I highly recommend 3 betting preflop if you are at a 1/2 table. It's a printing press if you ask me

Wallingford? NOW we are in business! My old hometown, and on the way between Bridgeport and Mohegan, I believe.

I sent you a PM, Blaze...I am curious as to your identity, seeing as I have lived in Wallingford for 23 years.

As for tonight, I experimented with some things, got very card-dead and ran into monsters which I made good laydowns against on a consistent basis. The net result of these laydowns? $500 down, but my head held up high knowing that it could have been a LOT worse. I guess everyone has these nights--I ran into the goods every single time I did not have them, and when I had the goods, I got very little action (which was not often).

And my QQ hand (it certainly made me QQ ) I agree that pot control should have been emphasized, or I should have raised it to 20% on top of villain's effective pot size (2/5 at MS is very deep, and I did not really take this into account). I remember that it was indeed a raise of $200 total, as I fired $50 in after saying "raise it up" and fired a black and 2 greens ($150) as a chaser. His stack was $650, and the pot was $225, so a raise to about $250 seems right...but I doubt pricing him out was needed.

However, I needed to be defensive, not offensive, and thought I could represent the nut flush on the turn, as well, to take villain off the hand. Oops.

I am learning a LOT about 2/5, as I am giving opponents (regs and donks alike) far too much credit for folding. I typed 7 pages of analysis that I plan on honing my strategy, as I used some of the HHJ money to do some experimenting...I learned a lot, and it was $500 well-spent.

Overall, my folly with the QQ hand was an overestimation of the ability to generate fold equity, and the capital required to generate it varies with the pot size, which was ginormous. Lesson learned.

i'm interested in car pools as well. i'm in redding CT. i usually hop on the merrit at exit 42 and take that up to 95 and then take 95 all the way up. pm me if anyone is on that root and intersted in splitting driving/gas. i usually go up during the week and friday nights. (work saturdays, too bad.)

jersys are you a 2/5 reg?? im curious who you are. ill be there tommro. I may have played with you today , were you in the 9 seat on right side of stage black shirt??

Close! 9 seat, rght side of the stage, Table 36, grey sweatshirt :P.

maybe not than, well ill be there tommro.

39-40-41-42
37 -- 38
These are the table numbers if you are looking at the stage from the podium.

Table 38, then, my mistake

I was at a must-must move for a little bit last night down on the floor, then got moved to 40, then to the main game at table 39. I looked around for a Skynyrd sweatshirt, but didn't see it. Decent night, only one really bad player at my tables.

I was in the 9 seat, so I had my back to you, but my table had a few players who were willing to stack off incredibly light. My two "big hands" were flopping a set of (gulp) queens, but this time on a dry board (got about $100--it seemed like the only situation where the guy folded a hand) and hitting a Q66 flop with 86s in a raised pot with 4 limpers (I am getting into the habit of playing suited connectors/gappers in position in multi-way pots--won about $500 in this one).

However, besides this, I cannot recall hitting a single flop the entire night. I was 3-for-26 in terms of flopping sets, but I flopped the 6s on a 642 board, turn was a 5, river was a 3 (it was a chop) and flopped the 5s on a 965 board (villain tabled 87o after the hand, he bet $50, I raised to $150, he shoved, I layed it down and received some expensive accolades ).

Between that and my villains flopping 2p+ against my high aces on a routine basis, it was one of those nights to forget.

Hmmm, I took the same path, but ended up at 38 instead of 39. Were you at 40 with me? I have dark hair, beard and headphones.

I am going to take a *gasp* break and not go to the room tonight--too tired. :P

Totally understandable. You have been playing tons lately.

Orly? Thought the villain in the other hand was a donk for playing 4d5d against your set of queens? Maybe I don't recall correctly, but perhaps someone can explain why that player has been labeled a donk by many of the replies, and less than 2 days later IWSJ is giving this a try.

Not a huge deal either way, but this is why I labeled the beat with QQQ as more variance than villian's poor play. And if that's wrong, then shouldn't IWSJ avoid this habit too?

There is a large difference between 2 limpers and 4 limpers. There is also the assumption that I would lay down my 86hh on a heart board if I were facing significant action, as I am likely beaten by a bigger draw.

I happened to catch a very nice board, QJ66, and the only hands that beat me at this point are the unlikely A6, K6, Q6, and J6, and QQ/JJ, which were also unlikely. I would likely not ever play them in a raised pot unless there were 3 limpers for 98s+, or 4 for 76s+, and even then in late position.

If I am holding 54dd and see that the villain is still applying pressure after the draw is completed, I likely re-evaluate, and at the very least, do not snap shove.