2014: I Ain’t Trying to Survive, I’m Trying to Live it to The (No) Limit
07-05-2014
, 09:51 PM
07-05-2014
, 10:05 PM
No no, haven't heard a word from Duke...even his crazy mind isn't depraved enough to come up with a prop bet like this.
07-05-2014
, 10:42 PM
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Meh, maybe 50 hours is too much. 25 hours? $500 is a chunk of your guys' bankrolls...and since you guys are friends, its nice to have a very humiliating caveat to allow your friend a way out should the money hurt them too bad. Maybe it's just me, but I'd much prefer the opportunity to laugh at a friend (hysterically) rather than take their money...and of course, the option rests in the hands of the loser.
No no, haven't heard a word from Duke...even his crazy mind isn't depraved enough to come up with a prop bet like this.
No no, haven't heard a word from Duke...even his crazy mind isn't depraved enough to come up with a prop bet like this.
The only way it really hurts our rolls is if someone goes busto. If I go busto I'll be out of poker and able to afford it out of my liferoll, but that's never going to happen. If he goes busto he would sell his car to get back in the game and thus $500 isn't a big part of his new roll either (less than 10 percent probably).
If it seems like he'd be hurt more by it in that scenario, it's worth noting that he challenged me and he picked the stakes.
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07-06-2014
, 04:38 PM
July 5 - "You know it's real when your latest nights are your greatest nights. / The sun is up when you get home, that's just the way of life."
That was the view when I got into my room to crash. I tend to really do well in marathon sessions, so it's true that my latest nights are often my greatest nights. Would tonight be one of them?
After battling a little holiday traffic, I got out to the Borgata and found myself on a long waitlist. After about 20 minutes, I got into a new game starting up. Then, on the very first hand...
Hand No. 1
An old guy in EP makes it $5 and I make it $15 with A
K He's the only caller.
Flop ($29): A
K
J
He checks, I bet $20 and he calls.
Turn ($68): 5
He bets $65, leaving $100 behind. I shove, he snap calls. I show, he nods.
River ($398): Brick
He turns over JJ.
He folds the next hand, then racks up and gets a table change.
Hand No. 2
Two limps and I make it $15 with KK. The button, an old man, raises to $45. It folds to me and I flat. He's got like $150-$170 behind, and I want to keep my hand a little disguised and check-raise all-in on most flops.
Flop ($92): AQ5
I check, he bets $50 and I fold. AK got there, AQ got there, QQ got there and I can't imagine JJ is betting.
Hand No. 3
I'm in EP and make it $10 with AQ. Two friends call, one is a passive fish and the other is a spewy fish.
Flop ($27): 578
Their preflop ranges are basically like any two cards, and the spewy one will float with gutshots, overs, etc, so I bet $20 after the spewy one checks to me. Both call.
Turn ($86): Q
Check, I bet $55. The passive one folds and the spewy one calls.
River ($196): T
He checks, I bet $100. "I'll see it," he says as he calls. I show and I'm good.
Hand No. 4
There are two limps and a fishy player on the button makes it $15. He's a young white kid who I've played with before. I call in the SB with AT. The CO calls. He's a loose-passive black guy in a track jacket.
Flop ($46): KK7
It checks through.
Turn ($46): 5
I check, the CO checks and the button bets $15. I raise to $65 and they both fold.
Hand No. 5
The guy in the CO on the last hand raises to $12 in EP. He's been limping wide, but hasn't ranged much. I call in MP with 77. The SB calls.
Flop ($34): 963
The PFR bets $17. He feels weak, and I really don't feel like he has an overpair. I flat, planning to take it away on most turns. The SB folds.
Turn ($67): 6
The PFR bets $30. I put him on two overs, possibly a club draw, and flat call.
River ($127): 9
He bets $30. This is a weird spot where it feels like a blocking bet and I'm thinking A high. He really shouldn't show up with a 9 or 6 very often, so I call. He shows 56 and I adjust his EP raising range.
An Unplanned Dinner Break
I get up to take a walk and go eat my two hard-boiled eggs that I packed. I go outside to eat them and decide to walk through the cafeteria and see when Lettuce Head closes and possibly get a wrap to stick in my bag for later. They're closed, so I decide I better eat the only other remotely healthy option now (Hibachi) rather than being stuck with Fatburger in the middle of the night. It gives me about a 45 minute break, then it's back at it.
Hand No. 6
The villain from hand 5 limps, and I raise to $12 with AQ hoping to iso and get position. The HJ calls, the BB calls and the limper calls. The BB is a new player from while I was gone, and he looks touristy..com
Flop ($44): AQT
It checks to me and I bet $30. The HJ folds, the BB calls, the limper folds.
Turn ($104): 3
The HJ moves all-in for just over $200. I think for a little bit. I guess KJ and 33 are possible, or TT. But, umm, what? Who takes a check-call, jam 2x pot line with the nuts or close to it? Who takes a check-call, jam 2x pot line period? I'll tell you who. People who can't play poker. I call.
River ($504ish): J
That's not a pretty card, but he shows QJo, and I scoop it with top two.
Hand No. 7
We're 7-handed and the villain from the last hand makes it $10 UTG. I call in position with Jdiamond:9.
Flop ($20): T85
He checks and I consider checking behind so he doesn't like overbet jam me off the pot. I decide I have to bet at it though, and fire $12. He calls.
Turn ($42): Q
He checks, I bet $30 and he calls.
River ($102): 3
He checks. I think for a bit and bet $100. He thinks for like 10 seconds and calls, and my hand is good. I actually think I could have gotten more on the river. I left him like $80 behind.
Hand No. 8
Our table is short handed (5 or 6) and the play is deteriorating rapidly. Having logged millions of 6max hands online, I LOVE it when tables get short, aside from worrying about them breaking. People just start doing idiotic s***.
It limps to my BB with K6
Flop ($8): 853
I check, UTG bets $2, and it folds to me. Normally I'd raise but I decide if I hit a backdoor draw and he has a piece, I can win a nice pot. I call.
