My World Series of Poker eperiemce:

[Heath Ledger]

Biggest cash game winnings is $2200 in a $1 $2 game 27 hour session.
Biggest tourney win $7800 had a few for $5k plus several for $3k+ and many many between $1500-$2500.

Biggest single evening loss was about $900.

Lately running bad in cash games, last 3 sessions leaking off a few hundred at a time but last night i pretty much offset the last few sessions and got a little back on top.

Tourneys have been running uber good, i should probably be playing a lot more of them.

[Heath Ledger]

Tonight at the Flamingo I won another $790 in $1 $2NL sat down at 10:20 got up at 3:20. Huge hand when I called a raise to $15 with 57 hearts I was on button and one other caller in front of me. I flopped a straight 9 high with two diamonds. Preflop raiser bets out $30 guy in front of me goes all in for $80 I raise it to $150. Preflop raiser smooth calls. Turn is queen of diamonds, ive already comitted myself to this hand and shove $200 in there, preflop raiser calls me. River is a black queen. I put the guy all in for the rest of his chips around $70 or so. He calls. He has pocket aces, exactly what I had him on, other guy has pocket jacks i scoop a very nice pot and cash out.

This guy with aces was the "table buddy" that you tend to talk to durig your session. i tried to tip him off to fold but he just couldnt do it hes been up since early am on Saturday playing poker. A guy I've played with a few times this week and earlier this year last time he was in town.

[Jimcs50]

Tonight at the Flamingo I won another $790 in $1 $2NL sat down at 10:20 got up at 3:20. Huge hand when I called a raise to $15 with 57 hearts I was on button and one other caller in front of me. I flopped a straight 9 high with two diamonds. Preflop raiser bets out $30 guy in front of me goes all in for $80 I raise it to $150. Preflop raiser smooth calls. Turn is queen of diamonds, ive already comitted myself to this hand and shove $200 in there, preflop raiser calls me. River is a black queen. I put the guy all in for the rest of his chips around $70 or so. He calls. He has pocket aces, exactly what I had him on, other guy has pocket jacks i scoop a very nice pot and cash out.

This guy with aces was the "table buddy" that you tend to talk to durig your session. i tried to tip him off to fold but he just couldnt do it hes been up since early am on Saturday playing poker. A guy I've played with a few times this week and earlier this year last time he was in town.

Played a cash game Sunday night and missed a golden opportunity Heath. Tell me what you would have done in this spot.

1-2 NL game

I have $400 in front of me and look down and see 55, I call the BB. The guy to my left, raises to $12, folds around to Phillip in SB, he raises to $52(he only has $80 more in front of him). I show my cards to my buddy to my right, and since I had original raiser to my left, who has about $300 in front of him and could go over the top of Phillip's reraise, I fold. Well, Troy smooth calls. Flop Q 7 5 Phillip shoves his last $80 in and Troy snap calls with KK. Phillip shows A 10 and obviously was just trying to steal. Turn is an Ace and no king comes on river to save Troy from bad beat. I would have made a nice chunk of change there.

I think I made the right fold, because Phillip did not have enough money in front of him for me to call his $52 reraise, and Troy could have and probably should have reraised with kings. But still you hate letting those chances slip away.

[pkbpkb81]

you made the right call with a small pocket pair, the first preson the guy with pocket kings would have come over the top and you would have been a under dog going to the flop

[Jimcs50]

you made the right call with a small pocket pair, the first preson the guy with pocket kings would have come over the top and you would have been a under dog going to the flop

Yeah, just wish Phillip called the $12, then I call and I bust Troy's ass.

[MannyIsGod]

The fold is correct - but do you always smooth call the BB with low pocket pairs? I pretty much never smooth call BBs with small pocket pairs.

[Jimcs50]

The fold is correct - but do you always smooth call the BB with low pocket pairs? I pretty much never smooth call BBs with small pocket pairs.

I was UTG, so I smooth call usually in that early position,( other times, I raise it to say $7 or $8 to build a pot) then call a marginal raise like the $12 and then try to hope I catch a set on flop. There was a lot of raising going on so I pretty much knew that I would be calling a raise in that hand.

I mix up my play as much as possible, sometimes limping with huge hands or any PPs, and raising with other hands like suited connectors or even total rag hands. People really can not put me on hands preflop.

[TDMVPDPOY]

if i was the last person b4 the dealer button, and everyone is in b4 the flop with buy-ins...fkn all in b4 the flop...there be a few that be scared to go all-in on the first game b4 flop...collect ur wins and stay low for a few hands...thats how i play...

