I did a bit of digging before I opened my account on Ignition and it seems like there’s no interest in enforcing that law, so I went ahead and became a Class C felon.
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I’m localish in the sense that it’s the closest decent poker room to me and within driving distance.
I’m looking at showing up for their spring series.
I’m unlikely to be there at all during that, but let me know if you have any questions about the room ahead of time.
How weird is it from another player to be super insistent that I tell him my last name?
Bonus info: it was this guy.
- Bankroll management
The rest depends on various factors.
Put me in the right private game and you could Men In Black flashy thing away a lot of my skill and I’d still do well. Some people have average poker still but great game building/getting invited skill. Others suck at that but are so good they beat up on tough lineups.
It’s extremely hard to grind 40+ hour weeks though which is probably necessary for most 4-6bb/hr winners. Just so mentally taxing and stressful.
Grinding poker for months on end is much better when you know that after some rungood you can just pickup and leave the country and go on holiday for months on end
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Bankroll management #1.
Games with players worse then you at poker and lots of money #2.
Keep getting invited back to these games #3.
1 and 3 only matter that much to pros.
99% of poker players have a refillable bankroll called a job. They also play in casinos exclusively where being invited is irrelevant.
I’ve played with him before at Canterbury. Usually a pretty nice guy in my experience. I do recall him being the type to ask where I was from, probably because he didn’t recognize me as a regular. Guessing he wanted to look you up in Hendon mob if he was asking for last name.
Out of curiosity, what game was this in?
HORSE tournament. I busted two from the money. Felt like I mostly played well. I liked how I matched up against the field and I’ve won a few HORSE tournaments in my life, so it was disappointing. I got a bit too sticky on the end in a couple of big pots and I lost some annoying hands to kamikaze short stacks picking a hand and going with it to drop me down from an above average stack to 4-5 big bet range.
I heard Hammers did the same thing to a guy in the 40/80 mix and the player literally told him to go fuck himself.
Here’s a stud high hand I thought was interesting. Weak players will get it wrong.
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brings in. I complete with a 7. Folds to bring-in, who defends. In fourth, villain catches 7 and I catch a 4. I bet, he calls.
Fifth is interesting. I catch a T for a board of 75T (suits don’t matter) and he shows 27T, all diamonds. I bet, he raises, and I decide to 3bet.
One relevant piece of info is that three diamonds were dead on third. And he seemed a bit hesitant to call on earlier streets, so my live read was that he didn’t have a flush yet, probably just a pair and a flush draw.
What sealed it for me was that we both had a 7 and a T showing. He blocks a lot of the two pair hands I can have. And he was an aware and experienced player. Weak players won’t use this info to inform their decisions, but I knew he was smart enough, so I could raise in this spot. Some table talk afterwards confirmed that this was a factor in how he played the hand, so I felt very good that I was reading him on that level.
He seemed taken aback that I would 3bet there and called. Weaker players will either not bet in my spot or just call the raise because they fear the flush.
Of course, it helped that I had TT in the hole to make a very disguised trips.
Anyways, he caught a K on sixth and I caught a 5, giving me position for the last two betting rounds. It went a standard check bet call. He checked dark on the river and I bet after boating up. He made a crying call and I took down a nice pot.
I don’t think I find enough spots like this, so the stud crushers have an edge on me, but hands like this are where I have an edge over much of the field.
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Ugh, I didn’t realize there was a horse tournament in the series. I would’ve loved to play in that!
Which non trips hands have the equity to raise back here? I suspect not many. It was nice to get three bets on third here…but what did he even have to call the end? I think you got a little lucky that villain still went for a fifth street raise despite you betting out, you never have one pair in that spot I’d reckon and are thus insanely strong to lead in.
Smart opponent would see that and not semibluff as much, but would always bet fifth once checked to, letting you get two in.
He later said he put me on a big pair in the hole because he could discount me being rolled up, so he would have made a crying call with two pair in a pot that big. Him pairing two of my upcards really did make a difference to him. I’d also opened with a Q and a J behind me, so he gave me credit for a strong starting hand. I think he might have also called partly because I confused him with my play.
I’d been pretty tight but aggressive when I did play a hand and I could see someone thinking I could be capable of overplaying one pair, maybe aces with the A blocker.
I’ve seen players in this tournament who have put in three bets on fifth with one big pair. Some of them were bad players. Some of them seemed like metagame reg on reg battles where I didn’t have the backstory.
The TD seemed pleased with the turnout. 88 players. He said there would definitely be a HORSE even in the fall classic after they switched it to dealers choice for 2019. I’m really going to make an effort to be there. Maybe I’ll see you.
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My poker room is running $499 high hands every 15 minutes starting 9am Sunday through 3pm Saturday.
No daily tournaments
Going to be a madhouse with tons of passive fish limping all sorts of trash to try to hit the HH. I have 5 sessions and 35 hours of live play in over the last two weeks and only one where they would just let me run them over with chunky raises from CO to BB with anything that flops halfway decent. People play so bad at 1/3 I can’t imagine losing. Example: I 3-bet an EP min raise to $16 and he calls. JJ4r, check-check. Turn A, I bet $30 he calls. River checks down and he has AA. What in god’s name does this guy raise with? Quads plus. Another guy just announces he’s got a big pair and shows me his AA after the flop and I go ahead and lay down second pair mediocre kicker. Might as well convert your roll to $1 bills and burn them if you’re going to do that shit.
This is a useful podcast for anyone thinking about taking a stab at a mixed game tournament this summer.
https://twitter.com/thinkingpoker/status/1516559166063751173?s=20&t=YfTZFMms-EVvPybYhXH-Yg
Gimme some key takeaways to help me decide if I want to spend the time on this?
There’s some stuff I’d already figured out like not pushing small edges that you would in a cash game or playing tight starting requirements in triple draw because that’s a game where it’s costly to chase. The thing that sticks out to me as something new I learned is the claim that ICM pressure isn’t huge unless there’s a chance you can go broke in the hand. Some pimping of an 8-game boot camp if that’s a product you might be interested in. Some life details for a queer anti-capitalist filmmaker.
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