when people play so much worse at 1/2 NL live????


Arrived friday at evening at foxwoods and immediately went to the bathroom, checked my bags and went to festival buffet (i love their seafood section!).
I brought 1300 for some reason but I decided to just play 1/2 NL and I was fortunate to be placed at a new table with several young kids who had been clearly drinking and a loose old asian woman on my right.
Now i don't really play live so my bet sizing was insanely bad all night because i'm just an idiot i guess hopefully next time i will learn from this experience.


So i'm in the 3 seat and some fighter guy ken shamrock is at my table in the 6 seat (i didn't know who he was but some people kept asking for his autograph). he seems to not really know what hes doing. In the 5 seat is a drunk kid who is open shoving J,t and playing insane.

I buy in for $200. I have QQ in the BB, whole table limps (this is not like anything i experience online) and i didnt want a whole lot of callers so I decided to make it $32 to go. insane drunk kid calls. shamrock folds. rest of table folds. I shove before flop is dealt (drunk kid has like $70-$80 left) flop is
A 57 rainbow. he decides to call (!) all in with k6 offsuit. turn and river blank and i win a decent pot.

stack is at about $370. I'm in SB bunch of people limp. LagMonkey in seat 7 makes his standard $20 to go which indicates that he probably has 2 cards that arent that far apart like a ten and a 7 or a ten and an 8. I make it $154 total. Asian woman snap calls her last $82 from BB, and lagmonkey and rest of table folds, she refuses to show her cards until the end and what do u know my AA holds up vs her AJs.

So i'm sitting with $500 now and a new bunch of drunk kids has joined the table. One of them seems like he might be capable of rational thought. that one makes it ten to go from seat 6 and gets 3 callers. I have QQ in the BB. I decided to just call preflop because i'm a nit and I don't have any reads on this guy who just raised EP. Flop is J85 with 2 diamonds. I check and Asian woman to my immediate left open shoves her last $67. preflop raiser think s for a while and folds. some old dude who is really laggy preflop calls (he has like another $150 left after that and folds to me. I announce ALL-IN because asian woman probably has a pair of jacks and old dude doesn't seem strong. old dude folds. and my QQ holds up against her qj offsuit.

A little later (I have about $600) the whole table limps to me and i have AA again in the BB. I just make it $20 to go and the same old guy from the previous hand calls. he open shoves like $130 on a t92 board with 2 spades and i obviously call and hold vs his Q6of spades.

Other than these standard hands there were alot of hands i just ****ed up once it got pretty deep because i just started playing ridiculously scared. like limping AQ and calling 2 streets on AAxx board where kicker was obviously good and not getting good value. another hand I limp AKs and win a $80 pot vs At which should have been a $200 pot if i didn't play like a freakin mouse.

anyway it was a good learning experience. later on (hour 11 of playing and 30 hours awake) i end up playing sort of crazy with this lunatic at my tables. he straddles and pays me off with 68 vs my J8 on a JJ6 board and i scoop a $400 dollar pot. I give all that away though when i later overplay q5cc on a kc4cqs board losing to a set of 4s for a $300 pot (allins on flop).

In the end I cashed out at about $770 after playing a pretty reasonable game for like the first 8 hours except for my play in some of the deepstacked pots was way too nitty.

au revoir.

cuz your mom isnt at the casino

Because even with reasonable poker skills you could have made a lot more than $720 in 11 hours. Some dude did more than you in same time in NL25.

fun fun fun

im guessing you dont want a serious answer.

hahah i know alot of online players play higher and play better and what not but i'm just saying for an average player like me live is freakin awesome! and i had never seriously played live before so it was interesting to experience the dynamic. especially when i only play SH SS NL online.

to bad you only played 1 table

How many hands did you play that day?

i can't be sure but with the 2 decks and the shuffle machines it goes at a pretty
good cut I'm sure at least 30 hands per hour if not more. I'm guessing 400-500 i think but not sure.

400 hands if he was lucky

You realize you ran insanely hot from what I gathered from your post ?

people who got into poker online before live have a big disadvantage I think...People who played live first then decided online would be profitable do best...

everyone know online is garbage players and its easier...u think u just discovered this? I'm just an angry boy and ranting for no reason...

lol