Grinding Past the Fries
01-08-2018
, 05:23 PM
Ty max, good to hear from you! Any WSOP plans for the summer? I've been working on my go-karting in preparation for finally beating you 
Tough day to take yesterday! Went in early at like 11am, 2 tables running, mine was okay-ish. I played super solid without any real hands of note. I withdraw 3k from my "player-bank" at the casino every time I go in. I lose $100 here and there in the first hour or two and top up my stack here and there in the process. Finally table gets decent, this Asian guy sits down who is super spewy for like 5 mins every hour and then just standard fish for the rest of the time. So this rec limps UTG, spewy fish isos to $50 UTG+1, unknown guy calls, I call 107ss on the button, unknown guy calls BB, rec calls. $250 in the pot going to the flop. Flop is 1096ssx. Spewy fish bets $150, folds to me, I make it $525 to go, BB jams (he was unknown at the time, had the look of a rec but in the few hours I played with him he was actually very decent), Asian fish stands up and starts mumbling, saying how he thinks I am on a draw but is worried about the other guy. Eventually folds and the board bricks out and I am shown a set of nines. Don't mind losing, board bricking etc, but "OH HOOO I KNEW YOU HADADRAAAAWWWW" is tilt. So anyway I reach into my bag and rebuy for the $1300 chips I have left. I play 1 hand and decide to actually just gg on my next bb as I don't wanna have a big losing day and I just wanna cut my losses. The NEXT hand however is the spewy recs BB, I open AKhh in HJ, he 3bets to 125 from bb, I make it 420 and he calls. Flop is A79fd. He checks and I give an oscar-esque performance in looking really mad and checking back (fwiw I never do that kinda stuff vs regs, just the easily manipulative recs). Turn another ace, he leads for a few hundred. I grimace and give it the slow, tilted, one by one chip into the pot "oh well I have KK and wanna see the river" call. River is another 7 and he bets $320. I have $550ish and shove for the rest. Fade the snap call for a chop, and fade the snap fold for the bluff. He actually thinks for like a minute and calls. I show my hand and he is raging haha. **** knows what he had. It wasn't a full double unfortunately but I decided to stay on after that.
We play for another 7 or 8 hours and without anything special happening I'm up a few hundred. Spewy rec has moved 2 seats to my right. Really confident, playing super solid. Table is pretty good, a couple of recs driving the action, but one of them is moaning that the table is too nitty, so I decided to flick in a blind 30 utg to keep him sweet. There is no straddling at the Commerce, and this is the first time I'd ever done one of these myself (seen a few recs do it but twas my first). Everyone seems to like the idea and people say they'll do it too for a round. One guy limps mp, spewy rec in sb makes it 185, Asian kid to my right, really nice guy (he used the phrase "bottom of my range" in a HU hand vs me and I told him I didn't know what it meant and going by his explanation ****ing neither did he) calls, I look down at AQo and am like aw **** what do I do. I decided to make it 600 and just try take it down there. Flatting is fine too I think but I think raising is better EV. Folds to the Asian guy and he jams for about $1350. There's an Indian reg I'm bantering away with and when it folds round to me I look at him and loudly say "**** sake!" and the table erupts. I of course call it off. Dealer is making an absolute meal of things so I say to him "you wanna show?" and he triumphantly tables his hand. My jaw hits the deck, **** has AJo! I expected to be flipping at absolute best. He stands up and walks away from the table. A42 flop. J turn and the whole table goes "OHHHHH!" and he comes sprinting back over. I'm just sitting there like "is this real life, is this just fantasy?" he is happily high fiving the regs at the table who are awkwardly looking at me as if to say "we're not celebrating you losing the pot bro we just gotta keep the rec happy". Voice in my head says "caught in a landslide, no escape from realityyyyyyyyy".
Few hands later I've got about $1900ish and I'm thinking that it's probably time to rack up and go. I rack up (you can play from racks in Commerce) and decide to play 1 more orbit. Spewy AJo rec limps utg, I iso AKhh to 50, he makes it 200, I make it 700, he jams, I call. Again I ask if he wants to show, he has black KK. So weird but I 100% felt like I was gonna win. Just had one of those confident "it is coming!" feelings. Board totally bricked out and this guy takes 3k off me in the space of 10 minutes for an absolutely depressing end to what had been a really enjoyable day.
