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k2o4 United States. Jul 25 2009 12:49. Posts 4803 | | |
Went up to the local casino cause they've started doing .50/1 and 1/2 spread games with a max bet of $100. Before they only had fixed limit so this is a definite improvement, and for those blinds it's pretty close to playing NLHE. Once you get deep it sucks but overall it's playable. Big thing is I have to figure out what the rake is.
Anyway, got up there at about noon planning to play the cash games but a NLHE Tournament had just started and everyone at the cash games had joined the tourney. There were 5 tables with I think 7k starting stacks and 50/100 starting blinds, 15 minute levels and a $70 buyin. Top 5 places paid. I bought in figuring I might as well do this for a bit and if I bust out there will be cash games to play in at that point.
When I visited this same casino about a month ago the only NL they had was these tournaments so I'd played one. That one had 3 tables and a smaller buyin, and despite being a live fish at the time and a mediocre tournie player, I made the final table though I was knocked out in like 9th.
Yesterday I did much better because of the Vegas experience. I still made some stupid live mistakes like putting 1 big chip out when I intended it to be raise but not saying "Raise" so they considered it a call, and one time I totally miscalculated someones stack size and thought he had half my stack when he had me almost covered. But overall I was comfortable, calm, and able to pick up a lot of useful tells which allowed me to make much better decisions.
Made it to the final table with 3 M and 3 other shortstacks in the 5 M area. Made some good shoves and stole blinds up to about 6 M and held on as the 2 of the other shorties busted. A few guys got into it with eachother in 1 massive pot and 2 more busted and we were on the bubble. One of the original shorties, who was a reg that had been on the same table with me the entire tournament, got it in with me when I had him covered and I sucked out with 55 vs TT by hitting a 5 on the turn. Got into the money and was super happy. Kept playing well and once we got to the top 4 I was 2nd in chips and not far behind 1st. Kept grinding it out and took out a guy and was 1st in chips with 3 left, and 2nd in chips was about even with me so the 3rd guy was on a mega short stack. I kinda figured in my head that I had at least second and should get first cause the 2nd place in chips was a nitty guy who I was much better than. I kept running em over for about 1 level and then I fucked up bad.
I opened J5s in SB v BB when 2nd in chips was the BB. He called. Flop came QJ3 and I checked, he snap jammed, and I snap called. This is the mistake I mentioned in the beginning of the blog where I thought he only had half my stack at the most. I dunno why I thought that and why I didn't bother to ask how much he had. It was an overall total donk call and horribly played by me. I didn't even have a read that he was bluffing. I dunno wtf went wrong in my head at that moment, I just lost my discipline and basic thinking process.
He had QJ and I binked a 5 on the turn but river bricked so FML I'm down to like 3 M again. I jammed a bit but the fucking shorty called pretty soon and held with QJ vs 69s and I was out in 3rd for $480.
Very tilting not to take 1st when I definitely could and should have, but happy to have cashed in the tourney this time. 2 live tournaments at casinos in my life and 2 final tables, lolz. Small fields though and idiotic players, so that makes it easier.
After I busted I jumped onto the .50/1 table but then realized it was time for me to leave and start driving home. So I played my big blind intending to leave after that hand. I got Ts8s and there were 2 limpes, the SB completed, I checked. Flop came KsJs9h. I bet out about pot and the first limper raised it about 2.5x. The second limper thought for a while and called and the SB folded. I jammed figuring I need to maximize fold equity vs these fish and if they do call I'm still nearly always ahead or at worst flipping. The first limper snap calls, 2nd limper folds and the turn brings a Q. Ship it. I rack my chips right away and cash out and head home for a $500 profit on the casino visit. Best 1 hand session of poker I ever had, lolz
I find that I enjoy live poker a LOT more than online. The great thing about online is you learn so much more about how to play and get so much more practice. It sets you up to have a huge edge in live poker because the players all suck and even the regs suck. The regs I saw there were all like NL25 level regs. Add in live tells and the edge I have when playing these low stakes live games is HUGE compared to the same levels online. I can make much bigger folds than I would online for 2 reasons - 1) the players are too dumb to get me into really tough spots and 2) a lot of times they give their hands away via tells so a spot where they're bluffing 80% and have the nuts %20 and you'd have to call online, you can fold live cause you know you're facing that %20 of nuts.
I definitely wanna keep grinding live and badly want to get good at tells. That's what I'm lacking right now but even with the little bet of knowledge I have I'm getting a big advantage. I can't imagine how easy it would be if I was a top notch tell reader.
So that puts me up to 1.6k profit so far since I've started my live run and a 1k BR since I put $600 into the bank after vegas to cover the expenses from the trip + pay some other bills. I hope I can keep building that up!
