Todd Brunson lost a couple Lbs and calling down AI w 2nd pair ?

guys like Hellmuth, Airball, tony G who talk a mile a minute at the table are almost invariably all nits using their speech play as a way to get people to pay them off.

You’re actually proving his point.

Taras had a pot size bet behind and elected to bet half his stack (w/ air into quads).

Dylan obv raised with quad jacks.

Airball was up for playing Jungle 500/1K HU if Jungle promised to have 100% of the action, but Jungle wasn't comfortable with that.

I was pretty surprised by this

Airball throws out big bluffs all the time; hardly the action of a nit.

I would like Airball and Robbi to get in a car and drive off a cliff together so we never have to see them on stream again

Do you have a timestamp for this? I couldn't watch this stream. That surprises the hell out of me too.

lol, i was wondering what hand he was talking about. i vaguely remembered a hand when dylan had quads and he raised or check jammed on someone that bluffed into him.

Also like, if the pots 200k, and someone has 230k and they bet 225k thats getting bucketed as a shove. If someones double barrels to set up a river pot sized jam, and they actually have the nuts, they are just going to jam and its rarely ever not the case that they don't jam with the nuts (like 1 out of 100 times ive seen a super small bet to induce when they just have the board crushed with the absolute nuts so that makes some sense).

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Nick Airball just trying to swing his dick as if he's someone important just because his net worth is higher than that of a professional poker player lol. If he was really about that life, he'd be challenging Andy Beal to HU, not some autist poker pro.

What if you're playing 3 handed in a tournament, and you have JJ on 54JK3 with no flush possible in a $2m pot and an effective stack of $1.3m?

Disappointed to load up the stream and see Joey getting rubbed up at the table. Poker table massages are such a fish move.

Massages are a weird thing to watch. At the table I never really found them odd but the streaming thing just adds an ew factor to it.

I've always found the fat guy without a shirt on at the poker table to be quite gross and not nearly as ****-erotically satisfying as one might imagine a big guy getting oiled up and rubbed down at a poker table might be.

how could you confirm if he had all his action

Jungle should have stipulated airball can not use any of daddys/family money, or any money derived from it. Guess he didnt want to tap the glass.

Dudes absurd trying to flex on people for not being able to play nosebleeds when he can only do it because hes a trust funder lmao

Is airball really a trust fund baby? I'm not saying he's NOT, just curious. Whatever he does, it's lucrative lol. Airball would get decimated vs jungle on a long enough time scale

Well he didn't make his money from grinding poker and he didn't make his money through being a low level investment banker so that only leaves a few options.

That's not the hand I was talking about. He had quad jacks vs that EZ guy's boat.

that is a lot of orbits already ahahhhahahaaaa

I played the Art of Poker $250 NLH tournament Saturday and then some cash games after and there were some good and bad points.

Pros -

New updated room from years ago, loads of tables, mostly 1-2NL cash.

Tables, chips and chairs are new and well designed/comfortable, room is spacious, suitable tv's for sports.

Action players, nobody folds a pair.

Somewhat of a protection, in NLH 1/2, 1/3 cash, the PLO bomb pots are limited to a $500cap/person. This is so players don't go broke they say. $80 on the flop, $200 on the turn, leaves $320 remaining to bet. Somewhat less than ideal as it's impossible to protect your hand as the initial ante is $10x8.



Cons -

Restrooms are downright gross. Tourney break with 200+ people cramped into 2 restrooms isn't good. Nobody thought that they might need a bigger restroom to accommodate a full room of players ? Poker tables near the restrooms have a lingering urine smell from all the piss on the floor. Paper towels ran out after the first break, no janitors.

Eating at the table is accepted. I think mostly this boils down to players being responsible for eating with a knife and fork while playing, most were not.

Dealers, mostly average, some remarkably poor. Somehow they think that firing out the cards fast equates to being a good dealer. This happened to Doug and he put a video out with some issues with card placement. Accuracy is more important than speed. One dealer had three exposed cards in one down and eventually caused several players to start complaining. A few dealers pushed pots to the wrong player, forgot/miscounted allins and lastly started coloring up the chips in the middle of dealing the cards causing loads of confusion, only to start making change a few hands later as all the blacks were collected. Unreal.

