It’s been standard here for like 10 years.
Does action begin in the SB or UTG in your room?
This may be true for NL but not PLO.
Yeah put me in the button straddling is bad for the game camp
Stopped by the Horseshoe in Indy tonight, wasn’t particularly impressed. Just one 2/5 NL game on a Wed, and the list hardly moved. Had to play 1/3 for 2 hours before I was called. The room itself is nice, well lit, comfy seats, although it was freezing! Food wasn’t really good value at the cafe, $9 pre-made salad and $6 hotdog with no condiments besides ketchup/mustard. The 1/3 action was boring limpfest until drunk guy sat down and ran $300 to $1000+ to zero in short order. I finished down a few hundred and then they make you cash out at the main cashier which had a pretty long line, weak.
I’m sure it’s nice for Indy residents, and obviously you can’t expect too much on a Wed night, but I had higher expectations!
I normally avoid NL tournaments but might try a few more this summer.
In looking back, I’m probably most aggressive when I have a medium stack near the bubble that might be just big enough to fold into the money and just small enough for a big stack to want to gamble in an attempt to bust me without taking a big hit to their stack.
How much EV am I lighting on fire by being allergic to min-cashing?
A lot, you literally described the exact situation where you should nit up and get ITM.
This is why I hate NL tournaments. I seem to play the right way for mixed games, but I just don’t enjoy nitting it up on the bubble in hold em. I know that GTO has non-all-in preflop raises for 10-15bb stacks, but I really haven’t studied what those are.
I probably also hate min cashing because of Allen Kessler.
Is this the livesteam thrad
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I don’t have the balls to play it in PLO, but I think four tens in your hand and blocking so many straights is better than four aces and blocking all the nut flushes as the ultimate bluffing hand.
Anyways…
https://twitter.com/padspoker/status/1527127795729502209?s=20&t=8yuk8fsBbC4x2XJe3nEJxA
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Live 2/5. 500 effective on the turn.
Hero raises UTG to 15 with A 
K . Four callers. There’s no opening size that makes heads-up more likely because a fun player is the first caller and once he calls, others become more inclined to call.
Flop is K 
T 
7 . SB donks for 15. Hero calls. Button calls.
Turn is 2: 
. SB bets 20. Hero raises to 145. Button folds. SB calls.
River is A . SB checks. Hero…
I’ve been thinking about player profiles I can value bet against here…mainly if a player donks the flop with a draw, how likely are they to donk the river when they hit.
Why aren’t we raising the flop bigly here? Seems like letting a ton of people behind you draw with a million to one odds is abysmally bad. I’d probably make the turn raise a bit bigger too honestly but it’s w/e. River idk, the two most obvious draws get there and he sure played the previous streets like he had one so I don’t hate checking back here. If he’s just some shitty pay-off wizard then go to town but otherwise I think checking is fine.
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Nitty play in multi-way pots is often correct.
I didn’t want to raise-fold, which is what the correct play is against this particular player pool if I raise flop. I also though SB would bet the turn if no one raised him. I thought he had a bet-sizing tell where if he bet small again, that means he was scared and I should raise while if he bet big on the turn, I could probably fold. (This is a read based on having played against him many sessions and not something I would do against some random.)
I don’t like raising because we’re in bad position and I don’t like how I see the hand playing out if I get at least one caller. I think some people play poker with too much fear of draws. They see the game as one where the made hand is supposed to make the draw fold before it gets there.
Just use this as a template for all future posts.
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Wsop circuit in town.
It’s 5:50 pm and the 5/5 PLO game is mandatory double straddle already.
This is going to be a very good week!!!
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2/5 live
Fun table. I limp in MP with K 8 because table talk made this a spot to play a wider range.
Flop is A 7 5 I bet 20 into 30. Player to my left makes it 75. Folded to me and I call. Some people like to just jam it in with maximum equity in the flop. I sometimes like to wait until the turn to maximize fold equity using the additional data of how they react to my call and how they act on the turn to decide.
Turn is an offsuit 9. I have a blocker to the nuts. I check. Villain bets 125. I am sure he doesn’t have a straight. I jam for around 440.
Made $800 before heading to hockey game. Feels like a lose in that game. Lol
Man this is going to be a fun week.
absolutely hate it.
hate pre
hate floating oop
hate trying to get someone to fold their limp flop, raise flop, bet turn range
fold pre
maybe call flop, this is the only one that’s close. likely fold
flat turn
What do you think his range is?