Another $241 win last night.

So there's a new cadre of younger regs at the cardroom now. It's nice to see another generation of players taking up the game. My gut tells me they aren't going to last though. The economics of it simply don't add up. There was a recent LLSNL thread about the merits of tight play. One thing a few us commented on, is how the tighter more conservative players have been showing up at the cardroom for years. The LAGs seems to come and go with regular frequency. Sure, you see them with $1K+ stacks at 1/2 sometimes, but they seem to lack the staying power of the TAGs and nits. There have been a few that came into the game as bad LAGs but studied up and eventually became decent players, but they are in the minority.

I found myself at a table with about 5 of these LAGs last night. I was sandwiched right in between two of them. While they are aggressive and definitely not scared money, they each have plenty of leaks in their game. I got myself into one of my more memorable hands in recent memory.

SB is the main villain in this hand, who starts with $240, and I cover (slightly). I have A6 3 limps to me, and I limp the button. In the past I would auto-muck this pre, but I definitely try to have a high VPIP on the button, and have opened up my limping along range slightly to include some of these hands. Blinds complete.

Flop ($10) AK8

Checks to me, and I bet $10. SB calls, as do 2 others. That's a bit more action than I wanted with a weak top pair.

Turn($40) AK86

Nice. Checks to me. I make it $30. SB makes it $80, and the others fold. He's definitely repping 2 pair+, but which combos? I can essentially cross off AA/KK/AK/66, and probably some combos of A8 and 88 that would've raised pre. So that leaves A6, K8, some A8/K6, and bluffs. His value range is so small, and I'm ahead of enough of it, I call. An argument could be made for ripping it if we think his range is semi-bluff heavy. I might post this in LLSNL to get their thoughts. Anyways, OTR, where I brace for his jam.

Turn($200) AK864

He bets $100, leaving himself $50 behind. That was about the best river card I could've asked for that wasn't an A or 6. Another thing I have seen in some mid/high stakes games on LATB, is when people leave some money behind on the river when a jam would be reasonable, it's almost always a bluff. I'm not sure how reliable this tell is, and big river bluffs are rare, but it's something I consider. I also consider he could still have something like K8 and is starting to realize his hand isn't as good as he hoped. I call. "Nice call" he says. He didn't show but later mentioned it was a combo draw, which I definitely knew he could have. I knew if a big draw completed the river I would've had a tougher decision.

I still have about $700 to go to get out of the downswing, but hoepfully I keep the trend going.

While I think A6o is too junky even for the Button, I'm perfectly fine with the general idea of getting into hands for cheap here, so fine. Nice read on turn and nice hand, imo. Let's get out of this downswing, gogogo!

There's definitely a new wave of kids in our room. Overall, the waves likely just get better and better, so it's definitely not a good thing. I would guess that most of this new wave are winners in the game in spite of their leaks (much like me), so overall just not good for me.

And while I sometimes question the importance of the tap-the-glass mentality in games which are mostly reg filled with everyone knowing exactly what is going on in this sense (such as in a whale swarming sense, including the whale), I do wish they'd still tone it down a bit. Last night I'm sitting in seat 10, there's a very good young player in 9, and a massive whale in 8 (the whale knows he's a whale but at the same time he has fun and also knows he puts people in gross spots and enjoys doing so). A buddy of 9 is playing at another table with another whale, and inbetween hands is coming over to talk to 9 about HHs very candidly and fairly indiscreetly, including right in front of 8. On top of that 9 was a little snarky I felt with 8, whereas I pleasantly engage 8 in conversation (not just to keep him happy, but honestly cuz he's funny to BS with and it's simply a matter of being polite). Later two other of the young breed sit down at the table, and while a lot of their talk is completely non-poker related (awesome, good job guys), they also can't help but to eventually start rating the other players at the other table and evaluate their table hopping strategy, and again definitely not discreetly enough for my liking.

GbutitiswhatitisG

Some of these new kids are excited about the game, take it more seriously than the average rec player, and talk some light strategy at the table. I get it. I'm fine with the occasional mentioning of ranges and odds. It's not exactly super advanced stuff, and if anything it helps me understand where their head is at more than it's going to chase off any whales. I definitely draw the line at straight up berating other players or actively talking about their mistakes.

