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03-04-2015 , 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by phunkphish
On the other end of the spectrum..

There are a lot of guys at my poker room who love to brag about their win-rates at the table. It makes me scratch my head. Low self-esteem? In need of an ego boost? It's also horrible for the table atmosphere. Sigh.
I usually claim I have a 9" penis and see if people are equally impressed.
03-04-2015 , 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by callipygian
I usually claim I have a 9" penis and see if people are equally impressed.
Pics or it's not true.
03-04-2015 , 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by wbatas
Pics or it's not true.
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH
03-04-2015 , 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Captain R
I lost 20 bets yesterday. Cool story?


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Originally Posted by WackyPoker
I was going through my safe this morning to grab some documents to prepare my taxes and I found 1/4 of a chair I had forgotten about. It's like free money!
Champion

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Originally Posted by phunkphish
On the other end of the spectrum..

There are a lot of guys at my poker room who love to brag about their win-rates at the table. It makes me scratch my head. Low self-esteem? In need of an ego boost? It's also horrible for the table atmosphere. Sigh.
Standard exploitable strategy.

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Originally Posted by callipygian
I usually claim I have a 9" penis and see if people are equally impressed.
Maximally exploitative response.

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Originally Posted by wbatas
Pics or it's not true.
GTO engaged

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Originally Posted by callipygian
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH
/win
03-04-2015 , 08:35 PM
I just have a simple policy: I don't discuss my overall results.

Sure I'll mention a session where I crushed, and vice versa. But no one but the tax man needs to know what I pull out of the game.
03-04-2015 , 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jdr0317
I just have a simple policy: I don't discuss my overall results.

Sure I'll mention a session where I crushed, and vice versa. But no one but the tax man needs to know what I pull out of the game.
He ESPECIALLY doesn't need to know!!!! I kid I kid.....

We need a unit between the fun ticket and the chair these fractional chairs hurt my head. I think we need a few more units:

$500 = Fun Pack
$1000 = Leg

Discuss.
03-04-2015 , 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by jesse8888
He ESPECIALLY doesn't need to know!!!! I kid I kid.....

We need a unit between the fun ticket and the chair these fractional chairs hurt my head. I think we need a few more units:

$500 = Fun Pack
$1000 = Leg

Discuss.
Fun pack I can get behind.

Leg doesn't make sense. There's four legs, but what about the cushion and seat back?

Also, the SSLHE world worked just fine with fun tickets. The US currency world works fine without bills over $100, correct me if there are higher. Do us degens need to quantify something between 100-4k? We're mathematically inclined, 1/4 chair makes sense, 10 fun tickets makes sense, a leg? There's already sayings where people say that'll cost you an arm and a leg! Should we quantify an arm and a leg?
03-05-2015 , 12:07 AM
Bay Area guys,
How far is Bay from where the Sharks play? Should I rent a car if those will be my primary destinations?
Thanks
03-05-2015 , 12:34 AM
Thing I just thought of: how much does having bigger games in house affect lower games?

Namely, would one expect a 20/40 game to be softer in a house where 40/80 regularly runs? And in turn, somewhere that runs 75/150+ would soften the 40?
03-05-2015 , 01:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Brown Keeper
Bay Area guys,
How far is Bay from where the Sharks play? Should I rent a car if those will be my primary destinations?
Thanks
~5 mi S/SE, not sure what surge pricing will be for Lyft/Uber after a game, but it's a $12-$15 ride normally
03-05-2015 , 02:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Brown Keeper
Bay Area guys,
How far is Bay from where the Sharks play? Should I rent a car if those will be my primary destinations?
Thanks
10-20 mins by car depending on time of day and traffic. Where will you be staying?

Uber will prolly run you about $15 if you go that route. No idea for a reg cab, but probably closer to 20?
03-05-2015 , 02:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Brown Keeper
Bay Area guys,
How far is Bay from where the Sharks play? Should I rent a car if those will be my primary destinations?
Thanks
It's kind of hard to get around the south bay without a car. If you plan on staying more than a few days then rent one. Else, Uber.
03-05-2015 , 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by phunkphish
On the other end of the spectrum..

