November Low-Content Thread

[Timogen]

Playing is so much more fun than working. Even if I did end up down 30BBs and Villain up 45. Villain was playing a scorching 90/32 over 340 hands.

PokerStars $10/$20 Limit Hold'em - 5 players
Hand Converter Tool from DeucesCracked.com

Preflop: Hero is BB with T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB calls, Hero checks.

Flop: (2.00 SB) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB calls.

Turn: (2.00 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB raises, Hero 3-bets, SB calls.

River: (8.00 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.

Final Pot: 8.00 BB

Results:
SB shows 7d, Ah (a flush, Ace high).
Hero mucks Ts, 7h.
Outcome: SB wins 7.90 BB.
($2.00 Rake)

[Sailboats]

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Playing is so much more fun than working. Even if I did end up down 30BBs and Villain up 45. Villain was playing a scorching 90/32 over 340 hands.

PokerStars $10/$20 Limit Hold'em - 5 players
Hand Converter Tool from DeucesCracked.com

Preflop: Hero is BB with T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB calls, Hero checks.

Flop: (2.00 SB) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB calls.

Turn: (2.00 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB raises, Hero 3-bets, SB calls.

River: (8.00 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.

Final Pot: 8.00 BB

Results:
SB shows 7d, Ah (a flush, Ace high).
Hero mucks Ts, 7h.
Outcome: SB wins 7.90 BB.
($2.00 Rake)

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Timogen you is alive? Can you teach me how to play online?

[Timogen]

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Playing is so much more fun than working. Even if I did end up down 30BBs and Villain up 45. Villain was playing a scorching 90/32 over 340 hands.

PokerStars $10/$20 Limit Hold'em - 5 players
Hand Converter Tool from DeucesCracked.com

Preflop: Hero is BB with T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG folds, CO folds, Button folds, SB calls, Hero checks.

Flop: (2.00 SB) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB calls.

Turn: (2.00 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, SB raises, Hero 3-bets, SB calls.

River: (8.00 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.

Final Pot: 8.00 BB

Results:
SB shows 7d, Ah (a flush, Ace high).
Hero mucks Ts, 7h.
Outcome: SB wins 7.90 BB.
($2.00 Rake)

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Timogen you is alive? Can you teach me how to play online?

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Yea, still alive and bored outta my tree. I see you are posting more. I hope that means you are winning.

Heh, I'm the last guy that you should be learning from. I took my PS account from $300 to 10k and back to 5k since Party blew up [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[surfdoc]

So, when the recent San Diego fires hit we got evacuated from our house. I wasn't home at the time so I had to tell my wife where all the cash was stashed away around the house. She scooped it up and tossed it into a duffle bag with a bunch of other stuff. We return home the next day and I note that the funds are pretty sloppily located in the bag but I drag them out and put them back in the usual spots. I later count it and I am guessing I am short but to be honest I hadn't recently totalled it. I was thinking that it was probably a bad idea to bring it up. I didn't forsee things going well when I imagined the conversation.

"Hey babe, have you seen any missing money."

"No, what are you talking about? How much are you missing."

"Ummm, I don't really know. Maybe 5-10K."

"WTF, are you shiiiting me. You don't even know?"

Anyway, for obvious reasons, I made the exucutive decision to just let it go.

Fast forward to today. I worked yesterday and my wife took the kids to Disneyland. She packs a duffle bag with a change of clothes and as they are changing from some water ride looks down and says to my kids "oh look at your cute daddy. He has a pink and purple poker chip in the bag. One for each of you." Then she lifts them up and realizes the pink is a commerce 5k and the purple and ocean's 500. She throws up a little in her mouth and then tucks them back away. She comes home and says, "guess what I found today babe." She shows me and laughs. I break out in the running man which I am somewhat ashamed to say that I still do pretty well.

cliff notes: I lose two big chips. I find them. I am an idiot. My wife rules. I got a safe deposit box.

[stinkypete]

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I break out in the running man which I am somewhat ashamed to say that I still do pretty well.

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video or it didn't happen

[surfdoc]

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I break out in the running man which I am somewhat ashamed to say that I still do pretty well.

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video or it didn't happen

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Sounds like the makings of a challenge. You put up the money, I put up the video. Maybe the mid stakes players pitch in to make this worth my time.

[stinkypete]

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I break out in the running man which I am somewhat ashamed to say that I still do pretty well.

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video or it didn't happen

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Sounds like the makings of a challenge. You put up the money, I put up the video. Maybe the mid stakes players pitch in to make this worth my time.

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i'm pretty sure we can pool up like $30-40 at the very least, interested?

[DeuceKicker]

Re-visited the 20 game Sunday after playing 9-18 for a while.

The people who were making the game good have left, and now it pretty much sucks. Too many aggros who are relatively tight. Solid, aggressive, possible 2+2er at the other end of the table is raising my blind at will and my usual 83o is powerless to resist.

Another probable 2+2er sits to my left. He's a young azn who has been visiting from NJ for the past month. (I'm out of touch, maybe everyone knows who this is.) He's talking a lot and it annoys the older guy two-to-my-right, who is one of the two reasons I'm still at the table. The older guy seems like one of those typical, "I've been playing poker since before you were born... I've forgotten more than you'll ever know about poker" kind of guys. He's too loose, will stab at many unclaimed pots, and loves him some fancy plays.

