December Low-Content Thread
 

I haven't played poker in a while because I've spent the last 3 days -- and I mean virtually 3 days straight -- shooting what could be one of the greatest game shows of our generation.

Of course I'm biased, since I wrote the goddam thing (or part of it), but seriously. Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.

I just got home from the finale... it was a 6-episode run shot over 3 days, working about 14-18 hour days. You can read about it here, but basically it's Who Wants To Be a Millionaire meets a poker tournament.

I'm gonna do a big OOT thread about it when it airs (Dec 17) and I hope people watch it. All I did was write the questions (along with a few other guys), but man it's intense. Wow. I'm still getting over the high... easily the coolest show I've ever been a part of. I'm still stunned by the ending.

Anyway, carry on with the poker stuff.

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

joker, this sounds like a show I could win all of the dollars.

today's session after midnight was a brutal rollercoaster where winning a couple dollars never felt better.

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I am so horrible at poker. Last night I was playing Commerce $20-40 with a few players who were much better than average, but not playing like it, a few horrible players(of which I was one), one retard-maniac who hit 3 outers or less against every single player at the table, and eventually one very good player. My image was crap and my pf raises got 3-5 callers. Would have been awesome if I had any chance in hell of hitting a hand. Anyway, after an awful run of cards for about 4 hours, I finally had the indignity of this hand:

I raise UTG with 99. Horrible player calls, retard-maniac calls, tilted good player calls, very good player says hes gotta crack my hand and calls. Flop is J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. I fire and all call except very good player. This one of the dryest boards of all time and I have no clue what these boobs are calling with. Its important that a couple of these guys have called me down a few times with top pair. Anywho, turn is a 4 completing the rainbow. Checked to me, I check, horrible player bets, both others call. I think. I'm thinking about how the heck anyone of these guys has anything. I finally settle on that someone has to have a weak J. So I fold. Thing is, normally I'm gassing this all the way and value betting the river. Bleah. Like I said, I'm awful at poker. Anywho, the river is 9. Woo freaking hoo. Horrible player bets, the other two fold(wtf?). I tell the dealer that I'm done, pick up my chips, and leave minus 40 or so BB.

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so last day of november i lose 14k or whatever in another failed attempt at high stakes online poker. i swear to god i am like a lifetime -7bb/100 loser at 100/200. this capped off yet ANOTHER month where i win like 150+bb and end up actually down $$$ for the month. i wish i had all my data and i could graph it but if there was two graphs, one being bb's, it'd be a steady climb up, but change it to $$$ it'd have crazy spikes going up and down and usually ending right back at the x-axis or below it. it's hilarious to see they're both my graphs.

anyways, pissed off from last night's bitter session, i went to the casino for the first time in forever. brought 2k with me, i was down to my last $50, made a pretty amazing comeback and was actually up a couple hundred bucks. i contemplated leaving then but i was like, wtf i didn't drive all this way to not win big, so i kept playing and 20 minutes later i was busto and driving home. oh, this is blackjack btw, looool, who goes all the way to an indian casino to play poker?

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

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I haven't played poker in a while because I've spent the last 3 days -- and I mean virtually 3 days straight -- shooting what could be one of the greatest game shows of our generation.

Of course I'm biased, since I wrote the goddam thing (or part of it), but seriously. Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.

I just got home from the finale... it was a 6-episode run shot over 3 days, working about 14-18 hour days. You can read about it here, but basically it's Who Wants To Be a Millionaire meets a poker tournament.

I'm gonna do a big OOT thread about it when it airs (Dec 17) and I hope people watch it. All I did was write the questions (along with a few other guys), but man it's intense. Wow. I'm still getting over the high... easily the coolest show I've ever been a part of. I'm still stunned by the ending.

Anyway, carry on with the poker stuff.

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Aren't you supposed to be on strike or something?

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

finally i run good for once, coming back to santa barbara last night has paid off big time. now i cant go to the game someone just texted me about tonight. i can see where you might think that would be bad, but when nobody plays for money it is actually quite good, now i cant be tempted.

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

i thought you quit BJ?

no?

B

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good call sir

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (4 handed) Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

BB ($649.55)
UTG ($508.85)
Hero ($211.80)
SB ($144.85)

Preflop: Hero is Button with J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $8</font>, SB calls $7, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Flop: ($18) 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $14</font>, SB calls $14.

Turn: ($46) 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $31</font>, SB calls $31.

River: ($108) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $158.8 (All-In)</font>, SB calls $91.85 (All-In).

Final Pot: $291.70

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has Js 8c (high card, jack).
SB has 6h 7s (one pair, sixes).
Outcome: SB wins $291.70. Hero wins $66.95. </font>

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

HOWMANY--

I do stuff like that all the time w/ history.

--Nate

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

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i thought you quit BJ?

no?

B

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i fall off the wagon from time to time.