There are a lot of guys at my poker room who love to brag about their win-rates at the table. It makes me scratch my head. Low self-esteem? In need of an ego boost? It's also horrible for the table atmosphere. Sigh.
I've said this a million times in a million different ways, but if all the things that are said at poker tables that a lot of good players who should know better swear are "terrible for the table atmosphere" were actually so horrible, there would be no fish at cardrooms. In fact, the fish come back day after day, including in environments (such as Commerce yellow chip games) where there is an absolute ton of that sort of talk. They aren't scared off and they aren't educated

I have several theories as to why these beliefs persist. But one thing I am convinced is that they do not persist because there is actually any evidence that fish leave poker because of excessive table talk about strategy, results, and the like. Fish leave poker when they run out of money or get tired of it.
03-05-2015 , 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by jdr0317
Thing I just thought of: how much does having bigger games in house affect lower games?

Namely, would one expect a 20/40 game to be softer in a house where 40/80 regularly runs? And in turn, somewhere that runs 75/150+ would soften the 40?
to quote a wise man, absomother****inglutely. Bigger games make smaller games softer, usually.
03-05-2015 , 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by lawdude
I've said this a million times in a million different ways, but if all the things that are said at poker tables that a lot of good players who should know better swear are "terrible for the table atmosphere" were actually so horrible, there would be no fish at cardrooms. In fact, the fish come back day after day, including in environments (such as Commerce yellow chip games) where there is an absolute ton of that sort of talk. They aren't scared off and they aren't educated

I have several theories as to why these beliefs persist. But one thing I am convinced is that they do not persist because there is actually any evidence that fish leave poker because of excessive table talk about strategy, results, and the like. Fish leave poker when they run out of money or get tired of it.
I backed myself into a corner the other day with just mindless banter. Guy cold calls my UTG raise with 76o, I bet the flop he calls I bet the turn he raises I snap fold board has two sixes on it.

me: "TOO SOON!"
him, very eager to learn: "I should have waited to the river huh"?
me: "Well i had nothing so it didn't matter"
him: "would you have waited til the river"
me (very distracted by Trivia Crack by this point): "I'd have raised me on the flop"
him: doesn't let it go for like 2 minutes and I have to eventually back pedal to "no no you made the max"
03-05-2015 , 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by lawdude
I've said this a million times in a million different ways, but if all the things that are said at poker tables that a lot of good players who should know better swear are "terrible for the table atmosphere" were actually so horrible, there would be no fish at cardrooms. In fact, the fish come back day after day, including in environments (such as Commerce yellow chip games) where there is an absolute ton of that sort of talk. They aren't scared off and they aren't educated

I have several theories as to why these beliefs persist. But one thing I am convinced is that they do not persist because there is actually any evidence that fish leave poker because of excessive table talk about strategy, results, and the like. Fish leave poker when they run out of money or get tired of it.
you're basically saying you strongly believe in something having ZERO effect when everyone else (and logic) would dictate the effect is non-zero and negative. So even if you're 100% correct shutting the **** up would still be net neutral.....
03-05-2015 , 01:09 PM
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ally saying you strongly believe in something having ZERO effect when everyone else (and logic) would dictate the effect is non-zero and negative. So even if you're 100% correct shutting the **** up would still be net neutral.....
I think it has zero effect, and that even if it had an effect, it would have to be tiny given that some of the best games in the planet have tons of it. It is even possible that it has a positive effect because fish love table talk and the feeling of handing a winning player a bad beat.

I also don't think that the position that it is horrible is "logical" at all. Why on earth would one assume that the motivations of fish are logical?