The good news is that stuff has only gone down over the years. After the money maker boom rooms were slammed full of 21 year olds in hats and shades acting like they were at the ME final table with their $60 stack. They used to flip out and call you a fish when they lost, and bang the table and run a lap when they doubled up. It was annoying. Those players are quickly going the way of the dodo, although it sounds like there's still a few out there.

Last night was a great one. I couldn't miss. I think I had AK 5 or 6 times and didn't lose once. I am almost completely out of this downswing, with just another $113 to grind back to get back to even.

As is often the case on winning nights, there were very few substantial hands. Just a lot of making TPTK+ and getting paid. Even the couple spots I maybe misplayed, I still got there.

While I've been playing poker for the better part of 15 years now, it's always been an on again/off again sort of thing, and I always felt stuck at the bottom. I would deposit $100 online and be done playing (thanks UIGEA/Black Friday) before I really had a chance to dive into some of the next level games. Both times I peaked right around $0.25/$0.50. Even live, while I don't play from a traditional roll, I still feel "stuck" at the low stakes. In this case it's a mix of both financial and location.

On the financial side, it's all about risk and pain tolerance. I know some of the downswings people go on at 2/5 and PLO games, and right now I can't withstand those types of swings. While I enjoy playing 1/2, I still have the itch to play bigger. My "shot" at 2/5 in Vegas last year went well. I'm hoping I can pull the same thing off again in a few weeks, if not 5/10. But then when I get back, what's next? Our efforts to get a deep 1/3 game going regularly seem to have faltered. The game is back, but it's a prime time hours sort of game. PLO still sometimes runs on Thursdays. So Maybe that's my next venture. Although I know what kind of soul crushing swings there are in that game. I've also seen that despite it running as a 1/3 game, flops often cost $200 to see. With preflop equities running closer together, it's not as short stack friendly as a comparable wild hold'em game. Although I am serious considering just saying "F it" and sitting down with $200 the next time it runs, and whatever happens happens. But there's also a real chance if I can run reasonably hot, I can walk away with $2K or more, something a lot harder to do at 1/2.

I probably don't take many risks before my Vegas trip, but my hope is I come back with at least what I left with, and can start dipping my toe into PLO. Although even that only runs some Thursday nights. Blech.

I feel your pain, mang. I lived in places where no games bigger than 1/2 or 1/3 ever ran for a long time. Now there is a 2/5 game where I live, but it's just one table and is very reg infested. My WR is actually better at 1/3, but a large part of me wants to "move up."

The good news is that deep BIs here are very common, so this game plays a lot bigger than the 1/3 in Wichita did.

The bad news is that 2/5 is uncapped, and that's just too big a step for me, especially in a reg-filled game. I have the BR to take the swings, but I don't have the mental fortitude for them.

I don't think PLO is the answer though. The swings there are far more brutal than 2/5NL, even at the 1/2PLO table.

when grinding how many days a week do u play and how many hours a day do u play. an do u set a limit on how much u want to make

Very true, but here's my thought with swings. If you have an edge in the game, you're more likely to go on a run that you never look back from, rather than just get crushed early. Although it's pretty naive of me to think I have an edge in a game I've only played about 3 hours of at online microstakes.

I do think I'm going to take a shot at the game this year though. I might sit down with a few hundred and bust in 5 minutes. I could also go on a run and never look back. Either way, I'll document it here. At this point though, I've got a couple grand stashed away for Vegas, so I don't want to take too many unnecessary risks.

I play 1 or 2 days a week, usually about 3 to 4 hours at a time. A typical day I play is usually get up at 6:30, get kid off to school, work from 8 to 5, come home, some family time/help with the kids, leave at 8. Get to the casino at 8:45, play til about 12, get home and in bed by 1, and get up at 6:30 the next day. It's a lot, so I can't do it too often.

I have no limits. I usually take about $1K, but my worst losing session is a bit over $600. My best winning session is a bit over $1k, but I would never rack up if I hit an amount. I'm there to play.

I played another deep 1/3 session last night. It's weird mix of some of the tougher/deeper 1/2 players in the room, some typical fish, and some rich gamblers. It makes for an interesting dynamic, but I think it's a game I can be really successful in. Unfortunately in this session I lost about $160, mostly on a few hands I really f'd up.

First hand:

I'm in the button straddle for $6 with J8 A few limps to me, including the main V who is one of the better/tougher players at the table that is playing pretty aggressive. The limp is uncharacteristic. I check.

