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Originally Posted by Danger!
The MSPT site only lists two flights. 4:00 pm Fri. and Sat. And yes Evansville is one hour behind us.
@Danger! I was reading the schedule on my phone and had the times mixed up. Thanks for looking out. I’ll b playing 4p Friday as well. Say whats up. GL.
@tswpoker thanks man. Juicy games and $230k bbj (if it didn’t hit already) = I may have to play a little cash then.
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Originally Posted by blufforbebluffed
so how married are you to AK? I'm sure it's situational but do you always call AIPF if you're head up? I think it's the most overplayed and underplayed hand.
@blufforbbluffed If I get caught up in the hand where I already invested money in the pot, and the math says it doesn't make since to fold AK, then I'm calling aipf every time. If I'm last to act w no money in, and someone is already all in for lots, then I'm folding AK every time. It's just not worth it. Bad spot. I like to find gd spots.
@Moaurlawn thanks. Btw, I respect a lot of our poker convos. U know tourney strategy like no other. Cash too.
Hard to Run a Business in a Poker Room
Yesterday the poker room was crazy. Somehow I left the there with 2 vehicles. That’s correct, I bought a Jeep Wrangler off a random poker player I was playing against.
Lets start at the top... 7am older daughter on the bus, then take younger one to daycare. 9a get to the poker room right as they start the first 1/2nl table.
My timing is impeccable. Grind to about 1p and win $194 just by playing solid poker. No interesting spots or hands to discuss. 1:30p the first 2/5 table opens up. I grind for about 4hrs, and win $265. At one point though I was up $1100ish, but lost $1k on this hand…
We r playing 2/5/winner straddle, and button straddles $25, I call w K
J
from utg+1, Middle position raises to $75. Button Straddler calls, I call. 3 handed w me/$2k stack, CO/$1k stack, button/$2k stack. Pot is $225 and the flop comes 7
Q
9
. I check the gut straight nut draw/2nd nut flush draw/one over, cutoff makes it $175, active button calls 175, and back to me. I see nearly $600 in the pot and try to go ahead and take it down w a verbal “all in”. If my shove gets called then I still hv a big draw, and near about flipping (42%dog) against all hands. If I’m up against sets then 34%dog. I like my play, but didn’t like seeing the hand that called me. CO tanks, and tanks, and then looks at his remaining $800 in chips and finally pushes them in the middle. His A
7
was not what I wanted to see! This the absolute worse hand I can be up against. Turns out, this hand makes me a worse dog than if I was up against a set. 31% dog according to poker calc. Board runs out Q turn, Q river. Ace hi wins.
3p a recreational player sits in the 5 seat. It doesn’t take but 3 hands before his phone starts ringing. I noticed “recreation poker guy” is actually a “used car salesman guy”. He was averaging 2 calls an orbit, and more car jargon was spoken than the other 8 players could handle. Seat 6 requested a seat change 10 mins after “car guy” sat down. “Car guy” shouted to every potential buyer on the other end of the phone as if they were under water. The phone convos were heard by all players at the table (perhaps other tables too) whether u wanted to hear it or not. "Car guy" was easily taking more calls about from customers than playing hands. After a few more deafening phone calls, it didn’t take long to find out that he owns a used car lot, and just came across this crazy deal on a perfect 1998 Jeep Wrangler a couple days ago. W only 95k miles, priced to quick sale, great shape, it’s a bargain for anyone. So in between hands I listen to him talk to a few guys on the phone about this particular Jeep. As I eavesdrop I’m gaining more information on this Wrangler and it's actually starting to catch my attention. A couple orbits later I know more about this Jeep than I wanted to know, and now contemplating if I shd make this guy an offer. I had a Jeep very similar to what he was selling back in the day, so I had a little knowledge about this vehicle. I’m thinking I can perhaps make a buck off this vehicle, or drive it for awhile. I ended up taking a little break from the table to do some further research. I walk out on the deck of the boat, and check out some key #s on my phone. I wd say I spent about 20mins looking at Kelly blue book, and comparing it to similar Jeeps on Autotrader. After doing my homework, I decided to go back to the table and get more of a feel off the "car hustler". 4p I ask the “car guy” if he has a picture of this “perfect” jeep, so he hands me his phone w a few pics. He then tells me he drove it here, and if I’m interested we can go look at it. Then he gives me the “car hustle” talk…never been wrecked, no leaks, no dings, no rust, clean title, 2 owners, etc. etc. He mentioned he has the title on hand, and he wd gv me a deal of a lifetime. So I was thinking if I can get a gd deal on this thing, I’ll gv it a look. 5:30p I cash out and take the Jeep for a lengthy test drive down country roads. I got a really gd vibe on this Jeep, but more importantly I was starting to get gd vibes off the “car guy”. After test driving the Jeep, it was surprisingly even nicer than I anticipated. When I keyed in the info on kbb I used all the low sides to b on the safe side. But when I drove it, I noticed it was in great condition instead of fair, roll down windows instead of zip downs, cd player w blue tooth, great tires, handles great, etc. In poker talk, it feels like I just hit a 2 outer. I played the “I’m not too interested game”, but told him if u want to get rid of it right now, then I’ll gv u an offer. I got the vibes that he needed money now, and was a little desperate. I tell him that I wd give him $45hundred for this cd player, and $500 for this Jeep (package deal only of course, meaning I don’t want just the cd player for $4500). It was a $5k take it, or leave it offer. “Car guy” was asking $5800, and after tanking (lol) and tanking he said OK. Mayb him losing a bit in the 2/5nl game may have swayed his decision.
Today I took the Jeep to get cleaned up, topped off, and titled. Taxes on $500.00 wasn’t bad
, registration not too bad either. Under $100 for tags, title, registration and out the door.
Runs like a champ, and no check engine lights (inside joke). Now I’m not sure if I want to drive it for awhile or sell it on Craigs for $6k+. At least I know I’m free rolling on this one.
somehow I make up to $5k/yr just being in the poker room and finding opportunities.
With all that said, I will b dumping my Jeep profit on the Mid Stakes Poker Tournament tomorrow. $1100 main event buy n & $100k guarantee prize pool. @Tropican Evansville. Gonna be playing my heart out like champions do! Let's get it. Gl @danger! and @hello7027 as well, and any other 2+2ers playing the MSPT this weekend.
*btw, I wd have paid upwards to $5500 for the Jeep.
@Rayzrayl