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    Talking October 2014 SSNL General Chat Thread

    What are you miserable fucks doing for Halloween?
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    Well, we're still a month out and I'm generally pretty terrible at being "festive" for Halloween. I hate October lol. That said, I had some pretty heavy shit hanging over my head for a long time that just died down so I'm starting the month with a clean slate. I have a few micros rolls going on a few different US sites and have a plan of action for the month, with goals.

    As for Halloween itself - I would be pretty surprised if I wound up doing anything other than playing poker that night lol. I'm in my early 30's, have no kids, and yeah ...it's not my favorite holiday to say the least.

    I guess at least in this discussion I fit right into the "miserable fucks" category.
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    I'm going to be sober all month which shall be fun. Planning on doing nothing for Halloween either, not exactly my favourite holiday.

    £50 deposit is now > £125 which means I'm starting back up at 10nl. Work is still boring but seems to be getting busier which means my days don't drag. Also started taking my laptop to work and chilling in the car at lunch watching poker videos & playing chess against someone who works there, we're both shit but it's a good way to kill an hour.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ImSavy View Post
    I'm going to be sober all month
    If you don't mind my asking: Why?
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    I got a $40 pre-paid Visa debit card for a rebate I got on some tires a few weeks ago, and I made a deposit to Bovada with that card. They charge like a 4.9 percent vig, so I now have an account balance of $38.13.

    omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    I got a $40 pre-paid Visa debit card for a rebate I got on some tires a few weeks ago, and I made a deposit to Bovada with that card. They charge like a 4.9 percent vig, so I now have an account balance of $38.13.

    omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
    BetOnline charged me a similar vig but also does provide a 200% deposit bonus which they give you 4 months to clear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigSlickBaby View Post
    If you don't mind my asking: Why?
    Is just a challenge, also a good excuse for me to avoid going pub and spending money. I've only just turned 22 and only just started working full time but I'm at a point in my life where I just want to save up some money which I think is the correct thing to do considering I don't have any money coming my way from family or savings etc.

    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    I got a $40 pre-paid Visa debit card for a rebate I got on some tires a few weeks ago, and I made a deposit to Bovada with that card. They charge like a 4.9 percent vig, so I now have an account balance of $38.13.

    omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
    Should have put it on stars, they don't have any charges like that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ImSavy View Post
    Is just a challenge, also a good excuse for me to avoid going pub and spending money. I've only just turned 22 and only just started working full time but I'm at a point in my life where I just want to save up some money which I think is the correct thing to do considering I don't have any money coming my way from family or savings etc.
    Regardless of the situation, but yes especially in yours, you are doing the 100% +EV thing here. Now, without writing a long story here - I definitely recognize, through personal experience, how important it is to have the party years and "do the things" before you get too old, look back, and realize you didn't do shit when you were young. That said, yeah ...by 22, you can't continue to live a lifestyle that isn't like you're still in college until you start putting together some money. And if you have any intellect and ambition whatsoever, you will be starting to grow really, really bored of that kind of life. The bars every other night, the same friends, the bullshit conversations, the ho's running around everywhere...eventually you just need something a little more tangible.

    I don't know if you're single but if you are: Save your money, study/play poker, keep yourself out of any trouble, and take your time in finding a great girl. Absolutely though, a 30 day sobriety challenge is very much worth it both for your mind/body and wallet's perspective.

    I stopped drinking entirely when I started playing poker seriously here (6/25/14). I haven't had a drop since then. I do, however, smoke while I play and study but this is far more conducive to long sessions of concentration and keeping interest than drinking, obviously. Drinking has only really ever caused me problems...weed, not so much.

    You'll probably get in a ton of volume this month though as a result, huh?

    edit: Question here - I guess this thread just stays open all month long and people update it with their poker/personal progress?
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigSlickBaby View Post
    edit: Question here - I guess this thread just stays open all month long and people update it with their poker/personal progress?
    Yeah pretty much. You can start a blog thread in the operations subforum if you want your own thing that's just for what you're doing in poker for the long run (and I recommend that everyone does this), but you're welcome to link to it from here.

