I back to back days, I was playing well and up at Red Rock at 1/2. Was up about $450 with jacks. Raised pre-flop, hit J. There were 2 flush cards. I bet pot on flop, he calls. Nothing on turn. He bets $60, I raise to $120, he goes all in for $375, I call. I show my trips. He is on a flush draw with Q6. Hits river. I had nearly identical thing next day. Lost an all in to a flush chaser who went all on for huge hands without top 2 cards when I had trips. Also lost to a straight chaser with 4 outs with 2 pair including top pair. I was playing tight and got hammered on odds in 3 huge hands in 2 days. Those 3 hands cost me over a grand, and otherwise up a few hun. Needed to take a couple days off.
On the flip side, one way I was able to make some back was a guy that kept pulling chips and betting in stacks of $15 (either 3-4) and dropping one on top when he bluffed and betting stacks of $20 when he made a hand. There was another guy that I think picked up on it and took a bunch off the guy as well. He was a regular there by his talk, although I hadn’t seen him who dropped about $800 in an hour.
Ran into a tricky player. I turned a flush on a paired board, a 4c, only to have her check-raise the turn. Then she checks the river after a third queen. So i checked back. She tables pocket 4s for a super boat.
Loved the rake structure. $1 for a $10 pot, $2 for $30, etc., up to $5 for $120.
The thing I like about poker is that it’s the one game where players can win consistently because you’re playing against other players instead of the house. Maybe when I retire I’ll get into it.
playing a tournament today. bubble hand, I was 2nd and all in w 3rd (top 2 win $) w 3 people left. I was ahead on the all in pre. on the flop. on the turn. guy hit a 2 outer for a straight and the win on the river. : (
eventually I busted out of the money. was fun to play live at least
Played at the local casino the other day for the first time in what feels like ages.
Sat at 1/3 with $250 and lost a little early when I 3-bet to $50 with pocket 10s in the SB. Continued on a J-high flop. Turn was a Q giving me 4 to a flush, I checked and guy stacked it. I folded. He later said he had 9-J with the 9 of clubs, not sure I believe him. Later I picked off a few smaller stacks with AK > QT (no one improved), then raise shoved with A-7 suited when I turned two pair (he called with AK and didn’t improve on the river). Won a couple other pots with QQ and KK when I 3-bet an no one called.
Was up to about $600 and went to 1-2 PLO to try my luck there (only sat with about $350). Didn’t win a single pot for about 2 hours and dwindled to about $125. Finally chopped one with a straight to get back a bit then won a couple without showdown. Probably should stuck with the luckier 1/3 table but ended the day up $190, not too shabby for a few hours of enjoyment.
Went to Commerce last night. Taking $7 per hand, $2 preflop! Only $1 for the jackpot.
So, game is very different from Vegas.
Was down $300 but picked up KK, and doubled and a half up. Next hand i got AA, got one taker, bet $40, he calls again. Turn was bricky so put him all-in, and he thought about it but folded.
Then a fight broke out at another table and that was my cue to leave. Apparently this is a frequent thing at Commerce.
Ended up +$138 for the session.
Kicking myself hindsight a few times with my spec hands that I folded to aggression, but just waited it out.
Playing 3/5 with a max $200 buy-in. A lot more luck required. Another playing strategy factor.
Ok, back from The Bike, up 180.
Lost my first $200 in an 12-out draw.
Put in another 2, lost some that, so last 100 for the night. Hit an inside straight on the turn for about $150. Took another 100 from someone bullying with some pocket pair vs my paired Ax.
Lost a bit to a made straight on the river vs my KK.
Folded a big bet to my raise of AJ. He had AK and position to my immediate left and no other players.
Can bluff one player, but any more and it’s ATC, and you have to figure out who hit. Cuz someone did.
Went to The Bike again last night. Dropped $500 dicking around. They are taking $8 as well from a $2/3 table. Lots of chopping pre-flop, and I’m OK with that. They run a “Progressive Flop Bet” that is separate from the poker. For a dollar you get all kinds of shitty odds. Flush on Flop only – three cards of the same suit – returns $5. A Straight is $10. The progressive jackpot pays out if the whole board is a Royal Flush. So, a stupid bet and a good way to pick out the suckers/gamblers, of which there are a lot. Turning that on its head, I find it can be advantageous to give opponents the impression that you are a gambler.
Turned it around by hitting trip 6’s with, 67s after a call of $75 after my $15 raise under-the-gun pre-flop. So, $225 in the pot with the guy on my left also calling. 66K on the flop, I check, left of me check, the preflop reraiser goes all-in, has me covered but I call, and the guy to my left has me covered and also called. They each had a K, so I had to sweat the case King, and it didn’t show. So, triple-up of $250 or so to $750.
