This one's a tough call.... I can see enough degenerates showing up to get this going but even if it did run, I can't imagine it going very late.... Good luck if you go, might slide up myself

I applaud that this is the deciding factor. When are you going down there, I will ship you a red bird for the strip club story.

Just remembered that our office holiday party is next Wednesday. Guess I'm out.

I would write a "good" TR from the party but I can't remember 4 cards at a time. I must say that I really enjoyed the PLO8 game. I'm listening to Gambit and O8's show right now and while he was correct that I was getting paid off on a lot of hands, it was mostly due to the guy on my right when we first got there.

Have never played PLO8 before. Played LO8 online in a few freerolls back in '03 and live 2/4 once. (lost $120 in about a hour too) Yes Gambit, I knew that it would be the toughest game I've ever played (no matter what we played) and yes, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. The money I brought with me I fully intended to lose so why not try PLO8? I read half of a chapter on PLO8 after all. What could possibly go wrong??

I don't remember his name or think he was part of the thread. But he raised a lot of hands and almost never folded. I think he folded 3 hands in 1.5 hours preflop. I was playing extremely tight at the start while I got a feel for the game. After about 4 orbits of bleeding chips and watching this guy raise several times, I finally pick up AJTx (I think the A was suited) and call his raise to 10. Flop comes out KQT rainbow. I pot the flop and he calls. I think a low suited card hit the turn which gave him 1 pair with the nut flush draw and he calls a pot bet on the turn then calls my $28 river All in bet when a blank hits the river. I tell Frank how easy this game was when you flop the nuts and get called all the way down.

Atrirob took me for $60 on the river when I hit my set which gave him the wheel. I knew I shouldn't have called but I wanted to know. Another hand came up where I hit the nut high on the river and just couldn't fold as much as I really thought I needed to and called $175 on the river when someone hit Nut/nut and I ended up with 1/6th of the pot.

Last hand I remember was when I had JJxx (told you I can't remember) in I think a limped pot. Flop came out JT7. Gambit bets out like $15 and I call and we were HU to the turn. Turn is a T and I just c/c ~$40 on the turn and then lead out for $60 on the river. Gambit reluctantly calls with T7 saying your Js are good. I'm not sure if I should have c/r pot the turn.

After a couple of hours showing the nuts all the time, I was finally able to start playing more hands and getting more comfortable. Bluffing the flop was easy since everyone thought I only bet the nuts and no one was willing to call me down light.

I was up about $350 at one time but after a couple of really bad calls, I ended up losing $2 for the night. I had to get back on the west side as my daughter needed a ride home from work so I stopped by card sharks and lost $240 playing 1/2 NL in 20 minutes. I just love it when they call you with 86s when you raise it to 22 from the BB with 5 limpers. I hit TPgK and shove my last $60 into a straightflush draw which gets there on the river....

PLO8 is my new favorite game! I'm buying my house in a few months so now saving up for that but when I start playing regularly again (or win a cheap tourney or 2) I'm going to start looking for this game.

Thanks again to Omaha8A2 and Gambit for putting this together! I can't wait till we do it again!

At our office holiday party right now... couple bloody mary's deep already. Just found out our boss prefers Texas Hold 'Em when playing cards. After a few more, I just might be able to get a game going

I raised all in with a fondue pot once at an office party. Took it down and won about 30 in cash plus a mini beach cooler, shot glass checker set and 25 dollar gas card

balla

In before strip poker breaks out. GL 25!

nonightday,,,really, you will be disappointed, its a hole

at 7?

and thanks for the other q

Yep, at 7, my bad.

Congrats Caveman on a solid TR.. also, way to go in the PLO8 game we played. You played really well and it was nice to hear that you enjoyed playing with us.

I should have folded on the river when you had Jacks full, I had everything else and knew that Jacks full was the only thing you could be betting... nice job getting me to pay you off there

So I'm playing at Greektown all afternoon after work. Card dead for the most part. Had KK once in the last 4 hours, but that's really all. Then this hand comes up. I'm in the SB with AA and about $200. Button straddles for $5 with $100 behind. I look around, and I see seat 1 grabbing chips. I call. BB calls and it folds to seat 1 who makes it $20. Button calls $20 pretty quickly, and I raise to $60. BB folds, seat one min raises. I'm thinking maybe we have the same hand, or KK. Button goes all in for less, I shove the rest, seat 1 doesn't like it but he calls. He shows KK and button shows QTdd. I have Ad.

Flop is Kd Jd Tc. I'm like, **** me. Turn is the 9d!!! Now I'm drawing dead on the main pot, but the bad beat jackpot is like $60k, so the whole table (except me) starts chanting king, king, king. River is the 8c. I lose both pots and whiff the bad beat. Okay, so it was a bad beat story, but I thought it was worth the sweat.

And by the way, even though it would have been cool to win the table share, I think it is interesting that I had the best hand when the chips went in, but I would only get the table share.

Is that what you do when you get stood up for Lunch?

I played G'town the other night and had what was a nearly perfect night. Bought in for $100 (Short Stacking Scum) and was sitting behind $500 at the end of the night. Which for me is a nice score.

Terrible cards.

Aces once. Jacks three times held up or took the pot on a dry Flop each time. Tens once which flopped the Set.

Big Slick twice. Got pushed off it on a dry flop once and won an OK pot on a KK4 Flop the second time.

In all, I don't think I had to show down a losing hand all night. I just used my image to take down a ton of small pots on Cbets after the Flop.

I did tilt a little at the end of the night when I got a Dealer who only managed to get 7 hands in her entire down. Instead of getting frustrated, I just racked up and left.

I actually consoled myself at lunch with $40 worth of sushi. We have to get together for lunch next year. It's ridiculous that we work in the same building and haven't had lunch yet.

Grats on the nice score. I would have liked a night more like that. I guess I did well just staying about even after four hours with the cards I was getting, but I thought my patience was going to finally pay off on that last hand.

so you don't run like jesus all the time?

I can honestly say that I did not run good at all tonight. Never made better than one pair on any hand I played. I was so desperate for a win at one point that I hero called someone with ace high, where I thought they had a busted flush draw. They had bottom pair.

So I dumped 250 and my 100 profit (350) from pampas on about 3 orbits at MGM playing like a pilled out tilt monkey.... Plus 100 roullette and 100 in craps...(550) I need to get it in hard this weekend so I was contemplating four aces but I play there all the time and the only real reason I go is cause I know everyone and its soft. Lookin for some ideas, where yall playing this pre Christmas Friday afternoon?

So why didn't you raise then. ?

Don't like turning my hand into a bluff against calling stations. This guy over called an all-in on a different hand with a pair of deuces ace kicker. And he won that hand three way lol

So reraise would have been a more optimal play, but you cant bluff a station.....I didn't know this was the strategy thread.

It is pretty much family stuff to Christmas Day for me. Vision Lanes has some three man team tournament today, and I thought there should be a team from this thread going there to take it down. TR obv since I'm at work.

TR on the office party poker game?

It's not, we're just slappies. Love strat talk as social conversation. #degenissues

I didn't know it was that big of a deal. What next no more TR from people?

Happy Holidays to everyone! but then again this might now be the right forum for that too.

TR is that it never took off unfortunately. After some more drinks and christmas jams, people started sliding out the door in which I followed suit. Would have been interesting to play with my bosses/coworkers but even though it didn't happen, at least I now know it could one day be a possibility. Before yesterday I didn't know any of them even played the game.