I am an online pro but went to the local casino to drink & play a lil live poker with my cousin who just flew in from the country.

I don't play live poker and therefore couldn't believe how ******ed the structure of the game was. It was 5/5 game with a set buy-in of 200 (wtf amirite?)

Anyways... people were straddling to 25, re-straddling to 50 etc. People betting the pot blind on the flop. Stupid stuff like that. This might be standard for live poker... just not what I am used to.

Within 3 hours I was up to 1500. I decided to see how long I could play (after my cousin went home with a girl he met at the table - taking my car). I managed a 16 hour session & hit a peak of $5,450 after stacking a guy set vs top 2 for a $4,000 pot.

Epic brag imo. 27 buy-ins on 1 table in a session.

2 questions.


1) Is this sort of thing common for live games?

2) What is the biggest stack in relation to the buy-in / blinds you have ever seen?

no ur just a fish who ran hot.

where is this casino?

this is typical, but 5400 is definitley a great session.

hehe the number of live cash brags on this site is hilarious. ya last week i went to the casino with $20. put it on red and won a few times bringing me to $100. i went to the poker room and bought in to 1/2. i built it up to 10k. it was fun.

I'd say seeing a 2k stack is fairly standard, 5k is a lot.

wtf are you guys taking about. standard? no. 5k+even live at a 200nl table is abnormal.

way to go, nice brag

I am a full time pro & have been for a couple of years now. I won a lot of pots all-in when I was a clear favorite... so I guess at the least I didn't run bad... but mostly the money came from value betting when I was ahead.

Sydney, Australia.

Cash brags are very lollable. This was just ridiculous to me though... but then again this is only my second live session in over a year. Maybe more standard that I realized.

yeah 5k+ is alot. one time i had three fifdy

so you're going back there again right?

I see your from Sydney. You play much at the casino?

I play 5/10 & 10/20 online so if I go back it will be for the 500-2000 buy-in game. Was only playing the 200 game cos of my cousin. Probably won't go back any time soon. It's an hour and a half drive from my house so cbf. I live closer to Wollongong than Sydney.

Did you take it to the high roller slot room and play the $100 slots?

I got a room for the night and hired a 'professional' to service my needs. That's the best way to spend poker winningz imo.

The slots are 500 dollar max at Star City.

Yeah, players are horrible there. BTW there isn't a 10/20 game.

I've been known to run my stack up to 3000 in a 1-2 game.

It's fairly common. Something you 20 tabling nits wouldn't understand....seriously

I said I play 10/20 online. Plenty of those games around.

The highest game at star city is 500-2000 buy-in. That's 5/10. Good structure compared to the 5/5 with a 200 buy-in.

I usually hate the idea of staking players... but i would be willing to stake winning online 100nl+ players in the 2000nl at star city. Railed it for a bit last night and shocked at the quality.

Rich asian business men fish everywhere in that game!

I've seen a guy with about 4k at a $200 buyin max 1/2 table. Probably the biggest fish I've ever played with 4betting 83o type of stuff. He's always there and I think loses a ton in the long run..he plays Ax like AA will stack off with any ace no matter what.

Pretty sick brag, grats OP.

LOL as soon as I started reading that post I was like 200 buy in 5/5 blinds and rediculous stacks hmmmmmm 100 percent this is star city (sydney). Played there many times and yeah those stack sizes are standard. Once was playing there and Brian Mcfadden sat down (massive fish btw) He straddles to 20 and has been calling everything so I shove for 300 lol with A A and he calls with 6 7 suited. I hold. few orbits later there is a 5 way all in for around 7k pot.

board 2 4 5

player 1 22
player 2 a 3
player 3 33
player 4 88

brain mcfadden 66

turn 3 river ace and brain mcfadden takes it down.

Note. McFadden was last to act in this pot and called off like 1.2k after all the shoves lol

omg so f standard

i wanna go to australia mate

It's 5/5, not 1/2. Even if 200 is the cap, it's gonna get deep quick with 40bbs.

Why even make stuff like this up. You suck.

bulbasaur was always a donk choice....obviously go with charmander. every time.