Just gotta brag a bit. Since covid, I have had a streak of never once leaving the casino I play at stuck. I was stuck $1700 early (in a 1/3 game) tonight, and thought that streak was over.
Who has two thumbs and booked a $200 win tonight?
<< This guy!
Edit: Best hand of the night: Got aipf w/ QQ vs TT vs 2d5d in a $2500 pot. 2d5d scoops of course. That’s how good the games are in Alberta. Clovis is not exaggerating. I’m pretty sure 2d5d guy ratholed a ton of that, but he was sooooo terrible I decided to not make waves and mention it.
Argyll. Can buy in for $1k, and $5 chips are the smallest you can use for any betting, even preflop. Straddles are optionally either 5, 10, 15, or 20, and double straddles are not allowed. It’s just like a perfect fit for my game, and a perfect fit for my BR.
It is believed that the pass was named for Pierre Bostonais (nicknamed *[Tête Jaune] ( French for “yellow head”, because of his blond hair), an Iroquois trapper employed as a guide by the Hudson’s Bay Company
I’ve been thinking about studying PLO hard for a few months just because of that game. Seems like the best action in town, and it’s only 10 mins from my house. Argyll is 40 mins. I’m too much of a PLO fish right now though to even consider it. Maybe I’ll try a switch in a few months if I can hit the books a bit.
No, like I mean I’ve played PLO maybe 50 times total, lifetime. I’ve been 100% a nlhe specialist for 20+ years (approaching a million hands online). Maybe I could keep my head above water just with general poker knowledge, but I like to be a bit better armed than that, especially in such a high variance game.
If you want to do that though, I’d recommend playing normal tables and avoiding zoom. Not that zoom is overly tough, but there is much less limping and normal tables will be more similar to the live experience.
The best advice I can give you is to learn the player pool. Every table will have at least 3 guys who just lose 50-100k+ in that game playing 2-3x a week. Play pots with these people. Be nice to these people. Buy them a drink if you have to.
There’s no real reason to get overly involved vs the good players. You can honestly get near $100/hr just playing vs the whales.
Yeah, that’s my specialty. I’m always an ambassador 1st. Make sure the customers are having fun, and I come down on the killjoys HARD. Always smiling, always joking, getting excited about their hands with them, etc…
Totally agree. I actually think playing online plo may hurt his EV in a game like this. People online play basically correctly (with a huge asterisk of course). In a wild live game like this people are playing way way worse than an average 25c/50c online game.