I won some other hands, but there are always enough players in the pot that if you don’t hit, someone else hit.
I left after someone with pocket aces had to fold to aggression after KKx hit the flop. They both also had Ky and Kz and split the pot. So, of course this guy has to start muttering that these guys are long-run losers anyway, and all that. I’d rather opponents not tell the other opponents to play better. It’s easier when they play like shit and win occasionally only to lose it all. But it was late anyway and I was ahead and I had to get up in the morning.
Had LAX pickup duty today, so I went early and hit up Hollywood Park. Lost $10 right off to the parking, because SoFi has the Motorcycles and/or Monster Trucks tonight.
Ended +$1200, getting lucky a lot, playing the implied odds for others’ stacks.
Was on a $3/$5 table. Lost my first $200 on two hands that were pretty weak. No bluffing at this place (they weren’t bluffs, at least a pair). Someone calls a large raise and two others will inevitably follow, so I did the same. Hit flushes, boats, straights for two hours. The player who took my first $200 was just a wild player – any two face cards, raise to $25. At one point he showed two KK in a row, then another two later on. I was playing basic pairs, suited connectors, suited As down to 8, but hardly anything else. Folded a JQo to a high raise and a few tilted players to my left to play. Sure enough they reraise. AKT on the flop. Probably another $500 to rake there. He was pretty far up when I got there, bullying and getting lucky. He was down to about $300 when I left, with a lot of his money.
There was a tournament going on when I arrived, but the blinds were at 3K/6K. I think a lot of the players at my table were aggressive tourney players, thinking that most will wilt to large raises with post-flop aggression. And they do, and there were a few those types at the tables.
I don’t think I can get that lucky for a whole 6-10 hours of tournament, especially against seasoned tourney players. Was there about two hours.
Bump, for local action.
Losing like crap for an hour or so, brought $500 and I had no more in my pocket, but $200 in chips in front of me. Saw 96s in the small blind. limped around to me, so I complete for $1 (2/3 table). BB raises it $20 more. Four callers before me, so I gotta call. Bingo! 96x on the flop. I check. BB continuates for $30. Two callers, so I raise all-in for another $150. I get one caller, thinks I’m “buying it,” as he had a 9 as well, but he got no help. Got myself back up to $538 and had to leave. So, +$38 profit.
Played for the first time since (checks thread) April 3rd.
Signed up for 1/3, 1/2 PLO, and 2/5 (which was my desired game for the day) since the wait lists tend to be long. I sat at 1/3 first for only about 10 minutes, and lost about 50 on a couple of hands where I didn’t connect, and another where my 99 got 3 bet large and I folded.
Moved to 1/2 PLO and sat down with 300. I waited for seemingly hours for a decent hand, and finally managed to get it in preflop with AAQ9 double suited. The board ran out K-J-x-x-x so I knew I was cooked, and villain flipped over KK.
I was about to leave when I heard my name for 2-5. Let’s go I guess. I sat down with 300, which was less than the 100 BB I wanted, but whatever. First big hand was KK, which I raised and saw a 4 way flop of J-T-x. I bet and got called by one player, and a Q hit the turn. He bet and I shoved, and another Q hit the river, saving me as I was up against JT.
I had a few other decent hands where I had two pair and got value bets in. I ended up leaving with 820, so up about 170 on the day after being stuck 350. Not too shabby.
Wildest part of the day was a guy at my 2-5 table who was running hot as the sun. Dude hit a straight EVERY HAND that had a possible straight. Probably 10-12 times in the 2 hours I sat there. Calling every bet with any two and hitting it every time. Never seen anything like it. (One hand was against me, I had 65 and flop was 10-6-4. Guy calls a decent sized bet on the flop and 5 hits the turn. He has 23 and 3 bets me, I luckily folded.)
Bump for LAX pickup. I like to start my drive to LAX early so I get there on time. Also, can play some poker.
Show up, on the wait list 10 deep. Eventually they start a new table. I tell my relative to text me when they arrive. 20 minites later, they say they have landed! Fortunately it was international, so I eventually pick them up an hour later.
But before that, first hand, I have A9. I’m late position, so I raise to $15 (3/5 blinds). I get two callers. No A no 9 on board. I continue. Guy who I just watched get busted out of the tournament goes all-in for $85 more. I call, figure he’s tilting, he has K high and gets no help, and voila I’m up $100+.
I win a few more hands, one a made inside straight draw on the river for implied odds, lost some smaller amounts, and end up +$162 before I leave. Still waited 20 minutes in the Cell Phone lot.
Hit a spot on the way to Santa Barbara. Negative $27. Stuck on a 1/2 table, got nothing of interest.
Moved to a 2/3 table which required a little more poker skill. Felted a player who filled lower straight to my nut.