June 2012 Open Thread

[jzpiano]

Finally dug out the camera and posted a whole new batch of pictures. Yeah for having just a bit of time to do something fun.

[palindrome]

We just got back from our honeymoon. The weather didn't go our way but it ended up being a bit of an adventure. The area we were staying in received a record amount of rain and resulted in massive flooding.


My wife in front of a raging Temperance River.


A car that fell in a sinkhole a few blocks from our hotel in Duluth.

[Schmendr1ck]

Originally Posted by palindrome

We just got back from our honeymoon. The weather didn't go our way but it ended up being a bit of an adventure. The area we were staying in received a record amount of rain and resulted in massive flooding.

Congrats! I hope you had fun in spite of the weather. Of course, you have to try really hard to not have fun on your honeymoon.

Originally Posted by palindrome

A car that fell in a sinkhole a few blocks from our hotel in Duluth.

In my best Crocodile Dundee voice: 'at's not a sinkhole. This is a sinkhole:



Because of the high water table down here, sinkholes are fairly common in Florida. This one was a doozy that happened almost 30 years ago in Winter Park, just a few minutes away from my home. My wife remembers it but I was still living further north back then.

Today it's a lake.

[gedanken]

Originally Posted by palindrome

We just got back from our honeymoon ... in Duluth.

Questionable choice to honeymoon in Duluth, but with a new bride who can stand in the rain in front of a raging flood on her honeymoon and still smile, massive win. Congratulations!

[getya45]

Need the HP Rungoot for tonight's game. I am hoping we can have a full table tonight, but with the weather being so nice numbers are down.

[dugthefish]

Originally Posted by getya45

Need the HP Rungoot for tonight's game. I am hoping we can have a full table tonight, but with the weather being so nice numbers are down.

RUNGOOT shipped! I commiserate with you, my game's been a bust for three Thursdays in a row after not missing a week for a year and a half

Hoping turnout is good for tomorrow's planned game, so ship it back when yer done!

[getya45]

The HP RUNGOOT made into port right on time last night and quickly left once the 2nd tourney started. The first tourney went smoothly as I had quads twice. I had Q2os in the BB and I checked my option. The flop was 222 and I knocked out a player who had pocket 8's. Not sure why he did not raise it pf, but I will gladly take. I ended up taking second in the tourney when the blinds go to high and it turned into a shove fest my A4 lost to KQ.

The second game did not go so well for me I went out on the 5th hand when we went set over set. Those are never fun, but it happens. We only had 7 players so it was light crowd for the night.

[palindrome]

Originally Posted by Schmendr1ck

Congrats! I hope you had fun in spite of the weather. Of course, you have to try really hard to not have fun on your honeymoon.

Originally Posted by gedanken

Questionable choice to honeymoon in Duluth, but with a new bride who can stand in the rain in front of a raging flood on her honeymoon and still smile, massive win. Congratulations!

Thanks guys! She's a total trooper. We had a great time despite all the crazy weather. We were fortunate enough to be able to meet up with friends and have a few drinks at the bar.

[dugthefish]

Looks like a full table plus for tonight's cash game. I'm super-stoked, since I haven't had a game in over three weeks. Ship the RUNGOOT, I'll need it against all the luckboxes coming tonight!

[getya45]

RUNGOOT Shipped! (Hope it is not to late.)

[jzpiano]

Played last night. Very strange game IMO. We play with the 2-7 bounty on all the time. I had to pay it out 8 times and it was only dealt out 9 times in the evening. The first 6 came in the first 2.5 hours. Most were legit wins with 2 pair, flush and full houses being made. Pretty sick.

I had a couple of big hands. The most important was when I held 8Tdd with around $110 behind and raised PF to $2 and got 5 callers. Board came out 7s 6h 4d. Giving me 2 straight draws. I fires out $10 and got 4 folds. The BB cr to $20 sitting on a $130 stack. I called and the turn bricked out. BB led out for $25. I though for sure he was on a draw and considered raising all in. Eventually I wussed out and folded. Turns out he had T8ss and would've snapped called and been free rolling my ass for a 1100bb pot. Phew...

I was pretty card dead most of the evening and when I picked up AA and raised UTG+1 I got the blind. First time in like a year a raise took the blinds in my game. I didn't make trips, set, flush or full house at all. I did make one straight that got paid off and was the only reason I ended up a little bit. Other than that a 2+2er (drawing a blank on his sn) couldn't miss and cleaned up with a 1000bb win.

[dugthefish]

TR: NLHE cash game

Had 11 players show up for this random Saturday night game. We never had more than 8 at the table at once, and the majority of the game was 6-7 handed. Only two non-regs showed up, but several regulars who havn't been able to make it the last few Thursdays came to scratch the itch.

