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This month, instead of playing online poker lately i've been driving about an hour or so down to New Orleans to play at the incredibly soft 1/2 tables there during the weekends.
net: +$2700 or 108 buyins at 25NL ^__^
i really like the game structure at Harrah's New Orleans. 1/2 blinds, and buyins are $60 min and $200 or 1/2 chipleader's stack max, and a $6 time-rake every dealer change, at 30 min intervals. so overall, the structure is pretty solid, imo.
now the juicy part is that most of the players who play there are incredibly bad. ok, you might see someone sitting there with a huge 500bb stack and i usually give them some credit, but if i see someone with just < 100bbs, i can confidently assume that the player is absolutely clueless fish playing 40/7 or something.
the more or less standard preflop raise around here is at least 5bb and up to 15bb if there are a ton of limpers. i think about 90% of the players here play an extremely limpy, loose-passive style cuz they just love to limp a ton with a bunch of suited or connected shit and low pairs while raising just pocket pairs and AJ+ maybe KQ+. and they have no clue how to make use of position.
preflop
i used to isolate over a couple or more limpers a bunch when i first started playing, but it didn't work out too well as too many people behind me would call the pfr and then the limpers would also come along for the ride quoting "pot odds" like it's the motherfucking mantra of preflop poker, and all too often i'm holding something speculative like QTs looking at a 5-way flop that misses me the majority of the time. so, adjusting to that i'd limp in position with a lot of the hands i would be raising preflop like QTs or suited connectors, weak pairs, completing the sb or btn with Axs or Kxs. in position and folded to me though, or with 1 limper or something, i'd raise a decent amount of times with a pretty wide range which is pretty standard. playing in that style though, required a lot more patience than i thought. since it was of critical importance that i show down pretty strong hands for image's sake, i thought i should begin with strong hands to begin with. with an image like that, i confidently made some tricky plays preflop where i'd squeeze from the sb over a straddle and several limpers with 57s, etc. 3bet pots were extremely rare at these tables because if someone usually raises only like 6% of their hands, the range of hands that go to preflop are obviously a lot tighter than that. so i refrained from 3betting and squeezing preflop raise + calls as much as possible... i mean of course unless the situation was just like, lol duh obviously squeeze because the guy is raising a third of his hands on the button and the small blind is very loose in raised pots but tighter in 3bet pots.
postflop
when cbetting, i looked for flops like 992 or K72, where it was extremely likely that the villain missed the flop, and if he calls, i can just give up subsequently without a read (or maybe if i knew that villain would always raise a top pair on the flop but he elects to just call, i'd fire a second barrel a lot of the times when the turn bricks). whenever the board was extremely ugly, though, like 897hh and i'm holding AKo, i'd check/muck without a second thought. i used to cbet hands that marginally held some equity vs. villain's calling range, like AQo on a KJ7 flop, but i decided that the best way to play at these tables was to just check it behind in position and hope for the best.
when i hit, it's fistpump valuetown because action is always good when there's a draw on the board. and it's the easiest thing to do because people NEVER raise unless they have a hand that squashes mine. these 35/6's NEVER raise as a bluff at the right moments. but they will call down with the shittiest draws imaginable. once i made solid valuebets against the most obvious chaser ever on the flop and turn with JJ on an AQ4ss board and won vs K3ss (i run good!). and it's SO funny how i can expect a TON of free cards and cheap showdowns because these people will NEVER bet as much as they will call. I've seen some ridiculous hands where the nut flush checked behind the river playing against some random idiot station because the board was paired. my friend was playing against this fat guy who i thought was pretty good, until the hand where the board came down to like A24, goes check-check, turn 8, he checks, my friend bets, guy calls, river comes the last A and the guy checks. my friend makes a horrible horrible bluff for like 1/3 pot and the guy insta CALLS and turns over A2... @_@
fun hands from last week:
huge bluff 300bb deep - maniac-ish UTG raises to 10, UTG+2 deepstack calls, folds to CO who calls, and i'm sitting on the SB with AKo and most of the times i'd just call here, but it felt like one of those rare spots to squeeze so i 3bet to 40 and they all folded except the UTG+2.
