The Pub Poker Thread

[fairdinkum]

I was right in to the APL tournaments around my area back in 06/07, and would go to at least one and sometimes two a week. Back then it cost about $5 to play as one had to get a card stamped three times (once for each drink bought) to be allowed to play.

I stopped playing when they brought in dodgy-as-**** changes, such as 're-buys' or 'chip-ups' for those who bought more drinks. Essentially, one now had to pay $10 or more just to have a chance of winning. Stuff that. If I'm going to put in that sort of coin I might as well save it and go to a casino where there might be some return.

Anyhow, in the time I was playing, I won two tournaments. Great thrill to win a tournament, especially when you come from behind (as I did on both occasions). However, anybody with any sense realises that winning a APL tournament is 99% luck and 1% skill. The blinds go up way too fast, and there are too many fools there who simply don't understand poker. It is hard to get a read on somebody when they themselves don't know if they have a hand.

Sure, it is a bit of fun; it is what it is. But one should not take it too seriously. It is essentially 'TattsPoker': Almost purely luck, the cost adds up over time, and there is little to no chance of monetary reward.

 

[Cartman121]

I don't think anyone plays Pub Poker to make a profit/purely for the free food vouchers, I go there with my mates to have a few drinks and a good time. There is still a lot of skill involved, knowing when to shove and when to call/fold based on odds/position/stack size etc. In the late stages i'll call some player's shoves blind when i'm on the BB as i'm getting priced in regardless of my hand, when the majority of players will wait for two picture cards or pairs to call. People will berate me when I flip over 104os and hit but after i've won it a few times and make the final table 2/3 times people start to catch on and realise it isn't just luck.

The chip-up's aren't dodgy, it's just a way for the pubs to gain something in return for hosting free poker. I'm not sure about this Ash will probably correct me, but a large % of what they earn goes towards the Regionals and Nationals prizepool - i.e. back to the players. And really $10 for a few hours entertainment is pretty good value these days, my 2 cents anyway.

 

[ashley12]

Well, I went and played on the APL cash tables last night. Ended up in the black, which was good, but jeez did I run bad...

I post in the CO, and fold my first 14 hands I think. I went in with a plan to just play the absolute premiums, maybe a few looser overlimps with position, and I was fortunate to get a lot of my drawing hands such as JTs and low pockets in position, rather then the tricky spot that is something like 88 UTG...

On my 15th or so hand I am in the BB. There is an early position raise to 20, and about 4 callers so capping the action, I call with a lot of hands with good relative position to the PFR. However, I wake up with AKo. Tricky spot, and I just call. Had I had around about 80 in front of me compared to 180 maybe I would have just shipped it pre... I flop two overs and a gutshot on a two tone board, pay something ridiculous like $20 to see the turn which I fold UI. Eventually some elses AKss beats AQ with da frush...

Ok, that sucked, three hands later, Aces. Two limpers to me, I announce "20" and throw out a singular green chip. Dealer says thats a call, and I begin seeing the terror that is a 6 way flop on this table with aces. However, I need not have bothered. The button shoves for about 60, folds to me and I call ldo. Flop of course is jack high and I lose to JJ...

Down to about 90 now, and I decide to change tactics a bit more to throw some people off the fact that Im trying to play tight... About 6 limpers, I see Ax in the BB, think it was A6, and shove for about 70 more... Everyone folds... Actually a relatively easy move given how little the chances that the players UTG and UTG+1 had of limping with Aces...

Then I get my big chip up. R, a wonderful older gentleman who usually plays free league, posts UTG and raises to 20 total with a stack of 50. A crazy bloke, who is going batso most of the time, minraises to 40. I look down at 4 t***ies and move all-in for about 110. Folds around to R, who tank calls with his AT, and batso gets 110 in pre with T9 s00ted... I get a good flop and fade the ace on the last few streets... Ship it... back to around 240.

I just float for while after that, one LOL hand though... About 5 limpers and I put in a solid raise with TT to about 30 total which should be enough to take down this pot. One player limp/calls me, and knows Im pretty solid which was a serious WTF? moment, and aggro calls. Flop is A high and aggro, who has me covered, moves in. I have no recourse but to fold with a player behind me and he alledgely folded the other two tens...