The game started off well, and I picked up a few small pots to build my stack from 160 to ~300bb. That profit went bye-bye when my QQ got cracked by TT, all-in preflop versus a maniac. After topping off, I pushed to hard with the nut flush and chased out a smaller flush that would have paid off a better sized value bet. Feeling a bit tilty, I took a quick break, stepped outside, and took my time smoking a full cigarette (one thing I hate about my game is that it is literally 10 feet away from the table to go outside and smoke, and I can easily put down half a cig between hands. I generally smoke a pack a day; on poker nights I put down almost a full pack in 6 hours, so my lungs are always cashed out the next day. /derail).

After taking a few minutes off, I returned determined to play my best. After another 2 hours, I found my stack back up to almost 400bb when the hand of the night came up. My KT stacked the nut flush on a Th2hTxKh board, and pushed my stack over the 800bb mark. Once I had a big stack, I loosened up considerably and splashed around with the whale, the maniac, and the other LAG-tards at the table.

My last big hand was AA vs 84 all-in on a 764 flop. All of his outs bricked, and I took the maniacs last 120bb.

Ended the night with just over 800bb profit, plus $10 that one of the non-regs tipped me for dealing for him all night

[rescued]

Originally Posted by dugthefish

TR: NLHE cash game

Had 11 players show up for this random Saturday night game. We never had more than 8 at the table at once, and the majority of the game was 6-7 handed. Only two non-regs showed up, but several regulars who havn't been able to make it the last few Thursdays came to scratch the itch.

The game started off well, and I picked up a few small pots to build my stack from 160 to ~300bb. That profit went bye-bye when my QQ got cracked by TT, all-in preflop versus a maniac. After topping off, I pushed to hard with the nut flush and chased out a smaller flush that would have paid off a better sized value bet. Feeling a bit tilty, I took a quick break, stepped outside, and took my time smoking a full cigarette (one thing I hate about my game is that it is literally 10 feet away from the table to go outside and smoke, and I can easily put down half a cig between hands. I generally smoke a pack a day; on poker nights I put down almost a full pack in 6 hours, so my lungs are always cashed out the next day. /derail).

After taking a few minutes off, I returned determined to play my best. After another 2 hours, I found my stack back up to almost 400bb when the hand of the night came up. My KT stacked the nut flush on a Th2hTxKh board, and pushed my stack over the 800bb mark. Once I had a big stack, I loosened up considerably and splashed around with the whale, the maniac, and the other LAG-tards at the table.

My last big hand was AA vs 84 all-in on a 764 flop. All of his outs bricked, and I took the maniacs last 120bb.

Ended the night with just over 800bb profit, plus $10 that one of the non-regs tipped me for dealing for him all night

I wish I could find players to stack off with BP+gs..... Maybe one day all my dreams will come true. Gg
And nice tr.

[Schmendr1ck]

Ran ice-cold at Daytona last night.

Had KK three times, won a couple of small pots and lost a large one. I open my KK from MP in a straddled pot, guy who had been playing very TAG 3-bets and gets one caller. I 4-bet, he shrugs his shoulders and shoves (nice speech), and I am certain he has aces. I'm considering my second-ever preflop fold of KK when villain 2 calls - dammit. Now I'm getting better than 5:1 on a call, so I have to do it. She turns over JJ (wtf?), board runs low and the aces hold.

The rest of the night I was just killed by catching a lot of second-best hands on the river: rivered my double-gutter on a paired board when villain runner-runnered his boat, rivered 2P vs a bigger 2P, etc. I also called down a very aggressive LAG with TPWK when my read told me he was FOS, and I was right - until his 72s runner-runnered a well-hidden flush and he got me to pay a pot-sized river bet.

It was pretty brutal; down 300bb in under 4 hours. I had one more BI, but I was tired and knew I wasn't playing my best - I had made some bet sizing mistakes and value-owned myself in a couple of spots. So I called it a night and went home early.

[dugthefish]

Originally Posted by rescued

I wish I could find players to stack off with BP+gs..... Maybe one day all my dreams will come true. Gg
And nice tr.

Yeah, it's nice

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I started my BR with a $50 deposit on Pokerstars several years ago. When I pulled it off after Black Friday, I had $2k, a new(er) PC, a vacation, and several other small life-money withdrawals (+$500 on the Merge network). A month after BF, I was down to $800 (larger life-money withdrawals, and a few ****ty B&M sessions). A year and a half later, I've built a new poker table, bought a decent chipset, took another vacation, bought a $800 dog, and, with this week's win, pushed my BR back over the $2k mark. All thanks to guys who will stack off with ****ty hands! A shout out to all the whales and maniacs at all the home games: thank you for your support. I hope you never realize how much money you actually lose!!!
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