Set vs set or did his SFD get there?

the 2-5 hand was set > set lol! just realized I left out V's hand pp JJ derrr was sure I was getting his $600 but I guess glad he didn't have more chips.

Subbed, great thread. I love the pics.

thx and thx for reading.

another 2-5 session (short&at a different location), another win (+$174). pretty happy since it's been very rare for me to play 2-5 in back to back sessions.

gf is bailing on the food trucks but my cousin is in town and wants to hit a strip club before his flight out tonight...maybe some fun will happen to report in next update

... ... ...couuuuld sneak pics in club but might get unceremoniously tossed out

Yea +1 on the pics! Haha

well...since you asked. check for update mon night or tuesday

saphire or buuuust

lol faurk that...Palomino b/c I roll dirty like that... but even still Rhino > Sapphire

It's Tuesday! How about those pics?!?!

breh sahpire is pretty dirty. My buddy asked a stripper how much to F*ck. Other buddy face palms himself lol. Stripper replies 200 bucks. EPIC

will type it all up later this afternoon, gdam A.C. people are fixing some duct thing at 10 in the morning (thats like normal peoples 4 a..m. for poker players)...so been put on lifetilt for this morning.

Ok. So I didn't play much cash this week, however I did play 2 consecutive 2-5 sessions profitably as I mentioned earlier despite losing a nasty $1200+ flop with set under set.

Sunday had a fun time talking cards at the 'poker church' meet over at the coffee house. Always get good conversation on some interesting hands, topics, and general poker theory and it's amazing how much of a full and developed view you can form with multiple inputs other than your own. One guy Steve was talking a lot about a self learning computer program called pokersnowie that had previously been applied to chess and backgammon and was now purportedly unexploitable. He challenged us to take a crack at it so I said I would crush it over a 300 hand sample size, ultimately decided it needed to be more so played out 1100 hands at a disturbing +67 bb/100 hands. Might put in a few thousand more though to see if the exploits I used will stay consistent.

Crushing da' Pokerz Snowie


As I suspected...post crushing, the analyzer tool pretty much concluded I am a horrible player


Went out to Miller's Ale House, a pretty new sports/beer bar and restaurant they opened out by Sunset Station to watch the football games with the gf. Lots of seating as opposed to like a Buffalo Wild Wings where you often have to wait just to be crammed in. Also you can get these massive and quite good nachos that 4 people could easily split for about 12 bucks.

Ale House


Mega Nachos


My little cousin (were going to call him 'Jay') has been in town a few days but we had not had a chance to hang out. His flight was leaving Sunday night so I said we would go grab drinks then I would just drop him at airport. We hit up Palomino and for how early it was and on a Sunday the talent was respectable. I'm a sucker for the Palomino b/c it's a nostalgic reminder to the sleazier sort of strip dives I would frequent back in Florida haha. So were having some drinks and pitching dollars on stage having a good time. Being from a conservative family as he is, I thought I would be blowing 'Jays' sensitive mind but he apparently had expanded his horizons in college and had even gotten himself into some respectable debauchery while on his first trip out here. He had his eye on some tan Mediterranean looking girl so sent him to the back with her with a firm prepayed understanding. On that note NEVER tell a girl to take a friend back on your dime without the terms hammered out...happened to me once at a buddies birthday and the chick shows up muchmuch later wanting substantially more than I told her...anyways he had a good time. I myself planned on just waiting at the rail but had a fair amount of cas$ on me thinking I might hit the Bellagio 2-5 and this little Columbian chick (danced by the name 'Carmella' haha...flat as a board but good body and nice Az) came and sat down on me for a bit trying to hustle. Well...not to be easily suckered by the dancers game BUT she was verrrrrry convincing and got me in the back. Won't go into detail b/c things must stay pg-13 but good times were had...additional tips were earned...ect ect. Oh and per request I did ninja some pics from the club. Don't complain bout bad quality its like spygames trying to do this so did what I could.

Palomino pics...had to edit one to keep things tame in here.






A bunch of us from the poker meet decided Monday night we were doing the 7pm $125 at Aria, we did a last longer and everything. Bacon outlasted us all to equity chop for better than 3rd place with I think it was 5 or 6 players left. Myself? not so good. My table was just like limp+call 5 to 6 handed every time which is great if you hit big BUT if your plan is to use positional aggression in the early stages (points to self) your pretty much S.O.L. I could never get any momentum and peaked at I think 13k chips. I lost 25% of stack in a spot I think I played ok but some would disagree. (see next paragraph)

With 13k behind at blinds 200-400 I am in late position with AKos. A woman who has been veryyy inactive looks like she's going to raise then limps 2ndutg leaving her about 9k+ behind, the big stack who likes to play a ton of hands limps after her and with about 1650 in the pot including the antes I over bet 3k so about 25% of my stack. Folded around to the lady who snap shoves all in. I tank but end up thinking a flip might even be optimistic here...pretty sure with 25% in I can fold here? If I lose I would be pretty dysfunctionally crippled. thoughts???

I took another blow shortly after in a situation I sort of got screwed in. Our table broke and I sat down and was dealt into AK in mp blinds now 300-600. I'm back over 10k and limp KQs from mp...probably not ideal. Flop comes out 6-6-K, checked to me I bet 850, utg calls. Turn is 10 goes check check. River Q and UTG leads out 1500...as it turned out he was BB, the lady who is sitting in SB position was just seated BUT sat down right before me so I hadn't seen and they apparently did not deal her in when she would have been on button so button appeared to be misplaced. If I know he is BB I drop it but since I think hes UTG I pay him off.

