Just 10 min North of Rivers Casino.

Out in Vegas now. First session I play is a crazy $2/$5 game where I was up $3,500, but evded up only winning $660. The next day I play a tournament. I swap action with Spyu. He busts his first hand and I bust my 4th hand losing a flip.

I rebuy and make a deep run, but bust when a guy raises UTG, dude shoves 15 bb, I make is 35bb with QQ and a guy cold 5bet shoves with AKo. He was the only guy at the table who could really cripple me. I shoved A4o w/ 8bbs OTB shortly after and the SB snapped me off with 55.

After that I spew $700 in $2/$5 then win $1,300 in $5/$10 so broke even.


Then I play at a sick $5/$10 table the next day. There are two fish sitting $20k deep.

The 3rd hand I played there was a straddle and UTG raised, BTN called and I squeezed from the SB. Flop came KxKs5s, I cbet 1/3 pot, UTG folds, and BTN raises, I shove, and he calls. Board runs out Tx, 8x. I roll over AJo he flips over 66.

I go on to get stuck 3.2k, then get back to even, then I flop a monster draw in a 4bet pot and end up losing $4.7k on the session.

To make things better I got food poisoning the next night and spent the next 5 days in bed sick.

Finally feeling better and ready to get unstuck for the trip.

Don't freeroll chicken at Harrah's. It's a Tarp!!!!

Wow do you ever tilt at the table? I play 5/10 but if I had swings like that too often I would need a break to recover.

I mean, of course I tilt, but I never tilt real bad. I don't monkey tilt and spew my roll or anything. You get used to the swings the more you play, but it never feels good to lose.

You sir are the unknown. It's interesting that when you bet out, it's a "lead", and when someone else does it, it's a "donk". The flop 3-bet was 5k even, and the turn bet was 8800. Bad turn card, I should have checked/evaluated. Of course my reasoning for butchering a hand like this was a) most reasonable people fold one-pair hands 600 BBs deep when forced to play for stacks, and b) rebuys.

Lol. Smallish suited connector, 600 BBs deep, vs an obviously narrow range, terrible indeed.

Stop posting

Stop being so butt hurt.

Yea it was probably a dumb question but you obviously play a more aggressive style so you would be more used to those types of swings. Usually when I see someone swinging that much at a table it's because of tilt.

Seems like you did play the hand pretty well actually, looking back on it. If your numbers are right, then on the turn, you call 16k to win about 44k. 2.75:1... You just barely don't have the odds to call on the turn with a straight draw, but there are rebuys so no big deal.
I just got married to my aces (you know how hard they are to fold) and on the turn I was just trying to rep a set of jacks - so you would fold a lower set, but really I just wanted to take it down.

How do you get HU action on Merge? I have trouble getting anyone to play me even at 0.10/0.25 and 0.25/0.50, let alone if I try to play anyone higher. Do I have to just sit at a bunch of tables and hope a fish sits me?

Solid appeasement

Well I just got all my money off Merge (I would suggest anyone else do the same). But I pretty much just sit everyone and eventually someone will play me. I've only played a handful of people for more than 200 hands, but usually some regs will sit you for about that long.

Personally I don't really bum hunt, but the few times I have I had good success. I think HU action is just dying in general.

I could give you the names of some of the players I played if you'd like and I'm sure they would give you action too. They have very good PTRs though.

There's a solid chance you're being sarcastic, but I'll bite. I wasn't getting anywhere close to the proper odds, since I need ~5 to 1 to break even, calling the turn is burning money (in a vacuum). Looking at the big picture however, since my goal is to get ALL the chips, because all the money is up top, folding leaves me with half the starting stack, which is a big handicap, despite it being 300 bigs. If I call and lose, I rebuy and get the full stack, if I win, I have double the starting stack in the first level AND the image of a maniac, which is obviously extremely valuable. Expecting someone to bet/fold a set on this board is optimistic at best.

