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50 BB losing sessions are standard in Vegas mid-limit games, right?

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I played 15 hours earlier this week and dropped over 70BB. Even though that was multiple sessions, its really just one painfully long session, right?

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Sweet. +65 BBs today.

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"50 BB losing sessions are standard in Vegas mid-limit games, right?"

I don't know but I just put i've put up two -60s in my last four sessions in L.A. And before this week started I was lamenting that I'd been breakeven since the beginning of October. Oops.

-Michael

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3 handed 80, I raise the button with K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]10 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], BB3 bets, flop J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]3 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4 bets go in on the flop, Turn A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], He bets and i decided that that A just has to be too scary for him to continue and raise he insta 3 bets i call...River Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and BB ends up all in after 8 betting the river...
Couple of hours later. We bumped it up to 1-2 and BB 9 bets all in on the river again while holding AJ. Board looks AJ9xx...AJ vs 99...

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Vegas kicks me in the rear, Commerce shows me who my real daddy is.

Hit the nut str8 in a six way pf raised pot on my first hand for a $600 pot. Next set of blinds I catch AA. Three bet to me and I just call in another 6 way pot, capped off, and I c/r 3 bet the flop to clear half the field and take down another $600+ pot.

I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Commerce.

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just wanted to say that its pretty awesome playing live where nobody understands poker.

when we were playing 75 on friday there was a normally tight player that clearly thought DD was awful (he 3bet T5s and showed it down among other things). of course this same player showed down some similarly strange holdings played much more passively/incorrectly and also played many of his good hands in bad/unorthodox ways. btw no this person is not me and this person is not alone in thinking DD is a huge fish at this casino. of course all these people also think roc is a genius (play 1k/2k = superstar) and while i dislike playing him lhe he has pretty obvious never folding/random self destruct for 5BB on turn leaks

its like some of these people have learned enough from somewhere that they can barely survive playing 7+ handed but as soon as it gets shorthanded, especially 5 or less, it is just a hopeless situation bc they are basically playing a completely different poker game than before and it is a game they barely even understand the rules to. it gives me hope that maybe i wont break even for the rest of eternity.

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this person is not alone in thinking DD is a huge fish at this casino.

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pretty sure this is standard at any casino. a few people think he's a genius and the rest think he's a complete donk.

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pretty sure this is standard at any casino. a few people think he's a genius and the rest think he's a complete donk.

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They're all wrong.

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50 BB losing sessions are standard in Vegas mid-limit games, right?

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Could be Dude, it happened in AC this weekend to me on Friday. Got most of it back yesterday.

My aces go cracked three times, cold called by an 8-4 suited, and a better player who called four bets cold with a 10-8 from late position when I was UTG. I forget exactly what happened the third time, but everybody into the pot on the Friday after Thanksgiving....

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this person is not alone in thinking DD is a huge fish at this casino.

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pretty sure this is standard at any casino. a few people think he's a genius and the rest think he's a complete donk.

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HOWMANY, its scary that I'm not even positive which guy you are referring to because there are multiple choices, but the funniest part (for me) of the session was for whatever reason we were discussing online poker and my website, so I gave that kid a DC business card and then had to tell him several times throughout the night "no we don't teach that".

-DeathDonkey

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i told james while you were in the restroom that you can play big bc you make money from your site to lose playing poker.

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here was a beauty that i forgot about from friday that exhibits what it takes to beat nosebleed games live and why we will probably never play as high as this person has:

step 1 open utg 8 handed or so with K6s and get 3bet by dd who holds QJ. now 4bet all in for your last chip

flop QJ3. turn K river 6

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To be fair I think his play was fine considering he was about to blind out of the tournament.

How about the bet/3 bet with the naked gutterball hand?

-DeathDonkey

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here was a beauty that i forgot about from friday that exhibits what it takes to beat nosebleed games live and why we will probably never play as high as this person has:

step 1 open utg 8 handed or so with K6s and get 3bet by dd who holds QJ. now 4bet all in for your last chip

flop QJ3. turn K river 6

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imo deathdonkey's play there is much worse than K6s given stack size

EDIT: well, not if he was in a blind

EDIT2: pokerstove says otherwise, i guess i suck

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To be fair I think his play was fine considering he was about to blind out of the tournament.


