[Gerbs]

Anyone play poker live or online here?

[nma]

yup. both

[Gerbs]

Where do you play?

[nma]

online usually playnow.. live riverrock

[fliptuner]

Just got back from house game.

[quasi]

I play live casual player, not as much as I used to but probably 1-3 times a month. I play mainly at Fraser Downs or Hard Rock. I usually play 1/3 or occasionally I play Tournaments on Saturdays.

Anyone else remember when River Rock first got NL Holdem? 3/6 game with a $200 max buyin because of the BCLC regulations had a cap on it. I'm not sure why they didn't run a 1/2 at that time but it was pretty ridiculous.

I really enjoy poker, I like the strategy involved I even like reading about it I would say it's one of my favorite hobbies.

[punkwax]

I've read a couple books on it as well. Definitely don't play as much as I/we used to but have won the last 3 home games I've played so I guess I'm not too rusty.

Only casino outside of Vegas that I've enjoyed playing poker at is Cascades. Good crowd I find. Funny older dudes who just enjoy playing and don't take winning/losing a few bucks too seriously. River Rock is typically full of assholes in my experience. Only played there a handful of times and don't have much desire to return. Maybe I've just had bad luck with the table personalities.. That said, I usually stick to roulette if I'm at a casino though.

[murd0c]

I used to play 15 years ago the time and then it goto popular with all the tv shows and going to the casinos you get all of these rich asians making stupid bets with nothing so I just stuck with fun house games with buddies while drinking.

[fliptuner]

you get all of these rich asians making stupid bets with nothing.

Those are the best games.

[GLOW]

Those are the best games.

1:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciWBzhmOC_o

[murd0c]

Those are the best games.

until they flop the nuts on the river when they had nothing before that

[Gerbs]

Those are the best games.

That's the table you hunt for :concentrate:

until they flop the nuts on the river when they had nothing before that

that's poker.


How often do you play at riverrock nma?

[quasi]

Only casino outside of Vegas that I've enjoyed playing poker at is Cascades. Good crowd I find. Funny older dudes who just enjoy playing and don't take winning/losing a few bucks too seriously. River Rock is typically full of assholes in my experience. Only played there a handful of times and don't have much desire to return. Maybe I've just had bad luck with the table personalities.. That said, I usually stick to roulette if I'm at a casino though.


Cascades room is more like a poker hallway. They shut the old room down, put in a restaurant and jammed the poker room if you want to call it that where the washrooms used to be in between slot machines. I used to play there a lot, I won't step foot in there anymore.

[fliptuner]

until they flop the nuts on the river when they had nothing before that

:suspicious:


It's only bad if he did this after sucking out:

https://i.imgflip.com/4exc4.gif

[punkwax]

Cascades room is more like a poker hallway. They shut the old room down, put in a restaurant and jammed the poker room if you want to call it that where the washrooms used to be in between slot machines. I used to play there a lot, I won't step foot in there anymore.

That sucks. I liked it there... must have been referring to the old poker room.. haven't been there in 6-7 years.

[Verdasco]

i play poker too. Only tournaments in casino i play are the big buy in ones, took a big bad beat in the $777 past fall for chiplead. Found the $60 are a hyper turbo fest and is time wasted.

Made $40,000 profit last year playing online on stars/FTP

if you guys want advice on hand history or strategy, post here!

if you guys play tournaments that is more than $50+ online, do not bother playing on weekdays, regulars online will crush, play on sundays! (pokerstars/FTP)

online midstakes is too reg infested, game isn't looking too well in the upcoming years.

[Nabatron]

play mostly at cascades since its closer to me but play sometimes at fraser. I usually play tourneys since they are cheap but will sometimes play 1/3 at cascades. As for the room it is shit compared to fraser. The thing with fraser though is management fucks that room on a continuous basis. It has around 14 tables for cash/tourney and when the bad beat was huge they had like 2 tables of cash going and a cap of 2 tables for tourney. They also had around 30+ waiting for cash game but didnt have the dealers to open up more tables. This happens on a regular basis there which pisses alot of the players like myself off...

[Gerbs]

Sunday million today �� online is so tough compared to live. Can barely cracked even at 25 L

Can barely go even at 25nl lol .. live is a million times softer.

