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  1. #76
    Played live session, lost $280 in 5 hours. Not much to see here...Had no QQ+. flopped nut straight twice and lost both hands.

    Totals:
    February: 82 hours for $2,619
    YTD: 244 hours for $6,358
    -------------------------------------
    Live MTTs: 2 for -$800
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  2. #77
    Live session, pretty meh. Very few hands of note. Paid off KK with QQ.

    Live: 5 hours for -185
    Online: 3 hours for +928

    We'll call it March
    March totals: 8 hours for +743
    YTD: 249 hours for +7,111
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  3. #78
    Pretty sick spot here. Probably always running into the nuts but just gotta gamble I think.

    $1/$2 Home Game Pot Limit Omaha Hi
    5 Players
    Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

    Stacks:
    UTG ($1,019) 510bb
    CO ($626) 313bb
    BTN ($772) 386bb
    Hero (SB) ($938) 469bb
    BB ($36) 18bb

    Pre-Flop: ($3, 5 players) Hero is SB
    UTG calls $2, 1 fold, BTN raises to $9, Hero calls $8, BB goes all-in $36, UTG calls $34, BTN calls $27, Hero calls $27

    Flop: ($144, 4 players, 1 all-in)
    Hero checks, UTG bets $68, BTN raises to $342, Hero goes all-in $902, UTG folds, BTN goes all-in $394

    Turn: ($1,684, 3 players, 3 all-in)

    River: ($1,684, 3 players, 3 all-in)

    Final Pot: $1,684
    BTN shows

    Hero shows a flush, Ace high

    BB shows


    Hero wins $1,800 (net +$862)

    BTN lost $772
    BB lost $36
    UTG lost $104
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  4. #79
    3-hour live session. Apparently I missed all the action, as I got there after midnight and everyone had big stacks. One supernit doubled up vs. a fish with AA< AK aipf and there were basically no big pots after that. I bought in for $400, added on $100, and ended up winning $70. Not too many interesting spots, won a 130 BB, 3-bet pot with KQs > QQ.

    March totals: 11 hours for +813
    YTD: 252 hours for +7,181
    ------------------------------------
    Live MTTs: 2 for -$800
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90

    I have a friend who plays regularly live and is looking to move up to 2/5. After the night I lost $1,800 (few weeks ago), he told me the most he had ever lost at 1-2 was $600. I was shocked by that. He normally buys in for 100 BBs and I guess he has a stop-loss at 3 BIs. But a couple weeks ago, he had a nightmare session at the Borgata, losing $1,100. Looking back at this blog, I've had a half-dozen or so sessions that were worse than his previous worst, -$600, and this is over a 2-month stretch where I've been winning at a pretty good clip. I generally buy in bigger, play bigger pots, and am apparently a high-variance player, but to never lose more than 3 BIs seems remarkable to me. Some of my best nights have been sessions where I instadrop 3 BIs.

    Although big wins and big losses are normal for me, I like little sessions like this where I'm basically card dead(won small pot with QQ, lost small pot with JJ, no sets, no other premiums in 3 hours) and grind out a little win.

    Last edited by baudib; 03-02-2014 at 06:39 AM.
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  5. #80
    Forgot to mention that I got my money from Full Tilt. Goes to show how little it means in the grand scheme of things. It was a source of major angst for a long time for me, but I sort of gave up on it. It wasn't life-changing money by any means, but there was definitely a time a few years ago that I could have really used it. I tried selling my balance at 70, 60% but had no takers.

    Things have changed quite a bit since then. I make a lot more money at my job and I'm winning more money at poker lately, so can't complain on that front. I'd forfeit the balance I had to be able to play on FT again the way it used to be.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  6. #81
    Some short online session to record:
    4 sessions, 11 hours for -$25

    March totals: 22 hours for +788
    YTD: 263 hours for +7,156
    ------------------------------------
    Live MTTs: 2 for -$800
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  7. #82
    2 live sessions last 2 days

    6 hours for -233
    2 hours of Rotation for +340

    Cashed out a big chunk from online game, and with that and FT money...well, hookers + blow for everyone obvi. Should I count the FT money in my yearly winnings?

    March totals: 30 hours for +895
    YTD: 263 hours for +7,263
    ------------------------------------
    Live MTTs: 2 for -$800
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  8. #83
    Nah don't count FT money in yearly earnings. It's just a nice annual bonus

    What is Rotation?

    You're grinding short live sessions or what? 3 hours each?
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  9. #84
    Rotation is NLHE/PLO, switching every orbit.

    Often I play short sessions during the week because games often break at 2-3 and I get there late because of work.

    I played some online tonight, 2.5 hours, 3-tabling, 2 of them rotation. Won $611.

    March totals: 32.5 hours for +1506
    YTD: 265.5 hours for +7,874
    ------------------------------------
    Live MTTs: 2 for -$800
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  10. #85
    I haven't been posting many hands. This was a sick one from live game.

    I open UTG+1 to $15
    I have about $550.
    Fish calls UTG+2 and has $350
    Pretty solid player calls from BB and has about $400 to start hand.

    Flop($46):
    BB checks, I check, UTG+2 (who has every single Ax combo in range) checks

    Turn ($46)
    BB checks. Everyone looks really weak here so I bet $25, UTG+2 folds. BB check-raises to $75. I think a bit, check his stack, and he has a bit over $300 left, and I call.

    River ($196)
    River's a brick and he fires $150.

    Think BB is mega-polarized here. He has almost no value hands IMO. He is 3-betting TT/AQ+ pre against me and probably getting it in with all but AQ/JJ/TT.

    My hand is ridiculously concealed and is the third nuts so I'm never folding, the question I have is how weak a hand should we call here? Trying to figure out the number of bluffs he can have is pretty difficult.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  11. #86
    Given you're UTG+1 you don't think some ppl might flat AK here pre sometimes? Certainly flatting AQ sometimes.

    That being said, I think this is like mostly JT or air, but more weighted towards JT imo. He could conceivably have 666 as well, but those are the only hands I would expect to see that often, with a rare AK/AQ.

