Op is your identity secret? I play either at m8 or palace 5-6 days a week. Mainly at the ds game at m8 and occasionally 10/25. Ive read a bunch of your posts before and just realized you're from the bay. Where do you usually play?

Awesome thread. Always love reading your posts.

Keep it up!!!

Subbed. Awesome virtual rail.

Subbed.

GL

In terms of pure poker advice, I don't think I've gained more from anyone's posts in the time I've been at 2+2. Not to say many others have not offered insights I found valuable, but you break things down in a very thorough way.

Definitely going to follow your thread and wishing you well.

Your BQ spam (tbf at the end of helpful posts) convinced me. Loving the thread so far.

Your 10k post had better be sick. You can borrow this account when you're on 9999.

subbed. now sub to mine, damnit.

Subbed. Prob going to do a similar pgc soon.

Glglgl

You've helped my game immensely with your posts, look forward to reading more

WEEK #2, DAY 6
Week #2 mini bankroll Day 6: $+4500
Mini-Bankroll needed to take shot: $6,000

I played a decent game today but just had a few setbacks, one big hand we will get to in a moment.

First, I want to talk about the biggest mistakes ABC players make in the deep stacked games, and that is assuming everyone else plays ABC poker.

The following hand took place between a know-it-all ABC donk and a super spewtarded LAG. Eff stacks $1.4k, LAG covers.

ABC is on the button and raises $55 (sizing tell, AA/KK almost always). LAG calls from the BB. Heads up.

Flop($110) Q 6 5
LAG chks, ABC bets $120, LAG calls.

Turn($360) 4
LAG chks, ABC bets $220, LAG calls.

River($800) 8
LAG chks, ABC bets $240, LAG ships it for $1.1k, ABC slams his fists on the table, looks at the board and the LAG and mutters to himself, shakes his head, shuffles and flicks his cards, turns more and more red until he looks like a hemorrohoid about to pop, and after 3 minutes off working himself up into a nice healthy glowy tilt rage he calls.

LAG turns over 75o, ABC player slams his AA on the table and explodes with the typical "You donk, how could you call when I raised preflop and bet each street..."

The lesson for today is to understand that the LAG's play, though not profitable longterm, is not all that stupid. If he knows exactly what Hero has and he knows that if he hits and shoves Hero will 100% call and stacks are deep enough and whatever direct odds are lacking can be made up in implied odds... then why the F not???

Anyways, this was a hilarious hand that happened that I thought I would share.

Unfortunately, this same LAG got me for a big pot. The set up is simple, this LAG was also the biggest calling station aggro spewtard I have ever seen. He called a triple barrel shove for $800 from the preflop raiser with 52o on a 8 2 6 8 A and through some miracle it was good.

He also would triple barrel if he sensed any weakness and was the aggressor to include calling you when you shoved over the top of him on river. He'd call with middle pair and bottom pair. He had won and lost $4k on this table over the couple of hours that I was at the table. So here is the hand.

I'm in the BB with JT, 3 limpers and V is on the BTN and raises to $35. SB calls, I call, MP calls, 4 way action. Eff stacks $1.1k, V covers.

Flop(140) J 7 3
I chk knowing V will bet if checked to, it checks to him, he bets $50, SB folds, I call, MP calls, 3-way action. When MP calls I'm not too thrilled with my hand, hoping to catch a backdoor draw

Turn(290) J
I chk, MP chks, V bets $125, I call, MP folds. So glad MP folded, now I'm excited and am slowing reaching into my pocket, pulling out my magnum condom and carefully rolling it down the mammoth shaft of my massive pulsating boner while envisioning the prison raping I'm about to engage in...

River(540) 8
I chk, V bets $300, I ship it for $800-ish, V calls.

I turn over JT, he turns over QJ FML

Seriously, this guy had been calling c/r shoves for stacks all day with bottom pair, mid pair, even Ace high air. And I just happen to be the SOB who catches him at the top of his range. Ugghhh!!!!!

So, I lost $1.1k which was really $500 since I originally bought in for $500 and ran it up and then came to the deep stacked game...

Anyways, I decided to cut my session short today so I can rest up for tomorrow and hit the casino bright eyed and bushy tailed...

My view is any luckbox donk can have a winning session, so for me, tomorrow is the true test. I hope I run good and play good tomorrow. Game starts at 11:30am and the second table usually starts around 1pm. My goal is to just play my best poker and let the chips fall where they may...

Wish me luck...

thanks for the kind words and encouragement, means a lot.

thread saver

just wrote a long reply to your response and didnt go through

will try again when i get home later tonight.

This is so lol...great session report once again! Your discussion of ABC vs Lag is such an insightful point.

+1 great thread, good luck tomorrow

Come for the strat, stay for the lulz.

Say the raise/callers/dynamic is the same, but the flop is Q105.

Are you still cbetting same amount?