[RickyTan3]

i play poker too. Only tournaments in casino i play are the big buy in ones, took a big bad beat in the $777 past fall for chiplead. Found the $60 are a hyper turbo fest and is time wasted.

Made $40,000 profit last year playing online on stars/FTP

if you guys want advice on hand history or strategy, post here!

if you guys play tournaments that is more than $50+ online, do not bother playing on weekdays, regulars online will crush, play on sundays! (pokerstars/FTP)

online midstakes is too reg infested, game isn't looking too well in the upcoming years.

What bad beat was it? day 1 or day 2?

I almost hit the final table stars sunday million last week.
Got owned twice by running cards. had like 2 mil chips and got knocked to 500 after those 2 hands and exited.

[Gerbs]

^ what place did you get?

[RickyTan3]

^ what place did you get?

Low 30s.

[Gerbs]

Just busted 430th :whistle:

[nma]

That's the table you hunt for :concentrate:



that's poker.


How often do you play at riverrock nma?

I've played poker for a living for 2 years.. Travelled quite a bit, played private games, etc...

It's a complicated game and I've spent quite a bit of time studying it. Live games are still easy to beat, online is drying up.

I'm still pretty young so I just did it for a cool experience. I still play quite a bit but I'm in the midst of starting my career (I graduated school just under a year ago).

I play the RR 2/5 pretty often, and bigger if it runs.. kinda rare nowadays.

Private games are kinda tough to get in to, they are also pretty big. I've ran pretty bad in them in the last bit, so I'm currently just sticking to the casino.. Nice and easy! Variance is a bitch, no matter how good you are, playing high stakes and shot taking is pretty much like a lottery. I played some dude heads up, who was clicking buttons at 50/100 NL, and I couldn't win a dime. The way you beat this game and make actual money is through consistency and discipline.

[fliptuner]

My friend just took LOA to play full time. Been running pretty good at the big events and cash. Apparently Macau isn't that great for poker as it is for table games.

[nma]

My friend just took LOA to play full time. Been running pretty good at the big events and cash. Apparently Macau isn't that great for poker as it is for table games.

How can table games be good anywhere?? I was in Macau in October. The games were good for the stakes we were playing

[Gerbs]

I know a friend who flies to L.A to full time 10/20, told me game was great there. I tend to play at Hardrock, I find riverrock the player is ether solid or super nit. Still working my way up hopefully play 2/5 in a year or so.

Any books suggestions or good reads?

[nma]

I know a friend who flies to L.A to full time 10/20, told me game was great there. I tend to play at Hardrock, I find riverrock the player is ether solid or super nit. Still working my way up hopefully play 2/5 in a year or so.

Any books suggestions or good reads?

haven't read a single book in my career. I've surrounded my self with good players and we exchange ideas. Other than that it just takes practice. I had several subscriptions to various sites.. I still have one for runitonce.com but it costs 100usd a month, and it's only valuable if you're on that level.

LA is great.. I just hate living out of a suitcase for extended periods on time.. It gets old really fast. That's why I decided that this isn't something I would like to do as a career in the future.
Playing in Macau / LA / and generally following the events around is really fun and exciting at first, but for me it got boring and I missed home. It's also really tough if you're in a relationship, which I am.
Playing live games in Vancouver can still generate you a decent income, but I like to do things to the best of my ability, and knowing I can profit more somewhere else kind of bothers me. As for online games,
I think those are going to keep getting worse, and I don't want to invest a bunch of time in to becoming good enough to beat the higher stakes, only to not be able to play a few years down the road.

[XplicitLuder]

i play a bit on pokerstars through my phone or comp but for some reason i could never buy real $$ to play lol it kept saying my gender was female...when clearly... nvm.. lol so bought like 10$ fake chips and just play that once in a while but nothing crazy like you guys. Used to love playing with friends but mine rarely do and theres not many out there. poker night at flips :whistle:

[Gerbs]

Yeah I just started playing when i turned 19 since a couple of my older friends play for a living.. Do you know the average $/hr at 2/5 and 5/10 for a winning player? Running real hot atm at 1/2 since I had help table selecting hard. Waiting for the downswing.

[nma]

Yeah I just started playing when i turned 19 since a couple of my older friends play for a living.. Do you know the average $/hr at 2/5 and 5/10 for a winning player? Running real hot atm at 1/2 since I had help table selecting hard. Waiting for the downswing.

it really depends on your skill level, how good the games are, how deep the games are, etc...