Gonna take today off, maybe tomorrow. I must be the only person in the world to have ever played Football Manager 2007 as Motherwell in LA ever!
Tough day to take yesterday! Went in early at like 11am, 2 tables running, mine was okay-ish. I played super solid without any real hands of note. I withdraw 3k from my "player-bank" at the casino every time I go in. I lose $100 here and there in the first hour or two and top up my stack here and there in the process. Finally table gets decent, this Asian guy sits down who is super spewy for like 5 mins every hour and then just standard fish for the rest of the time. So this rec limps UTG, spewy fish isos to $50 UTG+1, unknown guy calls, I call 107ss on the button, unknown guy calls BB, rec calls. $250 in the pot going to the flop. Flop is 1096ssx. Spewy fish bets $150, folds to me, I make it $525 to go, BB jams (he was unknown at the time, had the look of a rec but in the few hours I played with him he was actually very decent), Asian fish stands up and starts mumbling, saying how he thinks I am on a draw but is worried about the other guy. Eventually folds and the board bricks out and I am shown a set of nines. Don't mind losing, board bricking etc, but "OH HOOO I KNEW YOU HADADRAAAAWWWW" is tilt. So anyway I reach into my bag and rebuy for the $1300 chips I have left. I play 1 hand and decide to actually just gg on my next bb as I don't wanna have a big losing day and I just wanna cut my losses. The NEXT hand however is the spewy recs BB, I open AKhh in HJ, he 3bets to 125 from bb, I make it 420 and he calls. Flop is A79fd. He checks and I give an oscar-esque performance in looking really mad and checking back (fwiw I never do that kinda stuff vs regs, just the easily manipulative recs). Turn another ace, he leads for a few hundred. I grimace and give it the slow, tilted, one by one chip into the pot "oh well I have KK and wanna see the river" call. River is another 7 and he bets $320. I have $550ish and shove for the rest. Fade the snap call for a chop, and fade the snap fold for the bluff. He actually thinks for like a minute and calls. I show my hand and he is raging haha. **** knows what he had. It wasn't a full double unfortunately but I decided to stay on after that.
We play for another 7 or 8 hours and without anything special happening I'm up a few hundred. Spewy rec has moved 2 seats to my right. Really confident, playing super solid. Table is pretty good, a couple of recs driving the action, but one of them is moaning that the table is too nitty, so I decided to flick in a blind 30 utg to keep him sweet. There is no straddling at the Commerce, and this is the first time I'd ever done one of these myself (seen a few recs do it but twas my first). Everyone seems to like the idea and people say they'll do it too for a round. One guy limps mp, spewy rec in sb makes it 185, Asian kid to my right, really nice guy (he used the phrase "bottom of my range" in a HU hand vs me and I told him I didn't know what it meant and going by his explanation ****ing neither did he) calls, I look down at AQo and am like aw **** what do I do. I decided to make it 600 and just try take it down there. Flatting is fine too I think but I think raising is better EV. Folds to the Asian guy and he jams for about $1350. There's an Indian reg I'm bantering away with and when it folds round to me I look at him and loudly say "**** sake!" and the table erupts. I of course call it off. Dealer is making an absolute meal of things so I say to him "you wanna show?" and he triumphantly tables his hand. My jaw hits the deck, **** has AJo! I expected to be flipping at absolute best. He stands up and walks away from the table. A42 flop. J turn and the whole table goes "OHHHHH!" and he comes sprinting back over. I'm just sitting there like "is this real life, is this just fantasy?" he is happily high fiving the regs at the table who are awkwardly looking at me as if to say "we're not celebrating you losing the pot bro we just gotta keep the rec happy". Voice in my head says "caught in a landslide, no escape from realityyyyyyyyy".
