Gary bought me and the table two rounds of beers. I said I was going to pay for the next round, but I stiffed Gary for the tab. True story. Sorry Gary not cool of me, I'll do my best to make up for it.

Absolutely no way you stiffed me man, you got yet another cooler straight in the eye. I'm certain you woulda done the same for me.

Katokrazy without a doubt my fav person I've ever met off 2p2. Insanely awesome guy.

They guy requesting to show in the 44 hand is plain bad, no matter if he is right or wrong. I would be super tilted if a random dude that just sat down with no play would have done the same thing.

damn I missed the party was supposed to be there already. gunna be on the gazzy b/rich c table tomorrow night tho!

Thanks for the drinks man, I was planning on buying the rounds but it was much appreciated!

when he doubled up i said "see, the dealer's not so bad"

granted it's much easier for me to talk to scary guys like that since i'm such a bad ass myself and could have soooooo easily taken that guy in a fight

have you ever wondered if the reason you have so many disagreements with other players is because it's actually you that's the problem?

Hahahaha you're such a badass brah I love it.

Of course I'm the problem. If someone is doing something that needs to be called out, I call em out. I get on well with 99% of the players, I do my best to socialise and interact, but when someone does something I don't like, I call them out. Do you just go to your safespace and text your friends about it?

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Lost 8k last night in a superb game. I've spoken about a fun player called M before, he likes to play fast and the swings are naturally insane. We were playing 5/10/20 and the open was to 100. Bear in mind the buyin is 1500 cap. It felt like a home game last night, and kudos to the dealers for letting us do what we wanted. I played a little too loose for the last hour or so so decided to GG. For the most part I played solid though. Couple of fun spots...

Very early on some dude opens to 100, there are a bunch of callers, and I call 56s in BB. Flop is 347r 5 ways. Brick turn and I didn't win a single extra dollar

Dude opens to 100 and M makes it 300 blind. I look down at 44 in SB and muck and the dude peels and the flop is A84 for maximum puke.

M limps for 10 and I make it 100 w AA, we go 3 ways to an A45hhx flop. I cbet big, M calls. Turn Tx and I bet half pot and he folds and holds onto his cards and asks to rabbit hunt. River woulda been 2x and he goes "NOOOOOOOO" and shows 93o lmao.

Get in 1800 pre w AKs vs older guy's TT and he holds. Few orbits later M raises to 50, I make it 200 w AKo, young reg flats, same older dude raises to 750 and I drill it in for 3k and he calls and has AA. Flat probably okay pre but I think shoving is okay. He's not your typical older guy, shoved 1.3x pot earlier in SRP w KJo on JT9fd, got in TT pre, that sorta thing. And if I have any FE vs TT-QQ/AK then I'm happy to drill it. Also only saving grace I had was flop was Axx so I was getting stacked regardless most likely.

M opens to 100, I 3b to 400 w KK, he calls. Flop J98. He checks, I bet 500 and he says he's only gonna call if we can x it down, and shows me A8. I obv agree (coz if I say no he's gonna fold) and it runs out J9878.

I open to 100 utg w AQo, M calls last to act. A95fd, I cbet 200, he calls. Turn 9 x/x. River brick and he leads 400 and I snap and he announces "set" and shows 94o

Those are all I can remember. There honestly must've been about 15 times I put in anything from $100 to $200 pre with 22-66 multiway and bricked every ****in time!

Day off from Commerce today. I'm down about 9k so far for the trip playing cash. Ironically I think I'm playing my best TAG poker ever. Maybe I should go back to rofling around...

tgiggity says he’ll be playing Monday and Tuesday night so I’ll probably make my way up there one of those nights and hopefully make the game good enough for you to get it all back in one session

To be fair to op, live poker is the equivalent of a human sewer. When working with sewage there will undoubtedly be times where you get splashed with sh*t. And what you are saying here is "what, you dont like sh*t?"

However, when working with sewage one quickly learns to keep his mouth closed at all times, for obvious reasons. Op hasn't learned that part yet.

OP is definately seeming like he's trying too hard to obsess over every little thing that he deems against his own personal values lately. Maybe just focus on the poker ye and not on whether someone is calling with 8 chips or calling with 3. Like cmon man get a grip.

There are certain times when you shouldn't say anything (filthyvermin outlined these times very well a few posts ago) but there are certain times (like when a reg demands to see your holecards and hides behind collusion, or when a crusty euro reg who hasn't played a hand in 2 hours keeps changing seats every 20 minutes and is clearly annoying the fun players) where you definitely should speak up. Sorry I don't bend over and take it like you do!

Lmao I assume you are referring to my instagram stories yesterday? I'm clearly not actually annoyed at any of these things, I'm trying to build a social media brand and encouraging people to interact with me is part of it. If it annoys you you can, y'know, unfollow! Ricky Gervais sums it up perfectly...