Turn ($11): A
I check, he bets $2. I call. Wheeee.
River ($15): 9
I'm thinking about whether to bet, and planning on doing so, when he fires out $10. Thanks for acting out of turn buddy! I think for a bit and raise to $40. He quickly ships like $90. I double check the board. Not paired. No straight flushes. Yup, I have the nuts, I call and quickly table. He shows Q7.
Staying Deep
That table breaks, and I ask the floor in the back if I can move up front somewhere that I can match a big stack, as I have like $800-900 on the table at this point. He says no, the game in the back is short. I stand there like a doofus (on purpose) for like 20 seconds as everyone else from my game sits.
"Is it still the shortest?" I ask.
"I don't know," he says.
There are like 3 open seats. Then I hear over the speaker.
"RBJ, AR, JS, 1-2 No Limit, head to the back for table 56."
"How about now?"
So by waiting around like I don't know what to do for about a minute, I get two +EV things to happen. One, I keep my stack. Two, I move up front. My Borgata 1-2 grinders know what this one is about, and to the rest, trade secrets!
I manage to keep like $600 on the table.
Hand No. 9
I sit down and see some old friends. On my left is the spewy guy from the beginning of the night. Two to my right is QJ 2x pot guy. Niiice.
QJ overbet guy opens to $10. He's got like $400 in front of him and probably won't for long, so I call with 34. The BB comes along. He seems like a tight rec-fish from appearances alone.
Flop ($27): A27
It checks to me, I bet $20. The BB calls. The fish folds.
Turn ($66): 8
He checks, I bet $40 and he snap calls.
River ($146): J
He checks. I think for a bit and decide $80 is a good number. He thinks for a bit. "Damn, I had you on AJ, too."
He calls. I show, and he's like "That works too."
I love when people put you on a hand, can't beat it, still call, and you've got the hand they put you on crushed.
Hand No. 10
There's a guy playing like a total maniac. He's shipped it in with 66 pre over a 3bet (and outran AA), jammed over a 3bet again, and shipped it in on the flop a couple times. He limps, and there are a couple other limpers. I over limp T7.
Flop ($13): Q85
It checks to me and I bet $10. There's a call behind me ($80 behind), a call in the blinds from a tight player ($400) behind, and the maniac jams $113. I tank a bit, because I feel like I can't flat call and I need a raise amount. The pot is around $240 before my raise, and I make it $260 total. The guy behind me snap calls, and the deep stack snap folds.
I forget if it bricks out or the board pairs, but my hand is good. I'm assuming the guy with $80 had the A and the maniac claimed 63 but who knows.
Later, the maniac straddles and I pick up JJ and make it $16. There's a call and the maniac ships blind for like $150. I call, and the player behind calls all-in with AK. The maniac has two unders and doesn't get there, but the guy with AK flops an A.
Hand No. 11
I pick up AK and make it $12 after one limp. There are three calls.
Flop ($45): K74
It checks to me, I bet $30 and a tight-aggressive kid makes it $80. He bought in for $100 and has like $70ish behind now. He jammed over a c-bet on a KQJ flop and showed the A. Thus I know he's capable of doing this with top pair or perhaps a draw. There are a lot of draws out, although I'm not sure if he'd play 56o. I do think he'd raise with KQ and maybe even KJ. I ship it in, he snaps. He has 77, the turn is a 7. He starts yelling, "Give him quads!" and I don't spoil his fun by telling him we're nowhere near live for the bad beat.
Table Goes Downhill
Our table is getting tight and even the spots are too tired to do much. I go to the floor for our area, who tends to be a stickler for the rules to the point of berating new players who have never been in a poker room before for sitting without checking with him. However, when you politely ask him for something, he's very good at his job and will do it. I ask him for a table change, and tell him I'm the short game so can he let me know when it's available. He proceeds to watch like a hawk for me, so kudos to him on that. Most floors in this spot will say they'll do it then forget.
A few minutes later he gets me the change, and instead of sending me to the short game (which looks mediocre), he sits two new players there and offers me my pick of the other side of the room. I'm not sure if he was intentionally doing me a favor or not, but he definitely did, as the good games were over there.
New Game
I got tired and didn't take notes, but like three hands in I 3bet AA and got two calls. The flop was J high, it checked to me and I bet $50 into $75 and got one call. The turn is a brick and the guy check-folds to my $75 - trying to leave him room to jam with effective stack sizes. He claims 72 (air) and says my watching him when the flop came down made him scared to make a move.
Later, a bad short-stack slow plays bottom set and when he jams the turn against my top pair and gutshot, I am getting like 4-to-1 and call. I hit it, and he gets pissed. He begins calling all my raises. On a K22 flop, I lead out for like $25 into $40ish with KJ, and he ships $100 more. I tank and call, thinking he's pissed so his range opens up. Turn K, river 8 and he says 6 high as I show my full house. He doesn't realize it is a boat, and then sarcastically says, "flush." So it's like.. "6 high... FLUSH!"
Isn't it fun being slowrolled when you have the nuts? I tap the K on the table and say, "Full house." He gets more angry and leaves.
Later, I squeeze in position due to raise sizing with K7. The SB calls and the raiser calls. It's like a $75 pot and I flop a flush draw. I bet when checked to and the SB calls. I barrel the turn and he folds.
Last hand I recall... There are two limps, relatively tight players, and I make it $15 with T7. Two calls.
Flop ($42): KT5
It checks to me and I bet $30. The guy in the blinds fold and the tight limper calls. He's got over 1K and I've got like $700+ so we're really deep.
Turn ($102): Brick
He checks. I think his range is draws and Kx, but he is unlikely to have AK or KQ. He would have raised KT or K5 or a set, I think. Thus he has a lot of hands I beat and a lot of hands that can't call a barrel this deep. I bet $65. He thinks a bit, flashes QJo and folds.