    We had a chat room type thing going, but some people were having trouble staying connected or getting in there at the same time as other people. We decided that a chat thread was a better way to go about it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    We had a chat room type thing going, but some people were having trouble staying connected or getting in there at the same time as other people. We decided that a chat thread was a better way to go about it.
    In my experience with forums over the years, this tends to be the best bet (a thread as opposed to a chat room). The chat rooms always turn out to be a bit of a clusterfuck and just aren't as accessible as the forums themselves. Let's face it - this is pretty much why chat rooms died out so much over time.

    Cool, though. I'll be around.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigSlickBaby View Post
    In my experience with forums over the years, this tends to be the best bet (a thread as opposed to a chat room). The chat rooms always turn out to be a bit of a clusterfuck and just aren't as accessible as the forums themselves. Let's face it - this is pretty much why chat rooms died out so much over time.

    Cool, though. I'll be around.
    It worked out really well for a long time, and I think a major part of that is that poker really lends itself to the chat room format. After Black Friday, however, it just kind of died because most of the American players who were the regulars stopped playing. We would regularly have 30+ people in there each night and sometimes as many as 50 at peak times during the weekend. It got so popular that we had to split it into two channels: one for poker and one for general chat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    It worked out really well for a long time, and I think a major part of that is that poker really lends itself to the chat room format. After Black Friday, however, it just kind of died because most of the American players who were the regulars stopped playing. We would regularly have 30+ people in there each night and sometimes as many as 50 at peak times during the weekend. It got so popular that we had to split it into two channels: one for poker and one for general chat.
    Wow, really? That's impressive. It's also sad, however...the amount of damage BF did to things. A part of me (albeit a small part of me) is kind of glad I didn't play poker at all pre BF as I would have just wound up missing it terribly all this time. At least how it is, I get to look forward to things maybe improving again down the line at some point rather than spend all of my time looking back on the "good old days".

    Over the summer I've come across a lot of old little hubs and forums that existed pre BF that have been deader than a doornail since. It was like a plague swept through some of these communities.
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    Yeah it really sucks, and it definitely happened here. Things are looking up though, and it's really easy to deposit on sites like Bovada and others now for American players, so we'll have to see what happens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    Yeah it really sucks, and it definitely happened here. Things are looking up though, and it's really easy to deposit on sites like Bovada and others now for American players, so we'll have to see what happens.
    Um, yeah...I would agree that the darkest days are over and behind us. It's still frustrating that one network can't put it all together though. It would be nice if we could have a network that was basically a combination of the best features from Bovada + WPN. Or, more to the point I guess, WPN's software and PT4/HM2 compatibility with Bovada's traffic and SNG/MTT schedule. That would be the perfect US network in my mind.
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    this debit card concept from WPN is legit awesome. pity their traffic is the nut low for america sites.

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    Anyone else have poker goals for October?

    I'm back at the tables after a long break, and my goal is to re-establish myself as a player who can beat 10NL Bovada. I intend to stick to the 10NL tables for at least this month before taking shots at 25NL again.

    I'm rolled for 25NL, but after so much time off, I need to get certain thought-processes back to split-second timing.


    Anyone playing 10NL or 25NL on Bovada?
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    I've been playing 5nl zoom/rush/whateverthefuck on there the past day or so.
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    I'm playing $10NL on Bodog with breif stints of $25 that haven't gone well long enough to stick. I am playing fairly aggressive with the bankroll because I work for a living and $150 really doesn't man that much to me except that I would hate to deposit.
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    I spent the last handful of weeks studying, getting money together to buffer each of my rolls, buying and learning how to use software, and preparing for the fall here. With about 45k hands under my belt since I started at the beginning of the summer, I'm now in a position where I have everything in line to make a big push here. My goal for the month is to put in at least 20k+ hands and really start boosting my bankroll on all sites. I'm going to keep studying and working hard off the felt alongside this and preparing to start incorporating a session or two of live play into my game each month.

    I do play both cash and tournaments and although my study and play focus is going to be on cash games (where I'm going to get the most volume and learn the most), I will continue playing a lot of SNG's and MTT's at times as this is where I win the most money right now.

