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Originally Posted by ukbilly
Would love to hear some live poker stories mate.
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Originally Posted by HickGasm
i vote for live poker stories starting... 'So I finished my 6th beer and...'
Your wish is my command boys, not too many interesting spots to post, been playing low and haven't been getting much action in so just spent a week getting back to normal and back to schedule where will get people willing to sit me
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Originally Posted by Clanty
Is your SN public?
gl to you!
Thanks dude, I enjoy your posts/streams and my SN isn't really public but hang out in a few community spots, once I get back to stars will probably post SN as don't see any reason why not but for now playing on apps screenname is super irrelevant anyways as I rotate accounts fairly regularly
Live Poker - The Hearthstone Whale
So when I play live I tend to prioritise clubs or home games rather then the big casinos for the following reasons;
- Games are way softer
- Get treated better and valued as a reg (table starters super important at these places)
- Everyone tends to be more personable and you play with same people regularly so to me becomes a good social thing
I need to be careful not to reveal too much info because could imagine some of these guys reading 2p2 so I'll try to keep it vague enough but the group I found myself in was a bunch of drug dealers, degenerates (people who had self excluded from everywhere in London so could only go to clubs or home games), the occasional businessman and the house had 1 or 2 props who where winning players, and even they probably couldn't beat 5nl on stars or something to give an idea of skill level (stakes would be anything from 1/2 to 5/10 holdem, and have seen 60k+ on the table before in their PLO games)
As many people who have played the live circuit I think you realise that a lot of money in live poker at low stakes defo comes from drug dealers, from observing these guys a lot of places where cash in transfer out, so they would have 2-3k in cash to exchange for chips and would then would keep majority of it in pocket and put 500 on the table, then at the end of the night taking rest as a bank xfer, so provided they didn't do their absolute bollocks and lose it all they where happy to keep giving you money if you keep the games running.
One of the players who would come in was a younger guy, about 19-20 who had money from either parents or some other **** (defo wasn't a drug dealer type or talked about bitcoin once so didn't think was into crypto). He was an OK player who could beat up on 1/2 whales but could not handle his own against anyone who understood how to play at like a reasonable level, he used to tell people unironically that he was the greatest and he could "see the matrix" and this kind of hype stuff, so we used to always hype him up and call him Neo and would usually dust off in some crazy spot. I remember him over betting against me once in a spot which was set over set (he had the bigger set) and after dragging the pot he stood up and exclaimed "NO ONE EVEN THINKS OF OVERBETTING FOR VALUE IM ON ANOTHER LEVEL" so needless to say I used to really enjoy playing with this guy
So due to the competitive nature of this guy we used to shoot the **** about video games, bet on random crap all the time, you see live regs bet on anything after a while and one of the subjects we bought up was Hearthstone. I was an ok hearthstone player at one point, pretty much just used to be a ladder hero who climbed to legend once or twice but didn't want to take it seriously at all, was happy to play meta decks. If you remember a few years ago there was all this hype that DNegs was playing Hearthstone and I want to say he did a showmatch against ElkY back when they where both stars pro's so he was one of the people who got caught up in it, the only problem was he never looked at streams or meta decks and insisted on crafting his own **** and not looking at what pros do.
So the idea came up that we could play a point system for Hearthstone, you cant use the same deck more then once in a row (so we had a rotation of 3 decks generally) and if you beat someone you won the amount which was their life left. So for example in Hearthstone you start with 30 points of life and if I beat you and have 15 remaining life then I beat you for 15 points, if I beat you and have 3 points then its only 3. This was around a time where the meta was super aggressive decks and he had no idea what the counter is, so I went through about a week of playing him on my tablet at the table whilst we where also grinding cash, and almost never losing - it would be like me almost never dropping below 25 life and just crushing him 90% of matches, we where playing 2 pound a point so he got buried 4 figures really quickly and I felt pretty bad about it after a while so stopped playing with him because he was losing so much it was actually causing issues with action on the table, and sometimes would just come and sit down to play hearthstone instead of playing Poker so was becoming an obsession. He kept begging me to keep playing with him to give him a shot to win it back so just to get him to leave me alone agreed that he would only pay half of what he owed and he felt was a good compromise. Live players seem so stupid sometimes that you have to save them from themselves.
I used to get a lot of crazy situations like this for side hustling where a lot of people had a crazy ego so where massive propbet fishes and I think you can make a ton of money doing this live for sure.