2016 Poker Discussion Thread

[proximity]

Originally Posted by garyscpa

So are you going to try more no limit this year?

yes, in fact that last report will probably be my final limit game of 2016.

next year i'll probably go back to horseshoe and try to grind my way back to diamond again. it'll be a lot of 3/6 but i'll probably mix in some 1/3 too.

overall i thought i played well down at borgata but after the first couple games it seemed that everything bad that could happen..... happened. losing repeatedly with AA and other big pairs. three betting dominated hands..... they hit their card. improbable chops.... some three way. in the end though the bottom line is the bottom line and thaskalos was right....10/20 made me a poker loser.

[proximity]

ok poker fans.

our flashy borgata avatar is gone.

head down, tail between legs, not even stopping for a final free meal at the bally's diamond lounge..... we depart atlantic city and when we finally get up the nerve to sit down at a card table again it's back at humble penn national.

we are playing out the string in "america's game" 1-2 no limit.

from the button i try to raise 77.

every cruddy limper at the table calls and every high card in the deck falls.

i don't pay off a single chip but when i raise KQs every limper at the table calls again.

flop: Q4X. a $25 bet folds out half the field.

turn: another 4. $50 narrows it down to one player behind me.

river: A. and i chop with QJ off suit.

after this though i score a win with KK and with AT of hearts i see a beautiful ten high flop with two hearts!!

i just checked and called here which almost had to be some kind of mistake but when the action got back to me it was just too tempting to take the free card.

turn: x

i do decide to lead out here but can't fold out my neighbor who misreads reads the board and goes on to river a (non-heart) gutshot. so maybe i saved money on the flop?

with TT a loose, wild, and not very good player leads for his standard $25.

i raise to $50 to isolate.

flop: T x x!!!

with AT off suit he does all the work for me and i catch my first break in what seems like five years.

it's good to win a pot but we're playing no limit and this is a situation where i could have gotten more had i won the KQs and ATs pots and had a larger stack. i'll probably start buying for more too as i begin to get my sea legs under me again here.

i grab a win with JJ on my way out the door and end up with a $166 win but it could have been so much more if it wasn't for the two bad river cards.

thank you for reading.

game +166 (1/2 nl)
year -1103 (56-42)
kk 1-0 (45-38)
promo 0 (1092)
bonus 0 (315)

[proximity]

ok poker fans we are back at penn national for more 1-2 no limit excitement.

after early losses with 99 and AK i finally grab a win with AK to get almost back to even. eventually i move ahead with QQ but when AA comes i bet fold the turn (villain had a set of tens) and the issue's in doubt once again.

with one foot out the door it's gonna be another of our famous mini wins when i look down at JJ from early position and raise to $10.

a player two seats to my left calls and i bet out on a flop of J87.

he raises.

i shove.

he calls.

with $106 effective stacks and several players behind him he called a $10 raise with T9 off suit.

no help on the turn or river.

thank you for reading.

game -100 (1/2 nl)
year -1203 (56-43)
kk 0-0 (45-38)
promo 0 (1092)
bonus 0 (315)

[proximity]

ok poker fans today's action finds us back at hollywood casino at penn national races where we're playing out the string.

i arrive around post time only to find that pen is out of daily racing programs (currently $4, but going up to $5 january 1st). no one in their right mind is going to spend $10 for a daily racing form but they're giving out free pps for turfway and charles town and selling $2 pen programs for the live card.

the free programs turn out to be a joke with many of the races only including one to three pacelines per horse and the live book isn't much better with one race only including four lines per horse. then upstairs in the freezing clubhouse (uhh? it's december guys???) the snack bar is shuttered and i have to walk all the way down to "celebrity grill" in the casino to get a $4.23 bowl of soup.

what a total disgrace to gambling this operation is!!

back in the freezing clubhouse i have a good discussion with high school harness guru ray cotolo about the demise of everyone's favorite tv show pa harness week and also mourn pompano's loss of that curvy cuban cutie gigi diaz and her little pick 4 party patrol.

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

always up on everything to do with harness, young ray informs me that gigi has moved on to radio. pompano and pick 4s will never be the same.

down in the card room losses with T9s and AJ take half my stack and facing a raise and call with TT i shove in my final $49.

the original raiser calls and as does the cold caller and we see a flop of k x x.

the original raiser shoves, folds out the caller, and flips over (it's all the way at the other end of the table) i believe QQ but it could've been KQ.

blank on the turn but a glorious dime on the river saves the day!!

the rest of the game finds us trading money with AK before we finally retire with a $42 win.

thank you for reading.

game +42 (1/2 nl)
year -1161 (57-43)
kk 0-0 (45-38)
promo 0 (1092)
bonus 0 (315)

[proximity]

ok poker fans we're back with more exciting 1-2 action from hollywood penn national!!

while i end up rallying for a $28 win in this game i played one hand so poorly that i really didn't even deserve to walk out of the racino a "winner."

