October 7, 20214 yr My all time worst memory of Vegas is getting bad beated out of the big 50 on day three, and having to literally wait in a line for an hour just to verify what places I finished. It was another 45 minute wait at 7 am the next morning to actually get paid. It’s just ridiculous how slowly they operate.
October 7, 20214 yr Yeah I once played one of their dailys and it was at the time the biggest field ever for one. The way it was structured, when the bubble burst the damn just broke and players were falling by the second. By the time I went out there were a solid 100 in front of me trying to cash. Total nightmare. Multiple hours at like 2am
October 7, 20214 yr My first live stream game last night. 1-3-6 and most of the time 12. It went well. Check out the 2h:55 mark for the most fun 😎. We were playing 7-2 for a quarter.
October 7, 20214 yr On 9/9/2021 at 7:35 AM, Lurch said: Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiick yeah I don't think online poker is legit at all
October 8, 20214 yr +$1700 Wed night+$900 last night+$8300 for the monthThe crash will be SPECTACULAR
October 15, 20214 yr Interesting opportunity to make a low risk mistake last night I thought I’d share$2/5. Solid player LJ opens to $25 with $2k behind. LAG CO calls with $950 behind. I call on BTN w 8h8d and $1400 behind. Blinds fold. $75 pot8s3c2c. LJ tanks an uncomfortably long time for first to act. Eventually checks. CO leads $95.Such unusual play. The LJ tank was notable. I’m not sure he does this with complete air or a strong pair. Feels like he maybe connected at least a bit. If I were in his position, I could definitely have 33, 22, A4s and A5s, as well as suited connected and 1 gap clubs.WTF is CO doing with this flop overbet? He could def have straight and flush draws. Also mid pairs up to JJ perhaps. He may have just misread the LJ tank as weakness and thought he’d steal.I must admit I was confused here. My typical play would have me take over on a wet board where I’m ahead so that others pay to chase. The odd play though (and the desire not to tank and show too much strength) led me to just call. Back to LJ who quickly raises to $300. My guess is he thinks CO is full of shit and this is an easy squeeze.CO jams.Here is where I make a mistake, perhaps. I go ahead and jam over top. LJ looks sick. He gets counts from both of us, likely calculating odds. After a good bit, he gives it a slow fold.Runout is safe and I mistakenly show first. Don’t get to see what CO has either, but both later claim to have big over pairs.Should I have raised to the $95? Should I have just called the CO jam and entice LJ to stay in?
October 15, 20214 yr I think if anything, flatting 950 with 450 behind looks stronger and less likely to be a draw than just jamming the 1400 effective. What, are you flatting A5cc for 950 and then folding the 450 on the turn? If stacks were deeper behind the 950, like if you also had 2k, I think flatting is much more viable. I would generally call the $95, but also am not generally playing this deep, so would be open to the idea of raising. It definitely looks very strong to raise a larger than pot-size bet with the PFT still yet to act, which is why I would be inclined to call. Knowing that CO is willing to get $1000 in on the flop into a $75 pot with one pair def makes me appreciate the value of raising, b/c it sucks if he's willing to just dump 200 blinds with QQ here, but won't if a club or A or K comes on turn.
October 15, 20214 yr First read through, I say raise flop. But, yea, the long tank is really weird. That plus the overbet makes me lean flat instead of raise. I think turn shove > calling. Calling looks stronger even.
October 15, 20214 yr I’ve sacked up and started going max buyin of $800 rather than my previous $500 at $2/5 and I’m curious if that might be contributing to my sick run (now up $11k in 14 days!) The splashy players don’t seem to be scared (good) but the pros aren’t as aggro vs meDownside is my max nightly loss (3x is my personal rule) is $2400 vs $1500 so when it happens it will be that much more painful. I was down $1400 a few nights back and turned it around for just a $200 loss, so I do like that it gives me more room to recover
October 15, 20214 yr Taking a shot at live stream tonight. BestBet on FB Twitch or YT. Prob live around 6:30 centralIt’s actually a $1500 max on the stream, but I’m sticking w $800
October 18, 20214 yr Finally got off the tourney min cash roll tonight. Played in the 7pm $1500 guaranteed PLO free roll at shuffle 512 tonight. May have been the weakest tournament field I have played in since playing in bar tournaments during the poker boom of the oughts. $10 dealer fee and $20 seat fee to play. Started with 13k in chips, you could get another $10k for $20 at any time and buy up to 5 of those at the first break. I couldn't get shit going during the first hour, busted, paid $40 for 20k in chips, hit the break with around 25k in chips, chip leader at table had $100k in chips so I bought up $40 more and had 45k chips at the break. Finally started to win a few hands and got up over $100k. Hit a strait flush and got paid off, other guy had a set, would have stacked him if he had had nut flush. Flopped quad aces on another hand but didn't make shit. Only around 20 players, top 3 got paid, 72 entries so a $160 overlay. Got down to 3 at 11pm and I offered an ICM chop and ended up second with $500 so a $390 win.
