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Old 01-01-2016, 12:50 PM   #1
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Old 01-09-2016, 01:16 PM   #2
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2016 proximity poker tour......

as promised i will post the 2016 poker tour reports here in this 2016 thread and again pledge to do my best to make quality posts.

if you are just joining us i always have a goal to make thousands ($2000+) of dollars in a year and so far i've failed twice (+911 in 2014 and -210 in 2015). so hopefully the third time is a charm!!

everything that happens in the reports is basically true. names or player descriptions are frequently changed to protect the innocent.... and sometimes the not so innocent.

at the end of each game report is a game +/-. this is cash out at the cage minus buy in. i'm not adjusting for dealer tips or rake although it would certainly be a big help in making my $2000 goal if i did. similarly if i tip the cocktail waitress out of my stack, that counts against me too. usually i just tip waitresses with some spare bills in my pocket though. cash out minus buy in. period.

in my gambling life i come from an abusive home (penn national) that treats both horse and poker players like absolute dirt. while i've been extremely unlucky to grow up in such an environment, i've been extremely blessed by the emergence of a new casino down route 83 called the horseshoe baltimore.

in addition to being a beautiful casino with a great poker room horseshoe really treats the player well and as such it's my 2016 goal to play there as much as i can.

in addition to game winnings we've also kept track of "bonus" winnings which i've defined as any extra money that comes directly from the poker room. in the past two years i got a full house bonus at charles town, and hot seat, rakeback, high hand, and bad beat jackpots at horseshoe. should i be lucky enough to get another bonus or two in 2016 the after tip totals will appear separately from the game report statistics in a line below them.

i also get comp dollars, promotional chips, and gifts from the horseshoe and sometimes atlantic city. i may mention a gift from time to time but will keep no official track of these. new for 2016 i will keep a separate track of promotional chips and try to give updates on unused comp dollars.

finally readers of the 2015 reports probably noticed that i had terrible luck with pocket kings. fellow pa member and west coast limit expert dilanesp noted that he won 71% online with this great hand and i'll probably never match this number since i'm usually facing probably twice the field sizes he is but for 2016 we'll track the w-l record of this powerful hand and see how i do!!

thanks for reading and hope to see YOU across the felt!!

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Old 01-09-2016, 08:00 PM   #3
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rose bowl really smells like boo boo....

i lose with trip sevens.

i lose with a set of sevens.

i lose with trip aces.

i lose with a set of fours.

three hours and twenty six minutes into the game i win with AA to drag my first pot of the year.

welcome to the 2016 proximity poker tour!!

it's new year's day and i'm at the beautiful horseshoe baltimore in 3/6 limit hold 'em company.

i'm getting crushed worse than iowa in the rose bowl and the game is moving slower than an obese snail climbing a mountain.

the entire table is generally slow but one player, who is a dead ringer for the late, great george plimpton, really takes the cake.

the paper lion repeatedly checks when there's a bet to him and likes to wait until it's his turn to act to study his cards. and the fact that he's pounding heineken's like there's no tomorrow can't be helping.

in the ten minutes between hands i think of breaking out my good will hunting boston accent and asking the paper lion if he finds it haad to hide the fact that he's gay.

i figure when the rest of the poker room comes at me with burning torches and pitchforks i can appease them by holding up my hands and saying that "hey i don't care if he putts from the rough."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftl_ckcpZgY

in the end i imagine the whole thing going over like a lead balloon so i instead opt to just keep quiet and take a series of power naps in the seemingly interminable gaps between hands.

i can deal with the bad beats, the sky high variance, and even the slow play.

"that's poker." as "they" stoically say.

but some of these hands like KT in the highjack against almost the whole table.... i just don't know?

flop AKx. checks around.

turn: J

this time the paper lion doesn't check but suddenly bets out from early position. (of course he only throws $3 in the pot on a $6 street, but whatever )

the action folds around to me and i call as does the button and small blind.

river: x.

the small blind checks, the paper lion checks, i check, but now the button suddenly bets out.

the small blind calls, the paper lion folds faster than a housekeeper on speed, and i call and flip over the KT.

the button stares at my hand.

he stares at the board.

he stares at my hand.

he mucks his hand.

the small blind stares at the table.

the small blind flips over A7.

towards the end i do drag a pot with KK so we're 1-0 on the season with the cowboys.

but that's pretty much the highlight of the game.

game -144 (3/6 lim)
year -144 (0-1)
kk 1-0 (1-0)
promo chips 65 (65)
end of day tier credits 372 (40,000 needed for diamond aspirations 1)

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Old 01-10-2016, 01:44 AM   #4
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you can't beat the rake in 3/6, you need to find at least 4/8 and probably 5/10 to have a chance
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Old 01-10-2016, 06:58 AM   #5
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you can't beat the rake in 3/6, you need to find at least 4/8 and probably 5/10 to have a chance
Proximity is anti the casino I work at😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

He makes more trips to black eye Susan day per year to the other casino in maryland hahahahahah
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Old 01-10-2016, 07:31 PM   #6
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you can't beat the rake in 3/6, you need to find at least 4/8 and probably 5/10 to have a chance
you must have missed the first two threads where i went 63-37 and +1457 at 3/6 and below while going 2-5 for -$534 at 4/8?

stick around though. we're off to an abysmal start so this could be the year!!
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Old 01-10-2016, 07:34 PM   #7
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Proximity is anti the casino I work at😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

He makes more trips to black eye Susan day per year to the other casino in maryland hahahahahah
that's correct.

i rarely get to rocky gap.
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Old 01-10-2016, 08:30 PM   #8
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bad player guns down shooter's cowboys.......

today's action finds us back at horseshoe and still searching for our first win of the year after the drubbing on opening day.

around 3:10 my name starts flashing for a new game and at 3:20 it's cards in the air.

it's another bad start at the shoe with QQ losing twice in the first hour and thirty minutes of the game. however around 5:00 i flip over trip aces after a villain calls my river bet.

he stares at the board.

he stares at my hand.

he stares at the board.

he shows his hand to his neighbor.

he mucks his hand.

suddenly however, cathy (i believe a former colts cheerleader from the unitas and ameche era) shouts out "show one, show all."