RR 2/5 is pretty deep and these days a lot of people buy in for 1k+ and really don't know how to play deep.. This skyrockets your win rate if you know how to properly exploit your opponents.. I think the cap at 2/5 is like $70-100/hr, and when 5/10 runs it's much higher since it's 1k-5k.. Those are rare now though, and only run if there's a reason.

RR 2/5 is like LA 5/10, in terms of buyin similarities... 5/10 at RR is slightly smaller than 10/20 elsewhere. Just camp and wait for the rich Asians to come in! Hahaha.. but if you're good you can abuse all the regs and make money off them too.. Honestly you can probably teach a monkey to beat 2/5, it's pretty simple.

To be successful in poker you need to have strong logic, unbiased decision making / perspectives, patience (especially for live poker), and discipline (bank roll management, work hours, etc..) Master all those and you can crush like 95% of live games

[chipmunk604]

I used to be a weekend warrior at boulevard playing 1/2 since i lived 5 mins away. I am not that good, but good enough to beat mediocre players to be a winning player. I am still learning and improving as i play through experience. i play because i love the game and see it as a hobby.

Boulevard used to be my winning casino and now that it has changed to hard rock, it feels different. Every time i walk in there, all i see is all regs. (the poker room moved and they reduced 2 tables to 10 total now) Recently, i've been making the drive to river rock as i find their games more juicy and more action.

anyone hit any bad beat jackpot? table share or winner or loser?

[Verdasco]

I've played poker for a living for 2 years.. Travelled quite a bit, played private games, etc...

It's a complicated game and I've spent quite a bit of time studying it. Live games are still easy to beat, online is drying up.

I'm still pretty young so I just did it for a cool experience. I still play quite a bit but I'm in the midst of starting my career (I graduated school just under a year ago).

I play the RR 2/5 pretty often, and bigger if it runs.. kinda rare nowadays.

Private games are kinda tough to get in to, they are also pretty big. I've ran pretty bad in them in the last bit, so I'm currently just sticking to the casino.. Nice and easy! Variance is a bitch, no matter how good you are, playing high stakes and shot taking is pretty much like a lottery. I played some dude heads up, who was clicking buttons at 50/100 NL, and I couldn't win a dime. The way you beat this game and make actual money is through consistency and discipline.

damn, 50/100 NL, u headsup boss online or what?


if you guys want free content, go to twitch and watch pro player stream

[Gerbs]

I normally just browse 2p2 and look up old content.
What mtt do you play to run up 40k/yr on pokerstars?
@chipmunk I always find hardrock the softest especially with all the regs at 1/2 only like 3 or 4 of them are solid. rest are pretty much abc poker

@nma holy crap 2/5 makes that much I was only thinking about 35 to 70 tops

[Verdasco]

i personally play mid stakes deep stack tournies but I find myself better in turbos compared to an ABC player. Live tournies are easy too, no one is good in those $60 early birds. no one.

[Gerbs]

i personally play mid stakes deep stack tournies but I find myself better in turbos compared to an ABC player. Live tournies are easy too, no one is good in those $60 early birds. no one.

brother told me those tourneys that are 40 - 60 bucks are super high variance cause blinds increase every 15 minutes. Ill probably try it out though since its super soft.

Do you only play online tourneys? Do you play live cash games.

[Verdasco]

brother told me those tourneys that are 40 - 60 bucks are super high variance cause blinds increase every 15 minutes. Ill probably try it out though since its super soft.

Do you only play online tourneys? Do you play live cash games.

i said the same on the first page, very high variance but super easy. not worth the time but those are the only ones we get daily compared to LA / Florida

I don't play cash games, find it very boring. Especially live. To each their own I guess.

[nma]

damn, 50/100 NL, u headsup boss online or what?


if you guys want free content, go to twitch and watch pro player stream

No. Was playing at Riverrock during a wsopc event. Our 10/25 game broke and some guy wanted to play heads up so we played till the AM lol..

Yeah the win rate is only higher because of the deepstack play..

[Vale46Rossi]

I cant play poker online, I get distracted and start doing stupid shit.


From what my friends have told me, if you can beat 1/2 in Vancouver you can beat 5/10 in most places, Vancouver is very tough for poker.