Flop($20) A56 V bets $15. Folds to me and I call.

Turn($50) A569 V checks, I bet $30, he min-raises to $60, and I shrug and call. I'm not ready to surrender my flush, and I have an out to the mortal nuts.

River($170) A5699 Yuck. The nut worst card probably. He bets $150. I should fold here. My hand is basically a bluff catcher. My instinct tells me he doesn't have a flush, and there are some hands he could be bluffing with here, so I do make the call, and get shown an oddly played 66. My instinct was to fold and I should've gone with it, but I tanked and talked myself into a call.

Second hand:

I'm in the CO with KK with the K of spades. 1 limp, I make it 15, a whale in the SB and the limper call.

Flop ($45) Q32 Beautiful. Checks to me and bet $20. Whale calls, but the limper makes it $80. We're about $500 deep here. I know in my brain I have to man up and stack off here, either by throwing in a commitment raise now, or calling down a good runout (should be a call I guess). But I made a type of mistake I don't normally make. I got scared of the money. I played this deeper game (in for $600) with the intention to only get stacks in with monsters. But to crush it, and even to win against tougher players, you've got to be willing to go with weaker hands as well. But I decided that I didn't want to commit my stack with 1-pair, I still have a guy in the hand with a wide range, and just nit-fold. Whale folds, raiser shows an Ace, and I know unless he slowplayed AA that I was way good. Right now my Vegas budget is around $1700 and I didn't want to risk $500 of it on a pair of kings.

I'm probably going to slow down a bit and stick to a $200 buyin at 1/2 until after June, so as not to put a huge chunk of my budget at risk. After that, assuming I come home with about what I left with, I'll start shot taking some of these bigger games.

Did V show the aces of spades or just a random ace? Against A-high fd you are almost flipping (and against A-high fd with wheel draw you are dead even), so you'd just be gambling if you went with KK there. I had the exact same thing happen to me the other night at 1/3. I iso'd red KK over EP limp, cbet $30 into $60, limper c/r $100 on a 9-7-2ss flop, and I let it go.

I honestly think folding your KK is easier than mine because you at least have a spade blocker, making some of his flush draws less likely (although granted the Ks is less relevant than the As when you are holding pocket AA).

I really don't mind making somewhat nitty laydowns at low stakes. Even though we are wrong sometimes, we are probably saving money over the long run. At least that's what I tell myself to sleep well at night.

Gl!

Good point, I don't remember the suit. I'm 99% sure he had AQ and thought he was good, but I'm not losing too much sleep over it.

I agree that making nitty laydowns is better than bad calls (as evidenced by my bad call above), but both definitely cost you money, and I made expensive ones of each last session.

I know I say this a lot, and it hasn't happened yet, but I'm really hoping that after Vegas and my tax refund coming in this year, I'll have my personal finances in order, and be able to focus on stashing away some more poker money.

It has been way too long since my last post. What better way to resume than a Colorado/Vegas trip report.

Colorado was business as usual. Booze, weed, some work, no poker this year. Vegas was Vegas. We got there at 2pm after leaving Colorado at 5am (record time!) and our rooms weren't ready. I walked over to Silver Sevens and dropped $100 in the pit at blackjack. That night I drunkenly stumbled into Planet Hollywood and played some of the worst poker I've ever played. I remember no meaningful hands from the session, other than I was playing stupid hands I had no business playing and getting appropriately punished for it. I ended down about $200.

Night 2 I decide to skip the poker. I'm way too high and drunk, watching the College World Series at the Tilted Kilt trying to keep myself from upchucking my dinner all over the bar. I got to meet the son of Detroit Tigers legend Chet Lemon at the bar, and chatted with him about baseball for a while, which was a treat. After dinner I started feeling better, and we talk about finding a craps table. I try to put in one craps session a year with my boss just for fun. We made it to the Linq, threw down $100, and after what seemed like a while, I walked away with almost $500. We Uber'd back to Silver Sevens, and lost about $200 back, but still ended the night up over $200. Every year I learn just a little bit more about the craps lingo. I'm getting the hang of it.