Then last but not least this hand. Im almost out for the night, about level. The compulsory 4 or so limps, SB completes and I look at the mighty 72o in the BB, and hero check. Flop 762. Aggro/batso bloke in the SB leads for 10, I make it 25, folds to aggro who calls, making the pot about 80 at this stage. Turn was a 4, so effectively 53o got there... He leads for 25, I raise to 65 He grabs a handful of chips and sprays them out on the table, which is about 105 more for me to call. I have about 30 back after calling the 36. However, I know in my heart of hearts I cant fold here, because this bloke got $110 in pre with ten high among other WTF? kind of moves, so I move in. He calls with the mighty Q6hh for a pear with a draw to make two of those pears... River was paint, a jack IIRC and yeah, SHIP IT MUTHER ****ER....

Aggro loses the rest of his stack a few hands later, raise in EP to 15 and about 4 callers. I overcall OTB with 99, and the flop has a king and two babies on it. EP raiser leads about 2/3 pot, aggro shoves and I fold. EP calls with 77 UI and its good...

Aggro comes back however, for some more punishment. And he gives it out to me. A few limps and I overlimp in the CO with ATo. Flop AKT. Someone donks it for $10, aggro raises to 30, I raise just enough to put him all in, donker folds and aggro calls. He has the same hand as me, and the dealer begins to roughly chop the pot. I however mention he has a live backdoor heart freeroll FTW against me.... Of course two baby 's later and I lose my share of $250... which for the careful observer is $125...

I leave up $99... having got my money in good I think absolutely every hand I played.... Id give myself an A- for how I played, and Im usually a pretty harsh critic on myself... Only thing I think I would do different would be make a couple more overcalls with some junkier hands such as J9s with less limpers then I had been doing....

 

[ashley12]

Experienced quite possibly the funniest hand of all time today at the APL cash tables...

Dropped in with a mate played before the break. **** it, Il do a full write up tomorrow but the hand itself was an absolutely LOLfest...

Slightly arrogant player raises I think in the HJ, IIRC to 15 to open. I wake up with the K and the K of various suits so throw in a raise to 45. Someone cold calls 45 from the button with 45 behind. Folds around to the HJ who tanks for a while, makes a speech and shoves for I think 15 on top of my raise. I cant reraise, so I call as does the other bloke, and I put him all in dark, which Im not sure was right, however it was 30 more and I think more or less irrelevant unless he has, like, jacks on a AKQ board. Incidently, the window card was a K followed by a AQ. Other person thinks, then calls admitting he is probably behind, drawing to 4 outs with AJ, which is correct. Other person announces he must be in front, I assume he holds AK but he holds AQ....

Now, hold on one second. What do I have to 3-bet him pre, be upset about having to only call the raise and bet all in dark on the flop... The only hand you could have an arguement for is Jacks, but I wouldnt 3bet that in position deep in this game, though that might be wrong...

So anyway, he has 1 out, other bloke four. Turn was a blank, river gave AQ a full house. And he jumped up, pumped his fist, shouted repeatedly and pretty much drew attention to the fact he had one the pot... However...

Spoiler

The river was a queen, and it actually took 30 seconds to remind him that KKKQQ >>> QQQAA. He didnt reload, sat around for a little while, mentioned how it was so sick for him to pick up a hand and then me actually raising him light and for once having a hand (It was I think one of only three 3bets pre all day, the others TT to cover a person all in the other AA... He then wondered into the sunset, and I booked an $18 win before the start of the tournament and a $490 win after it...

Super lulz...

 

[Vegas.]

Gah, we need cash games in Vic pubs!

 

[sante]

Spoiler

The river was a queen, and it actually took 30 seconds to remind him that KKKQQ >>> QQQAA. He didnt reload, sat around for a little while, mentioned how it was so sick for him to pick up a hand and then me actually raising him light and for once having a hand (It was I think one of only three 3bets pre all day, the others TT to cover a person all in the other AA... He then wondered into the sunset, and I booked an $18 win before the start of the tournament and a $490 win after it...

Super lulz...

Epic lulz.