Spoiler:
Few hands later I've got about $1900ish and I'm thinking that it's probably time to rack up and go. I rack up (you can play from racks in Commerce) and decide to play 1 more orbit. Spewy AJo rec limps utg, I iso AKhh to 50, he makes it 200, I make it 700, he jams, I call. Again I ask if he wants to show, he has black KK. So weird but I 100% felt like I was gonna win. Just had one of those confident "it is coming!" feelings. Board totally bricked out and this guy takes 3k off me in the space of 10 minutes for an absolutely depressing end to what had been a really enjoyable day.
Gonna take today off, maybe tomorrow. I must be the only person in the world to have ever played Football Manager 2007 as Motherwell in LA ever!
01-09-2018
, 11:14 AM
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, 12:59 PM
Obv not, for someone not picking up free 20k from the street
Gary takes his baths in USD bills
01-12-2018
, 01:32 AM
Re the LATB chat, will 100% play before I leave, but will wait til I get back to even for the trip before playing 
Ahh nice man! I'm from Inverness so no idea about the live scene in Edinburgh unfortunately! Will be back mid March but will be living in London again
[ ] 5/10 is high
[ ] can't beat 200 online
[x] it's sicko scammer tbh
Haha unfortunately pocket 7s have been wiped out by KK lately!
Took 2 days off, got Motherwell into the Champions League, and back at it yesterday. Playing 6 handed in a very good table, got KTo on btn, iso'd an UTG limp, the guy from the other day who whipped out the boiled eggs and peeled and ate em calls from SB, 3 ways to flop. 1073fd. I cbet 110 into 155, egg dude calls. 5 turn, I bet 250ish into 360ish with the intention of just x'ing the river a lot. He makes it 650, I call. River brick he bets 600, I take a minute or two and call. He nods, points at me, and then shows me his ATo bluff. RIP. Bled for a bit after that and was gonna call it a day down about $2200 but then the table got really good and I caught some cards. I finally caught some three bet bluff hands (suited connectors etc), something that had been lacking so far in the trip. Was able to 3bet and cbet and get these regs to fold.
Get myself almost even, down around $300, dealt two black ladies (laydee comingggg). UTG who looked like a reg when he sat down but was limping a ton and rarely raising makes it 35, pretty good reg makes it 115, I pop it to 360, and UTG jams. Reg snap folds and I'm just like ughhhhhh what is life. Tell him that I'm not slowrolling and he laughs and says it's all good. He looks super comfortable. He does that rec live-tell thing where they look away from the table as if they've been momentarily distracted by something and then look back straight away which usually signals extreeeeeeme strength. I tell myself I'm gonna fold, and I go to look at my cards again to say goodbye to QQ for a few more days. As I'm doing this the thought runs through my head "actually if he jams AKo here then we have to call." I blurt out "call!". Ask him if he wants to show. He grimaces slightly, I think I might have him. He tables red AKo. Flop comes down 9 high, all clubs. He gets up from his seat. Turn is black paint, no club, no king. Gotta fade 4 outs now. I feel like I kinda need the river to brick for my own sanity more than anything. If I hold I'm up $1500ish for the session and can book a win finally.......
Edit - been playing with this guy from NYC last few days, poker wise he's just your average rec, blows up sometimes but just a standard dude. Human wise oh my good god, after every single hand "damn I shoulda played my 92o there", "you know what I just folded? pocket tens for tens full!", "I think my flush woulda been good if I played it, queen three of hearts!", just eeeeevery fuuuuucking haaand for 5 or 6 hours. So last night this dude gets it in with KK vs a regs 66 (bad bad reg) and KK holds and the reg says he's gonna pay him outta his pocket. They start pulling their stacks back (they're in seat 2 and 3). NYC is seat 8 and sits forward and goes "wow wow wow what the **** is this?", seat 2 and 3 look up at him. NYC goes "I mean you cold 4bet pocket 6s and call it off and now you're both dragging your stacks back, call the ****in floor, collusion at this table is UNREAL!" people are looking over from other tables at this point and I start to go "no, err, it's a cash game, you can't... wait, what?" and seat 1 who was a super tight nitfish who hadn't said a single word all night outta nowhere goes "just ignore this ****in clown" to seat 2 and 3. Just plain bizarre!
