Gray-haired poker TRs: Living the WSOP dream
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Gray-haired poker TRs: Living the WSOP dream

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rppokerOP
8mo ago

At the age of 62 (AARP members unite!), I have decided that I will write a trip report for my 2024 trek to the World Series of Poker. Not exactly “Stop the Presses” news, although maybe an old-man poker TR from a former sportswriter turned entrepreneur/investor is somewhat unique.

This trip report proclamation and five nickels will get me a quarter. I get it. Lots of people promise/start trip reports and then never follow through (blasted). You don’t know me, so there is no reason for you to believe I will actually deliver.

So, I will put some skin in the game to show I can be trusted to deliver on my promise. Before I start my 2024 trip report in this thread, I will do a trip report on my first ever 2019 12-day trip to the WSOP (when I was 57 years old and a bit less gray than I am today) based upon old notes I have kept and memories I recall (memory loss is not an issue for me so far, wait, did I already say that?).

I did not write a trip report at the time, so this is new content. Call my 2019 long-after-the-fact walk down memory lane on 2+2 a down payment from me in return for your anticipation of and attention to my 2024 trip report.

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07 May 2024 at 03:17 PM
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Avatarrppoker
8mo ago

I just want to say thank you to everyone who has responded with positive comments. It is greatly appreciated and highly motivating.

AvatarDogFace
6mo ago

A small strategic nitpick is that I would recommend raising almost 100% of the time when you are the first person to enter the pot, as opposed to limping medium strength hands like 6-6 and 8-8. You've mentioned limping small-medium PPs in this TR several times, which is why I bring it up. We are going to face a lot of uncomfortable flops with these hands, but the most common scenario will be playing HU in position vs. the BB, where we can probably check back either the flop or turn if we want to slow down.

One of the problems with limping medium strength hands is that savvy players are going to pick it up on it, which allows them to attack the capped range while also allowing them to fold when we raise (because they know we only raise the top of our range). The other problem is that you give free cards to a lot of dusty hands in the BB like weak Kx, Qx, Jx when we actually want to tax them to draw at their overcards.

The instinct to keep the pot small until we flop a set is understandable, but probably doing more harm than good. The raw pair value of these hands is significant and we also have the possibility to represent other holdings. Bear in mind that they don't KNOW you have 6-6, so if you raise and the flop comes something like AK3, you now have the range advantage to put extreme pressure on stuff like KJ and KT. If you limp then it's a lot easier for them to know you don't have something like AK, AA, KK, and to react accordingly.

Think of it like a pitcher in baseball. You want your fastball, change up, and curve to all look the exact same coming out of your hand. When you separate your opens into a limping range and a raising range, you are telegraphing the strength of your hand to the rest of the table and making yourself easier to play against.

Avatarrppoker
7mo ago

Breadcrumb: rppoker earns his first WSOP cash (he's not in the picture)

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