Poker is dead.
Last night in my 1/2/5 plo game it’s on the river and the tightest guy at the table obviously value bets $100 into like $900 on flush board so of course a player decides to snap pot a 10 high flush and tight guy turns up nuts of course.
I have a pot where it comes 633. Villain one bets, villain two raises, I call, villain one raises villain 2 goes all in. I go all in and villain one calls.
I show 66 obviously
Villain 1 shows a 3
Villain two show naked 45
The biggest pot of the night is about 4K Three clubs on turn.
Player one pots allin, player two pots allin, I go allin and player 4 announces fuck it let’s gamble and goes all in.
River pairs board.
Player ones shows two pair wrong card paired.
Player two shows Q high flush
I of course had nut flush on turn
Player four made boat with the other two pair and ships 4k
I legitimately smile and congratulate him and think “man I’m so lucky to be in this game”!
Ok I can’t decide what to make of this. My casino is offering a new Holdem cash game variation called die on the river. It plays out like normal Holdem but after all betting on the river dealer roles a 6 sided dice and if a 1 rolls the first card on board is replaced, 2 the second and so on. A 6 results in no change. Pot is then awarded to the winner based on new board.
My first thoughts are it should be rolled before last betting round otherwise it’s just introducing pure variance and zero skill.
More variance is better.
lol wtf that sound extremely slow
5-5-(10) PLO
UTG ($6k) is an older, balding Palestinian guy who drinks heavily, gambles it up and tips extremely generously so he can sexually harass every attractive woman in his vicinity and brag about how much money he has. It’s been a couple hours since drinks were pulled and he’s sobered up a bit.
CO ($800) is a quiet bearded white guy in a hoodie.
It’s a 7 way limped pot and I have KhJh56 in the SB with about $3500
Flop 2h 3s 4h (Pot 70)
Checked to UTG who bets 50, CO raises to 125, I call, BB calls, UTG pots to ~700, CO shoves for 800, I rip it, BB folds, UTG calls
UTG has A567hhh and is freerolling the fuck out of me, CO has bare 56. We run it once and the board bricks out so we chop 3 ways.
Are they building a casino with a poker room in Indy?
Caesars bought the old Indiana Grand casino. They are currently building a 5000 square feet WSOP branded poker room. Should be open this winter.
Where exactly is it?
Edit: Looks like Shelbyville?
Isn’t that the former Indiana Live where they had the poker e-tables classified as slots so they had to issue a W2G if you won a pot $1200 or larger?
Probably. It was before my time here though I assume. I’ve never actually set for in it since there was no poker.
I’ve never set foot in it either, but driven by many times.
I’m very curious how the games will be. It will be the only poker room with 2 hours which would be Cincinnati. It would be better if it were close to downtown for all the conventions we have. 20 tables is nice. Hopefully there is a good spread of games.
Yeah it seems like just pure added variance which in theory would be bad, but just like PLO games like this should attract more splashy players so your overall winrate will probably be higher. Just lol swings.
Feels like straights go way down in value, flushes go down a little and sets gp way up.
So this game is pretty pretty nitty, but deep 2/5, a good amount of aggression will usually take down most pots, I have 9h 10h. Early position makes it 25, one call, I call. A 10 7 flop, one heart. Early position nit makes it 50, I make it 150 setting up a bluff bc he’s never calling 3 streets with AK. Turn 10. Ok nice, I bet 300. Call. River 6, I bet 650, he tanks, tanks, finally calls with 77. Am i wrong for calling this a nit-roll?
How else is early position nit suppose to roll?
To counter the bad beat story, I got to the card room very late on Saturday which is pretty high variance. Sometimes you get on a table with stuck tilted players and sometimes you lose buy-in or two and watch everyone rack up on all tables. That was the case for me. Ended up down 1.5k and on the last remaining loose-passive table with shallow stacks.
At 7 am the card room has a promo where they add 50 bucks to a pot in one active table (yay).
The floor manager comes, put 10 red chips in the middle. Everyone limps. I’m in the bb and have aces, why not. I make it $65 for your standard 22x raise. Get 4 callers. Flop 662. I jam (i cover everyone and the largest other stack was like 400). Get 3 callers, hold, table breaks.
I still ended down 500 but that was pretty much the best case scenario for the night.
That’s most definitely a nitroll, but also aren’t you effectively turning your T into a bluff here? If you say he never calls 3 streets with AK what are you trying to get value from?
Yea, true, but I felt like I couldn’t check river, so nitty