I played at the local pub last Friday night. My mate hit a Straight Flush 5:spade:-9:spade:. and didn't even know. Nearly folded his hand when the other guy showed a K:spade: high flush. He said he could never fold a flush, hence why he didn't fold after the turn. So stupid of him, 1) He would never fold a flush with 4 cards the same suit when he holds a 9 high and 2) He had a straight flush and if it wasn't for his s**t understanding of Poker, he would have folded it.

 

[Vegas.]

Hahah, reminds me of the time I first played pub poker with a mate. He flopped a royal flush, but thought he just had the straight and announced 'straight' when he flipped his cards over which was 'beaten' by the other guys flush... Only the rest of us quickly realised his mistake. He got a $50 venue voucher for it too IIRC, and I finished 2nd on the night for a free slab so we had an excellent night!

 

[ashley12]

Wow, still cant get over the KKKQQ vs QQQAA hand tbh. We had our cards exposed at the flop too, which makes it even funnier... Just complete epic lulz...

So, as promised, the full writeup from the night out at the APL cash tables...

I arrive just after the timed licence start, which is 6pm. Already there is people throwing around cards and smiling. So I assume they have started, which they hadnt... So we floated around for a few moments, then after we had 5 runners we were away.

Early on before the tournament started I played pretty tight, just staying in line for the most part but not really straying from the line. Only hand of any real note that I won was having KJs from the button. Raise, the SB shoves for something resembling 4BB and the BB makes a minraise. I call like a donkey and put him all in on the K high flop. He folds Ax and A on the river... Other then that, there was one donkey who shoves the A river with a complete airball, that I almost called with bottom pair. (K4 on a 456 x A board...) but lacked the testicular fortitude to do... After that Mr T high decides that A2 is a good enough hand to go to war with shoving for $35ish after my $15 UTG raise was a very +EV play, which is LOL bad... because a rock raised UTG and you have no fold equity but anyhow, A high board nh sir...

So I book a $18 win before the start of the tournament. This is fine, but one issue I have is wannabe internet pro (WIP) is being slightly annoying in that he is calling people's cards with people still to act, which is bad, asking people to expose hands on the end, which is bad, and doing the *ed show people one card which gives no indication of what hand you had... and doesnt leave people a sweat of one kind or another, which isnt bad, just *ed... I ask him to stop calling cards, espcially if he called mine, which he hasnt done yet, which he shrugged off. I think I am going to have to ask for some clarification from the APL and WAPL bosses on this, and how they rule on this in the future because otherwise Burswood just holds far more better holdings not having people call my cards...

Anyway, asian gun (AG) who was a clever and probably the best player at the table, and me have a discussion, and mention that hopefully either of us stack this guy...

So we restart from the break. About 5 handed or so. Things start of as normal, but what I notice is apart from myself (in for $200, not quite the max) and AG (I think in for the max $250) everyone is in for pretty shortstacks... This just turns the game into a preflopament, which is fine because Im not the one getting married to AT UTG...

We dont play for long, and I completly pwn WIP with a slick highly -EV move that worked. I have direct position on WIP, and we see a cheap flop, however, I am in the SB this hand with T2... I flop no pair, turn is an ace and it checks to WIP on the button, who fires 10 into the 25 pot. Ashley12 calls with T high, no draw... (cept a pair draw) and the rest fold. Its a drawy board, and the 3rd diamond plus a straight card drops on the river. I fire 30 into the 35 pot. WIP's big mistake today, we are actually friends by association to an extent, and he told me that he was only playing the one buy in, despite having some sick run good online, and live etc... which may be true, maybe bullshit idk... He asks me will I show if he folds, I say ok, he folds A9 faceup... I show my T high and grin from wall to wall. He is now down to about 65 and steaming...

Then we play the hand from before, which was super lulz which I won vs the WIP (WIP has AQ me KK ldo...) after which WIP chooses to head home tail in between the legs... After that I run generally pretty good...

Im keeping some better records at home now, not just tallying results at various poker games including home games but some hand results to post about later. So I dont know the exact time how these hands went down, but nevertheless...

