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I can definitely play higher but I'm cheap when it comes to gambling. No problem with lighting $$$$ money on fire but I get pissed off if I lose $100 at a poker table.

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05-21-2020 , 11:40 AM

#12602

BiteMeFish

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 5,586

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Originally Posted by Garick

Huh. I must have been at the tail end of it, then. Do they still run those NL cash game "tournaments?"

Yeah, they used to only do so at Canterbury, but they were so popular that Running Aces started doing them too, but that was after I stopped playing there.

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05-21-2020 , 11:44 AM

#12603

bwslim69

I'm a Diva, Bruh

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24,932

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Originally Posted by Donat3llo

Links for the lulz?

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...hread-1757085/

Only read the last 4 or 5 pages. Stories of collusion, online is rigged and all the normal scapegoats for losing.

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05-21-2020 , 11:46 AM

#12604

bwslim69

I'm a Diva, Bruh

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24,932

My favorite is the guy saying there are collusions in PLO that wait until he has obvious AAxx and make him get it in. He says his equity drops from ~55-60% HU to like 35-40% 3 ways...and this is his "evidence" that he is being colluded against.

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05-21-2020 , 11:56 AM

#12605

BiteMeFish

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 5,586

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Originally Posted by Donat3llo

I can definitely play higher but I'm cheap when it comes to gambling. No problem with lighting $$$$ money on fire but I get pissed off if I lose $100 at a poker table.

Yupppp. I've spent easily what I've put into Bros just on keeping breweries afloat, but God forbid I lose a crowler's worth at uNL

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05-21-2020 , 12:25 PM

#12606

Lurshy

veteran

Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 2,001

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Originally Posted by bwslim69

My god the PokerBros thread is incredible.

Thought this was the poker bros thread... jk

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05-21-2020 , 12:25 PM

#12607

rickroll

oddly catty

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 22,974

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Originally Posted by BiteMeFish

Yupppp. I've spent easily what I've put into Bros just on keeping breweries afloat, but God forbid I lose a crowler's worth at uNL

same here, if i lose $5 on the day for my no deposit challenge i'm upset and yet that's a rounding error in real life daily expenses

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05-21-2020 , 12:43 PM

#12608

RoadtoPro

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 6,600

no one:
absolutely no one:
degens in a nutshell from stage 1-5:

Spoiler:

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05-21-2020 , 01:07 PM

#12609

reaper6788

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 3,860

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Originally Posted by Garick

This is very individually dependent. Everyone hits their wall at a different point. I was always told in HS "you won't be able to coast like this in college," but like you, I was fortunate enough to still be able to. Some of my friends though were like "man, they were right, I have to study my ass off to ace this stuff now." Of course, most of them didn't, they just accepted that they weren't acing it and got by. Some people have to work hard to ace school even in first grade. It just depends.

Depends not only on person but on school too. I went to a top high school in my area and coasted was only in top 10%ish, then went to a selective liberal arts college and found it to be a bit more difficult so had to work hard during finals, but not really outside of finals. I had a friend who was valedictorian at a middle of the road high school and got wrecked at our college and had to put in tons of time to stay afloat.

Grad school seems to be rough for everyone in all places.

Also many majors are tougher than others. Undergrad sociology is a joke. Econ is hard for many people I guess. Chemistry appears to be masochism.

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05-21-2020 , 01:24 PM

#12610

bwslim69

I'm a Diva, Bruh

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24,932

Does anyone have a bigger yet more fragile ego than Taleb?

The guy brashly wrtes these books about the markets and tail risks and black swans and moon shots and try the moment he is challenged on anything he ****ing melts. Really an odd guy

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05-21-2020 , 01:41 PM

#12611

Dream Crusher

banned

Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 18,786

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Originally Posted by bwslim69

My god the PokerBros thread is incredible.

LoL @ RileyMadison going off on Heycee being a nit and then Tim Stone claiming to be Heycee. I figured Tim Stone would probably be involved in any sort of blowup in the thread.

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05-21-2020 , 01:52 PM

#12612

rickroll

oddly catty

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 22,974

i know nothing of tim stone, but he's usually part of any controversial thread

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05-21-2020 , 02:13 PM

#12613

bwslim69

I'm a Diva, Bruh

Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 24,932

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Originally Posted by Dream Crusher

LoL @ RileyMadison going off on Heycee being a nit and then Tim Stone claiming to be Heycee. I figured Tim Stone would probably be involved in any sort of blowup in the thread.

I remember playing NL 100 with Tim Stone pre-BF and he was almost GG like in his nittiness. Like if he ever raised post flop you just turbo mucked

Think he was SNE if I recall

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05-21-2020 , 02:23 PM

#12614

DeadMoneyWalking

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I just did last year's #s. No BAHH, but had one session note +350, would have been a great night but ran 88 into J6o

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Originally Posted by feel wrath

in London the main game at most poker rooms is 1/2 40-400 buy in but you can always match the biggest stack.