"nah,... let's not see it," i half-jokingly respond causing the dealer to explain to cathy how the other player could still win the pot if he misread his hand and the winning hand was flipped over.

"oh, you'd be really mad at me then, wouldn't you?

"you'd probably want to kill me and you'd be right to want to."

"well, i think murder is probably a bit extreme," i tell her before adding that "i was thinking more about committing suicide and coming back to haunt you with my ghost."

at any rate, i'm on the board but thirty minutes later i lose with AA. before i can shed my first tear however, i river a lucky jack to fill up and win a nice pot with QJ.

i take a short break in the diamond lounge and when i return to the table a new player named shooter has joined the action.

shooter is possibly the single unhappiest player in maryland poker. i believe the last time he smiled they were still racing at bowie? however the last time i saw him at horseshoe he actually talked to me and said he thought he remembered me playing at live! before. since i get to live! about as often as paris hilton goes deer hunting i was impressed with his memory and assumed a mutual respect between us.

a few orbits pass and with AQ i raise one limper from middle position. the button calls two cold and shooter raises to $9 from the small blind. the big blind and limper fold. i call and so does the button.

flop: JTX

shooter bets, i call, and the button calls. i turn an ace to overtake shooter's KK and win the pot.

"bad players..." shooter mumbles.

i was thinking of telling him i was almost getting odds to call for the gutshot alone but decided to just let it go. instead of dwelling on how our friendship ended i guess i'll just try and appreciate the good times.

anyhow i have better luck with KK than shooter did going 1-0 for the game. however, when i raise the cowboys from under the gun EVERYBODY folds and i just scoop the blinds. halley's comet will probably fly over the casino before this happens again.

the rest of the game i'm rather card dead but hold on for a $68 win.

on my way out i see another paceadvantage member who is high on life after tcu and oregon go to ot and keep scoring.

my guess is he won 4 digits on the game but i decide to lowball him.

"how much did you win on that over?.... $500?"

"uhh..... no, no. just $300!!" he says.

i think he just dropped a zero.

game +68 (3/6lim)
year -76 (1-1)
kk 1-0 (2-0)
promo 55 (120)
tier 732

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Old 01-10-2016, 10:34 PM   #9
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How about keeping a record of your actual time at the table? Your hourly rate would be a better indicator than your won/loss record...IMO.
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How about keeping a record of your actual time at the table? Your hourly rate would be a better indicator than your won/loss record...IMO.
for the horseshoe my total hours will be roughly tier/50.

if i can get caught up on the reports i'll calculate this and start keeping track. they're supposed to add on a bonus for the end of last year though and hopefully they'll do that soon.

if you're coming east there are so many benefits that i would recommend horseshoe. i believe live! has some great benefits for regs too but for me they're not nearly as flexible. there's also a new place called national harbor coming soon and we'll see what they bring to the table.
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I have a friend who is interested in playing small buy in no limit tourneys.

She has a very rudimentary card knowledge but really not much more.

She wants to learn but two sources of that are non-starters.

Listening to me.

Reading an actual hard copy book.

Would love for anyone to suggest how she could study to acquire at least puncher's chance when they shuffle up and deal.

Thanks in advance.

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I have a friend who is interested in playing small buy in no limit tourneys.

She has a very rudimentary card knowledge but really not much more.

She wants to learn but two sources of that are non-starters.

Listening to me.

Reading an actual hard copy book.

Would love for anyone to suggest how she could study to acquire at least puncher's chance when they shuffle up and deal.

Thanks in advance.

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Well without wanting to talk about the game or read about the game she has 2 options. Watch beginner tutorial videos on Youtube or dive right in and learn on the fly.
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I have a friend who is interested in playing small buy in no limit tourneys.

She has a very rudimentary card knowledge but really not much more.

She wants to learn but two sources of that are non-starters.

Listening to me.

Reading an actual hard copy book.

Would love for anyone to suggest how she could study to acquire at least puncher's chance when they shuffle up and deal.

Thanks in advance.

V J S
Might she consider listening to an audiobook, or three?

http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Devel..._rd_s=center-4

http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Devel..._rd_s=center-4

http://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Devel..._rd_s=center-4
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Well without wanting to talk about the game or read about the game she has 2 options. Watch beginner tutorial videos on Youtube or dive right in and learn on the fly.
What tutorial videos would you recommend?
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Old 01-11-2016, 09:45 PM   #15
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Harrington on Hold 'em.. very solid basics.. no matter how much the game has changed still worth the read... never mind i missed the part '' doesn't want to read.. just tell her go on you tube then.. and check out pocket fives web site... Fold all AA

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