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Tensai176 Canada. Feb 24 2012 18:28. Posts 1018 | | |
Hey guys, I just got back from a trip to Niagara Falls and I decided to play the 1/2 game they have there at the Niagara Casino.
I arrive, I'm a bit tired but nothing a large Tim Horton's coffee couldn't solve. It was a Thursday night so it wasn't too busy, I went there with a friend who doesn't really know anything about poker. I gave her $60 (The min buy-in) to splash around with to have some fun and apply some concepts I kind of nonchalantly been teaching her about.
I sit down at a table and my friend sits at the one next to mine. As I take my seat, I recognize one of the players there: a girl that played at the CNE casino I've been dealing at in the summer. I remember her because she's cute, funny, very friendly and talks a lot.
Oh yeah, she's also a massive, massive whale.
There's five hands until I'm the big blind so I observe the table. A ~30-year old black man in seat 7, from the table-talk, he is very tight and from the way hes putting in bets pf and post, I'm assuming he's nitty-TAG. The white-man to my immediate right has tattoos, and the way the dealer knows his name I assume he's a regular. He's in a hand with an older white man ~40-50, where he gets it all-in on the river and Showdowns the J10 nut straight. The older white man from the way hes looking had a very very badly played Two pair. He re-buys for $260
The white man to my left is around ~20-30 enjoyed talking about poker and he threw around terms like equity, set-mine, and pot odds so I assumed he was a bad-but-thinks-hes-good player.
So I post the big blind. UTG White Poker Player (~$350) limps, and the Friendly Whale (~$170) limps when the Black Man(~$200) raises to 16. It folds to me where I peel an Ad. Then I think about the ranges I'm continuing with hoping for another A, where I peel a Ks.
I wanted to play longer than this for my first real decision since my friend was still splashing around learning and having fun and my stop loss was only at $260 and I didn't have any REAL reads. My initial reads weren't really concrete but I decided to just flat OOP (which is probably a mistake) than the other option of re-raising where I didn't really expect anyone to fold and playing OOP in a large pot. UTG flats and we see a flop of:
Pot (~$55)
10h 9h 5d
I check, Poker-Player checks, Black-man checks to a
Turn:
4d
I check, Poker-Player bets ~$15, Black-man calls,
I fold.
River bricked and they checked down to SD where
Poker-Players shows 22
Black-man shows QJo
Dead-wrong reads... So I think to myself: I play so bad...
Lamenting my play, it goes to the VERY NEXT hand where the Friendly Whale(FW)(~$150) limps, and Black-man raises to $5 this time.
The White-Man-w/ Tattoos (WMT)(~$450) whom I assumed hes a regular from the way the dealer knows his name calls and I peel the Ks. Then peel the Kh.
It's going to be a good trip right? =D.
I make it $26 (probably should have made it larger ~.~) in the sb and the FW calls as well as WMT on the BU. Flop comes:
Pot ($~79)
10d 5h 6d
I c-bet to $55 (should have made this larger as well)I bet $55 in the moment because it was the rest of my one hundred dollar stack.
The Friendly Whale sighs and folds, then the WMT thinks and announces he's all-in.
It's my second hand T_T and I wanted to play longer for other reasons as stated above. So I'm thinking that he's a regular and probably a some-what decent hand-reader who knows what I probably have. I wasn't sure if he could do this with a FD so I thought for about a minute and whispered call. He didn't reveal his hand or anything and the dealer didn't seem to catch it, so I moved my chips to the middle and announced louder my call.
My thought process was that I didn't know how he played and since the pots around ~$300 and I'm risking $100 so I'm getting ~3:1 and in a vacuum against 1/2NL players, I could be against badly played QQ or a FD. I thought 55 and 66 would play it exactly like this and it was my first thought. But I figured there was too much in the pot to fold and I was going to shove any turn anyway so might as well.
Turn came the 4s and the river measured the 5s where he announced two pair. I show my KK and he says that's good. Apparently he had pair + FD.
Feels good bro.
Which comes to the VERY next hand on the BU where I have 66 and limped behind. I was talking about the KK hand where people thought I was going to fold and told them that maybe he had a set and I continued talking where I saw a flop of
Pot (~$12)
Qs 10s 6c
Then continued talking without skipping a beat.
Checks 6-way to me where I bet $10.
Get snapped called by White-Poker-Player (WPP)
then bet $30 to a 7c turn and I get a fold.
It continues, I play tight, get AK two more times, Raise PF this time! And get folds around. Pick up KK (AGAIN) UTG-raise to $11 and get folds. Get AA Raise $15 pf to a limper. Bet flop he folds.
I ran really good but no action unfortunately. I'm just talking, agreeing with people's poker logic, listening to stories, laughing, making sure everyone's having a good time. I somehow got the image of a tight-winning-poker player. I decide I should start stealing more and making more bluffs.
