in for £1/£1 thread railers

I think the general warmth shown towards me in my thread would have been enough evidence to suggest I wasn't Linton 😂

Session Review

Date: 04/11/16 Part 1
Games: £2/£5
In: £2000
Out: £3600
Tips: £10
Straddle: 0
Food etc: £chunks

Session Goals:
[LIST][*]Create more bread and butter situations[*]Identify 3 weakest players at the table, an exploit and an appropriate counter strategy.

Too many interesting hands to cover, so I'll try and limit then to the most interesting ones.

Hand Histories:

#1

SB is a mid-high stakes TAG reg

£2/£5 £750.

Two limpers, I raise CO K J to £25 SB calls one limper calls.

Flop 874:spade Pot £80 xxx

Turn A Pot £80 xx I bet £50 SB calls CO folds

River 3 Pot £180 x I bet £120 SB folds.

- I have a decent amount of value here, and some decent blockers (ie to AJ) so think betting here is pretty mandatory with close to the bottom of my range.

- I dont think the SB is necessarily capped as 8xss 7xss makes some sense, as well as AQ with the limpers behind, athough Id expect him to bet AQ at some frequency OTT. So I dont think this is a spot where we can overbet a lot of our range for value like AK say.

- I think pre with the same being so deep when he check calls turn he probably has a bunch of Axs, maybe AJ, a tiny but of 8xss and maybe some pps like TT.

-In terms of my range I think AQ AK AJ and a good chunk of spde hands (KQ KJ KT QJ) etc do get there on the river, although I kight bet some of these combos OTF with a bdfd and two overs with a good image.

-With all that in mind I dont mind my smallish just over half pot bet, as I think it reps a hand like AK and AQ quite well which we definitely have in our range. Clearly we dont want to bet too big with these holdings as the SB isnt completely capped.

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#2

Vs assumed fishy guy

£2/5 750 or so effective.

Two EP limps, I make it £30 KQ in BB both call.

Flop JT9 (#rungood) Pot £95 I bet £60 one caller.

Turn Q Pot £220 I bet £150 he raises to £375 I jam £800 he calls, showsdown QJo and mucks.

- I think this hand played itself athough whatever will cal this bet is somewhat inelastic, so prefer a slightly larger flop and turn bet.

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#3

£2/£5 £1600 Effective. I thought SB was initially an MTT reg/lag guy but had begun to play rather spewily after reloading several times. He had just reloaded for £1500

Reg opens £15 UTG, I flat CO with Q T:Spade: SB and BB call.

Flop QJ3 Pot £60 checks around.

Turn T Pot £60 x SB bets £40 I raise to £135 he SNAP calls.

River 7 Pot £330 He pretty quickly announces £500, I nit tank for a while and call and he mucks.

-I think this is a relatively standard call as well.

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#4 Some foreign/online reg who didnt understand the straddle.

(Bit of background story, he didnt bother to say anything back when I asked where he was from, so I took great pleasure in watching him open AA UTG for £15 and having to limp in a £10 straddle pot!)

V opens to £15, fish calls, I call BB with J J

Flop T64:diamond Pot £45 x UTG checks spud bets £30, before I can call the UTG reg also calls out of turn. I call as well, and his call still stands.

Turn 2 Pot £135 xxx

River 4 Pot £135 I bet £85, UTG raises to £295 (???), I fold.

-Im just really really torn on this one! I mean when he check calls the flop he has to have something. Its possible he turns 99 88 into a bluff here or AK but think its just a fold.

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#5

Vs American Rec MAWG working in tech.

I open 88 in MP £15, CO raises £50 I call.

Flop 8 2 2 Pot £100 xx

Turn 6 Pot £100 I bet £60 he calls

River 2 Pot £220, I overbet £300 he folds. (Still not really sure worh this one, his most likely hand is AK but if he somehow has some pair I want to extract the most value. I suppose combonatorically theres so much AK and AQ in his range half pot is just better.

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Ill try and do the £1/£3 hands a bit later as these were generall more interesting to do.

