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Limited info. Villain could be considered an average rec player. We've played before and he has told in past he respects my play and "I always beat him."


Folded to me, I raise 15 with K J on button 6 handed
SB (Villain) calls, BB calls

Flop: A Q T

Checked around. (I see both players going to fold, so I check the nuts. Not concerned with FD. Neither player seems all that interested on this flop)


Turn 8

SB bets 25 I make it $80. He flats.

River 2

SB leads 75. I tank. He has 205 behind. I consider flatting. Don't like that 3rd club...

I figure that's just MUBs speaking and I'm leaving value on table by just flatting and I decide to shove (not gonna fold if he 3 bets,
And if he gonna call 125 he gonna call 205...).

He has 4 5

Anyone just flat river in this situation?

(Explicitly) What do you think he's leading with?

Hoping for a weird 2-pair combo. Or ideally a set of 8s, even tho that makes little sense based on preflop.

Also hoping maybe my flop read was off or I missed something.

But I had a strong suspicion the backdoor flush hit. Tho his calling my turn raise with just a small FD surprised me a bit. That's actually what led to the shove. (If he had a larger stack I could theoretically 3b/fold.

I think flatting is a marginal mistake but not really sure. For all intents and purposes, I basically have second nuts here.

Not sure what I was hoping would call. A8/T8 type hands, maybe some line aces. I suppose those are all about as likely as a flush.

Honestly have no idea how often the flush would stove here vs other holdings he would call with.

after you raise the turn and he flats... then he just donk leads the river, i have a hard time imagining what other hand he can have besides a flush?

You don't ever "rep" the flush, knowing this exact thing against certain player?"

Repping a flush would then be turning whatever hand I have into a bluff.

On that board, am I bet/calling turn with any hand that I will turn into a bluff OTR?

No

And a good reason not to float a turn raise with the intention of betting the river small to rep a flush is exactly because of how the hand played out

People don't like to fold

How about any diamond draw?

Read was that villain looked like he was uninterested in the flop.

And no, I don't ever bet tiny OTR as a bluff in live poker... again, because people just aren't too crazy about folding as you see in the hand.

Same guy who hit the 2-outter on the x8kk8 board (post 259) just hit a 14% hand on river in a ~$2600 pot.

Guess he has my number this week. Was up 1500. Back to start.

Still, I am absolutely dominating today. Feel amazing and feel like I am playing just about my best poker.

I feel sorry for the rest of the table.

Ended the day about +1.2k with some intersting hands along way. Will post later.

Thankfully, massive ego is still in tact! I needed it today. Arrogant contempt suits me like a glove.

Poker gods will probably punish me for doing this but:

Almost there..

I will say though that while I do think the whole "self-medicating" thing does relax my normally hyperactive personality (and does seen to focus me a bit), I am very much against people driving while affected in any way. This means I time it so that anything not over the counter is out of my system by 4:00 (I always have to be ready to pick daughter up at daycare in case wife can't make it.).

That means not even prescribed painkillers if there is a chance I'll be on the road before 6. Today was the first day I stayed about an hour+ after the affects of the drugs wore off. And my arm was hurting like a mother****er.

Still, was able to block out pain and still play what I think was my "A" game or close to it. Good to know that if I focus enough, I can block out distractions and still play effectively.

Despite 3 rather horrid beats, today was a good day, and I've never been so happy to be back to "work."

Just started reading your thread and I have to say I can really relate. I am a very aggressive player sometimes hyper-aggressive(spewtard) but I have actually found that when I play on painkillers it balances me out as well.

Sorry if I missed this before about self-medicating, do you blaze? I have untreated ADD and that is what I use to calm down and also help with my lack of focus.

Sweet upwards movement of that graph ...

you really should have taken a month off

The problem is you never know which month you should have taken off until after the fact.

Used to smoke A LOT in college. But basically stopped when I graduated. (Never was something that I became addicted to, and TBH the 6-months or so of "burnout" after I quit was prob best I ever felt.

Smoked a handful of times in last year and have experimented while playing. (With overall very positive results).

Right now tho really just doing as a pain management thing (messed up tendons and other issues prob will need surgery, for now trying cortisone). The pain meds and muscle relaxers are prescribed. The THC is basically mini joints I make. 5-6 puffs max. Decent stuff so it's enough to get me affected without me getting too high when I play. Prob doing about 1/8th per week.

It def does help with the focus tho and keeps me out of trouble spots a bit due to boredom...

Not gonna go into as much detail as normal with next few hands. Had to write a lot down quickly and because some of them really involve a ton of external factors, will go for cliffs notes versions and if people have questions why I did what will be happy to answer. Unless I play with you. Then I may not answer .

Also when in "the zone" I don't take as many notes because try to keep my focus in the moment and not lose that focus.

One "fun" one:

Straddled pot. My button.

5 limpers I have A K

I pop it to 60.

I player calls. He just say down at table and has 155 behind.

Flop 7 6 4

He checks I bet 90. He shoves remainder I call he flips 8 5.

Lol. I don't improve.

Tho to be fair he said right after he just won $2k at blackjack and was here to try his luck.

Dunno what he left with but at one point he ran it past $1k.

Cool man, hope you get that fixed up. I need shoulder surgery, but lucky it doesnt hurt, just need to get motivated to get it done...

Love the thread, great to see a fellow spew crushing and give us lower ones hope .

75os 3 limpers to me I'm bored and call. Table is soft and fairly easy to read. I prob call in this situation 20-30% of the time.

Six see flop of
6 7 2

BB bets 25. I flat and think I have the best hand. Rest fold.

Turn 6

BB bets 45 I do not believe he has a 6. I call.

River J

BB Bets 70. Only thing I'm concerned about is him having the J

I call. He flips K 9

I win.

Standard, or Station?

Why did you not believe he had a 6?

Strong......

J is a little scary but still very well-played...