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I don't think even Vegas currently has this good a ratio do they?
Awww a hearthbreaking story. I loved reading it nonetheless!
You did the correct calls so you shouldn't overthink it.
And btw... that girl is HOT in the pics, i bet she must be 10x more in real life)
$335 entry fee for 1,000,000 guaranteed at Commerce starting Jan 20th.
I don't think even Vegas currently has this good a ratio do they?
Thought you guys might get a chuckle out of this.
2/5 table with ave stack about 400. High hand of the hour promotion, 300 for 1st 150 for 2nd.
Everyone folds to the small blind. He looks at me the big blind. I have AJd so i tell him "Yeah, i've got jackpot potential if you do". He nods and so we see the flop.
10d Qd 8c he checks and of course i do too.
Turn Kd. Royal flush for me. I'm just hoping he has a set and we can jackpot on the river. Turns out he has pocket 99.
River i dont even remember but the Royal for 300 was nice.
Heath, Jim, Ruff, everyone;
1st off how have you all been doing? How has play been?
Paired boards. Read any extensive good stuff on em?
I find they are tricky as crap. Besides potentially getting fried with them, you can also miss out on maximizing take.
2/5U table
Me 55 Just to my left is....
He K2u
Preflop someone did a moderate raise to 15, i called from middle position, 4 players in all.
Flop
5h
Ks
9d rainbow
beautious for me. Somebody goes 15 more and I'm fine with them most all seeing the turn so bump it only about 30. Guy on my left comes along, only one.
Turn
2c Oh you beautiful rainbow. He is fat stack at about 800 and pretty loose. I am at 550. I have visions of all in on river so i walk him along with a raise of about 80. He calls. WooHoo! Now i know i could be setting myself up for a buttfry if he has 3/4 or 10/J and riverhits but i'm willing to risk.
River
9 again. RRRRRrrrrr. Could he suck out with 9/K or for that matter 9/any board match to outboat me? I'm first to act, about ready to go home so reluctantly i check. He checks and has K2 for three pair. So i get an okay pot, don't me wrong but I feared his bigger boat so did not want to risk wipeout of 3 hours of play. I came in with 300, bottomed out at 130 at 2 1/2 hours in and climbed back up to quickly in the last half hour to 550.
If he was a tight player i would have definitely bet if he comes over the top you fold, if he was loose i bet call if he raises or check call.
Your almost never folding there unless there is a giant shove you have to then determine how this guy has been playing is he the type to make a move on the river?
I just started playing online again a few days ago, im down a bit right now but making some adjustments.
As always, variables and to each his own.
Nonetheless, your takes on:
Me.
2/5 game ave starting stack 300, stacks after a while 100-1K.
Me, 300 start, worked up to 775 after 3 hrs.
I draw Ac Ad from 1st position.
I slowplay and plop the 5 blind down.
Guy to Left raises to 20. His stack about 600.
1 other guy goes from middle position, all others fold back to me. I reraise 100.
Guy on left goes, middle dude bails. Head to head.
Flop 9h 10s Js.
Hmmn, board has straight and flush draw plus chance he has a set. Or some people like 10/J, esp suited. On the other hand i am salivating to smack his Kings. I check he makes it 200 to go.
I lay it down.
He shows KK. So he had a gutshot straight draw, otherwise i have him kinda dominated, altho i think with his gutshot Q draw only about 65-35 (ill look it up later).
Are you disowning me over this laydown?
Got it all back and more when i riverboated after a guy turned a set and slowplayed.
Finished at 845 for +545 but missed out on the possible monster doubleup.
Heath are you back playing?
&^%$!!! last night.
Just farting around at the 2/3 40U table. Patiently waited to go home even or up. Came in with 200, down to 100 simply due to card deadness.
Opener raises 15
KK to his left calls.
JJ me calls.
Flop is freakin beautiful.
8c
Jd
2h
Opener goes 20, KK raises to 55, I reraise over the top all in. It's only 29 more to KK so he calls.
Ass hits his K on the turn.
Safe play, but I do not lay down AA there. You have no information. He could have QQ, AJ, AK or KK, all of which, you have crushed. You raise to 100 preflop, and check the flop. That smells like a scared pair of 7s, or AK. So he bets the pot and hopes you fold. If he had a set, he probably bets something like 60% of the pot giving you a price to draw at your pair or gutter. By checking, you have no way of gaining any information. You needed to bet about 135 on that flop, if he pushes all in, then you are probably up against either a set or 2 pair at worst and Qs or Ks at best.