As always, if anyone managed to read through this wall of text of hhs criticisms welcome!

gl

Definitely game for £1/£1 thread railers! Perhaps a London 2+2 meetup at the Vic or something?

Friday/Saturdays work best for those jobs i.e. Grim/Parsons/me; although getting together on a table at the Vic is a nightmare on those days.

Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions on dates etc?

Someone's ballin'.....

Haha ok I'll tip better next time! For the lols someone sent this to me

#teamnotips

I think you have to be careful with H1. Most 2/5 regs will not fold any ace on the river, and have a few flushes getting to the river. I think the hands that fold to a bet we have SD against 56/T9 so we dont really hve to bet. Obviously its very playre dependent but I wouldnt try to make villains in this player pool fold an A here.

Hand 3. I like how you described the guy (Mtt/Reg lag) , good river call obv the guy was massively clicking buttons.

Hand 5. I dont like the overbet for a few reasons. Firstly vs that guy and your image at that time he is never calling A high on the river vs that sizing. However, was so hyped he is always calling a 1/2 bet 100% of the time. Most importantly, if you bet 1/2 there is a decent amount of change he spazzes and raised huge trying to make you fold what he would think is a weak range. Like I would be tempted to make it like ~£95 vs him specifically expecting him to go crazy

Friday and Saturdays are good for me too. Let's make it happen!

Sure Vic wouldn't mind too much if like 5-6 of us asked to start up a new £1/£1 list?

Yeah, got into the game from high stakes poker and poker after dark myself.

Loved it when they were subtly ribbing Helmuth as they knew he would always bite.

Played a few games at the Empire myself, maybe 10-15 sessions. Most times I went which was a Friday or Sat evening there was always a fairly tall Chinese lad probably in his early 20s that seemed to have a £1000+ stack at 1/2. Thats probably going back a few years now though.

In for the £1/£1 railbird game

Ok lets do it! How about next Saturday 19/11 at the Vic, 8:00 or so?

IMO Saturday the best choice as it can get quite busy on a Friday (inevitably meaning it can be difficult for us all to play on the same table).

I'll probably be around earlier than that putting a few hours in, but think around 8pm should hopefully be good for everyone.

Anyone else interested in playing London's worst game, you're also welcome to come along too!

Yeah tbh thats probably what got me into poker. Watched this a few days after that session, such a timeless video haha.



Yeah Empire is a decent place to play at, I just cant get over the general dungeon feel though. The games there can be pretty good, but just not its biggest fan.

I potentially know the guy you mean, pretty nice guy, gets cake all the time.

Pretty interested in playing. Saturday is a good time too. I'll confirm in a few days.

Hey Acid!
I'm coming to London around 10-15 December.
Do you have an update on the places to play poker while in London?
I need to know which are softer, at what time of the day you can find players, etc.

Thanx in advance!

I'm away this and next Saturday so your monies and the Vic's vodka supply are safe for now. Will try make it along if we do this again or it doesn't happen for a couple weeks!

Long-time lurker, registered to subscribe to this and HU4hoes's new thread LOL.

I play at Hippo couple of times a week so might see you there. Anybody play with the crazy drunk Albanian footballer last week? Luck-boxed his way to close to £1800 before inevitably dusting it all off in an impressive lager-fueled spew.

aww man i'm away on the 19th

would have been super keen, take pics hah!

Joylent

tl;dr

-Had a rather swingy session on Saturday.

-Despite doing £1.2k, I think I played super well in a ton of spots and take some insanely exploitable lines that worked in my favour.

-Got fairly unlucky in a 4! pot. In short, couple of limpers, I make it £25 OTB with AJ(no d), BB tournament reg guy makes it £85. Knowing how MTT players constantly get into these crazy preflop scenarios I make it £185 with my decent blockers, although I definitely wouldn't do this all the time and I'd flat the suited combos. Flop J97ddc Pot £350 xx. Turn 7h Pot £350 xx. River 3s. BB moves all in for £400, I tank and call deciding I'm pretty much top of my range, BB can have many AK/AQ combos which he's turning into a bluff etc, BB announces "Kings are good" and finally shows down QQ (nice slowroll pal).