    This really doesn't feel like a bluff to me though. Weakest I'm calling is KQ, and even that might be a fold pending reads.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  12. #87
    Man, bad weekend. Not so much the losses but losing in the most retarded games ever.

    Some highlights:
    AQ < A3 < 42 in 3-bet pot on AK5 3 board
    KK < 52s in 3-bet pot
    AK < AQ in 4-way all in pre pot, 2 people had limped for $2 and called $200
    AK < 92o all in pre
    AdJs< A3hh on ddd flop.

    Had KK+ 7 times in 2 days, won one pot with them.

    weeee

    Damage:
    2 live sessions for 15 hours -1,740

    I recouped a bit with a 3 hour, +233 session online, and also will probably win high-hand jackpot from Saturday session with a jack-high straight flush (should be $400-$500). So that's something.

    March: 50.5 hours for -1
    YTD: 283.5 hours for 6,367
    -------------------------
    Live MTTs: 2 for -$800
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  13. #88
    Holy crap those hand sound ridiculous. Wow and I thought my games were bad. This is all 1/2 though right? Yah the 1/2 games are pretty awful at my casino too.

    92o all in pre? haha. 4-way allins pre? geez
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  14. #89
    Played Monday night, had a solidish winning session of +460 in 4 hours. Also received my high-hand bonus. After tipping dealer and floor guy, my jackpot was $500. I've decided I should count that in my winnings/hourly rate, as it's a direct result of playing.

    I also won $109 taking a small piece of a friend who cashed in the Parx Main Event, but I won't count that because it's a miscellaneous investment not tied to playing.

    Had one interesting hand tonight, but have some poker-related notes to mention first:
    1. Hand in post #85 -- guy had random air. He's actually one of the more solid players at this game and knows what he's doing. We talked about the hand and he said that my hand looks like a KJ/KT type hand, maybe KQ or a weak ace, and he feels I'll be folding most of those to a big bet on the river. He's right. That's why I asked what hands I should be calling down, because if he's bluffing with 54s as he says, he has a ton of bluffs based on his read of my range.
    2. In April I'll be playing a small SNG with poker pro Melanie Weisner. Top finishers get coaching hours from her. Also she'll be doing a little Q&A. I'll have to think on some questions to ask her.
    3. Marco Valerio, formerly of Quadjacks, interviewed me for a story on live poker and online poker, related to the games now running in New Jersey. I met Marco when he came to New York and I had talked to him on the air a few times. Pretty cool guy. We may work together on something in the future.
    4. Started watching 2 Months 2 Million. Seems like a fun show. As mentioned earlier, I had interviewed Krantz and he seems like a really solid guy who also happens to have very little interest in continuing to be a poker pro.
    5. I've started to invest in the stock market. Did some studying, built a small little portfolio, based on 1 solid blue chip stock and a star ETF and a couple of small gambles.
    Last edited by baudib; 03-11-2014 at 04:05 AM.
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  15. #90
    Hand from last night.

    UTG+1 limps, I ISO raise with from MP to $12
    Folds to SB, who calls, BB folds, UTG+1 calls.

    Stacks: UTG+1 $120, me $420ish, SB around $360.

    Flop ($38):
    Check, check, I bet $30, SB calls, UTG+1 calls.

    Turn ($128):
    SB checks, UTG+1 checks, I bet $85, SB jams for $318, UTG+1 folds. Hero???

    Villain is a middle-age guy who fancies himself as a former live poker pro who's getting back into the game. He's mostly passive but definitely makes moves. I think he mostly check-raises flop with stuff like KQ/KJ and probably 3-bets AK pre. He does some pretty random shit sometimes, like one time he check-jammed 44 on T33ss when I cbet with AA, and another time donked into me on QQ5 with 66 and jammed turn (I called with 99 and won).
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  16. #91
    March: 54.5 hours for +959
    YTD: 287.5 hours for 7,326
    -------------------------
    Live MTTs: 2 for -$800
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  17. #92
    KTs hand

    Is the the type to call K7s in the SB? Would he c/bomb 78? The problem is most hands he could be value towning himself with won't necessarily play like this while J9 will always play like this. Blah.

    The KKK hand - I think calling here is more a question of balancing your flop check ranges (given you now know villain t hinks like this and thinks about stuff like being capped), than anything. I would continue with KKK ofcourse, and probably JJ. I might even jam river with JJ if stacks were deeper.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  18. #93
    KTs hand -- Don't quite know what his flatting range in SB is, I think he is calling some suited stuff but not total crap. I guess he could have K7s, 87s, maybe T7s. He has already 3-bet me twice this session, which is a lot for him, and his 3-bet range is probably very depolarized.

    Don't know if he thinks this deeply about it, but I'm probably never double-barreling air in this spot, as the fish UTG+1 is pretty weak-tight and her limping range is probably ahead of KTs (lol) -- I expect her to mostly have KJ-KQ, AX gutters, QJ, QQ-JJ here.

    I have not really talked much about live tells in this thread, and for good reason: I don't really rely on them. For sure I get tons of information off tells, a lot of which is probably registered unconsciously, but it's not really what I use to figure out tough spots. FWIW, I was pretty sure he's never exactly bluffing in this spot.

    From the hands mentioned above, like 66 on QQ5 or 44 on T33, I don't think the guy is exactly thinking about my range in terms of what worse hands will call but rather, he has a hand and wants to play it aggressively rather than be bluffed off -- or he is shutting out my overcards/floats by jamming.

    If we give him J9s (4 combos), just 1 combo of K7s, 1 combo of 87s and K9dd, we have 41.3% so seems like a call. Against a more weak-passive I'd fold, and certainly I'd be folding AK/AA here.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  19. #94
    KT hand you only need 30% on the turn to call. So all he needs is 2 combos of worse two pairs to call here.

    He has K7ss, 78ss/hh. I doubt he c/bombs K9dd but he might c/bomb 89dd or 99. Maybe even some hand like A8dd or 68dd.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  20. #95
    couple sessions to report:
    2 live sessions, 12 hours for -$2250
    2 online sessions, 5 hours for +1141

    Am becoming somewhat seriously disturbed by the number of truly awful sessions I'm putting in. There were some coolers, like flush over flush a couple times, but perhaps I'm exposing myself to too much variance.This is a pretty soft game and there have to be better spots. The online game is actually tougher, but maybe I'm focusing better.