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hahahahaha my [censored] eyes are watering from laughing so hard, this is pure gold

the T7 hand is completely standard. also completely standard is that against good players he hits every time but against random retards you get to hear "you win" after he is called on the river.

stinkypete: no, dd 3bet him from mp somewhere. btw if dd was the button in this his play is prob okay bc roc will open wide range here bc he does not want to take bb and be forced to 3bet all in on his next hand so QJ should probably stand up fairly well with $125 dead money in there.

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Looks like two fish were playing this hand-one was just lucky enough to take it down. What were you thinking on the turn! If you thought he had a FD you would just bet out the CR seems silly as he is screaming QQ+ as a likely holding. He may have two pair + alot of the time inwhich case he'ed be posting about you

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So I show up to play 15-30 lastnight, not because I want to or feel like it, but because I want to get hours in and I was supposed to run into Brick there.

Instead, I have the good fortune of running into PJ, whose bigger game broke, and he was humble enough to sit in my lowly 15-30 game. I proceeded to play bad, fail to read hands well, select lines that sucked, lose focus on the action, and torch 50bbs.

Wowowowow. That was embarassing. I felt like Paul Newman after getting hustled by forrest wittiker in the color of money. "I showed my ass in there. I got nothing left to show you kid!"

Somehow, I either managed to bring my D game to the casino that night, or I was just confronted with a ton of situations that I habitually play bad. It was probably both really.

Which makes me wonder: Sometimes, when we play really well in a session, how much is due to being dealt familiar situations, and how much is it due to actually playing well?

Remind me to: not play on an empty stomache. Not drink beer while I play. Exercise more than 2x/month. I am turning into a sloppy bastard here.

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Not drink beer while I play.

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You were playing badly before you ordered the Corona.

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Just kidding. I would take it easy on the bluffs, though. When live players call a turn c/r with an Ace on board, they're not folding a brick river.

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I've never had my own graph before. This is since the start of the weekend. I'm hoping to have a +$6,000 month. I'm playing 10/20 Limit (live), usually about 4 hours a day. Is this a realistic goal?

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sorry to be a noob, but what program is this? I'm tired of using excel as a live "poker tracker"

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so i was reading an email a friend sent me when i spotted this fantastic word: "orienteering". i'm a bit of an ocd freak when it comes to grammar/spelling (it wasn't easy to change my posting style) so i would normally have like a seizure when i see this word in the middle of a paragraph but it was just so hilariously out of place/not even a word that i just got a huge grin on my face and started laughing.

unfortunately my fun was dashed a little bit when i looked it up online to see that it is actually a word but it most certainly did not fit the context of the sentence it was in. id be pretty lol embarassed if i was totally wrong and this word was in the right spot but i seriously doubt it so now i just have to enjoy pronouncing this word in my head a few times because it is so great and new to me (and once i forget it i will most likely never hear again in my life).

"orienteering"

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so i was reading an email a friend sent me when i spotted this fantastic word: "orienteering". i'm a bit of an ocd freak when it comes to grammar/spelling (it wasn't easy to change my posting style) so i would normally have like a seizure when i see this word in the middle of a paragraph but it was just so hilariously out of place/not even a word that i just got a huge grin on my face and started laughing.

unfortunately my fun was dashed a little bit when i looked it up online to see that it is actually a word but it most certainly did not fit the context of the sentence it was in. id be pretty lol embarassed if i was totally wrong and this word was in the right spot but i seriously doubt it so now i just have to enjoy pronouncing this word in my head a few times because it is so great and new to me (and once i forget it i will most likely never hear again in my life).

"orienteering"

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orienteering is awesome yo

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sorry to be a noob, but what program is this? I'm tired of using excel as a live "poker tracker"

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That post cracked me up even though I've seen it before.

Anyway, that is pokercharts.com.

Its something like $20 a year.

I really should be able to do an access database on my own, but because I'm forking over the money, it seems to ensure I take extra care in reporting each and every session. So whatever. I think its well worth it and I've been using it for almost 3 years.

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PJ,

That av is tragicially hilarious.

Gentlemen,

I'm gonna be swinging through LA this weekend, and would like to hit up the Commercaments and chow on some of that sub-par free carne asada. I would be happy to see some, if not all, of you Sunday afternoon / evening.