I crushed Macau's game for 2 weeks straight last year and I was playing $50/100HKD

A lot of it had to do with, dont think about it being big big money and being scared to call someone down as it costs $200-400 canadian, once you get past that step and you know how to play you should be in a really good position.

[nma]

I cant play poker online, I get distracted and start doing stupid shit.


From what my friends have told me, if you can beat 1/2 in Vancouver you can beat 5/10 in most places, Vancouver is very tough for poker.

I crushed Macau's game for 2 weeks straight last year and I was playing $50/100HKD

A lot of it had to do with, dont think about it being big big money and being scared to call someone down as it costs $200-400 canadian, once you get past that step and you know how to play you should be in a really good position.

none of what you said is true.. you probably ran well in macau lol and your last suggestion is super general and doesn't make much sense. I would never use beating 1/2 as a basis for playing 5/10 elsewhere... There is much more that goes in to playing poker, especially moving up stakes. You don't seem properly rolled if you're thinking about "calling down just because it's $200-300". When I play I don't even care what the amount is, if I'm playing the game, I'm properly rolled and my goal is just to win. You can't have things like that make your decisions biased, as it's going to punish your winrate in the long/short run

Vancouver games are really soft. Whoever thinks they are hard are either used to just playing a bunch of whales, or are unable to find player's weaknesses and properly exploit them.
In Vancouver you can literally play any 2 cards and not get punished. People play their hands really face up a good portion of the time, and literally almost never 3bet / 4bet bluff.
Put deep stacks in to play at 2/5 and you can just run anyone over.

[Gerbs]

[QUOTE=Vale46Rossi;8594264]I cant play poker online, I get distracted and start doing stupid shit.


From what my friends have told me, if you can beat 1/2 in Vancouver you can beat 5/10 in most places, Vancouver is very tough for poker.
/QUOTE]

Yeah I heard Montreal and Vancouver have the most solid players for live poker. There's a reg at hardrock who won the sunday million and sunday warmup in the same month

[Verdasco]

montreal for sure have better players....

[Vale46Rossi]

none of what you said is true.. you probably ran well in macau lol and your last suggestion is super general and doesn't make much sense. I would never use beating 1/2 as a basis for playing 5/10 elsewhere... There is much more that goes in to playing poker, especially moving up stakes. You don't seem properly rolled if you're thinking about "calling down just because it's $200-300". When I play I don't even care what the amount is, if I'm playing the game, I'm properly rolled and my goal is just to win. You can't have things like that make your decisions biased, as it's going to punish your winrate in the long/short run

Vancouver games are really soft. Whoever thinks they are hard are either used to just playing a bunch of whales, or are unable to find player's weaknesses and properly exploit them.
In Vancouver you can literally play any 2 cards and not get punished. People play their hands really face up a good portion of the time, and literally almost never 3bet / 4bet bluff.
Put deep stacks in to play at 2/5 and you can just run anyone over.


Actually no, it had a lot to do with how I am used to playing 1/2 and 2/5 here, its a lot different atmosphere in Macau as starting there is minimum 25/50 which is $3.5/7 and those games dont usually run and their common game is 50/100 which is a lot bigger than I am used to, I have the bankroll no problem as I have saved up from poker for many years and I am a winning player but I am just so used to 1/2 raise with premium is around $15-20 UTG or something like that, so it's very hard to wrap my head around it.

But once I get used to it its a lot easier to swallow.


Vancouver and Montreal is extremely tough, and if you think Vancouver is a soft game you need to go out there and play more.

[Gerbs]

Vancouver and Montreal is extremely tough, and if you think Vancouver is a soft game you need to go out there and play more.

I find 1/2 pretty soft in Vancouver compared to online. I do a lot of studying on poker though. Can't wait to hit 21 and play in states more tables so you can table select harder.

[Vale46Rossi]

I find 1/2 pretty soft in Vancouver compared to online. I do a lot of studying on poker though. Can't wait to hit 21 and play in states more tables so you can table select harder.

If you compare it to online for sure, as online is a completely different animal.

I dont know many that can beat online.

[nma]

Actually no, it had a lot to do with how I am used to playing 1/2 and 2/5 here, its a lot different atmosphere in Macau as starting there is minimum 25/50 which is $3.5/7 and those games dont usually run and their common game is 50/100 which is a lot bigger than I am used to, I have the bankroll no problem as I have saved up from poker for many years and I am a winning player but I am just so used to 1/2 raise with premium is around $15-20 UTG or something like that, so it's very hard to wrap my head around it.

