There is a 10/25 GM on Thursdays with Joey Porter. Super juicy

I know: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27.../#post25064971

TR: tl;dr


played 3/5nl tues-thu this week. the game broke really early on tues -- like 9pm or something. then i played in one of the most action omaha games ever. about 75% of the hands were capped before the flop with multiple bets going in on every street when people had nothing but backdoor draws. wow. high variance, high fun quotient.

last night the 3/5nl game was amazing. it was oh so bad that i had to drive home back to SD. i left the game at about 10:30pm. but before i did, there were a couple of issues that required multiple floor rulings / private conferences with dealers, prop betting stacks on what the floor would decide, etc.

somehow i got in the middle of both of them (what a trouble maker i am). the first thing got started when i raised pf from the BB with AK, then c/c'ed the J42r flop (i merged my calling range! i had a high card draw and/or the best hand!). turn K, check - check. river A, so i make top two. i fired a pretty nice bet and he called and blew his lid when he saw my hand. "i guess you put me on nothing on the flop!" i said "yep. bad read by me, i guess." and i was serious, not sarcastic.

the very next hand, i'm now in the SB and he's in the BB. it folds around to us and everybody has been chopping all night, so i raise my cards as if to motion to chop, and he says, "i aint chopping sh## with you. so raise if you want!" i look down at 99 and raise. he calls.

flop comes AJ4ss. check, check. turn 8. i check, he overbets the pot $55 into $40. i call cuz he has at the very best a jack, but most likely nothing. river is a 6o. i check and he insta-bets $100. i call after a few seconds and he says, "nice call." i table and win.

here's where it gets good. about 5 hands later, i raise with KK. he obv calls and then several other people call. i play my hand passively OOP on the 665ss flop. the villian bets small-ish, gets a call or two, and i call. turn Ao. checks around. river completes the flush and the villian bets out pretty big. i ponder and fold, saying, "nice river" thinking he has me beat this time. as he is collecting a pretty sizable pot, he replies, "i don't need your approval, MF'er!........you piece of sh##."

wow, wtf? when did this get personal? i have never almost been in a fight before at the poker table, but this was the closest. i told the dealer immediately to call the floor. and after conferencing with the dealer away from the table, the floor ruled that the villian would be dealt out for 20 minutes. hahaha! what a dick. the weirdest part was that his wife was sitting right beside him railing the game.

i ignored him the rest of the night. he pretty much kept quiet after that. that is until..............

(tune in next time for another bizarre hand that required two floor men!)

how much did corp mike lose yesterday at the avaitor? thanks '' chilidog"

Dunno. If u read what I posted above, I left the golden west game last night and went home.

Well? Well?

You're misinformed. There is no law, state or local that limits maximum buyins (that I'm aware of). This is done by the house to prevent the new players from going broke quickly, as it is typically the lowest limit that can be spread. Casino Royale in Sacramento has a 1/2 NL with a $200 max that runs 24/7 and you can buy in for more than $200 if the table does not dissent.

let me say again: tl;dr. i warned you.

1 round later, i pick up the monster 96o on the button. there's a weak tight limper, so naturally i raise. the big blind, who is very close to, if not The definition of a meat head, calls. the weak tighty limper folds.

before the flop is dealt, he makes an awesome play: "i check in the dark!" you're calling OOP and now you want to give up your chance to bet? ok, whatevs dood, i'm not gonna get out ******o'ed, so "i check the flop also" i say.

the dealer puts out the 932 flop. not bad one for me. but now, the meat head, i mean villian, throws out $25. we all assume he is betting the turn dark. the dealer burns a card and is about to put out the turn card, when the villian protests, "wait, i want to bet $50!" which is confusing as we had already checked through on the flop, both of us dark.

the table now erupts in confused banter. nobody can seem to make sense of the villian's intended action, so the floor is called. now, the dealer attempts to relay the action to the floor, but doesn't include the pertinent details, such as the dark checks -- through no fault of his own, i like the guy and he's a good dealer, but engrish is not his first language.

so i chime in with as many details as the floor wants. and he still has a confused look and is standing there blankly. so he motions another floor man over. we all hear the story again, and half the table is trying to get their opinion heard. so there are like 5 people yelling at the 2nd floor man, including the villian. i sit back and enjoy the show. finally, the 2nd floor man rules that the villian's dark turn bet is coming back and he will have a chance to act on the turn.

turn is dealt: 6. bingo. top two. now the villian checks (??!!?!?) after betting $25, then saying he wanted to bet $50 instead.

