I know Dr. Kervorkian's nephew pretty well, so I might be able to hook you up.

Taking the brother-in-law to play 1-2 NL (or whatever they spread). He just asked me, "Wait, ok the turn is the last card, right?" This should be interesting...

but I would so much rather play with a friend who is absolutely clueless and knows it than play with a friend who knows how to play and plays bad/normal and who's going to tell you all his bad beat stories on the way home like he's the first person to ever get aces cracked or lose with a set...

I'm playing Stud 20 and the Dude is mired in a LHE 15 game because his original 30 table broke. He's all whiney and pissed off because he didn't get a seat when the game broke and someone who wasn't at the table at the time got it.

They call a new 30 game that's going to run short handed and I feel bad for the man still stuck in the red chip game, so I say I'll play it until I get called for Omahaha 30. Cindy, regular woman with strange accent, keeps urging everyone to play short-handed to get the game going. She asks if everyone will play 5-handed - 1 guy opts out, and then another. Then she asks if Drew and I will play 3-handed. At this point, both of us are both kind of meh about it, the Dude clearly not wanting to leave his 15 game, but she keeps yelling halfway across the room "cmon Drew, come play 3 handed." Expert game selection imo.

BRAG: Scooped 2 kill pots in Omahaha and finished up 1.5k in an hour.

Ran like ass tonight. Went 5 bets PF twice -- once with KK vs. QTo (she got there), and once with AKs vs. ATo (he got there). Then I got KK in a 6-way pot and got two guys to call the 974r flop with QTo, then I charged three guys (2 with QTo, one with a diamond draw) 3BBs on the Jd turn, only to see an 8 river. I check-fold and watch the QT guys chop up my 2k pot and go on monkey tilt.

Luckily I started getting into hands with sharpie -- defending my BB with Q8o against his EP raise and then getting KK vs. his JJ for 4 bets PF, and eventually I got unstuck after 6 hours of brutal torture.

Funniest hand for me of the night... A guy raises in EP and gets cold-called by a super quiet/tightish guy (who hasn't played much since he sat down; he's been folding his blinds to raises and basically just limping or mucking everything) and one or two others. The flop is AT3r. PFR bets, quiet guy calls. Turn 6. Bet/call. River 9. Bet, quiet guy raises, PFR cry-calls. Quiet guy shows 87s. PFR goes on worse monkey tilt than me.

I love hands like that. It is like they broke their brains in the middle of the hand, and then when they win the pot, they go back to quietly folding for the next few orbits until another chance to be completely bizarre comes up. Except this time they lose so you don't see their hand.

anyone play backgammon or diablo 2 here?

Is it typical in your game to have people going 5 bets PF with unsuited broadways that include a T? If so, I have been playing on the wrong coast.

This is the first you've heard of Los Angeles, sir? It's a magical land where a waitress can become a movie star, a movie clerk can become a director, a stripper can become his girlfriend, and ATo always busts a big hand to shower a donkey with riches.

Not sure if this is a beat, brag or whatever and it's the wrong forum. But Bobby Baldwin said good players never get lucky and run anyone down. They only get run down. Here's one reason why.

5-10 NL

I have 7k, UTG 2.5k, BN 7k, BB 2.5k. I'm tight and they're nuts. UTG just sat down and opens to 100 maybe without looking. Who knows? Folded to me in CO I make it 400 with KK, BN coldcalls, BB calls, UTG calls. 1600 pot. As DaveR used to say - Good times.

Flop 3 4 6 with two clubs. I have Kc. Ch'd to me I ch with intention of c/r'ing. BN bets 1000, BB folds, UTG insta goes AI for 2100, I insta call, BN insta goes AI for like 5-6k more. Approx 12k pot and approx 5k more to me.

BN plays much higher and is always AI light in this game. But haven't seen him light this deep. He easily could have been betting the flop hoping UTG would go AI and push me off a big pair so he could play him h/u light for 1100 more. But when I insta call the 2100 I have AA-KK-QQ-AKcc. I tank and fold.

