Anyone on TMB a good poker player?

The worst play in that hand is the dude showing his aces. Should’ve let her stew all night.

 

Gavin Smith died. :( Was a constant voice in my life for a long time. RIP dude.

 

Always seemed like a good guy to play with. Would bust your balls at the table and afterward buy you drinks the rest of the night teaching you what you did wrong.

 

Guy sits down at our 2/5 game and starts reraising $20 raises to $100+ for his first couple hands. No one obliges him until I test him by jamming $300 into a $240 pot with middle pair on a J high board. Very next hand he straddles for $10. I look down at KK. I raise to $40. One call in late position and straddle reraises to $175. I jam for about $250 effective and both call. Guy in the straddle has pocket aces. He holds. Like are you F'ing kidding me? Had one other blessed hand where I rivered a set with KK and it made my opponent a straight after he called two huge bets to get there. Lost with KK thrice and AA once. Cumulative losses on those hands ~$1000. Ended up down about $60 at the end of the session and felt good for once after losing.

 

Brutal.

 

Played a tourney in Columbus earlier, $135, 20k starting stack, chopped the pot 8 ways for $666.67. Good thing I'm half Jewish?

 

Lil $220 profit at 1-2 to wrap up the trip. Shoulda been up by a few hundred more but called it off on a flush draw vs all in when I was clearly behind on the turn

 

Anyone want to play in Detroit this week?

 

What’s everyone’s thoughts on when to leave a table. I’ve always struggled with that and last two times it’s bit me in the butt. Last 2 sessions I got up $500 and $700 respectively within the first couple of hours. In my mind I’m thinking this is going to be a big day and I’m running good. Tides turn and end up getting felted both times. Need to be more disciplined on saying I’ve won a few hundred, add to the bankroll, and do something else the rest of the day.

 

I'm terrible at this. Doesn't matter if it's poker or blackjack, I usually stay too long. I was up $300 in blackjack in 15 minutes last week. 3 hours later I left down $300.

 

I go in thinking I’m going to play for “x” hours but then I start to roll, stay past my time, start to get down, try to get back up to my high point, take some tough beats, and leave down.

 

I feel like I'd be better at if I played more often. I don't get to play often these days so I take full advantage of it when I do. I really enjoy playing so walking away after an hour is tough. I mean going home and watching tv with the wife isnt as appealing lol.

 

Playing a $150+$100 bountry right now. Guy raises preflop with AA to $1500 and gets 6 callers. Check flop all around I have J10. Turned a gut shot on the button. Small blind leads out with 2 pair for $2200. I was going to call but a guy shoved for $9k. River came a Queen and I would had 3 bounties. Unreal

Oh and guy that shoved had no draws or anything and 9 high.

 

102 entrants. 32 left. Coming back from break now. Only have $11k. Blinds at 1k/2k with big blind ante. Guess who’s in the big blind.

 

I’m in this spot because I lost with KK to QQ a few minutes ago. Guy final table the 2016 Borgata open

 

I think I would do this if I was able to play more regularly ...

 

I hear ya. Always tough to walk away when you are on a heater and catching cards. I have been getting better at disciplining myself if I go up early. Went up $400 this weekend on blackjack, told myself I would stop if I lost $200 of it, and I did. Left up $200 so I was happy. What is bad is when you start chasing. Can go south quick.

 

So after losing the tournament I play cash for a few hours. 1/2 and I get in a hand with a guy equal stack size about $200. I was big blind.

6 pre flop callers to a bet of $10. I have J9. Flop is Jc6s5c. I check and check around to button and guy bets $15. I call and one more caller. Turn is 4s. Check check bet $20. I call and other guy raises to $60. Button folds. So I’m now heads up with guy of equal stack. I’m in for $45 at this point about 1/4 of my stack.

At this point the pot size is $205 before I make a decision to call the $40 at which point it’s $245 and I’m left with about $100.

I’m planning my moves and think that my J might be good. Guy was pretty aggressive and I think he may be making a move. I decide to call even without flush or straight draws but think that sets up for a scary river. And then it comes. 8c.