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sweet electrical jesus that was brutal. i was going to try to play like 3k hands or so today and see if i had it in me. apparently i dont as i quit after 800. bloodbathed for a little over 4 buyins. for once the biggest pot i lost was total tilt/frustration shoving into the nuts instead of randomly getting coolered. i reserved that special place for the 2nd biggest pot i lost which i think i should have probably gotten away from anyway bc everyone in these games is a nit.

the good news is im able to pay attention to the action on 6 tables a lot better than i thought i would be able to.

i think 23% wtsd/26% w$sd is probably not good

heres the hand in question i think i should have folded. i would have shoved river if it blanked off and he checked but im guessing he was shoving any river, so im really happy i managed to make a straight instead of missing:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (6 handed) Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

Button ($524.65)
SB ($216.55)
BB ($222.70)
UTG ($391.95)
Hero ($278)
CO ($160.15)

Preflop: Hero is MP with T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $8</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls $8, SB calls $7, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Flop: ($26) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $19</font>, Button folds, SB calls $19.

Turn: ($64) J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $51</font>, SB calls $51.

River: ($166) K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets $138.55 (All-In)</font>, Hero calls $138.55.

Final Pot: $443.10

Results:
SB has Qs Qh (full house, queens full of eights).
Hero has Td As (straight, ace high).
Outcome: SB wins $443.10.

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

HOWMANY--

Yeah, that's pretty close in these games. The problem is that very few psychologies admit of playing a bare 8 like that.

Are you c-betting too much, esp. in multiway pots?

--Nate

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

no i check behind a lot. my main problem is more that once i start betting i dont stop until i have shoved the river. actually its more like i either cbet flop c/f turn or bet bet bet. the guy in that hand was pretty retarded so my thought process was that he could have a lot of random sooted 8s that hed shove, T9 he slowplayed, KcXc or something. i can honestly say i did not expect to see QQ.

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

HOWMANY--

OK, that makes sense. But work on that not-always-3-barreling thing. But you knew that already.

--Nate

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You ppl have helped me and to thank you all I am going to share the most powerful poker secret of all time:

http://www.medicalprovisions.com/Intl/749002b.jpg

Trust me. Throw the Starbucks down the drain. No more diet cokes. If you're like me and can't stand the taste of this 'Rock Star' stuff water it down like I do. And then win, win, win and win.

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

rock star is so much worse than red bull

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rock star is so much worse than red bull

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Not for making the nuts and getting callers all over the place it isn't. Besides, CAZ doesn't sell Red Bull and the cans of Rock Star are bigger.

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

this sort of thing infuriates me like you wouldnt believe, i always just want to 3bet shove on these [censored] when they do this

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (6 handed) Poker Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

Hero ($283.20)
BB ($245.15)
UTG ($395.35)
MP ($188.80)
CO ($153.90)
Button ($197)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. CO posts a blind of $2.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, CO (poster) checks, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $10</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, CO calls $8.

Flop: ($22) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $16</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to $32</font>


YAY RIGHT AFTER I TYPE THIS A 60/20 TARD GETS AA IN HIS BB AND JUST CALLS VS MY KQ AND FLOP Q HIGH YAYAYAYAYAYAYA

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

HOWMANY--

For whatever it's worth, I'm convinced that the minraise is a drastically underused (by good players) move given the dynamics of typical games these days.

--Nate

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

Sitting in a little business office in Cabo. Fun place to go with the family. I just wanted to make one post and play a few hands. I log in, play an orbit and win 5 bets. I am the king of mexican online poker.

It is a good thing there is no interweb in the room so I can actually vacation instead of spending all night in the degen-zone.

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I am running like dogshit against this bbj winner, it's so sickening.

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I am running like dogshit against this bbj winner, it's so sickening.

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i won 17.4k from him hu earlier, but im stuck like 5k in 6 max tonight... and i keep getting booted off the [censored] tables because of the god damned software

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

hm, at least i only lost 2.5 BI the second session. and i didnt play terrible like the first session. i turned 1 overpair into a bluff that i thought had a pretty good chance of working 200bb deep but oh well. lose 7 BI at 1/2 probably = i suck. not much i can do other than play more hands later bc im really bored. i was gonna play 2/4 today but decided i should put in more hands at 1/2 so at least i ran good in that respect.

at least i bumped up to 20% wtsd/40% w$sd in the 2800 hands i played. playing hands is much easier when youre buried. im .6ptbb/100 winner now in this game. if only i had rakeback id be killing the game.

*edit*
you guys are retarded. red bull/rockstar/whatever other gay energy drinks there are are all awful, comparing them is absurd. i still wanna vomit from the unholy combination of red bull and vodka from the day before thanksgiving.

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I am running like dogshit against this bbj winner, it's so sickening.

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i won 17.4k from him hu earlier, but im stuck like 5k in 6 max tonight... and i keep getting booted off the [censored] tables because of the god damned software

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jesus he's playing hu for real dollars? hyachachahcahchahcahchahcahchahchah

I love when my AQ &lt; 53 on A86. That was fantastic.

EDIT - [censored] I MISSED THE SECOND TABLE AGAIN

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

i finally get [censored] AA and bugstud decides that hes just gonna go and snap them off [censored] BUG!

Re: December Low-Content Thread
 

him switching tables tilts me to no end.