    The goal is simple: Take fish and micros regs alike and just crush them. Jump my game up a big level and be ready to move up in stakes across the board by the time Nov 1 rolls around.
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    I done drank. Sorry.

    in swaps I will tell you that the woman in "the league" is mega, as is the lady in "roral alberta advantage".
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    got my month's drinking in last night.
    pretty cool when some esteemed singer songwriter got handed a gat in front of my fire about 3am today.
    fun evening.
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    Quote Originally Posted by daven View Post
    [...] got handed a gat in front of my fire [...]
    Come again?
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    Come again?
    it was cold out so we had the fire going
    gat = guitar
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    1. gat

    Old slang, meanging gun. Came from shortening Gattling gun to just gat. Was used during the prohibition era to name any gun, but specifically the thompson submachine gun, aka The Tommy Gun.
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    Any suggestions for the new BC Digest? http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...st-198113.html

    The idea is for it to be only about the absolute basics or more less and to reserve the SSNL Digest for anything remotely more advanced
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    Quote Originally Posted by daven View Post
    got my month's drinking in last night.
    pretty cool when some esteemed singer songwriter got handed a [guitar] in front of my fire about 3am today.
    fun evening.
    Excellent!

    That brings back so many memories of campfire sing-alongs from when I was a Boy Scout.
    When it was happening, I didn't appreciate how peaceful those memories would become.
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    some climber i used to chill with is in town
    in the interim i've been doing not much climbing, they've been climbing near-to-pro in between bouts of ski patrolling.

    tomorrow we're heading out early to try and get 30 pitches in.
    Good luck me. I'm gonna fry.

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    when I was a Boy Scout.
    there weren't a boy scout in da house
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    Quote Originally Posted by daven View Post
    there weren't a boy scout in da house
    I get that.

    Between the ages of 11 and 17 I went camping at least once a month. I've been camping maybe 5 times since then (strictly excluding any event in which I slept in a car, for whatever reason).

    Almost all of my camping memories come from Boy Scouts camp outs.


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    I didn't think they let homos in the boy scouts?
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    I didn't think they let homos in the boy scouts?
    Kind of confused as to how you misunderstood the Boy Scout policy to this extent. The Boy Scouts themselves can be gay, straight, bisexual, transexual...it matters not. It's when it comes to the adult Scout leaders where we have requirements but those requirements actually state that the leader BE homosexual. It's if you're straight or bisexual that you are disqualified from ever being a Boy Scout leader as an adult. If you're flamingly homosexual, the Boy Scouts are actually a good fit for you when you're 35+.
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    Sorry...I couldn't resist
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    Freaking final orbit... I'm up $7 on the day.

    I draw AK... it's a donk-fest table. I open... 4 calls.. 5 to the flop.

    K-high all clubs. I open 1/2 pot to b/f... not sure if that's optimal, but all I have is a bluff at that point.

    Then the guy behind me shoves.... fold fold fold... I face a call for $7 and for some stupid donk-inspired reason, I click call.

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    Winning Poker Network Game #322634519: No Limit Holdem ($0.10/$0.25) [2014/10/08 20:21:10 UTC]
    Table: Tantalite (PRR) - 5
    Seats: 6
    Seat 3: redsoxmanny ($22.52)
    Seat 4: HERO ($28.83)
    Button is seat 3
    redsoxmanny: posts small blind $0.10
    HERO: posts big blind $0.25
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    HERO: dealt [Ks Qd]
    redsoxmanny: raises $0.65
    HERO: raises $2.50
    redsoxmanny: calls $2
    *** FLOP *** [3c Td 9s]
    HERO: bets $2.75
    redsoxmanny: calls $2.75
    *** TURN *** [3c Td 9s] [7h]
    HERO: checks
    redsoxmanny: checks
    *** RIVER *** [3c Td 9s] [7h] [3h]
    HERO: checks
    redsoxmanny: bets $7
    HERO: calls $7
    *** SUMMARY ***
    Pot: $24.50 | Rake: $0.46 | BBJ: $0.04 |
    Board: [3c Td 9s 7h 3h]
    Seat 3: redsoxmanny lost -$12.50 [5c 6c] One Pair, Threes
    Seat 4: HERO won $24.50 (+$12) [Ks Qd] One Pair, Threes



    STILL GOT IT BOYS

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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    What are you miserable fucks doing for Halloween?
    Hating on America probably, it's what I usually do at this time of the year because you dumb fucks go crazy for this shit.

