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UTG (Russian Pro, 30ish) opens $20. He took me for $900 earlier in the night when I turned top two which also gave him a straight. I also gifted him $300 last night when I hit a Q high flop w AQ and

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Got done with work yesterday afternoon at 4 and headed down to shuffle 512 to play in their Monday BigO game. I'd made $800 and $1180 the last two times I played. Last nights game was the softest it h

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Lololol, I watched that steam live. 5/10/25/50 game. Bildo bought in for 75k, topped off another 10k, left game in less than 3 hours with... 0k.

I watch my fair share of poker streams, and this is the first time I can recall the announcers laughing at someone.

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For those playing around austin, whats the card room scene like these days. I was pretty close to APP, so thats where I usually played pre covid. I guess its the Palms social club now. Now that I'm vaxxed up, looking to play a little. Which rooms are getting the most traffic? 

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Stopped in the Palms at around PM yesterday to check it out. 1 PLO table going and that was it. I'm sure the tournament at the lodge probably drew a fair number of holdem players, but I was surprised they didn't even have a single holdem game running on a Saturday evening. Hopefully action picks up there as more people get out and about.

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On 5/15/2021 at 2:42 PM, Blotto said:

For those playing around austin, whats the card room scene like these days. I was pretty close to APP, so thats where I usually played pre covid. I guess its the Palms social club now. Now that I'm vaxxed up, looking to play a little. Which rooms are getting the most traffic? 

I've been pretty much playing live since last June. 

I'll add on a bit as to what others have said about ATX card rooms. Kind of surprised that there wasn't at least one 1-2 game going at the Lodge. I haven't seen that, and I played there pretty consistently from August -December. But, that PLO tourney is fairly new and the only other card room that I know of having one is TCH (which just started). @TXSooner518is right, their action has been steady and usually multiple tables of 1-2 going and at least 1-3. Lots of tourneys. Bomb pots are only on their 1-3 tables though, so something to consider if you like those. They just went mask free (if you like) this weekend. So, others will probably too as that has been a big gripe around the tables lately (players and dealers). Daily is $10 and monthly is 20-25 (I think they just went up)

TCH has been picking up and they have 1-2 and 2-5 tables (sometimes a 1-3?) tourneys too but not as many as the Lodge. New thing seems to be at least one table of nothing but $5 bomb pot table ( double board PLO) or a t least R&R. Can get wild and quick to make some $$ (also lose quickly too). They have a bad beat going right now that is around 15k? I think but needs to be quad 10s beat by any straight flush. Mgmt says that will change once it hasn't been hit for a while.  daily is 10 and monthly 30. i have been playing there since January cuz of the bomb pots and I like the dealers and management (Lodge is OK too but they have run off some good dealers (my opinion) Those are now at TCH.

Shuffle512 is in the south but not really a favorite of mine. Lighting seems a bit fucked for me (could just be my old eyes) when I went there a couple of times in the fall. 2 tables going One 1-2 and one 1-3. Usually not a big deal as I am not a huge conversationalist, but I don't feel the dealers are as friendly here. Clean room though with $10 daily and I think it is 30 monthly. Pay your hourly time here upfront or as you go. 

AS you know, sadly APP is no longer. Too bad , because prior to C19 the action here was loose and profitable. FUCK YOU Covid, besides people, it was a death blow to that room. It is now the Palms Social. Super nice room that the original guys plus a couple of players from the old TCH off of Manchaca went in together and now run. Their daily is 15 and monthly at 40-45 if i remember correctly. I got a membership originally given to me cuz I know the guys ( and had played at card house for sooooo long) but at the time it was only one table of 1-2 with not a lot of action. The other room /table was like a 5-10 PLO game. They do seem to have their regulars (higher stakes) and I've heard they have gotten better with the 1-2 but I haven't been back there since like January or February. I'm too cheap to pay the daily there when I am up to date at TCH or could play at the Lodge.

There are couple of others around I know, but I like going to a room where at least I can change tables should I sit down and be card dead for too long.

Just my 2 cents, hope it helps. Good Luck!

 

 

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Played live for the first time since COVID started. Played big o at shuffle 512. Game was the softest I’ve seen in almost 2 years. Several outright bad players, a few weak tight and a few calling stations. Just about the perfect mix. 
 

started with $300

ended with thisBB33FEAC-60FB-440A-AC0E-8E61FB7C377F.thumb.jpeg.7ab28679e287bc176d3208b55d9dd336.jpeg

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Just wanted to share a non bad beat story....

Playing in a friendly $40 buy-in 9 person tournament last Friday.  1st $180  2nd $120  3rd $60

Get down to the final 2 with about a 60/40 chip lead so we decide to chop 1st and 2nd 160/140 and play out about 10 hands just for fun.

