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Hi there /r Poker, I've been a very casual live recreational Texas Hold'em Tournament player for a little over ten years at my small local casino. I have just under $12,000 in live tournament winnings ($11,374 if it had to be an exact figure), and after tournament buy-ins totaling $6000, I have a total net profit of $5,374, for a 47% ROI (Approximately 100 tournaments played, averaging $60 a tournament buy-in) Since the beginning of October I have started playing online micro MTT's on Pokerstars (mainly the $0.25 45 and 90 player MTT SNG's they offer. Looking to bankroll 150-250 BI's to $1 versions of these plus the 180 player SNG's by the end of next summer) and have compiled a small sample of tournament data in that time. I would like to get any kind of thought or critique/constructive criticism on how I am doing so far for my online tournament play. I have purchased Poker Copilot, the $7 introductory course on post-flop play on upswing poker, and I'm curious to know how my poker book "Mastering Small Stakes No Limit Hold'em Cash Games and Tournaments" by Johnathan Little holds up strategy wise these days. Great information in that book from what I've seen so far, but yeah. I have a 33k hand sample obtained so far. Between these stats and what my Pokerprolabs player account information has provided me, here are my following stats and I would simply like to know if it possible to tell if I am playing well, or on a really good heater right now. Hand Total: 33,585 Tournaments played: 470 Total Winnings: $186.26 Total Tournament cost: $115.70 Total Profit: $70.56 Average profit per tournament: $0.13 ROI: 61% First Place: 15 Second Place: 20 Third Place: 11 VPiP: 21% PFR: 14% Agg: 47% 3-Bet: 6% 4-Bet: 16% C-bet: 56% Check-Raise: 6% All-In Equity: +4700BB over 33,585 hands All-In Equity Value: +3400BB over 33,585 hands Poker Copilot Leak Detectors over 33,585 Hands Pre-Flop Aggression: Everything is listed as good except Big blind as "passive" at 35%. "Raise more, call less" Positional Awareness: All listed as "Good" Blind Stealing: Attempt Rate: 44% (Good) BB won/100 hands from blind steal attempts: 82.12 BB won/overall: 14.05 Pocket Pairs: Everything listed has a positive BB won/100 hands with the exception of pocket 6's at -23.13 BB/100 (Notably, my AA and KK both have +1200BB /100, is this normal?) Suited Connectors: AK and KQ suited have +172 and +170 BB/100 respectively, everything else is basically canceling each other out. Would like to improve my JTs -75.33 BB/100. Are these statistics Good? Are they viable, or the result of a massive heater that could be due to run out soon? Any opinions or information would be appreciated.
Looking for critique and constructive criticism regarding my personal Stats as a Player
Hi there /r Poker, I've been a very casual live recreational Texas Hold'em Tournament player for a little over ten years at my small local casino. I have just under $12,000 in live tournament winnings ($11,374 if it had to be an exact figure), and after tournament buy-ins totaling $6000, I have a total net profit of $5,374, for a 47% ROI (Approximately 100 tournaments played, averaging $60 a tournament buy-in) Since the beginning of October I have started playing online micro MTT's on Pokerstars (mainly the $0.25 45 and 90 player MTT SNG's they offer. Looking to bankroll 150-250 BI's to $1 versions of these plus the 180 player SNG's by the end of next summer) and have compiled a small sample of tournament data in that time. I would like to get any kind of thought or critique/constructive criticism on how I am doing so far for my online tournament play. I have purchased Poker Copilot, the $7 introductory course on post-flop play on upswing poker, and I'm curious to know how my poker book "Mastering Small Stakes No Limit Hold'em Cash Games and Tournaments" by Johnathan Little holds up strategy wise these days. Great information in that book from what I've seen so far, but yeah. I have a 33k hand sample obtained so far. Between these stats and what my Pokerprolabs player account information has provided me, here are my following stats and I would simply like to know if it possible to tell if I am playing well, or on a really good heater right now. Hand Total: 33,585 Tournaments played: 470 Total Winnings: $186.26 Total Tournament cost: $115.70 Total Profit: $70.56 Average profit per tournament: $0.13 ROI: 61% First Place: 15 Second Place: 20 Third Place: 11 VPiP: 21% PFR: 14% Agg: 47% 3-Bet: 6% 4-Bet: 16% C-bet: 56% Check-Raise: 6% All-In Equity: +4700BB over 33,585 hands All-In Equity Value: +3400BB over 33,585 hands Poker Copilot Leak Detectors over 33,585 Hands Pre-Flop Aggression: Everything is listed as good except Big blind as "passive" at 35%. "Raise more, call less" Positional Awareness: All listed as "Good" Blind Stealing: Attempt Rate: 44% (Good) BB won/100 hands from blind steal attempts: 82.12 BB won/overall: 14.05 Pocket Pairs: Everything listed has a positive BB won/100 hands with the exception of pocket 6's at -23.13 BB/100 (Notably, my AA and KK both have +1200BB /100, is this normal?) Suited Connectors: AK and KQ suited have +172 and +170 BB/100 respectively, everything else is basically canceling each other out. Would like to improve my JTs -75.33 BB/100. Are these statistics Good? Are they viable, or the result of a massive heater that could be due to run out soon? Any opinions or information would be appreciated.
Went to Encore Boston Harbor wanting to play that hold'em game that they show on TV. I think I watched enough World Series of Poker coverage on ESPN where I'm ready to play live. I get to the casino and go to the poker room. I look at the waitlists and apparently there's a limit version of this game as well as no limit. I tell the manager I want to play the version they play on TV and he said that's no limit. So I get on the list for $1/$3 and go to the cashier. While I was in line I was hearing people refer to this game as "$300 NL" so I guess that's how much I'm supposed to enter the game with. I get $300 in chips from the cashier. After about 10 minutes I get called. I get to the table and my first hand the dealer asks if I want to pay the $3 to post and get dealt in now. I agree and the action is on me first when I get dealt T5o. I check and there's some folds, then this aggressive kid (I think his name was Ethan) puts in a raise to $20 and everyone else folds. I have $3 invested so I have to call this. Plus I heard this is a good hand anyway cause it is capable of making every straight. Flop comes Q 8 4 and he bets $25 and I call. I have outs to making a straight draw on the turn. But it comes a 2 and I have to fold to his $50 bet. Next hand I have 9♦6♦. And I'm in the big blind so that's also a plus cause I get to act last preflop and might not have to put any additional chips in to see a flop. There ends up being a raise and a call and I call for $12 more. Have to defend your blinds in this game. Flop comes all high cards and no diamonds and I get an unlucky flop again! There's a bet by the preflop raiser and the other player and me fold. Next hand I get dealt A2o and after the first guy puts in a raise to $15 everyone else folds to me. I have an ace so of course I'm calling this. Flop comes A 7 3 all different suits. I check, he bets $20, I call planning to call any and all bets to get to the showdown. Turn comes a T and I check again, he bets $50, I call. River 2. I check, he asks how much I have left and says all-in. I call. He tables AK and I show my two pair. He slams the table and then asks me "When I raised preflop, bet the flop, then bet the turn, what did you put me on?" I didn't understand the question. All I could say is "I had top pair". End up folding preflop as I get no good cards to play but then I get dealt a real hand: 6♥5♥. I call the $3 and another player does so as well. Then our boy Ethan puts in a raise to $20. I call and the other player calls. Flop comes Q♣4♣8♥. I check, other guy checks, Ethan bets $60. I hit this flop pretty hard. Straight draw plus three to a straight flush! I call of course, other guy folds. Turn comes 7♥. Money card. But instead of betting I check cause I saw people on TV check and then raise! He bets $135 and I shove all-in. He thinks about it then folds. I was curious to see if I could have made the straight flush on the river. I turn my hand face up and ask the dealer if he could deal the last card anyway and he said "sorry, no rabbit hunting". I didn't know what that meant, but ok. I toss him a white chip and we move on to the next hand. Ethan says nice hand and that he folded AA. I said thanks (but doesn't he know that hand gets beat like all the time). Gave some of it back after that by missing some flops and draws but my friend that I came with wanted to go (turns out he ran really bad playing video poker) so I racked up my chips and headed for the cashier. I had a little over $400 at that point so I told him that I won $400 playing poker. Can't wait to go back.
First time playing Pineapple in a casino (or at all)? Some hand analysis?
Our casino has recently got some Pineapple going. I wasn't going to give it much thought at first but then it started attracting massive whales who think A6o or K3s is playable and stack off when they hit their top pair. So I hopped in. Sadly the other 5/10 NL regs have caught on as well, so now the game seems to be split between idiots and good holdem regs. I figure if this is going to become a regular "thing" that I better try to get good at this game! Anyways, here's two hands. Keep in mind this is Pot Limit Pineapple, $5/5, and the discard occurs preflop but after the preflop betting. Hand 1: $1000 effective stacks I'm in the HJ with KK[7], 7 suits with one king. Button straddles to $10. Two fish in the blinds call call. Reg villain pots it to $50. I raise to $165. Folds around to villain who raises to $525 Can we ever get away from Kings in pineapple, 100 BB deep (since there's a straddle)? We got it in and he had AA[J]. I've done some thinking afterwards and my conclusion is that, since AA is 3 times as likely in Pineapple than in Holdem, KK in pineapple is about as good as JJ in holdem in these spots (3 hands beat you vs 1 hand with 3 times the likelihood), and therefore it's unlikely we can get away. Then again, JJ in holdem somewhat benefits from the fact that almost half of the combos willing to stack off against you preflop for 100BB are going to be flipping with you instead of crushing you (AK), and KK in pineapple doesn't have this effect and is more of just a bluff-catcher to a 4-bet. I'm trying to think if I should even 3-bet KK in pineapple for value, or if the appropriate range should just be AA for value and then bluffs. 3-betting and then folding it doesn't seem quite so appealing... Nonetheless if we 3-bet it and get 4-bet, we're not defending nearly enough combos if we only defend AA[x] and KK[A], are we? We probably have to call some KK's without the A blocker, maybe even all of our KK's...not sure. If we're only going to call with some KK's, the 7 is a nice card to have since it doesn't block any of his natural bluffs...then again, we'd also prefer our discard to not suit with one of our kings for that extra .1% of equity or whatever. Not used to thinking about these situations! Any thoughts on playing KK in pineapple? H2: Assume $1300 stacks Button straddles to $10, same guy as before. Two fish in blinds call. Reg pots it to $50. Folds to me I'm in the HJ with AQ[8] no suits. What would you do here? I feel like AQ isn't really a value hand in this game at all, but the A blocker is nice, and it might function will as a hand to play aggresively preflop similarly to a hand like AJ or AT in holdem being used as a 3-bet bluff. I decide to raise to $150. CO cold 4-bets to $370. Folds to me. CO is a solid hold-em reg and often seems to use small sizes to put me in a tough spot. I'm not sure I can fold AQ here for $220 into a $820 pot, so I call. Pot = $820, $970 behind. I discard the 8. Flop: K 8 5 r. I check, he bets $260. I fold.
