I had another winning session last night without showing down a single hand except for when I over limped the button versus the entire field with QJhh and flop 2 over cards with a FD then it checks to MP2 who bets 25 with 125 left behind and I throw in a pot size reraise to put him all in and I bink a flush on the river vs his limped 2 pair with 94os.

Bing, bang, blow

[x]blang ^

hahaha, taking cheap shots at Garick??? He's pretty solid, imo.

Nope, no shots at Garick. He can tell you about it. Garick got beat up by 42o and my 97s. I had around 60BBs on the 97s hand, but the two fishies were in the hand and I just can't fold there. Garick played fine. I was referring to others. I promise you one guy had like a 100% call my raise, 100% call all street bets against me. 0 FE and I just did not have any hands to go to bat with. Frustrating when its like that. I did crush the tourney though.

Garick was also the victim of the 7-2 game. Got perfect stormed.

It's like impossible to go from playing Omaha to holdem in the same session haha.

Yeah, I still think that 97s hand was a fold PF because of how short you were, but other than that was super standard.

APD limps in MP with 97s with about $110 (had taken a couple of beats and hadn't re-loaded yet, seems a little tilted), two total limp/call fish to his left over-limp. I raise AQ to $12 OTB. Blinds fold, APD calls. I know he knows the fishies are def calling also, but I still think he was too short to l/c a speculative hand there.

Paid off for him though, as I never put him on it. I think I pay off any random on this hand too, because of effective stacks, but when he CRAI on a Q97r board, I snap called, of course. To make it more interesting, Ace on turn, seven on river...

That's why you always reload! Haha.
Would have won an extra 90 bones!

The failed 3-barrel against a tight (by this game's standards) ABC villain doesn't bother me either. I still think I played that one fine, and he folds 90% of his range OTR.

Getting crushed by fishie's 42-off that called my OR to $16 because "I already had 4 in from my straddle" and then played flopped bottom 2p super passively still bugs the heck out of me, though.

A lot of fish will "always" call a raise on their straddle...

Don't try to make sense out of it, just know that it would be ATC.

Yeah, I knew his calling range was just about ATC pre and was b/f the river for sure. I thought there were a lot of 2p in his range, I just thought the ones in his range were mostly one pair OTF that binked the second pair on turn or river. Board was 427QTr and action was V leads into $10 into $84 OTF, check/calls (after tanking a bit) 1/2 pot OTT, check/tanks (deep) to a 2/3pot bet OTR, and finally calls with 42o.

I figured his range was mostly 7x (with x being sometimes a 4 or a duece, but usually being paint) with a bit of 66/88/and 99 in it. It was super obvious he didn't have a set. Hand I was most worried about was Q7, tbh.

Part of value owning stations with one pair is value owning yourself.

True. Not upset with how I played it, trust me. Just tilty (at the time) from what I lost to. I hope APD didn't get a pic of the look on my face, because I looked like I'd just seen a LP TAG on a unicorn and he'd shot me with his AK-47.

Dude... The look on your face after the 42o was .... was.... was like your dog got hit by a car in front of you. I was laughing at the time but it was a "bruh, I told you bout this game" laugh. Isolating fish in this game is meh. Go the cheap route and see lots of flops, build a pot when you want to later in the hand. They will call overbets.

Sounds like the perfect plan for a home game. They will always invite you back if you keep playing that strategy.

Garick - Just talked to Mxxx and he said when he raised against that guy he was getting the same thing, 100% call. Only difference is Mxxx got a couple good flops and the rest is history. Stroked him for like $300. POW.

I played $20/40 LHE/O8 last night.

I'm mediocre at both games, but some of the players were much worse than me in O8 lol.

I played super nitty and I think I raised 3 hands pf all night: A245ds, A2KQds, and AA3Tss.

"In the end, the Party would announce that NLHE=POKER, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position damanded it. Not merely the validity of experience of external reality, was tactitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. and what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that 2+2=4?"
-Eric Arthur Blair

Oh, I almost forgot to mention the funniest part of the night. Some limpage in front, APD raises to $12 in CO, SB fish calls. Garick announces raise from BB and starts to count the pot. Other fish (not in hand) asks "what's taking him so long.

