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Windwalker’s Chipping Journey in Pr0n0grAph1C Detail (15 Viewers)

Windwalker said:
I updated the hand description above with my thought process — was too adrenaline filled to articulate earlier.
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When you play lower stakes with friends or at meetups say 0.25/0.50 do you still get the adrenaline rush in (relatively) big pots? Or is it just purely a money thing
 
Emitsu said:
When you play lower stakes with friends or at meetups say 0.25/0.50 do you still get the adrenaline rush in (relatively) big pots? Or is it just purely a money thing
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It's probably like playing 0.01/0.02 for most folks. Zero adrenaline rush. But likely it's more about enjoying the company of good people who are also peculiarly obsessed with circular betting tokens.
 
davislane said:
he's just proven that isn't the case with his 3 bet with 67s in middle position against someone that you say he perceives as tight aggro
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Yep! I guess there’s a first time for everything. So now, I’ve added this to my knowledge of him. Anyway, those were my thoughts in the tank. Right or not, it worked!
 
Update: these regulars that lost a LOT to me the last two nights are desperately trying to get me to join their “short deck” game table. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s NLH with a deck that has the 2-5 cards removed.

I keep refusing, and they’ve resorted to asking me if I’m chicken. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
Windwalker said:
Update: these regulars that lost a LOT to me the last two nights are desperately trying to get me to join their “short deck” game table. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s NLH with a deck that has the 2-5 cards removed.

I keep refusing, and they’ve resorted to asking me if I’m chicken. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
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Seems like an appropriate time for your rooster hat
 
Windwalker said:
Update: these regulars that lost a LOT to me the last two nights are desperately trying to get me to join their “short deck” game table. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s NLH with a deck that has the 2-5 cards removed.

I keep refusing, and they’ve resorted to asking me if I’m chicken. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
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2 card plo.
edit. im reraising and asking them are they chicken to keep playing you at fulldeck?
FordPickup92 said:
Seems like an appropriate time for your rooster hat
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i was going to suggest that the cash cow would be more appropriate
 
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8 hours in, and up $7200 this session. Short handed now.

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Windwalker said:
Update: these regulars that lost a LOT to me the last two nights are desperately trying to get me to join their “short deck” game table. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s NLH with a deck that has the 2-5 cards removed.

I keep refusing, and they’ve resorted to asking me if I’m chicken. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
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Windwalker said:
EDIT: I wrote this right after the hand, and was coming off an adrenaline rush, so didn’t do much disclosure of my thinking / calculations, have now added some at the end.

Just got out of one, taking a break because it was so stressful lol.

I was UTG, and have a tight-aggressive image, so I sometimes like to mix up my range so I’m not predictable.

I looked down at :5s::8s: and bet out 6BB. Super tight player in middle position re-raises to 24BB. He almost always will have a super premium hand here, most likely AA / KK / AK, and so I decided to gamble and smooth call. One thing that was a departure from his usual re-raise is that he didn’t do his whole “Hollywood” bit. He usually remains super still, but his eyes dart left and right like they’re in a pinball machine, and then after a while, he usually re-raises. This time, I noticed no darting. More on that later.

Flop comes :5d::8d::ac:.

I check to the raiser.

He bets $500.

At this point, I need to test whether he has a single Ace, KK or pocket Aces, so I decide to raise him. In my head, I’m screaming “two pair, beware.”

I make it $1600 to go.

He goes into the tank. And that when I realize the masks are gonna save me. Because every part of the face is covered, I’m focused on the eyes. And his normal darting — it’s just... not the same. It’s different. He thinks, thinks, thinks.

Goes all in. For about $5,600.

So everything about him would usually tell me to fold because he has AA. He’s just that tight of a grinder. But those eyes, just above his black mask — they’re really different this time. And so, I trust my read, and after about 2 minutes l call.

Sure enough, he turns over :6d::7d:.

I miraculously avoid a flush and straight on both streets, and scoop up a massive pot. The adrenaline rush is something else.

EDIT: thoughts

Some thoughts about the hand: so pre-flop, given my image, he could have easily put me on a range of hands, but given my position, he probably put me on AK/AQ/AJ/KQs, or any decent pocket pair. When I called his re-raise, and knowing what he knows about how I see his image, I imagine he narrowed that down further to AKs/KK/QQ/JJ/10s or MAYBE AQs if I were being somewhat loose.

When the flop comes, and I check to him, I assume he imagines that’s SOP.

When he bets, he already thinks I’m thinking he has a super premium hand, most likely Aces, which gives him the cover the build the pot for his draws.

When I raise, and he goes into the tank, I imagine he’s trying to decide if I either have :ad::kd: or:ad::qd:. He can’t imagine I have pocket 8s, or 5s. So, he has to imagine his flush draw is no good except for the outs he has to make a straight flush. Which makes him think I’m at a 68-69% equity. It’s possible that he also considers the outside of my range against him, which would make pocket 8s a possibility. Given his push, I think he decided against that.

But he now probably thinks since I imagine him to have Aces, and he represents Aces, then the only thing he could really do is push. Because he knows I’d be calculating him at just over 70% equity and there’s no way I’d call him. And so he pushes.

So when my instincts told me he didn’t have Aces, there were only a few hands I could put him on, if he pushed. A straight draw, a straight flush draw, or just a high flush draw.
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This playing in my head when reading my Interstellar Brah @Windwalker HH :cool
 
What a few days in Vegas. I have to fly back to LA tomorrow, but in terms of percentage gain, best I’ve ever done. All at the Wynn / Encore 5-10 NL table. In for $5000. Out for $82,800. (That’s over the whole weekend / Monday / Tuesday.)

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