What's illogical is that anyone could play poker for years, against many of the same losing players, amid all sorts of strat talk, and continue to believe that this stuff is killing their winrate.
03-05-2015 , 03:44 PM
Do you also think that negging is a good way to interest women?
03-05-2015 , 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by callipygian
Do you also think that negging is a good way to interest women?
It just flashed in my mind that there is probably a youtube channel where calli has a 20 video series about GTO PUA. This is so disturbing, I'm going to go ride my bike even though it is like 25 degrees out. If I freeze to death, this comment is to blame.
03-05-2015 , 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by lawdude
I've said this a million times in a million different ways, but if all the things that are said at poker tables that a lot of good players who should know better swear are "terrible for the table atmosphere" were actually so horrible, there would be no fish at cardrooms. In fact, the fish come back day after day, including in environments (such as Commerce yellow chip games) where there is an absolute ton of that sort of talk. They aren't scared off and they aren't educated

I have several theories as to why these beliefs persist. But one thing I am convinced is that they do not persist because there is actually any evidence that fish leave poker because of excessive table talk about strategy, results, and the like. Fish leave poker when they run out of money or get tired of it.
You are so wrong it's not funny. It's sad. Some fish come back, you just don't remember the ones who stop coming.
03-05-2015 , 04:48 PM
So I took my first 8/16 shot and let me tell you some of my observations. Let me preface this by saying I lost about 75BB (lol?)

1. How do you guys not pull your hair out with the amount of variance in limit? I was 2 outered quite a few times in a short time frame and in some quite ridiculous way and I kept thinking, "this has to be normal right?"

2. I lost my bets by making big pots with big hands and getting sucked out on constantly.

3. After losing 3 racks, I began to lose my mind and started limping in with like J9s in EP and also began capping pre with hands like J10s and 33 because there was a ton of action in the pot.

Needless to say, I probably will be going back to NLHE permanently. That experience was not fun and if thats "normal" then I do not have the guts to withstand it. That being said, you guys are all absolute monsters of poker players. Thanks for the tips, advice, etc.

-UCD
03-05-2015 , 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by UCDLaCrosse
3. After losing 3 racks, I began to lose my mind and started limping in with like J9s in EP and also began capping pre with hands like J10s and 33 because there was a ton of action in the pot.
Sorry to hear it went poorly.

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Needless to say, I probably will be going back to NLHE permanently. That experience was not fun and if thats "normal" then I do not have the guts to withstand it. That being said, you guys are all absolute monsters of poker players. Thanks for the tips, advice, etc.
Sounds like a tough night. Hard to know normal, really. Poker usually sucks when the chips are going the other direction.
03-05-2015 , 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by jesse8888
to quote a wise man, absomother****inglutely. Bigger games make smaller games softer, usually.
Ya, like I play an average 20 game at foxwoods, where 40 rarely goes, and it's very rarely the ridiculous s*** show it was last weekend. Usually it's like 1-3 pro to pro-ish players, a few nits, a few losers, and 1-2 fish that everyone tries to play pots against.

OTOH, every time I've played Borg 20, it feels like I stepped in the time machine to play 4. While AQ/TT are like the foxwoods 3 to the face special, at borg the 3TTF is literally any PP < QQ. Or the guy who flopped TT7 while holding 77 and took the line of x/c, x/c, b/c (my friend had what should've been the nuts with AT).

I have no problem slumming 20 when 40 goes. It's easily beatable for like a bet an hour then.
03-05-2015 , 06:05 PM
Two limps I complete K5dd LAGfish raises BB 4 way

Flop KT7tt one d I x/r/4 still four way

Turn 7 I bet two calls

River 2 I bet two calls I win


Why does this stuff never happen live?
03-05-2015 , 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by DougL
It just flashed in my mind that there is probably a youtube channel where calli has a 20 video series about GTO PUA. This is so disturbing, I'm going to go ride my bike even though it is like 25 degrees out. If I freeze to death, this comment is to blame.
Calli is King of the North

      
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