its pretty tough at the tables to eat. I always would pack tons of nuts to much on (cashews, pecans, almonds NO PEANUTS) when i played mtts. sometimes I'd make some cobb salad and **** like that to keep in the car to run to on meal breaks. hard boiled eggs and bacon are my go to in the AM when i'm in a rush. it can be done the night before and ready to go in one minute in the AM. also very healthy and gets the day going right.

Yeah, or even away from the tables for 15-20 minutes. Definitely no peanuts - those are legumes! You'd eat the bacon cold at breakfast? No microwave in the rooms at the Borgata...

no cold bacon.

I'll eat it cold in a salad, but I can't think of any other way haha.

I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!!!!!!!!!!

USA! USA! USA!

I'm finally back at the Borgata ready to obliterate anyone who stands in my way at 1/2.

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I'ma stay away from your table then.

I'd rather not get obliterated.

Get em Cuse, GL tonight.

Clearly none of them read this thread. They keep trying to bluff me! Hero calls up in here!

You either go busto the hero or chip up long enough to become the villain!

i'd always bluff a call station

The 1 seat purses his lips and grimaces when he hits a hand. The 4 seat massively over bets his big hands then winks and smiles and says stupid stuff. The 8 seat moans when he makes the nuts. I observe, converse, and stack chips.

What table # are you at?
And Is there an open seat?

Are you here for real? I don't know the number... out near the front opposite the cage. No open seats.

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Now we have an open seat. It was vacated by a meth head. You don't want it though I have relative position on it and I'm in beast mode!

Maybe.

I just left the game is about to break.

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Okay I won't make the trip over. Gl to you sir.

I'll be around tomorrow too, so if you're here tomorrow PM me or post in here and come say whats up.

Looks like the old Cuse is back...and he's pumped. Better. Stronger. Faster.

Session reports should be coming soon...

Running awful today but grinding away at em and hanging tough. Definitely trip reports to come!

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Spent many hours over the last few days reading. Congrats on the progress

June 27 - “Shake hands, make friends like it’s all innocent.” – Jay-Z

It’d obviously been a while since I had a session, as I’ve been super busy with the broadcasting. I was doing the math last night, I think something like 40-50 hours were added to my broadcasting schedule, so it really cut into everything else. I also had MAJOR insomnia issues recently that basically wiped out 3-4 days of possible play or business work.

So anyway, I was rested up and fired up when I walked in. I sit down and before I play a hand, I see a guy in a hand where the flop is T62 and he leads out and gets a couple calls. The turn is a 5, and I just instantly know he absolutely SMASHED that turn. I put him on 34 and wonder what kind of moron leads 34o multi-way on the flop with a gutterball. But I’m just sure he has it. The money goes in and he does. So I have a read on him right off the bat.

Hand No. 1
A little later I make it $12 UTG with KQ. UTG+1 makes it $25 and it folds to me. I hate these spots, because I really can’t fold getting that price, and he’s a kind of spewy Romanian guy. He’s playing really aggro and I’m assuming some of it is spew but it hasn’t been shown yet. He’s dressed kinda like a hot shot with an unlit cigarette, shades on the table and some tattoos. I call.

Flop ($48): K95

I check and he plays with his chips for a bit, cuts out $40, then takes $20 and comes forward, goes back and grabs the other $20 and slides it forward. I was folding to the $40, but he’s angle shooting – he obviously plays enough to know a string bet. Thus, I feel like he wants me to think he’s strong. I call.

Turn ($88): 9

I check and he bets $45. I stick with my read and call.

River ($178): 3

I check and he jams for $75. I snap, and he says nice call and mucks and walks away.

Don’t try to bluff cuserounder, folks! Clearly he doesn’t read this thread.

Hand No. 2

There’s a straddle and I’m in the SB. Four players call and I call with T9. The BB calls and the straddle checks.

Flop ($25): 762

I bet $17 and the BB calls. He has $260 behind. A player in LP raises to $40. He has $225 behind. I cover both of them. I have a read on him that he’s not strong and his hand is either a pair or a draw. It folds to me. I have lots of options available. I could call, but if I hit my draw with my read there are a lot of bigger flushes in his range. There’s basically $34+$40+$23+$25 in there, which is $122. I could make it like $140, but if he shoves I’m obviously never folding and a big part of my value is the fold equity. I ship it in. The first player folds and the raiser tanks and folds, showing the 7. “Nut flush draw, or a set, I guess,” he says. “Somewhere in between I tell him.”

“There’s a lot of hands in between,” he says. I shrug.

Hand No. 3

There’s a guy on my right from Texas drinking a Budweiser and wearing a fedora. When’s the last time you saw a good player wearing a fedora? Exactly.

He raises to $7 and I call with 99. The BB calls as well.

Flop ($19): A44

It checks through.

Turn ($19): 8

The blind checks, Texas fedora guy bets $11. I call, the BB folds.

River ($39): A

He bets $20 and I call, because his entire range is basically bluffs. He shows KQ. “Wow, nice call,” he says.

Obviously another guy who's never read this thread.

Hand No. 4

There’s a limp and Texas fedora guy raises to $10. I make it $30 with QQ. It folds to him and he raises to $75. I tank. He has about $350 to $375 behind. So even if I were playing only for set value, I’d be getting over 10-to-1 in a 4-bet pot where getting the money in will be easier. I decide to call for a little more than set value, but with plans to tread lightly. He’s glancing at me as the flop comes out and I’m watching him.

Flop ($150): 873

He thinks and checks and I think and check.

Turn ($150): 4

He bets $120. I tank and call. It seems odd that he’d not bet that flop with AA/KK, given the draws out.

