2020 is over. The King is dead. Long live the King!

Welcome to the 2021 edition of the Casino & Cardroom Poker Forum Low-Content & Chat Tread.

This is where your low-content posts belong. Anything too small to deserve its own thread, but still CCP related and worth posting. Chit chat amongst the community is also allowed.

As is tradition, cake will be served!



And here is a link to the previous thread.

I'd eat that .. not sure what I'd pay for it, but I wouldn't turn it down, very nice!

In the spirit of 'easy' math .. In Indiana Four Winds casino is allowed seven 7-handed tables, but their counterparts in the southern portion of the state can only play 5-handed whilst being able to support more tables.

Whose room is busting at the seams?

In times where things don't make sense, this definitely is not surprising .. having different standards even within the same state. GL


PS .. I realize that in Vegas there are different rooms with different 'regs' as approved by Gaming based on table and room size, as well as plexiglass configuration.

All I can say is that I am looking forward to being able to play live poker again sometime this year. It has been too long since I have heard those magical words "The odds were 50-50. Either he had it or he didn't" uttered in person.

Don't forget the other one .. "50-50, you either win or lose"

'Plenty' of live poker out there .. you just have to put in a lot more effort to par take in it right now. Air fare is super cheap the next two months NV, FL, TX and east coast. GL

One of the two rooms I play at (Choctaw Durant) is running games. I just personally do not think it is safe, so I choose not to play.

I "could" have played live any number of times. The only problem is that the people that would go out and play live in the middle of a pandemic while there is a lockdown are also more likely to catch and spread covid.

We went to Vegas in November, but only because my husband and I had both had covid in Sept/Oct, so we felt "safer." We stayed away from loved ones for two weeks when we got home.

We also play in a local underground room. Again, we feel safe, and I put the responsibility on the other players as to their safety. We stay away from family, work from home (just two of us in the house), etc. We are mask-wearing, hand-sanitizing people.

Edit: we would not have gone to Vegas and would not play cards live if we hadn't had covid.

I played in 3 poker rooms on their final day before closing (no mask but capped at 6 players), then at the end of June when MDL opened I played there almost every day until recently when Borgata opened. I'm still alive and I never heard of any players or dealers coming down with the virus.

Not sure they want CV chat to overtake this thread, but it's also current ..

After casino games shut down the home game scene got much larger and things went along just fine .. until they didn't. There was a small breakout that only slowed the games down for 2-3 weeks, and only about, say, 20% of the Players/hosts/dealers actually went and tested positive for CV.

The games picked back up and there's been no 2nd outbreak so far .. still mostly masked and still the majority of people involved 'not' contracting CV (that they know of). GL

Here's a question for you guys: Do you play more aggressively vs. an unknown middle-aged woman?

To be honest it would depend on a lot, not and hardly just gender. Do you stack your chips neatly, do you handle them like you know how to play? If they're messy and unevenly stacked then maybe but that's the same for all unknowns not just MAW.

Interesting. If I saw an average MAM and a MAW sit down with normal chips and nothing out of the ordinary, I'd automatically think the woman was tighter and would play more scared money / MUBsy -- and I'm a MAW.

I used to play with this 60ish year old woman who would knit at the table. Young guys would constantly bluff her. She'd just roll her eyes and snap them off with king high.

Be careful about bluffing women. They've had men lie to them their whole lives and know what it looks like.

Most will give up easily if they don't hit, though.

All other things being equal, I would tend to think a MAW would be more passive and stationy, so I would be less apt to bluff, but would bet wider value and bet all three streets.

I would not bluff too much because they always call me.

Middle aged woman, young nerdy lookin woman, total smokeshow, strategy is the same against any woman. Call down light early in the session, then bluff a ton because women don't call me back.

For females in general .. the more talking that they are doing, the wider their play. That may be true for males as well, so maybe not a news flash.

I would really suggest checking out the purse/handbag, if any, as the classic top load short strap non-designer will lend itself to ABC play. GL

It may be due to the smaller sample size that aberrations stick out, but while I found female players in general to be more ABC and slightly more stationy, the ones that consider themselves 'players' overcompenate significantly and are prone to FPS.

It's an interesting question, but I think it's almost a self fulfilling prophecy. Women might be considered more stationy, but only because guys might try to put undue pressure on them so their best line is just let people barrel off into them.

I have a friend who her and her husband are winning players (as far as I know). I'd never consider her to be tight preflop, but she gets paid off like a mofo.

I still think good players can distinguish good players no matter what. Similar to calling down the 'drunk guy' at the table. Sure, maybe for the first orbit I'll give him less credit on a triple barrel. But as one who likes to drink at the table to create stupid banter and a more fun atmosphere, I still know exactly what I'm doing and why.

Marsh

Maybe y'all will find this story amusing - it's topical.

A friend of mine in Austin is a very good poker player. She is also very sweet and has a kind and pleasant demeanor.

She was in this one hand against this guy who was rather misogynistic. He just didn't think that my friend could play good poker. He was very down on women being any good at the game.

So she gets 6,8 of and decided to play it, having position. Well, it ended up being a pretty large pot and she won it handily with a straight. She played it well - reeled him in and got max value.

At showdown, the guy was incredulous that she played a one-gapper despite it being correct odds and well-played. He was like, "How can you play such trash*?!?!! You have no idea what you're doing, you just got lucky! Why would anyone play such cards?!?"

* [he used more colorful words than 'trash']

So my friend, she told me this later, stopped to think about how to answer. She wanted to come up with the ~best~ answer to tilt him.

She said, in a very sweet and small voice, "I just thought they were pretty."

Well, the guy LOST it. He was raging and sputtering. And proceeded to go on super-crazy-monkey-tilt and blow most all of his chips.

Awesome story!

I've played against similar guys, and it really is fun to monkey tilt them!

I might look for clues to figure out if she’s playing with her own money or not.

This doesn't necessarily make a difference. At my old job we had one reg who is very rich from some businesses she owns and is terrible. She would dump at least $2k every time she walked into the room playing $1/2.

Funny. The guys I play with think I'm playing with my husband's money, but our poker rolls are separate (for live poker). I'm not sure that matters, anyway. How do you think it changes things? Is she tighter with her own money? Or, is she tighter knowing it's someone else's?

Many would say that unless all your rolls including life rolls are separate your cash roll isn’t really separate.

There are also those who sale if your rolls are separate then you really are not married.