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
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
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