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1/3, sitting with $500. Just sat down and only player we know is a decent aggro player two seats to our right. We get dealt our quadmuck hand, pocket nines, black. Player raises to $10, two people call as do we and one other.

Flop is 567 two hearts, and it is checked to us in late position.

About $45 in the pot.

Your move?
 
stevek
1/3, sitting with $500. Just sat down and only player we know is a decent aggro player two seats to our right. We get dealt our quadmuck hand, pocket nines, black. Player raises to $10, two people call as do we and one other.

Flop is 567 two hearts, and it is checked to us in late position.

About $45 in the pot.

Your move?
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Ask the cocktail waitress for a drink and ask the dealer if I should split the 9s or hold on a hard 18
 
Worst session in a long time. Lost a ton to this Asian guy. He goes all in on the turn on a draw, I call him down with my KK and he catches on the river. Then with AQ suited I flop top two on 10QA two suited board board and put him on KA suited or just chasing based on his prior play and nope, he flopped the nuts (kj). Dude gave me every disguise in the world to pretend he was chasing. Sharp. He flops a set of jacks on my pocket aces. Set of tens no good on another hand. Nothing but shit.

Feeling disgusted and the thread goes into the red for the first time.

7.5 hours
-$955

Up to date:

58.75 hours
-$486
-$8.27/hr

:surrender:

On the plus side of things I did make friends with the very attractive blonde that plays there. That makes it all better.

Not.

She's pretty cool though (I have no shot).
 
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Worst session in a long time. Lost a ton to this Asian guy. He goes all in on the turn on a draw, I call him down with my KK (it was only $70 with all unders on the board, had to) and he catches on the river. Then with AQ suited I flop top two on 10QA two suited board board and put him on KA suited or just chasing based on his prior play and nope, he flopped the nuts (kj). Dude gave me every disguise in the world to pretend he was chasing. Sharp. He overplayed it and I should've read it as a Hollywood. Instead I fell for it. He flops a set of jacks on my aces. Set of tens no good on a other hand. Nothing but shit.

Feeling disgusted and the thread goes into the red for the first time.

7.5 hours
-$955

Up to date:

58.75 hours
-$486
-$8.27/hr

:surrender:

On the plus side of things I did make friends with the very attractive blonde that plays there. She's pretty cool, is a decent player and I have no shot.
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Give me two months of volleyball workouts.

I did not tell her the quad mucking story.

Will Steves move next to the casino only to drop poker?
 
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Sorry for the tough day Stevey.

I wonder if you should consider short-stacking?

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Forces you to tighten up your range preflop, makes postflop decisions much easier, makes you much harder to bluff. Seems like it might suit your style since you seem worried about playing big pots without premium holdings.
 
I've never been a believer in playing shortstacked with how disciplined I am especially preflop. If anything I am very particular about always having at least the max at the table. If anything shortstacks annoy me, but I do respect the theory.

I appreciate the article and the heads up as usual man.
 
+$417 in 9.5 hours today. A decent win but a little disgusting since we were up as much as $1,263. Run bad and one major mistake cost us.

It should've been +$797 and here's why.

We have pocket aces in late position and a pretty good tight aggressive opponent makes it $15. I had noticed he was doing this on prior hands with suited connectors. One caller before me, and I make it $65. Both players call (no one else).

The flop comes Q88 rainbow and first to act, I make it $100. The original raiser casually bumps it up to $200 and the other guy folds.

The turn is a brick, I check, he shoves in his remaining $280 and I snap call. He has 78 suited and he wins the pot.

Now, to me, this is brain dead poker because I knew he was good and either had QQ or an 8. I gifted him $380.


Now if we take a look at recent weeks, I have been doing brain dead shit when significant money is on the line and I have big hands, be it the set of jacks that were obviously flushed out on a few weeks ago (estimated at a $600 fuck up), the mucked quads (estimated at $2,500), and this $380 stupid moment.

That is $3,480 that I SHOULD have without these brain dead moments, and think of how much I'd be up the past couple months, only playing weekends, without these blunders.

In an effort to minimize these unacceptable mistakes and hold myself accountable I will be tracking them and explaining them from here on out. When I used to play full time I used to keep track of any little of what I considered a mistake, and what my hourly wage would be without those mistakes, but I won't go into all that here. I'll just keep track of them, moving on from the set of jacks and the mucked quads (for the sake of my sanity). We start with the $380 obviously defeated aces blunder from tonight

A win is a win I guess, about as disgusting as winning $417 can be imo.

Regardless, it sure beats a loss.

We qualified for a free roll tomorrow for top 100 in hours and the top prize is $10k, so let's see what we can do in that. Nice promo.

Up to date:

68.25 hours
-$69
-$1.01/hr
$380 in mistakes

Hope everyone's doing well.
 
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A couple interesting spots from tonight.

Here's the first one.

We're sitting about $1k and a good aggro player sitting with about $700 that we've played with a few times makes it $35. We call with 99, as does one other player (who has about $500) we have limited information on. The flop comes KJ9 and we're first to act.

Your move?
 
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Second spot.

We have about $1k. The good player that loves his suited connectors (holding about $600) makes it $15. The good aggro player referenced in the prior hand that we've played before (sitting with about $700) calls, as do we with red JJ.

the flop comes AJ7 with two spades. The original raiser checks, the good aggro player makes it $55.

Your move?
 
Sorry Stevey but neither of these is all that interesting :laugh:

Scenario 1 is a check 100% of the time with 100% of your range. No reason to have any lead-outs here since you weren't the preflop aggressor. Raise if someone bets.

Scenario 2 is a clear raise. Decent chance one of them has an ace. Also both can have lots of drawing hands that want to continue. And we want to build a pot.

Seems pretty standard?
 
Vegas Dave
Sorry Stevey but neither of these is all that interesting :laugh:

Scenario 1 is a check 100% of the time with 100% of your range. No reason to have any lead-outs here since you weren't the preflop aggressor. Raise if someone bets.

Scenario 2 is a clear raise. Decent chance one of them has an ace. Also both can have lots of drawing hands that want to continue. And we want to build a pot.

Seems pretty standard?
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Agreed and that's what I did on both.

1) He checks too, turn is a 10, he raises $125 and we fold.

2) I raise to $155 and he says "I don't normally fold this but here to you I do" and shows me J7.

Both spots annoyed me because I didn't get paid on my sets but what can you do. Only thing I can think of is maybe a min raise in spot 2, I'd predict the same result though.
 
Dingo
I would of played those scenarios completely different

1) I would have bet,any player holding a Q or ten is looking for a cheap card.

2) Would of check/raise
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1) All those hands are betting though. The worst unpaired Q and 10 hands they can have is AQ or A10, which are both happy to continuation bet this flop with Broadway equity. As are all of their KQ K10 Q9 109 type combo draw hands.

And what hands would you be bluffing with here? You make it too obvious you smashed flop by leading out.

2) Checking isn't an option, a bet has already been made. So we are raising, yeah.
 
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