July 20th
OK, my live game is still tight, not all is lost. Went to Caesars in New Albany, which has a fabulous poker room (I recongnize it is no Foxwoods). So I sit down at the 1/2 NL Table, where the min. buy is $100 and max is $300. I sit with $220, no particular reason. There is only about $2500 at the table so people had left with some profit clearly before I arrived. That's OK, I am here to do battle, well not really. I see roughly 9% of the flops last night (7 hour session), because chip monster, beast, calling station, draw out machine (going to Iraq in two weeks, won the bad beat two weeks ago, and drunk) is seated right to my left. He began to standard open raise every pot to $30, so it made the play pretty easy. There were 3 pretty good players at the table, and they were really getting frustrated by this guy playing chip bully. Within two hours he had over a Grand in front of him and had busted several people on sick draw outs. This player was the kind of guy who had pulled his pants down and said get out the measuring stick boys!!! So, he goes on this roller coaster ride of having a ton of chips, giving them away, having a ton of chips, giving them away, etc. Well, I finally get to play the nuts in an unraised pot against him, and he pays me off, yeah he had the sucker end, then I made my flush to boot. So I take $350 off the game, by folding cards, and pushing around one of my buddies who I met at the Casino. Only dump $20 on a video slot, and manage to overcome my demons by staying away from the roulette table. OK, been to Caesars 4X and the results are great. UP $1300 to this point, but only playing during "tourist time" (FRIDAY/SATURDAY). I have such a better feel and comfort level in a live game, then on the internet. Because playing live, I am a FOLDING machine. I love the fold. I pat my own back for folding. OK, I LOVE THE FOLD. Oh, by the way, folded top pair 4 x and two pair1X last night. I am so easy to push around it is ridiculous. But, I do play the nuts, which I believe is a good EV play, so it works. OK, by the time I leave the table there is about $6000 at the table. I have got like $600 in front of me and there are 5 people that can stack me--to hell with that, I earned and leave. Roll in at 4 AM, let my wife know that the Disney trip is just about paid off because the US is at war. By the way, I thanked the dude for doing the dangerous shit that I want to have no part of. Dad had his GAME ON last night--9% of the time.
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I like to hear that story, but it sounds like you weren't happy with the table setup. Please, please let me sit at a table like that sometime - every time I play at Caesar's, I walk into a table where the most powerful drink is Mountain Dew and there's about 2 words spoken every hand.
ReplyDeleteIt's a well-paced game that way, but it's no fun playing a live game where you can't identify anyone at the table who is clearly inferior to you. Give me drunken chip monster any day over playing 9 guys who know what they are doing.
-Mundo (The "real" folding expert)
Didn't intend to give off the wrong impression. I thought it was a great table, just didn't like sitting right in front of chip monster. I had to play a lot softer than general preflop, but that was OK.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I don't think you would have wanted to tangle with chip monster for the following two reasons (neither of them have anything to do with skill or ability): 1) He was making sick draw outs 2) You get drawn out on better/more than anyone I know. Not a good recipe for you!!!!
And, Finally, you have just begun to develop your FOLD grasshopper, but with sustained focus and keen intuition you may some day join me as an Uber FOlder.