[Heath Ledger]

I fold in that situation more times than not I like to see cheAp flops with small pocket pAirs but open with them if first in from mid to late position

if someone from late position raises I sometimes reraise with them in the blinds obviously multiple way pots are the best for small pairs your hoping you flop a set whole someone else flops two pair and someone else flops top pair topkicker and doesn't know how to fold that

I also tend to raise occSionally with suited connectors or with Air from late position in a passive gAme beCause your c-bet will take down smAll pots most of the time because most opponents hands miss most flops


Excuse any typos damn iPhone auto correct is a pAin in the ass

[Heath Ledger]

Just finished 21 hour session cashe out up $375. I bought in for $200 cashed out at $575 after swinging up and down all night like a monkey I hopped off on a small upswing. Not bad for my last 3 sessions im just shy of $2k in profits but this session I really had to hang in there, some very solid players a lot of loosey goosey play. Somehow I survived it without getting stacked and ended it by stacking a very loose guy home on leave from Iraq who was simply there to gamble it up. He had a huge target on him but I was lucky enough to take him down.

[Jimcs50]

Lost $300 last night in one hour. Called $13 raise from SB with QJ, after button called as well.

Flopped QJ8, I bet $24 into $47 pot, original raiser, raised me $50, button calls the $74, I put original raiser on kings or aces, and maybe button on AQ or a draw, so push all in (another $150) and original raiser goes into tank for 2 mins, then calls and button goes all in. Original raiser only has $24 left so calls....Now I feel like I a beat, figure button has 9-10......low and behold, the original raiser has the one hand that kills me(QQ) and the button does have 9-10..... the board does not pair so the button scoops the whole pot. That is a cold deck my friend, we are destined to go broke there.

[Heath Ledger]

Yeah that is pretty brutal. Sounds like the kind of I've been going through over the past few weeks up until this week. It feels good to be running good after a 3 week sandwich of no extended runs of good cards.

Jim where you been playing online?

[Jimcs50]

I have pretty much blown off playing online. I played at FTP. I dont have the time to play in the 1200-2000 player tournies, which I think are the only ones that are profitable. If you can win one or go really deep in those, then you cash out the 2-4 K and you are guaranteed of making money. Otherwise, I can win a few hundred in sit n goes and I end up just losing it back.

[Heath Ledger]

So where have you been playing?

[Jimcs50]

So where have you been playing?

There are about 6 or 7 rake games here in town. There is at least one game every night and some nights, 2 or 3 going on.

[Jimcs50]

So where have you been playing?

I wish I were in Vegas though, with all those tourists that just love to give away money. The players here in town are all pretty good with a few exceptions, so winning on regular basis is not easy.

[Heath Ledger]

I took a day off yesterday after 3 good sessions in a row. Im out to pound on some more tourists this morning.

[Jimcs50]

I took a day off yesterday after 3 good sessions in a row. Im out to pound on some more tourists this morning.

Next time I come to Vegas, I will PM you and get your number. We can hook up and maybe pound some tourists together.

[Heath Ledger]

next time i come to vegas, i will pm you and get your number. We can hook up and maybe pound some tourists together.

+1

[G-Nob]

Do you guys have any thoughts on sitting with guys who carry on conversation in a different language? I sat at a cash table with these guys who sounded like they may have been from eastern europe and I had a serious problem with no english at the table while we were playing cards. (They both also spoke english) They wouldn't stop so I got up. Only because I think this was an unfair advantage. I'm all for shootin the shid but not during a card game where valuable info could be given or taken in conversation. Your thoughts?

[Heath Ledger]

Any good dealer would have put the kabash on their chat. You are not out of line to speak up, after a few warnings the dealer will call the floor over and they will get their final warning. A lot of time the forreign players dont know this rule but there are some who take advantage. They are not supposed to chat in another language if there is a hand in progress period. Especially if one of them is in the hand.

[Jimcs50]

Yes, they do not allow that is any casino I've played in.

[G-Nob]

Yes, they do not allow that is any casino I've played in.

Just an fyi, this happened at o'shea's at the cash tables they have at the very front of the casino. For small money players like me, they have tourneys all day that are 35 buy-ins if I remember right.

[Jimcs50]

Had Quad Queens last night!!!

Flopped a set, with two clubs, bet 1/2 pot, got one caller, thought he was flushing, so wanted to fade a club on turn. Turn was a blank, I bet 1/3 the pot, he calls. The river was a club, but the Qc . As I am reaching for my chips, Max asks me if I hit that river, he says that he will only call $40 bet maximum, so I bet $80. he calls(knew he would) and shows a the flush, I show my 4 queens and also collect a $50 bonus. (house pays that for any quads) Sweet!!!

[Heath Ledger]

My last session I had quads twice. Quad Aces and Quad jacks. Got 97 for the quad aces, $60 for the quad jacks. Plus the pots of course. I flopped the quad Jacks. It sucks though when you get a monster like that and you struggle to get a little value out of it.