Running Good
Around 7am I went to pre-register the room to avoid lines, and they told me they actually had a room ready. I snap-called and moved my bag up to my room. I went back and played another 30 minutes and racked up. There was one spot at the table when I left, but I felt like getting in the games today around 5pm instead of 11pm was definitely the right move. So instead of one huge marathon and a shorter session today, it'll be one marathon and one quasi-marathon.
Results: +$834 in 13 hours, 10 minutes of playing time. The full session length was 14 hours, 48 minutes. I'm using full session length with breaks for my monthly volume goals, but actual playing time for the prop bet with Duke.
Prop Bet To Date: +$1,000 in 20 hours, 5 minutes. (Not accounting for tips or rake, so unofficially $49.80/hr or 24.9 bb/hour.)
That was the view when I got into my room to crash. I tend to really do well in marathon sessions, so it's true that my latest nights are often my greatest nights. Would tonight be one of them?
After battling a little holiday traffic, I got out to the Borgata and found myself on a long waitlist. After about 20 minutes, I got into a new game starting up. Then, on the very first hand...
Hand No. 1
An old guy in EP makes it $5 and I make it $15 with A
K He's the only caller.Flop ($29): A
KJHe checks, I bet $20 and he calls.
Turn ($68): 5
He bets $65, leaving $100 behind. I shove, he snap calls. I show, he nods.
River ($398): Brick
He turns over JJ.
He folds the next hand, then racks up and gets a table change.
Hand No. 2
Two limps and I make it $15 with K
K. The button, an old man, raises to $45. It folds to me and I flat. He's got like $150-$170 behind, and I want to keep my hand a little disguised and check-raise all-in on most flops.Flop ($92): A
Q5I check, he bets $50 and I fold. AK got there, AQ got there, QQ got there and I can't imagine JJ is betting.
Hand No. 3
I'm in EP and make it $10 with A
Q. Two friends call, one is a passive fish and the other is a spewy fish.Flop ($27): 5
78Their preflop ranges are basically like any two cards, and the spewy one will float with gutshots, overs, etc, so I bet $20 after the spewy one checks to me. Both call.
Turn ($86): Q
Check, I bet $55. The passive one folds and the spewy one calls.
River ($196): T
He checks, I bet $100. "I'll see it," he says as he calls. I show and I'm good.
Hand No. 4
There are two limps and a fishy player on the button makes it $15. He's a young white kid who I've played with before. I call in the SB with A
T. The CO calls. He's a loose-passive black guy in a track jacket.Flop ($46): K
K7It checks through.
Turn ($46): 5
I check, the CO checks and the button bets $15. I raise to $65 and they both fold.
Hand No. 5
The guy in the CO on the last hand raises to $12 in EP. He's been limping wide, but hasn't ranged much. I call in MP with 7
7. The SB calls.Flop ($34): 9
63The PFR bets $17. He feels weak, and I really don't feel like he has an overpair. I flat, planning to take it away on most turns. The SB folds.
Turn ($67): 6
The PFR bets $30. I put him on two overs, possibly a club draw, and flat call.
River ($127): 9
He bets $30. This is a weird spot where it feels like a blocking bet and I'm thinking A high. He really shouldn't show up with a 9 or 6 very often, so I call. He shows 5
6 and I adjust his EP raising range.An Unplanned Dinner Break
I get up to take a walk and go eat my two hard-boiled eggs that I packed. I go outside to eat them and decide to walk through the cafeteria and see when Lettuce Head closes and possibly get a wrap to stick in my bag for later. They're closed, so I decide I better eat the only other remotely healthy option now (Hibachi) rather than being stuck with Fatburger in the middle of the night. It gives me about a 45 minute break, then it's back at it.
Hand No. 6
The villain from hand 5 limps, and I raise to $12 with A
Q hoping to iso and get position. The HJ calls, the BB calls and the limper calls. The BB is a new player from while I was gone, and he looks touristy..comFlop ($44): A
QTIt checks to me and I bet $30. The HJ folds, the BB calls, the limper folds.
Turn ($104): 3
The HJ moves all-in for just over $200. I think for a little bit. I guess KJ and 33 are possible, or TT. But, umm, what? Who takes a check-call, jam 2x pot line with the nuts or close to it? Who takes a check-call, jam 2x pot line period? I'll tell you who. People who can't play poker. I call.
River ($504ish): J
That's not a pretty card, but he shows QJo, and I scoop it with top two.
Hand No. 7
We're 7-handed and the villain from the last hand makes it $10 UTG. I call in position with J
diamond:9.Flop ($20): T
85He checks and I consider checking behind so he doesn't like overbet jam me off the pot. I decide I have to bet at it though, and fire $12. He calls.
Turn ($42): Q
He checks, I bet $30 and he calls.
River ($102): 3
He checks. I think for a bit and bet $100. He thinks for like 10 seconds and calls, and my hand is good. I actually think I could have gotten more on the river. I left him like $80 behind.
Hand No. 8
Our table is short handed (5 or 6) and the play is deteriorating rapidly. Having logged millions of 6max hands online, I LOVE it when tables get short, aside from worrying about them breaking. People just start doing idiotic s***.
It limps to my BB with K
6Flop ($8): 8
53I check, UTG bets $2, and it folds to me. Normally I'd raise but I decide if I hit a backdoor draw and he has a piece, I can win a nice pot. I call.
Turn ($11): A
I check, he bets $2. I call. Wheeee.
River ($15): 9
I'm thinking about whether to bet, and planning on doing so, when he fires out $10. Thanks for acting out of turn buddy! I think for a bit and raise to $40. He quickly ships like $90. I double check the board. Not paired. No straight flushes. Yup, I have the nuts, I call and quickly table. He shows Q
7. Staying Deep
That table breaks, and I ask the floor in the back if I can move up front somewhere that I can match a big stack, as I have like $800-900 on the table at this point. He says no, the game in the back is short. I stand there like a doofus (on purpose) for like 20 seconds as everyone else from my game sits.
