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Good Morning From Atlantis

foucault — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:58:11 +0000

It’s a beautiful morning in the Bahamas. Walking around in the morning is a totally different experience, because they are empty except for some grounds crew and a few early risers such as myself. Later today there will be screaming kids and booming speakers, but right now it’s oddly serene.

I’ve got stuff with PokerStars all day today and then I’ll be playing the tournament hopefully all day tomorrow, which means I won’t be able to take full advantage of the facilities until Sunday. Of course I wouldn’t be here at all if it weren’t for those other things, so I can’t complain. I just hope the weather stays nice. One time!

Lower 48… Done

foucault — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:40:12 +0000

Emily and I left Missoula, Montana this morning, passed through Idaho, and crossed the border into Washington, bound for Spokane. With that, I can now say that I’ve been to every state in the continental United States. No immediate plans for Alaska or Hawaii, but I’m pretty sure I’ll get there eventually- the girlfriend is very interested in both. She’s actually been to Hawaii before, but she won’t be finished with the continental US until we get to Oregon. I, on the other hand, spent a week in Portland after my senior year in high school for a national debate championship.

We were in a bit of a rush to get to the hotel in time for a coaching session I had scheduled, so there wasn’t time for me to pose with the welcome sign or anything, but I did manage to snap a picture as we blew past it:

Huzzah!

Visiting Germany

foucault — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:40:59 +0000

An old friend of mine is currently living in Berlin, and I’m going to be visiting him there from May 25-June 5. I tell you this for three reasons:

1. Bragging.

2. If you’re a Thinking Poker reader who happens to live in or around that area, drop me a line and hopefully we can meet up for a beer or something- I plan to increase my beer consumption drastically while in Germany.

3. If you live in, have visited, or otherwise know the area, I’d appreciate your advice about what I ought to see and do while I’m there. I’ll mostly be staying at his place in Berlin, though we’re planning to travel around the surrounding area together for 3-5 days as well. One possibility for this is a loop that would encompass some combination of Dresden – Prag – Chemnitz – Leipzig – Magdeburg. I want to make a day trip to Potsdam as well. Thoughts? Suggestions?

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

foucault — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:16:31 +0000

Truthfully, I don’t think I played this very well, but the results are pretty cool!

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $10.00 BB (6 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG ($1209)
MP ($1027)
Hero (CO) ($1302)
Button ($1490.75)
SB ($2925)
BB ($1748)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 6, A
UTG bets $35, MP calls $35, Hero calls $35, Button calls $35, 2 folds

Flop: ($155) 2, 9, 8 (4 players)
UTG bets $95, 1 fold, Hero calls $95, Button calls $95

Turn: ($440) 4 (3 players)
UTG bets $240, Hero raises to $1172 (All-In), Button calls $1172, UTG calls $839 (All-In)

River: ($3863) 5 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $3863 | Rake: $3

Results:
Button had 9, J (flush, Jack high).
UTG had J, 10 (high card, Jack).
Hero had 6, A (flush, Ace high).
Outcome: Hero won $3860

The Best Thing About Live Cash Games

foucault — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:56:06 +0000

Here’s a few miscellaneous hands I made notes to post about. These first two were from my first night here, at $5/$10 NLHE, and the last one was from today in a pretty nitty $10/$25 game with a couple tough players.

River Check-Raise

Two limpers, I complete J6s in the SB, BB checks. Flop KJ6, all diamonds. I bet $35, the first limper raises to $75, the other players fold, and I call.

Turn 5d, we both check.

River Jc, I check, he bets $150, I raise to $550, he pays me off.

Slowishroll

Two limpers, I raise to $65 with 88 in MP and get 3 calls. Flop 458 rainbow, I bet $200 into a $275 pot, one of the limpers calls and the others fold.

Turn J, he check-calls $400.

River is an offsuit 3, and he open shoves about $1500. I actually thought for a while before calling here just because I couldn’t figure out what he had. With two pair or a lower set, I’d expect him to have raised by now for fear of letting a four-straight show on the board. There also weren’t many draws to speak of that he could have missed and would now be turning into a bluff. I kind of felt like 76 was his single most likely holding, but I certainly wasn’t sure enough that he couldn’t have a lower set or a random bluff or something. I called and he indicated for me to show first, basically saying he was bluffing, and he mucked when I showed.

The whole table gave me shit for not snap-calling, but I don’t regret thinking it through. It was such a weird spot for him to shove, and it was a 150BB decision, so I’m not going to apologize for taking my time even with a strong hand.

Oh, OK- That Works

This one was at 10/25. I open to $100 with KJo in MP. Action folds to the BB, who is the weakest player at the table, a white guy in his late 50′s or early 60′s who played pretty loose-passive relative to the rest of the table. He looked like he wanted to call before even looking at his cards, and sure enough he tossed in three more green chips pretty quickly.

Flop comes 952r. He checks, I bet $125, he calls very quickly and nonchalantly.

Turn 2. He checks, and I feel like he probably just has A-high here (and not AK, so my outs are usually live), so I bet $325. He again calls quickly.

River Q, and I give up and I tell him that a pair is good. He tables KT. Ship it.

The Best Thing About Live Cash Games

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