But once I get used to it its a lot easier to swallow.


Vancouver and Montreal is extremely tough, and if you think Vancouver is a soft game you need to go out there and play more.

I've played poker in quite a few diff places. I was in Macau in October grinding 100/200 for a month. Anything higher wasnt really worth the variance with all the geniuses. Trust me. Vancouver poker is pretty soft.

Its likely we have different definitions of tough poker. This has been my career for over two years so I may have a different perspective.

I'm not gonna discuss strategy or anything here though. For me soft games = super weak passive players. That's what vancouver is. There's no head ache and every decision is relatively easy to make. I haven't played at hardrock or anything.. My opinion comes mainly from grinding at RR and edge

[Gerbs]

What bankroll do you suggest before moving up to stakes? 30 Buyins?

[nma]

Depends how deep you want to buy in... I think 2/5 here is pretty low variance like 70% of the time. The variance goes higher the more "crazy action players" sit down, as you're forced to make tougher decisions a lot more often. If you buy in for $500 I think 5-10k is plenty enough.. If you're buying in for 1k+ I would suggest 10k+

I don't know how you play or your skill level though, so take my suggestion with a grain of salt. If you need some help with hand histories we can maybe start discussions here. That's what helped me the most. You pretty much want as many opinions as possible, but obviously from people who have somewhat of a clue as to what they are doing.

[Gerbs]

What kind of player are you? When I move up to 2/5 I probably want to buy in for a low amount then move up slowly as I get comfortable.

[nma]

If you have any specific questions I can try to help answer them. I generally play exploitatively. As in I just target players weaknesses.. Not sure how much poker theory you know but playing game theory in live poker isn't that profitable in soft games. Most of the profit comes from exploiting the shit out of weak opponents. Whether that means folding super good hands that you should call in game theory sense or vice versa. However its good to have a solid handle on both concepts because you're going up against a variety of opponents and will need to adjust accordingly each time

[Verdasco]

First time playing bovada. Someone open shoves 23bb with 85o beats my KK. Bovada confirmed rigged Kappa

[HonestTea]

First time playing bovada. Someone open shoves 23bb with 85o beats my KK. Bovada confirmed rigged Kappa

:lol:

Should stick with the big names, like PS

[Gerbs]

Lol last night at hr some fish was spewing 15 blind open - 50 blind open. I'd isolate with a big raise to like 25 - 45 with no limpers and he'd flat everytime. I'd miss the flop then get owned when he jams with a pair while I miss the flop. such a good game though everybody at the table had like an average chip stack of 700 while i was down 3buyins haha. Fish blew like 3k in a 3 - 4 hours. :toot::toot:

[Gerbs]

http://gyazo.com/860f87e53a2b8a08d142fa811547df9f

woo final table :D

[nma]

Gyazo - 860f87e53a2b8a08d142fa811547df9f.jpg (http://gyazo.com/860f87e53a2b8a08d142fa811547df9f)

woo final table :D

lol probably over by now, hope you won something nice!

[Verdasco]

lol probably over by now, hope you won something nice!

he got third for 2k. I got 4th in that tourney for 2k as well on a sunday a few months ago. was my 1st final table in a Big tourney lol

[Gerbs]

Slept at 830.. pretty good 3rd place considering I short stacked all the way. was last place from 18th all the way to 5th. At one point almost chip leader lol.

At rr just got into a big hand at 1/2

Kh2h
V1 opened 22 into 4 limpers
V2 callers
2 other callers

Flop 3h5h6s

V1 cbet 30 v2 raises to 80 I ship for 260.

Both tank and calls

Aa vs kk. I turn my flush

[Verdasco]

please dont tell me that AA guy slow played it. Deserved to lose.

[fliptuner]

Meh, AA raised 10x the bb with 4 limpers, Gerbs gambled and hit. Depending on the table dynamics, AA just got unlucky.

[nma]

Slept at 830.. pretty good 3rd place considering I short stacked all the way. was last place from 18th all the way to 5th. At one point almost chip leader lol.

At rr just got into a big hand at 1/2

Kh2h
V1 opened 22 into 4 limpers
V2 callers
2 other callers

Flop 3h5h6s

V1 cbet 30 v2 raises to 80 I ship for 260.

