icemonkey9 said:
Warning: I suck, about to bitch.
What happened:
A nitty reg "xxOMGBentleyxx" (take out the xx) hit three straight heaters against me all for stacks. I tilted big time. BIG time. I've never punched my wall but i damn near came close. This guy is a 13/9/3 massive multitabler I regularly own.
Not getting into the hands, too pissed off to do so. Ran $150 below ev again for this session. Yay. So taking a few days off, way too tilted to continue.
This is from a few days back, but is this a level? Bentley's a pretty solid reg (TR him, pretty sure he beats 200nl for over 2 PTBB/100). Do you honestly own him?
Anyway, last day at Turning Stone today. The tourney was surprisingly filled with somewhat solid players. I got my money in 3-way though with the one bad player who had a naked flush draw and TPTK and I had a set. Obviously flush hits gg me.
But live playing I've completely destroyed. Played some 1/2 to start and there were a ton of horrible players who all thought they were pros (not all, but like 2-3 I think were friends), then moved to 2/5 where I am told that the game is drying up. Third hand I 3-bet KK from the button 25 -> 85, guy calls from the CO. K52r flop ch/ch 7 turn guy bets 250 I jam he calls had 98 I hold. Next day I sit at 5/5 1k max and we play for a bit I bought in for 500, lost some to be at 300, double up QQ > ?? then I get a chance to jam QQ again and get 2 callers this time. Somehow it holds though so I triple. Then at some point a guy asks if we all want to turn the game into 5/10 (I along with several at the table all had our names on the interest list but apparently not enough dealers to open a new table). We do it and honestly this 5/10 table is the softest I have seen in like forever. Two guys say they played 5knl online but everyone else was just so bad. 2-3 mediocre guys and the other ones just absolute fish. I actually jam top set for $1300 on top of his raise on a drawy flop and after calling time on himself he folds, if it wasn't so much money I may have just raised a more reasonable amount but I didn't want to see another spade come and then just one pot-sized bet left behind oop. Other than that a bunch of small to medium pots where people limp-call and turn their
hands face up. So after being at 300 at one point on that table I cash out with 2800 by the end of the night. Honestly everyone was just so friendly at that table and it was so soft that I wasn't even that nervous playing (aside from when I jammed my set).
Anyway Sunday there was like no action, one 5/5 table full of the solid players and a few softer 2/5 tables. Since the bet sizes on those tables are pretty much the same I sat at 2/5. Had a few guys at my end of the table that were really friendly, we were talking a lot and messing around playing back pretty light. Luckily I got one of the guys to shove 2Ts on me when I had AA
. Like they were decent poker players but they were talking about the times they blew a few grand playing
blackjack and stuff so apparently they weren't that worried about making a profit, plus the other end of the table was just so bad. One guy calls his stack off on a QJx flop with A9 no flush draw. I ended with a really interesting hand, I said it was the last hand of the night, and minraised UTG in the dark (no live straddles allowed). I get 3-bet by one of the aggro guys on my left and I look down at A4. I figure he's 3-betting super-light so I 4-bet and he flats. Since it was a minraise I think the 4-bet was about 130 with 500 effective stacks. Flop comes A-high with 2 diamonds. I lead he flats. turn completes flush as well as a few straight draws. I figure I'll cry if he raises my turn bet so I check back. I should have thought it through from the first place but I still like my play. He bets turn and I figure that although he is also doing it with all his draws that hit, he also does it with pretty much all of his air as well, and even 2nd-pair type hands that don't want to deal with a river bet after a ch/ch turn. So I jam and he folds, which is what I expected. What I did not expect was for him to say that he folded AQ for a better hand. His turn bet was about half his remaining stack and it was only like 115 behind with the 500 effective stacks to start. I just couldn't believe he folded TPGK in a 4-bet pot with history. Nice hand to end on, but very interesting. Apparently I made a bad assumption that he was playing back super-light preflop, and luckily he had like the only hand where that move is better.
Oh also one more good hand that I just remembered that went down at 5-5. 2 limpers, I iso and they both call (probably more limpers but I do remember exactly 2 called). Flop comes KTT with 2 diamonds. I cbet they both call. Turn is a low diamond. We check it around. River is a K and it's checked to me, I bet and get 2 folds. Now I had a hand like 67 or w/e for complete air, but the amazing part is what got folded. The first guy folded a flush, which isn't unreasonable. The second guy folded a T for bottom boat. I thought he was lying but my friend who came up with me and was sitting said the guy showed the T to the guy next to him and my friend saw it. Obviously no point in value betting that and once last to act bets river after ch/ch/ch turn and ch/ch river he's got the nuts.
Among other classics were the QT on a QQJTx board simply flatting a river bet, the second nut flush checking behind on an unpaired board, 27 calling a shove preflop, and all sorts of other weird shit.
The other thing I noticed was that the higher the level, the nicer the people playing were, both the good players and the fish. At 1/2 the table pro was telling everyone what they did wrong and about how he's never had a losing session, berating the fish, while the fish complain about all the bad beats and that someone bet bottom pair in position after 2 checks. At the 5/10 table there was the guy who seemed really cool, kept randomly stacking shit but throwing 500 on the table again and again and most of the time losing, but he was just really nice and not upset or complaining about it. The one hand that would normally be an extremely dick move was hilarious though. The one guy at 5/10 that was being a bit of a jerk, I think he asked the guy who beat him in the next hand a "9-year old". Anyway the guy who wins has 84 in the BB in a limped pot. Jerk limped suited cards. Flop comes out xx4 with 2 diamonds. 84 checks, FD bets, 84 calls. 8d hits the turn and the jerk only had about a pot-sized bet behind, so 84 jams figuring TP and stuff will still call. Anyway obviously he snaps and a 4 hits the river. Guy with 84 asks what the other guy has, he flips over flush, 84 waits a few seconds then simply softly says "kaboom" as he flips over his boat. The other guy gets up and throws his chip tray at the dealer and walks away.
ok one more story I just remembered, there's a little mini-bar in the corner of the poker room, and two guys were sitting there and all of a sudden one (who is significantly bigger, like at least twice the weight) starts yelling at the other guy saying he touched him or something and trying to start a fight. Within 20 seconds there are at least 10 guys in suits there to escort them out of the room. Pretty good security.
Was a lot of fun though, definitely go up again, possibly even as soon as May for their Spring tourney series (may just skip the tourney and play cash lol).