so i oblige and bet $50. he instantly says, "i'm all in" and i snap "i call" as quick as i can. he has about $200 behind, so i'm never folding top two.

river: 9, giving me the stones. he says, "i have a set" and rolls over K9. one of my pet peeves in holdem is people calling trips a set, but whatever. i fast roll, and say "no good".

the small blind, who was not in the hand at all says, "you raised my blind with 96o??!?" with a big smile on his face and we have a chuckle.

the very next hand, the villian from my first TR post yesterday is now on the button, and the meat head is in the SB. button raises pf, and the meat head ships all in with his short re-buy of $120. button calls and quickly tables his hand: AKo. "it's a race" says meat. the board comes paired and 8 high and runs out dry, AKo does not improve. meat tosses his hand towards the middle (no where near the muck pile) and a 9 is face up but the other card is face down. he quickly reaches in and turns over the other 9 for the winner.

dick head villian on the button says, "i could call the floor and win this pot, but i'm gonna let you have it. your hand should be dead." this sets off Meat, and he quips back with the most profound retort: "whatever, *******! let's call the floor!! i'll bet you your whole stack that i win this hand!"

the floor is called over for the third time in about 10 minutes. he is not happy. we hear the story and the floor rules that since the 9 was not near the muck and he reached to table his card immediately, the hand is live and wins the pot.

"ship me your whole stack!!" yells Meat. dick head had obviously not accepted the prop bet, but Meat insists. dick head: "F you, i never made a bet." now Meat rips his hipster sunglasses off and slams them down. the back and forth yelling and the inability for either of them to let it go started getting to me. not to mention we had played about 5 hands in the past 20 minutes.

so i racked up after the next hand and called it a night. proceeded to run bad on the drive home too as there was a major accident on I-5 where a Ryder truck crashed through the median and there were totaled cars on both sides of the freeway plus a gas tanker truck parked on our side. haz mat trucks and 37 fire trucks blocked the road for about 30 minutes while we danced around on the freeway.

the end.

be back in two weeks, ready for the mayhem to continue.

nvm

I need to play some 3/5, I just hate walking around with 1k in my pocket lol

you get used to it pretty quickly. or you can always start a player's bank at GW and keep some $ there. i am assuming that they offer that service and that it is free (most places do). you can swing in during the day time if you need to access it.

Really? That would save me some ATM fees lol

read this thread. it might make you feel more relaxed about carrying cash.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19...-money-991813/

i lied. i actually visited GW last week while passing thru bako on my way back to the southland.

continuing from my previous TR......

i ran ****ty again, getting trapped by a ****** gambler who was free-rolling after winning at blackjack and dumping quickly at poker. he was on the button and after the flop, he squeeze-shoved over my bet and a call in the middle. i had an overpair which was the stone cold nuts against him, but i mistakenly put the middle guy on a flush draw. middle guy had a set....

another trap hand: i'm in the big blind with 53o. 3 limpers. it comes 467ss. i fire pot, get raised, and get it in vs. the only possible guy who could limp UTG with 85.

enough of the bad beat stories. except for this last one, which didn't happen to me. it happened to the guy who i labeled "dick head villian" from my previous TRs, by me.

DHV comes in late. i win a decent pot against him. the game gets short handed. [i am really beginning to like short handed games as people seem to be generally uncomfortable and say things like "the blinds come around too fast!" wow.]

anyway, we're four handed when this hand comes up. straddled pot. i raise (naturally) with 53o on the button to $35. SB folds. BB who is the DHV shoves all in for $120. straddle folds. i am thinking about calling, and then i realize i'm getting a good price and i have the opportunity to life tilt this guy for the rest of our playing days together, especially considering the events from the previous week -- a rare opportunity indeed. i'm pretty sure DHV will re-buy if i call and win, so i call.

flop comes: 246r.

i'm still. DHV rolls over his AK. i'm still. turn comes 6, river T. i show my straight and he is so pissed he can't even think of anything to say as he storms out of the room, all the while shooting daggers my way.

it was the first and only time i intentionally hung around the poker room just to make sure the coast was clear before i left. i.e., there was the smallest hint in the back of my brain that my safety could be in danger if i left right away. and i can think of very very few people who might dare to call me a small man.

back next week. say hey, if you see me.

i created a new thread with several noteworthy hands from my trip this week:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...no-tr-1011542/

I play at the Golden West on a semi regular basis (Always 2/2, usually two nights a week Fri-Mon). The play at the level is obviously going to be meh at best and most of the time head scratching. The 2/2 game is usually full of the same folks who play one of two ways.