-I generally had a pretty rough session not flopping a ton and just generally hitting nothing in 3! pots (i.e. no BDFD, gutshots).

-I've been grinding PartyPoker 50NL and have had a good couple of sessions running and playing online. As usual, I have a blast 2-3 tabling depending on my mood and going through 100s and 100s of hands. I really wish I had more time to play it, but its hard to balance everything I want to do.



I'm probably heading down to play this evening, so I thought I'd make a quick non-post on this stuff:




Mmmm weird cream colored watery sludge!

Essentially its a meal replacement powder, similar to Soylent which you may have run into on random internet websites:



I've been following these types of products for a while now, so eventually though I'd give it a go.

In general my diet is pretty poor, I don't eat breakfast, I'll buy a meal deal or something at lunch and have some junky meal on the way home from LSQ. I'm rarely at home, so I find it difficult to maintain a healthy diet without putting significant effort into preparing meals and the like. The general selling points are:

1. Its very simple to prepare (1-2mins maximum)
2. Portable
3. Contains pretty much everything the body needs for a balanced diet.
4. Cheap, costing roughly £2/"meal".

I've only tried it for a few days, but I have some feedback. The taste is ok, like watery oats I guess. Not great, but definitely not unpalatable. You definitely feel half-full, but not overstuffed. I'm not sure I'd drink it for every meal, but I think at work/during a night grind I think its definitely a +EV thing.

I do lots of other various body/life-hacking things which I might get onto at some other point; nootropics are something I'd definitely like to cover as well as I use modafinil on a working-daily basis.

Honestly I don't have any strong opinions on where to play. I like them all in some measure, they all have their individual quirks so I recommend trying them all! This applies to £1/£2, £1/£3 and £2/£5 (although only the Vic regularly spreads £1/£3 and to a lesser extent £2/£5, as in LSQ its fairly unpredictable.)

For softest games, again I don't have any particular opinions. I find the fish actually vary in playing style across the main casinos (I tend to find Empire recs tend to push the most buttons funnily enough, whereas relatively speaking at the Hippo and Vic they tend to be more stationy).

The ones to check out are Vic, Queensway, Hippo, Empire, Aspers, Mint. Theres also the G in LSQ but it only offers £1/£1. Vic, Hippo, Empire and Aspers pretty much always have a game running, but on the others it depends.

Thanks bud!

Yeah you'll have def seen me about from time-to-time, although I havent been as active this week. Nope didn't hear about him, although I did pop in Friday.

I think I'll try and pick another day as next Saturday doesnt seem to be as popular, maybe I'll make a poll or something. Ideally I want a date thats not so far in advanced so everyone forgets, but I obv dont want a date so short-term that everyone has something on etc.

gl!

This meal replacement thing seems to be really kicking off, few guys in the office doing the same.

I'm a busy fat ****, but I like food, so I just accept that from time to time I'm going to eat crap Let us know how it goes though, and deffo more posts on other lifehacks!

Miscellaneous

tldr

- I'm on leave this week, so have put in a decent number of hours in at "normal" hours i.e. weekdays and weeknights 12am-6am.
-I found this sort of interesting from the perspective of a semi-reg, who only really plays weekend and 7-11pm hours.
- I dont have anywhere near enough of a sample to give an objective view, but have on the whole have found the games to be decent provided you are happy to hop around a bit between casinos. Theres still a lot of value to be had and theres certainly no shortage of standard recs/tourists who will give you action
- Last night I moved around between the Hippo, Queensway and Empire although I wasnt at the last one for very long. I was on a pretty decent short-handed hippo game (albeit bit shallow) until it broke. I didnt like the other tables so much so I thought Id head up queensway for a change.

So with that in mind its time for...