October 18, 20214 yr A few hours in last night I find myself at $1400 (+$600) but card dead for a half dozen orbits with a maniac ATM to my immediate right paying everyone else and I’m starting to get a bit tilted by it.Finally, he opens UTG+1 to $35. I call with TT. CO makes it $150. SB jams and we all have to fold. Fuck.Next hand, he opens UTG to $20. I raise to $85 w JJ. Old man wakes up in LJ and raises to $250. We all fold. Double fuck. I’m steaming.Next hand I get ATo UTG. No way I’m falling for that! Fold. Fuck it all.Next hand, LJ opens to $80. Maniac calls SB. I look down and take a long look at AA. Got damn. I make it $225. LJ ($900 more behind) doesn’t take long to jam. Board runs out clean for an easy $1k profit. (He shows KK)I easily could have punted the three prior hands, but instead swallowed my pride and got paid handsomely for it.+$1700 on the night. +$12k in Oct. Crazy run continues
October 18, 20214 yr Interesting hand last night that I wasn’t involved with, but generated a bit of discussion at the table.UTG straddle. Hero opens BTN to $35. Same maniac from above calls in BB. UTG folds.. $80 pot.Qh 8s 7s. BB ($450 behind) checks. BTN ($900) bets $85. BB check raises to $200. BTN tanks. Obviously frustrated. Clearly looking and seeing BB just has $250 left. Says aloud that BB could have Q8, 78, maybe 88, 77 (though most of us believed maniac would have raised these pre). Tries to get BB to talk, asks if he has AQ. Asks if BB will show if he folds. BB agrees and after a bit BTN folds.True to his word, BB shows Qc8c. BTN shows KsKh, racks up and leaves.First, there’s no chance in hell I’m ever folding KK here.Second, his initial read was dead on. I would have jumped straight to assuming BB had draws, maybe with a Q, but BTN read two pair as most likely.Third, I think BTN mistakenly went straight to choosing between folding and jamming. I don’t think he considered calling. For just $115 more he could have seen a turn and possibly a river. He kind of screwed himself by talking aloud, making that option less likely to earn a free river card, though.
October 18, 20214 yr good grief, given that read, no way I'm mucking KK there. You're right, just flat and let him barrel of every turn.
October 19, 20214 yr Lex O ($800) sits down and first orbit opens $20 in LJ. I make it $60 in CO w QQ. BTN gives speech and then just calls. Lex bumps it to $200. I call, leaving $400 behind. BTN again gives speech and calls w $300 behind. $600 pot.Ts8s4h. Lex checks quickly. I’m thinking of he has AA or KK he’d have to lead out on this flop. I jam. BTN folds (claims JJ) and Lex snaps w AA. So, yeah. Guess I’m a contributor now.Fuck.
October 19, 20214 yr Back at the lodge for the Monday big o down to 14 players, 217k average stack, I have 500k funniest hand so far, I had TT3xx in the big blind, several limpers. flop T33, checks around turn is a 3. I bet out 20k and two women at the table call. river 9, I pot and instacall from first, second woman looks at me with a “how dare you” look (she’s a fucking cunt and everyone hates her), plays with her chips and finally folds, other woman shows KK. Scoopity doop.
October 19, 20214 yr Down to final table and I’m in the money, woohoo. Have not won a hand in an hour boohoo 2 people with smaller stacks than me 400k avg stack, I have 250k
October 19, 20214 yr Get AhKs8h7s4s, jam one caller, A9975 flop QQ2h turn 5h river 3h boom scoop with nut flush and wheel
October 19, 20214 yr So "Big O" is 5-card PLO hi/lo 8 or better, right? And "Congress" is just 5-card PLO? Don't they also play limit 5-card Omaha?
October 19, 20214 yr Big o and congress are both 5 card PLO hi/lo 8 or better, just depends on what part of the country you're in to what it's called. The casino at National Harbor in DC ran 5 card plo high. Orleans in Vegas has a bunch of different omaha limit games including 5 card hi/lo, not sure if they run 5 card high limit.
