Obedience Training (semi-low content)

[gonores]

So I was all high on life today because the biggest bet I made on the NCAA tourney today was the under in the Indiana/Ucla game, and it capped off a decent day of exploiting poor, innocent amateur athletes by gambling on the outcomes of their contests.

Being in such a great mood, I decide to head on down to the Bellagio and play some 30/60 Texas Hold 'Em Poker, because I happen to fancy myself to be quite the Texas Hold 'Em Poker player. I even own a hat that alludes to this fact.

So I sit down to play with my fellow Hold 'Em (short for Texas Hold 'Em Poker) players. Obviously, since it is a Saturday night and it happens to be St Patrick's Day, and the NCAA Tournament is being broadcast in our local sportsbook, my table is populated not with happy tourists from all parts of the country with new and interesting stories, but with the same grumpy-wumpy faces I have the priviledge of playing with on a near-daily basis.

Now, very recently I made the discovery that betting and raising makes me feel really, really good. So, to start the night, I raise a few hands of varying strength preflop, and I steal the blinds from all the grumpy-wumpys. Disappointed that they have found a way to keep me from betting and raising more than once per hand, I decide to set about making the game a little looser. Over the next two hours, the following hands take place (which may or may not have set a certain image for me):

- A proper calldown with K9 on an AAJ84 board.
- An improper value-bet with 22 on T8765 board
- A called raise on the river with A8 on a 9873T board that was requested to be shown after I was shown that I was drawing dead the whole way
- I raise 5 limpers with 86s from the SB, check a QJJ flop 7 ways, and bet the J turn and show after everyone folds.
- I 3bet 86dd OTB, see a flop 4 ways, bet the Ad85 flop, get 3 callers, bet the Jd turn, get 3 callers, and miss a value bet on the K river and get shown 75o, 44 and 44.

I'm probably only playing 40% of my hands, but I'm incoherently babbling about how great Florida Basketball is any time I'm not in the hand, and basically demanding the spotlight at all times, so people may think I'm playing a little more than that. However, remember these are regulars, and have also played with me when I chose to only play 20% of my hands and act like a good little Vegas Regular (not that I'm like that all time, or even all that often, but it is an alter ego of mine). I'm not really sure if they know what to think right now.

So anyways, there's a real hand in here somewhere...oh yeah.

So there's a limp, and a raise, and a couple callers, and I decide I need to release some endorphins and 3bet Jc8c on the button, and the blinds both call, and everyone calls, and we're 7 ways to the flop. I make a note to myself that this game is almost at the texture I want it, and that I should consider staying a while if it gets any better.

So the flop comes T95 with 1 club. Checked to me, because that is their collective job, and I bet, because that is my job and it feels good. I only get 6 callers. I wonder if they get the same endorphin rush from calling? Must be

The turn is the very uninteresting Ac. I say it is uninteresting because everyone knows what is going to happen now. Everyone checks because that is what you do when you need to frown some more and I bet, and I unfortunately lose one guy, but I still get 5 callers, so I'm doing OK in this hand, as far as my own self-assessment goes.

So the the river is an offsuit ace. That card rules, because it gives me a 5 card hand of a pair of aces with a Jack, Ten and Nine kicker. For those of you who are new to the game, a pair of aces is often considered a strong holding in Texas Hold Em Poker, especially when coupled with a Jack kicker.

So it's checked to me (shocker!). While everyone is busy checking to me, I am deep in thought. I think to myself "Hey man, If betting and raising in amounts of $30 and $60 feels so good, wouldn't it feel better to bet even more? As a matter of fact, I think it just might!" So I reach into my pocket and pull out a $5000 chip, and I rest it above 2 stacks of $10 chips, and say "Make it $5400." I decided to overbet the pot to communicate strength to my opponents. In point of fact, it felt GREAT to bet $5400. Unfortunately, things sort of get hazy for a minute here, but for some reason, they made me take $5340 of my bet back, so I'm left with a bet of ~5% of the pot, or $60. Soon thereafter, I get caught in a hail of flimsy plastic, as hand after hand heads to the muck. It's folded around to the last guy, who, while not familar to me, seems to have this whole grumpy-wumpy act down cold. He thinks for a moment, and keeps looking at the pot, and then at his hand, and then at the pot some more, and then he says "I guess I have to call you." He sprinkles in 6 little orange betting discs.

I proudly table my hand and say JACK HIGH!!!

And he freezes. And looks and his (w)hole cards one more time.

And my hand is ridiculously, ludicrously, so so so good.

[CardSharpCook]

nh, doug.

[DeathDonkey]

Are you off your meds? Be there on Wednesday to assist with your nit bashing.

-DeathDonkey

[Hielko]

Lol, nice hand.

[Mike Gallo]

Doug,

Enjoyable post.

[Josh W]

WTF? When were you there? I was there all day Saturday playing 30-60, then left at 8:00ish after the UCLA game. I swung by the Wynn and ventian, just to see if I could find you (I lost your number, I suck).

Holy biscuits I love that game.

J

[Justin A]

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WTF? When were you there? I was there all day Saturday playing 30-60, then left at 8:00ish after the UCLA game. I swung by the Wynn and ventian, just to see if I could find you (I lost your number, I suck).

Holy biscuits I love that game.

J

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You still around today? I'm gonna be at the bellagio all evening.

[Josh W]

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WTF? When were you there? I was there all day Saturday playing 30-60, then left at 8:00ish after the UCLA game. I swung by the Wynn and ventian, just to see if I could find you (I lost your number, I suck).

Holy biscuits I love that game.

J

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You still around today? I'm gonna be at the bellagio all evening.

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no. drove back at 8am this morning. roommate was tired of vegas. i told him to join a monastery.

(since he agreed to drive out with me at 4am on thursday, i told him he could choose when we leave as long as it was sunday)

some guy named justin kept getting called for 100-200. take it it wasn't you? loser.

J

[Joe Tall]

I think I'll have to sit to your left on Wednesday, nice post.

C U then,
Joe Tall

[surfdoc]

NH Douggie. I miss they days where the writing was the primary objective and the hand was secondary.

The best part of the hand is thinking about what the villian can hold. The board was T95AA so the best he can have is 87. I guess he was hoping you got out of line with 67, 68, 34, or 24. Yeah, that is a lot of combos. I call.