2024 Poker : GTO or GTFO

[dirtonia 271]

Great story. Didn't know him well but he seemed like a good guy and straight shooter. Liked that room but just never enough tables going for me since it became Red Star.

I’m sure we’ve passed some chips back and forth.

Fat mild aged bearded white guy, typical shit reg.

Edit - quoted the wrong part, tappa noob.

[BillyGoatHill 4420]

11 hours ago, dirtonia said:

I’m sure we’ve passed some chips back and forth.

No doubt....I'm there usually there 2-3 week in the evenings. I See Bob on Fridays sometimes and chat with him for a bit when he's not commanding the PLO game. 

11 hours ago, dirtonia said:

Fat mild aged bearded white guy, typical shit reg.

Ha! that narrows it down. Run good at the tables 👍

[blacklab 12064]

I know I’ve seen you two at the same table at TCH

[blacklab 12064]

Came down to San Antonio for a big o tournament at lodge. Man what a dump this place is. 
$10k guaranteed, $300 entry, 27 entries so far, looks like an overlay will happen, still have 2 hours to register, you should be able to make it from Austin

[CBT 1290]

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one UT kid- a bi-weekly player on those 2 days.. who had run up his $100 buyin to $1100+ was at the table when 2 of the maniacs showed up, and juiced the shit out of the table. quickly blind shoving all in, getting money all over the table, them doubling/ trippling each other up and suddenly everyone had at least $800 in front when one of the maniacs blind shoves UTG for more than $1200.

folds around to the BB, who is the kid with the $1100 in front of him.  kid has AKo....  takes forever to decide and finally open mucks it.

 

Almost the whole table loses their mind, going "WTF man, who fucking folds AK there to a blind shove, HOLY SHIT MAN! , WTF..... and then... WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE PLAYING IF YOU WONT PLAY THAT?"

kid sits there meekly for 1 or 2 more hands and leaves.   He hasnt been back. and I wonder if he ever will be back.

 

 

There is nothing more fucking tilting that idiot regs. How about stfu if someone is making a huge -EV mistake?

[blacklab 12064]

Well fuck this tournament. Couldn’t get a hand to save my life, and when I did the flop missed me. 
 

Now waiting for my buddy I rode down here with to finish. 11 players left, top 5 get paid, he’s in the top half of stacks. 
 

sat down at plo. Played 3 hands, guy to my right has potted it at every chance he’s had to. 

[MagicSoccerSpray 1736]

On 11/18/2024 at 7:58 AM, blacklab said:

Yeah, they should have a 1-2 $200 max. Of course a bunch of guys will sit down and go all in and rebuy till everyone at the table has over $1000 then push any newcomers around, which is what happens at the 1-2 plo at the lodge

Table seemed to play ok with 300 max. How would you structure the tables?

[Bookman 4758]

21 hours ago, blacklab said:

Came down to San Antonio for a big o tournament at lodge. Man what a dump this place is. 
$10k guaranteed, $300 entry, 27 entries so far, looks like an overlay will happen, still have 2 hours to register, you should be able to make it from Austin

I hate that "new" location. I played quite a bit at the old one.

[C-Man 27777]

So, I've played "friendly" Hold 'Em games over the years but it's been awhile and I'm definitely rusty. We are starting a monthly neighborhood game tonight with eight regulars. We've got a professional dealer run the game. Buy-in is $300 with a one re-buy for $100 or something along those lines. Been bumping around the Internet the last week reading a few things with regard to strategy, etc.

My understanding is that nobody is super serious -- it's just an excuse to get together once a month, knock back a few beverages and play cards with buddies. Anybody got some good online resources to help 'bone up' my skills headed into tonight's game? I actually found a pretty good little article in Golf Magazine or Golf Digest written by a guy that got into online poker during COVID. Some pretty sound ideas in that one, I thought.

[Bookman 4758]

8 hours ago, C-Man said:

So, I've played "friendly" Hold 'Em games over the years but it's been awhile and I'm definitely rusty. We are starting a monthly neighborhood game tonight with eight regulars. We've got a professional dealer run the game. Buy-in is $300 with a one re-buy for $100 or something along those lines. Been bumping around the Internet the last week reading a few things with regard to strategy, etc.

My understanding is that nobody is super serious -- it's just an excuse to get together once a month, knock back a few beverages and play cards with buddies. Anybody got some good online resources to help 'bone up' my skills headed into tonight's game? I actually found a pretty good little article in Golf Magazine or Golf Digest written by a guy that got into online poker during COVID. Some pretty sound ideas in that one, I thought.

It's a tournament? 

[dirtonia 271]

So, I've played "friendly" Hold 'Em games over the years but it's been awhile and I'm definitely rusty. We are starting a monthly neighborhood game tonight with eight regulars. We've got a professional dealer run the game. Buy-in is $300 with a one re-buy for $100 or something along those lines. Been bumping around the Internet the last week reading a few things with regard to strategy, etc.
My understanding is that nobody is super serious -- it's just an excuse to get together once a month, knock back a few beverages and play cards with buddies. Anybody got some good online resources to help 'bone up' my skills headed into tonight's game? I actually found a pretty good little article in Golf Magazine or Golf Digest written by a guy that got into online poker during COVID. Some pretty sound ideas in that one, I thought.

Raise more, call less.

[C-Man 27777]

It's a tournament? 

 

Raise more, call less.