We've been getting more than a couple "I play online a lot but I've never played live, so I'ma try that -- what should I do?" posts around here. As a primarily $1/$2 live player who has only occasionally been dabbling in online play, I thought I'd write up a short post with some general tips for people who haven't played live. Other live regs, please feel free to add what you can! Thanks! VERBALIZE YOUR INTENT This is very important. There are some rules in live environments including "chips across the line are in play" and "a single chip is a call" that might mess you up. To remove doubt, until you're more comfortable handling and cutting chips -- announce your intention before you start putting chips over the line! This will also help in situations where you'd like to bet using a denomination of chip you don't have -- for example the pot is $25 and you want to bet $26 because you're a big ol' jerk. A SINGLE CHIP IS A CALL This is a pretty well-known rule, but it surprises me how many people people sit down who haven't heard it. If you toss in a single chip, it's a call, no matter what the amount you're calling is. Similarly, if you put fewer chips across the line than the aggressor bet, and you don't say raise, that's a call, too. A common thing is for you to be facing a bet of, say, $75, and you, intending to call, toss in $5 to let the action continue while you figure out how many chips represents $70. THE MAGICAL LINE ON THE FELT Most (all?) felts have a big oval-y line around the table. Consider that a barrier between things that aren't in play and things that are. When chips go across it, those chips are committed to the pot. When cards go across it, unless you're at showdown, those cards are in the muck. If action is to you and cards are face down across that line, the dealer's probably going to take them -- just be clear about your intent. Use a card protector or a chip on top of them to signal that you're still considering your action. Now, whether the line exists and what it signifies can vary between casinos. I think the most common rule is the one above, but as others in this thread have mentioned, they've played at places where it doesn't matter. This all really comes down to making whatever your action is obvious and deliberate -- you don't have to worry about the line at all if you properly protect your cards, properly cut your chips when betting, etc. LET THE DEALER DO THEIR JOB Related to the last part of point 1: The dealer is there for a reason. If you need change, they'll make it. If you want to top up, they'll do it. If they're fast, friendly, or both, tip them a buck out of the occasional won hand, and a couple out of the monster pots. If another player just puts a bunch of chips out, the dealer will usually count 'em up to announce the bet, and if another player goes all-in you can ask the dealer to count the size up. One thing they can't do is count up how much is in the pot -- that's on you. You can ask them to spread the chips out a bit so you can count if you want but it's better to just keep track as the action is going. BETTING, IN GENERAL Ok, so most of these actually apply to online as well, but since computers do math for us, and since we so often just think of betting in terms of some fraction of the pot, there actually are rules that you have to follow.
The minimum bet is the previous bet. The obvious example is that you're first to act and so the minimum bet is two big blinds. However, let's say the action goes: UTG raises to 3 big blinds, which is a 2 BB raise. UTG+1 then min re-raises (which is a raise of 2 BB, because UTG's raise was 2 BB), so that the total bet is now 5 BB. It folds to you on the button -- if you'd like to re-raise, the minimum is still 2 BB, because that's what UTG+1's bet was, for a total of 7 BB. Say you actually raised it to 10 BB -- that's a bet of 5 BB, so the next player's minimum raise is 5, for a total of 15.
There's this thing called "string betting" and it is NOT OKAY. When you bet, you have two options: Dump some amount of chips onto the felt all at once or verbally announce your bet and then put the chips out. "String betting" is putting some amount of chips out and then immediately following it up with some other amount. That isn't allowed, and the dealer will refuse to accept the second portion of the bet.
A player moving all-in is just the same as any other bet. The minimum re-raise is still twice the difference between the all-in and the previous bet (although chances are, unless the guy is very short stacked, you're probably going to have to shove over the top to isolate it if that's your goal).
Regarding chip stacks: So, technically, if, before a hand starts, you announce to the dealer that you'd like to top up, and you put money on the felt before she deals everyone in, the dealer can announce to all players that your chip stack is whatever you topped up to. Like if you have $100 in chips and you put a $100 bill on the table and announce that you'd like more chips, then, while the floor is getting your chips, you technically have $200 in chips to play with -- it's just not physically there. I've seen weird situations where the dealer has to just tell people that you've got $X in play when you don't have any in front of you -- this goes back to "Let the dealer do their job." They'll help you out.
For the most part, just to make everyone's life easier, it's a good idea to try and keep bets/raises to a multiple of whatever the most common denomination of chip at the table is. For $1/$2, this is usually a $5 chip unless you're playing pot-limit. If that means you've gotta round your intended $18 bet to $20, man, it's just two bucks. You'll live!
Again, when in doubt, see rule #1: Verbalize your intent.
CHECKING Have you ever played Blackjack? You know that thing people do when they want to hit, where they just slap the table like their hand is a wet noodle? That motion is also a thing in poker -- it means "check." If, for some reason, you don't want to actually say the word "check" out loud, like you believe it would signify weakness or some silly thing, or if you're the coolest kid on the block who don't need no words ... you can rap the table with your knuckles, or tap it gingerly with your fingertips -- any sort of "up and down" motion with your hand will signify your intent to check to the dealer. If somehow you have performed this simple motion and your intent is still not clear, the dealer will ask "Was that a check?" in the same tone your girlfriend might ask "Are you in yet?" Avoid being in that awkward situation by announcing "check" or knocking on the table like you're knocking on a door. Or do both! As long as you're clear! CHOPPING THE BLINDS Some places let the blinds chop a pot. If preflop action folds all the way to the small blind, and both he and the big blind agree to a chop, they can both announce their intention to chop to the dealer, and if the house allows it (I'm not sure I've seen a place that doesn't, but who knows), then the dealer will push the blinds back to the players and the hand will end. If you're the small blind and you want to be a cool dude, offer to chop before you've looked at your cards. If you look first and then offer, that's often a pretty big sign of weakness and it's kind of a jerky thing to do imo. I did see one guy do that, looked at his cards and then offered to chop, and when the big blind refused, the small blind raised, which was surprising; big blind called, flop came K high, sb checked, bb bet pot, sb raised to 3x pot; bb shoved; sb called; bb flipped up KQ; sb flipped up AA and they held. "I offered to chop," he said, and we all had a good laugh, except the guy in the big blind. Sucker. CHIPS ON THE TABLE STAY ON THE TABLE Unless you're racking your chips up to leave, once a chip is in your chip stack, it's in play. You can't be pocketing chips beyond the initial buy-in -- the only exception being that if you want to keep a stash that you can use to top up with (for example you buy in for $300 and only play with $200, using the remaining $100 to top-up when needed) -- but even that's kinda weird and unnecessary. DON'T BE A DOUCHE Don't be that guy with sunglasses, a cap and earbuds. Nobody likes him and nobody's gonna want to get into a pot with him. You're grinding for at least a couple hours -- have some fun. Make some friends. Poker's a social game. I know it's a job for some of you, but you're allowed to enjoy your job, right? Also, one douchey thing people sometimes do and it's pretty frowned upon is hitting and running -- when they scoop an enormous pot and immediately leave. Seriously, that's a dick move. Stay for at least another orbit. If you wanna grab a rack and start racking up chips while you're hanging around for as long as you feel morally obligated to, that's cool; even if you fold every single hand, whatever. You want to at least look like you care about giving people the chance to get their chips back. I'll usually hang around for another twenty minutes or so, enjoying the free ("free") drinks and just playing super tight or something. If I just took down a $500 pot, I don't care about a few orbits' worth of blinds/limps/whatever. STRADDLING This is a thing that I haven't seen allowed online but exists in live games. There are two common types of straddle: UTG and Button straddles. A UTG straddle is when you're under the gun and, before you look at your cards you announce that you're straddling and put the straddle amount out (usually 2bb, but in 1/2 it's often gonna be $5 to make it easy on everyone). If you do this, then you are now last to act preflop, not the big blind. A button straddle is similar, but you have to be on the button and do it before anyone has acted, and then preflop action will start with the small blind. It is not normally +EV to straddle, but if you're super deep stacked and want to play a little loose and fun, go for it, man. NOTE: I'm not sure I've ever seen a tournament where straddling is allowed. This is purely a cash table thing. YOU ARE NOT CEMENTED TO YOUR SEAT Most places will hold your spot for up to an hour if you need to take a break to grab a bite to eat or whatever. Just let the dealer know. They aren't gonna blind you out. If you're just zipping off to the loo, you don't even need to tell anyone, although if you wanna verbalize your intent to take a piss, whatever, man, that's poker, I guess. On the topic of food, btw -- food is totally allowed at the table (after all, you've probably got alcohol there, so why the hell not) -- but don't be a jerk about it. Don't be sitting there with a big stinky plate of curry or something. It's pretty common to see people bring snacks like nuts or sweets and if that's your thing, by all means, go for it. Just don't make a mess. PEOPLE WANT TO PLAY THE DAMN GAME It is generally much harder to isolate people preflop than it is online. Online, if you're playing full ring and you're under the gun and you raise to 5 bb, you're probably not gonna get a lot of action. Usually that's what you want. In a live game, however, you'll often get called by the guy with suited