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03-03-2013 , 01:44 AM
GO GO MAN . really nice thread on degen storys, hope you get to your goals
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03-03-2013 , 03:16 PM
So, from 2006 until late 2007 I was employed at the first auto dealership I worked for in downriver Michigan. I came over to the auto industry from the lending industry because I saw the lending industry was going to going into a rapid decline. I figured I had a lot of success closing online leads into home loans, why not try to close online leads into auto sales.

So, I decided to put in an application to be an "Internet Sales Specialist." Like I do with all my interviews, the first thing I talk about is my drug crime. I simply say "Before I waste my time or your time, I'd like to talk about something I didn't disclose on my job application. "A few years ago I was convicted of a drug crime in Isabella County Michigan, I served my jail time, I completed my probation, and I've never failed a drug test. The crime had to do with me distributing drugs because I was young, dumb, greedy, and didn't want to work for my money. If you can't hire anyone who has made mistakes, I am not the guy for your job. If you can hire someone who has made a mistake, please feel free to ask me any questions about this subject first."

With this straight shooting style most of my interviews just become casual conversations about drugs, drinking, college campus, what's jail like, and then the person doing the interviewing admitting they know someone who does drugs or who has sold drugs and being involved in that doesn't make me a bad person. Then the place admits they don't do a super thorough background check and they wouldn't have found the conviction.

So, after interviewing with three different people, and two of the people saying I sound like a fun guy to party with. I get the job over eight other candidates. I was a likeable guy and I had demonstrated success/familiarity with online leads. They figured if I was skilled enough to get all important info over the phone/email needed to close a home loan, that I'd be able to do that to sell a car.

My first Manager's name was Walter. When he was there I was the dealership "golden boy" as the dealer had never sold more than 3 cars online in a month and I had them up to selling over 20 cars a month online. I was consistently in the top three in sales.

When Walter left, we had a new Manager come in by the name of Joe. Joe was one of those guys who run those fake "repo" sales where the dealership gets the big tent and advertised to the public that "all cars must go." When in reality, they're not repos. They're just used cars a bunch of auto dealers already own and they put the sticker price at like 6k too much then say "make us any offer, the bank probably won't refuse." Then the person offers like 4k less than the sticker, they're still getting ripped off, and they think they got a good deal.

My primary focus was always internet. I wanted no part of "repo" sale **** or used car sale ****. I didn't want to be a "lotgrinder." I didn't want to be out in that summer heat hounding the lot trying to find a lead. I was comfortable grinding on the phone or internet at work while I was on Face The Jury, ESPN, or whatever site I wanted to enjoy to waste some time in an air conditioned environment.

Joe would always try to rattle my cage and be like "there's an up on the lot, go grab him." I'd say "I prefer to work the internet Joe, I do that well, go tell one of the other sales guys." I tried telling him man to man to leave me alone. Just let me sell cars online and make you money. Joe even agreed to do so. I always had a feeling he was a bit of a rattlesnake. Not a rattlesnake like me where lets say I'll take a few shortcuts to make some easy money. Nah, a true rattlesnake, a dirty rat, the type of guy that would **** your wife. A piece of ****.

The special finance guy at the dealership loved me. I asked him to watch Joe like a hawk after I leave work. I come to find out that piece of **** is going through the history on my work computer, looking for some "dirt" on me. To perhaps try to build a case to get me fired. I have a few ways to deal with pieces of **** like this.

The first way is what I call "engineer the dui." That's where you and a friend follow your boss to his favorite watering hole, wait for him to leave, and then call 911 and report his car/license plate. Your boss is then pulled over, gets the dui, and you send his life into a downward spiral. Lots of times your boss will get terminated for the offense.

The second way is to run a "backround check" on your boss. I knew a private investigator that I played poker with so I can get this done real cheap. With this Joe guy I found out he had multiple felonies for defrauding people out of hundreds of thousands for new construction homes he took deposits for, but never built. He was a real piece of ****.

