IM GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!

Yes, it is true, I am going to Disney World. Have a buddy who lives in Orlando (his name Michael Ferrari, yes) going to school at UCF, decided to buy a plane ticket to go hang out with him for a week. Do some Disney World, some Casino Boats etc etc. So won't be playing much at all this next week.

Went and played a 5-10 live game, held on Tuesdays at one of the casinos here (small area, so not a daily game) game was as fishy as I expected. Bunch of old men and a few business guys, very few of these people know how to play anything but pairs and the nuts. They all cold call each other with sets trips 2nd nut straights non nut flushes and middle two. So this was easy for me. I play pretty loose, only one other guy at the table was anyone I showed respect to, and I did not make many friends in the process. Quit the game up 3500$ in 3 hours or so, didnt much feel like playing anymore.

Stacked off one hand, well not stacked off but doubled a 1200$ stack up, was mad at myself for doing this in such a weak game where there is reallistically no need to be making such moves (though the 3rd hand of the game I made a move in a 3 way pot for my whole stack)

The 2 hands worth mentioning.

First the 3rd hand of the day, we all started together.

I am button with 95o 3 limpers I make it 65 to go (they cap buyin at 1K so were all at 1K except one younger guy who "plays for a living" but is not very good and talks a lot) So I get 2 calls

Flop 10s 9s 6s (i have no spades)
1st checks
2nd checks
I check
turn Qd
1st bets 90$
2nd calls 90$
I ponder for 20 seconds and call 90$
River 3h
1st bets 150$
2nd calls 150$
I instantly move all in for like 850 or so ( i had won the first pot)
1st just throws it away
2nd tanks and folds
I show obviously. Thought I repped the nut flush well there.


2nd hand the one I doubled a nit on, this guy had flopped 3 kings and 3 jacks at 2 seperate points, not a set, just 3 of a kind, 2 on board. (sets and trips different IMO)

So I straddled (blind raise to double the BB when ur UTG to gain last action pre, used to squeeze a lot)

I picked up 9s7s and 3 come into the pot, and I checked

Flop is 10s 6s 6h
1st checks
I bet 40 into 80
3rd calls
4th folds
1st folds

turn is a 5h

I bet 85 into 160
2nd makes it 285

Ok so now back to the trips he has played, he has YET to do anything but check call with them so I am at a cross road. I am thinking maybe he is raising me cause I am typically pretty aggressive. But he also knows I usually surrender if I dont have anything on the turn, so I am worried about 66, and air. But I dont see how he could call flop and have air. This part I did not think about during the hand. So I messed up clearly, I think for 1 minute and talk like I have a 10, cause I am planning on moving in here.

So I move in he insta calls and flips the only hand I can possibly be beat by in my head. Though I never asked myself what he could call flop with and raise turn that I could push off the hand, so I am a bonehead.

So I had one out in the deck, the 8s AND I HIT!

Not really, I missed and I pay him 1080$ more than the 200 and move along.

This same guy actually played a hand with me later, was kinda funny.
I had J8 called 30 pre in 4 way pot flop Q 9 7 rainbow.

All checks, turn is a 10h board reads Qs 9h 7d 10h

SB bets 60$ the guy I doubled calls one folds and I raise to 190$
SB folds (hes the only player I respect) then the goober calls with 25$ chips, and I ask him "you not gonna pay me back with my red chips (I paid him off in mostly red when I doubled him a few hands back)

He responds with "You haven't won anything yet kid" (I love being called kid, means they don't like me usually)

River is a Jd

OOOOOK, he is first to act and checks, board now reads Qs 9h 7d 10h Jd

I think for quite a while here, with the low end, prob 45 seconds. Pot is about 600$

I finally decide what I want to bet, 75$...... sounds crazy, but I am certain I have best hand, and just want to get paid by a pair.

He insta calls and low and behold he flips over Kh5h

Thanks for not leading out? Thanks for not raising? Thanks????

That is how nitty this game is, but they are stations, but they won't be building pots with each other. It was nuts. I will definately be playing that game more, when I feel like waking up at 10 AM to play.

Ummmm..... Jay still hiding out. Bout all I can say about that. So atleast he let me post some turribal blogs for you fine folks that actually read this.

Ive lost faith in online poker almost, I really want to be a live pro, and may go that way before too long. Online just so damn annoying, low ROIs have to play 4826295 tables at a time to profit worth a crap, too many good players, too many bad players that shit out because online lets every half ass descent player win money and think they can go pro. Just keeping it slower for the rest of us. Fish don't win money live, it is just fact. Fish can win one session, one 100 hand session, but thats insanely rare. They 99% of the time give it right back within the hour. Online is just not random I dont care what you say or how you say it, all people say to me is "what do the sites have to gain" ????? Seriously? FISH PLAYING FOR MORE HOURS ON A DOLLAR THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE.

I am 70% only talking about Full Tilt :) Though no site has the randomness of a live deck, just have to let fish play longer, it keeps games alive, and rake movin. I have never seen or heard of a fish who worked his way from low to high in live poker to only find out he was running hot.

More money in live poker anyways. More social interaction. (no not more total money but more easily obtainable money at my stakes) No money running through my banks to have to pay as much tax on etc etc.

Ok I am rambling and ranting so I will quit here.

G'day