Anyway! Booked a win yesterday which was nice. On the very first day of the trip I logged all hands on my phone and was able to do a proper update. I haven't done that since day one, but I think I'll do it today when I go in to play, just means the quality of updates will be a bit better, it's been a bit gritty in this thread so far.

Sleeping schedule is brilliant just now, sleeping from 1pm-9pm, waking up, ****ing around for a few hours, going in to grind, walking home when I finish grinding and falling asleep!

Caught up on the thread for the first time in ages - just wanted to say the live poker updates are always a good read and GL at the tables!

+1

You do not understand.

In the story of the boulder and the river, you want to be the river. Water flows. When it encounters objects that obstruct it’s path, it simply flows around them. When a rock is thrown into the river, the river absorbs it. This is how you overcome adversity.

The boulder on the other hand is slowly eroded by time. The very defiance of the boulder vs an unstoppable force is what destroys it. The very passivity of the water is what enables it.

I am not religious, but there is great wisdom is Jesus’s teaching “should your enemy strike your cheek, turn and offer him the other”. That is being like water, and is the only true way to defeat (end) negativity.

When you realize these things you will get much better at poker, and life.

what if you take a dump in the river

+1

I think it's a healthier approach just to ignore those degens, take their money with the least amount of interaction possible. After 1000s of hours of discussing, getting pissed off it must be really bad on your mental health if you get into arguments with everyone even if you're right and they are wrong.

I will admit this actually made me lol, but keeping up with our zen lessons from dead prophets:

Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

-Mahatma Ghandhi

Ill
play
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

― Nikola Tesla
if youre encouraging a negative frequency(thoughts), youll get negative results

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet"

-Abraham lincoln

"Eating and traveling, the best 4 things in the world"

-Romario

Ps: eat can mean to have sex in portuguese and travel to get high haha

haHAA

Romario what a poet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0k23DYZWGU

+1

Thanks bud, hope you're well, wherever you are

Setting people straight in the Commerce doesn't annoy me half as much as your know-it-all attitude on 2p2. Just lol at saying "hey man please stop changing seats every 5 minutes" affecting your mental health. Where's your safespace?

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Woke up and went in around midnight last night. I had played the night before with an Asian guy who absolutely loved the novelty of the blind raise. I sit down and first chance he gets he fires on the blind 20. Folds round to SB who makes it 80, I flat BB w Q9hh, straddler calls. Flop is J64hhx. SB bets 110, I call, straddler calls. Turn Tx. SB checks and I bet 440 into about 570. Only the straddler calls. River is an interesting Q ball. I decide x/f is best and x and he snap x back and bemoans the queen OTR and we win.

We do a round of blind raises and on mine I look down at KK. UTG opens to 100, +1 calls, I squeeze to 400 and they both call. Flop is AJ9fd yeyeyeye. I x and UTG drills it in for around pot and we ofc fold.

Open 88 utg and get 3 calls. BB squeezes to 200, he hasn't played a hand yet. HU and I would fold for this size but with so many players behind I call expecting to go at least 3 ways to the flop. Naturally everyone folds. Flop is J54. He cbets 1/3, I call. Turn brick x/x. River J and he x. I wanted to bet like $50 here but decided against it and he had TT.

Absolutely butchered one with KTo, won't post it.

CO English reg opens, SB unknown Asian dude calls, I call ATo. Flop is JT9fd. CO cbets pretty big, SB calls and I muck it, even with the Ad. Turn Ax goes x/x, river Ax goes x/x and SB rolls over A9s!!!!!!!!!!! Woulda got the lot for sure if I peeled flop haha.

I open 75s from one before the lowjack coz fish in BB. Well known aggro reg called OB 3bets to 175. SB English reg cold calls and I peel too. Flop is AQ7r. SB x, I x, and OB xs. Turn is a 6 and I lead out around 380. Only OB calls. River is an 8 and I jam. He takes a minute and calls w AJo. Very suprised to see him have an ace here, thought he would for sure bet it OTF. Happy with my line.

Down about 2.6k at this point and feeling a bit frustrated but soldiering on. It was about 5am and I was waiting for the sun to rise at 7am so I could walk home. CO English reg opens and I 3b AJss from BB, he calls. I triple it off on a safe J high board. He was tanking on the river and he gave me the one chip call eventually. There's nothing better than that sound when you shove the river and that one chip call hits the felt. It's ****ing lovely. He told me after he called me down with ace high, but also said he was dead otf, so maybe like AT, who knows. Woulda been sick if I was bluffing w AK

Open QQ utg, get one call and get no action on QQ4 flop

7am arrives and I decide to stay a little while longer. Some dude comes over and asks if this is 5/10 (normally an indication they're a rec). He's drinking a shock-top at 7am (a fair indication they're a rec), but also says he has his own chips (an indication he's a reg). So he sits down and after a few hands he opens to 35 in HJ, I 3b AQo in CO and it folds round to him. He looks hesitant, is playing with his chips and he jams, but when he jams, it was a really fast motion, as if like "**** it!" The jam is for around 1k and I call it off. Flop is J high, turn brick, river Q, and he turns over J9s, thank fook for the river! He instantly gets up and leaves.