Now, throughout my life I have only been a part of bringing two bosses down. There's a three person panel who has to agree to all of this. There's no way I ever want to take a superior down for being a superior. I've been talked down a lot of times and took it like a man. However, if me and my two best friends Tony and Ben decide the boss is a real/certified piece of ****. We'll go diabolical.

This Joe guy was trying to get me fired/ruin my life at that time.

So, after careful consideration, I decided that turnabout was fair play.

This is the first part of the story that's degen...

I have my P.I friend print out his criminal history. I scour the internet and print out all stories that can be found online about him defrauding people. I scour the internet and print out any court findings, depositions, better business bureau reports, etc, etc, etc that clearly show this guy is a piece of ****.

It's never libel or slander if you're telling the truth about the person.

I have my two best friends prepare thirty copies of each things I have, put them in a large/document size envelope/and mail them in to the 30 most important/influential employees at the dealership. I also make sure to type up an introduction letter to be included that goes over all the charges, exactly what he did, etc, etc, etc, etc...

The envelopes are then mailed and a few days later I walk into work to find my manager is not at his desk.

I walk to where the meeting room is and see the manager crying/looking like he is begging for his job to the three super powers of the dealership.

Turns out that Joe wasn't up front and honest about his past.

He lost his job.

You see, me, I don't try to hide my past.

I don't try to be a perfect human being.

No one should.

The truth is that we're all flawed individuals.

The truth is actually your shield.

As long as you tell it, then the parasites in your life will have nothing to dig up on you that can hurt you.

You're protected.


When I saw that grown man crying there was no internal fist pump.

If what I did was to be described as a World Wrestling Entertainment move I had just "rock bottomed" his ass.

I was actually disgusted at the entire situation. That guy could have gone on being my manager if he would have just set aside his thirst for power+control of everything around him. That guy could have kept his word to me and "let me sell cars so I could make him money."

To this day he thinks the person who sent in all that stuff was his ex-partner in a defunct business venture of his. Not once did it ever cross his mind that I am the one who did it. It's because he underestimated me. Everyone always underestimates me.

Why?

A simple line from a song in office space.

"A real gansta ass ***** never runs his ****ing mouth, because a real gansta ass ***** don't start fights."

Actually, just listen to the first verse, I live by it...

You are the only ones that get my degen stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AULRSOK1KPQ

Now my next Manager is untouchable. She's been at the dealership for over fifteen years and is ****ing the General Manager. I have never been on the best of terms with her and she feels the same need to try to get me off the phones/internet. For some reason they think because I light it up on the phone/internet, that I am going to be this great "lotgrinder" and be able to do great selling used cars/etc.

She eventually talks the General Manager to take away the internet/phone from me in an effort to force me to become a more well rounded salesperson. Then, the final nail in my coffin. Now that I am going to have work outside of my office, she is forcing me to wear a tie. It's at this time that I decide she just doesn't want me to work at the dealership anymore. I rub her the wrong way, she's in control, and she's going to force me to quit. When an auto dealer does this to you, they are trying to "starve" you out. Get you to quit.

I absolutely refused to quit, because if I quit, I don't get unemployment compensation. So what do I do? I just go "GUNSLINGER" like Brett Favre down by a touchdown in the 4th quarter. I go "Petergibbons" Office Space style and show up to work in jeans and an untucked button up. I also go out and I buy over 10 of the most ugly ties you have ever seen. The Jerry Garcia hippie ties that are just out of control. Ties so disgusting that any business owner would want to terminate the person on spot for wearing them.

(As I am getting deeper into this story, I feel the need to go get the ties. I need to take pics of them before I tell you all how I eventually got fired, wound up on unemployment, and then worked with Gene again on another scam. I will complete this story with pics when I get back home from the gym. I feel this lead in was important because it shows you all how I got desperate for cash again. I will finish this story when I get back from the gym. Tune in around 6pm Eastern for the conclusion.)
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03-03-2013 , 04:42 PM
This is great!
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03-03-2013 , 05:10 PM
just read this whole thread, this is great. I play at MCC couple days a week....
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03-03-2013 , 07:43 PM
So, "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gansta"...