Both tank and calls

Aa vs kk. I turn my flush

lol.. I just left the 2/5 game.. gutter and fd 3 way haha ship it.. def fold prf lol there's no way u can play that profitably with those stacks

[Gerbs]

please dont tell me that AA guy slow played it. Deserved to lose.

Called me a fish before he left :concentrate:

He won the side pot vs kings for like another 150 but he mucked haha.

[fliptuner]

Lol. He wanted to play cards not poker.

[Gerbs]

I'd only play Kxs in 1/2 and in position. Just left rr the 1/2 are like super nitty today except for this 2/5 Asian gambler doubled me up to 1.2k.

[nma]

I'd only play Kxs in 1/2 and in position. Just left rr the 1/2 are like super nitty today except for this 2/5 Asian gambler doubled me up to 1.2k.

That's where I wouldn't play k2s . there's no way you can profit with the spr. You need deeper stacks for you to realize your equity.. The buy in is capped at 150bb. He opens for 22 and 5 people call now your spr is like 2.5 and your hand has no playability

[Gerbs]

That's where I wouldn't play k2s . there's no way you can profit with the spr. You need deeper stacks for you to realize your equity.. The buy in is capped at 150bb. He opens for 22 and 5 people call now your spr is like 2.5 and your hand has no playability

That's correct. Stack sizes in 1/2 are so tiny that spr is always really low.

[zilley]

all this talk, why dont rs just have a private game.

[dragondragon99]

all this talk, why dont rs just have a private game.

yea like home game 20 dollars on table get drunk too

im pretty much a pro poker player or i think im up like 1g at the casino went there first when i was like 17 or 18 edge water river rock etc i also like playing beside hot chicks makes the game funner

[Gerbs]

all this talk, why dont rs just have a private game.

how big would you play

[Verdasco]

saw gerbs post on 2+2

without being results orientated (please do not post results so quick in your thread) i would of folded

AK on bb (23bb) facing open shove against another shove on big blind. - High Stakes MTT Strategy - High Stakes MTT Forum (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/87/high-stakes-mtt/ak-bb-23bb-facing-open-shove-against-another-shove-big-blind-1511372/)

[nma]

I rarely play tournaments but I don't think I'm folding.. I mean it would depend how many hands you have on these guys which probably isn't much.. I'd need a solid sample to make this fold.. The guys argument in the thread outlines a solid range and assumes both are good competent regs.. Its not always the case and in a spot that close I think I rather sway to the calling side.. I could be completely wrong though, I'm aware there are spots where folding AK is the best play but that usually involves ICM.. I wouldn't really be worried about the bubble, personally I'd be playing to bink it

[Gerbs]

That was my thought process ^ I'm not playing to hit the bubble in there to win. Person who won the pot ended up chip leader. Flopped a set of queens

[punkwax]

Regarding a private game, I think I mentioned this in the Poker Club Social Group that started years ago and never went anywhere, but Starlight used to provide a dealer for a 10 man tournament style game for $100 IIRC... might even be as little as $50? Can't remember... if it is $100, for a $500 pot, everyone throws in $60, and the extra $10 from each guy goes to dealer. That way someone doesn't have to open their home to strangers. I'd be into something like that... I don't take it as seriously as it seems like some of you do, but I do enjoy playing.

[yameen]

i won $400 and stacked up big on flopping straight utg with KQ (flop AJ10), check called all the way and he bet $100 on the river with AJ, i shoved all in and he snap called...too bad for him.

on another note, i saw a guy at another table up 2.5k dominating the table with every hand and hitting rivers.

[Gerbs]

Set over set then kk < qq for 230 bb. To the same guy lol. Whats the biggest buy in downswing you guys ever had?
Whwe do u ply yameen

[nma]

In terms of bb or $$ lol.. Sux.. How'd you get in 230bb prf with KK? Haha

[Gerbs]

bb, someone opens MP for 17, one dude calls, someone makes it 70. I pop it up to 160. everyone folds he jams i snap call.

[nma]

Biggest downswing probably 30 buy ins or so.. Thats ambitious lol no one jams 200bb+ with qq these days.. Lucky

[yameen]

i play both edge and RR. the 2.5k guy last night was at RR...you guys might've been there. i have positive winnings by playing TAG style and position. get donked out a few times but in the long run i'm winning. it's just a small hobby so i don't play often, like once a month.