    Although I've been invited to a gig, which I might go to. I may even go fancy dress if I can figure out a way to make an ebola costume. Ideas welcome.
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    ongies gonna ong
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    Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
    I may even go fancy dress if I can figure out a way to make an ebola costume. Ideas welcome.
    Haha. I live in the northeast US and even here there are housewives running around petrified that they or their kid is going to contract ebola. I love it.

    On the flip side, I hate Halloween. I always want October to end so I can get into the real holiday season and the winter already.
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    One problem with Hallowe'en here is that we have a better festival just after... Guy Fawkes Night on the 5th November. It's basically when we set off a shit load of fireworks and have huge bonfires to celebrate an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the 1500's or whenever. Lemme check... pfft 1605, close but not close enough. I suck at English history. But yeah, fires and pretty explosions are way better than witch costumes.

    As for ebola, I'm naturally suspicious of anything that the media tell us is awful. It's terrible in Africa because they don't have enough water for them to even wash their hands after having a shit. Plus they're all dumb and think witches are cursing them, or god is punishing them, so they're not best prepared for such an infection. But here in the UK where we have decent hospitals and plenty of water, it's not going to be anywhere near as much of a problem. That's if it even gets here. Although I wouldn't be all that surprised if a magical medicine emerges on the market that people start panic buying. Now would be a good time to get shares in such a medicine, right? I think I might be figuring out why it's top news in our media.
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    Sorry, that was insensetive of me. I'll rephrase.

    Plus they're mostly...
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    It's half trolling. The language is deliberately strong for shock effect because I'm immature. But there's a valid point there. It's not a matter of racism, it's a matter of economics and prosperity. How well educated do you suppose the average Liberian is compared to the average American or Brit? A lot of these people blame voodoo or witches when people get sick, because they don't understand what's actually going on. That means they are much more prone to panic, or at least they're prone to a more dangerous kind of panic. We're more likely to stockpile medicines that are rumoured to help, and obsessively wash our hands after doing everything. They're more likely to jump in the Atlantic and swim for America, or lynch suspected witches. Fear is a powerful emotion, more so if you don't understand what's driving that fear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
    One problem with Hallowe'en here is that we have a better festival just after... Guy Fawkes Night on the 5th November. It's basically when we set off a shit load of fireworks and have huge bonfires to celebrate an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the 1500's or whenever. Lemme check... pfft 1605, close but not close enough. I suck at English history. But yeah, fires and pretty explosions are way better than witch costumes.

    As for ebola, I'm naturally suspicious of anything that the media tell us is awful. It's terrible in Africa because they don't have enough water for them to even wash their hands after having a shit. Plus they're all dumb and think witches are cursing them, or god is punishing them, so they're not best prepared for such an infection. But here in the UK where we have decent hospitals and plenty of water, it's not going to be anywhere near as much of a problem. That's if it even gets here. Although I wouldn't be all that surprised if a magical medicine emerges on the market that people start panic buying. Now would be a good time to get shares in such a medicine, right? I think I might be figuring out why it's top news in our media.
    I've had friends from Europe over the years from school and being in Manhattan who have told me about Guy Fawkes Night. It always sounded pretty cool, especially compared to Halloween. As said, Halloween is definitely my most hated holiday of the year but I also do have some pretty horrible memories from early in life that took place around this time of year. At this point it's not really October that I hate...just Halloween.

    As for your second paragraph: Of course any dialogue like that in 2014 is going to ruffle a few feathers but you're also of course accurate in your summary. It really is a mess in some parts of the world and due to fears of racism I think a lot of the educated western world is being shielded from the harsher realities of some of these environments in other parts of the globe.
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    Ebola sucks for the people who catch it, no doubt about that, but the way it's being hyped up as this shit in the media is hilarious to me because it's so transparent but yet works so well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OngBonga View Post
    Although I wouldn't be all that surprised if a magical medicine emerges on the market that people start panic buying. Now would be a good time to get shares in such a medicine, right? I think I might be figuring out why it's top news in our media.
    Might be worth taking a punt on GSK. Doubt they're throwing too much cost into developing a vaccine though given not many people are dying from ebola and the ones that are live in Africa (and therefore not much profit to be had).

