Live Brag

Reel Deal · #1 10-06-07, 04:27 PM

Went down to our dog track poker room this afternoon... highest stakes are $2/$2 NL with a max buy-in of $100. Sat down with $100, never had to re-buy or top-up, played for a little over two hours, left with $822. Pwnage.

Fildy · #2 10-06-07, 04:30 PM

Nice run. What is the idea behind having the blinds 2/2?? so that there is always a flop or what?

Zybomb · #3 10-06-07, 05:31 PM

In live games when it is folded around to the blinds, the blinds usually just chop and move onto the next hand so thats not the reason

2/2 Im not really sure. I know 5/5 games are spread in a lot of clubs instead of 2/5 games, just for speed (to eliminate the use of white chips and change for the SB and all bet amounts must be in increments of $5) but for 2/2 vs 1/2 i dunno what the difference would be.

PS 50 BB Buy Ins= WACK -- especially when Im used to 200-300 regularly

Talking Poker · #4 10-06-07, 06:04 PM

That's sweet.

And I agree that a 50 BB buy in is lame, but I know the law is $100 max or whatever. To clarify, that's the max BUY IN, but there is no max BET, right?

Invigilator · #5 10-06-07, 07:48 PM

With no law to stop them, Casino Windsor STILL manages to have a 100 max limit on the 1/2 game. Lame

Gordogg · #6 10-07-07, 02:46 AM

Very nice score Reel.

Must've been a wild game. I had a good day at the casino today as well (nowhere close to yours) +260 playing 4/8 Limit with a kill, meaning if someone wins the pot twice in a row the next hand is for double limits. First time playing a game like that, it was alot of fun. Winning helps too.

Reel Deal · #7 10-07-07, 09:04 AM

Sorry, wanted to give a more detailed report yesterday afternoon but the wife and I went out for the night and I didn’t have time…

It was a wild game, pretty close to the dream set-up... two players who simply refuse to fold preflop and would call just about any CB were to might right and had pretty decent stacks when I sat down. They would call down on pretty much any draw and if they got even a small piece of the board they were in until the showdown, they were so predictable and since I had position on them I could play nearly perfect against them. Add that on top of the fact that I got hit in the face with the deck over the ~2 hour period and it makes for some serious fun

Early on I had pocket 2s and pocket 3s, flopped a set on each, one turned into a boat to and the other held up for some nice sized pots. Also flopped the nut straight on one hand and got paid off. Then with AA in the BB, I took down another nice pot.

Biggest pot of the afternoon was when I held the Kiss of Death

UTG and raise it to $12 (standard) get 2 callers and then the BB raises it to $50 (this is one of the loose guys to my right, at the time I probably have a stack just over $350 and his stack is probably around $320). I decide he could be doing this with a fairly wide range so I shove, he nearly instacalls which makes me think, 'crap, he's got aces.' But he flips A

K

and the board winds-up having nothing buy harmless low cards with no

.

Also, took in another nice pot near the end of the session when 7

8

made a flush on the turn and I got paid off by someone holding middle pair... priceless.

Anyway, if you guys think the 50BB buy-in is wack, how about this... they just started running a $2/$5 NL game with a max buy-in of $100!!

Sick, but these gamblers down there just love it. I'll stick to the $2/$2 game and while the 50BB set-up is obviously not optimal, these players are such pay-off monkeys that it just doesn't matter.

Ando05 · #8 10-07-07, 04:53 PM

Commerce Casino is 15mins away from my house, but I can't play there since I'm not 21 yet, so the closest casino thats 18 and over is 1hr away, I play there sometimes and the blinds there are 1-3 NL, with the max buy in of 100, and there is also a 2-5 NL, and min buy in is 100, and there is NO max!

What do you guys think about the NO max deal there...

And congrats RD, btw wasn't it you post I was reading about a couple months ago where you said that you hate live poker lol... because of the slow action or something.

But thats a hell of a day for 2-2 blinds to cash out $800+

Reel Deal · #9 10-07-07, 09:41 PM

Nope, wasn't me... I actually prefer live because I feel like I'm good at reading people and there is so much additional information live that you can never get on-line (which adds to the interest). It is slower (obv) and if you're card dead it can be very boring and frustrating at times. But the players are soooo poor that it makes up for it and I'm trying to stay tuned in every hand even if I fold preflop to try to put people on hands and improve my reading capabilities. I've now had a session where I left with over $600 and this one over $800... I've never had sessions like that on-line (at least not when you start at $100 as the max buy-in). I've probably gone down there ~10 times since the law changed and can only remember a couple times where I left down (and it wasn't down much, maybe $20-$30).

Thanks.