Very next hand I open 99, OB 3bets next to act, I peel. Flop is QQ4. He cbets small, I peel. Turn is a J and he bets a healthy amount. I call with the plan of folding rivers. Think he is gonna xb AA/KK/Jx so is pretty polarised when he bets. River 4x and I x and thankfully he snap xb and we win.

Around this point the game turns into 5/10/20 every hand. Stacks are deep, and despite the game being full of regs it was fantastic action. OB opens UTG to 70, I make it 300 from my straddle w AKo and he jams. I call for around 1800ish and he asks if I have a big pair. I tell him ace high and show my hand. Flop is Q high, turn is a brick and as the dealer is about to deal the river he goes to turn his hand over, only for the Barry ****ing Greenstein of spades to pop out. Poor OB nearly fell out his chair haha. We'll take it.

Couple of Australian guys in the game. One of them is 3betting the **** out of OB. OB opens, he 3bets again, I cold 4bet 72o and he snap folds and I show. He looks at me as if I've just banged his mum. Few hands later OB opens, same guy 3bets, I cold 4 QQ and he drills it in for around 2.8k, I call it off and he shows me AA. Flop is 7 high. The turn however, the turn is the most glorious ***** of hearts for the extreme suckout. We hold and he leaves the game, and his Aussie pal picks up a few hands later.

At this point a bunch of Spanish regs all arrive at the same time. They go to join the game and we explain it's 5/10/20 and they are all for it. One of them asks in broken English if anyone minds if they buy in for >1.5k. I tell them to buy in for what they want and all of a sudden there's 3 new regs in the game all 4k deep

Asian guy sits down. I'm fairly certain I recognise him as a reg but not 100% sure. First hand he gets into he raises OB's cbet on an ace high board with 2 spades. OB has KQ with one spade and is posturing a little bit before he folds. The Asian guy (whos raise was to about 400) says "c'mon, gamble!" and turns over KJss. Whole table, including the dealer, are laughing their tits off and OB flats the flop raise and calls it off on a safe turn (really smart from him). River bricks off and the Asian kid goes to get more money and buys in for way more than the standard cap of 1500 (like everyone else had).

Spanish reg opens CO, I 3b TT to 280 and he calls. Flop is like A45 and as I'm thinking he x's out of turn. Dealer looks at me and I'm just like yeah ok **** it I x. Exact same thing happens on a brick turn. River however is a ten and he tries to x again OOP but obv I have to bet. I bet like 400 and he snnnnnap calls haha. Few hands later I open AKdd utg to 70, decent Spanish reg 3bs, and I 4b to 725. He peels and I bet 400 into around 1500 on an 865r no diamond flop. Was getting ready to triple her off but thankfully he folded OTF.

CO Asian kid (who I now know is an aggressive rec) opens, BTN Espana flats, I call K8dd in the BB. Flop is 862dxx. Xs to Espana who bets small, we both call. Turn Qd and he bets pretty big here, I call, Asian guy calls. I was gonna lead diamond rivers. River is a red 5. Diamond!? No. Have to xf sigh.

I open 99 UTG and my buddy Ed 3bs me, we peel. Window card is an 8 for the anti-climax. Fortunately there's another 8 behind it and a nine. We xc 2 streets and he snap xb river

For the last hour I played really really poorly and lost back around $1800. I won $4500 total. Considering I was -3k at one point it is a most delightful turnaround. 30 mins before I leave a floor lady comes across, shaking with rage, and asks Asian rec how much he bought in for. He speaks English but is obviously a little confused. He says 4k and she's literally shaking with fury and says that he's not allowed to do that and to take money off the table (bear in mind he's been playing for like 2 hours). Fortunately he was S1 and the dealer was absolute GOAT dealer and was on hand to say "nono he has bought in for 4k total, he has rebought a few times). The floor lady has obviously checked the cameras (but she didn't say **** to the four spanish boys who did the same thing) and is like okay fine whatever. As she's about to walk away, the dealer goes to me "your turn for the blind 20 sir!" The dealers are in no way shape or form allowed to encourage blind 20s, Commerce are suuuuuper strict about that. Her face was a ****ing picture haha. Dealer got a healthy tip from me for being an absolute trooper.

That was literally one of the best games I've ever played in at the commerce. We were the only 5/10 all night, we did whatever the **** we wanted, and it was immense. The action died a little when a new must-move table opened up and when the new player came over we told him we were playing 5/10 and we had been doing blind raises. He just went "well I'm not ****in doing that ****!" Whole table was like no that's okay we're definitely not forcing you just letting you know we're doing it, and he's like "good, coz i ain't ****in doin that ****!"

Fun night!

Great update, game sounds epic!