The management at the dealership obviously has no idea who they are trying to impose their will on. I spent 104 days in a jail cell, there's no environment worse you can try to instill on me to get me to break. The fact that they wanted me to quit made me try harder.

I decided to be obnoxious as possible. In addition to the Jerry Garcia ties, I also bought a huge candy bowl. Most auto sales guy had their candy bowl full of the cheap/crappy candy. The type of candy you'd throw out on Halloween if you were a kid. I filled my candy bowl with regular size M+Ms, Starburst, Kit Kats, etc, etc, etc, etc....

I also decided to bring in my own mini fridge without permission and put it at my desk. The management demanded I take it out. I refused, I said if they made me take it out it would be discrimination because two other managers within the dealership were allowed to have their own private mini fridge. I said giving a free bottled water or pop to the customer was a key sales strategy of mine.

Sometimes people I didn't like who worked there would come over and say one. I said "sure, that will be $1.00." They'd say "you shouldn't have candy this good out, if you're not giving it away for free. I'd say "you must not be making enough money here, want me to give you some advice on how to sell more cars?"

I was selling just as many used cars as I was new cars. The management was shocked. A true "lotgrinder" was born. I would sprint up to any customer on the lot in my cheap khakis, button up shirt, and stupid looking tie. I would sprint so fast I'd often beat the best salespeople in the dealership to the person. This also rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

Management would talk to me about it. I'd reply with "well, being off the internet/phone is so exciting to me, I just want to get every lot up because I love me job and I am having great success. My results speak for themselves."

The lady would get so pissed at the confidence. She said, "your sales numbers are good, but you're one of the worst sales people as far as "gross profit" goes. You're going to need to improve on that if you want to keep working here."

Often times I'd get asked about my appearance. I would tell the guest my look was a protest to the new dress code. I would say "Who do you trust more? The guys in a cheap suit + tie or the guy sporting some nice khakis, a button up, and a Jerry Garcia tie with the laid back sales approach, free candy bars, and pop? Who do you think is going to give you the better deal?"

Most customers would laugh and found the ties comical. A few told management they had the most fun car buying experience ever with me. By this time the dealership was divided. Half of the place hated me, the other half was secretly rooting for me because they hated the workplace politics and every day I was the proverbial "middle finger" to all that's wrong with work places in America.

I finally lost my job when I decided to use Walter's old password "BigShot1" to access the salesperson/gross profit database. While I was in the database I made sure to print out the gross profit report and as I expected I was a top 4 salesperson out of 20 in gross profit.

While in a management meeting, the lady manager talked about me being one of the "worst" as far as gross profit goes.

The used car manager, new car manager, general manager, etc, etc, obviously is just going to take her word for it.

I quickly asked "Do you have any reports to back that up?"

She said "I look at reports every day, I think I know what I'm talking about."

I said "No, you don't, as per the report I printed a week or so ago, take a look, I am the #4 highest grossing salesperson. The salesperson that's a fraud that you spoon feed house deals to is actually the lowest grossing salesperson. You know, the salesperson you get drunk with at Applebees every night after you get off work here."

"Here everyone, take a look at the gross profit report, what's your thoughts?"

At this time the used car manager and special finance manager are about to explode/die of laughter. They were secretly rooting for me.

The G.M. who is banging the girl manager gets irate and tells everyone besides me to leave the room.

Him and the manager are enraged.

"Who the **** do you think you are?" "How did you get access to the database?"

"Why do you insist on working here?"

"You'll never amount to anything in this industry."

I replied...

"Really? Seems like I am doing well despite you two secretly plotting my demise. Why don't you two just fire me so I can get my unemployment and have it be over with. You're both two pathetic human beings."

I told the gm his wife/kids hate him and that's why he works 80 hours a week and ****s the woman manager on their "business" trips.

I told the woman manager that it's ok that she ****ed her way to the top. A woman has to do what she has to do when she's a single mom and has kids to raise.

