July Low-Content Thread

[private joker]

I just remembered this hand from Friday night:

UTG (weak-tight) raises, gets FIVE cold-callers including the SB, so I call in the BB with 76o.

7 of us see the flop for 14 SBs.

Flop comes Q72r. I donk, UTG mutters and curses and folds face down but tells everyone within earshot that "AK never wins goddamit, friggin' AK every time a Queen, every goddam time I get killed by the Queen...". MP calls, LP raises, I call, MP calls.

Turn K, checked around, river x, checked around.

MP also turns over 76 and we chop it, LP raiser had A2s. UTG goes ballistic seeing that he'd have won it on the turn.

Him: "How could you bet a 7 into that field?"
Me: "It was the best hand."

[Nate.]

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I just remembered this hand from Friday night:

UTG (weak-tight) raises, gets FIVE cold-callers including the SB, so I call in the BB with 76o.

7 of us see the flop for 14 SBs.

Flop comes Q72r. I donk, UTG mutters and curses and folds face down but tells everyone within earshot that "AK never wins goddamit, friggin' AK every time a Queen, every goddam time I get killed by the Queen...". MP calls, LP raises, I call, MP calls.

Turn K, checked around, river x, checked around.

MP also turns over 76 and we chop it, LP raiser had A2s. UTG goes ballistic seeing that he'd have won it on the turn.

Him: "How could you bet a 7 into that field?"
Me: "It was the best hand."

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Am I the only one who bets this turn once he gets there?

--Nate

[private joker]

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Am I the only one who bets this turn once he gets there?

--Nate

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Not to put too much strategy in here, but I think the flop raiser or MP has a Q a large % of the time (drawless board) and won't ever fold even if I represent a K. The raiser happened to have a 2, but most of the time I'm behind on this turn and with 5 outs, I don't want to get raised out of a big pot.

[cowboy billy]

I hit a new low tonight even though I thought I had hit rock bottom and was on my way back up again, I guess I was wrong

It kinda sucks that none of my friends play pkr, not seriously anyway, it makes it difficult to vent some of the frustrations, that's why I like these threads, don't know why, but writing it down usually helps somewhat

I started playing solid pkr, obv losing straight away, came back a little and then the table broke up, but 1 fish wanted to play hu with me, so I was like hellz yeah, I pushed him around, hit a few flops as well and got break even pretty quick, sadly he left

luckily the game started up again when a couple new players came in, in no time I was ~20bb down, missing every draw, losing every hand

after that I started tilting and played really really bad, raising hands that should be mucked and calling down with hands that were obv no good any more, plus I was still getting sucked out on a lot, not a good combo

I lost a lot of monies, though I should have lost a lot less

I don't understand why I still actually like playing limit hold'em, I wouldn't ever have believed it would be possible to lose as much as I have over the last months against players that bad

but somehow I go back and back again, knowing how enormously big my EV in that game is, how can I not? but the dumb thing is, I look forward to playing every time, no matter how bad I'm running

I should be hating the game, but I don't

on a side note, I like your flop donk pj, I've always checked in this spot without ever thinking about it, now that I have actually thought about it, I've improved my game a little again, ty!

[Maliant]

cowboybilly - tilt less, only really experienced players (not me) can play at their best 100% of the time regardless of how much they have won/lost for the night or amount of badbeats they have taken, sounds like you need to calm down/vent and get some rest once you realize you start tilting, even though its hard when you know there are lots of donkeys at your table giving away money, but usually what happens in these situations is a random donkey will put a bad-beat on you, maybe they will be a jerk and you will dumb your game down to try to get even.

You will play looser and try to run them down at least once to get even and rub it in their faces, even if this is subconciously, and its not always as apparent as it seems. Ego is your worst enemy in poker, your ego to not be a loser for the session and your ego to "prove you are better than the other player."

Sometimes you will just be running bad in a session and won't be able to beat a player, even when you know they can't even spell poker. Don't try extra hard to beat the player, because by deviating your already winning play, assuming you are a winning player, means you are doing something wrong.

Instead sometimes you just need to aquiesce to the situation and not concentrate all of your efforts on one/few players and don't get frustrated and don't focus on the chips in front of him going into your stack but just concentrate on the moment and the poker you are playing in every individual hand.

[HOWMANY]

I just remembered this hand I played a couple nights ago. Villain is Danny. 3 handed 40 with Danny and Michael J, I straddle button because Michael is BB so this is like the absolute best ever situation for button straddle. Danny 3bets, Michael folds, I see 88 and 4 bet. Danny calls.

Danny bets dark. lol
Flop K34r I call planning to raise every turn.
He bets dark before the turn comes, [censored] him, I raise dark
Turn is whatever
He checks dark and I am not feeling so confident any more because he clearly is wanting to showdown and not mind it so he probably has me beat with like 99/TT if not a K. I play very well so I check dark even though I can make the nuts with an 8 basically. The river is not an 8. He has K5 and actually donked into me in the dark and then sucked out. What a player.

[jkamowitz]

After taking a relaxing 3 week break I had the urge again and went back down to ac.

My second hand at a six handed 20/40 must-move game:

4 folds and I tell the bb that I don't chop 6 handed, he grumbles.

I look and see K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and raise, he 3-bets, I 4-bet and he asks the dealer "can I raise again?" she confirms and he responds "ok I call."

flop: 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]:5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]3:hearts:

I bet, he raises, I 3, he 4's, I 5 and now he 6-bets and I call.

Turn 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] I bet, he raises, I call

Rivers a Jack and I check call to see his 53o.

"should've chopped" he said.

[swope]

saturday night, 20-40 lhe at GC.

first hand of the night, raise ATo in late position, UTG (middle aged latino woman, never seen before) limper + SB + BB see a A76 rainbow flop. check to me, I bet. all fold except UTG who flat calls. UTG bets a 2 on the turn, I raise to see where Im at, UTG calls. river is something brickish, UTG checks to me, I bet, UTG calls and tables 76 for 2pr on the flop.

a middle aged latin dude with a straw hat and a hawaiian shirt starts clapping. i realize he is clapping for her. he is probably her husband. she seems embarassed by this, and with good reason.

30 minutes later shes gone, but her husband sits down. her husband is rediculously predictable, and pays me off just over a full rack in 45 minutes thanks largely to the deck hitting me like the fist of an angry god combined with his totally inability to fold or disguise his holdings.

finish the night 3 hours later, up a hair over 3 racks (biggest live win ever i think), despite donking off about 3 stacks to an older asian calling station refusing to give up her pocket 3's on a 888 flop despite me raising from LP, reraising her on the flop, and firing at every street (with KQo). not sure if she had an incredible read on me or if she was just incapable of folding a house...

anyway, my losing streak has been snapped for the time being. might head back this week sometime to see if im still hot, will most def be back next weekend regardless.

[MitchL]

Tonights game included Phil-tough regular, Sammy tough semi-regular, Hoppscot, a taggish kid name Brett, myself and another normally tag but tilting regular. At one point the only fish in the game turned to me and said, "this looks like a really juicy game."

[HOWMANY]

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Tonights game included Phil-tough regular, Sammy tough semi-regular, Hoppscot, a taggish kid name Brett, myself and another normally tag but tilting regular. At one point the only fish in the game turned to me and said, "this looks like a really juicy game."

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Completely standard. Many of the mind bogglingly retarded people I play with have pointed out some horrific players to me at one point or another and told me what tough competitors they are. I typically agree (sometimes I super agree).