    Thought about you the other day - had to video interview a Lucy Liu lookalike and figured you would have ended up getting sacked if you were in my position.
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    I'm not up-to-date on good NLHE books written in the past year or two - can anybody recommend one? FWIW, I like books with plenty of hand examples illustrating the key points, rather than those with more theoretical content.
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    Thought about you the other day - had to video interview a Lucy Liu lookalike and figured you would have ended up getting sacked if you were in my position.
    Haha yeah I'd either get laid or sacked, depending on how keen she was. Probably sacked because a salivating white guy isn't attractive.
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    So how is everyone's bankroll doing this month? I had posted in this thread before the month started that I was just gearing up to start putting in some heavy, heavy volume this fall and winter. I got a little delayed in that plan as a few loose ends came up in life that I wanted to tie up and sort out before I turned my full attention to poker. It just would have been a distraction in the back of my mind otherwise. I spent the last couple of weeks continuing to study extremely hard and get myself in the right mindset for this. At this point, life has settled down and I have all the time in the world. I'm going to start playing today and tonight and go from there. I'll be posting hands and contributing to discussions here on FTR throughout the rest of the month, and into next month, too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BigSlickBaby View Post
    So how is everyone's bankroll doing this month?
    hanging in there, the last week was a little swongy - dumped 26 stacks in about 16k hands...

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    Played a bit last night and am going to play all this afternoon and tonight. Felt absolutely great at the tables. I was happy about two things: 1) How much my study over the last couple of months has really paid off. My understanding of the game is way, way beyond my competition here at the nanostakes right now. 2) I was thrilled about how overly critical I was of my play post session. In a winning session, I saw about three plays I made that in all reality weren't that bad and cost me peanuts but I still cringed since in retrospect they looked like obvious mistakes to me. I like that I'm looking at my game that way right now.

    Just for fun, here's one where villain really went to value town on me

    Revolution Gaming Network - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 3 players
    Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

    BB: $0.32 (VPIP: 37.55, PFR: 2.45, 3Bet Preflop: 2.11, Hands: 252)
    BTN: $4.06 (VPIP: 38.10, PFR: 4.76, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 42)
    Hero (SB): $5.15

    Hero posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04

    Pre Flop: (pot: $0.06) Hero has A 4

    BTN calls $0.04, Hero calls $0.02, BB checks

    Flop: ($0.12, 3 players) 4 9 K
    Hero bets $0.08, fold, BTN calls $0.08

    Turn: ($0.28, 2 players) A
    Hero bets $0.24, BTN calls $0.24

    River: ($0.76, 2 players) 6
    Hero bets $0.51, BTN calls $0.51

    Hero shows A 4 (Two Pair, Aces and Fours) (Pre 13%, Flop 9%, Turn 0%)
    BTN shows A A (Three of a Kind, Aces) (Pre 87%, Flop 91%, Turn 100%)
    BTN wins $1.67

    @ daven: What stakes are you playing?
    Last edited by BigSlickBaby; 10-17-2014 at 03:00 PM.
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    You probably want to raise pre w/A4s in the SB vs a BTN flat becuase at 4nl they'll just be awful.

    Don't really like betting the flop, why did you out of interest?

    Turn & river are really standard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ImSavy View Post
    You probably want to raise pre w/A4s in the SB vs a BTN flat becuase at 4nl they'll just be awful.

    Don't really like betting the flop, why did you out of interest?

    Turn & river are really standard.
    Agree with raising 3x pre. That's what I would have done differently in the hand. As for betting the flop, villain is extremely passive and has a tendency to fold to a ton of cbets on the flop. I thought there was a chance he might have just folded out here and with bottom pair, I was more than happy to see the turn with .16 more in the pot.
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    You probably want to raise pre w/A4s in the SB vs a BTN flat becuase at 4nl they'll just be awful.

