And they're often good players. It could be the smallish sample size, but I haven't run across any Deutchendonken.

Standard day yesterday. Four hours in, the table became subpar, so I took a break for lunch. Generally I try not to eat before or during a session, as I often have a buffet credit and I stuff myself and go into a food coma, which leads me into finding an excuse not to play.

Predictably, this happened last night, and I was tempted to foist the last two hours of the session onto my future (now present) self. I'm always mistreating my future self. Fortunately I cowboyed up and returned to the table for the last 2 hours, leaving me a 6 hour day to negotiate through today instead of and 8 hour one.

Flamingo: 6 hours:
+$45

The difference in productivity in hours 5 and 6 vs 7 and 8 I've heard is significant, so you've done yourself a favor

wtf are these ads doing at the bottom of my screen?

smh.

they want you to purchase the goods and/or services they are advertising for

/derail

oops. Wrong bread!

The advertisements I see in this thread relate to the warning signs of alzheimer. Must be all the OMC ITT.

Good to see that someone's making money from me, aside from the other players. There ought to be nit-focused advertising in here as well: Life insurance, safe and sound investments, bicycle helmets, vanilla ice cream and so forth.

Now you’re talking my language. I have plenty of life insurance, investments in blue chip DRIP plan stocks, plenty of bicycle helmets and a freezer full of vanilla ice cream.

Yesterday we had a fish at the table. This one showed his hand every time so I was able to get a very quick read on him. Now, the important thing to know about fish is that many of them have some sort of Redeeming Quality in terms of their play. The RQ is not necessarily a good play or strategy, but it is something that throws unobservant players off their guards enough to where it keeps the the fish from being completely wiped out every session.

Case in point: yesterday's fish was terrible playing post--similar to the fish who torched me a few days ago, he shoved big every time he caught any piece of the flop--and worse than the fish from the other day in that when he missed the flop he physically and verbally let everyone know, to the point of sometimes open/folding the turn or river.

This made him extraordinarily easy to play against; however, his Redeeming Quality was in his preflop strategy. Mind you, he played 85% of his hands, but he would open/shove or 3bet shove all of his premium hands, and only his premium hands.

This should not have been an RQ, as everyone ought to have turbo mucked every time he shoved pre. They did not. He picked up a surprising number of loose calls because people weren't paying attention. They wrote him off as a gamble happy fish and assumed that every shove was a bad one.

Me: I had zero problems throwing away AJs after opening $10 on the BTN and having him 3bet shove $125 in the BB. He showed AKs there.

A few hands later I raised his $5 BTN straddle to $30 with AK, knowing that he would call with anything, thus clearing out the other straddle limpers and and getting my call from him.

(Pot $73) - Two Players

Flop: K93

I check. BTN bets his remaining $100. I call.

He had paired the 9 with a random hand. I held.

Flamingo: 6 hours:
+$293

CASH MONEY HOLMES

Elementary my dear AF.

Yesterday I whiffed on the freeroll, finishing 55th when 50 were paid, so the beard will now be sheared in an act of superstitious flailing based upon short term results.

It should be interesting to see the tan line contrast between my ruddy brown-red upper cheekbones and forehead vs my fishmeat-hued lower face and neck. I'll have to go for a long stroll this afternoon to start the process of evening out the tan.

Flamingo "Freeroll": 2 hours:
(-$10)

Ruddy brown-red upper cheekbones.

What, are you trying to give your readers a boner?

Belay that. It turns out that I'm kinda uniformly pink. Either beards don't have as high of an SPF value as I suspected or I haven't been getting out enough during the daytime hours, or both.

#RIPBeard

more please ... i am living your experience vicariously, suited justice.
more please.

^^ That guy increased his post total by 50% just to tell you this.
#PowerOfTheShave

Wow, I noticed that as well uberkuber. Thanks Gambelina! I am honored* to be a part of your third post!

Here's the plan for the next two weeks: I'll start with playing Tuesday-Saturday at Bally's, racking up a big stack for their freeroll on Saturday. First place in that could be over $2k if I decide to be a dick and don't agree to a chop when we hit the FT.

After that, it's WSOP time! I will spend next Tuesday-Thursday playing satellites with a mind towards gathering one or more $500 "lammers" ($500 chips used for tournament buyins.)

I have my eye on the Big 50 that starts next Friday. This new tournament, designed to celebrate the WSOP's 50 anniversary, features a $500 rake-free buyin, a $5M gtd prize pool, $50k starting stacks and 50 minute blind levels.

Here's the structure sheet. Given the structure, I think that this tourney carries the potential for a huge overlay. They're going to need 10k runners to break even on their prize pool, but the starting stacks are very deep, blind levels are relatively long, and they only allow one reentry per flight.

Given that a record-breaking 10k runners are required to avoid an overlay, they should be relying on a huge chunk of their entries to be reentries, but that would necessitate a much shallower and faster structure with unlimited reentries allowed, none of which are in place. One way to avoid an overlay would be to have a ton of players punting off their one extra deep stack early and foolishly. If that becomes the case, then I won't mind being wrong about the overlay.

*

Sometimes they say: honored and humbled, which is pretty lol way to double down on showing appreciation

sheep

I can think of one proper case.

Here's a hand from yesterday that I thought was fairly standard at the time, but it's since been gnawing at me a bit. Let me know what you think.

First off, I have no reads. Villain has just sat down and has folded a few hands before getting involved with this one. He's an Asian guy in his early 40's, which means that his ability can range anywhere from fish to pro.

The only read I can use is his limping along/calling from MP, which makes the argument that he's not great, but even some decent players do that occasionally with medium suited connectors and low set mining pairs. What separates decent players from the fish is that they don't do it very often. But again, this guy has just sat down so I don't know how often he does it.

Effective stacks are $250. Four players limp and it comes to me in the BB. I'm holding AK and I make it $15 to go. Folds to the MP, who calls, and everyone after him folds.

(Pot $39) - Two Players

Flop: 853

I bet $20 and MP calls.

(Pot $79) - Two Players

Turn: K

I bet $50 and MP calls.

(Pot $179) - Two Players

River: 7

64s and 96s have made a straight. I don't know if 96s calls the flop with a naked gutshot because I have no reads. 96 certainly does, but that's also a great hand to raise the flop with. Flush draws have bricked. Given the somewhat coordinated flop, I think I would have been raised by sets and two pair hands before getting to the river, but if he's a passive station, then maybe not.

Do I have a third street of value here? Maybe, if he's a passive station who's going to get sticky with a worse Kx, 99, A8, 66 or A5. He also might raise me with and/or show me the slowplayed goods, but will that happen more than 50% of the time? That's how often my value bet needs to be good.

Now if he's a good player, then he'll know that the K on the turn was a good card for me to double barrel with a lot of my range, a fair portion of that being air. If I check to him and he's good, wouldn't this be a good spot for him to fire off a bluff with his missed flush draws and hands like 87s, 65s and 54s, or even fire off a thin value bet with a worse K?

I check and MP bets $70

(Pot $249) - Two Players

Probably check/call river as a bluff catcher myself.

If you bet I don't see him calling many worse hands, or folding anything better. He could also jam over your bet and you'd have to fold.

Would definitely call $70.