Blinds at the chop are 1k/2k with 126k in chips on the table.  About 5 hands in i get KK in the small blind and limp.  BB checks.

Flop comes KJ10 rainbow.  I bet 5k, he calls.  Turn is another J.  I'm praying he has a J or AQ.  I continue with 10k.  He calls.  River is a 9.

I bet the pot.  He shoves, I call.  He shows J-10 and starts reaching for the chips.  Oops.

Nice way to end the first card session in at least 18 months.

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While not optimal as a standard play, when you’re heads up you do want some variance in your call/raise ranges against a solid opponent as patterns are much easier to see and solve against.

I’d guess a solver would suggest 90% raise / 10% limp w KK in a given preflop situation

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Rampage is a guy i started watching his videos on youtube about 2.5 years ago.  At the time he was playing 1/2 NL and occassionally slightly higher. 

 

when I was playing at APP thats the stakes I was playing so I was watching originally to see what kind of moves he would make to see if I could learn anything since we were both playing at the same level ( albeit  I was in Texas in a no fold em before the flop place- and he was in real casinos in boston. )

   I just couldnt understand how he was ever making money because the dude is just so wrecklessly aggressive. 

but he started rattling off major profit wins episode after episode,  like buyin for $500 cash out out for $3500 kinda eps.   

he bumped himself up to 2/5, then when covid hit  he went almost exclusively online, and for a while (March- June)  was one of a very few poker vlogers with any new content to post on youtube. 

I posted his 9+ hour livestream in the 2020 poker thread where he ended up winning a WSOP bracelet in one of the $500 entry tourneys. 

his favorite saying is folding is boring...   he LOVES to fucking hero call....  when you watch his live recaps in hands it makes me nuts because hes completely missing strength bets by his opponents acting like hes got blockers and shit to make his bluff work way more often than it should...  and hes started to get stacked much more often just like that hand above.   Probably because hes now playing at a level that hes not even close enough to be good at. 

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I've never seen a call that fast. What is that, a 5/5/10/20/40 triple straddled pot?

I'm not one to judge, especially since I don't play those stakes and I don't know that game, but I'm not open limping 5-4 suited there and I'm folding A-9 suited there 100% of the time. Maybe I'm a nit.

E bet $350 into a $1,100 pot on the flop. This seems small to me. What's the strategy there? Why did Rampage float the flop out of position?

Edit: just watched it again. On the river call, E's chips hit the table before Rampage's did.

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I’m fine with the 54s “limp” and fold. A9s is a definite pre flop raise and his call was easy as you have to assume button is wide.

E prob made a small flop bet to set up exactly what happened. It was a lousy flop for his opponents range and he didn’t want to scare him off with anything bigger. This helps him start building a pot for future streets. Rampage call on flop is standard.

Rampage has no excuse for turn and river play. E did a good job with bet sizing to hide strength, obv. Rampage needed something to base a bluff off of, and there was simply nothing out there. He can’t even claim 2 pair once he checks river

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33 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

nothing to see here folks.  Just the standard Texas card house rule of... "as long as its not all in pre flop, no reason at all to fold before the flop, no matter how much of your stack you are going to risk. "

 

 

 

 

 

That's some run good there....

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8 hours ago, Lurch said:

A9s is a definite pre flop raise and his call was easy as you have to assume button is wide.

Two honest questions: with so many players left to act, how is it profitable to raise there? And if he's not folding A-9 suited to that 3-bet, what is he folding?

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17 hours ago, Lurch said:

Why the placards? How are those more useful than chips?

my opinion, probably related to it being televised, make it seem more dramatic.  Ive seen a lot of those placards in the European tournaments.

Plus, there is the additional advantage that you absolute cannot grab the wrong color chip when you have those as well.  you know for sure those are $1k each.

 

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Two honest questions: with so many players left to act, how is it profitable to raise there? And if he's not folding A-9 suited to that 3-bet, what is he folding?


It wasn’t really a 3bet, but rather just an open behind limpers. Also, since he was opening from button, we assume he’d do this with a ton of hands.

I think you’re undervaluing A9s, but agree it’s bottom of range. Suited aces give you a lot of opportunity to realize fold equity by semibluffing on streets where you have a future shot of catching the nut flush. Plus, we’re not just playing our two cards, but rather our range.

I’d probably remove from my opening range AQo, A6-8s, and 87-76s. Otherwise I’m calling with hands I would have opened with, and prob raising JJ+ and AKs.
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Played an underground big o game last night and won $400. I think I’ve come to the realization I need the non verbal cues people give me to win. I’ve been getting killed online. 