Board is now Jc5c6c4s8c

I had this semi bluff planned and instantly jam when the club hits or the straight possibility on the board. Guy tanks for about 10 minutes. Longest I’ve ever seen in a 1/2 game and calls. I show my Jack which ultimately loses. I’ll put his hand in a spoiler to see if you can guess what he called me with. I about puked when I saw it.

Spoiler: Winning hand

Jh8d

 

Last night I ran $100 up to $1400 and eventually walked up $1100. It was getting late and I had to go before I gave it all back.

 

This was a solid strategy for me as well when I played more. If I was up significantly, I would: (1) at minimum take a break and (2) only buy back in at my original buy-in if I played after the break. Served me well.

 

this. going in with the goal to play for X hours is the WOAT strategy. Sometimes you can sit down and double up in 20 minutes. I know poker ettiquitte dictates you don't hit and run, but if you are playing a game against the house take your money and do exactly this. get a free drink or 2. walk around for 15-20 minutes. then buy back in for nothing more then your original buy in to guarantee you go home a winner. If you only spend an hour at the casino instead of the planned 3-4, go see a movie or something because killing more time isn't worth risking the profit.

 

Have zero problem hit and running casino games. Enjoy it, kinda. I’ll do that then just wonder around the casino watching the madness.

 

Got into a nice little local ring hosted on pppoker. Anybody else use that?

 

Checkin from Maggie Valley, NC. Southern breakfast followed by an all day grind at Harrah's Cherokee

 

Played a $250 DS tourney, out at level 10

 

Well it's been a quick $450 spent this afternoon ... gonna take the dog for a walk I think

 

Up about $500 in my local NL100 game the past three games. Could be going worse.

 

I leave when the game is bad or I’m not playing well.

 

I think a lot of novice players struggle with both of those concepts, but especially the latter. In a way, I think TV poker was terrible for Joe Regulars because it made them think big hands happen all the time, so they shoot for the moon way too much if they get down early and HAVE to get that money back as soon as possible.

 

Freddy Deeb over here

 

Feel pretty good about my first 2-5 session. Down a few bucks on my $500 buy in, but was able to battle back from a $200 stack earlier in the night. Put down a lot of big hands, top 2 pair, an AK when I had limped in UTG and hit the ace (was pretty sure I had it till the river), and a flopped middle set vs 4-cards-to-a-straight on the board. Back to the motel for now, thinking I'll play one more $250 DS tournament tomorrow ...

 

Played .30/.60 PLO with this same group tonight and won $400 more. Hopefully they don't blacklist me.

 

This sounds fun ...

 

Especially when you have guys spewing preflop raises with garbage and four or five guys coming in every hand. Pick, choose, pillage.

Looking at my stats, I won 640 BBs in 53 hands. Sustainable winrate for sure.

 

Run bad continues. Got felted twice in pretty much the exact same scenario. Playing 2/5. I’m in the big blind with 8/4 off. 4 limpers. Flop comes 844. Big blind special. I check, mp bets, cutoff shoves, I call. He flips over AA. Ace on the turn. Rebuy. About 30 min later in the big blind with 9/2 off. 1 limped from UTG, small completes and of course I check. Flop another boat 992. I check, limped bets, sb folds, I call. Turn is a J. I check, he bets, I call. River 4. I bet, he jams, I call, and he shows JJ. Just terrible luck on my end. Either of those raise pre and I’m out. I know that’s the flops I want and most of the time I’m getting paid, just some run bad.

 

So the tourney I played back on 1/27 was all messed up. $150+$100 buy in for 15k chips. Turns out they gave the one table 25k starting stacks and didn’t catch it until after the table broke. 2 guys get to my table and after level 5 they were walking around finding those players and taking back 10k. What a shit show. These guys had unfair advantage especially the ones that had knockouts at the early table.

