I appreciate that, Howard. And I'm glad you didn't raise your hand, too. Tradition is such a terrible thing to cast aside. (I know pope will back me up on this and DC is a definite "possible.")

Hey, I bought you a Bud Heavy!

On the new room, I think the plans as of now are to open it on New Years Eve Day (the casino, not sure if the room will open ahead of time, this is the first I have heard of that).

And I sincerely appreciate your gesture of gratitude.

That said, if you'd have rivered a club in my second 33 hand, I'd have been forever beholdin' to ya.

Bump

It's tonight, after 9. Wearing a dirty two tone Red Sox hat, glasses, and being a relative nit at Commerce 20/40. I'm no leo doc but I'll happily buy the first round if you tell me you can't stand Manny Ramirez and halfway sound like you mean it.

There's a tiny place in brooklyn. It's a little controversial to eat but I enjoy controversy.

It's the Shuffle Master machines. Their RNG is programmed to stack the deck for action flops, so that the house earns more rake.

Losing the minimum: Everyone talks about it.
Two of the last three hands of today's session. AA and QQ down, lost 5 SB combined, no all-ins involved.... record?

I went to Vegas earlier this year, and didn't make a pair all weekend over about 14 hours of play. No pocket pairs, and never paired a card in my hand. I won about 5 pots total, with bluffs or ace high.

fyp

If that was Bellagio $15-30 or Mirage $10-20 you are playing way too tight if you don't win bluff at least 2-3 hands an hour, even if everyone knows you are running like ****.

Funny hand of the night. Commerce 40.

A couple limpers, I raise AQ in late position, both blinds call and limpers call. 5 to the flop.

Flop 852. SB is mitchman, and he donks out. BB calls, one limper calls, I raise, SB 3-bets, BB cold-calls, limper cold-calls, I cap, all call.

4 to the turn. It's the Q. Checked to me, I bet, SB calls, BB c/r, limper folds, I call, SB folds.

River is a brick, like the T or something. BB bets, and I deliberate for a moment. I mean I'm never good here, but the pot is big and so I may have to cry-call. His flop cold-calling... was it a slowplayed set? Does he have Q8? Q5? Maybe a horribly played KK? I can't beat any of those hands... maybe a random bluff... as I'm thinking, BB is giving off major strength tells with his body language, but then as I uncap my cards, which he takes as a sign that I'm folding, he goes "I'll show you one!"

And he flashes me the A. LOLOLOL I insta-call with lightning speed, assuming it's a chop but prepared to see the ol' Commerce version of postflop hilarity with AA. Luckily he shows AQ for the reverse free-roll that got there, and we chop. Mitchman gets upset that I "sucked out."

Your attempted fold makes me PJ

Edit: After my 2nd reading of the post it's apparent that you weren't certain to fold. But still, don't even think about it, pot is soooo big.

The last time I tried Bellagio 15/30 it was unbluffable. Why? Because any time I bet it got raised. There were two people that put the "M" in maniac. Since there were two of them, one of them always, I mean ALWAYS, had it.

I take pride in rarely losing the minimum.

This is the thread where you get to complain how bad you run, right? 2-5 NL

Spazz raises to 20, spazz calls, i call 67s in BB. Flop is 356r i c/c 50. Turn is a K, I c/c 160. River is a 2, it goes c/c and I lose to 23o.

Small raise many ways I call 96s otb. Flop comes A96r. Spazz bets 30, I raise to 130 spazz calls. Turn is 7. Spazz bets 100 and exposes a 5 and says he has a straight. i consider and push for 250 more. Spazz instant calls with A5 and gets there.

Both spazzs limp, I raise to 25 with A8s otb, both call. Flop is Ax6h7h and spazz bets 30 and I raise to 130. Turn is 7d and he sets me in for ~400 and exposes the 5h telling me he has a straight. I ponder and call. he has 5h3h and gets there.

My favorite part was that my neighbor at the table said that I "tilt" called the last hand.

I thought you played good all night. I didn't know the guy showed you the 5h on the last hand. That was really dumb.

Spazzy in the last two hands was also ****faced. He had previously tried to fight the nit who was sitting at the table before Chris got there, because the nit told the floor to watch him. I, of course, had the jesus seat on ****faced spazzy, but he didn't want to spazz out against me, only cgroh, so I made no money.

Past couple days: Sleep 1am-5am, go fishing all morning. Come back eat dinner, hang out and play poker until midnight. Sleep 2am-4am, go fishing all morning. Go on 2p2 before passing out. The end.

Use sunscreen next time on your arms. Skin cancer is no laughing matter.

HowMany-Where you usually fish?

I'm going to guess either a casino (poker) or the ocean (real fishing).

Is Strictly Stategy @ summer camp?

If the summer camp is called POOP TITTIES, then yes.

look everyone private joker knows how to out gimmicks

FEEL THE WRATH

POOP TITTIES fav hangout.

Dropped 80 big bets in about 20 hours of played, so many bad beats that I don't even know where to begin.