connectors, and the guy behind him with K7o will call because that's his favorite hand, and the guy on the button will call with T4s because they're suited. If your gameplan is to get a couple callers into a bloated pot with a monster, that's great! Just watch out you don't get mugged. If you really want to isolate, you're gonna have to bet really fucking big, and the drunk whale with 450bb might still call you with 69o because "it's the old college hand, get it, 69, HAHAHA," that motherfucker. PEOPLE WILL DRAW TO ANYTHING Similar to the previous point: If you think your opponent is drawing, they will often call you all the way down to the river. Value bet the shit out of whatever medium-strength made hand you have. TELLS: LEARN THEM, LOVE THEM This won't help much if it's your first time, but you might be able to pick some things up anyway. Watch other players and how they act. Pay attention, mostly to their faces and their hands. People are creatures of habit. If you see a guy stare at the board like he's gonna murder it when he bluffs, remember that shit. STEREOTYPES: YOU AREN'T BEING RACIST, SERIOUSLY, OKAY MAYBE A LITTLE There are some live stereotypes that can actually be pretty accurate. Obviously your mileage here will vary but, for example, that old asian guy who's in every single hand actually is playing as wide as you think he his because he's here to gamble and when you bluff re-raise him he's not gonna respect your shit because you're a punk-ass kid. The old man reading a newspaper (seriously) and playing 1% of hands is 4betting? Lay down your queens. The large, pissed off black dude isn't aggressively betting for value; he's trying to steal the pot. PHONES The rule of phones is simple: You can have it at the table, but you can't be using it if you're in a hand. As soon as you fold, you can whip it out to do whatever, but if you still have cards, keep it in your pocket or in your lap. A phone is a good way to keep notes, btw, if you're the type to do that. DON'T TAP THE GLASS Sometimes I'll see players berate other players for making bad moves. Don't do that. That's -EV. You want players making bad moves. And what's more -- you want them feeling comfortable and enjoying themselves while making bad moves. Fish are a healthy part of the player pool, get it? Besides, we were all fish once. Most of us probably still are. Don't you hate it when some guy calls you a horrible player because you called his mega preflop raise with J9s in the small blind and flopped a boat? And wouldn't you want another player doing that, because most of the time they aren't gonna hit? Part of being a social butterfly means accepting that just like you aren't the best player, you probably aren't the worst, and people are gonna do donkey shit that makes no sense. Learn to love it. Take advantage of it. And most of all, keep them at the table. DON'T TALK ABOUT YOUR CARDS IF YOU AREN'T IN THE HAND This should be obvious, but I actually see it pretty often -- if you fold, wait until the hand's over to discuss it. You aren't in the hand any more -- you shouldn't be influencing it. And if what you folded is a monster, that's fewer monsters for the players who are still in it to worry about, you dig? If you're sitting there looking at a QQK board and muttering "damn, I shouldn't have folded my Q7," well, obviously there's only one queen left in the deck, so the guy with the K is feeling pretty damn confident about his top pair now, and the guy who was going to semi-bluff his Jacks is gonna be pretty pissed at you. Most dealers will actually reprimand you if you do this in an obvious way, or if you're purposeful about it, and if it becomes a problem they'll kick you out. It's a pretty egregious breach of rules. Now -- one note -- this should go into the "live tells" section. A lot -- seriously, a lot -- of newer players will huff and puff to themselves about the hands they folded. Sometimes I'll look around the table at the players who aren't in the hand as the dealer's dealing the flop, because if you see them do a sort of "pssh, dammit" kinda face, that usually means they would've hit a piece of the flop, which is one less thing to worry about from the other players in the hand. I think that's it off the top of my head. If ya'll have more points or feedback on those ones, I'll edit it. Thanks dudes.
So, you wanna go to SHOT show? You think it's all fun and games? Get to play with guns? See Jesse James and R. Lee Ermey? SHOT show is the annual pilgrimage of the unwashed masses to Las Vegas to rub elbows with youtube celebrities, bloggers and overseas businessmen copying US made equipment and share infectious disease. If you love guns, gambling and gonorrhea - SHOT show is for you! It is not my typical idea of a good time. I am not a big fan of Las Vegas. However: I do attend for a few reasons. First, I do enjoy travel and I'm platinum on AA so I can usually score an upgrade. Second, industry people are in there that I do hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars with business with so it's nice to put a face with the name and see what deals are out there. SHOT for me has been a bust for the past few years. Being a value guy, I want to buy at $1000 and sell at $3000 and as of recently the gun business is more like buy for $1 and sell for $1.10 if you get what I mean. We used to do business at SHOT and now it's just checking in on foursquare, instagram and rubbing elbows with bloggers and the like. I want to make money, not spend money so this is very annoying to me. Anyways, onto the play by play. Monday, January 22nd. One day before SHOT show. The TSA line is a shitshow thanks to, well TSA. I have pre check and breeze right through. I slog my way to the lounge, as shitty as it is to wait for my winged chariot to DFW. I have gone from being in an abusive relationship with Delta to being in an abusive relationship with AA. Although if you really want to experience the battered spouse feeling, UA is a few gates over. I board my flight to Dallas/FW and my Renton assembled chariot is having a problem with one of the ring laser gyros, the hate agent tells us we are delayed for an indeterminate amount of time. Even as an AA Plat, I have no cleared upgrades. I am number 4 on the list with one seat open to Dallas/FW. I am 39/61 for Dallas/FW to LAX. Fuck my life. I gate check my bags to make life easier for me and the rest of the folks slumming it. If I don't have to worry about being short on time, I like to gate check to free up bins for those who are not as fortunate. Eventually I board and ask the FA to say hi to the captain and get a ride report. Light chop all over north texas today and we're going to take the long way around the field due to wind. Me: I guess it's true. Dallas always does seem to blow a little harder in the postseason... CA: Hahhahaha FO: You got that right! Go eagles! Having brightened the day of the flight crew, I head back to my MCE seat in Y and kick back and relax by listening to my Rumours, my favorite fleetwood mac album on my ipod. We land at Dallas an hour and a half late eating into my 4 hour spa layover I had planned. I hightail it to the Centurion lounge in terminal D, my home away from home. Thankfully I don't need a massage since I brought my friend Laura some homemade chocolate rice crispy squares and she gave me a one hour massage and gave me a happy ending. I grab a plate and help myself to some of the excellent chicken and some mashed red potatoes and bacon It is cheesy and DELICIOUS. Between that and the poblano rice, I can feel it going straight to my thighs. No, I do not care. NOM NOM NOM https://imgur.com/a/WBcyd The lounge is packed. The bar is full and I grab a quick single malt as I have my meal since American's not going to feed me. They begin boarding to LAX as I walk out of the lounge. I make it to the gate and the entire plane has boarded because the screens say they are boarding group 9. Giving the FA a friendly nod, I ask to say hi to the captain and I stride through J and say hello to the two gentlemen flying today. Aviation nerd protip: CHECK YOUR ROUTING! I didn't, but I had a hunch since arriving from the east we'd get the ANJLL 1 or the HLYWD 1 arrival. I got a 50/50 shot. Let's see how good I am. Drop my bags at the threshold, poke my head in. Me: Howdy guys, we still looking good for the Hollywood 1 tonight? CA: Man, you did your homework yes we are! GABBL transition as a matter of fact! Damn I'm good. FC: Nice! I know you guys take a rash of crap from drunk Parker so I like to say hello to the folks who do the heavy lifting and I'm a total airplane dork so it's cool to check the place out. CA: I'm an airplane dork too! I'm Jeff Rowland, nice to meet ya! SUPER nice guy. He gave me a tour of the airplane, even took a picture of me in the left seat. https://imgur.com/a/xVIy6 Here he is showing me some stuff around the airplane. He gives me the grand tour of the 787-9 including this neat feature that actually measures how many G's they have on landing so they know whether or not they need an overweight landing inspection or not. AMAZING airplane. I'm shown all the bells and whistles and they tell me how fun the plane is to fly. Jeff takes a few pics of me in the best seat of the house. I tell the guys I'll see them at the in and out burger on Sepuldeva and I hike back to my seat in W. The FA's were wondering where I was, and they gave away my assigned seat. I take an empty center aisle seat and make life easier for everyone. W in the 787-9 is a solid hard product. The BE Aerospace MI-Q seat is a good ride whether in it for 3 hours to LAX or 13 to CDG like I was in a few months ago. https://imgur.com/a/iPHVh The boarding door closes for an on time departure and I watch another airplane movie - American Made with Tom Cruise. He's so dreamy. Jeff's PA's were really lame and had a whole bunch of people laughing in the back on the way to LA. The flight was not long enough. The landing is a perfect grease job on 24L and we await a tug to get towed into gate 41 at LAX. I say thanks again to the flight crew - worthy of note, http://andystravelblog.boardingarea.com/2018/01/29/pilots-lette My next hop via a 737 to LAS is uneventful. I stop at the Centurion lounge for some freshly squeezed OJ. It is DELICIOUS as AA's app tells me my bags are being unloaded. I grab my things and hop in the last car Hertz has in the gold section - a 2016 Toyota Corolla. Times are rough. I'm at Circus Circus again. I check in and tell the lady about the last time I was there with the neighbors and the extremely loud sex. Full story: tail end of this - https://www.reddit.com/guns/comments/5podeq/shot_2017my_tales_of_adventure_in_las_vegas/ She damn near busts a gut laughing and upgrades me to a skyrise room and gives me a line pass and complimentary buffet. I arrive to my room where housekeeping has not cleaned it to my exacting specifications. Specifically, there are like three hairballs from a cat in the chair next to the desk. I ask for another room and they set it up for me. It's now 1AM. In and out burger is closed. Fuck. Tuesday, January 23rd SHOT Show Day One You gotta get