Always try to gain information with your play, check calling does you no good, and check folding there was IMO a bad move.
The other night, this guy who had AA should have folded:
The scenario:
I was playing a 1-2NL game here in town. The guy to my right UTG raises to $15, I look down and I have 3 5 off, I know if I call, I will probably get at least 2 followers, so I am thinking if I catch, I have great chance to make a nice profit. Sure enough, we get two callers including the BB. Good, because I have position on 2 of them. The Flop: 3 5 8(two hearts)The BB checks, the original raiser bets $40, I raise it to $125, the one player folds, the BB goes all in for his last $200, the original raiser goes all in for $220, I put the BB on a flush draw, and the original raiser on a big overpair. Low and behold, the BB had K3 hearts, and the original raiser had AA.
I am ahead, but have to dodge an 8 and a queen and 9 hearts on turn, the turn is a blank, but now have to dodge 3 more outs, but the river is another blank, so I scoop a very nice pot.
The guy with the played it right when he bet $40 on flop, but when I raised to $125, and BB goes all in, he had to know that one of us had him in bad shape and with him only having $55 in the pot, he was not pot commited and needed to just muck.
That is the difference betw your aces and his aces, you had no information that would make you fold, he had plenty.
I'm not big on gambling and I've only done it twice..when I went to Lake Charles/New Orleans for mardi gras this year and last, but I'm really starting to like playing blackjack.
I only lost 35 bucks this time because I decided to not play after I lost, but I think I'd do okay in Blackjack. It seems to have the best odds. The rest of the card games I don't really know about.
Blackjack is so fun.
That quote would probably bother me if I didn't know the source."The rancher (with a few honorable exceptions) is a man who strings barbed wire all over the range; drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds; drives off elk and antelope and bighorn sheep; poisons coyotes and prairie dogs; shoots eagles, bears, and cougars on sight; supplants the native grasses with tumbleweed, snakeweed, povertyweed, cow , anthills, mud, dust, and flies. And then leans back and grins at the TV cameras and talks about how much he loves the American West."
Duff.
You are so ing out of touch with reality it is hilarious.
Talk about a pussy way to play your aces. Are you really considering him having j10 suited in his hand calling your $100 re-raise? He has one of three hands in most cases in this position. AK suited KK or QQ. All of which yo have beat.
Horrible fold. You should have check raised him all in. He definitely put you on a missed AK
I love those small connecting cards suited or unsuited. They scoop monster pots from the donks who can't lay down their Overpair. I love it when I hear a tourist say. I can't believe you played 3 5 off sooot. That is when I know I am doing my job right.The other night, this guy who had AA should have folded:
The scenario:
I was playing a 1-2NL game here in town. The guy to my right UTG raises to $15, I look down and I have 3 5 off, I know if I call, I will probably get at least 2 followers, so I am thinking if I catch, I have great chance to make a nice profit. Sure enough, we get two callers including the BB. Good, because I have position on 2 of them. The Flop: 3 5 8(two hearts)
I am ahead, but have to dodge an 8 and a queen and 9 hearts on turn, the turn is a blank, but now have to dodge 3 more outs, but the river is another blank, so I scoop a very nice pot.
The guy with the played it right when he bet $40 on flop, but when I raised to $125, and BB goes all in, he had to know that one of us had him in bad shape and with him only having $55 in the pot, he was not pot commited and needed to just muck.
That is the difference betw your aces and his aces, you had no information that would make you fold, he had plenty.
I'm not the source either. It's a quote from a historical book about the American West.That quote would probably bother me if I didn't know the source.
Duff.
You are so ing out of touch with reality it is hilarious.
I presumed you were quoting an equally ignorant "intellectual".
Historical?
Your suck has reached epic proportions if THAT is your signature..
Okay. Don't understand why you bother with that. I'm sure you have better things to do..or maybe you don't.I presumed you were quoting an equally ignorant "intellectual".
Historical?
Your suck has reached epic proportions if THAT is your signature..
Plead guilty to an AA puss out.
However context was i had been on a BAD session run previous 10 days so was bound and determined to go home UP. Nonetheless, i plead guilty.
Now, as to my KK the other night...