    March: 71.5 hours for -150
    YTD: 304.5 hours for 6,217
    -------------------------
    Live MTTs: 2 for -$800
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  21. #96
    Damn, but good job on the continued online success. It's funny we're moving in different directions. I'm strongly contemplating abandoning the online scene and maybe playing more live, but we'll see.

    These live coolers, is this like nut flush vs second nut flush. Or like low flushes? I think in general it's probably more acceptable to make big laydowns (exploitable even) in live games compared to online. I just think ppl are less capable of exploiting in online games overall, or at least that's how it seems in my games.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  22. #97
    You can always ask Weisner about being a Lock shill lol !
  23. #98
    Hey guys
    oh boy I have really shit the bed on keeping up on this.

    Let me explain:
    After putting in a lot of hours in Jan-Feb I felt like I needed a break. Like playing 25 hours a week and having a real job gets to be a lot. I ran really bad the few times I've been since. I also got really interested in the stock market. I'm not one to casually take in interest in things, I tend to go all out. So I started putting a ton of time into research, and quite a bit of money, too. Basically, I have a few months rent in my checking account, and my poker roll, and everything else has been going into one of three brokerage accounts I've opened.

    Results? So far it's been choppy, and am currently down about 0.7% on my portfolio. But I'm in for the long haul, and I like my core positions.

    As for poker, I ended up March playing just 86 hours and losing $2,150
    So far in April it's been 18 hours -$90
    YTD: 408.5 hours for $3,977
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  24. #99
    Melanie Weisner!

    Guy I know who knows Melanie Weisner arranged for her to come speak to a little poker group he has. We paid $150 each to enter a tournament to win coaching hours from Melanie. I bubbled

    She came and talked, talked about her life/career and a lot of strat, and did a Q&A. She was quite good, very gracious, very smart and charming. I talked to her about some GTO stuff, and she said that she basically is never balanced, but gives the perception of being balanced, especially to good players. I thought she would be more GTO oriented having been a HUSNG player, but she says she is more of a logic player than a math player.

    After that, we played a $100 BI, 2-table SNG. I knocked her and another player out when we were 4-handed when she jammed 77 OTB, SB jammed 55 and I woke up with KK in the BB. I chopped it with another guy after that.

    Then we played low stakes cash where we would reveal our hands at the end and she would talk about how we played them. She said a couple times that I had opened too loose but otherwise, I didn't have many interesting hands and they were pretty much standard. When she left, she said she had been hoping to get HU with me in the tournament so she could, "GTO the fuck out of you." HOT!
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  25. #100
    Nice man, that's pretty cool that the tourney was to win coaching! There should be more tourneys like that.

    I love how she's GTO turning you on haha.

    Sucks about the run bad, hope things turn around!
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  26. #101
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jllJ-HeErjU

    Didn't ask Weisner about her Lock shilling ? LAME !
    Last edited by sah_24; 04-29-2014 at 04:52 AM.
  27. #102
    Borgata trip:
    I have so many things to say about my latest trip to Borgata, I don't know where to begin. I suppose I'll start with straight poker talk:

    I played 2 tournaments. One was an invitation-only charity tournament for media and celebrities. My friend who works for Borgata got me in. It's funny, because I told pretty much everyone that I should win the damn thing, because it's for the media. How good can they be?

    As it turned out, quite a few pros were in. Phil Hellmuth just busted the 15K WPT championship, and he joined. Jamie Kerstetter played while she played a partypoker tournament online at the table. There were former athletes like Ken Daneyko, Darryl Dawkins and Malik Rose as well. Other participants included Kara Scott, Lynn Gilmartin, Matt Savage and the WPT's Royal Flush Girls: Tugba Ercan, Ivy Teves, Jeannie Duffy and Brittany Bell. A friend of mine, Steph Johnston, who is a good player who lives in Brooklyn, also got in, although I'm still not sure how!

    I ended up winning the tournament despite being shortstacked very early on. I won a key hand at the FT when Kara Scott, who had correctly been in push-fold mode before any of the others, jammed from SB into my BB and I called it off with T9o and 6 BBs. She had 97o and the flop came 9-high and I held. I beat Kan Daneyko HU.

    Other than that, I played the $200+$30 re-entry on Friday. I busted after my 2nd buyin around 5:30. I never really got anything going, never had more than 40K and was extremely card dead at a terrible, terrible table.

    So I was -$460 in tournaments. I played about 30 hours of cash in 3 days and went +$570 in very swingy sessions.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  28. #103
    Sorry I haven't had any real hardcore poker talk in here.

    One thing that a lot of people say about GTO or balancing is that you don't need to balance against terrible players. Well, that's certainly true. But I'm not studying GTO to play GTO against unexploitable regs in high stakes games. I find I get a lot of value from reading about GTO because it makes me think about my own range, and forces me to build ranges more solidly, and to put good hands in spots where most people don't expect you to have them.

    Another complaint about balancing ranges is that "you're playing too passively." For one, I think that's not really the case. Because if we are thinking about GTO, we are generally going to have a better bluffing frequency in all spots, including some spots where most regs never have bluffs. Secondly, because we are at least thinking about GTO, it makes us realize that we must defend in more spots that are going to be slightly uncomfortable. For instance, defending the proper amount on a board like A77r is going to be tough. It might be that such polarizing boards are hands where we choose to bluff more frequently, or simply decide to defend less often.

    But if we defend too little on those boards, we must defend more often, or at least close to a proper amount, on wetter boards that can hit both players.

    I found some spots to put good hands in my three-street c/c range against players who are nowhere near balanced. I guess it's counterintuitive, but using unexploitable strategies can exploit players with bad frequencies. Does that make sense?

    Here's an example:

    $1/$2 game at Borgata, multiway pot, I call behind 2 limpers with from HJ.
    CO raises to $12, BTN calls, BB calls, limpers call. I call.