• Someone raises pre either UTG or UTG+1. Folds to me in the BB with TT. I think, but the raiser all in for about 50 more and he calls. AQ vs TT. AAx flop and bye bye $130...
• Two limpers, and I overlimp A2dd. There is a raise somewhere with 15 more, a few callers and heck, I call too. Flop AKT iirc. Checks to me, including the PFR from the blinds. I check, the rest check. Turn was a 9. PFR bets 50 into an around 80 pot, folds to me, I think, I raise to 112 which puts PFR all in... Folds back to him, he tanks (i.e Im winning) and calls with Q9. River blank and ship it...
• AK and I raise pre. Someone effectively minraises, folds to me, other guy is deep so I just smooth call OOP. Flop Jxx with a diamond draw and I check. He bets something resembling 1/4 pot so I call, with the backdoor nut flush draw and overs. Turn K, check check. River blank no flush and I lead something just under pot. He tank calls, I show and MHIG...

A couple others that were generally pretty standard fare and overall a nice ~$500 profit for the night, which is always nice...

Bed now, have a ten pin bowling game for big $$$ tomorrow as part of a drunken bet I made today...

 

[red+black]

Thinking of playing a little pub poker at the Hustler Club, Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Looks like it's every Tuesday.

More for the topless and naked womenz than teh pokerz.

 

[The Cotch]

Thinking of playing a little pub poker at the Hustler Club, Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Looks like it's every Tuesday.

More for the topless and naked womenz than teh pokerz.

I've heard about that, it's just down the road, I might check it out next week.

 

[red+black]

I can just imagine what the prizes will be given that it's a strip club

 

[The Cotch]

yeahhh boy

 

[Stubbyholder]

Thinking of playing a little pub poker at the Hustler Club, Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Looks like it's every Tuesday.

More for the topless and naked womenz than teh pokerz.

They actually have two different leauges at Hustlers.

Tuesday nite is the Pub poker league and thursday is the 888PL leauge

 

[ashley12]

Played the WAPL event yesterday not that far from my house. The only reason I did was because I ran into one of the WAPL staff at the casino the night before and he told me I hadnt played in a while, and I decide to give it a shot.

So yep, pro series buy-in it is. And what is this, two of the girls that I work with are here as well. Ok, sidebet it is... Winner of the three gets the freeroll...

So early on I decided to play ATC for the first level. Starting blinds were 25/50 with a 5000 stack. Second or third hand I raise UTG with 35o because I am a star. Flop 67A for the under gutter, there was a bet and a minraise, which is almost always ace face. The other guy had cut out the calling chips and I almost called guaranteed to triple up, but I folded just in case it was an act by the guy behind me and he would raise... Of course the turn was a 4 and I would have tripled up vs AT and AJ...

A few hands later. UTG limps in and I complete the SB. BB puts in a raise of 200, and we both call. Flop TT8. I check, the BB bets 350, the SB calls and I checkraise to 1100. Now, its pretty freaking obvious what I have here, but I was hoping the BB would tag along with his hopefully QQ. Nope, he announces "wow, the checkraise play huh, nice ten" and folds. Other guy calls me any way. Turn was a 4 and I ship it in. He tanks, announces only a ten can beat me, and calls. He has 87 and is drawing dead against AT...

After this the table got pretty quiet, so I managed to get the "opponent picks one card" game, as seen on High Stakes Poker with Esfandiari and Laak going. That was actually pretty fun, and the funny thing was that if they picked the non-top pair card, some people, myself included, would turn over our other card to show to the table that I do bet with the hand etc... Was actually quite good fun and made the table pretty good to play on...

After that pretty tame in terms of making plays, and hit the break the chipleader between the three of us with about double the starting stack. Came back from the break and again played pretty tight. Lost a flip with AK vs JJ. Then got the s**t coolered out of me by raising 3x BB with KK. The last girl still in the competition im against moves all in from the SB, BB shoves too and I have to call. BB Aces and SB 7's, and I get no help but survive...

Im down to about 4BB's at this point at the 300/600 level. From there I went into push or fold mode the rest of the tournament. Won a few blinds, then got lucky shoving on the button with A4 running into JJ, but flopping two pair. We had another big all-in moment before the final table, with someone shoving in the SB for about 4BB and me calling with QQ. Flop A49 or something and his ace is good but I spike the bitch on the turn to take the chip lead into the final table.

Top 3 got paid at the last 8 players. One LOL hand, I raise in LP with Ax, I think A3 to 11000 at 2k/4k. The BB, who I have narrowly covered with about 35k vs 23k just calls, and check folds the Kxx flop, also with a weak ace...