Your play would make much more sense if I play overpairs this way, but I wouldn't. Vs the range of sets/2 pairs and combo draws (and bare open-ended), you're in bad shape

Board: 7c 6c 3s Jh

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 33.165% 33.16% 00.00% 394 0.00 { AhAs }
Hand 1: 66.835% 66.84% 00.00% 794 0.00 { 77-66, 33, Ac5c, Ac4c, Ac3c, Tc9c, Tc8c, 98s, 76s, 54s, 5c3c, 4c3c }

You did own me pretty hard in this particular hand, but let's not be result oriented. As stated previously, I should have bet if the turn was a club or a straight card, and check/folded otherwise, unless you'd make a very small bet. I just couldn't help myself, knowing you had an overpair (was almost a 100% sure by the time we got to the turn), and since it's a fairly weak holding considering the action, I thought I'd get a fold vast majority of the time (another good read in the books).

Anyway, obv no hard feelings (it's just a hand of poker), and the "unknown" line is just an old twoplustwo joke. Good luck with poker and stay away from blackjack.

Ya, idk, in my mind it just felt like you might fold a set or two pair here because I'm repping a set of jacks (and if you call with a set I have outs). But when you shine that light on it (trying to get all the chips because the money is all up top) your play makes a good amount of sense.

nh

I haven't been playing as much since I had to get my money off of Merge. Plus I spent a lot of time with family and got sick last month.

I started off December with a 3 hour -$420 session, then played in the WSOPc Main event at Harrahs. Made day 2, with 2.5x avg chip stack, but ran real bad in day 2 and busted. While I played that I put in 6 hours of cash games in three short sessions.
+$466
+$710
+$410
and also had
+$1,484 last night in a 9 hour session.

Like I said, I don't get in many spots I find interesting. Mainly just me value towning people.

I've only had one horse put in any volume this month and he's -$2,219 this month.

I'm pretty disappointed in the volume that we've got in these last two months. Have my newest horse coming to Pittsburgh in a week, and my other one graduating college and ready to get unstuck after this weekend so hopefully turn that around.

They are probably taking fancy lines and not folding enough vs aggression from fish

I actually think they're making too nitty of folds combined with not enough aggression preflop, bad image management, and some run bad.

EDIT: dhcg86 drained my play money account on Stars. He is superior at HU. We will play again for real money and I will donate more.

I'm not local to the area but been working in the area for a while been playing at just meadows as it is a little closer. What days and times are good at rivers thinking about checking out the room over there. How many days a week are you playing there?

Im excited to have finally landed a fish as big as yourself. I will probably stash that money and try to put away some semblance of a long term savings account

Dude lose the horses man.

I have the most inconsistent schedule of all time so I can't really answer that without just randomly picking a number between 1-7.

I will say that, I like the way Meadows runs their room much better, but in terms of getting good tables, Rivers is the better casino. I also like their room much better in terms of comfort, but I know some people disagree with me there.

Gl

I feel like making money will get easier the longer I have them. I just hope they don't bail on me as soon as everything "clicks"

Staking has been going really well since getting the new horse. He's putting in tons of volume and making a lot of money with it. Made a little over $6k his first week and a half. Some small leaks, but I feel very confident about him moving forward.

I've done really poorly with tracking results and keeping up with this thread as of late. These are my results since my last update.

($1,200)
($700)
($579)
$2,520
($1,500)
$4,160
$2,892

I also have this going on...
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...ayers-1282792/

Which everyone's favorite mod locked up after I reported two posts of a guy who was trolling me after I asked him to leave the thread. Man I can't stand Rapini.

I did not make my $100k in 6 months goal mainly due to a severe volume downswing. Getting sick in November, then the holidays.

I really need to have a volume requirement for my horses because you just can't learn and retain information that you don't use. I'm going to make some changes there and here are my goals for the new year...


2013 Goals
-Make $25k in staking.
-Make $150k
-Put in at least 120 hours of volume every month.
-2000 hours played in the year.
-Update this thread at least biweekly.

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