After one early limper, OG limps in the CO. SB does whatever and I check with 65 in the BB.

Flop is 532 with two spades. I bet, 1 fold, OG raises, I call.

Turn is 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. I check/call.

River is a blank. I check, OG bets in rhythm. I think for about two seconds and quietly say "you missed" and call. He turns over Ks8s and I feel like a hero.

The night turns sour from there. YAP and another tight, boring player leave and are replaced by some LAGs so I stay. I proceed to lose three racks over the next hour with a bunch of second-best hands. QQ and JJ run into AA three times, rivered straight loses to rivered flush, etc...

I've obliterated my bankroll and am going to take some time off because I've come to hate poker. I guess seven consecutive sessions where I lose a frickin minimum of 35BB will do that. Eight sessions ago I won 48BB, but c'mon... seven times in a row I get my ass kicked for 2.5 to 5 racks?

So anyway, I'm looking for some advice: After another frustrating session where you tread water for hours then the floor drops out from under you, do you find it best to go back to your car and cry uncontrollably, or sob gently while rocking back and forth?

[mike l.]

for a lot of reasons this is such a great post.

[ShawnHoo]

I was sitting in an ok/decent $40/$80 limit hold'em game. One of the toughest players was a 50-something white woman named Kat. She's apparently been playing a very long time and she used to run a poker class for women every week at Hollywood Park for several years. A buddy of mine was at a car wash in the Valley a couple of weeks ago browsing through the gift shop and found a poker book written by her. (I swear I am not making this up.) Anyway, she seemed like a classic grinder, tight and aggressive, probably makes a decent living through the game. She seemed to understand the dynamics of the table and also seemed to know everyone else at the table except me.

She had been raising my blind *everytime* she was on the button, sometimes with hands like 6-5 sooted. I decided I had enough of this nonsense and would use my tight image to my benefit against her soon enough.

It's her button again and, sure enough, she raises once it's folded to her. The small blind, a regular donator, 3-bets and has very few chips left. I look down at Ace-Jack offsuit and cap it up. Kat looks confused and calls, the small blind calls and is all-in.

Flop: JT8r

I bet, Kat folds. I turn over my hand and small blind shows KQ. My hand holds up and the small blind rebuys. Whatever, this isn't an exciting hand and I thought my play was very, very standard.

Kat starts freaking out! She turns to another player and says "CAN YOU BELIEVE HE 4-BET ME WITH ACE JACK! THAT'S RIDICULOUS!" She goes on and on about it to the players at her side of the table for a good orbit or so. 20 minutes later, a new player sits down near her and I see her pointing in my direction. "3-bet..... cap.... Ace-Jack offsuit!" It is clear that my play has completely blown her mind and might be the most maniacal thing she's seen in 25 YEARS AS A POKER PRO OMG WTF.

An hour or so later, a couple of the weaker players have busted and we're playing 5-handed. The button, a young white dude who's a poker/sports betting pro/degen, raises. He seems good and aggressive, which means he has two cards here. Kat is in the small blind and 3-bets it. I am in the big blind. I have King-Queen offsuit. I know the button is full of it, and I know Kat knows the button is full of it. So I cap. The button looks all sheepish and calls. Kat looks at me with alarm/surprise and calls. Three of us.

Flop: A83r

Kat checks, I bet. The button folds. Kat shoots me a strange look; I am doing my best to look as bored as possible. She calls. I put her on a small pair or perhaps even a hand like mine.

Turn: 6

Kat checks again. The pot is big and I would like to win it, so I bet. I have no intention of putting more chips in the pot. She looks at me again, then flashes her cards to the button and mucks. I win the pot and quietly muck my cards as I toss the dealer a blue chip. I'm a little annoyed that the button guy got to see what she folded and I didn't, but I don't want to draw attention to what just happened, so I let it go.

Kat (to the button): Would you have laid that down?
Button (looking at me): I don't like your laydown.
Kat: Well, he might have bluffed me.

30 minutes go by. All of a sudden, Kat yells (yes, yells), "I KNOW YOU BLUFFED ME OUT OF THAT POT!"

Me (trying to look dumb): Huh?
Guy who was on the button: Did you have the ace?
Me (starting to realize the magnitude of what went down): What did you lay down there?
Guy and Kat: Pocket Kings!
Me (making a cringy face): You wouldn't believe what I had.
Kat: I KNEW IT!!!

10 minutes later, I 3-bet preflop with Ace Jack (my favorite new hand, obv) and win a huge pot when I flop a Jack vs the Guy who was on the button's TT and turn trips. As I rake in said pot, the weakest player at the table busts and it's down to me, Guy who was on the button, Kat, and another good player. I decide to be like George Costanza and make a timely exit. As I start to rack up, I see Guy who was on the button and Kat looking as annoyed as I've ever seen two winning players look.

Kat says to the Guy who was on the button, "Don't worry. He'll be back. They always come back."

Well, at least she read me right that time.