So it's not at all rare to be sat at a table with 3 or 4 stacks of 500bb + and then some filthy short stacking scum with 15-30bb who can actually have quite a big impact in terms of re-opening betting

Yep and I've heard every variation of the 'half of the bet reopens' rule.

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Originally Posted by jrr63

Took me a while to adjust to spread limit after we moved to Arizona. I made a bad judgement when we were looking at Tucson as a possible next location -there was a movement in the state in at the time to set up strip NL poker rooms (kind of like in Texas now). There was a guy who was spreading 5-10 games fairly close to the house we bought. But by the time we actually moved the NL games had been shut down and it was all 1-2 games with a $200 max bet in the local Indian Casino. Now at least the spread here is up to now $680 per bet with a $1500 max buy in the 2-5 games. So there is still some money to be made

$680? How did they get away with that?

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Originally Posted by rickroll

jesus, playing at a table surrounded by fatties and with a $60 or $100 max bet...

really glad i'm able to effectively skip the 1-2 stage of my life and gives me super incentive to play higher, even if out of practice and just for the lols

Right now our 1/3 has a max bet of $300 which matters basically never. The 3/5 is supposed to have a $500 max. They keep changing the buy in so I guess it technically matters every time two big stacks are in the hand. But it's really only the nit regs who buy in full. So I think it rarely changes the result of a hand.

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Originally Posted by BiteMeFish

Yupppp. I've spent easily what I've put into Bros just on keeping breweries afloat, but God forbid I lose a crowler's worth at uNL

related, I won't pay for espn but will drop 2x that watching it at the bars.

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05-21-2020 , 02:54 PM

#12615

BiteMeFish

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 5,586

Clear mind, J6, can't lose

Spoiler:

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05-21-2020 , 02:55 PM

#12616

jrr63

The Situation

Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3,465

[QUOTE=DeadMoneyWalking;56142011

$680? How did they get away with that?[/QUOTE]

I've heard different explanations from floors - seems to have something to do with the max bets in various table games but it is really unclear.

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05-21-2020 , 03:19 PM

#12617

BiteMeFish

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I've been really good at not hero calling, but he shoved otr and I couldn't see this one getting there.

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OK, enough bitching

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05-21-2020 , 03:38 PM

#12618

zoltan

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Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 21,490

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Originally Posted by bwslim69

Doubt that many itt know who you're talking about. I tend to ignore any pissing contests nate gets into though. And Twitter for that matter.

Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk

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05-21-2020 , 03:51 PM

#12619

Lapidator

LLSNL Frequent Flyer

Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 13,762

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Originally Posted by bwslim69

So you're saying maybe he needs to move up to where they respect his raises?

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05-21-2020 , 03:55 PM

#12620

rickroll

oddly catty

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 22,974

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Originally Posted by BiteMeFish

I've been really good at not hero calling, but he shoved otr and I couldn't see this one getting there.

Spoiler:

OK, enough bitching

I adopted the calling station strategy, it works wonderfully because they can never bluff you

But seriously, I call down a ton with extremely marginal holdings, probably my biggest leak because when it's the nuts I shrug it off but when he had K high I get the kind of feeling rtp must have when he plays poker

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05-21-2020 , 04:59 PM

#12621

feel wrath

The Situation

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Originally Posted by wj294

I was in a Hippodrome £1/2 game at 4am when somebody turns up wanting to play the biggest game possible and has over 20k in chips. We tried to turn the game into a 1/2 deep or 2/5 to get around the buyin limit (50% of max stack at Hippo which meant he could sit with roughly £750 iirc) and one old rec refused to change the game, despite the fact it would have absolutely no bearing on his ~£50 stack. Since then, said fun player moved over to the PLO games and was by all accounts one of the biggest spots whenever he played and was content to dump thousands per night, at least a few nights per week.

The worst part of this was that there were 2/3 other normal 1/2 games with seats available that the rec could have moved over to if he didn't want to play higher stakes.

I sat at a 1/2 game at Empire a few years ago with a guy who dusted off 10k. 100 straddles, 500 blind raises etc. there were 4 of us with over 1000bb stacks

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05-21-2020 , 05:00 PM

#12622

squid face

ChatThreadPrez

Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 11,492

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Originally Posted by feel wrath

I sat at a 1/2 game at Empire a few years ago with a guy who dusted off 10k. 100 straddles, 500 blind raises etc. there were 4 of us with over 1000bb stacks

how much u lose?

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05-21-2020 , 05:00 PM

#12623

guttterball

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 388

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Originally Posted by BiteMeFish

I've been really good at not hero calling, but he shoved otr and I couldn't see this one getting there.

Spoiler:

OK, enough bitching

You could have gotten away from this hand if you played it like J6.

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05-21-2020 , 05:00 PM

#12624

squid face

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never mind - saw it was 10k

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05-21-2020 , 05:12 PM

#12625

Mr Spyutastic

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Originally Posted by Donat3llo

I can definitely play higher but I'm cheap when it comes to gambling. No problem with lighting $$$$ money on fire but I get pissed off if I lose $100 at a poker table.

Yeah I'm totally like this too. Some of my most tilting moments are getting knocked out of a $5.50 MTT.

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