I'm finally down to a little over 8k which is horribly short for 300-600 even though the chip average is about 16k but yeah I am certainly looking to get it in good. I look down at AKos on button which is looking golden. 3 limps to button who shoves his shortstack of 4.5k or so into the pot w/A8. I shove OVER my stack from button. Comes around to a late 40s lady who had limped in early position. Keep in mind now we have all been playing this 3 hours. For some inexplicable reason (just can't find a way to justify this...) she says "I'm calling" with about 6.5k+ with NINE TEN OFFSUIT. So we go all in 3 ways, button has A8, I have the AK, and the 9-10 takes it down on a QQ9 flop that doesn't improve. If I win there I am above chip average and even a little bit of room to maneuver. As it were I am left with 1.5-2k which I quickly flip-lose into someones A9 next hand. So that is 2 down and I said I would wager I'll cash most likely in the first 4 of these...pressures on.

2nd time a charm? Not this time.


The nasty K.O. triple up blocker.



And that's all for now folks. Oh but have to post this pic I got a kick out of this...I run into Fiesta to make a quick football bet and see this by the ATM...if you need to use a coinstar at a casino you reallllly need to grab one of those little pamphlets. (I dunno mayyybe they have some of those real nickle machines but I doubt it...I think its far more ominous like homeless beggars coming in and dumping their change cans in...)

Yo. Sucks I didn't see you at Aria. (Probly did). I played the Wynn 400$ day 1a today. Tough table. Was back at Palms place by 4. Fired two bullets at the Aria 7:00. That was fun. Walked over to MGM and got Second in their 50$ nightly for like $260.... At least I had cab Money lol. Gonna try and sleep 4 hours, hit the pool, then Aria at 1. Hit me up!!!

we have around 16 Ale house locations within a 30 minute drive from my house

Pro tip: spend the extra $2 and ask them to layer the chicken nachos. feeds 4 dudes or 6 if girls are in the mix

loving the continued updates man, run good

Cool updates from the aria and nice run good at the 2-5 tables.

Just imagine if your flash went off lol

Yeah there was 5 of us there so I'm sure you saw me or some of us and we were pretty spread out across the tables. Dealing with some nasty respiratory congestive crap right now (would be poetic if I got it from the stripper ) so not positive when I'll be back down on the strip; pm me your number if you havent already and I'll text you when I'm down there see what your up to.

Thx for the Nachos wisdom...will definitely try this out next time.

Thx, feeling due to smash on there, still playing with no major mistakes and feel more accustomed to the field and structure there each time I play.

Funny you should mention this b/c I made sure the flash was off but for some reason when I tried to take a pic of some hot scantily clad ladies at the bar, the little flash light thing popped on and I had to do some quick BS cover like "hey Jay can you see if this is a $10 or a $20?" haha

anyone advocating a call here vs described V?

The overbet seems a bit unnecessary imo. I imagine 1500 would get the same job done, not to mention I doubt you ever make such an overbet with AA or KK (unless theyre huge calling stations - but I don't think your overbet here is indicative of you going for max value). Especially if you dont wanna get in AK for 30bb, there's no reason to 7.5x pre)

As played you need like 37% against her range to break even on the call... Considering you prob have a decent edge on the field you'd want considerably more than 37% here.

Pretty tough to say what she has here... If she does this with like Aq+, and 99+ its a call. If its just like jj+ and ak you have like 39% which is prob too marginal. Pretty read dependent but against inactive lady in a live mtt foldings prob the better option.

It's a flip, she probably had small/med pocket pair and was hoping someone might spaz out.

As short as you were, with so much invested I could fathom a call and hope she's unpaired.

felt like it was more this. she had played like a hand per level and had never raised or re-reraised.

Considered this but figured I would still have enough to get it in better...I'm a massive fan of fold equity and so hate being in this spot, in retrospect I should have made a more standard bet size if I were folding out to a shove.

holy $%#k feel so dam sick like a truck hit me last couple days with this respiratory congestion. taking antibiotics now so will clear out soon I'm hoping. I'm sticking to the story of the stripper gave it to me...beat up the poker snowie more for another 1000+ hand session @42 bb/100 then @46bb/100 just over 500 hands, would have gone longer but it said my free #of hands is up which is dumb seeing as it says one month I think free.

other than that spending a lot of time with some new and old poker books and combing the strat forums. for fun watching the WSOP 2014 main episodes on youtube (to learnz how to playz obviously ) how about that moron Rystad bleeding chips then busting out just to try and have a dik measuring contest with the one guy, especially when he cant even play him in position...trying to avoid playing too many video games all day in lieu of more constructive options.

Good stuff of late, per the usual man!
I'm planning on a move up from Scottsdale, Az in the spring actually, it's been a long time in the works and looks like it's finally coming together nicely for me and the gf. Looking forward to lots of pokerz live and online, but curious if you have any info on some condos by SouthPoint called Boca Raton. So far they have landed high on our list for meeting all our immediate short term (1 year) rental needs until we decide what's next (buy a house in Vegas or keep options open to renew if we like it).

Location is great for us and the place itself looks pretty amazing. (Google if you aren't familiar with or want pics). I have other friends in Vegas currently who have heard of them but know little to nothing about them overall, so I'm just hoping to get lucky on some local reviews before we head up to see the place.

Appreciate any feedback you have, and as always keep on crushin and livin the dream!

RR