"Is it still the shortest?" I ask.
"I don't know," he says.
There are like 3 open seats. Then I hear over the speaker.
"RBJ, AR, JS, 1-2 No Limit, head to the back for table 56."
"How about now?"
So by waiting around like I don't know what to do for about a minute, I get two +EV things to happen. One, I keep my stack. Two, I move up front. My Borgata 1-2 grinders know what this one is about, and to the rest, trade secrets!
I manage to keep like $600 on the table.
Hand No. 9
I sit down and see some old friends. On my left is the spewy guy from the beginning of the night. Two to my right is QJ 2x pot guy. Niiice.
QJ overbet guy opens to $10. He's got like $400 in front of him and probably won't for long, so I call with 3
4. The BB comes along. He seems like a tight rec-fish from appearances alone.Flop ($27): A
27It checks to me, I bet $20. The BB calls. The fish folds.
Turn ($66): 8
He checks, I bet $40 and he snap calls.
River ($146): J
He checks. I think for a bit and decide $80 is a good number. He thinks for a bit. "Damn, I had you on AJ, too."
He calls. I show, and he's like "That works too."
I love when people put you on a hand, can't beat it, still call, and you've got the hand they put you on crushed.
Hand No. 10
There's a guy playing like a total maniac. He's shipped it in with 66 pre over a 3bet (and outran AA), jammed over a 3bet again, and shipped it in on the flop a couple times. He limps, and there are a couple other limpers. I over limp T
7.Flop ($13): Q
85It checks to me and I bet $10. There's a call behind me ($80 behind), a call in the blinds from a tight player ($400) behind, and the maniac jams $113. I tank a bit, because I feel like I can't flat call and I need a raise amount. The pot is around $240 before my raise, and I make it $260 total. The guy behind me snap calls, and the deep stack snap folds.
I forget if it bricks out or the board pairs, but my hand is good. I'm assuming the guy with $80 had the A
and the maniac claimed 63 but who knows.Later, the maniac straddles and I pick up JJ and make it $16. There's a call and the maniac ships blind for like $150. I call, and the player behind calls all-in with AK. The maniac has two unders and doesn't get there, but the guy with AK flops an A.
Hand No. 11
I pick up A
K and make it $12 after one limp. There are three calls.Flop ($45): K
74It checks to me, I bet $30 and a tight-aggressive kid makes it $80. He bought in for $100 and has like $70ish behind now. He jammed over a c-bet on a K
QJ flop and showed the A. Thus I know he's capable of doing this with top pair or perhaps a draw. There are a lot of draws out, although I'm not sure if he'd play 56o. I do think he'd raise with KQ and maybe even KJ. I ship it in, he snaps. He has 77, the turn is a 7. He starts yelling, "Give him quads!" and I don't spoil his fun by telling him we're nowhere near live for the bad beat.Table Goes Downhill
Our table is getting tight and even the spots are too tired to do much. I go to the floor for our area, who tends to be a stickler for the rules to the point of berating new players who have never been in a poker room before for sitting without checking with him. However, when you politely ask him for something, he's very good at his job and will do it. I ask him for a table change, and tell him I'm the short game so can he let me know when it's available. He proceeds to watch like a hawk for me, so kudos to him on that. Most floors in this spot will say they'll do it then forget.
A few minutes later he gets me the change, and instead of sending me to the short game (which looks mediocre), he sits two new players there and offers me my pick of the other side of the room. I'm not sure if he was intentionally doing me a favor or not, but he definitely did, as the good games were over there.
New Game
I got tired and didn't take notes, but like three hands in I 3bet AA and got two calls. The flop was J high, it checked to me and I bet $50 into $75 and got one call. The turn is a brick and the guy check-folds to my $75 - trying to leave him room to jam with effective stack sizes. He claims 7
2 (air) and says my watching him when the flop came down made him scared to make a move. Later, a bad short-stack slow plays bottom set and when he jams the turn against my top pair and gutshot, I am getting like 4-to-1 and call. I hit it, and he gets pissed. He begins calling all my raises. On a K
22 flop, I lead out for like $25 into $40ish with KJ, and he ships $100 more. I tank and call, thinking he's pissed so his range opens up. Turn K, river 8 and he says 6 high as I show my full house. He doesn't realize it is a boat, and then sarcastically says, "flush." So it's like.. "6 high... FLUSH!"Isn't it fun being slowrolled when you have the nuts? I tap the K on the table and say, "Full house." He gets more angry and leaves.
Later, I squeeze in position due to raise sizing with K
7. The SB calls and the raiser calls. It's like a $75 pot and I flop a flush draw. I bet when checked to and the SB calls. I barrel the turn and he folds.Last hand I recall... There are two limps, relatively tight players, and I make it $15 with T
7. Two calls.Flop ($42): K
T5It checks to me and I bet $30. The guy in the blinds fold and the tight limper calls. He's got over 1K and I've got like $700+ so we're really deep.
Turn ($102): Brick
He checks. I think his range is draws and Kx, but he is unlikely to have AK or KQ. He would have raised KT or K5 or a set, I think. Thus he has a lot of hands I beat and a lot of hands that can't call a barrel this deep. I bet $65. He thinks a bit, flashes QJo and folds.
Running Good
Around 7am I went to pre-register the room to avoid lines, and they told me they actually had a room ready. I snap-called and moved my bag up to my room. I went back and played another 30 minutes and racked up. There was one spot at the table when I left, but I felt like getting in the games today around 5pm instead of 11pm was definitely the right move. So instead of one huge marathon and a shorter session today, it'll be one marathon and one quasi-marathon.
Results: +$834 in 13 hours, 10 minutes of playing time. The full session length was 14 hours, 48 minutes. I'm using full session length with breaks for my monthly volume goals, but actual playing time for the prop bet with Duke.
Prop Bet To Date: +$1,000 in 20 hours, 5 minutes. (Not accounting for tips or rake, so unofficially $49.80/hr or 24.9 bb/hour.)