I said "please just fire me so you two can go on being miserable here together."

The gm and manager left the room.

The gm came back about a min later and said "get the **** out, the police are on their way to escort you, blah blah blah."

I told the gm to take the money I owed for the repairs on my car out of my last check before he mails it and I thanked him for the opportunity.

I also said "No hard feelings."

He replied "**** you. Get out."

I said, "You'll forgive me for this some day because you and her deserved it."

So, I was packing up my belongings and getting ready to leave. One by one the salespeople that liked me were coming up to say goodbye. They were all ignoring the gm and the manager's request to "don't talk to him."

One of my favorite sales guys Scott told me this...

"Justin, you need to learn how to kiss ass, and I don't mean a lot of ass. Just a little, just enough to endear yourself to those who hold the power around you. If you learn to do that you'll make over a million dollars in this industry. Just kiss enough ass to keep your job secure and forget about these miserable management ****ers when you leave work. They're nobodies outside of this dealership. If you continually outsmart them and outwit them, you're always going to end up out of a job."

Scott was right. Scott gave me solid life advice. I've never held a job for longer than two years because I don't know how to handle/how to play workplace politics. It's a flaw of mine. It's an art I've never learned, nor care to try. I am who I am at all times and I can't kiss an ass that doesn't deserve to be kissed. I am not going to let someone think they are smarter than me or better than me because they hold a higher position than me.

However, if someone is smarter or better than me at something I will sponge as much knowledge as I can off them. That's the reason why I joined this poker forum. I am here to sponge as much info as I can off the best players and I openly kiss the guys ass who post the best LLSNL advice.

I am not an ego maniac.

Anyway, so I am out of a job and I get awarded my unemployment. The dealership tried to fight paying it, but I had saved all my sales statistics and was able to show the Michigan Unemployment Agency that I was always a top 5 salesperson. I also had some of the best national sales statistics when I was in charge of the internet. After, some going back and forth, they determine I was fired for workplace politics and not cause. You'll only be denied unemployment if you're found doing something criminal or really detrimental to the place you work. So, if you're ever fired for bull**** reasons, make sure to file for unemployment.

While on unemployment, I start grinding $1/$2 No Limit Holdem at a local charity room. I also do some under the table work power washing new construction buildings. That's where a new Walmart is built and I am the guy that goes up in one of those big lifters and power washes all the guck off the bricks. It's only better than the barback job because I make more money, but man, does manual labor sure suck.

At this time I only have around 5k to my name again. Like always, I've got "grind on the mind" I just can't sell any drugs. I am still on that Face The Jury website and I believe the year is actually 2009 when Gene pitches me on his latest scam idea.

(I had originally thought it was 2008 when this went down, but after reviewing UFC fighter Dan Henderson's fighting timeline, I am for sure this went down in 2009, here's why and here's also where this story gets degen.)

So, as you know, from my past posts I lost 2k on a prior business endeavor with Gene. But, I remained on friendly terms with him on the Face The Jury site and his new proposition was the following...

Gene worked for a sports betting website. This sports betting website was an offshoot of a bigger sports betting website like bodog.com. Like, this website would get it's own userbase, take bets, but the bets collected and payouts came from the MOTHER site.

Gene had full control of this offshoot site and had gotten permission from the MOTHER site to do new sign up bonus up to 400% for whales/people who placed heavy action. Gene told me that all I needed to do was deposit $1,000.00, then he'd 400% bonus it and the account would then have $5,000.00 in it.

The plan was then to bet "aces" in baseball and run the account up to $10,000.00 then take a withdrawal. He could approve withdrawals up to $5,000.00 with no real questions from the mother site.

If the account went broke, Gene said he would secretly credit the account $5,000.00 again because he was going to quit the job within a month anyway for a better opportunity.

None of this is criminal because the website operates outside of the United States, gambling online is not legal in the United States, and even if a gambling website sees we took $50,000.00 in payouts from it, there's no legal recourse for me getting that money sent to my account.