[yameen]

yesterday had the same idiot who pushed all in with his QQ, thinks his QQ is good after a 3bet....i laughed

[nma]

yesterday had the same idiot who pushed all in with his QQ, thinks his QQ is good after a 3bet....i laughed

well it depends on how much money he had.. lol...

[Verdasco]

yesterday had the same idiot who pushed all in with his QQ, thinks his QQ is good after a 3bet....i laughed

wait, why isnt it good lol

[yameen]

it went like this. i wasn't in the hand but basically a guy utg called $2, the guy with QQ was mid position and raised it to $15, button reraised to $50 and utg raised it to $100. QQ pushed all in with about $200 left in his hand, button folded and utg called.

the guy in mid position with QQ was definitely no good with that action. obviously the guy utg had KK or AA and when he flipped over his cards it was AA.

[Verdasco]

u cant say its not bad unless you tell us how the UTG and BTN are playing. if super tight, yes its bad, if loose, than its not.

[nma]

u cant say its not bad unless you tell us how the UTG and BTN are playing. if super tight, yes its bad, if loose, than its not.

haha limp 4bet is probably AA 4 sho

[Verdasco]

haha limp 4bet is probably AA 4 sho

true. Booked myself a week for WSOP. playing some tournies there this year....
:concentrate:

just got flight / hotel for $700 7 days

[nma]

true. Booked myself a week for WSOP. playing some tournies there this year....
:concentrate:

just got flight / hotel for $700 7 days

stayed a month at the vdara lst year... I might just play the main this year

[Verdasco]

hmm i just rebooked my days in my trip... and ima play the millionaire maker..... and maybe the other $1500 right after

[Gerbs]

How is everyone running for last 6 months.

[chipmunk604]

the wait list at hard rock and river rock is so sick! I went to hard rock last friday and busted out. Flopped top 2 and loose cannon turned a set to take all of it :okay:

bad beat 600K+

[Gerbs]

Badbeat on playnow is really big too, no time to play anymore since school started :okay:. Spent most of my poker bankroll for school.

[dr.funk]

Bad Beat at Grand Villa is 600k+ atm

[swiftshift]

Play casually on rare occasions, when I go out in a group for dinner or something.

[fliptuner]

Bad Beat at Grand Villa is 600k+ atm

I thought it was pooled amongst several casinos.

[dr.funk]

From my understand edge water was 40k I think grand villa is sitting at 600k

[Verdasco]

wait, is grand villa split with great canadian casinos or someshit like riverrock, hard rock, and the surrey one?

[chipmunk604]

wait, is grand villa split with great canadian casinos or someshit like riverrock, hard rock, and the surrey one?

grand villa / starlight / cascades is all under Gateway Casinos
hard rock / river rock / fraser downs is all under Great Canadian Casinos
edgewater is an independent group

i believe each group has its own shared bad beat jackpot

did i miss any?

I haven't played in so long....but i do want to play at the villa. They reduced 2 of their tables, making it a total of 6 tables only. That is going to be a long wait.

[Gerbs]

Anyone playing 3 years later? Games are super tough now.

[HonestTea]

Anyone playing 3 years later? Games are super tough now.

No more fishes at cash games either?

[Gerbs]

There use to be a 2 - 4 fishes per table in cash games. Nowadays it's like 1 - 2 if your lucky. Just gotta table select. But there's also so many resources to improve your game now so the overall pool is a lot better. Less preflop mistakes more post flop.

[chipmunk604]

Anyone playing 3 years later? Games are super tough now.

Yeps, almost weekly.

In fact, I just got back from Vegas yesterday. I play mostly at Aria. I did not run well this time around, but craps got me +'ve overall on the trip.

[Gerbs]

Seems like there's only two poker rooms to play at now. Since Hardrock shut down and Riverrock lost half its tables.

[chipmunk604]

That is correct.
1) Grand Villa 11 tables (5/10 on weekends) - now located on the lobby floor of the Delta hotel
2) Parq 9 tables (includes PLO)
*3) Cascades in Langley 5 tables - I hear these guys are crazy action. I've never played here before because it is too far for me.

[Gerbs]

Parq is 11 tables now from what I heard.

[Nvasion]

Miss the days when river Rock had all those tables upstairs Or when Edgewater had all those tables...