That's awesome! How do you get away with that? How do you keep from LOL? I never played the fish card. I must try that sometime. I guess the player pool is large enough that you can be shark disguised as fish. Ever get called out on that? If you do, do you move tables?

What else do you say fishy @ the table?

"I put you on AK so I thought my 5th pair was good"
"Isn't Phil Hellmuth the greatest?"

87 right now in the3rd level

In my opinion the only people that will buy that fish talk are the fish themselves. Who you really don't need to worry about, decent regs will see through the talk and focus on your play.

Though a lot of the regs don't understand the concept of 3betting light from the button, stealing blinds in LP, squeezing a weak tight player, etc.

I usually give them a comment like "I saw it on TV once", or something to portray me as overly loose.

I am very, very good at manipulating my tone of voice and I am also young enough to sell the inexperience--some of my other gold:

"Shove Jacks, they are as good as Kings against Aces."
"All suited connectors are worth being played for the HHJ."
"If you are raising anything other than Tens or better or any Ace, you are throwing money away" (this one actually received an agreement...yet even I almost had trouble keeping a straight face with this one)

Jerseys, I got confused for a minute there, I thought that list was advice you were giving. Now i see that it was a list of things you heard at the table. Whew.

You were actually right the first time, it is advice I give, but it is sarcastic advice just so I can see the reactions of others and to earn some disrespect .

Well Jerseys, I searched high and low for you tonight and came up empty.

Same! I was on Table 7, the very back left corner, 1/2 hell.

I was completely card dead and had TWO opportunities at the HHJ:

Hand 1: Dealt KQ. Flop AJ3. Turn bricks. River bricks. Lost $~60, where a flush or a straight would have easily taken it down.

Hand 2: Dealt 87, so I limp on the CO. Flop 962. Turn 7. River brick. Lose to someone with 85o, about $100, where any straight or flush would have taken it down.

It was a war of attrition where I was slightly above break-even all night, until I caught QQ in the SB at 1:30 AM, popped it to $25 from $7, got 3 callers, and caught a AQ4 flop that became a river boat. Guy on the button shoves, and it turns into a $225 night.

It was quite sickening though, it was the only flop I really caught a piece of all night. I pretty much needed to rely on reads all night long

I caught 3 hands immediately after sitting down and then stayed pretty even the rest of the night. Left up a buyin and a half.
My table was a gold mine. Calling stations, ATC, calling with 3rd pair, overcalling the river with 4th pair, limpfest. I would guess that 19 out of 20 hands were limped preflop.
I flopped quad Ks during the "break" Thank god that would not have been enough for the high hand or I would have had sour grapes for sure.
I made several laps around the room looking for you. I was near the restrooms, maybe 3 tables to the right.
Maybe next time.

My table was sadly a gold mine, as well, and it pained me to see constant beer hands. I caught TT twice, but both of the time people had QQ and KK, respectively, and I was OOP, which sort of defeats the purpose. I think I caught AK and AQ once each, and remember whiffing on both.

I was looking for you, as well, but there were so many middle-age females that I had nothing else really to go by .

I have a new identifying characteristic, I found the coolest sunglasses the other day that refract BLUE light, so if you see a guy with blue-tinted glasses, that would likely be me.

WOW. I have never been called middle aged before.


ETA...going back down tomorrow afternoon.

Yeah, I deserve a KITN for that, sorry . I am only 24 and look much younger, so my vantage point is skewed.

But in all seriousness, I do apologize. If it makes you feel any better, I was asked by 2 people at my table if I was under 20, and they were not joking.

Well been awhile since I did one of the guarantees.....finished in 16th I think out of 88. Was chip leader towards the ladder end lost almost half my stack to the nut flush I had the second nut flush on the flop. About ten hands later made a move preflop with aksuited got called by Kj.....flop came jdx turn of course a j....river was nada.


That tournament is full of donks just waiting to give you chips. I rarely saw any 3betting lots of limping.....ill Def be back.

3 of those donks migrated to my 1/2...trust me, not seeing anything worth playing or catching any limped suited connectors/gappers made me feel like I was missing a real opportunity.

was this the 2pm tourney?

It was, and I was stuck at work...man, those players who migrated were terrible! They limped with anything, called raises with anything, and bet 3rd pairs on the flop. Not to mention that their bet sizes telegraphed the fact that they were weak. (which was how I extracted anything out of them with pure air)

Yes the 2pm very easy tourney IMO. A few good players in it. But hardley anyone making moves. And everything about them telegraphed their hands. It was very weak play in general. I only had maybe four legit hands. ..everything else was highway robbery.

I didn't play Fridays guaranties before. But I might try next week.
Really depends on tourney timing. I have to be back home by 11 and
I am 1.5Hr away from MS.
How typical is to have around 90 players for this event? At what time it was over? Nine seats were on money and most likely 10-th was min payed by others,
I assume?

Honestly , one of the worst things for me is to be forced to chop because
I am late and have to leave soon.

You obv have a way with the ladies...

don't apologize to a woman for calling her old by telling her that everyone thinks you look younger than you are. doesn't work.

Played from 7PM to 9AM last night/this morning. Built up a $1500+ plus stack at 1/2. Mostly from smaller pots where I raised preflop and took it down on the flop with a solid cbet. There was one real big hand with a $1200 pot.

Effective stacks are ~650ish. UTG raises to $8 and gets called by 3 players and hero on the button with 64. Flop is k53 Action checks to the villain on heros left who bets $40; hero raises to $120 and it is folded around to the original better who deliberates and calls. Turn is the 2 Villain instantly shoves ~500 with KQo drawing dead.

I played with a reg who plays the Friday guarantee every week and he highly recommends it so I am thinking of playing it next week. Hell, if he can cash in it as frequently as he does then it can't be that tough.
He told me that they frequently chop it 5 handed.

Jerseys, as far as being old....well, to you, I probably am old. I am in my 30s but I have a 28 year old stud and a wee little girl that keep me feeling young.

Did he tell you what is his win ratio? Before I skrood up being chip leader BF tournament last November, I was finishing (in small NLH tournaments) almost 65% on money and more then 50% of that chopping. Probably my winning rate could be better, but I prefer to go for profits. Anyway I thought it was pretty good achievement.
So, what your reg was claiming ?
And actually chop make sense if blinds are to high and not allowing other moves then all in . And for some reason I like to consider chopping if it allows
me to stay under 5K.

P.S. My wife is 33 and she is young and beautiful.
Jersey , t'was damn good move in case you were going to play with Jpsychlady pretty soon.

Are you kidding? Karma is going to eat my aliiiive if jpsych and I happen to be at the same table tomorrow! I really did not mean anything by it--I am just far too straightforward and tend to say things that incriminate me far too often. I really meant nothing by it and invite you to make fun of the fact that I look like a 16-year-old .

Flow, very nice! I am shocked villain would shove with TP2K...a little bit, anyway. Then I realize it is at 1/2 and that top pair is the perceived nuts, so nice job catching a very nice turn! Usually, I can get the crowd to respect my c-bet or make stupid shoves, but rarely both.

I will be there tonight, as well.

My roommate was on that table, I definitely met you when we were getting up to leave. He told me about that hand, awesome.