Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Doobs, who has been under the weather, is on the adjacent table.

Welcome back Doobs.

[I KNOW IT]

Tony I just want to say I look forward every day be it finishing work or waking up to read your diary. You have given stakers and spectators an equal amount of enjoyment .

One thing you and your investors can be proud of , is how hard you have tried to win for everyone and you can be proud that you tried your damn best to win every single chip in every pot you were involved in. How many here can say that ?

Respect Sir

You and your reports have let me relive the great memories I have of the WSOP

Thank You

Craig

[tikay]

We raise with.....

 

3 callers.

We see The Flop Of Dreams.

 

So, it's time you guys made some decisions. How do we proceed from here on that flop, with our hand?

[Marky_Crash]

I think you should use a big bunch of bananas as a card-protector in this WSOP $3K jobbie and dispense them as appropriate.

Hopefully you will end up on the final table with a big stack and no bananas left.

I lol'd, would have paid money to see that! I mean Chan has his orange...

I wouldn't take much persuading to do that

Was playing a few games and just catching up, some brilliant posts and interesting convo. Will give my take on the aggression as a general topic if nobody has any objections, really interesting topic.

[david3103]

We raise with.....

 

3 callers.

We see The Flop Of Dreams.

 

So, it's time you guys made some decisions. How do we proceed from here on that flop, with our hand?

with the   on the turn?

[Marky_Crash]

We raise with.....

 

3 callers.

We see The Flop Of Dreams.

 

So, it's time you guys made some decisions. How do we proceed from here on that flop, with our hand?

Stacks and pot size?

Would totally change how I would approach it.

[tikay]

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[tikay]

New player joins our table, 2 seats to my right - Todd Brunson.

Never been a great fan of him as a person, but only judged him from what I read in the media. Be interesting to see what he is really like.

[tikay]

We raise with.....

 

3 callers.

We see The Flop Of Dreams.

 

So, it's time you guys made some decisions. How do we proceed from here on that flop, with our hand?

Stacks and pot size?

Would totally change how I would approach it.

We are all playing similar stacks, 15,000 @ 25-50.

I made it 125, three callers, one of whom was in the BB, so the pot was about 500.

Flushy drooped by mid hand and gave me a proper rubdown as to how I played it. What does he know about O8?

[Marky_Crash]

New player joins our table, 2 seats to my right - Todd Brunson.

Never been a great fan of him as a person, but only judged him from what I read in the media. Be interesting to see what he is really like.

Don't know much/anything about his character but as a poker player he has always struck me as no slouch and pretty handy. Only seen him play holdem though.

[Karabiner]

We raise with.....

 

3 callers.

We see The Flop Of Dreams.

 

So, it's time you guys made some decisions. How do we proceed from here on that flop, with our hand?

Stacks and pot size?

Would totally change how I would approach it.

We are all playing similar stacks, 15,000 @ 25-50.

I made it 125, three callers, one of whom was in the BB, so the pot was about 500.

Flushy drooped by mid hand and gave me a proper rubdown as to how I played it. What does he know about O8?

I'd pot it as we don't have an unbreakable low.

Sorry to hear about Flushy's drooping problem.

[PokerBroker]

You have to fancy someone has hit a bit of that board.  Depending on position I am probably checking. 

[Dekka]

.

Here we go.  Good luck Tikay, really glad you opted to play this.  I'm not a backer as you know but if I was I'd definitely want you playing the bigger buy ins after you've gone so deep in a couple of tournaments recently.  


And all the best to Doobs too.  Will try and stay awake and on the rail.  Neil C has hard a pretty good start in Event 63 so keeping on eye on him too. 

[Dekka]

New player joins our table, 2 seats to my right - Todd Brunson.

Never been a great fan of him as a person, but only judged him from what I read in the media. Be interesting to see what he is really like.

He seems a complete arse judging by his Twitter output.  Rip him a new one and slip him a banana please

[Marky_Crash]

We raise with.....

 

3 callers.

We see The Flop Of Dreams.

 

So, it's time you guys made some decisions. How do we proceed from here on that flop, with our hand?

Stacks and pot size?

Would totally change how I would approach it.

We are all playing similar stacks, 15,000 @ 25-50.

I made it 125, three callers, one of whom was in the BB, so the pot was about 500.

Flushy drooped by mid hand and gave me a proper rubdown as to how I played it. What does he know about O8?

Also depends quite a bit on position lol I should have asked

Umm pretty tricky, TBH I personally think you could justify almost any approach.

In general I would probably pot open raise on the flop for a few reasons...

The flop is very drawy (obviously they will have worse draws) and with the pot being multiway it is 'likely' you will get at least 1 call. From any WSOP PLO8 I have seen/played there is a lot of splashing early so I wouldn't be scared of losing my customers (although I have a feeling this is what happened). Also there is a good chance opponents 'have a bit' as it was raised preflop hopefully narrowing their ranges to ones which connect in some way with that flop.

I also like the pot open as it builds the pot a bit at this stage as I would probably try and get tricky and look to get a chunky check/raise in at some point. Maybe a check/call turn check/reraise river to hopefully let their inferior draws get there if you are OOP. If you were in position I might pot the flop then check behind on the turn, again to let their worse draws hopefully get there and for deception to hopefully induce a big lead bet from them on the river and repot. I also think potting the flop allows room for any weak players to go crazy with sets or worse flush/low draws.

Obviously I would be more than happy to get the lot in if possible on this flop, it could go wrong but looks like a brilliant spot to try and get a big early stack and try and take over the table.

Having said all that we know what comes on the turn if we manage to get a big pot built on the flop... a black 2 or 3 lol.