It would be like a drug dealer getting a kilo of cocaine stole from him, then calling the the feds to help him reclaim the kilo of cocaine. The feds would laugh in his face.

All I am doing is depositing cash in a gambling website, taking my sign up bonus, going on a good run gambling, and then taking a payout to my bank account that I am entitled to....

I decide to myself that the $1,000.00 risk is worth the investment.

I make the deposit.

As promised, a day later, there is $5,000.00 in my account.

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maximum bet allowed is $3,000.00.

We go two for two right away on Verlander and Carpenter.

So there's over 10k in the account.

We do the first payout at $4,000.00.

A few days go by, there's $4,000.00 in my bank account.

I send Gene 65% as promised.

There's a klitschko fight soon after. We bet all $7,000.00 on that.

Account is at like 8k, we do another $4,000.00 withdrawal.

A few days go by, it's in my bank account.

Now that it's working, Gene is scared the MOTHER site will notice and shut it all down.

So he wants to GO BIG.

He requests me to ask my best friend to get in on it and create an account.

My best friend is as straight as shooter as they come. Squeaky clean record. If I tell him that there's a 99% chance we can get away with something, he's in, at all times, he'll never flinch. He's actually a cop now.

(This was as sure fire a proposition as I had for him since 2002 when we robbed a sporting goods store for over $50,000.00 worth of items. (This degen story will come in the future.)

My best friend says he's in, he creates the account, I give him 1k to put in the account and Gene gives him the 400% add on.

So, 4k in the Petergibbons betting account. 5k in the Lumberg betting account.

It's good for us that my friend is an Ultimate Fighting Championship nut. He's been watching the stuff with his Dad and his stoner cousin since UFC 1.

My friend says we should place all our money on DAN HENDERSON, GEORGES ST. PIERRE, BROCK LESNAR, and some scrub I never heard of JON FITCH.

Henderson was like -160 on this site, we bet him and he won by knockout.

St. Pierre was a heavy favorite, so we were only able to win like another 1k betting on him. He won.

Lesnar/Fitch won as well.

My friend helped us get both accounts over 10k.

So, we go for a dual withdrawal.

4k to my friend, 4k to me.

A few days go by, SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP IT.

Thank you sir, I'll have another. Lets withdraw again.

A few days go by, SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP IT.

Now Gene's getting real degen, he's recruited a couple more people from that FTJ forum to get in on this scam.

He's shooting for the stars. We've already taken $24,000.00 from the MOTHER site's account and Gene wants to go for another $20,000 all in one swoop.

Luckily, he chooses me to do the first 5k withdraw, and as expected....

Wait a few days, BAM it's in my account.

My good friend and the other two do their withdrawals as scheduled...

Wait a few days, NOTHING.

Banks start calling us suspecting that our account information has been compromised because someone in the Phillipenes or some **** has tried to withdraw 5k, 4k, 3k, 2k, 1k, $500, $400, $300, $200, $100, all the way down to $1.00 FROM THE ACCOUNTS WE SET UP but we're smart. We INSTANTLY take the cash out of the account.

AHHH HA HA HA HA HA SOME SLIMEY GREESE BAG IS IRATE HIS ILLEGAL GAMBLING OPERATION HAS BEEN PILLAGED!!!! LOL AT TRYING TO GET ANYTHING THEY COULD OUT OF MY ACCOUNT. SORRY "HOME SKILLET." HAD TO TEACH YOU A LESSON. **** YOU AND YOUR ILLEGAL GAMBLING WEBSITES YOU CREATE TO HUSTLE THE COMMON MAN'S DEGEN OUT OF HIS MONEY. THIS SCORE IS DEDICATED TO ALL THE DEGENS AROUND THE WORLD.

The bank is 100% on my side and says...

"Yeah, when you join a gambling site, that's what can happen, a lot of those sites just close up and disappear with all the money they steal from having people's bank account information."

As suspected, there's no recourse, a few times I got a message left on my phone from customer service department, but I never returned the call. Nothing threatening, every message said the company "just wanted to talk to me about my account and wanted to know how I knew the guy Gene."

