Cash Game Recruiting higher stakes players (3 Viewers)

This weeks game is looking very juicy!

Table is full for the first time in a while, which I’m happy about but prefer short handed play. I’m off work tomorrow and Friday so this game will most likely be going until 4am easily.

Couple of big action players that haven’t played in a while will be playing as well. This could be a +$2k for the big winner (hopefully me) night easily.

Also @TheJestyr will be making his first appearance at my game tomorrow!
 
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you sound like a great host with the food n drink. Also offering a nice poker setup. I wouldnt fret about being excluded. Your game sounds legit. Keep new blood coming and hopefully the game becomes steady.
 
Lots of money on the table. All the $5 and most of the $25’s. Even have some $100’s in play.

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My final stack. I was up $2k for a little but donked off a few hundred when we were 3 handed to help reduce the losses of the 2 guys that are regular that lose a decent amount most games. They were starting to get pretty salty that I either couldn’t miss my draws (or so they believed) or had monster hands already.

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Señor Tony said:
The bald guy looks like he had a rough evening!
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Perthmike said:
Hahahaha that certainly looks like an oh shit what am I gonna tell my wife face.
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That is new member here @gadgetmcnasty
He ended up booking a small win but got frustrated early on when a couple of big preflop hands got sucked out on. He calmed down though and booked a small win, largely because he caught two pair on the river with KJ to beat my AK on a K high flop.
 
Rhodeman77 said:
That is new member here @gadgetmcnasty
He ended up booking a small win but got frustrated early on when a couple of big preflop hands got sucked out on. He calmed down though and booked a small win, largely because he caught two pair on the river with KJ to beat my AK on a K high flop.
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Ok well I’m glad you booked a win then @gadgetmcnasty

Still a funny moment in time though, I’ve definitely dropped a fair few sad faces at the tables.
 
Rhodeman77 said:
That is new member here @gadgetmcnasty
He ended up booking a small win but got frustrated early on when a couple of big preflop hands got sucked out on. He calmed down though and booked a small win, largely because he caught two pair on the river with KJ to beat my AK on a K high flop.
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I knew you were taking pictures! LOL!
 
@Rhodeman77 do you recommend any good PLO training or study? I'm trying to break into the game a bit but I'm still not quite comfortable with starting ranges and such.
 
Kain8 said:
I need to hear about these hands that allowed you to have such a massive upswing!
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First hand was a melt down. I didn’t do anything special.

We are 4 handed, playing final 2 orbits then the game is over. Second to last hand now. We put on the mandatory $5 straddle. So the button is first to act. He makes is $20 and both blinds call, I’m on the straddle and have a trash hand I should have folded, :kc::6c::jd::4s: but for decide to call since it is the second to last hand.

Well, good thing I call because the flop is pretty damn good, :ah::qd::tc:!!!

We all check to the Button and he bets pot, $80, both blinds call. I flat call for pot control in case the board pairs on the turn I can get away from it and to underrep my hand.

The turn is :2c: giving me a flush draw to go with my straight. The blinds check and I bet $275 now.

The button, my old friend TK, and villain in many other hands goes full retard and announces POT!!!

It folds back to me and I have an easy call. I think we both flopped the straight and that I am freerolling with my flush draw, nope, much better.

TK shows AA2Q for top set and having two of his full house out is his hand already!!!!

I offer to run it 3 times, truely hoping he fills up once to get some money back, it doesn’t happen. I scoop the $2k+ pot.


Second hand to follow shortly!
 
v1pe said:
@Rhodeman77 do you recommend any good PLO training or study? I'm trying to break into the game a bit but I'm still not quite comfortable with starting ranges and such.
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This book is a good beginning to get basics down.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0818407263/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_KOajBbDA2HS3X

The biggest PLO advice is to play and draw to the nuts. Freflop hands, Broadway cards with a suite. When you start with big cards you make bigger hands.

There are lots of good videos on YouTube as well for PLO. Watch them all.

Just start playing.
 
Sure, reading is close to impossible to assimilate without playing at the same time.
 
Yeah, we rotate PLO in at my game usually...just micro stakes.

I'm fairly confident in my post-flop skill to make good decisions. Where I struggle is figuring out what my opening ranges should be pre-flop. Hands that look great in hold'em are not necessarily that nice in PLO...

Surely you can't just wait for nice suited broadway hands...it's things like A89ccc9d, do we raise from any position? Limp? Is it junk? It's a suited ace with pocket nines...seems good? The middling hands are really hard for me to know when to open raise or call a raise in position.
 
v1pe said:
Yeah, we rotate PLO in at my game usually...just micro stakes.

