Saying this, I'm pretty sure you're unfamiliar with my live experience.

The 1/2 game at that place are funny, but the 2/4LHE tables are even funnier. People play 10x worse.

And yeah, they have SnG's. I FT'd one last summer, but got donked out in 8th when I ran 77 into AQ twice in three hands against the same guy. First time he turned an ace and the second time he rivered it. Both times if I held up I would have been chip leader in final 7 with first ~3000. I was chip leader pretty much the entire tournament to that point after I flopped a set of nines on some other big stack halfway through who had Kings. I finished 8th and got 180 (I bought in for 120...). Pretty much the biggest waste of 5 hours ever.

But now, they changed the structure so everything is turbo, so all of the tables aren't in use or something. It's absolutely a shove-fest after about 1 hour.

Shall we compare stories? heh. Granted, I probably haven't played as much as you, but w/e.

Mine:

First live session: mostly folding, AA v AK, 55 v 44 on 543 board, won a few other small pots periodically. Walked away a $200 winner, left a $5 tip or so after the set/set hand (I'm such a nice guy)

Second trip to T. Stone (second live session):

I play a $50+$15 tourney, do well at first table, 3-bet shove 77 (I had opened with 77 3 times or so in the past 45 minutes, I wouldn't normally do this) into two callers who both had QJ (nitty guy directly to my left re-raised me), I survive by boating up against a straight. Switch tables a bit later, go very card dead. 400/800/75 level, UTG raises, I look at 6's, ship my 3875 in, miss 10 outs twice after a 587 flop. Go to a 1/2 game - 100 max. A few hands in, the aforementioned nitty guy from my tourney raises to $10 UTG, I look down at KK, make it $30, some idiot kid in LP calls, nit shoves, I call, idiot calls too. Nit has AA, idiot has K6, I don't get my one outer, go home right after.

My other two live sessions are covered in my other posts.



ah

I don't particularly care to recount details, but if I had to estimate, in roughly 40 casino sessions of varying lengths and varieties (cash/tournament), I'm probably stuck $20k. (For the sake of comparison, I'm up $110k lifetime online.)

I'm just basing what I say on that no one runs worse than I do, so you can't run bad unless you run as bad as me

Wow that'll do it. Not that I can say much, for almost two years it was standard operating procedure in college to go to Waffle House at 3 am every weekend.

Thank god for gift cards.

I bought 2 dozen golf balls for my dad, everything else was cards.

lol, I'm so sick of buying my Dad golf balls... every effing year.

I decided, since I plan to be a baller by summer, that I'm gonna take him to the course of his choice, and just pay for both rounds, instead, have one of those father/son bonding things, lol. Sounds corny, but we don't spend much time together anymore, since he moved about 4 hours away.

Plus, it'll be an excuse to hit one of the country clubs, either in town here, or take a trip to one of the indian casino/golf courses in northern MN. I'm looking forward to it.

Personally, I ****ing hate gift cards. I usually end up letting them sit on my dresser until they expire. Cash is so +EV.

QFT

I love the Chicago Bears.

HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE.

Merry Christmas everyone... It is finally time for me to start shopping

Money on Stars is OK, too.

I agree with that.

Wow Drcossack. You went to Trail? I went to Blue Ridge and Mountain View. Small world man.

Heh, Trail sucked. I think I did some County Band stuff at Blue Ridge though - don't really remember.

Merry Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate around this time of the year my fellow FCP NLHE Cash Game forum goers.

FANTASY CHAMP WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/gaybragpostaments.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm pretty sick about this. Casade is a solid regular, runs 19/12/4.5. I still don't analyze PT very well, but...I kind of want to light myself on fire.


STAGE #855682282: HOLDEM NO LIMIT $4 - 2007-12-25 00:16:03 (ET)
Table: JIM AVE (Real Money) Seat #2 is the dealer
Seat 2 - NAISMITH ($945.20 in chips)
Seat 3 - BKDL ($341.10 in chips)
Seat 4 - HAPPYJAI ($531 in chips)
Seat 6 - CASADEWHITEY ($894.90 in chips)
Seat 1 - SNATCHEL ($826.10 in chips)
BKDL - Posts small blind $2
HAPPYJAI - Posts big blind $4
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to NAISMITH [Kh Kc]
CASADEWHITEY - Raises $14 to $14
SNATCHEL - Folds
NAISMITH - Calls $14
BKDL - Folds
HAPPYJAI - Raises $52 to $56
CASADEWHITEY - Raises $120 to $134
NAISMITH - Folds
HAPPYJAI - Folds
CASADEWHITEY - returned ($78) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
CASADEWHITEY - Does not show
CASADEWHITEY Collects $128 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($128)
Seat 1: SNATCHEL Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 2: NAISMITH (dealer) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 3: BKDL (small blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 4: HAPPYJAI (big blind) Folded on the POCKET CARDS
Seat 6: CASADEWHITEY collected Total ($128)

coulda just saved yourself $14 by mucking to the first raise.

You should be...

Considering hands we have seen of yours posted here before he has to know you might raise him light. This could easily be AK/QQ/JJ.

Merry Christmas.

Yeah, but I wasn't the one who raised him.

Puke. I wouldn't fold KK 6 handed against a regular in this situation, even for 200 bbs. Ever. Your hand is so disguised, and he could easily be threebetting a weaker hand than KK.



Because you didn't, you put yourself in a horrific situation. Casade could easily be threebetting the other guy with AK/QQ/JJ etc. Obviously, if he is aggressive (I'm not great with PT numbers but I assume most 2/4 players that are winners are pretty aggressive), than you're dropping a lot of equity by dumping this behind him. I'm going to guess that you probably did drop a winner here.