    Flop:
    It checks to me. Could be a spot to lead, but I check. PFR checks, BTN bets $25. Everyone folds. I call. CO folds.

    Villain is a youngish guy, weird player. Not super aggressive, but doesn't like to fold or check once he takes the initiative.

    Turn ($122ish)
    I check, he bets $45, I call.

    River ($212ish)
    I check, he bets $45, I call. He show (three pair, lol)
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  29. #104
    This (very long) post will have little to do with poker strategy, so feel free to skip it.

    I want to talk about life a bit. I love my crazy job, and I have mentioned that I don't feel I will ever be able to play poker full time. I probably can't get good enough to be able to give up a pretty secure gig (albeit in a risky industry, print media) where I make a pretty healthy salary. I'm not rich by any means, especially living in NYC, but I can support myself and live happily. I'm not great with money but I really have very few expenses. I like to buy clothes and I like to eat out every once in a while. That's about it.

    I work for one of the biggest newspapers in the country. I have a reasonable amount of influence and a tremendous amount of creative freedom. I'm well respected, even if people think I'm a little odd or crazy. (I think people at the poker tables think I'm crazier than people I work with, but it's close). After 7 years of being stuck in neutral, I've advanced quite far in the past two years, mostly due to new leadership at the paper. The editor-in-chief is brilliant, and I love my immediate supervisor. I've accomplished this with no college degree and no formal training.

    However, there is a feeling that I've advanced as far as I can go. For the past couple months, I've been struggling with the idea that I've hit my ceiling, which is a sad thing considering I have decades to go before I retire. Could I get a better job? It's possible, but I don't quite see myself as real upper management material. Maybe one day.

    So I've been thinking about other ways to make money. Creating more revenue streams. My sudden interest in the stock market developed over the past two months. I'm trying to put out feelers for involvement in some side businesses.

    Also, there's this feeling of, "What am I supposed to do in this life?"

    I don't have a wife or kids. I haven't written books or created great art. At work, we like to say that what we do is "making sausage." You don't really want to know how it's done, but we do it. I work next to the people who are doing the truly exciting things that the public sees: rubbing elbows with celebrities, exposing scandals and inequities in city life. Making a difference. I just make sausage.

    I'm as cynical as you can be without being in prison or a government job. Still, I'm impressed by people who actually make an impact on the world.

    Then there's Anna. Anna Khait is a poker player from Brooklyn who sort of burst onto the scene while making a run at the Borgata $2M GTD in September. Because she was an unknown, and because she's hot, there's no real denying that.

    I got to know her a little bit. It's easy to get distracted by how attractive she is, but she's really more than that. This is someone who's just clearly a good person. And a pretty good poker player, too. Someone who wants to save the world, and will probably do it. I've always been impressed by young people -- people who were more ambitious than me and less cynical, people who really want to make the world a better place. You don't find many people like this in poker in New York, or anywhere. She used to do work for AMA, which saves abused animals, but now she's focusing on a new charity: helping uneducated Colombian children.

    So when I got invited to play this charity tournament, I didn't really have any charities I was into. I remember giving money to the Red Cross after 9-11, and to earthquake victims in Haiti. Both good causes, but later it turned out there were controversies over how the money received was spent. That kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. I decided that if I won, I would give the money to whatever Anna was supporting, because it would be smaller and more personal and more likely to make an impact.

    I was pretty sure I was going to win, incidentally. I mentioned it to Givememyleg, and I said, cynically, "My luck, I'll ship the charity tournament and bust the $200+$30." Which is exactly what happened. I couldn't be happier with the outcome though.

    I figured it was for media members, and I had to be one of the better players. As it turned out, the field was tougher than I thought it would be, but hell. I could win my fair share of super turbo, 3-table SNGs against anyone, probably.

    The tournament was a blast. Hard to describe how crazy and fun it was. I got to talk to Kara Scott, who was on my immediate right, most of the night, and she's amazingly charming and sweet. And she probably played the best of anyone at the final table. She recognized before the other players that everyone should be in push/fold mode, and she took advantage of that. Playing with Darryl Dawkins was incredible. He was hilarious, and I was one of the few people there old enough to have seen him play.

    Winning the silly little tournament was quite an ego boost. The partypoker people treated me like I was a bracelet winner. I was talking to a high-stakes cash player I know from past Borgata trips, and some guy came up and started talking to me about the tournament. The other player (Melissa Burr) said to him, "Hey, Chris knew who I was before he knew you."

    I said, "Should I know you?" He said, "nah," modestly. Melissa said, "If you play no-limit tournaments, you should know him!" It was Paul Volpe.

    I got to talk to Ken Daneyko quite a bit, and he told me tons of stories from his career. He ended up winning the $200+$30 the next day, and it was freaking crazy. It was the first big tournament he had ever played. Anna came back down, and we railed Ken until he won at 5 a.m. or so. Great times.
    Last edited by baudib; 04-30-2014 at 08:05 AM.
    Playing big pots at small stakes.
  30. #105
    So, Royal Flush Girls are hot. Jesus. I met four of them and they were all amazing: Jeannie Duffy, Tugba Ercan, Brittany Bell and Ivy Teves.

    I ended up crippling Tugba with my TT > AK hand, and Brittany made the final 5 of the charity event. Brittany can really play. I played 1-2 with Jeannie, who ended up taking a horrid beat for her one 100-BB buyin, but Brittany owned souls at 2-5, winning like $800 in 40 mins or something. My friend was at that table and he tried to aggrotard her, but she owned him. Apparently, she made some sick river calls, too, and was generally pretty aggro.

    Here's a pic of them, Brittany on left. (this isn't me btw)

    http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5496/1...1e0eb371_o.jpg
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  31. #106
    So my attitude on playing against friends is this: If you're sitting at the poker table, I'm going to try to stack you. I'm going to bluff you and show it to you, and I'm going to use that to make you pay me when I have it. And I hope you're going to do the same to me.

    An exception might be if it's someone I'm friends with outside of poker who is simply messing around, trying to play for fun.