Say you do and get one caller. Turn is the same blank 4. What are we doing here and why?

I find myself really confused in these spots bc villain can have Qx or a draw (even though we do block some draws). We are still ahead of all the draws, are we betting? c/c'ing? C/f'ing?

I guess cliffs are I don't know wtf to do when we have a decent pp with a board that has one over and draws. Like if there were no draws at all, say Q27, are we just giving up ott to standard villains? And then if you apply draws to that are we more likely to stick around?

Fav so far:

Well boys and girls, today was probably one of the hardest days of grinding I've ever had in my poker career.

Here is a pictorial representation of the 10/25nl table I was facing last week


So last week was tough but beatable and I felt like Muhammad Ali facing a good fighter. I was on my toes, bouncing, jabbing, and all my awesome moves were working.

However, today, my table was best represented by this


So this week, my awesome moves and jabs and fancy footwork was stamped out by sheer raw force and aggression.

Then factor in that this was the first time I had ever played against players that were noticeably more skilled than me and had the 10/25nl game dialed in.

Every game has a certain style and type of play. 1/2nl plays a certain way, 1/3nl plays a certain way, 2/5nl plays a certain way, 5/10nl plays a certain way. Granted, there is some variation within each game depending on players, line up, chip stacks, etc... But for the most part, every game/level has certain peculiarities. Last week, I felt there was something different about 10/25nl but was able to more or less impose my will on the table. Not so this week, and the edge my opponents had over me in skill was compounded by the fact that they also had an edge in understanding typical 10/25nl dynamics as well as having history with each other.

I bought in for $3k and could not make any real headway. My raises and min raises etc just were bitch slapped down and it occurred to me that my LAG was simply not good enough on this table. Specifically, my post flop LAG was not strong enough to outplay my 2 villains at the table who were well known pros. So, after about 2 hours I had to adjust and basically completely remove the LAG component from my post flop play.

I also did a seat change and got on the left of both of the players that were anally violating me.

Anyways, lets go through a few hands I faced. My first big hand I had KK in LP, eff stacks $3k me, $1.5k BTN, SB/MP covers.

UTG limps, MP limps, I raise to $150, BTN calls, SB calls, MP calls, all else fold, 4-way action.

Flop($600) 7 6 4 (I hate this board)
SB chks, MP chks, I bet $300, BTN ships it for $1.5k, SB folds, MP ships it for $3k, Hero snap folds.
BTN has 77, MP has 44

That is the thing about this table, villains are never getting it in bad for stacks nor are they going to overvalue something like TT/JJ here, so KK is just not ever good here. Truth be told, i wasn't thrilled with the hand to begin with and was hoping the field reduced to heads up...


My big laydown of the day was probably the first mistake i've made at this table due to being underrolled for the game and also not having the table dynamics dialed in. This happened within the first hour of the session. I was dealt 33 in MP and limped, 5 limpers, 6-way action. I'm at $4.5k.

Flop($150) T 7 3
SB chks, BB bets $225, UTG+1 calls, I raise to $725, folds around to the BB who shoves all-in for $2.2k. UTG +1 also shoves for $4k, Hero????

Now, here is the thing. BB is a nit and earlier he had the opportunity to shove with a combo pair + FD and he didn't do it, he elected to call down. So I 100% know without a doubt he does not have a flush draw. However, earlier, he was the guy who shoved his set of 77s when I had KK... So, my brain fixated on the fact that he shoved earlier with the set. And likewise, he is in the BB and there is no way he has an overpair to the board since JJ+ would easily raise from the BB. So he has to have pocket pairs and that leaves 77 and TT.

The other villain was more aggro and he has FDs in his range majority of time here. Ironically, my friend and fellow 2+2er Dom80e just happened by when this happened and he railbirded the whole thing. I tanked for 5 minutes and with every minute my testicles shrank until they became raisins and turtled up into my now bleeding Vagina and I open folded my 33 face up. Table is shocked.

BB turns over QQ and UTG+1 turns over AJ they decide to run it twice and of course my set would have won both times. So the fact BB actually limped with QQ on the BB really threw off my read. WTF???

This happened right after I had been getting beat down and slapped around by the table and so my calibration was just way off... A few minutes after this I took a break and reset myself.


Few orbits later, my second big hand of the day was against one of the best players at the table who had been bullying me a bit and I decided I needed to take a stand against him. His range was super wide, he had raised several times with 32s, J9s type hands and won a few pots with post flop aggression.

I'm in the HJ w JT and raise to $100, he is on the BTN and 3-bets to $300, I call. Eff stacks $2.5k, I cover him.

Flop($600) A Q 7
I lead out $525, he calls

Turn($1150) 7
I shove putting him all-in for $1500-ish, he tanks for about a minute and then calls

River($5k-ish) 3 BINK FFFFFUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!