River ($390): J

He quickly announces all-in and it’s $275. I tank, and tank. I can’t imagine he’d 4-bet AK or AQ and check that flop. I can’t imagine he’d take this line with AA/KK. So either he played something really weird or he has AK, no flush, and is bluffing. He could have the A as well. Maybe he has JJ and spiked the set?

I tank some more and basically decide it’s a small percentage of weirdly played AA/KK/AK, and some JJ and a lot of bluffs. I take in a physical read – a small one I haven’t correlated yet, but it’s weak. Slight though, and I don’t want to make a huge decision based on that.

“Will you show if I fold?” I ask.

He instantly nods and says nothing. I decide I’m calling, but run through the hand one more time to make sure I’m not missing anything, and so he doesn’t know I made the decision based on that in case it comes up again. I call, and slide my chips forward.

He smiles and slides his cards toward the edge of the table. He stands up, smiles, and shakes my hand. I look at him, like “Uhh, what?”

He smiles and nods. “Good call,” he says. He still hasn’t mucked but he’s a nice dude and isn’t slow rolling me here, so I show. He smiles and shakes my hand and says nice call again, and walks away.

Half the table is like “Wow! What a call!”

The other half of the table is giving me the, “Dude, WTF took you so long you had an overpair and overpairs are THE NUTS!!!” look.

We found another dude who doesn't read this thread.

Hand No. 5

JoeyBlaze sat down at my table and we nodded at each other. He said what’s up and I said how’s it going man.

There are a few limpers and Joey raises to $15. I call in the BB with 44. The 10 seat and 1 seat call. The 10 seat is a decent recreational player and the 1 seat is really fishy. Joey is kind of new and may not have these reads yet.

Flop ($56): 964

I know that if I check, the 10-seat is checking like 95% of the time. The 1 seat may bet sometimes, but Joey is probably not firing a c-bet here unless he flopped strong or has an overpair. If I donk, he should call or raise an overpair. I donk $35 and the 10 seat calls. The 1 seat folds and Joey thinks and folds.

Turn ($126): K

I bet $80 and the 10 seat tanks. “What’s he doing to me?” he wonders. “Did you really hit that? I’m either about to make a great laydown or a great call.” He finally shows QQ and folds. “I was trapping you and I think you got lucky. Did you have the king?”

“Nope, no king,” I respond.

He gets upset and says he wishes he had raised me on the flop. Me, too. I asked Joey if he had AK and he said he had a pocket pair – so I’m guessing 88 or 77?

JoeyBlaze Doesn’t Know I Recognize Him

I start texting Duke, telling him to ask Joey if he’s in the 1 or 2 seat and say I told him those seats are big fish. He says he won’t do it and tells me to wink at Joey because Joey doesn’t know if I recognize him. I’m like Duke, we talked to each other, he must know I recognize him. He keeps trying to get me to wink at him.

I tell him to tell Joey I just donked air into a multiway pot, but he won’t do that either. He keeps trying to get me to wink and I’m like what’d you do, bet Joey that you could get me to wink at him?

A few minutes later I turn and Joey table changed without saying bye. Maybe he actually didn’t realize I recognized him? At the end of my session I found his table and said whats up so he’d know I knew who he was haha. Hopefully he doesn’t think I was blowing him off.

For future reference if any of you land at my table and I recognize you, I’ll say whats up but that’s about it - I try not to give off a really reggy, I know everyone cause we play all the time kind of image.

Playing Poker Against a Recently Incarcerated Methhead

So this guy sits down and starts putting on a one man show. He’s clearly high on something. He can’t sit still, he’s twitching and gyrating and jumping out of his seat and sitting down and sweating profusely. I’m guessing he was either on meth or crack, but who knows. He’s playing relatively well. A little too loose preflop, and he’s chasing down too many gutshots and such, but he’s overbet jamming the nuts every time he gets them and sometimes getting paid. Then he looks at you and winks and smiles and raises his eyebrows. He starts talking to you like crazy, too. One guy folds two pair to his rivered straight and he shows. He tells us he just got out of “the pen,” after a five-year bid. Meanwhile, his pregnant wife is sitting against the wall, clearly pissed at him and trying to get him to leave.

I get in a pot with him where the flop is 322. It’s a limped pot and when the flop comes out I read that he hit it. It checks to me with 78o and I check. The turn is an 8. I’m in position and it checks to me again. I bet like $10 and when it’s on him he raises to $100 and goes into his routine. I wait about 15 seconds and fold, and he says he won’t show me and curses at me for no apparent reason. Then as he forcefully throws his cards down, a deuce flashes and I start laughing, which pisses him off a bit.

Later he’s in the bathroom and a player that just sat down deadpans, “Are you allowed to smoke meth in here?”

We laugh and I say, “No, it’s a no-smoking area, you have to go around the corner.”

Hand No. 6

There are three limps and I make it $15 with AJ. Meth dude raises to $32. I call. He doesn’t have a big pair, or he’d have made it like $150.

Flop ($71): T96

He checks, I think and check.

Turn ($71): 4

He bets $25. I think a bit and raise to $75. I know he’d have bet well over $100 with 99+, and probably more with a spade draw. He looks upset, counts chips, thinks and says “Fine, take it,” as he fires his cards into the muck.

He table changes a bit later and the game isn’t as good, so I decide to get a good night’s sleep. I rack up $931.

Results: +$631 in 4 hours

Nice session. I've missed these detailed session reports!

Great session and an awesome writeup.

Was pretty sure you recognized me haha. Just not completely cause I was wearing a hat and glasses this time.

I just said I had a pair that hand. J9s.

Kinda regretted that table change. I should have just seat changed to the meth head's left.

I'll prob be back there again in a couple weeks. Games are top notch at Borgata this time of year.