OMG. I just posted strategy in BAW. *Suicide*

I don't think it's the worst fold ever. Meh. Kind of a crappy spot and the hand plays easier if you don't flat first raise. I think his 3-betting may only be QQ-AA by those low stats. Erring on the side of caution isn't ridiculous, but it is 5 handed and you have KK. It's just not something I could do, I'd think it's more likely someone is kind of tilting or overvaluing a hand less than KK over assigning his cards as exactly AA.

I don't even mind calling.

wow Naismith folding KK, that is about the last thing I would expect.

I told him that I think that even a tight range for that 4 bet over what looks like a squeeze is easily like AQ+ and TT+, which KK obviously crushes that range. Reraising seems bad, but he has to at least call here.

Just so you guys think I'm the weakest player ever:

STAGE #854018355: HOLDEM NO LIMIT $4 - 2007-12-23 04:42:04 (ET)
Table: POLAND HWY (Real Money) Seat #1 is the dealer
Seat 1 - NAISMITH ($966.35 in chips)
Seat 2 - SKEEZYHO ($436.10 in chips)
Seat 4 - MBLOOM1 ($837 in chips)
Seat 5 - FOURFSAKE ($626.50 in chips)
Seat 6 - SCOTTY_MINTO ($515.90 in chips)
SKEEZYHO - Posts small blind $2
MBLOOM1 - Posts big blind $4
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to NAISMITH [3s 3h]
FOURFSAKE - Raises $12 to $12
SCOTTY_MINTO - Folds
NAISMITH - Calls $12
SKEEZYHO - Folds
MBLOOM1 - Raises $40 to $44
FOURFSAKE - Calls $32
NAISMITH - Calls $32
*** FLOP *** [9c 2h 3c]
MBLOOM1 - Checks
FOURFSAKE - Checks
NAISMITH - Bets $100
MBLOOM1 - Raises $300 to $300
FOURFSAKE - Folds
NAISMITH - Folds

Fake HH

How can he have anything other than 99 here?

100% agree.



FYP

True. Well played. Nice fold.

Merry Christmas.

merry christmas from northern CA boys and girls - I have been walking around in shorts and a t shirt getting weird looks from the locals since they think that 50 degrees is COLD. haha!

hope y'all are doing well

Didn't see this anywhere, but Jman/OMGClayAiken/Phil Galfond is doing a well at 2+2. It's a pretty sick read and it's not close to over. So here's a link.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=88525

Merry Christmas everyone

Nice level, Jay.

Merry Christmas, FCP.

merry christmas all.

Didn't know where else to post this...haha.

This guy was the worst player I've ever played against.

Full Tilt Poker Game #4622572765: Table Lindell (6 max) - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:24:33 ET - 2007/12/25
Seat 1: HijackedAffairs ($47.25)
Seat 2: calmEsqdYEAAAH ($16.70)
Seat 3: coke1337 ($50)
Seat 4: PhillisWheatley ($79.50)
Seat 5: GreenMan1357 ($51.45)
Seat 6: FoldingRuth ($110.20)
HijackedAffairs posts the small blind of $0.25
calmEsqdYEAAAH posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HijackedAffairs [Qd As]
coke1337 has 15 seconds left to act
coke1337 is sitting out
coke1337 has timed out
coke1337 folds
PhillisWheatley calls $0.50
coke1337 has returned
GreenMan1357 calls $0.50
FoldingRuth folds
HijackedAffairs raises to $2.50
calmEsqdYEAAAH has 15 seconds left to act
calmEsqdYEAAAH folds
PhillisWheatley calls $2
GreenMan1357 calls $2
*** FLOP *** [Jd 3d 8d]
HijackedAffairs has 15 seconds left to act
HijackedAffairs bets $5
PhillisWheatley folds
GreenMan1357 calls $5
*** TURN *** [Jd 3d 8d] [Td]
HijackedAffairs checks
GreenMan1357 checks
*** RIVER *** [Jd 3d 8d Td] [3s]
HijackedAffairs checks
GreenMan1357 checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HijackedAffairs shows [Qd As] a flush, Queen high
GreenMan1357 mucks
HijackedAffairs wins the pot ($17.10) with a flush, Queen high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $18 | Rake $0.90
Board: [Jd 3d 8d Td 3s]
Seat 1: HijackedAffairs (small blind) showed [Qd As] and won ($17.10) with a flush, Queen high
Seat 2: calmEsqdYEAAAH (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: coke1337 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: PhillisWheatley folded on the Flop
Seat 5: GreenMan1357 mucked [Kh 7h] - a pair of Threes
Seat 6: FoldingRuth (button) didn't bet (folded)


Nice float!

lol i fire the turn, but yeah people float with some odd stuff.

Maybe he's shape blind and thought he was slowplaying a flopped flush, then realized hearts were different than diamonds by the river?

Am I the only one at work today?

No. 8-5

I'm going to be "working" today, if it makes you feel any better.

I kinda worked. I played basketball today. Some kid I was way better than in highschool dominated me. That was kind of embarrassing. Not sure if I care enough to get into shape though.

Am I missing any good oft-updated poker blogs anywhere?

Currently I read Shannon Shorr, JC Alvarado, and Terrence Chan pretty much religiously. Anyone else very fun to read?

A lot of the cardrunner blogs are pretty good. brian townsend, tayler caby, muddywater, ect

Hey Skillz post the links to the blogs if you don't mind.