So, I wasn't quite sure how it would shake out or what had been decided upon before showing up last night. We didn't play a tournament, which was a relief to me. Look, I'm an insurance guy -- I have an inherent instinct to mitigate large losses. The idea of likely being out $300-$600 or walking away with a one-in-7 chance of $3000 or so is not the pool I usually swim in. (Not to mention a few of these guys are borderline degenerate gamblers -- they were betting on first halves of the ACC-SEC Challenge while we played card.)
Anyway, we had a finite time because the dealer was "on the clock" from 8-midnight. So the deal was, initial buy-in for $300 with the opportunity for another buyback if you busted out before the end of the night. I had an extra $100 with me but hoped to not get to that point so I played very conservatively. I don't need to be losing $600/night in a monthly card game -- that shit's not fun to me. I also was unaware how "experienced" the table is/was. I haven't played in several years so maybe I'm the patsy at the table. So my plan was to play some, have a good time, not chase things and try to get out of there with something close to what I started with.
I didn't get very good cards for the first couple of hours. I chased a couple "inexpensive" pots and didn't win any and I was the last of the seven at the table to finally win a hand. Two guys won at the beginning but busted out a couple hours in -- and bought back in at $300. I'd already decided I was only buying back in at $100 more -- if at all. Hell, at that point I planned to sit back and sip Blanton's or E.H. Taylor and watch the rest of them take each other's money. Good buddy had a large stack early, lost it all and then threw another $150 on the table at 11:45. He was pretty soused at that point and was chasing a last-minute miracle. I wasn't going to indulge that and let him lose it to somebody else because ...
At any rate, I won a small hand or two about halfway through but was still a little underwater before hitting on a big pot that I slow-played. I had a suited pair on the draw and got two more diamonds on the flop. Like I said, the pot wasn't huge but it was a decent payout and everybody folded but me and my good buddy above, who as I said was up big early. Fuck it, let's see this one through. I checked and damned if another diamond didn't come out on the turn. So I raised a modest amount. My buddy had a good hand -- can't remember what he wound up with but do remember I could've been boned on the river. Luckily, the last card did nothing for either of us. That pot made the night for me. I won a few more as we were down to five players by the end.
The guy who came in saying he knew next-to-nothing about Hold 'Em hit some big ones early and was the big winner on the night, which infuriated (in a funny way) the guy to my immediate left (he lost $600 total). He was playing everything 100% right but couldn't get the cards to work in his favor. He finally went out on his buyback with KK on the draw. (He lost to AA draw. That was a fun hand to watch play out.) The inexperienced guy was in big on a pot and threw his cards on the table thinking he'd lost since he didn't hit his flush draw (but had a straight or something). I think he cashed out for nearly $1200 at midnight. (He had way more than that at one point.) I cashed out for $640 total so a $340 profit on the night.
Sounds like this will be an every-other-month game, maybe once per quarter. Edited December 5 by C-Man

[dirtonia 271]

Awesome, sounds like a fun night! GGs

[BillyGoatHill 4420]

On 11/18/2024 at 2:41 AM, MagicSoccerSpray said:

 
Except it killed 1/3 and juiced the 1/2 so much it's intimidating for beginners and strangers. Imagine you're college student who has been playing online and you sit down at a 1/2 with a bunch of maniacs playing what is essentially 1/2-25 with a bomb pot every rotation. I'm not convinced juicing the cheapest tables is a good thing for the ecosystem in the long run.

Looks like they heard you and Bob @blacklab.
New game/table $1-$1 starting up @ TCH Social Austin.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1U4hjXvkCw/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Edited December 6 by BillyGoatHill

[AUS-97HORN 12049]

On 11/18/2024 at 2:31 PM, TXSooner518 said:

65%, not 60%, but yeah point stands. Everyone loves the giant action until all the fun players either go broke or don't want to play that big anymore or get runnoft, and then you just push chips around and pay rake. 

So with the passing of E, Red Star has changed their game to 1-2 $500 max to match TCH because thats who is taking most of their players, since its like 7 miles up 183

its changed the game a lot. The guys begging for more action are now getting it. and there are 5 or 6 regulars who are pretty off-kilter in their play and while it juices the shit out of the game while they are there, even hands they arent involved in get jacked because theres a chance they join in or random spew a 100x BB raise out of nowhere. 

that being said, the reason I highlighted Sooners post was, the moment those guys either flame out or get bored and cash out, the whole atmosphere of the game drops like 10 fucking levels. 

 

Also just in case anyone plays at Red Star like hyper sporatically in the year,  they have a $10 yearly membership special through all of December. 

 

I mean shit, thats the Daily membership price for the whole year.

 

along with a one-time half-off time buy up to $500.

[BillyGoatHill 4420]

7 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

Also just in case anyone plays at Red Star like hyper sporatically in the year,  they have a $10 yearly membership special through all of December. 

 

I mean shit, thats the Daily membership price for the whole year.

 

along with a one-time half-off time buy up to $500.

Good to know. Thanks for the heads up

[dirtonia 271]

Got my $500 match in time this week, so I’ll be there more for sure.

They’re having a celebration of life hang out tonight at 7pm at red star for Big E. I’m heading to southeast Texas though today, so won’t be able to make it, but I’m sure it’ll be an awesome time with lots of good memories about an awesome dude that meant so much to the Austin poker scene.

[blacklab 12064]

 

[BillyGoatHill 4420]

On 12/19/2024 at 7:51 PM, blacklab said:

 

Damn.....with some of his beats described on here, I know @TXSooner518 can relate. 🤷‍♂️

Seriously,...that's fucked up. Poor dude.