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07-06-2014
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07-06-2014
, 10:20 PM
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Hand No. 3
I'm in EP and make it $10 with AQ. Two friends call, one is a passive fish and the other is a spewy fish.
Flop ($27): 578
Their preflop ranges are basically like any two cards, and the spewy one will float with gutshots, overs, etc, so I bet $20 after the spewy one checks to me. Both call.
Turn ($86): Q
Check, I bet $55. The passive one folds and the spewy one calls.
River ($196): T
He checks, I bet $100. "I'll see it," he says as he calls. I show and I'm good.
I'm in EP and make it $10 with A
Q. Two friends call, one is a passive fish and the other is a spewy fish.Flop ($27): 5
78Their preflop ranges are basically like any two cards, and the spewy one will float with gutshots, overs, etc, so I bet $20 after the spewy one checks to me. Both call.
Turn ($86): Q
Check, I bet $55. The passive one folds and the spewy one calls.
River ($196): T
He checks, I bet $100. "I'll see it," he says as he calls. I show and I'm good.
Sick session overall though man. Good work!
07-06-2014
, 10:41 PM
07-06-2014
, 11:20 PM
07-07-2014
, 01:47 AM
Quote:
July 5 - "You know it's real when your latest nights are your greatest nights. / The sun is up when you get home, that's just the way of life."
That was the view when I got into my room to crash. I tend to really do well in marathon sessions, so it's true that my latest nights are often my greatest nights. Would tonight be one of them?
After battling a little holiday traffic, I got out to the Borgata and found myself on a long waitlist. After about 20 minutes, I got into a new game starting up. Then, on the very first hand...
Hand No. 1
An old guy in EP makes it $5 and I make it $15 with AK He's the only caller.
Flop ($29): AKJ
He checks, I bet $20 and he calls.
Turn ($68): 5
He bets $65, leaving $100 behind. I shove, he snap calls. I show, he nods.
River ($398): Brick
He turns over JJ.
He folds the next hand, then racks up and gets a table change.
Hand No. 2
Two limps and I make it $15 with KK. The button, an old man, raises to $45. It folds to me and I flat. He's got like $150-$170 behind, and I want to keep my hand a little disguised and check-raise all-in on most flops.
Flop ($92): AQ5
I check, he bets $50 and I fold. AK got there, AQ got there, QQ got there and I can't imagine JJ is betting.
Hand No. 3
I'm in EP and make it $10 with AQ. Two friends call, one is a passive fish and the other is a spewy fish.
Flop ($27): 578
Their preflop ranges are basically like any two cards, and the spewy one will float with gutshots, overs, etc, so I bet $20 after the spewy one checks to me. Both call.
Turn ($86): Q
Check, I bet $55. The passive one folds and the spewy one calls.
River ($196): T
He checks, I bet $100. "I'll see it," he says as he calls. I show and I'm good.
Hand No. 4
There are two limps and a fishy player on the button makes it $15. He's a young white kid who I've played with before. I call in the SB with AT. The CO calls. He's a loose-passive black guy in a track jacket.
Flop ($46): KK7
It checks through.
Turn ($46): 5
I check, the CO checks and the button bets $15. I raise to $65 and they both fold.
Hand No. 5
The guy in the CO on the last hand raises to $12 in EP. He's been limping wide, but hasn't ranged much. I call in MP with 77. The SB calls.
Flop ($34): 963
The PFR bets $17. He feels weak, and I really don't feel like he has an overpair. I flat, planning to take it away on most turns. The SB folds.
Turn ($67): 6
The PFR bets $30. I put him on two overs, possibly a club draw, and flat call.
River ($127): 9
He bets $30. This is a weird spot where it feels like a blocking bet and I'm thinking A high. He really shouldn't show up with a 9 or 6 very often, so I call. He shows 56 and I adjust his EP raising range.
An Unplanned Dinner Break
I get up to take a walk and go eat my two hard-boiled eggs that I packed. I go outside to eat them and decide to walk through the cafeteria and see when Lettuce Head closes and possibly get a wrap to stick in my bag for later. They're closed, so I decide I better eat the only other remotely healthy option now (Hibachi) rather than being stuck with Fatburger in the middle of the night. It gives me about a 45 minute break, then it's back at it.
Hand No. 6
The villain from hand 5 limps, and I raise to $12 with AQ hoping to iso and get position. The HJ calls, the BB calls and the limper calls. The BB is a new player from while I was gone, and he looks touristy..com
Flop ($44): AQT
It checks to me and I bet $30. The HJ folds, the BB calls, the limper folds.
Turn ($104): 3
The HJ moves all-in for just over $200. I think for a little bit. I guess KJ and 33 are possible, or TT. But, umm, what? Who takes a check-call, jam 2x pot line with the nuts or close to it? Who takes a check-call, jam 2x pot line period? I'll tell you who. People who can't play poker. I call.
River ($504ish): J
That's not a pretty card, but he shows QJo, and I scoop it with top two.
Hand No. 7
We're 7-handed and the villain from the last hand makes it $10 UTG. I call in position with Jdiamond:9.
Flop ($20): T85
He checks and I consider checking behind so he doesn't like overbet jam me off the pot. I decide I have to bet at it though, and fire $12. He calls.
Turn ($42): Q
He checks, I bet $30 and he calls.
River ($102): 3
He checks. I think for a bit and bet $100. He thinks for like 10 seconds and calls, and my hand is good. I actually think I could have gotten more on the river. I left him like $80 behind.
Hand No. 8
Our table is short handed (5 or 6) and the play is deteriorating rapidly. Having logged millions of 6max hands online, I LOVE it when tables get short, aside from worrying about them breaking. People just start doing idiotic s***.
It limps to my BB with K6
Flop ($8): 853
I check, UTG bets $2, and it folds to me. Normally I'd raise but I decide if I hit a backdoor draw and he has a piece, I can win a nice pot. I call.