    I have a friend who plays poker pretty seriously. Seriously enough that he's trying to make a living off it now. He's started a blog on 2+2 and everything. His win rates have been impressive over the past year and a half or so. BUt it's live poker, so by definition a small sample. He's definitely got skills and he takes the game seriously. But I believe he has serious fundamental problems that any competent NL10 player could point out. That said, the games he plays in are worse than NL10 online, and you could probably run over 1-2 rec players forever without getting any better.

    He wanted me to sweat him at his table, like sit behind him and watch as hands play out, to give him feedback later. Since this was supposed to be a trip to play poker, not watch poker, I wasn't really into it. But I was happy to sit with him and analyze hands later. I didn't realize that this would make him unhappy. He doesn't like playing against friends. He said, "I'm not here to take your money."
    Me, I don't care. Take my money or I'll take yours. It's poker. But it put him in a bad mood.

    I played 2 big hands against him.

    Stacks: Him $750ish Me: $250ish

    He opens for $15 UTG, gets called by megafish ($220ish) UTG+1. I flat from BB with
    Flop:

    I check, he bets $25, fish calls $25, Hero jams $225. Villain curses, "I hate you, I hate you," and folds (claimed to have AQ). Fish folds.

    I go to muck and he says, "show it, show it. Show that you had worse so I can go to bed."

    I ask if he really wants to see, and he says yes. Twice. I show.

    Pre is likely a fold against most, but his range is wider than most UTG. And fish makes it a profitable call, I think, as he'll be forced to play more straightforward. I think pot is perfect size for me to jam ~110 bbs, although I could be convinced that flatting and hitting and getting paid by both his strongish range and the fish could be better.

    2 hands later

    There's a straddle, and it folds to me OTB (330ish) with I open to $14, my friend flats from SB, fish flats BB, straddler (400ish) calls.

    flop ($56)
    Villain slowly checks, BB checks, straddler slowly checks.
    I wanted to bet here, but I got all kinds of check-raisey vibes from both SB and UTG, and BB is rarely folding anything.
    I check back.

    Turn ($56)
    SB bets $35, BB folds, UTG tank folds. I flat.

    I think I could raise here, and given dynamic, it might be best.

    River: ($136)
    SB checks, I bet $165, he curses and calls with KJ.

    I thought about going smaller, but I wanted the perception of being megapolarized. As far as his play, I told him I think the fold of AQ is fine, but that c/c river in 2nd hand is terrible, clear b/f against me.

    Edit: Villain has zero flushes when he checks river in Hand 2, think jamming might be best.
    Last edited by baudib; 04-30-2014 at 03:05 AM.
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  32. #107
    Good blog posts man.

    Why do you feel like you're stalled at work? Do you think you'd need more school to move up it's more just a personality kind of thing regarding the higher up positions?

    As for the hands:

    1. I think calling KJo here is fine given you say a whale is in the pot. Otherwise, it's either a fold or play very cautiously.

    2. Given dynamic and that you checked behind the flop this is the PERFECT spot to raise turn. Your perceived (if player is thinking) to have very few flushes here given you didn't cbet flop.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  33. #108
    It's not that I've stalled, it's that I've likely hit a ceiling. I had been stalled for several years but have moved up quite a bit in the past two years. I love my job, really, and I'm good at it. But it's a huge grind. Thing is, I guess we're never really satisfied. I don't think I'm in the job I want to have for the rest of my life, yet climbing further up the ladder has its own perils.

    2. Check-jamming is cautious, no

    3. Yeah this was 100% the feedback I've gotten on hand. However, do I ever need a flush when I check back flop and flat turn and river bricks? I felt like flatting turn underreps my hand so much and also gives my range some credible river bluffs.
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  34. #109
    It's been so long since I updated totals, had to go back and find the numbers.
    So far in April it's been 65 hours $335

    YTD: 456 hours for $4,402
    -------------------------------
    Live MTTs: 3 for -$1260
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    1 Epic bink for $0

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  35. #110
    Last night was the first time I've played two straight sessions since my Borgata trip. I've only played three times since Borgata, and I have not been playing any online games.

    Some life notes:
    I find that it is very difficult to spend enough time researching and following the stock market and playing poker and keeping up with everything else. I've never lived the most balanced life. I have a lot of varied interests, but can never really allocate time properly for all of them. If I get into something, like a TV show or video game, I just tend to dedicate my life to binging them and then move on. So I haven't done much in the market lately; bought a small amount of Facebook because it dipped to the range I liked it and made a small profit on some commission-free ETFs I had planned as short-term transactions.

    I'm watching "Breaking Bad," just started this week and am on Season 2. Great show obviously.

    I'm on a meatless diet for the first time in my life. Cutting out red meat, pork, processed foods. It's a major change, but after a week I'm finding it less difficult to maintain.
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  36. #111
    Saturday's session was a little grind, +$250 in 4 hours. I won the first hand I played and was never in the red, so an atypically non-swingy sesh for me. No real big hands, no huge pots or huge decisions.

    One thing I've been trying to do more of lately is find good spots to bluff and attack capped ranges. This is one of those things that I think about, talk about and never really do enough. In "Let There Be Range," it mentions stuff like, "You think you do (some exotic aggro move) but you don't. Keep track of how many times you do this over (short amount of time."

    It's good to think about these things, because in games such as mine, it can be easy to decide to just give up too often and see people check down marginal hands that beat you when you could have taken it. It's a reminder to keep a reasonable bluff frequency, and makes us more difficult to play against.

    In finding spots to bluff, I always examine my range and decide if I have a good hand to bluff with. If there are image considerations, then we can let go of spots where we have a bad hand to bluff with and still not be exploitable. Here are a couple of spots that I felt were mandatory bluffs:
    Hand 1:

    6-handed
    Villain MP ($800ish)
    Me CO ($720)
    Folds to villain, who open limps.
    I raise to $15 with It folds to him and he calls. Villain is 45ish Korean guy who is pretty spewy. He actually probably views me as tight, given our history.

    Flop (pot $33):
    MP leads for $25, Hero calls.

    Turn (pot $67):
    MP bets $25, Hero raises to $70, he calls.

    River (pot $207):
    MP checks, Hero bets $120.

