2023 Poker in the Rear

[Lurch 5922]

Terrible level. Kept getting 3bet big pre-flop with hands I was trying to steal blinds with, then couldn’t even find a hand worth jamming before dinner.

7500 coming back to 500/1k/1k so the end may be near…

[Lurch 5922]

Six handed, shove 6 bigs UTG w KTo and get called by BB w J9dd

QT9
Q
K

Game over

[CBT 1282]

Damn. Good run.

[Lurch 5922]

These legit high level events really give me a perspective of where my game is at. Much like shot taking in big cash games it’s always a slap in the face of reality when I’m clearly one of, if not the, weakest players at the table.

First, it’s fairly obvious when you’re being targeted. We all see it, know it, and feel like there’s not much you can do about it short of either taking some questionable risks or nitting it up, both of which suck in a $5k buyin!

It’s also interesting when you’re just a spectator in a hand and you see cards revealed at showdown that are well outside the range you anticipated. I often find myself asking if I ever could have taken that line as successfully as they did.

Finally, the number of 3bets and 4bets I saw was astounding yesterday. Happened virtually every hand with an EP raiser. I was also surprised how frequently I would see 2x opens (perhaps a big contributor to the 3bets) and even open limps. One guy would then just randomly open 5-6x, often still getting 3bet! It was wild to watch

[closetohumping 17431]

Played some 1-3 at Wynn.  Tight and aggressive still works but gotta admit the players are better.

[Lurch 5922]

Yeah I think you want to play higher stakes at Wynn because their hotel clientele probably isn’t playing the small stuff. Wynn is for whale hunting. MGM is for the $1/2 streets

[Lurch 5922]

Has anyone come across discussions about odds for winning high hand promotions?

I’m trying to determine what the order of likelihood is for a given table to win:

Limit Holdem: almost every hand gets to the river, which is good because you’ll see all 5 cards, but bad because every hand takes longer to play so you see fewer per hour

No Limit: fewer hands get past flop, much less to the river. More hands per hour than limit, though

PLO: must flop a winner, so only 3 community cards to work with rather than five, BUT you effectively have 6 shots per hand dealt because of the 6 combos in your hand. Probably same number of hands as limit holdem

[Lurch 5922]

Best/fastest dealer in room says he gets most hands per hour at limit holdem. Since those players are pretty much only playing because of the high hand promotion, they go very fast even though they get to river nearly every hand

[Lurch 5922]

On my 49th birthday, I just hit AAAA9 for $1900

[bigup2dahorns 3343]

I finally hit one for the first time last year with quad 3s for $599

[Lurch 5922]

I’m not sure it mattered, but I was several margaritas in, had A943 when the flop came AAA, and my holdem training had me jam while telling everyone to GTFO. I *should* have checked it through the river to let someone hang themself, as in PLO only the flop matters. In holdem, I could have been screwed by a higher kicker hitting the turn or river

[TXSooner518 2438]

23 hours ago, Lurch said:

On my 49th birthday, I just hit AAAA9 for $1900

I need my legal services fee, I clearly advised you as your attorney to get aces on your birthday. 

[MagicSoccerSpray 1732]

On 10/14/2023 at 6:25 AM, bigup2dahorns said:

I’m not sure what the percentages are but if you travel around the country you will find many places where it is a button straddle. I’ve seen it in Florida and Mississippi. I had been more used to the UTG straddle.

 

Louisiana/Lake Charles too

[BillyGoatHill 4312]

On 12/19/2023 at 9:27 PM, Lurch said:

On my 49th birthday, I just hit AAAA9 for $1900

Niiiiiiiiiiice. Good for you. 

Went to TCH last night...not there very long and  lose my first bullet in a bomb pot within the first hr. REBUY!!

Change of dealers and another bomb pot in order.

The dealer gets to talking that him and his girl are gonna go to strip club when he gets off (after midnight) cuz the 4th is his birthday. The table congrats him and everyone says Happy Birthday of course....I'm sitting in seat 9 and I pull out my driver's license, place it on table in front of him and point to the birth date as he is beginning to deal the bomb pot. He sees we share the same birthday.

Good lively table and on the turn I have the nut straight on the lower board (not paired and no flush draw) with two pair up top. Decide to try and isolate a pretty good aggressive player that goes all in by repotting and I getting two callers....River comes out and I thought I only had the two pair up top plus the lower straight, but it turns out I river a straight up top also for a scoop. Not only got back what I had but also my first buy in and around +$300 or so on top of it..... 

The whole table chimed in....(even though it was technically a couple of hrs away still) " I guess it is your birthday too".  Not quite as good as yours, but in for $600, out after midnight for $1500.  Happy Birthday to us both!

 

Edited January 4 by BillyGoatHill

[Hugh G. Rection 156]

nevermind...

Edited January 16 by Hugh G. Rection
ehhhhh

[Lurch 5922]

2024 thread here