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Naib Hungary. Jul 25 2009 13:21. Posts 968 | | |
Lolol @ 1 hand session, nice hit! |
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egood United States. Jul 25 2009 15:05. Posts 1883 | | |
I have to say that I also find live poker pretty enjoyable. It can be slow and tedious, especially when you're card dead, but I love chatting it up with the other live donks, and the games are ridiculously soft. |
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harryhood United States. Jul 25 2009 15:36. Posts 155 | | |
| | On July 25 2009 11:49 k2o4 wrote:
Yesterday I did much better because of the Vegas experience. I still made some stupid live mistakes like putting 1 big chip out when I intended it to be raise but not saying "Raise" so they considered it a call
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This is funny to do on purpose sometimes. people are like OOOH HE MUST HAVE A BIG HAND |
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nolan Ireland. Jul 25 2009 16:19. Posts 6205 | | | |
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k2o4 United States. Jul 25 2009 16:50. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On July 25 2009 15:19 nolan wrote:
live tells arent real |
you're just not looking in the right places |
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Bigbobm United States. Jul 25 2009 17:07. Posts 5512 | | |
snap call in the heat of the moment
nice score though |
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k2o4 United States. Jul 25 2009 20:35. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On July 25 2009 16:07 Bigbobm wrote:
snap call in the heat of the moment
nice score though |
rofl yeah, that's a good way to put it. |
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TheTank United States. Jul 25 2009 20:40. Posts 830 | | |
rofl i did that in vegas... a dude put in 150 and i wanted to make it 500 so i put in a 500 chip and i obv could have just put in a 100 and a 50, and the guy said "he didn't say raise" and i was thinking "i don't have to, i put the money across the line..." and then literally 3 people backed me up and said "yeah i heard him" and i was like wtf is going on, i never said anything... lol it was crazzzy |
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k2o4 United States. Jul 25 2009 20:56. Posts 4803 | | |
| | On July 25 2009 19:40 TheTank wrote:
rofl i did that in vegas... a dude put in 150 and i wanted to make it 500 so i put in a 500 chip and i obv could have just put in a 100 and a 50, and the guy said "he didn't say raise" and i was thinking "i don't have to, i put the money across the line..." and then literally 3 people backed me up and said "yeah i heard him" and i was like wtf is going on, i never said anything... lol it was crazzzy |
weirdd
Yeah I make that mistake so often. I figure putting the big chip shows I want to raise, or they should at least ask me to clarify. I don't like saying raise or call anyway, I like to be quiet while involved in a hand, so it definitely throws me off. And the annoying thing was that the bet was like $150 and I had lots of $25's and lots of $100's so why the hell would I put a 1k chip if I wasn't raising? It was so obvious to me that it was a raise but I got screwed. Then like 4 people called behind and I had like JTs and was trying to isolate in position. |
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zaragyemo United States. Jul 25 2009 22:03. Posts 135 | | |
| | On July 25 2009 19:56 k2o4 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 25 2009 19:40 TheTank wrote:
rofl i did that in vegas... a dude put in 150 and i wanted to make it 500 so i put in a 500 chip and i obv could have just put in a 100 and a 50, and the guy said "he didn't say raise" and i was thinking "i don't have to, i put the money across the line..." and then literally 3 people backed me up and said "yeah i heard him" and i was like wtf is going on, i never said anything... lol it was crazzzy |
weirdd
Yeah I make that mistake so often. I figure putting the big chip shows I want to raise, or they should at least ask me to clarify. I don't like saying raise or call anyway, I like to be quiet while involved in a hand, so it definitely throws me off. And the annoying thing was that the bet was like $150 and I had lots of $25's and lots of $100's so why the hell would I put a 1k chip if I wasn't raising? It was so obvious to me that it was a raise but I got screwed. Then like 4 people called behind and I had like JTs and was trying to isolate in position.
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Highcard Canada. Jul 26 2009 04:33. Posts 5428 | | |
| | On July 25 2009 19:56 k2o4 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 25 2009 19:40 TheTank wrote:
rofl i did that in vegas... a dude put in 150 and i wanted to make it 500 so i put in a 500 chip and i obv could have just put in a 100 and a 50, and the guy said "he didn't say raise" and i was thinking "i don't have to, i put the money across the line..." and then literally 3 people backed me up and said "yeah i heard him" and i was like wtf is going on, i never said anything... lol it was crazzzy |
weirdd
Yeah I make that mistake so often. I figure putting the big chip shows I want to raise, or they should at least ask me to clarify. I don't like saying raise or call anyway, I like to be quiet while involved in a hand, so it definitely throws me off. And the annoying thing was that the bet was like $150 and I had lots of $25's and lots of $100's so why the hell would I put a 1k chip if I wasn't raising? It was so obvious to me that it was a raise but I got screwed. Then like 4 people called behind and I had like JTs and was trying to isolate in position.
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nice score on that, always nice to have fun regardless of the results. Although that J10s seems pretty fine to me, having that many fishy callers it is hard to say that was unideal |
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