into the palazzo garage before 8AM or you are not getting a spot. I get in at 8:01 and miraculously find a spot. They are doing so much construction at the resort that I don't recognize it. I grab my pass and check in with some other industry associates. My first day is semi-eventful as I check out the sig 365, a very promising concealed carry product as well as a few other really neat things and many many useless items. I run into u/chugbleach in the basement and we trade stories. He shows me some neat stuff he's been working on. We plan to dine later in the week and I continue walking the show when I see the most amazing booth ever. Backstory: https://www.reddit.com/guns/comments/7ag6oj/gsg_stg_44/dp9u9hw/ I let fluff buy the hook, he posts $120 to win $100 if he gets his HMG gun by the end of Q1. If gun arrives on time, he gets $100 from me. If no, I get $120 from him. I walk back to chug. FC: DUDE DUDE DUDE YOU GOTTA SEE THIS COME QUICK CB: Okay lets go We walk briskly not 100 feet. I stop quickly. Chug looks confused. I gesticulate wildly to our right. This is what we see. I crack up laughing and can barely contain myself. This is the greatest thing I have seen in weeks. On that note it is time to take a break for lunch. I head up to one of my vendors who has a hospitality suite for the show and they are serving jambalaya for lunch every day. As a Louisiana boy, we do love jambalaya. There's a reason I spend lots of money with them. I eat and have a coke as I trade gun jokes with other gun dealers. I wander around the show and nothing else jumps at me. I walk the footbridge over to the Wynn to see how the house is doing. The poker room is full. I draw $2500 from my credit line and head down to the craps table to throw some dice. I have some mixed success as it's getting late and I want to hit the in and out burger so as I'm getting ready to leave, Laura sends me a bunch of filthy text messages about what she wants to do to me when I get back. My chips and raging boner leave the tables quickly as I duck into the bathroom to tell her that if she wants to treat me like a prisoner on a conjugal visit - I went to 8 years of catholic school, she's entering a world of pain. She says game on. After a quick trip to the cage to cash out, I'm up or down something like $100. I swing by in and out burger for a double double. It is delicious. Sleepy time. Wednesday, January 24th. Day 2 of SHOT show. Alarm goes off at 7:45 AM. I wash up, eat and get breakfast. In the garage by 8:15. Still manage to find a spot! Attendance is down this year. I get in line at Larue. They run out of dillo dust at 8:39. This is the line at 8:35 https://imgur.com/a/KLHrg The show opens at 8:30. Fuck my life. I grab a dillo and some stickers for some friends and a few HK calendars. I wander around and talk to the guys over at Franklin Armory and their new SBR that isn't an SBR, SBS that isn't an SBS and rifle that isn't really a rifle BUT IS STILL A FIREARM. The projectiles they want to sell have fin stabilization and it's like a 55 grain flying Lombardi trophy. It's an interesting idea but I'm not 100% certain I would buy one personally. I trade war stories with a few other friends I meet up with at the show. I head down to the basement and I'm looking at a few accessories from Tactical Walls. Just as I'm ready to leave - Joe Mantegna shows up and says hi to the reps. FC: Mr Mantegna! I love your work! Can I get a picture? JM: Sure. Someone grabs my phone and snaps a pic FC: You are great in the simpsons as Fat Tony. Just the best! JM: (in fat tony voice) I don't get mad. I get stabby. FC: That's awesome! Thanks! Enjoy the show! I send the pics to some friends who enjoy snappy Mamet plays and they are all jealous. I head down to the basement. The ATF booth is vacant due to the government shutdown. So is the FBI booth. Oh well. I head upstairs to the manufacturer supplier section and I find out that Olympic Arms is still in business making things. I do a lap and get some business cards from some precision machine companies that can make some elaborate parts. Jambalaya again for lunch. Nom nom nom. I head down to FN to talk shop with the guys down there and give them shit. FN's new innovation is a two tone FDE/Black gun. So now 50% of the gun does not have to match. I trade barbs with Mike Hoffman and we debate the age old question, is it really gay if you can suck your own cock? Just as I mention this, Steve Bannon shows up at the booth. That's my stop. I say hello to the director of commercial sales on my way out and go to the Knights booth where I find they're making 6.5 Creed stuff now. Interesting how quickly that cartridge has caught on. I talk shop with a few of the KAC guys and then I steal some more HK Kalendars for friends back home. I hit the Circus Circus buffet with my free pass for the unpleasantness and it is not that great at all. They ran out of roast beef. I mean, really? SHOT SHOW IS IN TOWN! We are beef eating gun owners, and you're gonna run out of roast beef? This would never happen at the Wynn, an amazing property. I make a mental note to sell my MGM Mirage stock and buy some Wynn in the morning. I head back to the craps table and lose a shitload of money. I witness a heater happen after I color up and watch people go nuts. My luck at MGM properties has not been good. Ugh. I don't feel like doing gunnit live and head to sleep early. Thursday, January 25th. Day 3 of SHOT show. I message Chug and let him know that it's gotta be tonight if we're gonna hang since I fly out Friday night for Boston. We plan to make plans for dinner. I head to the show and get there at 3 minutes to 8. One of my best customers calls me wanting an XM2010. I head over to Remington and through some finagling they manage to say YES WE CAN SELL IT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SELL IT. I work up a quote and get the customer the info and tell him what's what. I visit the nighthawk custom booth where they have a new gun chambered in .45 APC. https://imgur.com/a/9bNe7 I kid with a few FBI guys about their attention to detail. I saunter about the show. Leatherman Tool Group always has some nice things to play with. Tim Leatherman is engraving tools for people with his autograph. I'm happy with all of his products I own and I stop by to shake his hand and tell him that my wave has saved my ass on a hundred different occasions and I once resurrected a Ford off the side of the road. He says he loves hearing the stories and he's a pretty nice guy. I wander about a little more and I find myself over at the Emerson Knife Company booth looking around. For those not in the know, Emerson has a bunch of specwar types as customers. Damn good knives and operator customers. One of them is behind the table wearing a badge that says JOHN SMITH - JOHN SMITH INC. He's got arms that are as thick as my legs and he looks like a Navy Seal. He bolts upright from his seat and looks at my wrist. "Is that a 1675?" FC: Sure is! Damn good eye! My dad won it in an underground poker game in Hong Kong in 1968 from a couple of navy guys on shore leave that flew F4's off Dixie Station. "Holy crap, that's fucking awesome!" We talk watches and guns and killing people for a while. He says he's in the navy and the budweiser insignia necklace he is wearing tells me everything I need to know. Nice guy. I wonder what his real name is as the show closes down and as I walk out the magpul booth gives me a laugh. A paper sign on the door says "DOOR IS LOUD AF CLOSE GENTLY" I'm not kidding - https://imgur.com/a/GgSkU I head over to Chug's hotel and he gives me the grand tour. It's way nicer than my hotel. We go out and have dinner. I'm asked if I like Thai. FC: Tie good, you like shirt? Nobody gets my simpsons jokes. We go to dinner where a good time is had by all. Chug gets a call and needs to drop off a SHOT show pass to a co-worker of his flying in. As opposed to all the mechanics of a dead drop at the palazzo etc I tell him fuck it, just give it to me and I'll pick him up from the airport. In exchange, I tell him I want all the leftover chicken wings from the Thai place. It's a deal. I grab the wings and head to McCarran. There's a guy in a BRZ hauling ass and I decide to see what this shitbox can do. I get the Corolla up to 115 MPH on the highway before backing down to a more sensible speed. After 5 minutes of MARCO / POLO I find the fellow and give him his shot show pass and a ride to his hotel. I find it funny that last year I ran an unapproved uber substitute and here we are again and the same thing is happening. I'm offered gas money or a beer after the show and I tell him hey, it's your first time at SHOT - enjoy the show, don't sweat it. I hightail it up the strip to the Palazzo where I play a bit and eventually see a heater in progress. I split the 6/8 for $120 each and they hit. I press it and they hit again. Maybe this won't be a bad trip after all. Table craps out and I cash out still down a few bucks but better than when I started. By the time I make it back to the room, it's 4AM. I eat the chicken wings. They're delicious. Friday, January 26th. Day 4 of SHOT show. I've gotten most of what I want to get done, done. I ordered some Firearm Instructor body armor from one of my guys since lots of people want me dead first thing in the AM and things were going good. I sleep in and debate what I want for breakfast when I realize things are going a little too good. Nothing really bad has happened this trip yet. I pack up and get ready to leave the hotel when I get a push notification. MOTHERFUCKER My flight to Boston has been canceled. My confirmed first class seats on one of the hardest to upgrade legs in the entire AA route network - LAX to BOS, gone. AA proactively books me on the flight leaving LA a few hours later IN COACH. A middle seat, even. No, just no. I call American and they tell me the plane is broken. Damnit. I look on the app for acceptable reroutings and there is nothing available in first. I say fuck it, I'll deal with this shit later. I have the rental car until midnight, lots of time to make a new plan. I check out of the hotel, throw my bags in the car and head down to the show and it's a freaking ghost town. Parking spaces everywhere. I say bye to a few folks as my phone sends me a notification. WSJ: STEVE WYNN ACCUSED OF DECADES OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT Oh FUCK MY LIFE. I bought the stock back on Wednesday. GODDAMNIT STEVE WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT I skip lunch and walk across the street to the Wynn and their corporate office. You see, I have a simple theory. If the allegations are false, they should have no problem sending someone out to listen to my concerns and say the allegations are false and here's everything we're doing to fight it. If the allegations are true, they'll send down hired goons to throw me out the door. It's sorta like spousal infidelity. If A finds evidence of B cheating, credit card statements, sexts, racy pictures, etc - and A confronts B and B admits it and says I want a divorce, B is guilty. If B says A is cheating on them what the