One guy at my table gets told he has to give 10k back and he does. Kid next to me says to him that’s pretty messed up and he was at the table too. Guy goes off and rushes to the floor and says they need to come takes his chips too. Kid only has 13k and is about to have to give back most of his stack. He immediately shoved all in and wins a hand and gets a bounty with a lesser call. They take his 10k chips away so at the end of the hand he’s about net even with 13k chips but got a bounty. Unreal.

That’s the worst fuck up ive seen other than the time I came back from break and a dealer combined my chip stack with the seat next to mine.

 

Remind me never to play at wherever this occurred, that's a total clown show.


I lost a $50 pot back in the old Florida $2 limit hold'em days when the dealer misread my hand (flush) at showdown and mucked it. It's basic stuff but always protect your hand and never give up your cards until the pot is pushed your way.

 

It’s at the Sands in Bethlehem PA. It’s one of the bigger poker rooms outside of Philly and gets a ton of action from New Yorkers busing in.

Normally a good poker room. They blamed it on a rookie dealer.

 

Yep those are both brutal beats. I actually got lucky in a similar spot Friday. Girl limps AA. I have like 95o in the blind. Flop is 993. Turn A. River 3. I bet 25 on the river and she minraises me to 50 lol. Figuring it's a chop I just call and she shows. I laugh it off knowing I dodged a huge bullet.

 

I did not cash in that Sunday tournament. Went out on a 3 handed pot around level 8, my QcJc vs 44 vs smaller all in Kd10d. Was about 20 bbs and probably could have waited on another round of blinds. But I think I am going to start being more aggressive at 20 bbs in the future for these low dollar, 20 min level tournaments. There was also on 26 entrants, I expected 40-60. So if that's the case when I arrive I probably should just play cash ...

Calling the trip down $250. The $450 or so spent the night before I am chalking up as losing my profit from my weekend in Columbus. But I dont think I would change much in regards to my play. If anything I'm just gonna ditch these $250 tourneys and focus on $2-$5 primarily ...

 

Put in a 3 hour 2/5 session while working in Jacksonville last night. In for $500, out for $1055. Nice to break the cold streak. Laid down aces post flop on misread that I would have won a big hand. 5 limpers and gets to me in the BB with AA so I make it $55. 3 callers. I was putting them on low to mid pairs. Flop is 2,5,7 with 2 hearts. I check because I just didn’t have a good feeling. MP bets $125, cutoff shoves all in. I figured someone hit a set so I lay it down. MP calls. MP has KK and the other is on a flush draw. My aces would have held. Surprised the KK limped and didn’t 3 bet me pre flop.

 

Is the "room" still out in the open near the baccarat tables? You know, near the smoking Chinese, which, of course, is redundant. Played there regularly in 2014 and a little in 2015. Fairly good action and a decent selection of games. Tableside eating was nice, too. I just hated that you played in the middle of the casino floor. Way too noisy.

 

It’s moved into a separate room. Much nicer

 

Let me know next time you're in Jax.

 

You have about exactly a 2-to-1 stack-to-pot ratio. Never a fold here on a draw-heavy board that still looks good to AA. Would possibly fold against double-suited QT8 but certainly not 257. And your check greatly disguises your strength (i.e., you look like AK or AQs, like duh) while making those with 88-JJ fall in love with their hands. KK is a laugher, though.

Don't think the flop check was all that bad, though, especially if the players behind are aggro/stabby. However, this is 100% a check-jam.

edit: The only thing worse here would have been showing or admitting that you had AA. My guess is you were too embarrassed to do that. And for good reason.

 

Where?

 

I agree. My fold was more about me just being on this terrible losing streak and not trusting that I have the best hand. I was up and not wanting to put a big dent in my stack if someone did set me. 99% of the time I would play that the way you did. I was just a big unconfident nit on that one.

 

Will do. I’m usually up there every other week for work.

 

No matter how good, everyone has done exactly this and will do it again. I hope you immediately left the game, though. Nothing wrong with leaving a guaranteed winner, especially when your confidence has taken several hits. Once you're fearful of making what you know is the right play...