CrazyEddie
Full House
Sorry to hear about your bad beat.
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Sorry to hear about your bad beat.
I know right? Table had a good laugh about it.
Speaking of beats... Just had 22 on a KJ2KA board. Flop got checked, turn I bet $45 and get called, River guy checks to me I bet $125 and he calls. Guy has KJ.... He has $1800 in front of him. Avoid a disaster somehow.
Looking for a WTF? emoji...
You must really love teaching to not do this full time. Nice work.
I'm actually out of the classroom now and into administrative work. It's a lot of long hours and exhausting, but honestly I do love it.
JScott
Flush
this table deserves its own thread. Loving the stories.
It's like a glowing advertisement for the Beau.
Welp. I forgot the cardinal rule of don't try to make old guys fold big pairs.
Sitting $900 deep, I raise with red 77, one guy calls, and then a 3 bet comes from a tighter player to $100. I call.
Flop $200 5s6s8h
I check, he bets $100, I decide meh I got a huge range advantage and he's decent enough that he might fold this and CR to $400. Yeah nope. He shoves in the $900 and I'm getting 3:1 and priced in even knowing he has QQ+ and maybe AKss/AQss.
I call it off and blank. He naturally shows QQ.
The saga continues however for the hero and the very next hand I get 89hh on the straddle. It limps to me with two guys that are $700 deep so I raise and get called by both.
Flop is..... 886
Checks to me, I bet almost the full pot get one caller.
Turn 4
He checks I slightly overbet pot and he thinks for a long while and calls.
River 9
Check I put him all in for his last few hundo. He's like your steaming and calls it off with JJ.
Sitting $900 deep, I raise with red 77, one guy calls, and then a 3 bet comes from a tighter player to $100. I call.
Flop $200 5s6s8h
I check, he bets $100, I decide meh I got a huge range advantage and he's decent enough that he might fold this and CR to $400. Yeah nope. He shoves in the $900 and I'm getting 3:1 and priced in even knowing he has QQ+ and maybe AKss/AQss.
I call it off and blank. He naturally shows QQ.
The saga continues however for the hero and the very next hand I get 89hh on the straddle. It limps to me with two guys that are $700 deep so I raise and get called by both.
Flop is..... 886
Checks to me, I bet almost the full pot get one caller.
Turn 4
He checks I slightly overbet pot and he thinks for a long while and calls.
River 9
Check I put him all in for his last few hundo. He's like your steaming and calls it off with JJ.
Just closed out the session and in trying to get 6 racks of reds colored up as the closer poker room cage is shut down I didn't get a final stack picture. However, I decided to go a get a celebratory beer and burger and ask for whatever IPA they have. The waitress brings this native Chicagoian a Goose Island. Rungood confirmed.
OOOHHHH! That reminds me. Bourbon County Stout should be out on Friday! Time to put a couple of last year's bottles in the fridge.
AnteAndy
Straight
Did you finally win this time?
You know me better than that.
New game (to me) last night. Brain was tilted all night on edge spots not being aligned.
edge spots not being aligned is a major eye sore to me too......
You've revealed your kryptonite!
But the puppies are cute
Marius L
4 of a Kind
Do you mind sharing what the stakes in this game are? I’m curious what stakes someone plays to get a half million dollar stack.
$100/$200/$500 8-handed, half PLO and half Hold’em. Game switches every 30 minutes. In for $100k, out for $535,500.
Jonesey07
4 of a Kind
That’s two of my remaining mortgages in profit with my truck payoff left over.
I guess it's easy to assume that people who play these stakes are always good. Would you say that you have encountered a higher percentage of "pros" during these high-stakes games or are there a lot of just rich people who just like to feel like Daniel Negreanu?
Most of these games don’t allow pros. Or the pros are gambl-y grinders.
Rakrul
Straight
I'm more curious about the logistics of these big games. I'm assuming players don't come with gym bags full of cash. So do they wire money beforehand, do they use IOUs on napkins, what?
Most of the games have switched to settling using crypto. Some still do wires. Very little cash is exchanged.
Legend5555
Full House
As a rec, and let's say a winning rec, at what point do they end up saying you are winning too much and uninvite you? I'm always curious about this for people that are non-pros.
I’ve come to realize that the most profitable poker players likely aren’t the best. The pros are going to play in open games and rarely get invited to big private games. The best players imo are the ones that play in a way that gets them into these games and are able to consistently win at them, but they don’t win enough to get noticed and uninvited. It’s a delicate balance.
Marius L
4 of a Kind
What's the go to crypto being used for this?
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