"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread

Got to wear my camping jorts this week.

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My youngest stepdaughter has a child rearing vlog (which I can't get more than 5 seconds into before falling asleep). Things are going so well that a year from now they'll decide if the husband quits his well paying traditional job to become a stay-at-home home-schooling dad.

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Well ****.

So, when Squid said Trooper didn't do the work needed before jumping into the candy business, I had some guesses as to where he went wrong.

--Put no thought into how he will scale up production.
--Either rented a retail space for sales or leased a commercial kitchen for production.
--Over paid for production equipment.
--Has not figured out how to manage his supply chain costs.

And I was spot on, with the bonus that he leased a commercial kitchen space unsuited for making his specific product. Looking at his product and what it takes to make it, he could run a nice little side business, but he is leaps away from making a go at the level he envisions.

SPC's 24r event is exactly 2 weeks away. We will be in vegas for a few days prior - eating and flipping her schedule b/c the event runs from 5pm to 5pm. If any of u guys are in town and want to do a breakfast at bouchon hit me up...my treat.

I got into gamboolin in october of 92 and never in a mirrion years thought I would be in it for this long. I am officially retired. Blackjack caught and held my interest in a way that poker never did. A big problem for me was I had become so jaded with the casino industry that by the time I got into poker I simply could not stand the environment. At this point I can say with absolute certainty that I will never gamble on poker again.

I made a post a little while ago about recruiting for a project. To the guys that responded I am sorry but at this point I just want a clean break and want zero responsibility for making sure every one is happy and taken care of. I hope you can understand. For people looking for opportunities: I cant discuss these opportunities (handshakes and NDA's) but they are out there big time. You just have to find them. As an anecdote back in the 90s I went to every shithole in north america scouting/playing blackjack. I drove thousands of miles and "wasted countless hours". I ended up finding a handful games that were worth piles. Right now on line there are an absolute shitton of small $ opportunities that are worth a couple o hunnit a week all the way up to big bux kind o stuff. You just have to pay your dues and do some leg work.

Congrats on your retirement Squiddy!

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Skwid - sounds great man, happy you are getting out of poker and enjoying life

Allow me to add congratulations, squid. Life happiness/quality way outweighs more bux, once you've got your "regular" money accounted for.

Games are not dead, but they might smell a little funny. Participating in the unsustainable hourly. In for $200, sitting on ~$770 after an hour. Gotta break for food and live music tonight.

just booked my worst -$ session of the year. 4 hours straight of getting dealt second best and having half my opens 3bet. overpair into a set, top two into a rivered gutshot, top pair into a rivered flush like three times, nut flush into quads, then flush over flush. lucky to only be down 2 and a half buyins but that was brutal. one of those nights where it feels like you just lose every hand. took down some BS pots with cbets and made the nut flush once for a medium sized pot but every larger pot I was sitting with second best.

still feel weird about this hand
50/50/100 9k effective
I limp 100 UTG+1 with 77
Senior rec player to my left limps. Dressed like he just came from a business meeting. Not OMC type, plays more like a tight aggressive MAGWEP type. Made a joke about being new to playing poker that I think was BS.
Two more limps
50s winning LAG asian player makes it 750
loose/passive but way up on the session BTN calls 750
I call
Guy on my left goes all in for 13k. Folds to me and, we just fold?

I have no idea wtf he had but it wasn't a spot where it felt like you'd overlimp AA/KK/QQ/JJ etc, part of me just wanted to call and expect to flip for it. I've seen limp/gii exactly once in this game and it was me against a spot who snap raised me off my left then called it off with A2o against my jacks. I'm tilted by this hand more than any of the others I lost. It was just such an unexpected play from this player. I'm playing this hand thinking I'm going to either flop a set in a pot that's gotten insanely bloated preflop multiway or I'm going to miss the board and fold and this unassuming guy just rips it in. Against an OMC it's the easiest fold ever but for some reason I still think this guy just went crazy and ripped it with a random hand from his overllimp range.

Congrats on the career Squid.

Now will you tell us how to play pocket jacks?

Gg Squid

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Welcome to Tejas!

Squid, congratulations on your retirement, which should mean doing what you want to do, not what have to do.

Thanks 4 the kind words guys. I have been doing a ton of reflection recently. I am keenly aware over it how lucky I have been on so many levels. I feel like I did a good job in using the freedom gambling afforded to pursue other interests. However, with a career in gambling came an absolute shitton of extra baggage that ended up being pretty costly.

I have a nice little life but am uncertain that if I could do it again I would take the same path. I am very satisfied with my place in life, current focus, and direction...just sayin that the gambool, the environment, the negativity surrounding it, the isolation is really a challenge to a happy well balanced fun filled existence that I never took into consideration as something to factor in when "getting into it"

Poker is dead, everyone solid:

https://x.com/LodgePokerClub/status/1847...

Everyone played perfectly. Sick 4 way cooler. QJ super unlucky running into those hands.

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that hands hits me in the feels. I haven't forgiven Xuan Liu for rivering and busting me with a 2 outer in a very high leverage day 2 spot in an mtt about a decade ago

Story time with Uncle Feely?

gratz squid, something i often wonder about is whether i can be good enough at what i do to not only stick with it for the long term but also put enough away to be able to get out on my own terms

very happy for you

hopefully you won't be retired from partyin as well by the time i make it out to mormonland

Goddamn donkaments. I keep getting close but not winning. Twice this week almost shipped the $325.

Not bad results but could have been up $20K more if I ran better at flips.

i've played 3x live tourneys and was the bubble boy in 2 of them

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both were aipf where i jammed and he called

I've literally played two casino poker tourneys.

First I got a free entry into a weekend tourney back when our room held both morning and nightly tourneys. I was kinda excited showing up in the morning how it was going to go. Lol, just 10 other people showed up, they put 11 chairs around one table, and 20 minutes in I was in shove vs fold mode. Think I was the first one out in 30 minutes.

I 2014 (I think?) our room ran a promotion with the 30 top hours players for a month getting a free entry into a $5K freeroll. I somehow managed to sneak in enough hours and made the cut, think there were 4 tables. Again structure was lol, and I was in shove vs fold mode within one orbit. Luckboxed to the final 6 (including shoving 55 into 88 and someone saying "I folded a 5" only to bink the other one). At 6, there's one dissenter who doesn't want to chop, and he goes out next hand. We're down to 5 with stacks of 15bb, 10bb and 5bb x3 and chop up the $5K equally. Lol. I still play with one of the other choppers regularly.

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I've played very few live tourneys but my results in the ones I've played have been good. It's like 6 bricks, 3 cashes and a final table. My main poker regret is that I didn't play live tourneys when I was younger and it was easier to travel around to the big tournaments, I would go and just play cash. It's hard for me now to even commit multiple days to playing a tournament. I think tournaments overall are mostly bullshit rake traps that provide for good tilted sidegames but I think there's a +lifeEV that there's a chance when you're young you bink a huge win and it moves the whole trajectory of your life upwards faster too whereas the cash EV that you lose from probably bricking a tournament instead of probably winning in the side games averaged over a few days play doesn't matter that much. At least for main events and big guarantee tournaments. It's also the period of your life where it's easiest to commit to playing like 7 days+ of poker in a row.

If you lose like $1500 or $3k or whatever on a tournament when you're 22 it's only a small % of what you can earn over a long period of time but having like a huge uptick in winnings at that stage snowballs considerably more than if you win a tournament when you're like 40. In those first few years though it feels like a big % because it's a percent of the first initial money you have.