We don’t really stand a chance online vs multi tabling pros playing near-perfect strategy. So much live success can be directly attributed to rec players knowingly fucking off stacks. Pros just won’t give you those opportunities.
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Played big o at shuffle again tonight.

Two decent players, one kinda bad and one awful player. Bought in for $300, could not get cards and just drifted between $200-$400. Then another guy shows up and it's his first time playing big o live and he was really, really bad. He of course dumps his first buy in to the one of the decent players. He goes away for a bit and then comes back reeking of pot and $500 in chips. I had $300 so I buy in for $200 more. He ends up dumping a bunch of chips to the other awful player and I finally start getting some cards at the end and stacked the guy he dumped to 3 times in about 20 minutes.

Best stacking was when I had 22566 and he raised preflop and I called.

Flop is 344, he bets, I call. I think to myself I really could use an ace so I have a wheel.

Bink Ace

He checks, I pot, he calls.

I think to myself, man a 6 here would be cool.

Bink 6.

I pot he calls, he spends a few minutes staring at his cards, mumbling and finally mucks.

Few hands later I get AAKQ5 double suited. I raise $25 preflop, everyone calls, he makes it $100, I pot it and everyone folds but him and he's all in.

Board runs out Q5T97, I lay down my hand and announce 2 pair. He spends the next 3 minutes looking back and forth between his hand and the board, lays down 75 in front of him, mumbles I guess my two pair no good, spends another minute looking back and forth and finally mucks his hand.

End up winning $470 on the night. Not bad for 3 hours of work.

 

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Think it's hard, wait till you play double board bomb pots with ultimate high/ultimate low.

Hand the other night with the boards:

238QA

238KT

Two players get it all in and flip their hands over. Both have A4 for a low. One has nut flush on the top.

Dealer chops up with the guy with the flush getting 3/4. 

Player 1 had A46xx, player 2 A4kqj

Player one actually had the best low, because he had A2346 on the top board, while the second guy was playing 12348 from the bottom board.

They go review the tape and make player 2 give player 1 $125.

What's really funny on these bomb pots is when one board is 346 and the other board is A23. A guy with 45 is playing A2345 on the bottom and the person with A2 is playing A2346 on the top. I've won a couple of hands because of this. One lady argued with the dealer for 10 minutes that her A2 was lower than my 45. She was fucking livid the rest of the night.

 

 

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First for me last night.
Who here has sucked out (turn 2 pair, not river) and had the loser throw his chips not toward you, but AT YOU (hitting in chest and head) after losing a hand ? And if so, curious as to you response? 
Love the show, I'll hang up and listen....
 

Never seen that. Worst is loser throwing cards at the dealer. I heard someone flipped the table over (or attempted to) after losing a big pot in 5/10 NL at Winstar but I didn’t see it.
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First for me last night.
Who here has sucked out (turn 2 pair, not river) and had the loser throw his chips not toward you, but AT YOU (hitting in chest and head) after losing a hand ? And if so, curious as to you response? 
Love the show, I'll hang up and listen....
 


It’s weird. Obviously that behavior is completely unacceptable and any dealer should auto call floor and have them thrown out... HOWEVER this same type of person is also irrational and an ideal target to play against. Like playing with annoying drunk, I’d bite my tongue and just look to get paid
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It’s weird. Obviously that behavior is completely unacceptable and any dealer should auto call floor and have them thrown out... HOWEVER this same type of person is also irrational and an ideal target to play against. Like playing with annoying drunk, I’d bite my tongue and just look to get paid

 

Well, that is why I kinda did target him. I made a very thought out call on his post flop bet and why I wasn't getting 3-1 or better pot odds, I did hit second pair and was still getting over 2-1 to see the turn, which of course I hit. He immediately pushed all in (remaining 150 or so) on the turn and I snapped called and then announced to him 2 pair and gave him a choice of running it more than once ( which I normally DO NOT do). He deferred back to me so I figured, just once then. Held up but he didn't like me calling with second pair and I called MYSELF a "donkey" and that is when he threw a handful of chips at me. I've put up with plenty of rants and berates over 16 years of poker but this was totally over the line. Being hit on the head and chest, (dealer saying nothing) I got up (seat 2) and went over to seat 9 and got in his face and had some choice words before anyone else at my table or from another said or did  anything. Normally i would have let it go, but it was late, I was tired, already was going to go, but this was BS. Floor and security came over and kicked him out. I left too as I was already getting ready to go and they weren't going to open much longer.

I am older and not a big guy and I sometimes think that some younger people never had their ass kicked while growing up. So many times I have seen this type of behavior, (in poker rooms and elsewhere) where they just think that can do whatever they like or want and there be no consequences....

Thanks for the input.

 

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