I’m just gonna treat this as pure brag and post some of my favorite hands from the week:

5-way limped pot I check Qs6s in BB. Flop J66dd. I bet $6 one caller. Turn 6x. I bet $100 he calls again. River 4x. I bet $100 he calls again with KJ.
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CO raises to 10, i 3-bet to 30 on Button with 8d7d. He calls. Flop Js7s5s. X I bet 18 he calls. Turn 9x. X I bet 30 he calls. River Tx. X I bet 100 he calls with JJ

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I call a $6 UTG raise in MP with 55. 5 players see flop. Flop J53r. UTG bets 50, I call, Button calls. Turn 3x. UTG bets 100 I call, Button folds. River 7. UTG bets 100 I raise to 200 he calls, My Hand Is Good

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Call a $12 UTG raise with 88 in MP. 3-handed. Flop 853hh. UTG bets 36, UTG2 calls, I raise to 136, UTG calls, UTG2 goes all-in for 222, I call, UTG reraises to 322, I call. Turn 8x. He bets 100 I call. River Ks. He checks and exposes his hand. I bet 20 (he only has $80 left) and he folds AhQh. UTG2 had 5d3d.
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Over-Limp on button with 43s. Flop 865r. CO bets 10 I call. Turn 6. Check check. River 2. He bets 20. I raise to 60. He goes all-in for about 150, I call, he has Q6 and My Hand Is Good.

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CO limps, Button raises to $17, SB calls, I 3-bet to $67 with 8d6d, all 3 call. Flop AhAdKh. SB Checks. I bet 50. They all fold.

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SB with 5d4d. MP raises to $6. Button 3-bets to 12. I cold 4-bet to $42. They both call. Flop JhTh5s. I check. MP checks. Button bets 36. I check-raise to 136. They both fold.

I do understand that I’ve been “lucky” in the basic sense. I haven’t had KK vs AA, or an underset, or a lower flush yet*, and I know those will happen soon, and they’ll cost me a lot of money when they do.

The only cooler I’ve had was 55 vs 78 on a 456 flop, but he only had 100 BBs.

I survived AA vs 88 on a J82 flop (only losing 30 BBs), and JJ vs 33 on a T32 flop only losing 10. So it’s not JUST luck. These guys play so face-up it makes it easy to avoid the “standard” go-broke spots.

*I have over-flushed Villains twice…of course, they SHOULD get over-flushed more because they play more bad soooooted hands than I do. And likewise with baby pocket pairs and getting overset…

If you were actually any good you'd pop into the 5-5-100 Omaha and show those donkeys who's boss. It's a super soft game, and from the hands you described (all premiums as expected) you're sure to do at least twice as good as you're doing at the 2-100!

Obviously you're good at the game, nobody who's bad makes quads and gets paid off like that.

I don’t know how to play Omaha!

Doesn't matter, you clearly have the innate poker chops needed to crush any game you play. I promise you. I want to witness poker greatness firsthand.

Neither do half the players at 5-100 lol

what do most people buy in for at those games?

I see Canterbury Park is also running that game, have you ventured to Shakopee?

Max is $300. Average is probably $200–lotta guys love to buy in short.

Reading some of the HH's I can't tell if this is a troll or not. I've never seen hands played so bad from both sides.

However good luck and have fun! You only live once.

Remember it is $2-$100 spread-limit.

max $300 with $2-100 ?

so some people getting all in frequently and rebuying frequently? while others have stack getting bigger and bigger?

Canterbury Park has an uncapped 2-100 spread limit. Running Aces caps theirs at $300 to "simulate a real no-limit game." Doesn't matter though, there's word from the tribes that legislation is going to be introduced that opens up NL and vegas-style games in the state soon.

I was chatting about this with a dealer the other day—he thinks the move to No-Limit will actually be *bad* for business, that a lot of players will stop showing up once the stakes get higher—there’s just not enough money here.

I don’t know how much stock to put in it, but I have to assume he knows the player pool better than I do.

NL is bad for the poker scene here for a number of reasons. Have you seen 99% of the cardrooms? 4 tables of 1-2 NL, a single 2-5, occasionally a PLO or two. There's still diversity in our poker economy and it keeps it kind of interesting.

That being said, we want the update on your insanely talented poker game.

I lost $900 today. The downswing is real!

Danny Davito, this is unacceptable. Gonna need you to go back to being the crusher you wrote about being previously!

You honestly bet $100 when the pot was $22

Yep. And I 100% knew this guy would call it with a Jack. “I thought we were chopping” he said after the hand.

Never ever underestimate how bad the average player is.

If that’s an issue couldn’t you just cap the buy in? Also run different blind games with different buy ins. $1/2 and $1/3 and $2/5. I’d be thrilled for that law to pass and then the Omaha game actually be PLO.

The Omaha games wouldn't exist as they do for much longer if it were actually pot limit. Lots of the players only sit in the game because of the bet cap.

I’ll have to spectate more. I’ve only played a few short sessions a month or two ago.

Are you talking about the guys that buy in for $2-3k? If I were that deep I think id rather play $5/10 PLO.

If they like limit aspect why not play $50/100 fixed limit?

Not saying you’re wrong I am just a curious noob. Personally I like playing the Vegas $1/2($5 bring-in) PLO more than $5-$100.

It's a lot easier to sit with $3k in front of you when you're facing down a $100 bet than a bet for your entire stack. Watch that game and the must move a few times and watch what people come in with.

You're not going to find the same fish in the 40/80 and 50/100 pond.

By all means I could be wrong, but I think RA would lose the big games quickly if NL went into effect.

Just got over-flushed today….but had Villain FOLD the higher flush. Living a charmed life!

5-way limped pot I check BB with Td5d. Flop 9d7d3x. Xx MP bets 10, CO call, I call. Turn 8d. We all check. River 9. I check. MP bets 12. CO calls. I check-raise to 112. MP calls. CO tanks and folds Ad2d face-up!!! MP shows Q9, My Hand Is Good