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Seat 1: Crazy_Serb ($1,430 in chips)
Seat 2: hywnpride ($1,410 in chips)
Seat 3: --master-- ($2,230 in chips)
Seat 4: Trae3ab [10D,7D] ($2,400 in chips)
Seat 5: morepoker99 ($1,615 in chips)
Seat 6: reljelcel ($1,015 in chips)
Seat 7: fishin99dja ($1,655 in chips)
Seat 8: DavidPar ($3,630 in chips)
Seat 9: x.ash.x ($955 in chips)
Seat 10: olym ($1,300 in chips)

ANTES/BLINDSCrazy_Serb posts blind ($15), hywnpride posts blind ($30).

PRE-FLOP
--master-- folds, Trae3ab calls $30, morepoker99 folds, reljelcel calls $30, fishin99dja calls $30, DavidPar folds, x.ash.x calls $30, olym folds, Crazy_Serb calls $15, hywnpride checks.

FLOP [board cards 10S,8H,10C ]

Crazy_Serb checks, hywnpride checks, Trae3ab bets $100, reljelcel folds, fishin99dja folds, x.ash.x folds, Crazy_Serb folds, hywnpride calls $100.

TURN [board cards 10S,8H,10C,JH ]
hywnpride checks, Trae3ab bets $200, hywnpride calls $200.


RIVER [board cards 10S,8H,10C,JH,9D ]hywnpride bets $680, Trae3ab folds.

SHOWDOWN
hywnpride shows [ 10H,8D ]hywnpride wins $1,460.


SUMMARY

Dealer: olym

Pot: $1,460
Crazy_Serb, loses $30
hywnpride, bets $1,010, collects $1,460, net $450
--master--, loses $0
Trae3ab, loses $330
morepoker99, loses $0
reljelcel, loses $30
fishin99dja, loses $30
DavidPar, loses $0
x.ash.x, loses $30
olym, loses $0

To be honest with all those calls and then him making that river bet I put him on a higher straight. The river definately let me off the hook.


Finally, through the roof,
Trae

The Start to actual "Rounding":

Joe, my partner in crime, and I have been playing the bars and casino, since we started playing seriously. The only problem is that we were having trouble getting into the games that we "needed" to get into to make some easy money outside of the boat. The people from the barroom games all play side games and are not very good. We always use these games to figure out what each other are doing wrong or right, tells and so forth. But we could never get into these games where the money is easy and big compared to the stake.

So I finally landed a number to one of these games this weekend and managed to get both myself and Joe invited. Now this game was probably the lightest of the games we were hearing about at the bar, but all we need is to get our foot in the door and we are in the money.

They know us as regular players, but they believe that their poker T-shirts, sunglasses, and van patton/norman chad lingo (I call it a speech impediment) gives them some sort of edge over us, and I am subject to believe that they felt they were hustling us by getting us in their game.

When we got there, we paid our stake, and drew for seats.... I get a horrible seat between two over aggressive players giving me no position over both of them at one time. It sucked. The one thing I had going for me and these people didn't have going for them is that this was a deep stack tournament instead of the regular marginal stack tourney they normally play us in. Now I would much rather prefer a cash game, but these yahoos want to be on ESPN so bad that they have never ventured out of tournament play, which makes no sense to me as Ring games were what I learned to play first. I don't understand the infatuation with tournaments, maybe its the Main Event pipe dreamers. I don't know.

Anyways I got us in this game and I found myself getting these people off of top pair with their weak kickers. Joe got a lady off of a set of 5s by representing a flush, and I got one off of top two pair with a busted flush draw, I don't know. It seems these people always assumed the worst possible situation that would knock them out of the tournament and fold, no matter how unlikely it was that their opposition had the only two cards that could beat them. We used this to our advantage to coast to the final table, picking up loose pots when we could, which was hard because and the last 6 of 9 players where knocked out by me making me chipleadesome of these people were over aggressive with Ace, rag.

Final Table: I went to the final table trailing big time... Yes I was in 3rd at the final table but the rest of the table wasn't that far behind me and the chipleader had about 3 times my stack. Luckily for me the final table was on autopilot for me and I shortly had over 140K. I got some sweet cards that played themselves and the table kind of shut down because they wanted to money so bad. I really got to take advantage of the bubble.

That was pretty awesome, needless to say we chopped the pot so I could get some scratch and get out of there before I was infected by their WPTness.


The thing that bothers me about playing these house games is that we really have to dumb down our play and keep ourselves in check and make sure that we do not outplay ourselves or give up our encognito demeanor and ability. Hopefully we can get into a few more of these games, and get a sweet side bankroll going.



Finally, through the roof,
Trae

Buddy System and Building a Bankroll:

Ok, so a buddy of mine and I have decided to try out a buddy system to help cushion a loss or to better allow us to play in bigger games without the risk of losing a full bankroll. Our goal is to better maintain a bankroll or travel to a bigger casino for bigger games or the occassional big buy in tournament.

As far as game of choice goes, my partner and I prefer a cash game setting. The way our buddy system works is to split winnings and minimize loss in both cash games and tournaments in regards to buy ins. If we are playing a cash game with a buy in of $300, and we are to minimize loss and split winnings we keep each other at 100%. What this means is, lets say that we both play the $300, $5-$5 game at the boat....I'm up $600 and my partner is down $150. Well, to maintain that and allow for the split to be fair or correct for a lack of a better word is this, the split of $600 is obviously $300, and my partner is down $150. So his remaining buy in to this game is completed back to $300 and his net would be $150, and mine would be $300.

Now I know what you are thinking. You are screwing yourself out of $300. I know it seems that way, but what if I have a bad night and only have $100 of my $300 buy in left....But my partner is up $2000. Well half is $1000, I have to complete $200 more to make my buy in back. So he gives me $800 of the $2000 and keeps $1200 for himself. Now in an ideal world of loser/winner situation this is only a trial period for this method. We will probably lean towards just completing the buy in of the loser and that is that.

Tournaments are a completely different situation. I will use this weekends win/loss as an example. Joe, my partner, and I found a house game this past weekend. Pretty sweet, $20 buy-in, about twenty people or so in the game, and top three get paid. I have to cover Joe's buy in because he changed banks and his new debit isn't activated, so I pay the $40 for the both of us. Note that this is house game with a bunch of WSOP/WPT watchers, so they are gay for tournaments. Also not that the tournament setup is Deep Stack poker with over aggressive fish. Sweet right, all you have to do is sit back and wait. Joe is straight cash game player, he doesn't have much patience for tournaments, so he gets knocked out just before the final table which I kind of expected but I figured I was doubling my money for a chance to win some money.

Here's the specifics to our deal:

*I staked us both for $40.

*Myself and the 3rd place guy chopped to maximize the coinflip situation that we got stuck with against the chipleader.

*The chop gives me $70.

*Joe owes me his buy in of $20, and I get to repay my buy in before our split.

*With my buy in back I get that we split $50 of the $70.

*So the split is $25 a piece, for the both of us.

*Joe owes me $20 for his buy in.

*He earns $5 for getting knocked out of a tournament and I earned $25 after my buy-in is paid back to me.




While this isn't the ideal situation for maximizing income, it does minimize loss. This will allow for us to better grow as players. I do believe we will lean towards just covering eachothers buy ins only, but we want to trial and error the splitting winnings thing. So hopefully we can figure out an ethical way to do this and make it work.


He bought me a soda,
Trae

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