Oh oh! Also! As I sat down at the table there was an older rec in seat 6 who was playing a pot vs the egg guy in seat 7 (before NYC joined the table). So the board is like J7373 and seat 6 bets the river really big, and egg guy calls, and the older guy goes "good call". Egg guy shows 63s and older rec shows him 78s. Table is like "wtf you said good call?" and he just goes "yeah I meant it's good for ME that he called!" hahahahahaahaha
[ ] can't beat 200 online
[x] it's sicko scammer tbh
Took 2 days off, got Motherwell into the Champions League, and back at it yesterday. Playing 6 handed in a very good table, got KTo on btn, iso'd an UTG limp, the guy from the other day who whipped out the boiled eggs and peeled and ate em calls from SB, 3 ways to flop. 1073fd. I cbet 110 into 155, egg dude calls. 5 turn, I bet 250ish into 360ish with the intention of just x'ing the river a lot. He makes it 650, I call. River brick he bets 600, I take a minute or two and call. He nods, points at me, and then shows me his ATo bluff. RIP. Bled for a bit after that and was gonna call it a day down about $2200 but then the table got really good and I caught some cards. I finally caught some three bet bluff hands (suited connectors etc), something that had been lacking so far in the trip. Was able to 3bet and cbet and get these regs to fold.
Get myself almost even, down around $300, dealt two black ladies (laydee comingggg). UTG who looked like a reg when he sat down but was limping a ton and rarely raising makes it 35, pretty good reg makes it 115, I pop it to 360, and UTG jams. Reg snap folds and I'm just like ughhhhhh what is life. Tell him that I'm not slowrolling and he laughs and says it's all good. He looks super comfortable. He does that rec live-tell thing where they look away from the table as if they've been momentarily distracted by something and then look back straight away which usually signals extreeeeeeme strength. I tell myself I'm gonna fold, and I go to look at my cards again to say goodbye to QQ for a few more days. As I'm doing this the thought runs through my head "actually if he jams AKo here then we have to call." I blurt out "call!". Ask him if he wants to show. He grimaces slightly, I think I might have him. He tables red AKo. Flop comes down 9 high, all clubs. He gets up from his seat. Turn is black paint, no club, no king. Gotta fade 4 outs now. I feel like I kinda need the river to brick for my own sanity more than anything. If I hold I'm up $1500ish for the session and can book a win finally.......
Spoiler:
Edit - been playing with this guy from NYC last few days, poker wise he's just your average rec, blows up sometimes but just a standard dude. Human wise oh my good god, after every single hand "damn I shoulda played my 92o there", "you know what I just folded? pocket tens for tens full!", "I think my flush woulda been good if I played it, queen three of hearts!", just eeeeevery fuuuuucking haaand for 5 or 6 hours. So last night this dude gets it in with KK vs a regs 66 (bad bad reg) and KK holds and the reg says he's gonna pay him outta his pocket. They start pulling their stacks back (they're in seat 2 and 3). NYC is seat 8 and sits forward and goes "wow wow wow what the **** is this?", seat 2 and 3 look up at him. NYC goes "I mean you cold 4bet pocket 6s and call it off and now you're both dragging your stacks back, call the ****in floor, collusion at this table is UNREAL!" people are looking over from other tables at this point and I start to go "no, err, it's a cash game, you can't... wait, what?" and seat 1 who was a super tight nitfish who hadn't said a single word all night outta nowhere goes "just ignore this ****in clown" to seat 2 and 3. Just plain bizarre!
Oh oh! Also! As I sat down at the table there was an older rec in seat 6 who was playing a pot vs the egg guy in seat 7 (before NYC joined the table). So the board is like J7373 and seat 6 bets the river really big, and egg guy calls, and the older guy goes "good call". Egg guy shows 63s and older rec shows him 78s. Table is like "wtf you said good call?" and he just goes "yeah I meant it's good for ME that he called!" hahahahahaahaha
Last edited by GazzyB123; 01-12-2018 at 01:42 AM.