Turn ($11): A
I check, he bets $2. I call. Wheeee.
River ($15): 9
I'm thinking about whether to bet, and planning on doing so, when he fires out $10. Thanks for acting out of turn buddy! I think for a bit and raise to $40. He quickly ships like $90. I double check the board. Not paired. No straight flushes. Yup, I have the nuts, I call and quickly table. He shows Q7.
Staying Deep
That table breaks, and I ask the floor in the back if I can move up front somewhere that I can match a big stack, as I have like $800-900 on the table at this point. He says no, the game in the back is short. I stand there like a doofus (on purpose) for like 20 seconds as everyone else from my game sits.
"Is it still the shortest?" I ask.
"I don't know," he says.
There are like 3 open seats. Then I hear over the speaker.
"RBJ, AR, JS, 1-2 No Limit, head to the back for table 56."
"How about now?"
So by waiting around like I don't know what to do for about a minute, I get two +EV things to happen. One, I keep my stack. Two, I move up front. My Borgata 1-2 grinders know what this one is about, and to the rest, trade secrets!
I manage to keep like $600 on the table.
Hand No. 9
I sit down and see some old friends. On my left is the spewy guy from the beginning of the night. Two to my right is QJ 2x pot guy. Niiice.
QJ overbet guy opens to $10. He's got like $400 in front of him and probably won't for long, so I call with 34. The BB comes along. He seems like a tight rec-fish from appearances alone.
Flop ($27): A27
It checks to me, I bet $20. The BB calls. The fish folds.
Turn ($66): 8
He checks, I bet $40 and he snap calls.
River ($146): J
He checks. I think for a bit and decide $80 is a good number. He thinks for a bit. "Damn, I had you on AJ, too."
He calls. I show, and he's like "That works too."
I love when people put you on a hand, can't beat it, still call, and you've got the hand they put you on crushed.
Hand No. 10
There's a guy playing like a total maniac. He's shipped it in with 66 pre over a 3bet (and outran AA), jammed over a 3bet again, and shipped it in on the flop a couple times. He limps, and there are a couple other limpers. I over limp T7.
Flop ($13): Q85
It checks to me and I bet $10. There's a call behind me ($80 behind), a call in the blinds from a tight player ($400) behind, and the maniac jams $113. I tank a bit, because I feel like I can't flat call and I need a raise amount. The pot is around $240 before my raise, and I make it $260 total. The guy behind me snap calls, and the deep stack snap folds.
I forget if it bricks out or the board pairs, but my hand is good. I'm assuming the guy with $80 had the A and the maniac claimed 63 but who knows.
Later, the maniac straddles and I pick up JJ and make it $16. There's a call and the maniac ships blind for like $150. I call, and the player behind calls all-in with AK. The maniac has two unders and doesn't get there, but the guy with AK flops an A.
Hand No. 11
I pick up AK and make it $12 after one limp. There are three calls.
Flop ($45): K74
It checks to me, I bet $30 and a tight-aggressive kid makes it $80. He bought in for $100 and has like $70ish behind now. He jammed over a c-bet on a KQJ flop and showed the A. Thus I know he's capable of doing this with top pair or perhaps a draw. There are a lot of draws out, although I'm not sure if he'd play 56o. I do think he'd raise with KQ and maybe even KJ. I ship it in, he snaps. He has 77, the turn is a 7. He starts yelling, "Give him quads!" and I don't spoil his fun by telling him we're nowhere near live for the bad beat.
Table Goes Downhill
Our table is getting tight and even the spots are too tired to do much. I go to the floor for our area, who tends to be a stickler for the rules to the point of berating new players who have never been in a poker room before for sitting without checking with him. However, when you politely ask him for something, he's very good at his job and will do it. I ask him for a table change, and tell him I'm the short game so can he let me know when it's available. He proceeds to watch like a hawk for me, so kudos to him on that. Most floors in this spot will say they'll do it then forget.
A few minutes later he gets me the change, and instead of sending me to the short game (which looks mediocre), he sits two new players there and offers me my pick of the other side of the room. I'm not sure if he was intentionally doing me a favor or not, but he definitely did, as the good games were over there.
New Game
I got tired and didn't take notes, but like three hands in I 3bet AA and got two calls. The flop was J high, it checked to me and I bet $50 into $75 and got one call. The turn is a brick and the guy check-folds to my $75 - trying to leave him room to jam with effective stack sizes. He claims 72 (air) and says my watching him when the flop came down made him scared to make a move.
Later, a bad short-stack slow plays bottom set and when he jams the turn against my top pair and gutshot, I am getting like 4-to-1 and call. I hit it, and he gets pissed. He begins calling all my raises. On a K22 flop, I lead out for like $25 into $40ish with KJ, and he ships $100 more. I tank and call, thinking he's pissed so his range opens up. Turn K, river 8 and he says 6 high as I show my full house. He doesn't realize it is a boat, and then sarcastically says, "flush." So it's like.. "6 high... FLUSH!"
Isn't it fun being slowrolled when you have the nuts? I tap the K on the table and say, "Full house." He gets more angry and leaves.
Later, I squeeze in position due to raise sizing with K7. The SB calls and the raiser calls. It's like a $75 pot and I flop a flush draw. I bet when checked to and the SB calls. I barrel the turn and he folds.
Last hand I recall... There are two limps, relatively tight players, and I make it $15 with T7. Two calls.
Flop ($42): KT5
It checks to me and I bet $30. The guy in the blinds fold and the tight limper calls. He's got over 1K and I've got like $700+ so we're really deep.
Turn ($102): Brick
He checks. I think his range is draws and Kx, but he is unlikely to have AK or KQ. He would have raised KT or K5 or a set, I think. Thus he has a lot of hands I beat and a lot of hands that can't call a barrel this deep. I bet $65. He thinks a bit, flashes QJo and folds.