October 20, 20214 yr On 10/7/2021 at 9:47 AM, Zwylde said: My first live stream game last night. 1-3-6 and most of the time 12. It went well. Check out the 2h:55 mark for the most fun 😎. We were playing 7-2 for a quarter. Nice. You know Wes? I've contemplated playing in that game as well.
October 21, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, deech said: Nice. You know Wes? I've contemplated playing in that game as well. Yeah. We’ve played in a home game together for a few years. He stopped playing with us when TCH opened and he started doing his vlogs. Good guy. Was going to play again tonight but something must be going on at Prime. He didn’t send out an invite and I noticed on their website that they haven’t streamed in 5 days.
October 21, 20214 yr 19 hours ago, Zwylde said: Yeah. We’ve played in a home game together for a few years. He stopped playing with us when TCH opened and he started doing his vlogs. Good guy. Was going to play again tonight but something must be going on at Prime. He didn’t send out an invite and I noticed on their website that they haven’t streamed in 5 days. I played with him for a while in a home game probably before the home game you played with him. It's such a small world sometimes.
October 22, 20214 yr That looks like fun. What kind of player is Adelstein? All I know is that he was a gaping vagina when he was on Survivor. An even bigger douchbag than Jean-Robert, which is saying something. Edited October 22, 20214 yr by TonyTexas
October 23, 20214 yr Author lol @Lurch he posts the big dogs stream info so we all get excited and watch that instead of his stream where he kills the $2/5 game $15 at a time j/k
October 23, 20214 yr lol [mention=241]Lurch[/mention] he posts the big dogs stream info so we all get excited and watch that instead of his stream where he kills the $2/5 game $15 at a time j/k Hustler will be better to watch later when you can FF through tanking anyway
October 23, 20214 yr It’s always great to watch Ivey play. Tom Dwan didn’t show up last night but according to the feed from last night he and Ivey are both slated to play tonight which should be awesome. It was really cool to see those guys playing live at Bellagio and Aria years ago.
October 23, 20214 yr Supposedly one of the guys in the Hustler cash game last night just left his chips and went to the Lakers game. And then he got kicked out of the Lakers game. And he might be back in the cash game tonight . . .Early in the Los Angeles Lakers' loss to the Phoenix Suns, Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard got into a tussle on the bench that briefly turned physical. Somehow, that was not the strangest incident of the game. A fan getting ejected for slapping Rajon Rondo's hand away from his face took the prize. Toward the end of the third quarter, there was a delay in the game as attendants cleaned up a spill next to the court. As everyone waited for play to restart, a fan sitting courtside had some words for Rondo. It's not clear exactly what he said, but in this video you can see the fan in the hat saying something in his direction. Rondo immediately points at him, and when play stops again a few seconds later, he points again and looks toward the referee. A short time later the fan was ejected, though it wasn't initially clear why because the camera had cut away. On the replay from a different angle, you can see why. Rondo continued to point at the fan and eventually started making a finger gun gesture in his face. The fan responded by slapping Rondo's hand away, and security rushed onto the floor to usher the fan away. https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/fan-ejected-from-lakers-suns-game-after-slapping-rajon-rondos-hand-away-from-his-face/
October 25, 20214 yr Played in the shuffle 512 Sunday night plo tournament again tonight. $30 to get in, $1500 garunteed, 14 people played but a ton of rebuys, but no where near $1500 collected so a big overlay agian. Played 3 hours and raised pre flop once. Had AsQsAcTc. Get repotted pre flop, I go all in and there's 4 of us. Other guys are QQxx KKxx and 7432. Flop T72 with two spades and I'm in the lead. Turn 7 river 2 and mr 7432 scoops. I rebuy. Mr 7432 now has over half the chips in play, and announces he's folding into the final table and will only play the nuts. Next hand he pots preflop, says he has the nuts. Ends up winning the hand with AK95, and is completely serious saying that its a really good starting hand. Guy ends up playing every single hand until the final table and has around 400k in chips at the final table. Two people at the final table with around 100k and the rest of us below 50k. I don't get a hand worth a shit the entirety of the final table, end up going out in 6th when my big blind A5 runs into 55 on a A52 flop. Ooops. If you are in the Austin area and have ever played more than 2 hands of plo in your life you'll probably do pretty well in this tournament.