I turn over JT he gives me the "You effing donk" look and then complains to his neighbor that you can't beat bad players... I felt pretty good about this shove. I didn't think he had two pair and I felt I should have decent fold equity since pot is $1.5k-ish and he had $2k-ish behind.

After the above hand I really started to get a much better feel for the table. Essentially, once someone calls a decent sized bet, they just aren't folding. Period.

Now, onto what I'd like to call my Prison Rape of the day

My image was definitely bouncing back and forth from super donk to semi-nit but I got the sense for the most part players viewed my raising range as typical JJ+, AK/AQ...

So, I got 65 UTG and raised to $150, UTG+1 calls, HJ calls, 3 way action.
UTG is a very decent ABC TAG and older gentleman. I know he has seen me get it in with the flush draws and is probably chomping at the bit to get it in with me since my image to him should definitely seem donkish... eff stacks $5.5k, I cover.

Flop($450) J 3 2
I chk, UTG+1 bets $250, HJ calls, and I call. Yes, that's right, I'm chasing that gutshot for one street. Yes, I know I don't want to see the 4 . But i also know if I bink this 4 I stack him since his range is AJ, KJ, and sets and that if I jam it he will 100% put me on a draw...

Turn(1200) 4
I chk, UTG+1 bets $600, BTN folds, I tank c/r to $1700, V raises to $3,000, I tank, check my cards just to make sure I have that beautiful 65s and then I shove, he snap calls.

River($12k-ish) 9
I show the nuts and he loses his cool and throws his cards into the muck. I knew that hand came out of nowhere.

So now I'm sitting on about $14k-ish and have probably jizzed myself several times already. I lose a few hundred and then I get AQ in the HJ.

MP raises to $100, I 3-bet to $300, BB calls, MP calls eff stacks $3k

Flop($900) A K 6
chks to me, I bet $600, BB c/r to $1600 and has $1k behind, MP folds, I put him all in, he calls.

Turn and river brick out he had AK

So, that hit dropped me to around $11k-ish and that was that, I racked up and called it a day.


SUMMARY/ANALYSIS

This session I was definitely put to the test playing against 2 players in particular who were better than me along with a much tougher table. I was forced to dial back my post flop LAG (my kung fu not stronger than theirs) and revert to a more solid TAG style. I struggled initially and was down to $1.5k at one point but I was determined to stick with it, figure out the adjustments I needed to make, and fight back. So the fact that I was able to grind back up from $1.5k to $14k+ on a super tough table really makes me feel like this isn't a fluke and that I belong here. Time will tell. On the whole I have a much better feel for this game now and look forward to the next shot. WSOP is coming up and I won't be here next Friday, so I will probably take a shot Wednesday if I run good tomorrow and Tuesday.

Oh, and here is what $11k looks like (I had a few white chips in my pocket when I took this pic) I didn't want to take a picture at the table since I thought that would look very noobish, so I took the chips to an empty pitgame table...

browns are $10, beige are $5, blues are $1

Anyways, thanks everyone for your support (especially Dom who was my guardian angel railbirding me)

Hope the run good continues and spills over into my WSOP trip

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And that's why they call it a gutshot nh. Sick sessions keep up the run good, Bobby's Room watch out!

Why did you show after folding the set?

It was a bad show, kinda the result of me being a bit uncomfortable, my jitters, and also a bit of tiny testicle donk tilt...

No excuse really, after I showed, I was thinking, "Damn, you shouldn't have showed, especially at this table..."

Because of this, I took a break walked around, talked to Dom about the play and reset/refocused, got back to the table and changed gears and started cruising...

but yeah, that show was bad and a mistake and I think really just a product of me being uncomfortable. But now, I feel like I belong there so I shouldn't make that mistake again...

DGI, I thought of you today.

I have A/10 clubs OTB. ($300 stack.)

4 limps, I make it $17 to go, call station villian with $400 calls.

Flop is 10/7/2 rainbow.

Check to me, I bet $35, villian calls.

Turn is a 2, check to me, I bet $100, villian calls.

River is a Q, villian checks to me, I go all in, villian calls.

I table A/10, villian slams his K/10 down in disgust.

PRISON RAPE COMPLETE.

WAY TO ROCK, YOU DICK RIPPER...YOU!!!

stop folding the nuts, you prison raped yourself

It was crazy today. There were 5 or 6 weaker 10/25 players (I consider anyone I would be comfortable playing against a weak player by 10/25 standards) there today, but none were on DGIHarris's table.

I could see he was not quite as comfortable as last week when he looked like he had been playing there for years. I just want to give him big props for beating one helluva tough game even when not playing his A game.

Wow that sounded like a sick session, congratulations!

you should have took the picture of the chips at the table to tilt the 5/10 regs imo

GL on the next shot!

DGI,

Please remember me when you start making millions.

I don't watch television, so you are and have been my favorite poker player for years.

I've actually thread stalked you ever since I first joined this site just to read everything you type.

I have full confidence you will crush.

Ty for making this thread.