    Hand 2:
    9-handed
    Hero ($450) is UTG+2 with
    Hero raises to $12, 4 calls, blinds fold.
    Of note, BTN is a fish who was going to fold but then he must have noticed he was the button and lol pot odds, so he calls. CO is pretty competent player.

    Flop ($63):
    Hero thinks a bit and checks, 2 checks, CO ($325) bets $25, BTN ($200) calls $25, Hero raises to $80.
    Last edited by baudib; 05-11-2014 at 06:01 PM.
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  37. #112
    AQ hand, doesn't make much sense. I mean what hand are you raising turn with and only betting so small on river? I would bet 3/4 or closer to pot here. Maybe even overbet.

    An alternative line with As blocker is to call turn and jam over any river bet.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  38. #113
    Did a random weekend Borgata trip. It went great -- really needed it as I have barely been playing and just not playing well. For some reason, I play great at Borgata. It has a lot to do with the players being awful but I feel really comfortable there. The trip totally revitalized my love for poker.

    I played the Deepstacks deepest stack turbo on Saturday. Such a stupid event. Start with 40K chips and levels go up every 20 mins. I had basically 5 key hands before busting out after 2.5 hours.

    Had one hand that I really butchered and in retrospect, I think I should turn my hand into a bluff on the river:

    3 limpers including UTG, at 100-200. I have around 48K. I make it 900 with and get called by UTG. No real read other than "fish who open limps."

    Flop (pot: 2,500):
    Checks, and I bet 1,500, UTG calls

    Turn (pot: 5,500):
    UTG bets 2,500, I call

    River ($10,500):
    UTG bets 3,200, I call.

    I really hate my calldown here, and given this river, his sizing and having the in my hand as well as QQ in my range I think I should make a pretty large river raise or fold.
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  39. #114
    Given pot odds on river, I don't hate the call down. What are you putting him on? 8x or flush?
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  40. #115
    LOLPOTODDS
    These spots that only come up in live poker.

    I'm in BB with 5 people limp in and I check

    Flop:
    I check, 1 person checks, older guy bets $8 into $12, 1 person calls, I call, guy behind me calls.

    Turn (4 players, $44):
    4 people check

    River (4 players, $44):
    I check, 1 check, the guy who bet on flop makes it $8, 1 fold and I call again.


    Results in white: He shows 84s

    Another
    I raise to $10 in MP with Get called by fish OTB and old guy in SB.
    Flop:
    1 check and I bet $17 into $32, and both villains call.
    Turn: (3 players, $83)
    checks around
    River: 3 players, $83):
    Old guy in SB bets $15 and I call.

    Results in white: He shows 77
    Last edited by baudib; 05-21-2014 at 03:53 AM.
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  41. #116
    Quote Originally Posted by griffey24 View Post
    Given pot odds on river, I don't hate the call down. What are you putting him on? 8x or flush?
    Feels like he has 8x/straight a lot. Didn't see a ton that I beat.
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  42. #117
    Air < Air

    Lost a leveling war vs. a decent reg. Young guy and aggro, obviously competent.
    I straddled, 2 callers, he limps BTN, I have in BB and check. I start the hand with $310 and he has over $600.
    Flop:
    I check, 2 checks, he bets $10. I CR to $30, 2 folds, he thinks a bit and calls.

    Turn:
    I bet $40, he raises to $120. I really want to jam over but I give up. Really don't think he has anything but he can't fold any real hand he has here. Later he told me he had J9o and just didn't see what I could have, I told him I had 72. I eventually told him the truth.
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  43. #118
    The incredible nit keeps playing back at me

    There was a ridiculous nit at one of my tables. He twice checked back Aces up (like A6 on A96 xx, and A3 on A63 xx) on the river vs. check-callers. And he kept making monster bets at me. He didn't raise at all in two hours except for 3-betting me twice from the blinds, I snap-folded AQo and AJs.

    Then, I raised from EP, flop was , I bet, he raised me, turn and river bricked, and he jams river. I sigh-folded. Two orbits later, I limped OTB after he limped UTG and 2 other limpers.

    Flop:
    Old guy in SB bets $10, nit raises to $25 and I snap-folded. They both had me beat, and didn't even get it all in. I racked up and left for another table after that.
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  44. #119
    Getting the nits to stack off
    I managed to bust a few other nits though.

    First up was a young Asian kid. I 3-bet flop vs. him with the NFD+overs and he tank-folded an obvious overpair on an 862hh flop.
    A few orbits later, he raises to $15 after 2 limpers from MP, gets 1 call from HJ, I make it $60 OTB with
    Folds to him, he tanks a bit and then decides he's had enough of me and jams for $240. I call.
    Board:
    I doubt that I'm good here, but I show AK and he walks away. Pretty sure these two hands were the only ones he raised in an hour at the table.

    Second was a nice lady, in her 30s, blonde, fairly attractive. Not good but someone who tries to play solid TAG. She lamented folding 74s on A53 flop after an $11 bet and call, she turned the nuts and two people got it in. Very next hand, the guy who won ended up winning a big pot against her when she 3-bet TT and the guy rivered top pair with AK after c/c down with the nut flush draw.

    Then this hand, which is reasonably interesting, happens:

    She limps UTG, mediocre LAG type raises UTG+2 to $10, competent player flats in MP, I make it $31 in CO with
    Woman UTG calls, UTG+2 folds, MP calls.
    I have $389 to start hand, UTG has $450, MP has $350.

    Flop (3 players, $106ish):
    UTG checks, MP checks.
    I take a while before betting. In the meantime, someone not in hand talks inappropriately, saying, "The flop is terrible huh?"
    This is pretty annoying, but I realized it probably helps me.

    I bet $62, UTG jams, MP folds.
    I think this is a pretty damn gross spot, because I feel like her limp UTG/flat 3-bet range generally is squarely centered on 99-QQ type hands. Not sure that she would jam combo draws, but I'd give her at least AKss, maybe AQss. My instinct was that this was a standard bet-fold spot as I had never seen her put anywhere close to this much money in the pot.

