Settle down you’re not M and i want to go to vegas this week to bring you an onion

Nooooo Well all right.


Everytime I see Howard post ITT I get a heart flutter.

Yea just think you’re in the money for like what, 40 g’s right now? Dont sweat it d00d you’ll cooler someone soon enough

Pretty sure my bluff was sound. I’ll post it if I can find time.

Man, I leave for 3 days and look what I miss! Go Howard! I'm in for the HT cheering section at FT.

This Argentinian dude two seats to my left is killing it. He’s made hand after hand and he’s bombing all rivers. Andres something, I think.

WSOP.com is way off, he has over five mil

Made day five with a little under a million two, coming back for another hour of 10/20k.

Way to go Howard!

Shame about the cooler but nice recovery!

Am I reading it right that some guy made it through to day 5 with 1 chip?

Dids - if he has faded all the color-ups this far, he deserves to keep that chip imo

Howard - are you really not going to tell us where you had dinner last night? c'mon son


I'm somewhat concerned after my alert for your name on alolbar's hacked phone came back with this last night:

And a chair

Dinner was at ping pang pong, of course. This place you’re suggesting looks fine, but not within striking distance from the Rio over a dinner break.

We played five and a half two-hour levels yesterday and I’m exhausted.

My bluff line: playing seven-handed at 8000 16000, I raise to 41000 UTG with 55. I’m on 850000 after my QQ v. AA cooler a couple of hands before. My enemy three-bets to 101000 from the small blind. I call.

Flop is Jh 3d 4h. I check. Villain bets 100000 and I call. Turn is 6d. He leads for 150000 with about 300000 behind, so I cover him. I think for 90 seconds and jam. He mucks and claims a pair not on the board.

Usually those guys reporting one chip means that they didn't write their chip count on the bag.

NH Howard. Enjoy your rest and remember that you're still pretty deep by donkament standards.

50BB is a ton for donkament poker. I’m a little under average, but 133 of 310 left, and my table draw this morning looks good. Cliff Josephy has 1.9 mil and everyone else is around where I am or lower, so there is no big-stack bully to deal with.

The last three hours last night were hard — the Argentinian dude two to my left was ridiculously aggressive. I think he bagged 4.5 mil or thereabouts, and several people at the table were getting visibly frustrated with him. And we had one preflop tanker.

Just googled all of the villains. Not a bad table draw at all.

What does it mean to have the two shortest stacks on your direct left like that with these stack sizes? I don't know enough (anything) about tournament poker to know if that is particularly good or bad for you. Or are they not short enough for it to matter? Seems like it's both very good (when they act before you pre) and very bad (when they act after pre).

Is it more bad than good given they are more likely to shove pre, giving them essentially the SB & BB as two additional late relative positions, vs only one hand where both act before you and one where one acts before you pre? Or does it not matter outside of Kopp/Josephy actions?

Or is all of this irrelevant given bb is at 20k, since they'd need to be 4!ing for it to matter? Are 3! shoves over a standard 50-60k pfr much less likely with their 400-500k stack sizes?


The Argentinian guy is Andres Jeckeln.


Do not bust Eric Froelich until it's down to just the two of you, he's a friend. Terminate everyone else with extreme prejudice.


Got my dinner nights mixed up, try not to **** up VLA again. Have someone bring it to you if you don't want to go all the way there.

It’s good to have short stacks(10-15 bb) to the left rather than right, because if they are to your right they’re maybe going to three bet shove pretty wide which forces you to narrow your range pre-flop

This is just my best guess I’m really bad at poker

Final table rooting section to show up wearing onion garlands

FYP

If you end up at a table with Altman make sure he knows you are aware of Rezzy Ron's Posse'.

He will get a good laugh at that one.

The part that is throwing me is that they effectively gain positional advantage while in the blinds due to their widened shoving ranges, which puts a bit of a crimp in the normal preflop positional advantage Howard would have in late position against the overall table. Also reduces his ability to steal blinds. Or should I be looking at this as it being bad for everyone, but least bad for Howard since everyone else has to act before him?

Again, I know Rapini-literally zero about tournament poker. Hopefully what I'm saying is at least dumb enough to give the knowledgeable people a laugh.

Certainly doesn't seem bad. Seems like a fair chance you were pushing the best hand here anyway.

Absolutely.

chop, are you an old magic player or do you know Eric from something else?

Howard, gl today!

ONE TIME!