25.


Within the first 15 minutes of sitting down there was an unusual scenario that arose. Flash forward to the river after a preflop raise and call, a bet and call otf, and a check check ott, a player in the HJ bets $50 on a



board.

The player that had been calling the bets says raise after the HJ bets the $50. Immediately, and before the button announces an amount, the Hj says “call” and turns over his hand (KTo). Then quickly realizes that a raise amount was not stated and covers his hand back up. The player otb is like, wtf? The dealer does a pretty good job of shutting down the action before anything gets too out of hand and can’t be undone. Dealer calls the floor over. After some deliberation, floor decides that HJ has too call a min raise, and that the button has the option of whether or not to bet more. Button thinks for close to a minute. Then Button player decides to shove all-in. Now the Hj takes close to 2 minutes to think things through. Ultimately Hj decides to fold and ships the min raise call over to button.

Button says that he will let HJ pick a card to see. HJ flips

What are people’s thoughts about the floor’s ruling?

What are people’s thoughts on this situation? Anyone ever seen anything like this or more outlandish?

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As for the session; I had trouble getting into a groove throughout the short amount of time that I put in for this session. I was just having trouble thinking clearly and remaining focused on what I was doing. At one point I got up about $160 due to two different players trying to take a stand by donk betting into me otf and ott, in one hand where I had TT and the over pair to the board until the river, and then AA and called 3 streets on a Q high board.

At the point that I was up $160 I thought that I was pretty fortunate considering that I was playing my B-game at best and thought that I should split, even though I had only been in the game for about 2 hours.

I ended up playing a little while longer and got a V to stack off 150bb preflop against me when I had AA. V is same from the premature call in the introduction to this post. V limps the button straddle from the BB, I raise to $20, V 3b! to $45, and I ship. V says that he “can't see me just shoving with AA” at which point I am trying not give away how much I want a call. V ends up calling with KQo and I hold.

Here is some soft core (skin-a-max) chip porn since I haven’t had the opportunity to include many of these types of pic itt:



I also hit the golf course yesterday. -$5 for the lost scramble match. I blame the loss on having a partner I haven’t played with before. We lost @+4 to the other teams +3. I did catch a pic of a new pond/sand hybrid hazard. This is not where you want to find your ball.



Time Played: 3:33
Result : +$588


There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -- Ernest Hemingway

Haven’t been in the poker room since last posted. Spent some time in Lubbock visiting a friend of mine that I have posted about itt before. This time around, Fear and Loathing in Lubbock, would definitely be an apt description

Breakfast:




Lunch:




& Dinner:




When the dust settled, I kind of felt like this dart:




I have been playing online at ACR of late. I have been mixing in some PLO and have the itch to play it live. **** it, I’ll do it live! Anyone?

I have been keeping track of my ACR play like a caveman on excel, no poker tracker or hold’em manager for me. I still plan on putting in some hours live and hope to clear the 40 hours in the room for the month to get the paid to play promotion cleared, for a (hopefully) easy $200.

Floor ruling in previous post seems odd. But laso cant really think of a better way to handle it. If you say call before you know how much it is, thats on the player.

Also think its funny i played for 5 months straight getting my 40 hours with no extra cash and as soon as i stop they start giving g away money. Lol. Proof of my run bad of late.

I know right. The ruling that the floor came up with was about as good of one as conceivable. Can't really force the raiser to shove, and if they had, forcing the player that stated "call" would have won him the pot.

Are you tied up and not able to get into the poker room? I hope all is well.

Thanks for asking. All is well. After my runbad tilt I used my BR to payoff credit cards. Then had finals at school, overtime at work and a general lack of time and money. The urge to play is back. I will be visiting the poker room next Sunday for sure. Wont make 40 this month but might next month. Im at work as i speak on my 54th hour of work this week. So next week im having fun. Pending no more overtime(which is almost mandatory but not really).

And was all that drinking done in 1 day in Lubbock?

Happened across your thread today, and recalled the sn so stopped in to say gl as 2017 progresses for you both poker and life wise! Haven't had a chance to read all of thread yet, but it looks like you do value life outside of poker a lot and have some hobbies and outlets which I think are paramount to finding success in poker (or anything we aim our endeavors toward success with). I'm about to take a nice vacation from poker until the series starts in June, but I look forward to reading more about your story and following along.