Night 3 I decide to head to Fremont Street with my co-workers. I like Mickie Finnz because there are often bands playing 90's alternative rock there, and was not disappointed. After dinner, instead of walking around Fremont again, I decide to put in my first session downtown. The only Bravo place in the area is Golden Nugget, so that's where I go. I find out it's uncapped which is intriguing, but in the interest of bankroll management, decide to go with $200. I was sitting next to a mid 40's hipster looking dude, who ended up being some of the best table conversation I've ever had. On top of that, I crushed it. There were some pretty big whales at the table. Here is the hand of the trip:

A couple limps to me and I wake up with A5 in the CO, and decide to make it $11. My hipster buddy in the SB min 3-bets me to $25, two limpers call, so closing the action with decent relative position I decide to take a flop. We're all pretty deep at this point. I think I'm somewhere around $400, and am covered by most of the table.

Flop ($100): Q32

We check to the hipster, and he makes it $45. First whale limper raises to $100, second one folds, and now I'm in a fun spot. Anything I do here looks super strong. Hipster is a solid player, so he can't love one pair no matter what I do. The whale likely calls a jam if I do it. While I wouldn't hate getting it in heads up against either of them here, I tend to err on the side of trying to make my hands before getting it in unless I really feel like I have good fold equity. I'll admit these may be spots in my game where I need some more study to really figure out the best EV. Both jamming and calling are clearly +EV moves here, but I decide to call. Hipster next to me realizes he is in a tough spot, and thinks briefly before folding.

Turn ($345): Q324

I hit both draws for good measure. Whale snap jams on me, I snap call, and she's drawing dead with Q9!?! I left the session up about $700 for one of my bigger wins in a while.

At the end of the night (round 2am) I Lyft it back to the hotel. I opt to save $5 by choosing the share ride option. It quite clearly picked up a working girl. I'm 95% sure the only reason she was in the car was to solicit me. She tried, and if I was a weaker man, I may have succumbed.

My wife showed up for night 4, and hit $500 on a slot, so this is turning into a lucrative trip. The rest of the trip I binked another $250 at craps, dropped $50 more at blackjack, and probably another $80 or so in slots.

I did get in two more small poker sessions even with my wife around. One was at Mandalay Bay, where I got a quick $200 double up picking up KK, 3-betting, jamming a wet board, and fading lots of outs. I played another session at the Flamingo where I dropped a bit over $100 when I picked up KJ on a QQ9 flop. I played it aggressively, but the other guy had AT so thankfully nothing hit (turn was an A, river a K, so we both had enough SDV to end the hand).

Overall a highly productive trip. I had tons of fun playing poker. My only semi-regret was not jumping into some bigger games. I probably would've moved to 2/5 if there had been a table at the Nugget. I'm getting back into the regular grinding here in Michigan, so I think I will be able to keep this thread a bit more up to date.

Welcome back, Koss. Love me some GN uncapped. Best 1/2 game in Vegas, imo.

Nice trip report. Rekindles fond memories of my last Vegas trip (which included a Nugget session - and yes, it's a whale's playground there). Glad you had fun and made some dough!

The last time I was in Vegas I also enjoyed the Golden Nugget poker room (dealt KK very first hand, I believe in a 4/8 Limit game before I got moved to NL iirc).

Took me all of my first hand to lose $200 at my one and only time in Planet Hollywood. I sit down, don't think I've even got my chips yet, and there's an open. I 3bet QQ as obviously a complete unknown. I get 4bet shoved on for the $200 and of course run into AA. After playing with the guy for another couple of hours, I legit would have folded to his initial preflop raise with this knowledge.

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Vegas poker is definitely a melting pot. I definitely see a wider swath of player types from pros to uber-whales that I'm not used to back home. I've played at some really tough Vegas tables, but also some of the juiciest games ever. I imagine for Vegas pros game selecting would make a huge difference. It's not a skill I'm particularly good at, as I usually only have one casino to play at and I play the table they put me at. Occasionally I'll bum hunt if I see a whale at another table, but it's pretty rare.

I haven't played any cash since I've been home. But I did play in a pretty neat home game last week. My co-worker is in a 24 person league that plays an MTT every other week. He needed me to sub in for him, so what the hell. It was a $30 MTT where most of the money goes to a prize pool for the end of the year points winner. He really wanted me to get him points, which you get for knocking out other players, or making the final table.

It was a pretty well run home game. Everyone there was pretty chill. Starting stacks of 8k, blinds start at 100/200 and follow a pretty typical 20 minute increment schedule. I start off up quite a bit, but get beat up when I bet pre/flop/turn with QQ, river is an A, and I check fold. I'm crippled. But I'm staying alive picking up the blinds. I pick up AJs and GII against 66, and get there.