fuck are you doing looking at my credit card statements and phone you're the one that's wrong and invading my privacy get the fuck out of my house - B is really guilty. That's the theory. If they go full retard and bounce me off the property, the stock is probably going to go down some more. If they address the concerns, things should not be as bad. Since I walked through the property the last time I was in town, I knew where the corporate office was. The name on my broker statement says WYNN RESPORTS and so did the sign on the doors. I walk through the doors and to the end of the hallway where there's another electronically locked door that is unlocked. There's a security guard who is nonplussed sitting at a desk wondering if I'm lost. I explain to him that I'm a shareholder and I want to know what this company is doing about this catastrophe. He says he can't say/do anything and I'm instructed to leave. I ask him if he can take a message. He says yes, and I'm like you just said you can't do anything. So what's that supposed to mean? I argue with him about what he supposedly can and cannot do as I eat raspberry macrons that have been plated at the reception area of the corporate office. THESE BETTER BE THE BEST FUCKING MACARONS I HAVE EVER EATEN GODDAMNIT. They are. Fuck. He tells me that my best bet is to talk to someone else at the resort, not him. Fine. I leave and head to the concierge desk - because from one concierge to another, we can solve problems. I explain the situation and instead of routing me to the press office or investor relations - they give me a phone and tell me to speak to guest services. AKA the people that help you with your stay as a guest of the hotel. I give the lady taking the message about 15 minutes worth of comments and she's assured me that they'll be passed along to management. Given the circumstances I think that's the best I'm going to do today. Now, there's the issue of me being stuck in vegas for another night. I look down at my phone and AA has offered three itineraries flying out of McCarran tomorrow IN FIRST CLASS that gets me to Boston in a timely fashion. I jump on the 625AM flight to Charlotte. This means I need to be at the car rental by 525AM and out the door around 0430. Fuck my life. And I have nowhere to sleep/showeshit/shave. As I'm walking back to the esplanade to cross back over to the Palazzo where my car is, I notice the registration desk. I get in line and a lovely lady asks what she can do for me. I tell her that I'm a shareholder and I'm pretty mad about the way the company is handling their sex offender in chief. And given the $18 haircut I took on the stock today, if there's an angry shareholder discount on a room tonight I think that would be more than fair given the circumstances. She agrees and gets me a bottle of water and the manager. The manager asks me if I've stayed at the hotel before, the answer is yes and asks to see my ID so she can see if she can plug me in at a repeat guest rate. A few minutes go by and I wait patiently at the desk when I'm tapped on the shoulder. There's two former NFL linebackers, one with his back towards me and the other introducing himself as the director of security. Hmmm. Lets see. For those not in the know, there's only one exit in and out of the wynn registration desk. If there's two bodies on me, there's gotta be at least two more at each side of the wall behind it that I can't see, I figure 4 sets of eyes running the eye in the sky all with their eyes glued to the monitors, the director of security is holding my ID which means he's already got my play, my comps, my markers, run me through central credit, my red card, he's got metro running me for wants/warrants and there's probably an unmarked metro ford next to a service exit with an open door and a seat reserved for me in the back. I look down at my watch. The market is closed. I can't sell. Fuck. Because there is no way in hell this stock is holding $180 monday morning. Quickly, I bang out a message to my brother letting him know I am about to be arrested at the Wynn and to start googling Las Vegas bail bonds. The two security guys tell me to step away from the front desk and they want to know what the hell I'm doing. I tell them I want answers from the management of this company about how they're handling this disaster. They say I can't just walk into a casino corporate office and ask to speak to someone. Well, I just did. Why can't I? They said it represents a major security risk and a breach of their perimeter. After all, Mr. Wynn takes his security at the hotel very seriously. Me: I suppose if I were a sex offender with hired goons, I'd take my security seriously too. And if you really didn't want people going back there - last time I checked, this is a casino. The doors have locks. Perhaps you should have oh I don't know, locked them? Wynn Security: What makes you think you can just walk in here and talk to us like that? Me: I'm a stockholder. Technically you work for me. Wynn Security: You honestly expect that a big company like us is going to send someone out of the corporate office to talk to a guy like you about a thing like this? That never happens in corporate america. Me: That's strange. Michael Moore did exactly that and that's what made him famous. What's your point? We bantered in the registration area of the Wynn for something like an hour and 45 minutes as the director of security wandered back and forth. They never backed down with the questions and I never backed down from the answers. A lot of casino security is former law enforcement so they're looking for that time you change your story like on an episode of cops. For instance, if it was cops it would go like Cop: who's drugs are these? 1: Never seen em before fast forward 2 min 1: I mean my friend smokes pot, maybe it's his Cop: I thought you said you never seen em before? fast forward 2 min 1: So I smoke a little pot okay Cop: I thought you said it might be your friends pot? fast forward 2 min 1: yeah it's my pot They were looking for a reason to throw me out and as far as I can tell, they probably still are. I'm sorta expecting a registered letter in the mail barring me from the property in a week. If I start yelling, it's disorderly conduct and they have a case. If start pushing someone around, same thing. But if I speak candidly and gesticulate wildly and raise cogent points about how every single hotel employee I've dealt with thus far owns a combined total of zero shares in the company - they have no skin in the game and I do. So, they can't really criticize my opinion as wrong because I'm the stockholder not them. At least, that's my opinion. I could be wrong. Well, the goons disagreed with me and said I was wrong. They also said that this could have been accomplished with a phone call. I said no, because you wouldn't take a phone call seriously. And now you're taking this seriously. So, match point: FC. They didn't like that. It would not surprise me in the least if Steve Wynn was in the security booth with a radio telling his guys to find some reason to arrest me and have me sent to Clark County booking. This guy just feels guilty as sin. I can't prove it but my gut has usually been right about this sort of thing. As I'm waiting for my inevitable arrest and booking, I wonder if American Airlines will allow me another flight change due to temporary incarceration. Because there's no way I'll be able to leave the state with an ROR or a signature bond out. I look over at Mean Joe Greene Jr and tell him I was too angry to eat lunch and I'd like to have a seat before my blood sugar crashes and my head hits the floor and Steve sends me a bill for the shattered italian marble. He gestures towards a chair in the reception area and I have a sit. He offers to bring me another water. I decline. He brings me a water anyways. I consume both the waters as compliments of the house as a sign of untoward cooperation. Out of the corner of my eye I see the director of security talking to two metro PD guys with handcuffs out. I hear over the radio they're asking for a rover to take me down to the security office for fingerprinting and photographs. He is gesticulating wildly. The director of security comes back over and he tries to get me to crack on my story. I tell him I'm here as a shareholder as a private citizen demanding accountability of the management. I will not apologize for walking through an unlocked door to the corporate office asking to speak to someone to hear out my concerns, I will not apologize for going to the concierge since the previous person was very unhelpful and I will not apologize for expecting the highest standards of a fortune 1000 company chairman and CEO. And until you pony up and buy some stock, I'm not about to take a lecture about what is and isn't acceptable behavior from people who don't have skin in the game protecting what should be by all accounts a registered sex offender. He looks back at Metro PD. They shrug. They've got nothing chargeable on me. Hell, I'm not even counting cards this time. Next thing I know he quickly walks away and returns with a late 20's hispanic fellow who introduces himself as the hotel manager. He says that he's gotten a report from security and that Mr. Wynn's private life he cannot comment on but the concerns I have will be sent up towards management. FC: So you're the hotel manager? So you report to Matt Maddox. You tell him that this is a mess. Nobody comes back from this sort of thing. Not Harvey Weinstein. Not Louis CK. Not Matt Lauer. Not Bill O'Reilly. Not Bill Cosby. Not Kevin Spacey. Not Charlie Rose. Not Al Franken. And the LAST time this happened at Mirage, a shareholder revolt wound up sending the company into the hands of MGM. What's to stop Sheldon from across the street from doing the same thing? You tell them that. The manager nods and offers me a room at a rate, inclusive of resort fee and taxes of $335/night. I take out my phone, look at the Hotel Tonight app and realize that I'm being charged more money than if I were to book the room from a consolidator. Now, I don't mind the lie about understanding where I'm coming from. I do mind the insult to my intelligence. I am handed back my ID and the hotel manager offers his business card. I take his business card and go over to the cage. I close my credit line and take my deposit out of the cage. I'm down for the trip. Fuck this shit, I'll deal with it later. I call my brother and tell him that I've been released. We look at some flights and to get back to Boston will require another night in Las Vegas. Everything leaving tonight is full due to the conventions closing up. AA has some seats open in first via Charlotte and Philly, I take the Charlotte flight leaving at 6:30 AM from McCarran and they confirm me seats in first all the way to Logan. This is the only thing to go right today. I purchase some clean clothes since I will not have time to do laundry in Boston anymore due to the delay and head over to the palace station oyster bar. The wait is about 2 hours but I make some friends in line while I'm there. I am torn between the alaskan