Eventually we got down to the money and I knocked out the guy in third by shoving the SB with 46o, because the other person had told me they folded a lot to all ins, i.e folding 97o with 40% of the stack in AFTER we broke the money bubble... He called with Q3 and I made two pair to get heads up...

I won the tournament I think shoving K8 or K9. Getting called by JT or something and yeah, nice... Also won one of the raffle draws and took my winnings onto the cash table for a sick freeroll and ran that up too.

Fourth hand or so I get KK in the blinds. About 5 of the 6 players limped in so I raised 30 on top. Two people called, and my friend next to me said "OH NOEZ THEY CALL WITH TEH ANY TOO CARDS!1!!11" Which I dont really mind because I have KK... Excellent flop with J66 and I get it in vs JT and not quite double up. Same thing a while later with JJ this time from earlier position after two limps I make it 25 to play poker. The obligatory two calls. Flop T84 or something and the other guy checks before saying all-in? Im confused to just put my stack in the middle, the other guy calls with something like 45 and turns a gutshot, but misses...

Other then that didnt play that many hands, got lucky in that I missed my K high flush draw on the flop, when the girl next to me had the A high flush draw, however, the board paired on the turn so I wouldnt have lost that much money had I got their on the river. Would have probably check/called her had I got there, however, had she sneaky checked and one of the others bet, I would have raised and got myself in a lot of pair. Also made one good fold with AJ vs AK on a A high board, only because the person I folded it to was one of my friends, who gave up the game by saying "your pretty tight in EP, thats why I only called you with this monster, we probably have the same hand"

ACE KING ALERT, ACE KING ALERT

Then made a badish fold vs one of the drunk maniacs. Ax in the blinds and knuckle. Flop 96A and I bet the minimum. A couple callers. Turn was a 5, I bet small, one caller. River was a 5 again and the SB shoves? Im pretty confused, and would have looked him up for 40 but 110 was to much, and I have seen a lot of mouthbreathers play either 78 or 85 this was, plus my ace didnt beat the board...

Overall, a nice tidy profit and some bragging rights. What more do you want?

 

[red+black]

Went to Hustler Club tonight for Pub Poker.

It's closed. I ring. Chick says people weren't turning up Tuesdays, but poker is still running Thursdays.

So no ****, no pink bits, no drinks, no poker. Nothing. FML.

 

[Stubbyholder]

Went to Hustler Club tonight for Pub Poker.

It's closed. I ring. Chick says people weren't turning up Tuesdays, but poker is still running Thursdays.

So no ****, no pink bits, no drinks, no poker. Nothing. FML.

Hmmm thats strange.
I havent played there on Tues nite but I keep getting text messages and emails sent from PubPoker saying its on and there web page says its on http://www.pubpoker.net.au/venues/hustler-club-2

 

[ashley12]

A new poker venue opened a few weeks ago in Perth in the city, at the Impact Bar on Wednesday nights. It a free league event at the moment, but will be a pro series event in the new year, and has a cash table as well, which I played.

Slightly different stakes this time, the blinds were 2/3 to encourage some of the newer players, with buy-ins from 25/30 not sure to a max of 200... Rake was still 10% but capped at 25, which made the game not that dissimilar from 2/3 at Burswood except a slightly smaller min-BI and a higher cap.

We started at 6:30 for half an hour before the tournament started. I played pretty well early, and won a pretty big pot. There is a limp on the button to open the pot from a work-colleague, who thinks he is very good, but is kind of average and likes to shortstack... The SB completes and I put 15 on top from the BB with AQs. Button calls, SB folds. Flop A66. I bet 20 into 39, and am min-raised. Button has 33 behind, so I elect to just raise enough to put the button all-in. He dosent snap, which makes me think I am so good, and am now begging for a call from A5 or so... He thinks, pot is 119 plus my 33, so 152 with 33 to call. He calls, I announce AQ, he turns over T8. I call for running 7 9 one time, turn is a 7 the river a three for the close, but not close enough...

Just to recap, my line...

PRE: Raise biggish from the blinds,
FLOP: Bet halfpot, effective shove to a raise...

