Started with a $1/$2nl challenge, now we're here.

look at that rake, ouch

GL!

Busted couple hands after i took this pic.

Final hand.
JJ cdnt fade 88

Ty dudes for the good lucks

Been thinking bout this hand in T for last couple days.

Level 9 w bb 1500 I believe.
Villain and I around 60k in chips.
Got moved to a new tables and no clue on anyone. To this point, only been dealt in a few hands and noticed V has played everyone of them.

Mp player (100k) wearing bone conduction earpods opens to 3500. I flat pocket 8s. Button (80k) calls. V in bb calls.

4 way pot 16,500
Flop 763r.
Checks to me and bet 5500. Button calls, bb ch/calls, bone conduction ch/folds.

3 way pot 32,000
Turn 3. 7633r
This time bb Villain leads out 10,000. I think bout raising, but just call. Button folds.

Hu pot 52,000
River 7. 76337
Not the best river card. Bb bets 14,000.

Is this a call or fold?

*Villain made it Day 2 bagging 700k.

raising or folding both seem better than calling, you have a lot more 7s in your range than V does, if you are ever shipping with anything besides the nizzies here 88 is the perfect hand to do it with since you double block 87.

note: havent played poker in 7 years

Ur right i need to think bout raising in certain spots.
I cd rep the 7 and raise, but he still calls w 3 (or pocket 6s)

Bb cd hv all the 3s and all the 7s, 45, pocket 6s.
So many hands that beat me, but that price is so tempting.
What bluffs cd he have? I’m blocking 89 810 85.
So he has to hv it, right?

Not sure about this one.

I'd expect V to have a random 6 here almost always

Ended up folding my 88 face up only w hopes he wd show. He did!! 52o. Fml

You make too many assumptions. He's basically min leading out hoping for cheap showdown. Even hands like A4o or 44 will take this line a bunch. He might occasionally have a boat but I'd expect him to have some kind of made-ish hand besides a boat waaay more often, along with random 52o junk like he did.

I'd consider raising river against a lot of V's tbh and it would never be as a bluff.

We needed a promo hit to get us back near 1/3 40k pace and got the promo hit today.

+$1209 but still behind pace by decent amount

More hours logged and we get there for sure. 20hrs a week tho is sweet. As long as we can get by. Lol

I’m starting to feel u.
Been thinking bout this a lot because it was a key spot in the tourney. One that propelled Villain to a healthy day 2 stack and one that sent me closer to exit.
Maybe it’s a call.??? I’ve heard from 6 players and have 3 calls 3 folds It’s an interesting spot for sure.
Tried finding the call and cdnt. I’ll b more experienced for next time.
How much wd u raise here otr if chose that option? We both started w 40bigs.

Double checked stack size and with your ~40bb stack to start the hand I wouldn't be raising river for value ever with this hand actually. Much better to call and have almost 20bb left.

If you had V covered to start the hand I could see raising river to something like 38,000-44,000 and still have ~30bb if you lose. Readless I'm calling but a lot of player types I like raising if we are deep enough to not be going all in.

The 3 pairing OTT is weird. Low stakes players tend to xr turned trips in this spot as opposed to leading out. 7x, 6x is still possible.

River for that price has to be a call. The bet sizing makes no sense, as does the line. Why would V make a 25% PSB with the nuts on the river? And taking out his 3x via the turn line, the line is just fishy and smells FOS. Can't fold getting 5 to 1. A PSB or even a chunky value bet might get me to lay it down, but not 25%.

I dont think V ever has a 7 here which is why i was advocating for an all-in if you think you could get a 3 to fold, but may not be deep enough to get the fold. 56 is also a possibility for V to have, flop the nuts then slow play to milk pot, turn is a scare card so leads out, river double pairs board so makes a really small blocker bet to try to get cheap showdown.

Grinded the court some after the pokerz. Working on a U shape retaining wall. Also, deciding now to remove all rock on the front side and go w grass on that side. Pickle Pic update soon.

Took day off poker yesterday to take advantage of nice weather. Gotta get this retaining wall done so we can start playing some serious pickle.

Here grinding today w a new tipping method.
We tipping out of the cup holder. Keeping all my chips in play. Anything to help this $40k 1/3 challenge.

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1/3nl up $400ish…
A few minutes before leaving, a whale sits and puts on a $20 straddle otb. A couple tight nits call the $20, I decide to take a safe route call w 88 in cutoff. Whale makes it $120 w $250 behind. Folds to me and feel we are ahead of whale’s range and ship ($800 covering whale). He calls w Ac2c.
Clean flop, bad Ace turn.
Leave a few hands later +85. Cd hv been a +800ish day if 70/30 plays correct. Oh well, played perfectly throughout the 5hr sesh.

Each of these boxes weigh 60lbs, so feel this is gonna be a very sturdy pickleball net.
Anyone wanna put this together for me?

Happy so far w the Pro Dominator Pickle Net.

Spent 5 minutes piecing these together. Hopefully the net assembly is easy.

Quietly staring at my well built pickleball net while drinking a fresh brew on an already food stained 1yr old couch.
In a few minutes, imafinna to sit by the window and stare at the court.

think i found a new project for ya

@rickroll lol.

Do I even need to b flipping in 1/3nl?

Fun player wanted gamble. Helluva of a nice kid, but lost a couple big pots and now looking to dub up, or leave. The $160 he has left has been straddled all-in 3 hands in a row.
Hand 4… I straddle $6 otb. He blind shoves $160 in the sb. Utg, an og gambler, shoves $280 after 7 long head scratches. The rest of players fold faster than typing “faster”. I peel AKo. I gotta hammer the edges. I call.
Utg pocket 5s take it down. Another big one that cdnt go our way today. Back to back days ugh losing the biggest pots played.
Won bunch of small ones tho.

+281 and a nice 5 game win streak.

Your mindset is off. That beat is not worth thinking about more than two seconds let alone writing it up here. It's a nothing burger. It also seems like your trying to make yourself feel like a better player than you are. You don't get to count the EV for the hands that you lost and ignore all the hands that you won. I do the same thing too sometimes, learn to recognize this tendency in yourself. As long as you care that you lost that pot you are going to be a worse poker player than you could be.

You are obsessed with the fish logic idea of booking wins. It's easy to win 5 in a row when you count every chip in your stack and protect "the win" at all costs. All it means that when you lose you will lose big and when you win you will win small, on average.

Also don't forget that the 1250 promo is reported directly to the IRS so you will be forced to pay a third of it in taxes. So leave a few hundred behind when you start buying levered SMCI calls