Sub'd for cool pics too

It is sick when I am by far the maniac at the table and 3bet an open 6x w/ AA, then overbet a 368r board and get floated by 77. Turn the 7 and I get stacked. Not really sick, that is just how lose I was playing. The only other AA I see, I take a walk in the BB, lol.


That was the drink stockpile for Thrus-Sat, for my two buddies and myself. We actually only got half way through all of the bottles, but the Bar(s) mitigated the stockpile drinking...And diminished the wallet.

I know how the real life grind goes. Good to hear that you got the CC's paid off.

You have the real life grind, brotha. Keep at em! Glad to hear that you have the motivation to get back on the felt now. I will see ya there!

RR, thanks for the well wishes my man! Like Don Draper said, "I'm living like there's no tomorrow. Because there isn't one."

Joking aside, I do have several areas of interest and I am always enthused to examine shared interest with other people (as well as topics not so germane to myself). I wish you well on the vacay, along with many rests and insightful moments, to propel you toward the successful path that I know you are consequentially on.

Hopefully my future pics will tell the tale of the dementia that is my psyche, as I so strive for.

Best,
ZA

Wanted to provide an update for my 1st week of play on ACR. I have been playing a mix of 2NL and 2PLO. Mainly I am just donking around, looking to move up in stakes slowly while practicing some 20 buy-in rule observation. I feel like the players at 2NL as an aggregate are probably better than the live ½ pool that I play in, and have played in. I think that this is mainly due to the players being more aggressive. However, I have noticed that a lot of the player pool at 2NL will 3 and 4 bet liberally preflop, and then act kind of lost post flop.

Game Played: 2NL, 2PLO
Time Played: 21 hours
Hands Played: 2,085 (Plo - 639, NL - 1,446)
Result: +$5.48 (PLO- -$1.17, NL - +$6.63)
Bonus Money: +$18


I took a picture of a fast food place that is around the Oklahoma, Texas, etc., area, and will for sure give you the rot gut. I still turn to it from time to time, when I’m feeling grimey.



Then I have just a few pics of some of my flowers in bloom and a frog that lives in one of the flower beds:

Just finished my early day session of 4 tabling 2NL. It feels peculiar to be sweating $2 pots as opposed to $200 pots, but I am nonetheless. I am looking to get in at least 10K hands at 2NL before I move up to 5NL, even though I am rolled to at least take a shot at the moment.

Early on in the session I started to get some tilt going. Yesterday I took an absolute pounding by a mixture of missing flops that I raised pf, getting AK, QQ, JJ, etc., in against AA & KK, and then just some poor runouts. I carried yesterday into my early play today, but realized what was going on and then scaled back my aggression a hair. Right after I shipped 100bb in preflop against AA. I took a new approach of tightening up when I am in poor position preflop, and not 3betting and 4betting as wide.

I thought that I would include some pics of my garden’s progression since I had the early phase itt:









An All-American shoe pic if I ever decide to do a LVL TR:



A couple more All-American flavor shots:

Glad your playing on ACR. Good luck at the Cash Games. I have found that at all levels online are harder then $1/2. Everybody uses a HUD and it seems as though nobody gets out of line. But then again I am a lot more aggressive online so perhaps i just spee too much and I was not patient enough.

I remember playing the SNGs along time ago and it was so easy to get in the top 3. Now its always a battle 4 and 5 handed. The MTTs I think are the softest online games to play. Of course variance is always higher then sng's or cash but its where I have had the most success online. But success is hardley the word I would use for my online results. Im down abunch but I love sitting at home and playing the MTT's, smoking and listening to music. Im really aggressive online and have a great time when I can build a huge stack and run a tournament.

Last week I was in a PLO 8/b tournament and with 19 left and 18 getting paid i had 50% of the chips in play and 2 people were sitting out at my table. I just raised preflop everyhand for 20 to 30 minutes and evryone just folded trying to make the money. I had 300k when it got 3 handed and 2nd had 40k at most. It was fun.

Are your plans to just play cash? If so do you think you will get a HUD in the future or do without? And did you play online poker pre black friday?

Good luck online and live.

I had a nice lengthy response typed up to you and then my computer **** out on me. I hope that what I put below is somewhat commensurate with what I had previously typed up.

I have to agree, the 2NL games are exponentially more difficult than the Live 1/2 NL game that we frequent. I trend toward being more aggressive online as well. I really tightened up my 3betting range and have started flatting preflop more in position to keep all of my opponents opening ranges in play and then try to abuse them based on board textures. I have had a lot more success with this, as opposed to, my indiscriminate 3betting. Also, as you alluded, I have begun to be more patient in my waiting to push some hands.