And I still got looked up by ten high...

Its funny, because half the APL community think I can walk on water because they have seen me at the cas once or twice and I am doing ok, and the other half are convinced I am the Fremantle Dockers of poker because I have made a few bad plays in the past looking at individual hands to rate a player... LOL live poker...

So anyway, I finish up the first half an hour up $71, which is a nice hourly... Get dinner, and come back for the break period.

Maybe 5 hands in, I get AQo and make it 13 somewhere resembling UTG+2. I am min-3bet by one of the APL players that "makes games". Folds to me, and before I act he apologies for killing my action. I just elect to call, which I think was pretty bad...

Flop AJ4. I check with the intention to checkraise. Our villian makes it happen by betting 20, and I snap make it 65. He calls. Turn is a blank, I think a 6 and I shove for effectively around about 75. He thinks for a few seconds then calls. I pray for ace ten, and instead I get JT, for a total of five outs... River is a jack ldo... and $330 evaporates before my eyes... I then have to listen to the villian justify the play for the next 15 minutes, which is worst then the actual beat.

I blow another hand, after seeing a flop to a raise with 79ss (steaming much?) Flop a 7 for middle pair and a spade. There is a bet, a call and I overcall, with plans. Turn is a spade, and I shove on the Ks7dXs 6s. I assume I have 14 outs to a win against a weak king, and in fact I get called in two spots for $100+ by KQ and KJ respecitively. River blanks off and I lose again.

There is a break because the tournament restarts, and Im pretty angry at this point, and even told my mate that sorry, I cant drive you home as planned, I must get even, before getting more ammo and getting stuck in....

We restart. I play a hand WA/WB with KT on a K55 x Q and stack said work colleague again, this time his AJ fails... That gets me up, and one person actually pats me on the back and gives me the thumbs up. Its actually nice to see that this particular guy was supporting me. So Joe,

We play a few more hands, I go card dead for a long long time... I see a flop with K9, flop JT7, giving me the good old fashioned double gutter. I call a bet on the flop, turn is a ten. I call a bet again. River is a queen, he shoves, I call. He waits, I announce straight and table my hand, he nods, before springing to action with "full howz" and I lose again...

Im almost certain Im not going to get level, when it starts going my way. First I flop a set, and get no action, but I win the $70 which is nice... then I make another set, top set, even in the window... and win some more money. Then I even get my money in good somewhere, and I am $150 shy.

Then a funky hand, and I line check please...

A raise to 13 from kind of EP, a few callers and I call with 23cc, so flame me already. Flop A34 with a club. I check, there is a bet of 20, and I call and the rest clear out. Turn is a 2. I check, he bets 25, I call looking to donk a safe i.e not A or 4 river. River is a queen and I bet 545, and am called...

So im closing in on even, then finally a break for me. A new player moves to our table, I raise maybe in the HJ sixhanded with J8cc to 13, we see a flop 3 ways. Flop 49T. Checks to me last to act and I elect to take a freebie. Turn is a 3 putting out a diamond draw, SB, the newish player, bets 15, a fold and I call. River is the absolute money card, the offsuit 7. He bets 50 and I salivate. I make it 175 total and he calls, my nuts is good vs 73o... LESSON: Dont call raises out of the blinds with 73o...

Overall a total profit of $130 for the night, and I actually put some ownage on work-colleague, which was good in a sense because his girlfriend/fiancee did mention the fact that I was bad and she outplayed me a few days ago, by shoving for 22 total on a 3/5 table and me calling from the blinds with ATs, and losing to ducks... Despite flopping a royal draw and overs... I just suck...

 

[csmithrd]

Good that you got even, I was told about the J-10 hand and was suitably sickened

 

[ashley12]

Good that you got even, I was told about the J-10 hand and was suitably sickened

One conversation my friend took part in when the tournament restarted..

PLAYER A: Were you watching the cash table, some guy just lost a $330 pot the river... He had a pair of aces and he hit a jack on the river for trips!!!
FRIEND: Yeah, that was my mate, pretty unlucky...
PLAYER B: He deserved it with that Manchester United hat...

 

[RoJo Junior]

Lol you know its true. Chelsea ftw!!

 

[sainter]

Is there anybody still playing APL in Victoria?