chowder and the bouillabaisse. I ask Steve behind the bar what he thinks is best. He says do the bouillabaisse. I tell him that sounds excellent, and to add extra lobster. I ask him how long, he says could be 30 minutes but check back in 20. I tell him I'm gonna go hit the tables and I'll be back in 20. The timer on my phone begins counting down. I belly up to the nearest craps table and I drop my cash down. I tell them I want it in black and red and the croupier complies. I bet the 6/8 split with mixed success and the pass line with odds. The shooter misses the point. I look down at my dwindling stack of chips and there's 15 minutes left. Fuck it. Go big or go home. Lets get this shit over with. The point comes off. I drop $100 on the pass line. New shooter gets the dice and the come out roll hits a 10. I look at the gal with the whip. I throw her a stack of chips. FC: Full odds on the ten, $200 hard way, give me all the numbers and a nickel c and e. New shooter proceeds to hit every number on the board, midnight, yo and a speed limit. Pass line pays even money. Pass odds pays 2-1. I'm looking down at a big stack of chips. What the fuck just happened? I drop $100 on the pass line again, the point comes out for an 8. I take full odds and all the numbers. New shooter hits every number on the board, midnight, yo, except the 8. The guy next to me has the all or nothing at all working so the only thing left to hit is the 8 and it's gonna pay 175:1. The 8 does not hit. Everyone is chasing the 8'er from Decatur. I look down at my stack and the table limit and the boxman. FC: hey Joe, what's the juice on laying the 8? Joe: 5 points! I take down my pass line odds. FC: I want everything off and I'll lay the 8 for a dime. Everyone at the table looks at me like I'm a lunatic. I slide over two purple chips and two green for the vig. Time remaining until bouillabaisse: 8 minutes. Lets see what happens. The dice bang around a bunch of more times. I'm ahead for this trip. Way ahead. Next thing I know, the gal with the whip calls no roll. One of the dies have left the table. Time remaining until bouillabaisse: 4 minutes. This is my stop. FC: Take down my lay, and I'll color up. The boxman colors me up, I leave a nice tip for the crew and start to walk over to the cage to cash in. I hear screaming and profanity, I turn around and I see the dealers stacking chips. The shooter has 7'd out. Time remaining until bouillabaisse: 2 minutes. There's a long line at the cage. I walk back to the oyster bar and I see a big bowl with a plate covering it. Steve behind the bar has thought of everything. I turn the plate over and look down at my stack of chips. Maybe today won't be so bad after all. https://imgur.com/a/bjK7R The bouillabaisse is delicious. The win is even more delicious. I nom my way to the bottom of the bowl and settle up the bill. I leave Steve a nice tip as I head over to the Palazzo to say hi to some friends. I find myself at a craps table you can hang meat upon. This is not good. It's getting late and I head over to my room at the Mandalay Bay. Now, here's the fucked up part. This girl I've been hooking up with didn't hook up with me before I left for SHOT. She's been messing with my brain for a whole week. I check in to the Mandalay Bay where there's a goddamn pornstar convention going on. FML. I find myself down at a craps table at 11PM and bringing a frontier flight attendant named Amber back to my room. The lucky streak continues. My flight leaves in a few hours. I kick her out of my room and pass out. Flight leaves at 625 for CLT. Need to be at McCarran at 525. Out the door of the hotel by 5AM at the latest. I set my alarm. *Saturday, January 27th. * I wake up to see the sun shining through my hotel room. I look down at the alarm clock. 8:01AM. My long standing joke is that I sleep like a dead prostitute. The evening of ravenous illegal in 48 states sex has taken its toll. Fuck. I grab the phone and press the button for guest services. I turn on the speaker as I open my bag wide and just stuff everything in as fast as I can. I throw my boots on as I tell them to check me out over the phone. I haul ass downstairs to the garage and I get to McCarran and board the shuttle to Terminal 1. I walk up to the AA desk knowing I am 11 different kinds of fucked. Nancy the gate agent starts working on my departure. AA's rule is 2 hours from departure on a flat tire. That's 8:25 AM. It's a few minutes before 9. Nancy the great agent cannot get anything to work. She has to put me in the special services line. By the time I get there, they tell me I'm flying standby and I'm on the flight to Philly leaving at 1PM in the afternoon. There is no way in hell they can get me on the 10AM to Phoenix. My cousin is getting married in Boston and she is going to fucking kill me. I told her I'd be there around 6PM on the rebooking. And now I'm going to be leaving for Philly in 4 hours. Granted, the Amex Centurion Lounge has freshly squeezed OJ but that's not going to be enough today. I run to TSA and get cleared. I run past the Centurion to head straight for the Phoenix gate. Hopefully other folks have had an irish layover. The gate agent there starts working me and she says that they have two open seats and that they're gonna get me on. Just sit tight. I step to the side to let her help a few other folks gate check bags. The clock is ticking and her colleague closes the boarding door as I'm standing next to the gate looking fucked. I take a deep breath and try to keep it together. A tap on the shoulder. "Sir, your boarding pass. Exit row window. I've taken the liberty and called back to make sure there's space in the overhead for my bags so you don't have to gate check. You are good to go." I look up at the three ladies working the podium. FC: Can I hug any of you? Gate Agent 1: No Gate Agent 2: I'm sick Gate Agent 3: Sure, why not? I head behind the counter and give her a hug. She seems pleased. I hightail it to the door. Gate agent 2 opens it up for me. I run down the jetway like a charging rhino, Chris Christie like. The flight attendants greet me by name and they realize that my nose is bleeding from the 8 ball I shared with Amber a few hours back. The FA points at my nose and asks me if I'd like to step into the lav. I realize it's probably pretty bad. I leave my bags in the galley and duck in and I stuff a bunch of paper in my nose as an ersatz tampon. I walk back out, grab my bags and I declare to the entire plane it's the dry air not a cocaine problem. Nobody believes me. I take my seat and there's an empty seat between me and an in uniform FA on the way home. We chat a bit and Cathy thinks my story is hilarious. She even gets on AA's PALL list for the flight to Boston and checks and says I'm number one on standby R4. A nice lady, I offer her one of my extra LaRue Dillo's. She thinks they're cute. The working FA walks back and looks down at the traveling FA and says very discreetly there's a 40 minute ground hold due to PHX losing a runway. This is gonna be really really tight. My connecting flight to Boston is not looking good. We wait the 40 minutes for the hold and make it to PHX about 15 minutes behind schedule. I bolt to the Boston gate. I ask if they've cleared all the standby passengers. They say yes. I say I should be number one and they hand me a ticket in coach. FC: Any way I can talk you into a seat in the front of the plane? The hate agent just looks at me funny. He does not seem to think that's happening. He asks me if I have status on the airline. Sure do. He says no promises. I tell him no sweat, I'm gonna go take a leak and come back around in 5. I walk back up and he hands me my new boarding pass. https://imgur.com/a/IJuPe I call my cousin and tell her that I'm gonna be a few hours late. Great ride all the way into Boston. I sleep like a dead prostitute. https://imgur.com/a/RKMSu Just as we cruise past the city of big shoulders, the FA wakes me up. "Mr Hayden, would you like some ice cream?" I look at my neighbor who is a middle age female executive and she is plowing through hers like Sherman through Atlanta. FC: You know what, Chuck? I've always wanted to say this. I'll have what she's having. https://imgur.com/a/our5R Ice cream on the ground, delicious. Ice cream on a plane, FUCKING FANTASTIC. FC out.
Walking around casino watching girlfriend lose her money at slots got boring so decided to play some poker. Five card Texas hold 'em 1-2. Second hand dealt is AA in the big blinds. Take about 75$ off the board with someone calling through the river. Later played a q/j suited pretty aggressively for and won with a pair of queens. Got pocket aces one more time and the board flopped three Queens (!!). There was about 40$ in the pot at that point so I bet into it everybody bowed out. Surprised nobody had the queen. I bet a dude all in for about 150$ He had about 50$ in the table on the river after an ace flipped, I had an ace and a four and was looking at shit going into the river with a possible straight that could have been on the board. He asked if I had ace/ten (big straight) and I laughed and he mucked his cards. Never had the nuts all night. Played aggressively when I had good cards and sat out a ton of hands. That feeling I got going from betting into something and then getting the win however it happened was awesome. Put money in on about 7 hands aside from blinds all night in just two hours of play, won four of them by my recollection and bowed out when the girlfriend was ready to leave, up over double my buy in.
Bad beat, bad call, or a hand I never should have been in?
I typically play 2/3 spread hold em at the local casino, but I have been disappointed in the caliber of players lately, so I thought I would try 3/5 for the first time. Sat down with $600. Played smart and tight for a few hours and was up $300. I was going to leave with my little stack of winnings as soon as the button passed me. I am in the BB with Q5 suited. Folds around to the button. He raises to $20. SB calls. I know I only have two more hands so I decide to call. Flop is QQ5 rainbow, boating me. SB checks, I check, hoping to trap. Button bets $50. SB calls, I smooth call. Turn is J. Still full rainbow. No straight or flush on the board. SB checks. I check, still trying to trap. Button bets $90. SB folds. I decide it's time to make my move. I bet $300. Button takes his time, eventually calls but clearly worried. River is an ace. I check, now a little worried myself. Button makes max bet of $500. I call. He has AQ, bigger boat than mine. I lose about $900 in one hand, my whole stack. It was pretty clear from the way it played out that he had AA or AQ, but I was so amped up from flopping the boat, and from bigger bets than I am accustomed to, that I just couldn't fold my.boat. I think my mistakes were: 1-should have folded preflop and never played the hand. 2-should have played smarter and cooler headed after the river and had the sense and strength to fold my boat, knowing my monster was beaten. I doubt after him flopping top set top kicker if I could have made him fold even if I had jammed for $500. What do you think?