Turn.........K........River..........does it matter?

BN had 66, UTG doesn't show. Bobby Baldwin. Wise man. Good times.

fair amount of d2

Borgata monday night. I drop 2300 in a great 40/80 game. I'm feeling pretty miserable and have a headache. I walk around a bit and decide to play slots but all the old people are hogging the penny machines and I'm to cheap to pay 5c a pull. So I go back and sit in the 20/40.

Anyway, I'm putting in too much action and generally not adjusting to the nittier 20/40 players. I get Q J on the BTN (yay me!). CO raises, I 3 bet (did I mention not adjusting to the nittier 20/40 players?), SB Caps (I'm totally screwed), call, call. Flop comes K 9 7 (yay me!). Inexplicably its checked to me and like a donkey I bet, SB calls, CO raises, I 3 bet, SB calls, CO caps. Turn is a very very very beautiful T (yay me!). CO and I cap it again with the SB just calling. River is the J and I only get one bet in. CO mumbles and shows his set of 7's. SB inexplicably turns over KK (Yup he flopped top set and never once managed to take aggresive action post flop). The best part though is I win a 27.5 BB pot and the whole table thinks I'm a donkey (expect probably Pat, who shares my bizarre raising compulsion).

I neither think you're a donk nor do I share your compulsion, although I woulda played that hand the same. I was just picking up a lot of hands pf plus we were six handed so I was looking as laggy as, I dunno, you I guess.

whats going on with all the asians at commerce.

All have become super tight, short stacks.

Seing them always sitting with 2 stacks of about 280 each and nursing that stack forever.

Never playing below 7 handed, and angle shooting every single oppurtunnity as usual.

Your flop equity is so sick, especially since, if you got the suits right, nobody has a spade.

It would be even better if someone was in there with 99, AMIRITE?

Dude, try it you'll like it. You should try playing 40 with boc, he makes me look like a nit.

I know the board cards are right. So yes, neither had a spade.

5 bets? Are you in Vegas?


AB

Dude, you've been playing live in L.A. forever. Don't tell me you've never gotten HU preflop before and gotten in a raising war...

Parker,

Please tell me this development hasn't caused your hourly rate to dip below 2.5 BBs!

In Beijing @ Summer Olympics. Badminton is the coolest event so far imo. Going to Great Wall before Greco Roman rasslin'.

In the words of Danny...

You've gotta mix it up to really beat the 40 game. That ABC crap just doesn't cut it.

I've had to tone my EP aggression down a little bit the past few days, cuz I think I took it a bit overboard. That said, the regular nits in the 40 game don't really know how to adjust to me, so I've really been testing how far I can go. Most of the really loose PF players in the 40 game play terribly after the flop. Adjusting to a very good (imo) postflop player like myself is a different beast for those guys. Time will tell if they figure it out.

FWIW, one well-known Borgata 40 player just went dead broke. I kind of feel responsible, since adding me to the games on a daily basis has probably turned a few marginal winners into marginal losers in the game. Sad, but I guess that's how it goes.

Any reason for not naming names? I can guess. Not that any of the players going broke would be that surprising. I probably have a larger bankroll then many of them and I would never consider playing fulltime as short as I am.

Also, I would definitely agree you took the pf aggression too far. When people let you run them over it can be hard to stop.

Yup this is very true. To really beat 40/80 you cant just be TAG. I found this out the hard way with the Bay 101 40/80. Funny thing is I couldnt figure out why I couldnt seem to turn a profit in the game for the longest time...

No, but its annoying me because I have to steal the blinds so often and get raped by the 2 dollar preflop drop.

On another note I started playing a lot of 60 and my numbers there are quite insane as well. Less than 100 hours so far so I wont jump to any conclusions.

By "dead broke", do you mean he lost his roll (i.e. his poker money), or he lost everything he has (i.e. his life money)? I'm always curious to see how far out of control people let poker get in their lives.