I am at my best at a short table. One guy at teh table I knew, but hadn't played with before. He used to deal at that casino, but now works at a different one. He got them to change the blinds to just a small blind, and I said we should get a reduced rake too (which they will do 5 handed or smaller for a max rake of $1 with no jackpot drop). That would have been sweet, $1 out of each pot instead of $5, but everyone else wanted a chance at the jackpot. I mentioned that 5 handed was about 1/4 the chance of a badbeat as a full table, but they didn't care.
Well, I ran bad while we played about 2 hours short, and ended up down $100 for the night. I really only made 2 mistakes. 1: I didn't leave once I was tired. 2: I didn't give back my overs button when we were down to 4 players. I don't have the bankroll to play 12/24, and 4-handed with the half-kill coming up 1/4 hands, and a higher chance of the overs kicking in, I really shouldn't have played the overs. Even though the short handed game was juicy, with the other 3 guys playing about 70% of hands, the rake sucks short handed, and being tired as well, I should have left.
There were about 5 key hands while we were playing short. The first, which was a big blow to my stack, was a kill pot against the other guy that had an over button. I had KJo, and flopped OESFD with 89T of hearts. I was OOP, the flop got capped, with only me and the other overs guy in, and I bet the turn J (possibly another mistake), and he raised and I called. River came a heart to give me a flush, and I bet, got raised and called, and he showed the nut flush. Down about 135 that hand.
Next 2 were nice 3-barrel bluffs on my part. The guy I knew layed down pocket 33 the first time, and I showed A8s, high-card A. He made a comment that he thought I was a better player than that (he's seen me play before and knows I'm pretty good), I said I won the pot, so maybe I am a better player. A couple hands later, I have AQo, raise pf, chris bets a 269 rainbow flop, I raise, other guy folds. He checks turn blank, I bet, he calls. He checks river blank, I bet, he thinks for about a minute, talking about how he doesn't think he can lay down a pair because I'm probably bluffing again. He turns over his cards (72c), thinks a while longer, then folds. On the flop and river I had said I had nothing but it was better than his nothing so I was going to bet. In the end, he just didn't believe I'd pull the same thing on him twice in a row. The real beauty was the third hand, about 20 mins later, where I had K3o in the SB, flopped a K, bet the flop, bet the turn, then chris raises me on the river. Easy call with TP HU, and he turns over a pair of 7s and I win again.
The last was towards the end, and was pretty annoying. It was a kill pot, and a guy wins the 300+ pot with Q7s for the flush. What was annoying is that I had QQ, and this guy called 2 cold preflop, then called 2 cold on the flop with nothing but an over card and a back door flush draw.
Over all a fun night, I just wish I had left when I was up big and getting tired. My biggest problem with playing live is not leaving when I'm getting tired.
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bigspenda73
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Explain overs to me sir.....
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Xanadu
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Full House
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At an overs table, you can get an overs button from the dealer. If, at the beginning of a betting round, all players left in the hand have an overs button, the stakes are doubled for the rest of the hand. So, at the 4/8 half-kill, the overs would be 8/16 in a normal pot, and 12/24 in a kill pot.
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bigspenda73
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Dayamn!
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