You know the drill

Frist

dude

Catch the right crowd at the Orleans and you won't have to take over the table.

I have to be at the dentist in an hour. No joke.

Something like that sounds pretty fun. My thought was start a 15-30 or something and see if any random tournament bustouts or other passerbys would jump in. But that might be too optimistic and it would probably just end up being a terrible game.

Someone had mentioned something about min raising in a 1-2 NL game recently. What if we got like 5 of us to play 1-2 NL with some randoms but we were only allowed to fold, call, min bet or min raise?

Plugged in a wireless mouse to my coworkers desktop. Hilarity ensues.

Take the pledge.

The epic trip report entitled, "From Redondo Beach to Redonko Beach" is postponed indefinitely.

Science question to probably be answered by Cali but anyone can answer:

If it takes fuel, oxygen, and spark to have a fire or explosion, then how come the trucks carrying only oxygen have "flammable" all over them? Can the oxygen ignite with a spark but no fuel to burn?

I'm probably wrong, but what does the truck use to run?

Gas of course, but even isolated oxygen tanks have the warnings no matter if there's a nearby fuel source.

Oxygen can cause other things to burn vigorously, so tanks of oxygen carry the same hazard as tanks of fuel, even if they don't do the same thing.

I will attempt to post a Youtube clip of a guy setting a barbeque grill on fire.

LAGuna Beach

Worked with a guy who worked in the chemical business in Houston. One project he did had this huge oxygen tank (hundreds of feet tall?) under much pressure. He did something with safety. If something happened to that tank, the blast radius was miles. Having a great source of O2 makes fire/explosion scary.

Enjoy By 4-20 released, Giants & A's on the teevee. I officially declare Summer to be underway.

I'm half considering an NVG thread titled 'How much of poker is illusion?'

It's bec of this: For years I played the 8-16 08 occasionally but mostly I just passed by the table to check the size of the average pot but didn't think the game was worth the boredom. Now I'm playing 8-16 HE on Tuesday and have moved to the 8-16 0E on Saturdays bec the action has been crazy.

So, to the point: There is a player who's supposed to be one of the better players in 08 and is terrible, along w/ the rest of them, at Stud8 and he is one of the better in 08 players but not by very much. I thought that he was crushing that game for years and years bec he ALWAYS had a pile of chips. After a couple of weeks playing w/ him now I find out that he runs off to the cage to buy a rack a lot. Tonight he reloaded 4 racks just to maintain what he'd bought in for. So I thought wrong and I wonder how much of what we think we know about other players classifies to some degree as being illusion.

Nobody in poker wins as much as they want you to think they do.

Last night, I had a hand that went like this.



That's 6/12 no foldem at the Oaks, in case you can't tell.

That's not true. I actively try to convince people that my winrate is much less than it is.

Two fun hands from Hustler 25:

(1) someone limps, someone raises, someone coldcalls, I coldcall CO with 44, BTN calls, SB folds, BB 3bets, limper backcaps, we go to the flop 6 ways capped.

flop 644, BB leads, 2 calls, I raise, SB coldcalls, BB 3bets, callers fold, I call, SB calls.

turn 3, SB checks, BB leads, I raise, SB folds, BB calls.

river A, BB donks, I raise, BB 3bets, I 4bet, BB calls and obviously has AA.

(2) laggy Asian woman opens button 5 handed and I 3bet J8cc in the SB. BB folds button calls.

flop 2d 3d Qh, I bet she calls.

turn 6h, I bet she raises I 3bet she calls.

river 2c, I bet she sighs and mucks.

Aggro fish opens BTN HU I 3 bet JTcc BB he calls

Flop AA4cc I bet he calls

Turn 9 I bet he raises I 3 bet he calls

River 4 I bet he folds.

Probability that I had the best hand?

.999997

Sick value bet imo.

Stick around for the followup question on this one:

I'm carddead in a no fold'em 4-8 game for about 90 minutes. On the big blind after a raise, in the SB and in the button I'm starting to get visibly frustrated that I'm getting dealt such poor hands they're not even playable in THOSE circumstances.

I get QTo on the button after 4 limpers. I say FINALLY!!!! and raise. Both blinds and all limpers call.
Flop KQTr. SB donks, everybody calls, I raise, everybody calls.
Turn a 3 putting 2 clubs on the board. Checks around to me, I bet, 4 callers.
River a non-club 2. Checks around to me, I bet, 2 callers, I show my 2 pair and it's the best hand.

I go back to being card dead again for another hour. I limp along on the button with 33 after 4 limpers. I flop a set (I don't remember what the other 2 cards were but the board was pretty dry). MP donks, 2 callers, I raise, MP and callers call.
I turn a boat. Checks around to me I bet they all call.
River is a brick. Checks around to me I bet and get one call. My boat is good.

So here's the followup question: How important is it to disguise the strength of your hand and balance your range to get maximum value from your big hands in no fold'em hold'em?