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PJ,

That av is tragicially hilarious.



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I know [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Unfort. I am going out of town on Sunday.

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jesus christ how much do i have to pay you to get rid of that disgusting new avatar?

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jesus christ how much do i have to pay you to get rid of that disgusting new avatar?

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its one thing to lose a hu match and be forced to have a really embarrassing avatar, but this one is just brutal for everyone that has to look at it. surely there must be some way you can convince whoever you lost to that it would be better to just have a really gay avatar like david hasselhoff's crotch or something?

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jesus christ how much do i have to pay you to get rid of that disgusting new avatar?

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jesus christ how much do i have to pay you to get rid of that disgusting new avatar?

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YOU ARE MY HERO

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9 hour session last night, my first hand at the table and my last hand at the table were both AA.

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what's more exciting than a book called "field notes from a catastrophe"? writing a 6 page paper about it. what's more fun than that? writing a 10 page paper about "the voyage of the beagle" and "the double helix" before i can get to the 6 page paper [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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what's more exciting than a book called "field notes from a catastrophe"? writing a 6 page paper about it. what's more fun than that? writing a 10 page paper about "the voyage of the beagle" and "the double helix" before i can get to the 6 page paper [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Chucky D is the nuts man. U gotta get on that.

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"what's more exciting?"

writing all those gay papers and then quitting school in a month forever anyway...

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lol you obviously havent read the darwin book because its brutally boring. "BLAH BLAH BLAH TREES BLAH BLAH BLAH ROCKS BLAH BLAH BLAH THIS GRASS GROWS HERE BUT NOT THERE". the darwin/watson paper is supposed to be 8-10 pages but he also said 1800-2k words and im at 600 words = 2 pages right now so obv im just going to write like 1800 words exactly then [censored] with font/margins to get it as close to 8 pages without making it look absurd. i quit for the night so i guess i have to miss class tomorrow to finish since both papers are due on thurs.

btw i think my reply in the "cookie jar" thread might be my best post ever on 2+2

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brag: played 4 handed at 2x my normal stakes with fishies
beat: won a little, realized I don't have any balls, and quit (even though it was the best game in the house)
variance: gabe mercilessly pounded the two helpless women for hour upon hour, both left the casino and came back with more money only to hit felt once again.

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i'm guessing this was the 60 game. that probably means the two helpless women were the fat persian woman who tilts a lot and sometimes plays 1/2+ and the fat persian woman who is laggy preflop, terrible postflop and wears infinite makeup?

finished the long essay just now. 1800-2k words and i actually wrote over 2k [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] i'm so ashamed of myself for doing more than what was asked of me. now on to the much easier paper where i just highlighted the whole book as i read it and am going to quote mercilessly. paper is going to be 50% quotes 40% footnotes 9% title/name/page number 1% interpretation.

im really looking forward to finishing this paper sometime today so that i can get in some good old fashioned orienteering.

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i'm guessing this was the 60 game. that probably means the two helpless women were the fat persian woman who tilts a lot and sometimes plays 1/2+ and the fat persian woman who is laggy preflop, terrible postflop and wears infinite makeup?

finished the long essay just now. 1800-2k words and i actually wrote over 2k [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] i'm so ashamed of myself for doing more than what was asked of me. now on to the much easier paper where i just highlighted the whole book as i read it and am going to quote mercilessly. paper is going to be 50% quotes 40% footnotes 9% title/name/page number 1% interpretation.

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Can't you just hire somebody to do your paper for you? There is much greater expected value if you play poker instead.

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well i read the books so i may as well write the papers. plus i would just waste the time reading dumb [censored] on 2+2 anyway bc thats what i do when theres no schoolwork to be done. writing the papers pretty much only takes time away from me reading nvg/oot/edf/lounge and there hasnt been anything good there lately anyway.

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although this was not at commerce it's likely that has happened to the two people you described.

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so it was "sherri" (dunno how to spell it) and the fat annoying russian or whatever bitch?

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While you may have done this back when you graduated in 1919, the universities of today are much much stricter on fraud and cheating.

It is a serious offense at most universities and never a smart idea from someone who is so close to graduation.

Also, it just never seemed worth it, when writing a boring paper is infinately times better than being expelled.