    Don't really like betting the flop, why did you out of interest?

    Turn & river are really standard.
    That's funny because I prefer calling pre, and if you do raise, I prefer betting the flop.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    That's funny because I prefer calling pre, and if you do raise, I prefer betting the flop.
    I don't dislike betting flop if we raise, betting when we check is a bit meh imo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ImSavy View Post
    I don't dislike betting flop if we raise, betting when we check is a bit meh imo.
    It's absolutely not my standard. I'm also a little rusty due to lack of volume the last several weeks and I made a few suspect plays due to lack of time. One table was a turbo table and the other was short handed like this. As said though, I rarely would call that pre.
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    {{ Moved posted hand to http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...do-198211.html }}

    New hands should get their own thread. Feel free to link to them from this thread though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    {{ Moved posted hand to http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...do-198211.html }}

    New hands should get their own thread. Feel free to link to them from this thread though.
    Haha, I like the title of the new thread Sorry about that, and thanks for the move!
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    Hey could you guys offer your feedback on my strategy column this week? It's on AK missing on the flop in 3-bet pots, and it's geared more towards beginning-intermediate players.

    http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...97#post2214397
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    Hey could you guys offer your feedback on my strategy column this week? It's on AK missing on the flop in 3-bet pots, and it's geared more towards beginning-intermediate players.

    http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...97#post2214397
    Looks like a pretty solid 'keep out of trouble' guideline for guys having a hard time piecing together different aspects of their game and/or feel overwhelmed with the large number of different situations faced in poker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Micro2Macro View Post
    Looks like a pretty solid 'keep out of trouble' guideline for guys having a hard time piecing together different aspects of their game and/or feel overwhelmed with the large number of different situations faced in poker.
    Hi.
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    Quote Originally Posted by surviva316 View Post
    Hi.

    Hello! How are you doing?
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    I'm alright. Still getting nowhere with my big aspirations, but hey, if it were easy, then everyone would do it.

    I started playing poker a little bit this month. I did okay my first few sessions back; the weird thing was that looking back on the questionable hands, I actually felt like I could make heads or tails of what I did right or wrong and what lines would have been better. That certainly wasn't always the case. Even when I had you, spoon, yaawn, etc to bounce things off of, I spent way too much time being confused about very basic spots.

    But I'm sure I'm only around the corner from an overwhelming wave of confusion, disillusionment and anxiety, seeing as how this is life and all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
    Hey could you guys offer your feedback on my strategy column this week? It's on AK missing on the flop in 3-bet pots, and it's geared more towards beginning-intermediate players.
    should help people understand how to think more about poker. Nice and simple stuff, and nothing prescriptive or formulaic. nh.

    Quote Originally Posted by BigSlickBaby View Post
    @ daven: What stakes are you playing?
    varies. I remembered i had $100-ish on stars and only 49vpps for the year, so that's where i spend some relaxed chill time. I barely play on stars though obviously.
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    Thanks.

    What are you guys doing for Halloween?
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    Front porch, handing out candy, telling my dog to stop barking so damn much.

    I haven't gotten my haircut since my wedding because I had the idea that I'd be Eraserhead for Halloween ......... yeah, I really don't know wtf I was thinking.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
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    couple of party invites so drinking perhaps. Or head out and play the voyeur game. Dunno.
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    Back playing 5nl with a bankroll of $200 transferred from iPoker. No idea what I'm doing anymore, pre-flop is all over the place (running 31/24 with 12% 3bet) and FPS is reigning supreme. The Stars doomswitch hasn't reset itself yet either.
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    Ran hotter than the sun at 5nl Zoom this afternoon:

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    Had a totally shit day at work, then went to the casino and had a hilariously bad run. Overpair < TPTK all-in on the flop; Aces up < TPMK; two pair loses a flip against combo draw all-in on the flop; set runs into flopped flush (that was <$200 pot though).

    ... And I felt perfectly even keel the whole time. Kinda weird really. I might have grown up some ... it might be that I was only down 1.5 BIs overall. Who knows?
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