5/5 300 min 500 max start table, i join in progress and start with 500. Two hours later, ave chips are about 500, Big stack is 1100 I'm in second with 825 due to a sweet turn boat vs 333 with Ace kicker (me 10/10, he A3 and board had 33). Couple more seats have 5-600 and then the smaller stacks.
1st to act raises to 25 (his stack 600). The table is neither tight nor loose on most preflops so 20 tells me he probably has 99s or worse or big ace unsuited but not AK. I'm acting 3rd and raise to 100 and am willing to gobble just his 25 and the two blinds as i am going on dinner break. Everyone folds back to him. He pauses a long time and finally calls. I do not put him on AA drama queen acting, however now i think he has QQ or JJ or suited AK.
Flop Ac 9c 2s. He checks, i bet 100. He reraises my 100 +300 more. I study him, put him on a semi bluff and Rereraise his ass all in. He waits a long time again, tried to do that talking to me crap (side point i don't mind if players do that, but if they try the intimidation thing i just look away and ignore or say "put your chips in or fold" or "someone wake me when it's over".) Anywho he calls with QQ and my KKs hold up. Needless to say dinner break rocked.
Great move or would you guys say watch the heck out with KK whenever an Ace is flopped if one is trying to ensure leaving up? (As to the two clubs flopped, i know in modern day Hold em more and more players are pushing with 4 to a flush on a flop (esp in SoCal, "No Foldem Holdem"). Not just up and down but gutshoters as well are pushing after a flop-before a turn. Irritating to get sucked out on but still a 65% fave. Hey i push into a big pair sometimes with 4 flopped, but generally i don't like too.
Anywho what do you guys generally do with KK when an A flops and other player puts most or all of your stack at risk, a stack you took some time to build?
Last edited by Fabbs; 02-21-2010 at 02:12 AM.
With no other information to go on, I fold unless I am getting 3-1 on call....meaning that there is probably a 33% chance that he is semibluffing with maybe a pair and a flush draw, or just the flush draw.
Had a cooler last Monday:
Our weekly 1-2 NL game.
I have 66 on button, I raise to 12, the BB calls, and two others come along for the ride.
Flop: 6c 10c Kd
check check check, I decide uncharacteristically to let a card peel off because nobody looks interested in flop.
Turn Jd
Now there are two flush draws and straight draws on board, so now I decide to act.
First player bets $50, next player calls, I make in $150, the BB goes all in for 450, the first guy goes into the tank for 5 mins and goes all in for 425, the next guy goes all in for 375..
Wow, what have I done here?
I decide that there is a Q9 straight that hit gutter on turn and maybe two flush draws, which means I have 10 outs to scoop a 1600 + pot, and it is going to cost me $275 to win it, so I thought I was priced in.
Not!!
The BB flips over 10-10The first guy hit the gutter with Q9, and the other guy had open ender with diamond flush draw.
I have one out instead of 10, the river is 5 clubs, the Q9 scopps the whole pot and the two flopped sets who checked the flop got it up their azzes because of stupid stupid checks. The Q9 would never have called bet on flop with gutter, so the 10-10 made horrible check.
i find that with high cards, pockets are dangerous to play with, either you have to go all in preflop instead of trying to bait ppl in who rely on seeing cards...
too bad i dont like to play poker, but prefer baccarat...fast returns or losses....but you usually follow what the ppl are betting...
never played that game
Eight of us guys are going to Coushatta in Kinder, La for our annual golf/poker weekend on Friday.
The Friday night poker tourney is good. The first time I went, 3 years ago, I was chip leader at final table and let them talk me into a chop, where I got $1600( $70 entry). Last year I made Final table(98 players) and went out in 8th place(won $290).
I made a bad fold where I raised 1/3 of my stack(10,000) with A-8, and the BB went all in, he had me covered by about a hundred chips. I was getting almost 3-1, so even if he had AK, I was getting the correct price to call, but I folded like a little girl, hoping to move up the ladder because there were 3 short stacks under me. He flipped over KQ, and I was immediately pissed at myself. That made me go on tilt sort of, and I went out 5 mins later after flopping an open ender, shoving and missing.
The golf course(Kosati Pines) is one of the best courses anywhere, so if you guys like golf and poker, I recommend you going there. It costs $100 to stay in hotel with golf package(green fee and cart) each night, so is a great deal.
I'll be in College Station this weekend. My Sancha's husband is going to be playing golf/poker with his buddies in Louisiana.
No wonder she told me to stay as long as I wanted to.
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