    I usually don't put a ton of stock in live reads, but obviously information is given and I use what I can. I'm one of the most chatty players at the table and I feel that I gain an advantage from talking in HU spots. I asked her if she flopped a set, and she didn't respond but I noticed a tinge of sadness in her eyes, and she seemed a bit surprised that I hadn't folded already. I ended up calling and she had QQ and I held.

    Later on, I busted an elderly guy who complains any time he's at a table with me, because..."you raise, you raise, you raise! I teach you!" I've never seen him put more than $75 into any pot, and he jams $200 on me with the second nut flush KJdd vs. my nut flush with ATdd.
    Last edited by baudib; 05-21-2014 at 12:02 PM.
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  45. #120
    Borgata trip: Played about 30 hours in 4 sessions over 2 days, +$1480
    May: 95 hours $1815

    YTD: 486 hours for $5,882
    -------------------------------
    Live MTTs: 4 for -$1600
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    1 Epic bink for $0
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  46. #121
    AA hand, UTG lady jams $300+ over your bet? haha such overkill.

    I'm not folding here. I'd be more afraid facing a bet to like $175.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  47. #122
    I felt like it was a fold without the mitigating factors...the spoken assumption that I missed....My image/mannerisms make it look like I'm always FOS, one of the benefits of being a weird-looking Asian dude. But I think if I had the As I would have folded.
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  48. #123
    Got some sessions in this week: 18 hours for +825

    Borgata trip: Played about 30 hours in 4 sessions over 2 days, +$1480
    May: 113 hours $2640

    YTD: 504 hours for $6,707
    -------------------------------
    Live MTTs: 4 for -$1600
    HU shootouts: 5 for -$90
    1 Epic bink for $0
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  49. #124
    Here's a spot that came up in a 2/5 game recently. Actually I've had a couple spots like this come up, and it seems like a weird spot to defend correctly.

    Young, competentish, TAGish player opens UTG to $25, 2 weaker players call. We are in BB with X,X and call.

    Flop (~$100):
    We check, UTG bets $60, fold, fold.

    Seems like on this type of texture we are just folding almost all the time. We're calling with very few Kx hands, maybe only KQs/KJs. We could flat with AK vs. UTG to give us a bunch of combos that we can call to the river, but we're still folding a ton. Calling with a lot of 88-QQ doesn't seem ideal. And coming up with bluff-raises here seems impossible if not suicidal (98s? A5ss?)

    I actually contemplated floating here with AQdd, but folded and got shown :Kc: Do we just accept that when UTG bets into 3 people on this board that we aren't going to be able to defend here?
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  50. #125
    You really don't need to defend all that much in this spot.

    TOTAL defense across all three of you has to be 62.5%. So on average each person has to defend about 21%.

    I think it's safe to assume that the first caller (even though they are a weak player) might have the strongest range, so we can assume they should cover a bit more of the defending in this spot. Not to mention the other two ppl are IP and would have an easier time defending.

    So maybe the first player defends 30%, second player 20%, this really means you only have to defend about 12.5% of the time. You shouldn't have too hard of a time doing that. Being the last caller you probably have a fair bit of Kxs and stuff.

    Morale of the story: Your need to worry about defending frequencies drops considerably when the overall defense can be split across multiple ppl.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  51. #126
    Just got back from 2 weeks in Vegas. Pretty awesome, my first visit.

    Played the Little One for One Drop. Re-entered and cashed for $2,630.

    Had a choice between mega satty for Main Event and the WPT500...chose the WPT cuz it was a 2-day event. Made a deep run, finishing 14th for $16,000. I was pretty devastated to come that close to a FT and trophy, but I was happy with how I played. I was all-in and at risk 5 times in the tournament, binking a 3-outer on the first and getting folds on the next 3. Highlight was 4-bet cramming KQs in a young Euro LAG's eye. Didn't survive the last one.

    Got to meet Drmcboy, who is cool as hell. Partied at Haze nightclub with the partypoker people. Railed a friend at FT of the Little Drop, and got to see Daniel Colman win the Big One for One Drop. Got interviewed by Tatjana Pasalic. Even played a live session of Werewolves at Jesse Sylvia's sick baller house.

    Epic run IMO.
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  52. #127
    Awesome run, good job!

    What were all the all-ins? Sounds like a great time!
    Quote Originally Posted by Jay-Z
    I'm a couple hands down and I'm tryin' to get back
    I gave the other grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
  53. #128
    Little Drop:
    I busted AK < 99 in a pretty standard spot. Then I rebought and completely ran over two tables for the rest of Day 1.

    First hand after rebuy, I check-jammed QJ on K9xr and got a fold. I took my stack from 4K to 13K in 3 hours without a single showdown. Perhaps the best player at the table got bad beat and spewed off next hand, so that helped. I think the table was pretty scared of me. I bluffed a fish on J99 J A board (although K-high was likely good anyway) and later stacked him with TT > 66 on 844 3 board for my first showdown. After that hand, our table broke and I moved to a table that was very tight passive, except for one guy who could be described as an UK Asian version of me. I pwn3d him pretty hard when he tried to squeeze in a super obvious spot and I 4-bet shipped ATo for value (he claimed to have folded 97o).

    Day 2 was much tougher. I looked at seat assignments and got fixated on the fact that Chino Rheem was at my table. I hit up friends to get info on him. I was looking forward to playing him and I figured that with two chatty Asians at one table, we would put everyone else on tilt. Thing is, Chino never showed up to play his 25 BB stack. But my table was tough, with a bunch of Euro Betfair and 888 pros. Our table broke really quickly, and I got moved to a similar table: young, aggro Euro dudes. I doubled up one pretty quickly as A9 < A7 aipf. I gave a girl a bad beat with 66 > 88.

    Then I tried an exotic move by 3-betting 2/3 my stack with JTo over a CO open, unfortunately he had teh AA and flops top set but I get there. I was actually building momentum but I lost a huge pot BvB when a fish with all the chips cracked my KK with 87s. After that it was mostly push-fold mode. I got moved to a super stacked but tight table and managed to win the blinds a few times but finally lost J9s < AQo, bricking 17 outs.
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  54. #129
    WPT
    Showed up a bit late on day 1D, about 30 mins after start. But still well before those who registered that day. Last of late regs got in around 4:30.