The one is strange. The tournament is 9 handed, yet there was maybe only 1-2 levels where we had a full table. Most of the time we were 7-8 handed. At least twice I counted 9 and 11 open seats. I'm not sure if they are understaffed in order to break tables, or if it is part of the culture to have more tables at 8 players rather than 9. Seems weird.

And lastly and mostly expected in a small buy-in tournament, lots of trash talking when players suffered a bad beat, and there were plenty. From what I gather most players knew the names of each other and the dealers and the atmosphere was less than ideal. Not many people want to play with complainers and people berating others for poor play, but dealers and floor seem to think this is business as usual as everyone knows each other.

Assuming you're not a comprtor posting a fake review/experience, then it sounds pretty awful there.

Add to that the doubts about its legality to operate and the robbery, or was it robberies, that there have been outside, and it's a definite avoid for me.

I would say that review doesn't comport with my experiences there at all, as far as having many poor dealers, or any more or less bitching/berating than any other poker room. They also just opened a new large bathroom that was clean and spacious, and have never smelled piss out on the poker room floor.

I can agree with chopperboy that the restrooms can get pretty nasty and need more attention. They did build some new restrooms, I keep forgetting to check them out, but the old restrooms can get quite messy with piss on the floor, paper towels and toilet paper on the floor, full trashes, empty paper towel dispensers, etc.

It's not ALL the time, but it's enough that it's noticeable. And yes, tournament breaks I think pretty much in most every venue are going to be insane in the restrooms, so try to leave a few minutes before break to beat the rush in most locations, not just the lodge.

They do have traveling dealers who come in to assist with series events, as well as regular dealers. I don't play hold em so I can't really comment on dealers who maybe only deal hold em or tournaments. I play PLO cash and maybe they put the better dealers there to make sure pots are counted correctly. They aren't all perfect, but overall they're a cut above many other properties I've been to.

And complaining about people trash talking is kinda funny, I find that happens all all events, hold em players are just filthy animals, especially tournament monkeys. It's not like this is a Lodge-specific issue.

At the end of my night I was commenting my experiences with a few other players, and yes, they did say that there was a new restroom but I didn't investigate. Our tournament table was near the restroom, and the opening/closing of the door made the smell noticeable, for me anyways.

Most of the complaining players didn't bother me as it was just consistent banter much like a home game with drinking. Clearly not for everyone as more than one player was not used to our table with loud talking while playing.

I rarely post, 3 posts since 2011. I doubt that I'm affiliated with any competition. The last time I played at the Lodge was 3+ yrs ago and I also tried TCH Austin as well. Both places had good action and both had difficulties when it came to cashing out. I played 1/3, 2/5 and bought in with hundreds. At the end of my session I was paid mostly in 20's as that what was filled into their ATM's on site. I argued with TCH why I should accept $800 in 20's and they replied that they didn't have any other cash. Most players were converting to big chips and keeping them. I tried the Lodge and ran into the same issue, no float on hand. This is no longer the case at the Lodge now as the cage is expanded and upgraded.

I did see several police officers outside during the tournament and security never seemed to be an issue. I wasn't aware of any robberies until after my trip and reading it on here.

Generally I think poker dealers do a great job, considering that they are constantly the target for bad beats and such. I have several friends who are dealers in Las Vegas and all the stories come out when they have a home game. I'd never take that thankless job. However, I feel that I can spot poor dealers easily from experience. I just found that a few were worse here than other places, but mostly that they wouldn't take a hint in order to improve. I mean, if 3 guys are telling you to deal slower and you can't take constructive criticism then by all means do what you want, it is a tip driven business model.

I wouldn't say it was awful there, just surprising to me after all the renovations and effort put into running a good club and still having fixable issues with restrooms and dealers.

Anyone who blames a dealer for a bad beat, and genuinely means it, is mentally ill.

(If said in jest, or just as an observation, "I run bad when Jim is dealing", is not the same.)

I have sympathy for anyone with mental illness, but I'm just calling the situation as it really is, specifically within the arena of a live poker game.