Out in 34th. His 77 held against my AK. With the turbo structure, after a while, even big stacks are essentially no more than 20BB or so, and basically any moderately playable hand is getting shoved pre-flop. I still want to win one. Just wasn’t to be, today.
Bummer end to a great start.
I’m on a big losing streak, do not want to detail.
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Good run bro! Those turbos always turn into a shove-fest near the end.
Another nightly $5.50 tournament on ClubWPTGold.
Got an early medium-sized pot, then managed to triple that up with a full house on the river. I was in 1st place for a good while, drifted down, then got ultra short-stacked for a while (like 7 BB).
Doubled up again. Then again. Then again. Had some capacity to actually play poker (small raise, see if anyone shoves, if they do then we fold, if they don’t play post-flop, learn how to fold to a post-flop raise of my stab bet on the turn, etc.)
I think I’m learning how to lay down speculative hands that I really want to be good but I know aren’t. It’s a discipline that I haven’t done well before.
Now sitting in 4th place with 10 to go!
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At the final table (8 hands) my favorite hand was when I had As2s, and on the turn the flush completed. GRIFTHEBOX bet again and I min-raised. River is another A, and he bets once more and I more-than-min raise but don’t put him all-in, thinking if he’s got a smaller flush he’ll go all in anyway. He just called with Qs6s for a smaller flush that knocked him down significantly.
I take that back. Favorite part was when we were at 6 left, I got my son to come watch me and cheer for me. That felt cool to have someone rooting for me, who I could chat about the hand with and review my strategy, even briefly.
Once down to 2 players, I had a 3:1 chip lead, and could therefore pressure him pretty relentlessly.
Let’s goooo!!!
Nice run! Feels good to get to the promised land.
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Finally had a good session.
Resolved: players in 1/2 and 2/3 tables don’t care too much about how much they lose. They don’t care about pot odds.
They want that big win. They probably don’t realize the term is “Implied Odds.”
As such, they are hard to bluff without my first establishing a rock-hard image.
As such, I can only establish that by playing decent hands, raising in position but being able to fold trash without showing it, showing raisable-hand winners, etc.
I’ve already got the old-man image down pat (I don’t even have to try). I stay silent, listening to others explain their choices on their losing hands or winning hands. They essentially tell me whether they are good players or not. I do not correct them when they are wrong. I do not teach them how to be a better player.
Meanwhile, this poker room has Fox News on some of the monitors, spewing hate and misinformation and stupidity to delight their typical viewers. (Also some sports, which I will look at.) Glad the sound is not on.
This room also had, for February, a “Chasing Quads” special. Get quads or better (both hole cards must play), receive X dollars. (X = 150 for tens or below, X=500 for Jacks or above, X = 1000 for straight flush, X = 1500 for Royal). Catch is that only one of each hand wins the X dollars each day. First Quad 6 wins, next one does not. Only 12 hours a day, though. Naturally this keeps a lot of low pairs and suited connectors in a hand at least to the flop.
Place was taking $1 jackpot pre-flop, $5 on the flop flop, plus $1 on the turn, plus $1 on the river.
Nothing of note, since I’m trying, like everyone else, to luck into the winning hand and then maximize the win. OK: on one I was SB with Kh8h. BB bump a limped pot for $20. Four players in already, so I close for $17 more. Flopped the flush, so I check as does everyone else except the button. Button bets $30 or so. So I put him all in. The rest fold. He’s got the Qh-x, the flop is T-high. Nothing on the turn but the Ah hits the river, so he’s all “Alright! Flush!” not realizing that I already had the K-high flush that became the nuts. It took him quite some time to understand.
I didn’t stay too much longer after that, since the 6PM deadline of the “Chasing Quad special” was nearing. And I had to be somewhere.
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nice one!
I have learned this to be true in my local room as well.
@Bro got to play with my crew. They still made more fun of me. Normally the new guy gets hazed. Teh FLICK!
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they must have respected his game immediately
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my crew now, beyotch!
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I need new communities. 
@Bro and everyone else - not sure if you’ve heard or read the TOC, but WPT Gold will send you a 1099-G if withdraw more than $600 per calendar year. They do not calculate the net of your deposits, so if you deposit say $700 and cash out $600, you’re going to have to pay taxes on the $600 even though you’re down.
Not great. As I understand, you can net your losses on your taxes but only in some states and only if you play professionally in other states.
Good to know. I will keep a record of my inputs. I also have receipts from tournaments so should be able to create an appropriate paper trail.
Played for 3 hours at Red Rock yesterday. Small loss. Worst set of cards over a period in a long time. In 3 hours, had A-K once and only a few pairs (none higher than 9’s). Not too much action overall, but couldn’t get into any of the larger pots. No tougher players as 6 of the 8 at a new table staked $300 or less with $500 max. Agree that implied odds are not understood. The biggest loss came on a guy drawing to an inside straight who called a $20 bet into a $40 pot on turn and he bet $25 on river against my 2 pair. He was reckless on other hands, but I never had anything to catch him. An older guy got pissed at me on one hand. I was in BB with 3-8 unsuited. 5 players in for flop and 3-7-J comes out. No betters. 8 comes on turn, I bet $15 and older guy is only caller. Q on river. I bet $25 and he calls. When I show 3-8, he starts railing to the guy next to him. I don’t know what else I was supposed to do. I think he had K-J and decided not to raise pre flop or bet the flop. I was all checks until 2 pair. Likely headed back today.
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Big Blind Special. Raising pre-flop gets that hand out of the way.
Was it just all limping in pre-flop? BB (you) has ATC! Certainly he needs to bet the flop. Might even get you to fold your low pair.
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It was all limping pre flop. I would likely have folded at any time prior to the turn since it’s such a crap hand. I just can’t figure out the whining after. If I was the guy on his left, I may have told him, 'guy was checked in and didn’t bet until 2 pair, you dumb donkey"
Eh. I prefer not to educate other players.
I mean, what did he want you to do, play better? In what way could you have played this hand better? And I mean, not better for him, but better objectively?
Might have been whinging about his bad luck. Then again, he made his own bad luck by not raising preflop (if he had position, not UTG), and/or not betting pot-sized on the flop with top pair second kicker.
Waah. Keep crying.
Poker Stars is trying to release $ from Black Friday waaaaay back when it seems. The Online Poker documentary on Amazon says something about it. I am trying to find an article / news release as well. I don’t think I can remember my log in info to get the $ back personally.