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NewbSaibot United States. Aug 24 2009 00:13. Posts 4948 | | |
Poker in my city is illegal. A few police raids over the years have made the papers, but other than that the sport remains totally underground and invite only. I finally met a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy which finally brought me my first invitation to a real game. The games running in my town are 1/2, 2/5, and 5/10. Way outside of my bankroll, but since I often only play with 3-4 buyins at a limit anyway, I felt comfortable buying in at the 1/2 game. My first real live experience beyond kitchen table poker with the guys from work. And it was awwwwwwesome. Boy people arent lying when they say 1/2 live plays like .01/.02 online. Everyone limps, every single hand, and you have to make it $30 preflop to thin out the herd. Try making a standard $6-$10 raise preflop, the whole fucking table is in lol. You dont know how many times someone has made it $50 preflop, everyone folds, and they show AK or JJ and proudly say "I had to protect my hand".
So my first couple of nights went ok, I finished up like $60 or so just playing ABC, as I was pretty nervous and terrible at counting chips and shit. I kept misfiring and throwing in chips before announcing my intent and being forced to just call or make stupid automatic minraises etc. After one weekend though my confidence was high and I felt very comfortable around the table. Everyone is cool and seems to really like me. They all have good attitudes and it's a very friendly game. The host said he was happy to bring an internet player to the table to see how differently "we" play. Some kid was there with a pokerstars shirt on but other than that they were mostly old and middle aged guys. Most have nicknames, like "doc" and "scooter" etc. The house provides a full open bar and a nice array of snacks. The host also makes sandwiches for people and cooks other forms of grillable shit. Table side service for whatever you want, it's a pretty fuckin cool operation. I think the rake is like 5% starting at $30.
Then came my second weekend. I absofuckinglutely demolished these players. I just played hyper aggressive, Doc.Lemon style, FPS'ing my ass off and it worked pretty well. In reality I just ran well though, as I kept getting paid off by TPNK type hands and other retarded shit. Then there was today. I basically sat down and started bombing players perflop and on the flop, and I just couldnt shake them for the life of me. I even got called out for raising too much preflop at one point lol. And thats when I began to rage. Silently of course, I'm not about to disrespect any of these guys who have graciously accepted me in their circle at a time where everyone is freaked out and suspicious of the next police raid, which have been described as full SWAT with firearms drawn and bullet proof vests adorned. Pretty ridiculous really. Each time a raid has been successful it has been with the use of an informant, so you really have to earn your way in.
Anyway, back to the hands. So here I am squeezing OTB with Ax and sometimes any two, and I guess they picked up on this finally, and apparently their strategy to combat this was to just call with any two OOP when I raise. And I just kept getting outflopped every damn time. And the sickest thing was I flopped 2 fullhouses and a set at one point, and got zero action, even though I played them exactly the same as all the others. I flipped up the nuts from time to time and then 83s other times, trying to mix it up and generate some action. Just would not work. They were more than happy to continue limp calling whatever the fuck, and catch any piece and just check-calling it all the way to the river.
I finally chilled out and just went back to ABC. If I had AQo, I raised regardless of preflop action. If I missed a 4way pot I just c/f. If it's HU I cbet 100% and then just c/f. I managed to piss away 2 buyins over the course of 5 hours, just bleeding chips from iso-raising and cbets + double barrels on occasion. They just showed up with a hand every single goddamn time. Not good hands mind you, but hands. And of course fish love nothing more than to limp AA and AKs UTG, but I never fell victim to a trap. Just one big annoying downswing all day.
Anyhow, I'll be going back next weekend, since I'm at breakeven status right now with my winnings/losses. I planned to give the live poker ring a couple of shots. Meaning I'll show up with 2-3 buyins per game (honestly I shouldnt lose more than 2 buyins in a single session playing 1 table live vs a bunch of fish. If I do then I'm doing something wrong and will come back next time to re-evaluate my game).
I dont really want to be sinking $400 every shot I take, I'd rather play NL50 or NL100 online with that shit. I especially wanted to break in to MTT's but simply dont have the time to put in the hours. But if I can become the local Tom Dwann and clean up at these tables, it might just pad my bankroll enough to take a trip to a real casino one of these days. I like one table poker better than multi table grinding, and I like live better than online already. My vision of being a professional poker player is one mixed between lots of live casino play, and SOME online play. I do not wish to be the next internet superstar nor do I think I ever would. Online is a different game. Too many professional grinders and cardrunner clones running around. Besides, being a live pro is where you go to play the WPT and WSOP etc. I would like to be very used to this rather than switching between and failing because im not used to it.
So heres to another shot this weekend. If I fail the next 2 weekends in a row then I'm done for awhile, as I cant afford to lose $1000 every month right now. Cheers.
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