    Had a weird, fishy table. Won a pot JJ > KQss on Kd Js 7s, then lost JJ < AA in 3-bet pot when we both flopped a flush draw.

    Before first break, got dealt AsAh. Got 1 caller, big stacked fish from SB. Flop was gross: KcQcTd. He checked, I bet 1Kish into 2k with 16K behind, he CR to 7K. I folded face up and ran to the bathroom. He said, "I meant to make it 2500! Come back! Come back!" He flopped another set against me later and I put 0 chips in pot postflop. More on him later.

    I got it in bad a few times. AJo > AKo vs. guy who had started opening every CO/BTN. Then I got it in AJo > QQ > KT when I tried to ISO ss shove from SB, BB woke up with a hand and I got lucky.

    After those suckouts, I played pretty well. Won a lot of pots postflop with very little. Cbet AhTd on Qh 5h 3s board vs. 3 and won a pretty big pot at the time.

    We had a serial tanker move to my table with a bunch of chips, and I went 5-for-5 in pots against him:
    -- Checked back AJo on A23ss, called his turn (4) and river (As) bets, he announced Jack-high
    -- I opened KQ in EP, got 4 ways to flop. I check, serial tanker bets about 3K into 17K pot on AJ6r, call from SB, I CR to 14K, both fold
    -- BB special with 75 on 723 5 8 board when he limps, get 2 streets of value
    -- I open AA and he flats BTN, board goes AJTr 8 T, I bet 3 and he folds river
    -- I open K2hh and he flats BTN again, flop is Ah Jh 8s turn Jd, he calls flop and folds turn

    I ended up stacking the fish who flopped two sets on me. I flatted his raise from BB with A6s, peeled on 432r, and we got it in for heaps on 5 turn. He SNAPPED my turn 3-ball with AQ.

    Played a bit with Harrison Gimbel at this table, nondescript, quiet kid who happens to have $3M in lifetime winnings.

    Moved to a table with a lot of chips. Jamie Kerstetter on my left and a pretty active kid named Adam Foster. I was mostly card dead but managed to pick up a couple of pots. An older guy with European accent (lives in upstate N.Y.) is at my table. He showed down a few unusual holdings and I heard him brag that he had 4-bet bluffed a guy with QJs.

    I open T9ss from CO with about 22 BBs, he 3-bets from SB. I'd normally give up this spot but knowing he could be light, I found a call. Flop gave me a double-gutter: Qh 8s 6d. He led 1/2 pot and I crammed. He cursed and folded.

    Then I ran good again:
    Called shove for 40% of stack with KTs BvB vs. aggro kid. He happened to have JJ and I get there.
    Got it in pre with QQ vs. KK for 1/3 my stack, I hit Q on river.

    Finished Day 1 with 540K, 12th in chips.

    more tk
    Last edited by baudib; 07-16-2014 at 01:35 AM.
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  55. #130
    So Day 2. We started with 176 runners, already in the money.

    Had a pretty good table but didn't manage to get much going. There was a crazy old Italian guy at my table who shoved the turn every hand he played. I was trying to make a hand against him but never could...had to fold TP to his very large CR one hand.

    I managed to bluff off a lot of chips with K-high vs. a woman who came to the table. I was gonna give up but the river seemed to be a perfect bluffing card on 643ss Jh 2s...she tank-called with KK lol.

    I chipped back up a bit, making a pretty loose squeeze/shove thanks to a good read on the opener. He was one of those guys who would tank-fold a lot, and his opens with big hands were oversized (4x/5x or even bigger lol) so when he 2.5x and got 3 callers, it seemed like a good spot.

    Dealer at one table asked me if I were famous. I just LOLed and evaded the question. Why give information? It gave me a weird image though.

    I got KK - my only QQ+ hand of Day 2 -- in CO with blinds at 10k/20k. There was an open to 50k and a flat; I had just under 500k, which felt awkward. Thought that 3-betting smaller would look super scary, and I could rep AK if I jammed and get a call from 99-JJ type hands. I jammed and the opener says he folded AQ.

    Later at this table I busted a shorty, TT > 77. We're down to about 6 tables now and I could really feel it.

    I went card dead and bled off a bit. Got moved to new table. Opened KQs and folded to 2 all-ins (AJs vs. AA). Next orbit, I opened KQs again from UTG+1. Young Swedish kid who was trying to be table captain 3-bet me from CO. With about 18 BBs I couldn't flat, and since he's a Euro I decided F him and crammed it in his eye. He snap-folded and winked at me.

    That was the last pot I would win for a while. I got blinded down to 12 BBs or so. Busted a shorty with AQs > TT, then 2 shorties with JJ > 98s > AK. I was up to 3.5M or so with 2 tables left. I got 1 street of value with 88 on J43r x x.

    Then I folded a couple of marginal spots that I would have won had I played, which put me on a bit of tilt. I lost a hand with 77 < TT where he flopped quads but I didn't pay him.

    After a couple of orbits, they moved Scott Clements aka Big Riskyy to my table. I didn't know anything about him other than the fact he was a known pro, so I thought I could get him to fold a good hand. That didn't work out well, and as it turns out, was a bad plan against him ("Dude, he never folds" someone told me later). I ended up jamming two red 5s on Q42hhh 6s, he had flatted 62s from the BB and pretty much snap-called. I bricked 14 outs and was out.

    $16K was a decent score but meh, I wanted the trophy.
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  56. #131
    $16K was a decent score but meh, I wanted the trophy.
    Thanks for the play-by-play. That was a fun read. Nice hand.
    Explain...what I do for a living without saying "I make monies in da 600 enels by pwnin' tha donk bitches". Instead I say "I'm a online financial redistribution broker". - Sasquach991
  57. #132
    $16k is a game changer. If I won that, I would definitely use it on a vacation.
  58. #133
    I'm now moderating the live poker forum, so I'll probably be posting most hands in there. I haven't updated in a while but I'll do a little summary after this weekend. My overall winnings for the year have gotten to the point where I probably shouldn't keep it so public, so things are going well!
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