So, all in all we took around $30,000.00 from this sports betting website.

I made $10,000.00 in the span of a few weeks on the deal.

Beats: Had to put up with a depressing work environment for a while. Was eventually terminated from my job because of workplace politics. Had to declare unemployment. Had to power wash bricks for extra money.

Brags: Was able to expose a piece of **** boss and get him fired. Was able to expose my next boss as a liar. Was able to go out in true "Gunslinger" fashion and annoy all of those who were rooting for me to fail at the auto dealership. While on unemployment I was able to help scam a sports betting website out of around $30,000.00. $10,000 of which went directly to my bankroll.

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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03-03-2013 , 08:03 PM
Promise pics of the Jerry Garcia ties are coming and I also believe I have some of the Western Union receipts where you can clearly see I was sending a guy named Gene cash.

My cell phone isn't holding a charge, I dropped it in the snow recently, I may have to get a new one.

Stay tuned.
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03-04-2013 , 03:39 AM
Your life should be a movie. Straight up.
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03-04-2013 , 05:30 AM
Friday Night Mgm

Two hands of note:

This one I don't want to talk about....

A $****ty lag was on the button and I was UTG with A/A. I did a "pot sweetener raise to $8 with hopes the $****ty lag would try to steal.

As expected, he put in a raise to $45, it folds around to me and I flat with A/A to disguise my hand and I am checking all flops.

Flop AcKcJc

I check.

He bets out $100.00.

I fire all in. He calls.

Turns Q/Qc, against my set of Aces and rivers a flush.

This one I do want to talk about...

I had been at the table for 90 minutes and had been completely card dead. Stack was at $180.00 and I am in the small blind.

Everyone at the table is $200+ stacked, so when I make it $40, there's no one that can go "ahh screw it, I am all in for the $55 in front of me."

This is a straddled pot and there's 5 limpers for $4 when it gets to me and I make it $45.00 to go with K/8 diamonds.

I end up getting two calls.

Flop is 6s/3s/6d

My questions is, are you shutting down here or leading out $60?

I ended up leading out $60, that left me with $75.00 behind.

It folded to the biggest fish at the table and he pushed "all in."

I reluctantly called.

Fish shows Q/6 clubs.

When you guys are card dead/feel you have a super tight image, do you try to make plays like this or do you feel it's unprofitable over time/not worth it at 1/2?

I finished down $500 for Saturday night.

However, I won back $350 today at Motor City.

Bankroll is currently at $7,376.00.
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03-04-2013 , 08:56 PM
I saw your posts in degen stories, excited to read this thread
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03-04-2013 , 09:40 PM
The Jerry Garcia Ties

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03-04-2013 , 09:49 PM
gl
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03-04-2013 , 10:38 PM
Those ties are lol awesome! I'm mentally picturing a car salesman wearing that. Thanks for the good stories, keep 'em coming!
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03-04-2013 , 10:44 PM
Haha those ties are awesome!

Love the stories and gl with your progress.
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03-04-2013 , 10:50 PM
More Chip Porn!
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03-05-2013 , 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by LotGrinder
Friday Night Mgm

Two hands of note:

This one I don't want to talk about....

A $****ty lag was on the button and I was UTG with A/A. I did a "pot sweetener raise to $8 with hopes the $****ty lag would try to steal.

As expected, he put in a raise to $45, it folds around to me and I flat with A/A to disguise my hand and I am checking all flops.

Flop AcKcJc

I check.

He bets out $100.00.

I fire all in. He calls.

Turns Q/Qc, against my set of Aces and rivers a flush.

This one I do want to talk about...

I had been at the table for 90 minutes and had been completely card dead. Stack was at $180.00 and I am in the small blind.

Everyone at the table is $200+ stacked, so when I make it $40, there's no one that can go "ahh screw it, I am all in for the $55 in front of me."

This is a straddled pot and there's 5 limpers for $4 when it gets to me and I make it $45.00 to go with K/8 diamonds.

I end up getting two calls.