Running Good
Around 7am I went to pre-register the room to avoid lines, and they told me they actually had a room ready. I snap-called and moved my bag up to my room. I went back and played another 30 minutes and racked up. There was one spot at the table when I left, but I felt like getting in the games today around 5pm instead of 11pm was definitely the right move. So instead of one huge marathon and a shorter session today, it'll be one marathon and one quasi-marathon.
Results: +$834 in 13 hours, 10 minutes of playing time. The full session length was 14 hours, 48 minutes. I'm using full session length with breaks for my monthly volume goals, but actual playing time for the prop bet with Duke.
Prop Bet To Date: +$1,000 in 20 hours, 5 minutes. (Not accounting for tips or rake, so unofficially $49.80/hr or 24.9 bb/hour.)
That was the view when I got into my room to crash. I tend to really do well in marathon sessions, so it's true that my latest nights are often my greatest nights. Would tonight be one of them?
After battling a little holiday traffic, I got out to the Borgata and found myself on a long waitlist. After about 20 minutes, I got into a new game starting up. Then, on the very first hand...
Hand No. 1
An old guy in EP makes it $5 and I make it $15 with A
K He's the only caller.Flop ($29): A
KJHe checks, I bet $20 and he calls.
Turn ($68): 5
He bets $65, leaving $100 behind. I shove, he snap calls. I show, he nods.
River ($398): Brick
He turns over JJ.
He folds the next hand, then racks up and gets a table change.
Hand No. 2
Two limps and I make it $15 with K
K. The button, an old man, raises to $45. It folds to me and I flat. He's got like $150-$170 behind, and I want to keep my hand a little disguised and check-raise all-in on most flops.Flop ($92): A
Q5I check, he bets $50 and I fold. AK got there, AQ got there, QQ got there and I can't imagine JJ is betting.
Hand No. 3
I'm in EP and make it $10 with A
Q. Two friends call, one is a passive fish and the other is a spewy fish.Flop ($27): 5
78Their preflop ranges are basically like any two cards, and the spewy one will float with gutshots, overs, etc, so I bet $20 after the spewy one checks to me. Both call.
Turn ($86): Q
Check, I bet $55. The passive one folds and the spewy one calls.
River ($196): T
He checks, I bet $100. "I'll see it," he says as he calls. I show and I'm good.
Hand No. 4
There are two limps and a fishy player on the button makes it $15. He's a young white kid who I've played with before. I call in the SB with A
T. The CO calls. He's a loose-passive black guy in a track jacket.Flop ($46): K
K7It checks through.
Turn ($46): 5
I check, the CO checks and the button bets $15. I raise to $65 and they both fold.
Hand No. 5
The guy in the CO on the last hand raises to $12 in EP. He's been limping wide, but hasn't ranged much. I call in MP with 7
7. The SB calls.Flop ($34): 9
63The PFR bets $17. He feels weak, and I really don't feel like he has an overpair. I flat, planning to take it away on most turns. The SB folds.
Turn ($67): 6
The PFR bets $30. I put him on two overs, possibly a club draw, and flat call.
River ($127): 9
He bets $30. This is a weird spot where it feels like a blocking bet and I'm thinking A high. He really shouldn't show up with a 9 or 6 very often, so I call. He shows 5
6 and I adjust his EP raising range.An Unplanned Dinner Break
I get up to take a walk and go eat my two hard-boiled eggs that I packed. I go outside to eat them and decide to walk through the cafeteria and see when Lettuce Head closes and possibly get a wrap to stick in my bag for later. They're closed, so I decide I better eat the only other remotely healthy option now (Hibachi) rather than being stuck with Fatburger in the middle of the night. It gives me about a 45 minute break, then it's back at it.
Hand No. 6
The villain from hand 5 limps, and I raise to $12 with A
Q hoping to iso and get position. The HJ calls, the BB calls and the limper calls. The BB is a new player from while I was gone, and he looks touristy..comFlop ($44): A
QTIt checks to me and I bet $30. The HJ folds, the BB calls, the limper folds.
Turn ($104): 3
The HJ moves all-in for just over $200. I think for a little bit. I guess KJ and 33 are possible, or TT. But, umm, what? Who takes a check-call, jam 2x pot line with the nuts or close to it? Who takes a check-call, jam 2x pot line period? I'll tell you who. People who can't play poker. I call.
River ($504ish): J
That's not a pretty card, but he shows QJo, and I scoop it with top two.
Hand No. 7
We're 7-handed and the villain from the last hand makes it $10 UTG. I call in position with J
diamond:9.Flop ($20): T
85He checks and I consider checking behind so he doesn't like overbet jam me off the pot. I decide I have to bet at it though, and fire $12. He calls.
Turn ($42): Q
He checks, I bet $30 and he calls.
River ($102): 3
He checks. I think for a bit and bet $100. He thinks for like 10 seconds and calls, and my hand is good. I actually think I could have gotten more on the river. I left him like $80 behind.
Hand No. 8
Our table is short handed (5 or 6) and the play is deteriorating rapidly. Having logged millions of 6max hands online, I LOVE it when tables get short, aside from worrying about them breaking. People just start doing idiotic s***.
It limps to my BB with K
6Flop ($8): 8
53I check, UTG bets $2, and it folds to me. Normally I'd raise but I decide if I hit a backdoor draw and he has a piece, I can win a nice pot. I call.
Turn ($11): A
I check, he bets $2. I call. Wheeee.
River ($15): 9
I'm thinking about whether to bet, and planning on doing so, when he fires out $10. Thanks for acting out of turn buddy! I think for a bit and raise to $40. He quickly ships like $90. I double check the board. Not paired. No straight flushes. Yup, I have the nuts, I call and quickly table. He shows Q
7. Staying Deep
That table breaks, and I ask the floor in the back if I can move up front somewhere that I can match a big stack, as I have like $800-900 on the table at this point. He says no, the game in the back is short. I stand there like a doofus (on purpose) for like 20 seconds as everyone else from my game sits.
"Is it still the shortest?" I ask.