I used to play APL regularly a few years ago and started playing again in September. This is the first season that I've managed to qualify for the state championships so I'm pretty happy with that. I got a little lucky though. I was venue leader but had struggled for the past few weeks. It came as a pleasant surprise when the TD announced that the venue would be stopping until the new year because the place had been booked for christmas functions.

From what I can gather the State Championships are on January 30 and the Vic Pro Open is at the same venue the following day. The first 50 placegetters automatically qualify for the Pro Open and that's where you qualify for the Wild Turkey Classic. With a $600,000 prize pool, that's the event you want to be in.

 

[ashley12]

Played today again at the Impact Bar in the city...

A couple things about today. First thing was that a friend of mine, someone I knew well before I knew about poker, was playing. This was a kind of a pain, because I didnt want to steal from him that much with his BB being roughly to my CO... As well as that there was a few very drunk irishmen their, which was slow and tedious at times...

A lol hand. I raise to 13 almost UTG with AJhh. A call, my mate sticks in a biggish raise and I fold and someone calls all-in. Flop JxTh4h with two hearts. I mention I would never get away from that after the flop. I see TT and I love life after folding.

So anyway, after a feed we got involved. First up I suck. I check in the BB with K5ss. I flop a flush draw, I think 984. SB bets, I call, the rest fold. Turn is a blank, we both check, river is a 2. He bets 20, I raise to 55 which was so fricken dumb. He snap calls me with 72... and he is teh winner...

A few other hands, and I top up 100 more. So I get Q9dd. I think I raise it in MP to 10 first in. There is a call from the blinds, and a repop from the BB. I call and the station from the SB calls. Flop is Q35. SB checks, the BB checks and I check? Turn is a blank, maybe a 7. Bet of 50 into maybe 80 by the SB, BB hems and folds. I raise enough to put the SB in, thinking he has overplayed a 7 on the turn. Nope, 35 is good sir.... Until the 9 drops on the river.... HOORAY, I sucked out on someone for once... Also, it was Mr JT from last week so decent enough...

This puts me square for the night and I begin the long haul. What I noticed was a lot of people MASSIVELY overplaying small pocket pairs preflop, including one person twice shoving for 100 and 150 UTG with 55 then 22. This wasnt uncommon, and a lot of the time I woke up with hands such as AQ and AT... I even folded AQ to a raise of 30 (this is 2/3 btw...) Because we were deep and I didnt want to get into either a stupid raise pre, making more decisions post flop with larger edge IMO compared to preflop edges...

A while goes past, and I drop almost $100 in blinds and some limps that folded the flop not hitting a board. I get some money from one hand I cant remember, then I get AK. I raise to 15, and get maybe 3 callers. Flop K94. An Irishman donks 50 into me, and I shove for a total of 180. Folds back to him, and he tanks a long time. In this time a lot of people argue and yell, making it tough for a decision. In the end he folds... Someone alledges it was A4 after seeing the cards, in the end I dont know...

I win another big pot. I have K3cc and see a flop. Flop Ac9c3h. A monster flop for me. An Irishman donks into me, station calls-all-in, I just call not wanting to fold out any other FD's. Turn is the Kh, giving me two pairs and a FD. Irishman checks, I shove for effectively around 100 into about 130. He tanks and alledgedly folds Ah7h which I dont believe. River is a heart and I would have lost. The other all in shows a 9 and complains about how bad life is...

A few other hands, a raise to 15 and 4 callers, and I bumped it to 115 total with TT which I think was ok, but could have been uber-bad...

A few other hands, and overall I made a tidy profit of 115. Im pretty happy overall, and my mate made a profit of 181. Nice work between the two of us...

 

[Cartman121]

Taking peoples moniez on Christmas Eve...shame on you Ash.

 

[ashley12]

Taking peoples moniez on Christmas Eve...shame on you Ash.

I did it on the 23rd tbh...

BRAG: Also leant a guy money to get a drink when he had all the cash on him on the table.
BEAT?: Did it because he was deep and I didnt want him to leave...

 

[RoJo Junior]

Hmm maybe i should stop being a homo and going out to the Mint on Wednesday nights and go next door then hey Ash.

Or do both, win moniez and then go next door to Mint.