I remember last year when I would routinely finish sng's either 1 or 2 on Carbon. I may have just been a semi competent fish on a heater though. I haven't delved into the sng's on ACR, but I may see what the player pool is like there.

Did you take that tourny down?

I am thinking that I might give Mtt's a run in the very near future as well. I have only been playing cash up until this point and have put in ~5k hands in the past two weeks. I don't believe that I will be getting a HUD, because I am only 4-5 tabling and seem to be able to keep tabs on most of the player pool with my rudimentary note taking. One reason that I have considered going with a HUD is to more easily track my HH's and stats.

I played a pretty decent volume pre Black Friday. I am by no means a phenom at the game , but I do consider my present level of poker playing light years ahead of where I was when I was playing pre Black Friday, from a theoretical approach at least.

P.S.

I surmise that the storms left you and yours unscathed? I wish you continued rungood in tornado alley here. Maybe we will see more of each other in the live scene in the upcoming month(s).

Second week update for my play online.

Games: 2NL, 2PLO (6max)
Time Played: 18 Hours
Total Hands:5,369 (PLO- 170, NL- 5,199)
Result: +$15.66 (PLO-+$1.20, NL- +$14.46)
Bonus Money Earned: +$20

I had a pretty positive week and spent the vast majority of my time playing 2nl and varying between 4, 5, & 6 tables. I just kept adding tables as long as I felt comfortable with my ability to stay on top of each game. As I have stated, I don’t play with a HUD and rely mainly on the notes that I have taken on players. Generally speaking, the multi-tablers don’t have much variation to their game and are pretty easy to play.

I plan to mix in some mtt’s this week, maybe 2 or 3. I am also planning on moving to 5NL, but limiting myself to 2 simultaneous tables, once I pass the 10k hand mark at 2NL. Is 10k hands a substantial amount to glean anything?

There will be some live coming up soon as well.

Here is a picture of a giant beer that I got at a local Mexican restaurant. I believe that this size rivals the largest beer(s) that I have had in the past. (Modelo):



Here we have a Farmers Market Pizza from one of my favorite pizza joints, Hideaway Pizza. Also a local IPA in the foreground, possibly having made an appearance itt before. (Marshall Atlas IPA):



Some steaks fresh off the grill. Unfortunately no real money shots of these beauty's:



7.

OF obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look, there is to me something
profoundly affecting in large masses of men,
following the lead of those who do not believe
in men. -- Walt Whitman, taken from Thoughts, Leaves of Grass

Just as I was approaching a groove playing online, my computer ****s out on me. I thought that I had cured the problem that it was having the other day, then it went completely out on me and I think that my charger cord is fried as well. I am not sure if there are any computer techs out there reading the thread, but I thought that I might include my issue here and see if anyone has any kind of advice for me.

So, out of the blue while using my laptop, the screen goes black, but the power stays on (The power button light is still lit), and the fan is still running. The fan sounds a bit louder than it typically does when the laptop is running normally. All attempts to wake the computer fail (moving the mouse, pressing the power button, holding the power button, closing and opening the monitor). Additionally, when I hold the power button down, the computer has no response, and just continues to be powered up with no change to the screen.

The first time that this happened, I let the power drain all the way down until the computer shut itself down. Then, I plugged the charger in, and the computer fired right up and was performing as normal. I used the computer that evening with no problems, then the following day, the monitor blacked out and I experienced the same problem as the day before. Again, I let the battery drain down until the computer shut itself down, but this time there was n response to the charger being plugged. There are some minor issue with the cord, and I am not sure if the whole computer has now eaten ****, or if I am just having whatever initially problem there was along with the charger cord being frayed.

If anyone has a similar experience, or insight into what might be going on, I would appreciate any advice.

In order to remedy my lack of play, I am going to head to the poker room this evening if I can get the grass cut and get some minor construction projects completed in a timely fashion.

Are you a degen?

If you wanna play poker for a lving you should be super serious.

Wake up and put on a dress. (Suit)

Make a+ decisions for 6 hours.

Alcohol should never be consumed.
Analyze villains and regs for 3 hours +
Love and be loved. Pay attention to hormones and eat well. Sleep 9+ hours.

A POKER PRO IS SUPERSHARP AT ALL TIMES!!!