Until we come to this hand.
Kind-of new player sits down, Middle-Aged Lady (MAL) who seems nice, we welcome her to the table and I assume she's a reg as the dealer knows her name. She posts 4 to the bb away so I assume fishy.
She checks her option and flops two pair where she bets it aggressively.
I'm dealt AsQs UTG so I raise to $11 and get called by (MAL)(~250) in the sb and (WMT)(~$85) in the bb.
Flop comes;
(Pot: ~$35)
Ac Jc 5h
(MAL) donks $20 and (WMT) shoves for $75.
Going on my reads, I guess MAL is doing it with ~A5 or ~AJ or ~55 but I wondered if she could be doing it with a smaller Ace as thats what 1/2NL players do. The shove from (WMT) could be an Ace or a J or a FD. Pretty weak and I'm almost certain I beat him. I think for about 10 seconds and fold.
(MAL) calls and showdowns AK and (WMT) had a FD apparently.
Then we come to this hand where I feel like I made a pretty bad mistake.
UTG+1,(MAL)(~$350) limps, I limp on the BU with 4s4d, sb completes and the bb (Tight-Older-Asian-Gentleman)(TOAG)(~$500) decides to raise $15.
(MAL) calls, I call and sb thinks and folds.
Flop:
pot (~$50)
10h 6h 5d
(TOAG) does something strange and he decides to c-bet to $10.
(MAL) calls.
I smell weakness, like (TOAG) has ~AK, AQ because I figured he'd bet bigger for value unless he's looking to c/r, and like I don't really think this particular gentleman would play AA,KK,QQ that tricky on this board. (MAL) I guess maybe picked up on this? Has something like a pair of 6 or a 5, maybe a FD, maybe a SD and maybe a 10.
So I re-raise to $50. Reason: TOAG probably has a weak hand and MAL has something pretty marginal that she might fold. I had a plan to bet a A,K,Q,3, MAYBE 7, and obviously a 4 turn card.
TOAG folds and MAL starts thinking, and looks pretty distressed. So I felt pretty good about it until she asked how much it was and she did that,
"Mehhhh, Ehhhhhh, Okay, I call."
Turn:
6c
Bad bluff card =[. Not folding anything but maybe a draw. But if she's calling with those on the flop I think I have to bet huge on the turn to make draws fold.
She checks.
I check.
River:
6s
Worse River card haha, but Maybe I'm good so I check behind,
and she SD's a Jc10c for 6's full of 10's.
I always pull stupid bluffs to take a chunk of my profits almost every session but w/e, I'm still trying to learn and I did leave with a healthy $200 profit after ~2 hours of playing.
Plus my friend ended up with $85 (She was up ~$130 at one point) which is really really good for her first EVER live poker casino experience and probably her 10th time playing overall.
Anyway thanks for reading =D
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going to play live tonight, should be really weird since i haven't played live since merge reopened
i enjoy your blog a lot though. it's refreshing to see someone playing live and actually thinking, but moreso because it seems like you're just having a blast playing and learning. gl at the tables man |
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| shoving here as a bluff at 50NL is like explaning calcalus to a 6 month old cat wtf are you thinking - TalentedTom | |
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Stroggoz New Zealand. Feb 25 2012 01:33. Posts 5328 | | | |
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| One of 3 non decent human beings on a site of 5 people with between 2-3 decent human beings | |
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Twisted  Netherlands. Feb 25 2012 04:00. Posts 10422 | | |
lol I like these stories but what a massive slowroll with the KK |
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follow up post: some guy gave a big speech after raising pre and betting twice on AKTK4 w AK and check/tank-calling the river after saying how big of a cooler it was that his opponent clearly had aces. when he showed ak everyone at the table was like loooooool what the fuck is wrong with you |
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| shoving here as a bluff at 50NL is like explaning calcalus to a 6 month old cat wtf are you thinking - TalentedTom | |
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Tensai176 Canada. Feb 25 2012 12:21. Posts 1018 | | |
^ I dont think my tank-call was as bad as that one was... |
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rofl absolutely not. hard to get worse than making a scene about calling there |
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| shoving here as a bluff at 50NL is like explaning calcalus to a 6 month old cat wtf are you thinking - TalentedTom | |
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player999 Brasil. Feb 26 2012 19:19. Posts 7978 | | |
| | On February 25 2012 03:36 superfashion wrote:
follow up post: some guy gave a big speech after raising pre and betting twice on AKTK4 w AK and check/tank-calling the river after saying how big of a cooler it was that his opponent clearly had aces. when he showed ak everyone at the table was like loooooool what the fuck is wrong with you |
funniest part is he prob snap calls A2o thinking the guy is bluffing |
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