[Discussion] Nitrogen Sports Poker Room - fair warning for serious players
Hello all, My intention is not to make this post too long, but include some personal experience that may help some members of the community on here make wiser decisions in the future regarding a certain sportsbook/poker room. So I have been playing poker on Nitrogen Sports for a couple months now. For those who don't know, NS is primarily an online sportsbook, similar to Bovada, which is tailored to US bettors. All cash is exchanged via bitcoin, and there does not seem to be any real ID verification. Relatively recently they opened a poker room and "casino" featuring online blackjack. While I generally have no complaints about their sportsbook, it is about the poker room and blackjack which I think I should warn the poker community about. The hand dealing and flop, turn, river odds in their cash games and tournaments, at least for texas hold em, are all screwed up; from my experience, starting hands are frequently "set up" in one player's favor such that that player will win a huge pot while the other player loses badly due to an poor all in due to an incorrect appearance of odds. For example, in each tournament I played, it was not uncommon to see two-player all-ins where one would have queens and lose to aces, or AQ vs AK, AK vs AA, etc. Even something like AA vs. a flopped straight would be relatively common. I would routinely experience many of these situations in one single tournament (lasting about 1-2 hours tops) despite the extremely low probability of such hands occurring. And usually I would not be involved in most of these hands while witnessing them occur. If you have ever played zynga poker just for fun in the past and can recall observing crazy coolers like flush vs. full house on too frequent a basis, Nitrogen Sports is very similar in a sense. As far as the blackjack goes: basically, the software, while claiming to be fair, is actually rigged to favor the house at around ~70% of the time. I know this is a poker sub, so I won't deliberate on this, but thought I'd throw it in. Clearly I have made a mistake playing on this site as an aspiring player, falling into the lure of "convenience" as I found a place to play poker and bet on sports on the same site. I strongly caution you to stay away- at least from the poker room.
Weekend of perfect poker... Well, almost perfect. I made one mistake Saturday night. Friday, went to a small room out east. All the tables were playing PLO but they had a list for Hold 'em. I dislike PLO. There was only one thing to do. I got an empty seat at the short stacked short handed PLO game and busted all the players. Now everybody could play Hold 'em since there was now an available table. Finished up a few hundred. Saturday, played at a casino south of me for a few hours. This is where my one mistake for the weekend occurred. Old man who was about 103 1/2 years old raised for $11. Couple of callers. I looked down in the Big Blind at KK. I raised it to $35. Old 103 1/2 year old man shoved all-in for about $200. Fold. Fold. I was momentarily blinded by my KK and instantly called. The very next second I thought, oh shit, there is only 1 hand that a 103 1/2 year old man shoves all his chips in before the flop. KK meets AA and I don't get lucky. Still finished the session up $200. Not done for the night, drove to another casino and ran over the table there for an hour or two until the game broke. Up a few hundred more. Sunday, went down South again. Up a few hundred. It was late. The last NFL game of the day (New England Patriots vs the Colts) was over. Good player to my right raised to 8. I look down at AK. I pop it to $22. Folds around to lucky dummy (he had a full rack and then some after a short buy-in making stupid calls and hitting gut shots and shit, in other words, a typical player) calls. Good player pops it to $40. I flat. Lucky calls. Flop comes A high with two spades. Good player bets 50. I flat, Lucky calls. Turn is a blank. Good Player checks and I know I'm not up against AA or the set of TTs or he would have bet with Lucky Call Box in the hand. I shove. Lucky calls. Good player says, I guess my Queens are no good and folds face up showing the Queen of spades. I have the King of spades. River comes and the third spade hits the board and Lucky turns over 52s for the flush. A full weekend of perfect play (except for that one mistake Saturday night against Old Grand Dad) and I have exactly $0 in profit to show for it. Finished the weekend dead even (except for half a tank of gas). Sometimes poker is exactly like life, or life is exactly like poker. Either way, I went home and went to bed.
Hello everyone, just wondering if I can get some advice on how I could of played this particular hand better. I know I screwed up big time and I would like to avoid making this same mistake in the future. Here is the Info. 1/2 NL Hold'em Hero on Cut-off with $260 QQ Villian is to my right with $340 Small blind has $200 Villian is a TAG player who very rarely makes a mistake, he tends to value bet his hands on the flop but will try for the occasional steal with check-raises. Small blind is more looser then the villian, and will call with a wider range, usually a small pair or suited connectors. He doesn't bluff very often. Action: UTG folds UTG +1 folds UTG+ 2 folds UTG+ 3 folds Villian raises to 10$ Hero raises to 25$ Button folds SB calls 25$ BB folds Villian calls 15$ Flop: JJ5 Villian checks Hero raises to 50$ SB folds Villian raises to 150$ Hero folds Question 1: Should I have raised more pre-flop? I feel my 25$ was too small looking back and should have bet around $35-$40. Question 2: When SB and Villian check the flop, should I have checked behind them, bet the same amount I did, or bet a higher amount, like $80-90$? Analyzing the hand, I feel that if neither of them had anything they both would have folded this flop for 50$ Question 3: How bad was my fold? I figured for Villian to raise me in this spot, he had to have AA or the AK since he knows I play tight poker and wouldn't re-raise him preflop without a premium hand. I know most players would 3-bet AA pre-flop but he might have been trying to trap me because he knows my style. I wonder if A J suited might have been a possibility as well. Any advice given will be greatly appreciated. Edit: I apologize, but I forgot to mention this was a live game at my local casino, and I have played many times with the villian and small blind in tournaments. And thank you for all those who have commented so far, I obviously still have much to learn. I would also like to note that the Small Blind told me after the hand he had folded 44, and was obviously priced in for set-mining.
Play a hand with me? I'll update with what I did alongside what comments say to do.
I was playing in a $1-$2 No-Limit Hold'Em game in the new Horseshoe Casino in Cleveland, Ohio. I thought the casino was pretty nice, but there were... windows!gasp. I sat down with $160, wearing my Michigan hat in enemy territory of course, and this hand happened within the first half hour, when I had about $210 in front of me. Come along for the ride! Hero is in middle position. Main villain is directly to my right, with about $150. I haven't been around long, but he seems to be tight with an occasional marginal hand. Effective stacks ~$150. 9 players, which was a full ring at this casino, which I did not prefer. That should be all the information needed, I hope. Pre-Flop: Hero, in middle position, is dealt JJ. 2 folds, Hero raises to $10. V1, in MP2, calls $10, 2 folds, button calls $10, 1 fold, BB calls $8. (4 players, $41 pot to the flop). Edit/saved for posterity: In fact, I'll quickly add my thoughts, being that I/we are first in the action. When there is a flush draw and I find that I may have the second-best hand, I will often bet to isolate and to feel out where I am in the hand. If I have the best hand, like if the Q had been a J, I would bet more because I prefer to take down the pot or give bad odds for a flush draw. Here I knew someone likely had a queen, with 4 in the hand, and any reraise would see an immediate fold from me. Finally, a leak I tend to have is thinking in terms of BB sizes or avg bet size rather than pot size after the flop, which might become apparent. Update: While responses were varied, most people seem to agree that I should check and not c-bet this flop. Maybe call a smaller bet but fold while I'm behind. The following is how the street and turn card ended up, so let's play it how I did (albeit foolishly): Flop:57Q. BB checks. Hero bets $15. V1 calls. Button and BB fold. (Heads-up, $71 pot to the turn). Yes, I agree that this was a bad bet. Even during the hand (after the street, obviously), I knew it was stupid multiway. If it had been heads-up, it would probably have been a good idea (albeit still very low). I had pretty much planned to cut my losses and check/fold unless I was given significantly good odds for a backdoor flush or some kind of read. Then this happened: (Kept for posterity): holy shit I just got extremely lucky after making a bad play, time to extract value. Your thoughts? My read: I have the best hand now, V1 has either FD or two-pair (the only hand I've seen him showdown in the half hour I've been there... weak evidence, I know). I then wish to give poor odds in case of FD, value in case of 2p. (Kept for posterity): obvious shove, but what the hell is he raising with? This is 1/2... does he think I'm bluffing? Does he have QJ, or a really overvalued top-two-pair (edit: top at the time of the flop, obviously QJ is now ttp)? Other thoughts at the time: "Am I really about to get paid off for two stupid plays in the same hand? How lucky can I get? I do not deserve to win this hand." Thoughts? Reads? Update:Turn:J. Hero bets $45. V1 raises to $100. Hero raises all-in. V1 instantly calls all-in for $125. (Heads-up, $321 pot). River:3. Showdown: Hero shows set of Jacks. V1 turns over QQ for a set of Queens. Result: V1 wins pot of $321. Cooler'd. Did anyone see this coming, besides CardCounter0? Even though he made the read, it is pretty obvious when I'm posting the hand that something crazy happened. I never assume set-over-set because to me the chance is very slim and almost negligible. If I have a set, I read for every other hand first. I would not make this laydown on a QQ read and in fact said "Do you have QJ?" right before he unearthed this monstrosity. I played this hand badly in many ways, and I think the universe was trying to tell me that by making me pay dearly for it. Then it laughed in my face by dealing me AA a few hands later when I had about $50 and someone shoved preflop with 99, when all I could do was double up on scraps and choke it down. Also, I realize the guy did not exactly get lucky with his hand. He had top set and it remained the best hand. The fact that I had a lower set on the turn makes him lucky, though, and makes me turn from extremely lucky to extremely unlucky (that we both had these pocket pairs). I only wish I could have the same thing happen in reverse, because holy shit. I wish he would have fucking reraised the flop, damn it.
Any live 08 players out there? Share your experiences
I picked up 08 because my casino runs a whack $40 max $1/$2 NLHE (20 BB max? Really?) and $3/$6 and $4/$8 O8 games looked like they had tons of action and loose players ripe for the exploiting. I'd love to hear some of your O8 stories and pearls of wisdom. Here are some of my experiences/observations:
The octogenarian tight-wads like to pass their time by playing this game on the weekdays. NEVER go on a weekday. There will be 2 players to the flop, each holding premium hands. It’s very hard to beat this game without multi-way action from players simply looking to gamble.