Flop comes QQ9 and the pot is ~$100. i insta think to myself 3 barrel AI because i'm already planning to bluff out mid-pairs to JJ, planning to fold to a raise at any point. so i start off with a donkish 1/2 pot cbet which he calls pretty quickly.
turn comes an 8 and im like uhh.. he prob doesn't have 88 then (lol) and i timebank a little before making a 1/2 pot double barrel again, $110 into ~$200. he thinks a long time, and then asks me how much i have. i'm like "lol wtf fuck my life" but i coolly told him that i had like 300 left, after which he just elected to call.
river comes a 7 and i naturally decide that it's a brick card since 77 would have folded the flop or the turn. after timebanking for about 2-3 mins i figured i would have been raised earlier by any hand that wouldn't fold to a shove here so i shipped in 150bbs as planned and the guy swore out loud as he insta folded AK face up. apparently the dude was going to try and ship it in if i check to him on the river and he didn't have the balls to bluffshove the turn for 200bbs anyways.
i still don't know for sure if it was a mistake or not to show my hand, but in the moment i just insta happily flipped over my AK when the dealer mucked villains AK while making the biggest, happiest grin on my face, a la JonnyCosMo.
one more:
I have AJo in lp and raise to 14 over a couple of limpers. BTN calls and limper in MP calls. Flop comes K5T and I cbet ~$30. BTN calls and limper folds. Turn card is a 4, but i strongly felt that this guy would likely flat in position with any K, so i checked, hoping for a free river. But he chose to bet out 50 and i was almost certain he held a K, and possibly a strong kicker too since most players i've seen, who are incredibly passive, checked behind weak kings and draws here. i probably would have folded but i thought i'd put my image to use and attempt a check-raise here, something i'd never pull on-line playing as robotically as i do there, but 1-tabling live is just a whole new game. long story short, i tanked for like 3 mins and proceeded to check-raise to 150 and the guy asked how much i had, thought for some more, and then folded KQ face up and said i had two pair. later on, the guy left for a smoke and i cashed out 1.2k (sick 600bb stack). on my way out, i told the fat guy that i bluffed out with AK that i had AJo in this hand, but when I met the other guy smoking in the lobby, i told him "good fold, i had KK." and he slaps me on my shoulder as he says, "I KNEW IT! Man you think wayy too long with your nuts-type hands. if you work on that, then i think you'll be a pretty good player. Nice playing with you dawg!" LOL
ehhh one last hand
i shipped in 22 with a 40bb stack and tripled up against two players when the flop came something like 38557 lol. from there i built up to that 600bb stack. damn i run so good live.
...and lastly, fuck rakeback or fpps. NOTHING beats free drinks. NOTHINGGGGG...
GL at the tables, fellas
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k4ir0s Canada. Sep 21 2008 21:17. Posts 3480 | | |
haha nicee, keep us updated. im tempted to try this  |
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k4ir0s Canada. Sep 21 2008 21:19. Posts 3480 | | |
how long do your sessions usually last? |
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I think I'm going to be doing this too BTW. I went to this sick casino an hour from me in tampa this weekend. I spewed hard in 3 spots and I finished down -$167 at 2/5 but I'm pumped to go back. SO easy. Just not sure if it will only be good to go on the weekends--it is a bit of a tourist spot so it might be ok on weekdays? What do you think?
Glad to hear of your success :D |
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lachlan Australia. Sep 22 2008 07:12. Posts 6991 | | |
good read, GL man. i played 2.5/5 live last friday night too |
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| | On September 21 2008 20:19 k4ir0s wrote:
how long do your sessions usually last? |
i usually end up playing around 6-8 hours |
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