You forgot the frame of both of them walking back out to the Poker Table without washing their hands to play some more with their chips!

Nothing better than genital germs on my goker gips

Mike Caro

Yes! Thanks jrr63. Probably in Caro's Most Profitable Holdem Advice? If not, then maybe in his Super System chapter. Sadly, neither book made the cut from four plus bookcases down to two when I moved out here.

Switching it up tonight and playing the Bally's 8pm $105/$2k gtd.

Burger Brasserie at Bally's, $19.99, one draft beer included.

Decent grub and great service, but I don't understand why anyone would wear hamburgers on their titties

They're starting with 8 players and kind of a dead room; they'll need 19 to avoid an overlay.

Are there re entries?

Yes but I'm out: A3 Vs AQ all in on the turn on an A3T7Q board. Standard beat. Should have folded river ldo. A reentry would've given me 35bb. My min is 50bb.

Bally's Tourney:
(-$105)

Overlay or nah?

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I only lasted until the end of level 3, out of 7 levels of late reg. They had 11 runners when I left, but all were confined to 1 table (with 1 reentry and an alternate). It's hard to sell alternate seats late, so it's possible that there may have been an overlay.

Yesterday I played well and I ran well. That always makes for a nice day at the office.

At the freeroll, I picked up enough cards and chips early on to be able to shift over to an aggro bully play style, but even with that image I still picked up folds later on when I needed them. At the cash game I was mostly card dead early, and I came across as a lockdown nitcake, but even with that image I still picked up calls later on when I needed them. On days like this, poker feels like the easiest game in the world.

At the freeroll I made a fun play that I liked a lot. I try not to post a hand if it might be seen purely as brag, but this one was unconventional enough that people can argue that it was a bad play, and therefore it might be of interest.

To understand the play, we need to have a quick look at the tourney structure. The freeroll had 57 runners. Spots 1-10 were paid $500 each, 11-20 got $300 and 21-30 got $200. We played the hand near the bubble, with 32 left. Blinds were 1000/2000 (no antes) on 15 minute levels, average stack was 17,800, or around 9 bb.

I was the second stack at the table with 42,000. UTG was the big stack with around 46,000. Both of us had enough chips to comfortably glide across the first bubble, if that's what we wanted to do. UTG is a Harrahs reg and a good player. I'd put him in the top 5 on the promo grinder circuit.

So yeah, clash with a good player who opened UTG and is sitting on a covering big stack near the stone bubble.



UTG opens 4000, and MP shoves for 18,000. I'm on the button with 42,000 and pick up QQ.

If the freeroll had only one tier of payouts--say all 30 players would get $350 each--then I would be turbo mucking on the bubble here. As it is, with three tiers of payouts, this hand is too good to fold when I have 21 bbs, bubble or no. I want the $500 top tier payout, no exceptions. It's a standard reshove.

I flatcalled the 18,000, with a plan to muck it with no regrets if UTG reshoved when it got back to him.

Bally's and Harrahs: 8 hours (Harrahs freeroll +$460):
+$706

Well you made $460 on the freeroll so I assume what you did worked

Interesting spot.

ELEVEN-HANDED HOLD'EM IS A MORTAL ****ING SIN

No way to abandon 18/42 of your stack pre, Mr. SuitedJustice.

The Trooper (popular poker vlogger) has rolled up to my table at 3:45 am and has promptly open limped 2 of 4 hands.

The table broke and it appears that Troop followed me to my new table deliberately, as I was the only player at our old table with a big stack and a drink in front of me.

I 3bet him first chance I got, as I've heard that's a pet peeve of his.

Seems like a nice dude, though. I'll try not to pick on him.

Holy **** never mind. It's a doppelganger who is wearing Trooper's Go Gamble brand hat and who looks like him. But this dude has longish hair, and the Trooper has short hair in his most recent video.

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Played 5 hours and not one other person (of the 15 or so that cycled through) had 1 drink.

I was like a lonely drunk!

SAD.

Ballys: 6 hours:
+$246

Exactly: UTG has played with me a fair amount, and with him being an observant player, he should know that I'm good enough to never fold once I've committed 18k/42k to the pot, in spite of the fact that I'm totally folding if he reshoves, which he can't know.

So why would I not shove in that spot, from his point of view? What does it look like I have?

He opened UTG for 4k on the bubble. My thinking is that he's already mucking the bottom of his UTG opening range: his AT-AQ, 77-TT are all in the muck for 18k, whether I flat or shove, it doesn't matter.

Now, he's reshoving KK-AA and I'm folding, and then I'm still probably swinging through the bubble with 23k in my stack. There's only one combo of QQ left, so we can discount that. What does that leave for him? A fat range of 16 combos of AK.

My intention was to put the fear of God into AK, or at least to confuse the hell out of him. Sure, we're flipping if he has AK, but I don't want to flip on the bubble. I want him to fold! I thought that my flatting looked super trappy and therefore much stronger than if I had reshoved, as I could have done the latter with 99+ and AK, but flatting looks like KK-AA all day long.

Cliffs: I put him on AK lol. I was targeting his AK in any case.





It really is a high variance spot. I've been at drunk tables there, but there are a lot of dry ones as well. If you can stay up, the best time is probably 2-6 am.

I'm running okay there (and I ran well there several years back when I played) so I'll probably just keep playing there.

I'm also 4 from 4 on winning sessions (lol +$2 yesterday!).

I also liked the buffet, so it has that going for it as well.

Other than the Bally's freeroll, I did not play today. My eye is giving me trouble again, after seeming to be fine over the last 6 weeks.

Fortunately, I signed up for health insurance for next year through the healthcare.gov open enrollment. Unfortunately, it appears that the latest attempts to dismantle affordable health care in this country are succeeding. I can hope that I'll be able to get in early next year and have the problem looked at by a specialist before everything is changed or taken away.

Again, I'm trying to steer away from any or all of us politarding in this thread. So I tried to lay out my situation above with the least amount of commentary that I could get away with.

Bally's Freeroll: 2 hours:
+$87