ACIDHAUSS's QUEENSWAY TRIP REPORT THING! TM

- So first impressions location wise its decent. Located in a relatively safe area of London, proximity to LSQ not great but oh well.
- The actual casino itself is prett nice, spacious, lots of room to walk around etc. This is in contrast to the slightly claustrophobic layout of the Hippo card room say in which you can only really walk up and down between tables.
- The tables themselves super comfortable, lots of space per person, chargers blah blah. - - The staff were pretty friendly too,
- They also have free espressos and teas which again is a nice touch.
- They also have this awesome promotion where if you bluff the river with A-high or worse and show it down uncontested you win this little horse thing. Basically it means you get rakefree until someone else wins it.
-The games at a smaller casino like this will obviously vary but when I was there they had a pretty bad £1/£2 where I donated a bit, a decent deepstacked £1/£3 and an incredible looking £1/£2 super deep Dealers Choice. I dont really want to go into any more detail about the quality of the games.

Some £1/£2 hands if anyones interested (as always, feedback always welcome!)

#1

£1/£2 I open black 88 to £8 EP, Assumed Reg £250 eff calls, BTN calls, BB calls.
Flop T42 Pot £32 checks around
Turn 7 Pot £32 I bet £15 Reg calls HU.
River Ks Pot £62 I check Reg bets £30 hero?

#2

£1/£2 I opem AJo to £10 EP BTN calls BB calls.
Flop T53 Pot £31 xxx
Turn T Pot £31 xxx
River 8 Pot £31 xx BTN rec fish bets £50 all in hero?

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I then sat on the £1/£3 which turned out to be a pretty fun game with some interesting dynamics. The game basically played out as a £2/£5 with opens to £15. We even got a 1/3/6/12/24 straddle going on at the end! The game played pretty deep, and until losing a pretty big pot I sat on around north of £1.2k. Basically it was me, 3/4 spuds, and two really good aggressive regs that are fully capable of applying a ton of pressure to you.

This inevitably results in a lot of deepstacked situations, lots of 3! pots i.e what I term as "real" poker.

A lot of the hands were pretty standard/uneventful apart from this one.

£1/£3 £1.2k effective. I open CO £12 A9, SB good aggro reg calls HU.
Flop 853 Pot £27 X I bet £10, SB raises £40 I call.
Turn J Pot £110 Sb bets £75 I call.
River Q Pot £260 SB checks hero?


I think I'll head up again at some point so will try and get some photos for completeness.

Glgl.

Haha tbh I actually missed food more than I thought i.e. im not as enthusiastic about it as I thought Id be. I think in the morning when im back at work Ill be giving it a bigger go.

And yeah def more life hack stuff coming up!

Heres an interesting post (albeit slightly tainted with a bit of bull**** but thats just me) about nootropics within a poker context. http://www.checkshovepoker.com/singl...tal-Nootropics

His other articles are also really good, as well as his youtube channel.


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[QUOTE=acidhauss;51215060]Miscellaneous
Some £1/£2 hands if anyones interested (as always, feedback always welcome!)

#1

£1/£2 I open black 88 to £8 EP, Assumed Reg £250 eff calls, BTN calls, BB calls.
Flop T42 Pot £32 checks around
Turn 7 Pot £32 I bet £15 Reg calls HU.
River Ks Pot £62 I check Reg bets £30 hero?

#2

£1/£2 I opem AJo to £10 EP BTN calls BB calls.
Flop T53 Pot £31 xxx
Turn T Pot £31 xxx
River 8 Pot £31 xx BTN rec fish bets £50 in hero


Why no c-bet? As the PFR I'm betting and double-barrelling a lot of turn cards, that's what I'm thinking this through,

£1/£3 £1.2k effective. I open CO £12 A9, SB good aggro reg calls HU.
Flop 853 Pot £27 X I bet £10, SB raises £40 I call.
Turn J Pot £110 Sb bets £75 I call.
River Q Pot £260 SB checks hero

Hey mate thinking of grinding London down the track. Can I ask how many tables of 1/3 and 2/5 and 5/10 and 10/20 + run in each of the rooms? Do you have to waitlist and then get put wherever a free seat is or can you up and leave for a better seat whenever? (i.e. actively table select) Also how is the rake?

Cheers, <3