Weekend players are the super loose gamblers you're looking for. Sit down at your table 4PM Saturday and watch the wealthy oldies stream in. They play O8 like it’s blackjack; Any hand can get lucky, and it’s usually only about $20 dollars to see a $3/$6 hand to the river with a potential payoff of 3-1 or better. It's a hell of a lot more mentally stimulating than other table games, so why not throw $200 around on some roller coaster hands if it lasts you 3x longer than at the Pai Gow table? These players aren't playing to "beat" the game like so many of the young NLHE players so you won't find too many TAG, mathematical sharks looking to outplay you.
Most players are loose/passive. They will play lots of hands and call your bets all the way to the river with marginal hands and they will only raise you with the nuts. I almost never see 3-bets preflop. When I have, the player was always holding AA2X or better. People play AA like it's hold 'em and seem genuinely upset and surprised when they lose.
It’s a slow game. Slow to deal, slow to act, slow to settle the pot. You WILL get bored. Players take longer to evaluate their hands because both high and low hands must be considered and even the dealers take their time on showdown because it can be hard to check so many hands for hi/low and then split the pot among 2 or more players. You think live hold 'em is slow? O8 is even slower.
The average hand is unplayable garbage and “premium” hands come around about once an hour. My starting hand requirements aren’t the tightest but I still find myself playing about 2 hands/hour. I've gone hours without seeing a suited Ace or two decent low cards.
“Scoop” hands don’t come along often in large, multiway pots. I always play to scoop, but it seems quite unusual. Most of the pots I have scooped were very small pots or high-only pots.
It’s always easy to spot the competent/tight players because they play so few hands, and they usually happen to be in the 70+ crowd.
A lucrative game has about 5 players seeing the flop each hand. This places tons of dead money in the pot and can make one-way hands profitable. Some of my biggest wins were with the nut low only or nut high only in multi-way split pots.
Playing for only the low can be profitable in multi-way pots. Pots grow so large that being quartered (splitting the low half with one other player) can be profitable. I avoid low-only hands in heads up and small pots.
Pumping up the pot with nut-low draws is advisable if you think several players will call. This ensures that your halved or quartered portion will still make you profit, and who knows, they could fold to action on the river.
Bluffing rarely works because the limit format lends excellent pot odds and most players really are loose enough to believe “any four cards can win!” My only successful bluffs were heads-up and in position on the turn or river.
People play absolutely terrible hands and chase long-shot draws to the river. This creates short term frustration when their 349K scoops the pot, but patience pays off long term. If you don't see this type of player, leave!
All-in-all it’s a fun change of pace from hold ‘em, but “correct” play (correct according to the Hwang Omaha book) is a no-brainer that might leave NLHE players bored. Waiting for a strong hand that hits the flop with nut draws can get mind numbing after hours of play, but playing weaker hands in multi-way pots almost always gets you felted.
Professional poker player here, and don't think I'm just making this post because it would somehow be profitable for me (I play in high stakes games, so advocating for people to play in low stakes live games is not going to help me). For purposes of ease, although the same things I will say here could be said for online poker or other poker games, I will exclusively argue for why playing No Limit Texas Hold'em poker at your casino for a hobby can be a profitable hobby even for someone with no experience with not a lot of research and training. Despite some peoples belief, Poker is a game of skill with a high element of variance, it is not gambling. In other words, if you are better than some or most of the other players at your table, you will win over a large sample of hands, but may lose on any given session. This can be hard for people to handle, but ultimately the entire experience will be profitable and rewarding if you keep at it long enough. Blackjack or 99% of other casino games are gambling because you will lose in the long run over a large sample of play. The truth is it isn't that hard to become a winner at your local casinos lowest stake poker game. The play is incredibly amateur and in fact so poor that by following a few strategic rules you can win easily. At low stakes this will probably be about 5-10 dollars an hour. Not much by any means, but poker can be an incredibly entertaining and a great way to meet new people. The lowest stakes at most casinos however is 200 dollar buy in. At these stakes it is reasonable that you could go through a streak where you lose $2000 over a couple week or month long period. So make sure you are able to handle that. Why is it so easy to be a winner? Basically there are not going to be any professional players at the games you are playing. There's not many people willing to play poker professionally for a small amount an hour, and the ones that are able to will likely move up to higher stakes soon. Imagine you are playing your favorite board game or video game against people who have never played the game before. How easy would it be to consistently win at a game of Halo against these people? How about a game of dominion? Obviously, easy. Poker is no different, most people are that amateur. What skills do you need? A very basic understanding of math (simple multiplication and division) and ability to roughly be able to count the size of the pot. How To Get Started The game I'm going to advocate you playing is the most common game they will spread at a Casino: Full Ring (9-10 players at a table) No Limit Texas Hold'em. Not all Casinos will have poker rooms so make sure to do your research that your poker room does in fact have this game. There are many strategy sites where you can familiarize yourself with strategy for No Limit Texas Hold'em and develop or copy a suggested strategy from your own research. You should also stop here if you have no experience with texas hold'em and familiarize yourself with strategy terminology. http://www.twoplustwo.com/http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/170/live-low-stakes-nl/http://www.flopturnriver.com/http://www.flopturnriver.com/Brick-And-Mortar-Guide-For-Online-Players.htmlhttp://www.cardrunners.com/ There are also many places you can play online for free to practice general strategy for the casino. http://zynga.com/game/poker. Although the people you will encounter at play money games will likely be a lot worse than the players at the casino. Okay, I did some reading, now can I win? Here is general rules to play by (Make sure you have familiarized yourself with Texas Hold'em terms before continuing). Preflop: Early Position: Raise AKo, AKs, TT+ 5bbs + 1bb for every limper. Limp 99-22, and call any raise of less than 6bbs as long as at least one person in the hand has 60bbs or more. Middle Position: Expand raising range to AT+, KQ, 99. If there are two limpers in front of you limp 54s+, J9s+, K9s, KTs. Late Position (Cutoff or Button): Expand raising range to any two broadway cards (JTo or better). Keep same limping range sans broadway cards. Blinds: Limp or check any hand if there are no raises. If there is a raise, call with 22+, AJ+, KQ. Anytime you have AA or KK 3bet. Raise to 3x times the initial raise, + .5x the raise for each caller to the raise. If someone 4bets raise all in. Postflop For semantic purposes, anytime there is a pair on the board, you cannot have two pair. For example, if you have AJ on a JTT board, that is not two pair, it is top pair, top kicker. Anytime you have midpair or worse or a gutshot straight draw or worse, or a one card straight draw, check and if there are any bets, fold. If you have top pair good kicker, call any bet that is not over the size of the pot. If someone has bet and another player has raised on the same street, fold. If someone has bet over the size of the pot, fold. If a player has bet the flop and turn and also bet the river, fold to the river bet as long as its over .5x the pot. If you have top pair, top kicker or better (overpair, two pair, flush, straight, 3 of a kind, full house, 4 of a kind, straight flush). Bet or raise a bet .75x the pot. And keep betting that same amount until the action ends. If you have what will be referred to as a combo draw (an open ended straight draw with two overcards to the board, a flush draw with a gutshot straightdraw, a flush draw with one overcard to the board, an open ended straight draw with a flush draw), play in the exact same manner as top pair, top kicker or better. If you have missed your draw and you have gotten to the river, check and fold. If you have a flush draw or straight draw, and there is not two pair or 3 of a kind of the board, call any bet pot sized or less. If you hit your draw and there is no pair on the board, follow top pair top kicker rules. If there is a pair on the board, call any bet that is less than the size of the pot. If one card in your hand gives you a flush, check fold any 3rd nut flush or worse. Call down any bets of pot sized or less with the 2nd nut flush. And follow top pair top kicker rules with nut flush, assuming there is no two pair or 3 of a kind of the board. If you have bet and someone has raised your bet all in on the flop or raised your bet on any other street all in for less than 1.5x sized your bet, call. If someone has raised and neither of these situations are the case, fold anything except good two pair or better , which you will raise .75x pot. If you have a flush or straight with the possibility of a full house on the board, call down any bet that is less than the pot. If you have a one card straight (i.e. A7 on an 8654 board) that beats any other one card straight (if one exists), play top pair top kicker rules. If there is 3 cards of the same suit on the board, or the board is paired or worse, fold to any raise. Otherwise, play as if you have two pair or better. If you stick to these rules I guarantee you will be a winner in the game you are playing, as long as its the lowest stake NL Hold'em game at the casino. Other tips
Ask the casino what the rake is for the games you are playing. Anything worse than 10% with a $5 cap is likely not worth playing. Time based rake is the best rake structure.
Always wear sunglasses when involved in a hand postflop. Most players will have no idea how to interpret your body language, but the ones that do will have a much tougher time without being able to see your eyes.
Always take at least 10 seconds before making any decision besides a limp or single raise preflop, which you can do instantly. This will also prevent people from reading your timing well.
Talk to the players next to you when in a hand. It's a great way to get to know people and makes the whole experience a lot more fun.
Do not get upset when you lose or too happy when you win. This is a high variance game, wins and losses will happen and in the short term say nothing about your skill level. It is very easy to lose and feel like you are a terrible player and to regret ever playing. Trust me, as long as you follow these rules, you will be a winner.
Get an app called DonkeyTracker, available on Android or IPhone. If you are at a table that over 50 hands that are not 4 more more players with 40% VPIP or greater, leave the table and find another game.
I hope you guys found this interesting and are inspired to test this strategy at your local casino. Here's to earning some extra money on the side!
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