#1- Limp/call every single hand pre, pray that there draws connect or they happen to catch a pair... If you get into this game it is uber profitable, only raise with monsters. You can open up your range and just value these folks to death.

#2- Wild and crazy gamboo it up type players who always open 8x with any two broadways and only know one thing to do after the flop... Shove!

I have had a lot of recent success there just simply set mining, playing suited connectors and hands of the like in position, and being over aggressive pre with premium hands and continued flop aggression and the one thing that has always hindered me in the past in live games... The ability to fold when live players show aggression.

Perfect example: Today I won a 200 dollar pot betting the flop hard and getting it in on the turn with K-Jc on a J high wet board something like J-10-7-7dd and never thought twice about it because the other two guys in the hand were content to call the flop bet with that "I am going to call till I hit" type of attitude. Then around 3 orbits later I pick up A-Qh on the button and bump it to 8 dollars after 2 limpers, one MP limper calls the 8 and we see a flop of A-5-4dd... He checks I c-bet 10 dollars into our massive 20 dollar pot and he insta raises 35, I tank for like 20 seconds and fold the A-Q face up (Which I like to do from time to time so these droolers think I am making big lay downs or that I am easy to bluff). The guy who raised me turned out to be a huge loose donkey but he was an older gentleman and had played 2 hands at the table so I gave him the old guy has something discount. One of the guys who was in the 200 dollar pot, is like "Wow, you were so aggressive in that earlier hand and now you lay that down???" Really deep thinkers... If you play ABC and are able to find a decent fold or two they will give you money.

If any of you guys are there and see a guy in some form of Cubs hat and an ipod so I don't have to listen to the old regs bemoaning how card dead they are come over and say hi.

there is truly some bad play there, i agree. i really hate the 2/2nl game there as $100 is not enough to play poker. i think you have to play very tight and avoid calling raises OOP with small pairs or suited connectors. in most cases, your opponent is so short on chips, that is really doesn't make sense to call a preflop raise from him. of course, i have a super hard time not raising every hand and punishing their weak play, but i guess that's why i can't win in that game. hahaha.

anyway, keep the fundamentals in mind when you are calling preflop raises. don't be afraid to 3 bet it now and then. they will call with AJo and c/f when they miss !

good luck. move up to the 3/5nl and/or take a shot when u can. much better game.

You could not be more right about having to play tight particularly oop... I fold so many hands that I would flat or raise in a deeper game, No 3-5 for me yet as my poker roll is still in its infant stages and I don't feel like risking 1/3 on a single full buy-in.

Had a funny hand the other day in this game, typical 2/2:

Pick up KK utg around 315 deep and make it 12 to go, have an older particularly crabby older nit come over the top for a whopping 35 dollars and I am so incredibly happy because now I can squeeze whatever idiot is going to flat here. So I get the usual flatter two positions later (He is about 190 deep) and folds around to me and I insta shove. He tanks for about a minute and a half, doing his best TV poker impression and trying to get a read on me and acting truly pained that he is thinking of folding, finally he folds and smugly asks the dealer to see both hands. Board bricks out for the old nit and they table A-10d and I scoop the pot... He proudly tells me that he folded A-Q right there (Like it was the hardest fold ever like I am going to squeeze him with 3 buy-ins with anything less than QQ+ and probably only aces or kings). and I congratulate him on such a tough fold and then the old crabby nit says to me "I can't even win with good cards" and I tell her "Yea that's tough it's just not you day I guess".

what about the 2/3 or 2/4nl games ? they might be worthwhile if you could get a game going. management seems to be unsure about what they want. how can you have all of the following games in one small casino: 2/2, 2/3, 2/4, and 3/5 nl ??

read my TR thread (see post #40 itt) for some very amusing hands from 3/5nl.

see update to my TR in this thread:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27.../#post26208992

also, wish i could be there when the $118k jackpot hits. the tables were packed this week with everyone trying to lose with quads.

i can't recall ever being at a NL holdem table where quads lost. and that is in several thousand hours of live play. i'm sure 2-4 LHE will hit it soon.

Does anyone have the scoop on this big black ex-football player? I guess he's such such guy who tips the dealer $300 and spews off a thousand or two on the 3/5 table.. I've been getting txts from local grinders about him

How was your 3/5 session?

he have a girl $300 from his pocket after she lost a $200 hand. he also dumped $200 on a random table and told the players to divide it up. weird stuff.

MK did pretty well on wednesday night. i doubled him up early.

Did pretty good happy bout my play won few buyins.

Fav part was bluffing the aggro Asian out of a hand then my aq beats his 10-10

Is the guy the player from bako that's been playingthere for awhile or another ex football player?