From there, I never really looked back. I'm picking up decent hands and taking down pot after pot. Mostly just jamming pre as the blinds are getting big. It's a typical turbo structure. You could just have an all-in or fold pre-flop strategy and probably do OK. We get to the final table, and I have a slight chip lead, so I've got my buddy some points.

Then this hand comes up. Blinds are 2k/4k. I've got about 34k. OMC limps in EP. I raise to 10k with AJo. A 7k stack in the SB jams. OMC jams for 20k. It's 10k back to me. I don't really think I can fold here.

SB: A7o.
OMC: AA.

Flop KT6. Turn 2. River Q. The suckout of a lifetime for me, but it happens in a $30 homegame.

I proceed to bust 3 more people. We're down to 3 handed, and I have a decent chip lead. We're not seeing flops. Given the stacks any decent hand is getting shoved. I lose 3 big pots to bust 3rd. KJo < A6o, 44 < 99, A2s < AQo.

I'm not sure how good I am at late game short stacked tourney strategy. But I got my friend a crap ton of points, so it was a pretty successful night all things considered. I really really hope to get back to some cash games soon. I need to build up the roll for another good Vegas run next year!

I finally made it back to my home casino after nearly 3 months away. They have already broken ground on a new hotel, which I think will about double the room capacity. That should be good for the poker room, as a decent amount of the fish are passers through that come down to play. It does look like the new hotel might intersect the poker room. The rumor of the day is that the poker room might move to the larger bingo hall, as they are currently struggling to accommodate the large MSPT fields that have been showing up.

The session was overall pretty good. I played solid, didn't get out of line, and was chipping up a bit. Only one hand of note, which is probably a spot I misplayed. I ended up +$35 after all was said and done, despite not really seeing any premium holdings, which is always nice.

The main villain in this hand is a young Asian guy. He's a bit LAGGY, seeing a lot of flops, and when he does raise its always to $7, regardless of position and # of limpers. I've seen him raise hands as weak as T8s. Overall I have him pegged as not a good player, but it's a pretty raw read.

Effective stacks are about $250.

Hero in SB with 64. Several limps including V in the HJ, and hero completes.

Flop ($12) 533

Here's where it gets interesting. I peek at the hot hand board. A straight flush in spades is good for $450. Without the promo my instinct is to lead this board. But when I pick up fold equity, I'm forfeiting hot hand equity. My impromptu math skills aren't good enough to crunch this on the spot. Hero checks. Checks to V who bets $10, and I call.

Turn ($30) 5338

If I did check/call the flop with a flush draw, I would normally lead now. But if he folds, I can't collect. I check. He bets $15. Fair enough, I call.

River($60) 53388

Damn these rivers suck. Oh well. He's been smallballing me and playing wide, so this should be a trivial check/call. I check. He bets $60. Not nearly as trivial. I want to call this so bad.

Reasons for wanting to call:
-Blocks 65/45.
-Blocks other flushes.
-He shouldn't have much 8x.
-It "feels" like I'm being pushed out.
-Villain is a bit of a LAG.

Reasons for wanting to fold:
-I haven't seen him make these big polarizing river bets before.
-He has tons of 5x and bigger flushes in his range.
-He could still have some 8x.
-I'm getting a bad price.
-My hand is little more than a bluff catcher.
-Bluff catching without a strong read at 1/2 is usually a losing play.

After a bit of tank, I did make the fold. V went on to take some similar lines in later hands (getting river folds every time) so maybe I could've called, but it's thin either way. These spots have come up a few times in the past, where I'm drawing live to a fairly large bonus, so I slowplay a big draw to ensure that I get to see a turn/river. It's probably a mistake. 2 outs for $450 is nice, but probably not worth the pot equity I gave up to go for it. I think $1K+ is maybe the point where I should start considering these. A royal in spades is at $5K right now, so I think that's one where you have to see through the draw. But my advice to other players has always been this: I know how to play winning poker, even without promos. If I alter my play to chase promos without a strong fundamental knowledge that it's a more +EV line, I could easily end up -EV, even with the bonus equity. So don't alter play unless you are 100% sure it's the right move. I wasn't, but I did it anyway. Oh well, it was still a winning session, and if he did have me beat, I possibly saved a lot of money anyways, because with a fast play, stacks probably go in.