APD responds "he's trying to decide how much to raise, but I already know what he's going to do."
Fish, "prove it."
APD, "if I say it, he'll do something else just to make me wrong."
Me, "Write it down on your phone and show them below the table."

APD shows them a number. Garick raises $40 more ($52 total). Fish are amazed. "Damn! You guys must play together all the time!"
APD, "No, not that often, actually."
Fish, "Then how did you know he was going to do that!?!"
Garick, "He's my psychiatrist."

So my dumbass 18 year old best friend got his 20 year old gf pregnant. The guy can be so smart, and then for other things he's just completely clueless... guy just bought a dog (example one) even though he's unemployed, has crippling anxiety, and can barely afford to feed himself. His gf is the only one who works and she was gonna break up with him because they fight constantly and she's tired of his ****.

Anyway, ****ing idiot doesn't believe in abortion (gf is only 1 month preg btw) because of some "the fetus has a soul" bull****. he calls me up not even worried, just like "whoops lol" but then asks for advice. he's not religious, but he has some weird views on a higher power and the soul and afterlife and all this random stuff that i try to avoid whenever i can because we just argue and there's no reason to discuss it. anyway, i tell him "i can't make your decision for you, but i would think really hard about the reality of it.. how hard it's gonna be, whether you're ready, consider everything" blah blah blah. he called me an idiot when i told him to consider abortion because "if you don't believe in the soul, you're an idiot", so we got in a fight, didn't talk to me for a few days. he just says "thats exactly what somebody with no morals like you would respond", yea gfy, it's not the moral of it its the logic behind it ****!

now there was a slight chance this was all a troll since my friend can be that kind of ****** sometimes, so i let it out of my mind and whatever, but then he calls me up today and says "yea so i'm having the kid". guess it's real... but ****ing are u serious? real long and hard soul searching you did there dude, 2 days, and you concluded that this was gonna work? it's not even the morals of it, it's just the literal impossibility of being able to raise this kid. and he tells me "i'm going to be the best father ever", for ****s sakes, you're going to end up the exact same kind of parent you don't like... lol, good game dude. ****ing ruining his life, won't even consider adoption either. he can't even get out of bed because he's got such bad anxiety, the child is going to be the product of divorced, unprepared, poor parents.. it's not that they're bad people, i respect both of them, but they are so ****ing unready. gf is an ex prostitute and recovering heroin addict, he's a recovering addict and has severe mental health issues, and he's ****ing 18! he dropped out of highschool in grade 8. holy ****, it just enrages me so bad. my friend just ruined his ****ing life because of some stupid bull**** about a 1 month old fetus having a soul. gg man, congrats on life, see you never again. RIP our friendship, RIP your youth, RIP your kid's life when it turns out ****, RIP your relationship with your gf, RIP your chance for happiness, RIP it all. it's his mistake to make, i have to let him, but ****, **** you dude.

yes i mad. sorry for rant. ****

Sounds like a kid could help their situation.

Another funny part was at the tournament. 2 limps to me. I raise AQ from thr BB, 1 caller.

Flop KT4hh

I check
He checks

Turn Q

Huge live tell from V I check, he bets.

At this point I am on a huge stack (never wasnt) and I say "Sir you have AJ but Im a donk and Im going to pay you off" So I call like a donk fully knowing Im looking to chop. Spew. Lmao.

I call (horrible call)

River 4

I check

He checks and as he checks he says, "what, you saw my cards?" I say "no" As he rolls AJ he says "well how the hell do you know I have AJ?" I say "lucky guess."

I've seen a couple players do what he did in the last month when they had the nuts. Keeping that one to myself fo sho. Plus theres no such thing as live tells

Sounds religious to me. Maybe if you want to try a last-ditch effort you could get him some literature explaining the absurdity of believing in souls. gl man

This is why adoption and social agencies exist. A good friend would get him in touch ahead of time, even if it was for "counseling."

When god blesses you with a kid, the only way you should give your child up for adoption is if the women is in jail and the father is not around, plus no family members to take care of them. The mental pain from being an adopted child is hard to overcome. I would rather live a poor life with my kid then to give em up like a toy you dont want.

I have 2 kids and Im not financially well off. I feel bad for them sometimes. But at least Im trying. Even though there mother side is a very very poor family.