"I don't know," he says.
There are like 3 open seats. Then I hear over the speaker.
"RBJ, AR, JS, 1-2 No Limit, head to the back for table 56."
"How about now?"
So by waiting around like I don't know what to do for about a minute, I get two +EV things to happen. One, I keep my stack. Two, I move up front. My Borgata 1-2 grinders know what this one is about, and to the rest, trade secrets!
I manage to keep like $600 on the table.
Hand No. 9
I sit down and see some old friends. On my left is the spewy guy from the beginning of the night. Two to my right is QJ 2x pot guy. Niiice.
QJ overbet guy opens to $10. He's got like $400 in front of him and probably won't for long, so I call with 3
4. The BB comes along. He seems like a tight rec-fish from appearances alone.Flop ($27): A
27It checks to me, I bet $20. The BB calls. The fish folds.
Turn ($66): 8
He checks, I bet $40 and he snap calls.
River ($146): J
He checks. I think for a bit and decide $80 is a good number. He thinks for a bit. "Damn, I had you on AJ, too."
He calls. I show, and he's like "That works too."
I love when people put you on a hand, can't beat it, still call, and you've got the hand they put you on crushed.
Hand No. 10
There's a guy playing like a total maniac. He's shipped it in with 66 pre over a 3bet (and outran AA), jammed over a 3bet again, and shipped it in on the flop a couple times. He limps, and there are a couple other limpers. I over limp T
7.Flop ($13): Q
85It checks to me and I bet $10. There's a call behind me ($80 behind), a call in the blinds from a tight player ($400) behind, and the maniac jams $113. I tank a bit, because I feel like I can't flat call and I need a raise amount. The pot is around $240 before my raise, and I make it $260 total. The guy behind me snap calls, and the deep stack snap folds.
I forget if it bricks out or the board pairs, but my hand is good. I'm assuming the guy with $80 had the A
and the maniac claimed 63 but who knows.Later, the maniac straddles and I pick up JJ and make it $16. There's a call and the maniac ships blind for like $150. I call, and the player behind calls all-in with AK. The maniac has two unders and doesn't get there, but the guy with AK flops an A.
Hand No. 11
I pick up A
K and make it $12 after one limp. There are three calls.Flop ($45): K
74It checks to me, I bet $30 and a tight-aggressive kid makes it $80. He bought in for $100 and has like $70ish behind now. He jammed over a c-bet on a K
QJ flop and showed the A. Thus I know he's capable of doing this with top pair or perhaps a draw. There are a lot of draws out, although I'm not sure if he'd play 56o. I do think he'd raise with KQ and maybe even KJ. I ship it in, he snaps. He has 77, the turn is a 7. He starts yelling, "Give him quads!" and I don't spoil his fun by telling him we're nowhere near live for the bad beat.Table Goes Downhill
Our table is getting tight and even the spots are too tired to do much. I go to the floor for our area, who tends to be a stickler for the rules to the point of berating new players who have never been in a poker room before for sitting without checking with him. However, when you politely ask him for something, he's very good at his job and will do it. I ask him for a table change, and tell him I'm the short game so can he let me know when it's available. He proceeds to watch like a hawk for me, so kudos to him on that. Most floors in this spot will say they'll do it then forget.
A few minutes later he gets me the change, and instead of sending me to the short game (which looks mediocre), he sits two new players there and offers me my pick of the other side of the room. I'm not sure if he was intentionally doing me a favor or not, but he definitely did, as the good games were over there.
New Game
I got tired and didn't take notes, but like three hands in I 3bet AA and got two calls. The flop was J high, it checked to me and I bet $50 into $75 and got one call. The turn is a brick and the guy check-folds to my $75 - trying to leave him room to jam with effective stack sizes. He claims 7
2 (air) and says my watching him when the flop came down made him scared to make a move. Later, a bad short-stack slow plays bottom set and when he jams the turn against my top pair and gutshot, I am getting like 4-to-1 and call. I hit it, and he gets pissed. He begins calling all my raises. On a K
22 flop, I lead out for like $25 into $40ish with KJ, and he ships $100 more. I tank and call, thinking he's pissed so his range opens up. Turn K, river 8 and he says 6 high as I show my full house. He doesn't realize it is a boat, and then sarcastically says, "flush." So it's like.. "6 high... FLUSH!"Isn't it fun being slowrolled when you have the nuts? I tap the K on the table and say, "Full house." He gets more angry and leaves.
Later, I squeeze in position due to raise sizing with K
7. The SB calls and the raiser calls. It's like a $75 pot and I flop a flush draw. I bet when checked to and the SB calls. I barrel the turn and he folds.Last hand I recall... There are two limps, relatively tight players, and I make it $15 with T
7. Two calls.Flop ($42): K
T5It checks to me and I bet $30. The guy in the blinds fold and the tight limper calls. He's got over 1K and I've got like $700+ so we're really deep.
Turn ($102): Brick
He checks. I think his range is draws and Kx, but he is unlikely to have AK or KQ. He would have raised KT or K5 or a set, I think. Thus he has a lot of hands I beat and a lot of hands that can't call a barrel this deep. I bet $65. He thinks a bit, flashes QJo and folds.
Running Good
Around 7am I went to pre-register the room to avoid lines, and they told me they actually had a room ready. I snap-called and moved my bag up to my room. I went back and played another 30 minutes and racked up. There was one spot at the table when I left, but I felt like getting in the games today around 5pm instead of 11pm was definitely the right move. So instead of one huge marathon and a shorter session today, it'll be one marathon and one quasi-marathon.
Results: +$834 in 13 hours, 10 minutes of playing time. The full session length was 14 hours, 48 minutes. I'm using full session length with breaks for my monthly volume goals, but actual playing time for the prop bet with Duke.
Prop Bet To Date: +$1,000 in 20 hours, 5 minutes. (Not accounting for tips or rake, so unofficially $49.80/hr or 24.9 bb/hour.)
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