Is this actually a thing that happens?

Our casino poker room games are 99.9% reg infested. Can't recall the last time I've actually seen some random passerby attempt to sit in a game (they certainly don't last long if they do). Not convinced it happens?

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For sure. It's not a tourist town like Vegas or anything, but we definitely get a lot of road trippers that stop for the night. Truck drivers too. While I don't play as often as some, I would say on average I recognize 1/2 the table or so. While there aren't a lot of really tough players, a lot of the regs aren't complete morons either. When a big donator does show up, it's never anyone I've seen before.

It's a frequent stop for B+ tier entertainment acts, so that helps bring in drunk recs fairly regularly.

Yep. We've got John Fogerty next month.

I did see a sign for Howie Mandel. That might actually be one I'm interested in.

It's been a while since my last post. Now that summer is over and the kids are in school, hopefully I can get back to it at least once a week.

My first session back did not go so hot. Pretty much the whole session went bad. I was at a tougher than average table, and got a little FPS. I flatted a LAGs raise with A3s in position, flopped a BDFD on a T88 board, and I floated his c-bet. He checked a turned K, I jammed, and he snapped me off with AA. My read was not strong enough to justify that play.

I was down almost $600 when I managed to flop a set, turn a boat, and get my stack in vs trips. I ended up down about $300. Sometimes bland ABC poker is the correct approach. It had barely been two months since I last played, but didn't recognize a single villain at the table, which was very odd.

I put in a couple more sessions, one bad, one good.

The bad one started off good, and I was up a fair amount. Then I punted when I couldn't find a fold button. I start with about $300, V1 has me covered, and V2 is on about $250.

V2 I have little read on, but V1 is as close as you'll get to a pro in this game.

A few limips to me, and I limp the button with K2. V1 raises to $10 out of the SB, calls around to me, and I call closing the action. It's a bit loose, deepish closing the action with the potential to win a huge pot, I thin it's OK. This is a button only type hand.

Flop KT2 V1 c-bets $20, V2 calls, and I make it $70. Seems standard. Now V1 goes into the tank. I'm pretty sure I"m good here. V1 finally makes it $170. V2 jams what's left of his stack. V2's range could be pretty wide here, but V1 definitely has something. I know he doesn't have KT from his raise pre, and there are only 5 combos of sets left. I level myself into thinking he's trying to protect AK/AA on a wet board and rip it. V2 had the draw, but V1 had TT. I really think that $170 bet is just sooo strong that I really could chuck top & bottom there, when V2 can absolutely have KT. Call it entitlement tilt I guess.

The next session started off pretty poorly, but eventually I made a comeback, capped off by a punt. V in this hand is new to the table, sitting on my right. I start the hand with $200, and have AA. $5 button straddle, blinds fold, he makes it $15, I make it $55, folds back to him and he calls.

Flop($110)223. He leads $100. I think for about 30 seconds to pretend like I have a real decision here, and then stick the rest of my stack in. He calls pretty quickly. I don't have the A so hopefully I don't get burned by the flush. He has K7 for no pair no draw!?! I hold, and finally book a winning session.

I'm either/or whether I overlimp Kxs on the Button now; Qxs is an easy fold (for me), but if there are some marks limping in I'm fine with Kxs. But otherwise I'm typically just limiting it to Axs unless they're connected. It's tight.

I'm probably not calling the raise. Yeah, we're in position and price is ok, but raiser is a pro (we're not winning much of him) and V2 seems a little unknown. Also, pro could easily be juicing up pot with Axs if he's doing this with TT; much less likely he's doing this with Qxs. The less our hand is non-nut chasing the more meh it is, imo.

The SPR is 8 - 10. If we get the stacks in against the pro, we're behind (he's not hurp durping off with AK, right?); V2 less clear. Overall, I don't feel committed and just play a higher SPR pot in position and see what happens and start calling down / evaluating. I'm folding to the reraise/shove. But that's how I play two pair: very passively. A raise can often fold out hands we want to continue and keeps in hands that are crushing us, with the only real exception being draws (but with draws we're kinda cool just seeing what happens in position, see if they hit, and see if he outhit them).

Lol @ the villain with his no pair + no draw hand, nice!

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A little late to the party - subbed.

I find similar things that you mention, I have trouble with...kneejerk reactions at the table, etc.

Rungood my friend!