October 25, 20214 yr UTG (Russian Pro, 30ish) opens $20. He took me for $900 earlier in the night when I turned top two which also gave him a straight. I also gifted him $300 last night when I hit a Q high flop w AQ and he flipped a set. He owes me. HJ calls. I call BTN w 8d7c. SB folds. BB raises to $80. UTG calls. HJ folds. I call. $260 pot.9s6h4s. BB checks. UTG opens $115. I have to call. BB ($1500 behind) raises to $450. UTG ($2200 behind) calls. I have $950 left. I figure if I’m calling here, I’d have to call a bet on the turn, so it’s just a call/fold decision. I jam.BB looks miserable. He tank folds. UTG calls quickly. $2610 pot.8h.3c.I begrudgingly show my pair of 8s. UTG shows AsKs. SHIP IT!BB had AA and is livid
October 25, 20214 yr Arrived in Vegas today. Went to the Rio about 2 pm before checking in at Bally's. Was hoping lines wouldn't be too bad today so I could register for the Senior tournament on Wednesday. No line at all at the front desk. They gave me a player's card. Checked my vaccine on my Clear app. Sent me down to where you register for tournaments at the back of the convention center. No line at all to register. I go straight to the window. It was very pleasant. I was expecting the worse hearing about the lines. Guess I just picked the right day. There was pretty much nobody in the hallways. Checked out the Brasilia room to see where I would be playing Wednesday and the room was full of players. Didn't check out any of the other rooms.
October 26, 20214 yr I’m curious what the table dynamics are at a seniors tourney. Jax is full of olds that have convinced themselves nit is OP
October 26, 20214 yr 23 hours ago, blacklab said: Played in the shuffle 512 Sunday night plo tournament again tonight. $30 to get in, $1500 garunteed, 14 people played but a ton of rebuys, but no where near $1500 collected so a big overlay agian. Played 3 hours and raised pre flop once. Had AsQsAcTc. Get repotted pre flop, I go all in and there's 4 of us. Other guys are QQxx KKxx and 7432. Flop T72 with two spades and I'm in the lead. Turn 7 river 2 and mr 7432 scoops. I rebuy. Mr 7432 now has over half the chips in play, and announces he's folding into the final table and will only play the nuts. Next hand he pots preflop, says he has the nuts. Ends up winning the hand with AK95, and is completely serious saying that its a really good starting hand. Guy ends up playing every single hand until the final table and has around 400k in chips at the final table. Two people at the final table with around 100k and the rest of us below 50k. I don't get a hand worth a shit the entirety of the final table, end up going out in 6th when my big blind A5 runs into 55 on a A52 flop. Ooops. If you are in the Austin area and have ever played more than 2 hands of plo in your life you'll probably do pretty well in this tournament. I've been playing PLO for just over a year now. I'm making more money than NLH but damn, the swings. 22 hours ago, Lurch said: UTG (Russian Pro, 30ish) opens $20. He took me for $900 earlier in the night when I turned top two which also gave him a straight. I also gifted him $300 last night when I hit a Q high flop w AQ and he flipped a set. He owes me. HJ calls. I call BTN w 8d7c. SB folds. BB raises to $80. UTG calls. HJ folds. I call. $260 pot. 9s6h4s. BB checks. UTG opens $115. I have to call. BB ($1500 behind) raises to $450. UTG ($2200 behind) calls. I have $950 left. I figure if I’m calling here, I’d have to call a bet on the turn, so it’s just a call/fold decision. I jam. BB looks miserable. He tank folds. UTG calls quickly. $2610 pot. 8h. 3c. I begrudgingly show my pair of 8s. UTG shows AsKs. SHIP IT! BB had AA and is livid What do you think about how the BB played that hand?
October 26, 20214 yr He should not have check raised if he wasn’t committed to calling a jam. He fucked with the SPR. He def should have led the flop and it would have played out much differently
October 26, 20214 yr Monday night big o at the lodge. 93 entries 24 left, prize pool $5850 Average stack 140k, I got 250k lets fucking go
October 26, 20214 yr 39 minutes ago, Lurch said: He should not have check raised if he wasn’t committed to calling a jam. He fucked with the SPR. He def should have led the flop and it would have played out much differently Yeah he put himself in a bad spot. But your back-raise looks so darn strong.
October 26, 20214 yr Get a strait flush, unfortunately guy with nut flush also had A2 to my A3 so we chopped. currently in the chip lead with around 470k, average stack 240k, 17 people left, top 12 paid. Blinds 6k-12k.
October 26, 20214 yr Was chip leader for most of the last two hours. Finally get down to the final table and I have lost every hand I’ve been in the last 20 minutes now I’m in last place
October 26, 20214 yr Only in poker can you outlast 86 out of 93 buy ins and feel like you just got kicked in the nuts. Finished 7th won $246.
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