Flop is 6s/3s/6d

My questions is, are you shutting down here or leading out $60?

I ended up leading out $60, that left me with $75.00 behind.

It folded to the biggest fish at the table and he pushed "all in."

I reluctantly called.

Fish shows Q/6 clubs.

When you guys are card dead/feel you have a super tight image, do you try to make plays like this or do you feel it's unprofitable over time/not worth it at 1/2?

I finished down $500 for Saturday night.

However, I won back $350 today at Motor City.

Bankroll is currently at $7,376.00.
well like you say it is a 1/2 game. when i play 1/2 i dont "invent" much . i could bet 45 pre flop but if i dont get any sort of draws on flop i check flop and maybe see what comes on turn. 1/2 hard to bluff
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03-05-2013 , 05:26 AM
Subbed, will read more later, great read so far, thanks.
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03-05-2013 , 07:41 AM
Great thread. Suggest mods remove the credit card pic on page 1
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03-05-2013 , 10:42 AM
Love the ties.. You should wear your old car salesman suit with an ugly tie and play poker. Dress the part of a noooooooob and crush those fools
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03-06-2013 , 04:47 PM
Forgive me 2+2 Fans For I have Sinned

1. I was UTG and limped with A/2 diamonds. A couple other people limped and the guy in MP went all in for $45.00. Button, Sb, BB, me, and one other player ended up calling.

Completely bricked flop, waste of $45.

2. Maniac at the table, raising $20/$35 pre with any two cards. Strategically moved to his right, picked up A/8 and limped in. Maniac raises to $25, two callers that have $200+ behind them. Gets back to me I end up raising to $125. Maniac calls. The other 2 players fold out.

Flop is J/7/8

I barrel all in for the $150 I have left. Maniac calls.

He tables J/10 offsuit and I brick out.

Chose the high variance route, cost me $275. I shouldn't be doing this considering my bankroll for this project is only $5,000.00

3. Was in a hand against the dirty smelly hoodie.

I raise with 1010 from UTG+2 to $20, one fish caller, and the hoodie calls from OTB.

$60 in the pot and we go to the flop.

Js/5s/2d

I lead out $50, fish folds, and the hoodie shoves all in for $250.

$200 for me to call and I know exactly what that dirty smelly hoodie that hasn't showered in two days has...

Flush draw. Probably an over or two as well. I can't even beat the jack, but I call anyway.

Turn is a brick for the hoodie. KLANK

River is Ace of clubs. SWISH

Hoodie tables A/Qs.

Another $270 loss making a high variance call.

Those 3 hands are a big reason why I am down $750.00 over the course of my last two sessions.

I tried eating a Jets Pizza and some Mcdonalds to kill the pain, but all it killed was my diet.

FML

Bankroll is currently at $6,626.00.

Weight is currently at 218.
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03-06-2013 , 04:54 PM
2k downswings are fairly common for me, but I buyin for $4-500 at 1/2. Gl.
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03-06-2013 , 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by bubonicplay
2k downswings are fairly common for me, but I buyin for $4-500 at 1/2. Gl.
When you are on a 2k downswing, how much $$$ do you think you lost because of poor play/getting your money in bad?

Also, for all others reading...

How often are you calling a $12-$15 raise at 1/2 when you're out of position with a hand like 9/7s, 5/6s, or a small pocket pair.

I hardly ever call OOP raises with Axs, but I did in the case above, and it really fried me when I just bricked the flop.

Should I only be calling OOP raises when it's 4 or more going to the flop and I have 89s-JQs or a small pocket pair?

One thing I can say is I NEVER call with unsuited broadways, EVER.
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03-06-2013 , 06:15 PM
I think most of all your asking about has to do with table dynamics!!
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03-06-2013 , 10:20 PM
Im going to dl pokerstove tonight and put in some work to better answer my own questions.
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03-06-2013 , 10:43 PM
Great read so far. Hope you can stay away from the scams/dodgy deals and keep on the good side of karma.
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03-07-2013 , 04:55 AM
great stories, gl with your goal
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