Think I'll hit up Electric Stick tomorrow night. That tourney is at 7pm right?

Yup, $35/30k stack. Wish I could join you but I've got obligations for tomorrow. The couple times I've played there have been 200 runners. Good luck to you.

I'm hoping I run better in March against players holding pocket 5s. I busted out of 4 tournaments in Feb in a race against 5s, the last one being on Monday where dude flopped quad 5s against my AQ, ouch.

Since I'm posting I just want to say congrats to Jose on events 1&5 of the CPC, nice run man!

You guys should totally come to Taylor tomorrow night! $50 buyin ($40 before 6:30). Been getting 60-70 runners... 100k starting stack. (15 min. blinds to make up for it though...)

I don't understand giving a discount for early reg in a charity tournament unless it's a big buyin and they are letting reg a day or 3 early.

they do it to get guys to play cash before the tournament. otherwise they usually don't even get a cash game going before the tournament...

Me and my internet bravado :/

I just lol @ guys talking about having 4 gazillion buy-ins for a 2/5 game that is mostly filled w/morons (ME) & maybe 2 good players.

I really am a DB, though. You guys shouldn't take my posts seriously.

i feel ya, man. i say just skip 2/5 entirely, whole game's a nitty boring joke. every 5 buyins you win over your 1/2 br equals one liveshot at 5/10 or 10/20, and that's just gotta be how it is.

shottaking way outta your "bankroll" is the only way to get anywhere in poker. trust me, it's how i got to where i'm at right now.

Thanks alot dueceFive25 and thanks to everyone else who wished me good luck and sent run good my way. I don't mean to ignore anyone but between playing from afternoon until early morning hours, Tweeting a hundred times a day and updating my thread its been super hectic and draining. I appreciate everyone who has been excited for me and has taken an interest in my updates. Thanks guys.

I got something that will put a lil jump in your step Jose, let me know if you want me to call my boy :P

Joking of course ( I have been sober for 6+ years ) I only use caffeine now.

kwack it was good meeting you last night and we should definitely hit up mcc sometime. i feel like that 52 hand is worth a TR!

heidelberg had plo going again tonight. they had a full table going most of the night. game started at 830 and broke around 12:30 with a few guys cashing out $1k+. don't how much they were in for though since i got there late.

The kwack agrees. After winning 12 out of my last 14 sessions I was in danger of posting my first loss in 9 sessions. /brag With my streak and getting lucky with staking Jose, figured it was time to spew.

Two tables going at Heidelberg and I have to sit at the reg infested nit fest. Literally one half of the table folded every hand for a hour. It came down to this asian on my right and this Eurodonk, complete with euro accent, who gave all the action.

Second hand after sitting down, asian guy raises to 12 utg+1. I played a lot with this guy before(he was in my last trip report at berg). Look down at KQ and give asian guy no respect, he was short stacked about 65. So I 3bet to 22 to iso. Eurodonk calls and as expected asian guy shoves 65. Pretty standard for me to iso shove here on top to get eurodonk to fold. Long story short, eurodonk calls his remaining 160 with 78 and hits a 7 on the turn. Asian also had KQ and tells me that eurodonk is crazy.

Vatever(said like ziggy). I love loose calls to big preflop raises, I will get him eventually right? I spend the next 10 hands playing pots with this eurodonk, I 3bet him a few times. He goes on this ridiculous heater where he wins 10 hands in a row getting KK twice, 1010, flops top pair 4 times etc.. The whole time I am betting draws, value betting thinly, calling him down, bluffing, and getting owned over and over again. Dumped a total of 500 to this guy and top up to 300. In the game 800.

PureVida moves tables over to mine at about this time and did not get to witness this insanity. I chip up to near 400, one hand was kinda interesting where I 3bet eurodonks 12 dollar raise to 25 with J9. Flop comes KQ8. I bet 35 and he calls. Turn is the 10 giving me str8. I bet 55 and he folds showing Q9. I wish I had checked the turn looking back but was hoping he would spaz raise.

The infamous 2-5 hand.

So Eurodonk raises to 5 utg, weird betsize. I am trying to play every hand with this guy to get my money back and cause hes supposedly bad. For whatever reason I think my hand is 2-3 and the flop comes 10-3-2. So I am like sweet flopped 2 pair. I bet 15 and Eurodonk calls. Turn is a 3. Sweet I have a boat and I bet 35. Eurodonk does exactly what I want and raises 105 more. At this point I look down at my cards only to see that I misread my hand and I have the miserable 2-5. I make the snap decision to continue representing 2-3 and I shove for 200 more over his raise. He doesnt like it, looks sick to himself but decides to call. I am crushed, he must have the 3. How else can he call? We roll our hands, he called with KK and the river comes a 2!!!! OMFG I drop my head in shame + embarrassment + trying to hide how happy I am rofl.

Eurodonk went from spinning his under 200 stack to over 1k and then back down to 0 just as fast. He reloaded a few more times and lost those as well. Just barely saved my win streak, win #9 in a row for +48 dollars. I have been keeping track of my wins the past 6 weeks and I am winning 38.5 dollars per hour over 122.5 hours. I need to move up to 2/5 imo.

With my recent win @ G'town I've run my streak all the way up to one in a row.

/end brag

Jelly. Actually, I'm on a cash game streak of one too.

@kwackbars epic TR. It would have been even more epic if you would have shoved still thinking you had 2-3, but after you figured out you had 2-5 it sounds too much like pokerz skillz. gg

Just curious, what was the biggest "shot" you took?

I'm curious what peoples biggest "shot" was?

Drunk playing in a Casino in Mainz Germany. I think it was 5/10 Euro.

Love, Mainz. Great architecture and city layout.

Mine was LHE 20/40 at the Bellagio. Busted my nut, so I took it a little further than a shot.

Wordsmith ITT.

I once had $1600 on one hand of blackjack. Bet $400, split 8s, doubled both... Lost one and pushed the other.

cash: whole 10/20 table agreed to pop a 40 straddle on at mcc about a year ago, and a few guys restraddled 60 for a few rounds.

tourney: ept tallinn ME and hu shootout adding up to ~9k euros lol (this was like fall/winter 2010 and i was like pffffff i've got an income, woteva)

It was 1/2. Not a ton of action but twice I turned ther nut flush and got called down by smalled flushes

It was a spur of the moment thing, when I saw the lineup I jumped in it. The table was filled with loose passives and tight passives. There was only one other aggressive player at the table. Although I did get owned going for thin value with an underboat on a board of AJJ95, I had j9 the guy check called the river with acesfull

Good to know. Does the game run regularly?

A similar 1-2 PLO ran last night at the Heidelberg (Ann Arbor), only the 2nd week but a full table for a couple of hours. Kind of passive, with a few players that really didn't understand the game donating a couple BI each.

Hmmm.

Is it my imagination or did we have a little "clean-up" in this thread. I thought I made a benign response that is missing and the page count seems off.