Be better dude

I definitely have some degen qualities. I don't think that I have ever claimed, itt or in real life, that I am a professional poker player. That may be proven wrong, but I don't recall ever making that statement. I also wouldn't consider my playing to be for my living.

Most of my poker playing is geared toward the idea of growing my (a) bankroll.
I'm pretty much a regular guy that has set many goals that I have fallen short on, more than I have completed. However, I continue to try and improve on the person that I was yesterday.

Thanks for taking the time to post. Hope my reply cleared up some of your inquiries. Also, in regard to your "be better" comment. I have a been a primary caregiver for a sick family going on about 8 months now. So, I consider the personal growth that I have gained from that experience as being better.

All the best,
ZA



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By "I thought I had the problem fixed" did you mean by letting the battery drain til it turned off?

Based on the very general info posted it sounds like a problem with your graphics card or its driver.

Windows or OSX?

Cool thread, keep it up, Zombie! GL

I think that what I meant to say, was that I thought the initial problem was just some random glitch and that I didn't have a serious problem on my hands. This stemmed from the computer turning right on following the charge, and then the thing proceeded to lull me to a false sense of security when it worked for about 3 straight hours uninterrupted.

Windows. If I take the thing to get repaired/looked at, I will try to be more descriptive. I am just not very tech savvy by any means.


Thanks, I appreciate that! Feel free to stop in and contribute your thoughts at anytime. Be well!

Windows should save Dump files when it crashes. You can set it to save mini dump files too.

Google how to check this and how to enable the minidumps for your Windows (it isn't hard)

Next time it crashes go on to the windows support forums and follow the instructions on how to upload the minidump. Explain what happens as best you can.

They've helped me loads of times with similar stuff and best of all it won't cost you a ton like it would in the repair place.

Thanks for all of the advice and insights, Dublin. I am looking over the Windows Microsoft Support Forums now to see if there is anything that I can glean about my issue.

Good luck brother!
Oklahoma is a gold mine.

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I remember last year when I would routinely finish sng's either 1 or 2 on Carbon. I may have just been a semi competent fish on a heater though. I haven't delved into the sng's on ACR, but I may see what the player pool is like there.

Did you take that tourny down?[/QUOTE=]


Yes I took down that tournament was insanly fun.

Here are some crappy pics I got with phone. As yoi can see it was a cheap tournament with small first place but a win is a win.


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Yes, dude! A win, is a win, and you have to savor everyone you are lucky enough to garner!

I just got back from a new casino, for me, the Cherokee Roland. It's not a bad venue. I played a very short session due to my table breaking and getting put on the list for the only other table running. That is just something that I guess one has to put up with playing at a smaller venue. I will do a session recap tomorrw, or whatever I can cobble out of the minimum amount of time that I played.

On a side note, a Caddyshack machine caught my eye on the way to the card room and I said to myself, by God, I am playing that machine win, lose or draw in the poker room.

Well, I wrap the short session in the poker room and head to the nearby bar...duh. I grab a fabulously priced , Tall, Sam Adams Summer Lager $4. Tasted similar to a shandy, very good flavor. I the guy next to me if he is playing the VP machine he is near. He says no. I strike up a conversation with the guy and run my $20 up to $26.25. I have my new friend sweating my action as I was dealt trip 3's and let him know I am racking out if we bink quads. No quads but the rungood continued to get me at the mark I cashed out. New pal is amused that I am taking delight in having paid for my beer and tip within a couple of seconds of play.

I actually have a solid conversation with my new friend. He shed some light on the reality that people can genuinely enjoy 9-5 style work. He was a general laborer of sorts, but I could see the relish in his eyes as spoke to me of his proficiency in painting pre-fab materials. Dude was solid, and I wouldn't mind drinking with homie again. Just seemed like a stand-up fellow.

Flash forward to the end of my beer, and I tell him my plans for winning at the Caddyshack machine. I tell them that if I smash a win, I am gonna be back to by him a beer.

I get in a little deeper on the CS machine than anticipated, but I rallied hard...





I am out for +$160. I just shaved my beard in favor of the Stache. Mustache rungood, please be real.

Anyway, I head back to the bar, but my compatriot just split, per the lovely young bar winch. C'est la vie. I valued enough the serendipity of seeing my lucky machine en route to the poker room. I will get him a beer next time.

Moral of the story, always rally hard. And have a Mustache.