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BR: 2778

Sorry for delaying a post for roughly 2 weeks now, but I wanted my Rake Back posts Up in front as I had been doing allot of advertising. I want to thank everyone who signed up for rake back through me. You guys are great and I hope you'll enjoy your rake back to come. I can't believe how many sign ups I got. Again THANK YOU.

I see there aren't any new comments. BOO, but hey I can skip the answers part of the post.

The last 2 weeks online haven't been to great to say the least. I broke rules and played some 10-20 NL like 6k is enough LMAO. Lost. End story there. It hammered home that I am still fucked up in the mind about October. Which makes me also glad I pulled my BR and hadn't continued to play 10-20 NL with my remaining BR ( the one outside this goal thingy ). I played 3-6 as well. Lost End story. Get the picture? Played above my working bankroll and got bad beats. Most deserving for not being focused. Had I stayed playing 1-2 NL, I probably would have good news to report.

I just acquired desktop recording software. Instead of posting some hand histories, I'm going to post flash films of the hands I found to be the best and worst of each session. That also means I won't be posting erratically any longer. Then we can get some good discussion on the hands.

I played some live poker on Friday, November 30, 2007 in New York City. I haven't played live since I was at Straddle Club in NYC back about 6 months ago. This wasn't a card club though. It was group of poker buddies from what I am guessing. The place was on Wall Street and was called "Wall Street Poker" a fitting name. The chips we played with were customized with the name and logo. I liked them. There was no time nor rake collected. COOL huh?

The game's owner was young 30's guy. Very polite, great dealer, and an awesome host. The players were one of the nicest set of people at a poker game I had the pleasure to sit with in a blue moon's time. All very polite, well educated, and friendly. Just a cool group of people.

The stakes were $100 min - $250 max buyin 1-2 NLHE. Most players there had the max buyin in front of them when I got there. I sat with the max obv. The first orbit there I got dealt AKs, then AA, then QQ...LMAO. Got some action on those. I showed the table each time my hole cards show down or not. Probably not the best thing to show your hole cards without warrant, but I did have my reasons.

I entered the game with the predetermined goal of losing a buyin maybe 2. I tried to perhaps lose the money I had won early by pushing a low 78s flush draw ( it was still early fuck it) on who I perceived as being a tight player. The player was a woman, and to be arrogant and being male, I assume women play tight unless otherwise proven wrong. The funny thing here is when I pushed, I was expecting this player to fold. She had flopped top set K's with pocket KK for the nuts on the flop! I hit my heart on the turn and the river was a blank. So much for that, I doubled up again, inside 1 hr of starting here! At least everyone probably thought I was a luckbox player from that point on.

Every new game I play I almost certainly never leave a winner. Most of the night was spent trying to play each player HU vs me in hands. Most of the time If I knew I would be the only player involved to an other's preflop raise. I would call to play that player HU.

There was 2 players I couldn't get involved with much. They were rocks. One was was on a short stack all night. Me wonders why, YOU HAVE TO PLAY! The other was steadily accumulating chips. This player was the variety of tight aggressive( not so much a rock when he started his session out ) what I like to call the "FORT KNOX." He is the type of player that gets to a certain profit for the night then goes into WAR BUNKER mode, builds his fort knox.....protect the gold man. He played so tight after his goal was reached that I cut any of my action from him unless I was packing. He did end his night with the gold stockpile intact however. These type of players usually quit or bleed chips after a bad beat rattles their bunker. I wasn't given the chance to see which type he was.

There was a calling station in the #1 seat. The typical - I call your river value bet to keep you honest - or to see what you had, etc....the BS they tell themselves why they are calling crap hands at the river. This type of player equals profit plain and clear.

There was one loose player on the entire table that night. He played many hands from the back field, talked allot during his hands, etc. I'll talk after a hand is over not during. Why talk back? You may influence a decision one way or the other...I don't. Let them talk, ask questions, usually I just smile if anything. But no talk from me.

I was impressed with a player in one of the middle seats. She, to the best of my ability to classify at this time, was a true TAG player. She played the right hands from the right starting positions and never backed down in a pot. I didn't see slow play from her, she fired out bets with very strong hands made on the flop,ect. It was hard to just play her heads up to a showdown. She was making it so expensive. I was willing to pay to a certain extent to see cards players were playing, but not lose my stack on any one hand to get this info. It will probably take me a few sessions to get something I can rely on against her.

The rest of the players were weak tight in my opinion. Miss flop, fold to the C bet. Lead out at them, fold ( unless strong, duh ). Reraise them, fold ( unless strong ).

After the first hour, I went into calling mode. I was limp calling allot of players like I said to get into pots vs them. Limp call...can I look any more donkey? Hee Haaw. But that basically all I did for the rest of the night. I tried force betting vs players when scare cards hit, etc. I didn't check raise NOT even 1 time during the entire night. I wasn't trapping anyone was calling and testing the boundaries to some degree. I look forward to the next game!

I was kinda all over the place on this post but I was right off the top of my head. Sorry. =)