I'm fairly confident in my post-flop skill to make good decisions. Where I struggle is figuring out what my opening ranges should be pre-flop. Hands that look great in hold'em are not necessarily that nice in PLO...

Surely you can't just wait for nice suited broadway hands...it's things like A89ccc9d, do we raise from any position? Limp? Is it junk? It's a suited ace with pocket nines...seems good? The middling hands are really hard for me to know when to open raise or call a raise in position.
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So much of that will come with playing and table dynamics. If you are playing with a bunch of really tight players you play small ball and try to steal lots of small pots because they are afraid of everything without having the nuts. Or if you are playing in a loose aggressive game you want to be playing much tighter range but be more aggressive.

I adjust my style constantly depending on how the game is going.
 
Kain8 said:
I need to hear about these hands that allowed you to have such a massive upswing!
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The second big hand followed the shortly after the previous hand.

We are playing 3 handed $1/2/5 PLO. Effective stacks $2k

I’m in the SB and raise to $20 with AAJJ one suite B.B. and Button both call.

Flop is Q96 rainbow.

I check for pot control and being out of position.

B.B. bets $40, Buttom calls I make the call. I have a back door flush draw running straight draw and with 2 Jacks in my hand I have good blocking value to bluff a straight card along with my AA.

Well the turn was perfect, :ah: giving me the nuts on a very straight draw heavy board but no flush draw.

So the board is :qc::9d::6s::ah:

I check to the B.B. looking to check raise since I would only be able to bet $180 at this point and I doubt that will get a fold from any wrap draws.

My plan works as the B.B. continues to bet and bets $100, the button calls and I slide out a stack of $25’s making it $500 to go.

The BB thinks about it for some time and calls.

The Button now goes into the tank for a few minutes but decided to fold.

The river is the :8d:, which complete the open ended straight, but I have 2 of the Jacks needed to complete that hand.

I think the most likely hand the BB has is a set of Qeens.

I decide to go with a bet fold line of $300. If he raises me I will fold.

He only think for a few seconds and makes he call.

I show my set of Aces and watch the color drain from his face as he shows Q99x for middle set and a blocker to top set on the flop.

After the hand the BB said he thought I was raising with a big wrap draw and had given AA very little consideration.

If that is the case, I guess he called the river bet out of curiosity more than anything as he couldn’t beat any value hand I would bet. And could only beat a hand like AKQJ that I would semi bluff raise with on the turn.

I don’t think he would have paid off much more on the river.
 
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Rhodeman77 said:
The second big hand followed the shortly after the previous hand.


After the hand the BB said he thought I was raising with a big wrap draw and had given AA very little consideration.

If that is the case, I guess he called the river bet out of curiosity more than anything as he couldn’t beat any value hand I would bet. And could only beat a hand like AKQJ that I would semi bluff raise with on the turn.

I don’t think he would have paid off much more on the river.
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Way to get blood from a stone on the river. I mean the BB is getting over 5 to 1 on a call, but the river is just as bad for him as it is for you. If I saw this river bet, I'd probably groan that it was so small and reluctantly fold, unless I was up against someone who overvalues Aces up here. That of course is pretty player dependent. Well played!
 
Holding the two Jacks helped me feel more confident that he didn’t have J10. I also didn’t want to face a $1k bet if I checked to him but with this player he would only do that if he actually had J10 I think. Maybe 10% of the time he would with a stone cold bluff on a missed draw. But if he has showdown value with a non nut hand he will take it.

I guess part of my betting here is to see how lightly he will call down here for future hands.
 
I forgot to mention at 4:15 one of the remaining players (the one stuck) asked if I’d do some PLO flips with her. I felt obligated to oblige since I was up a lot and she was stuck a lot.

First one was for $50, I won, we went double or nothing for $100 on the next one, I won again. We did a third flip, but only $50 this time and she made a pair of 8’s with her last card to beat my A high.

I really need to take more photos of the whole night. But my phone was on like 5% battery the whole game and needed to save it in case my wife texted me.
 
Thanks to @detroitdad for making the 2-1/2 drive to Cleveland to play last night. I hope the game was entertaining for you.

Bill and I played one hand against each other. I flopped a set and Bill a straight, thankfully he was short stacked at the time so the all-in call was easy to make and the quads on the turn ended the hand.

While I didn’t book a win this week, I made a few very good reads at the end of the night that saved me a lot of money.

Here are the few pics from early in the night.

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Bill gave several of us SE Michigan railbirds some play by play for the night. Sounds like there were several 1K pots and lotsa action! Bill will probably be bored in our game up here now lol!
 
Rhodeman77 said:
The game I’m playing in every Thursday now has a people begging to get into it though!!!

So there are plenty of people that want to play $2/5, but don’t want to do it at the casino.
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