on the button with 88 i raised a couple limpers to $10. four of us end up seeing a flop of 654 with two diamonds. (approximately $40 in the pot)

the flop is checked to me and i fire out $20, narrowing the field down to me and a player who limp/ called pre with A7 off suit (no diamonds) and called the flop with eleven (shaky) outs.

he's played bad so far but on the turn my own ineptitude will overshadow all of his early street sins.

turn:8

this card gives him a straight with any seven and he checkraises a pathetic blocker bet by me that's not even large enough to price out a diamond draw. with the set i've picked up ten outs that were certainly stronger than his outs on the flop but he's bet enough that i should fold.... but instead i don't even shove, but call and then pay off the remainder of my small stack when i miss the river.

it is embarrassing to type such a lousy hand but that's how i played it and thus it has to go in the thread here at paceadvantage.

to my credit i gather myself and grind my way back to a profitable night but it was still a frustrating drive home. at least from penn national though i didn't have too far to go.

thank you for reading!

game +28 (1/2 nl)
year -1133 (58-43)
kk 1-0 (46-38)
promo 0 (1092)
bonus 0 (315)

[proximity]

ok poker fans we are back at exciting hollywood casino at penn national for one final game on our poker tour.

we're playing "america's game" 1-2 no limit hold 'em and i buy a little deeper for this 2016 finale.

i strike quickly in this one with our old pal KK on the very first hand of the game. wins with 55 and AA follow and i've sprinted out to a $178 lead.

but 99 falls to AA and A5s misses both flush and straight draws.

75s flops both flush and straight draws (4s3s 2) and rivers a flush.... but loses to a higher flush and our lead is reduced to just $25.

i stay for another five and a half hours but only win a couple small pots before quitting with a $124 loss.

i'd like to thank everyone here who read the reports and offered advice and encouragement over the last three years. happy new year and best of luck to you all.

---proximity

game -124 (1/2 nl)
year -1257 (58-44)
kk 1-0 (47-38)
promo 0 (1092)
bonus 0 (315)

[proximity]

well, three years of game reports here on paceadvantage really flew by. it was A LOT of fun!!

here are some stats from the 2014, 2015, and 2016 poker tours...

rank.....casino.....$$....w-l
(1)horseshoe balt.......+1528 (56-35)
(2)showboat (ac)........ +311 (5-0)
(3)penn national.........+284 (51-35)
(4)excalibur (lv)..........+241 (3-0)
(5)rocky gap (md).......+206 (1-0)
(6)parx.......................+125 (2-0)
(7)bally's (ac)................+91 (17-12)
(8)harrah's (ac)..............+31 (2-5)
(9)bellagio (lv)................+28 (1-0)
(10) golden nugget (ac)....+21 (1-0)
(11)the mirage (lv)...........+11 (1-0)
(12)silver sevens (lv).........+10 (1-0)
(13)taj mahal (ac)..............-30 (2-1)
(14)flamingo (lv)................-171 (1-2)
(15)tropicana (ac)..............-373 (3-5)
(16)charles town................-508 (12-15)
(17)sands.........................-725 (3-5)
(18)maryland live!.............-737 (7-9)
(19)borgata......................-899 (14-9)

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here are the three year stats by game:

(1) 3-6 limit........... +1252 (74-47)
(2) 2-6 spread limit... +241 (3-0)
(3) 1-3 no limit...........+208 (2-0)
(4) 2-4-6 limit..............+204 (16-10)
(5) 1-2 no limit...............-7 (59-47)
(6) 2-4 limit...................-173 (14-11)
(7) 1-1 no limit...............-452 (3-4)
(8) 4-8 limit...................-727 (8-10)
(9) 10-20 limit...............-1102 (4-4)

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by proximity

here are the three year stats by game:

(1) 3-6 limit........... +1252 (74-47)
(2) 2-6 spread limit... +241 (3-0)
(3) 1-3 no limit...........+208 (2-0)
(4) 2-4-6 limit..............+204 (16-10)
(5) 1-2 no limit...............-7 (59-47)
(6) 2-4 limit...................-173 (14-11)
(7) 1-1 no limit...............-452 (3-4)
(8) 4-8 limit...................-727 (8-10)
(9) 10-20 limit...............-1102 (4-4)

Prox, what's the average length of one of your sessions, in hours?

[proximity]

Originally Posted by dilanesp

Prox, what's the average length of one of your sessions, in hours?

i don't keep track of that but probably about 7 or 8 hours.

[dilanesp]

4.9BB/100 at the 3-6, over about 4,200 hands. That's very good, though not a statistically significant sample.

If we combine all your limit results, you are 0.29BB/100, over about 6,000 hands. That's basically breaking even; still not a statistically significant sample.

-13.3bb/100 in no limit, over 4,025 hands. Obviously you had a bad year, and this also demonstrates how these hand samples aren't statistically significant.

I really don't know how to deal with spread limit or 2-4-6, though you clearly made small amounts of money at those limits.

[proximity]

Originally Posted by dilanesp

4.9BB/100 at the 3-6, over about 4,200 hands. That's very good, though not a statistically significant sample.

If we combine all your limit results, you are 0.29BB/100, over about 6,000 hands. That's basically breaking even; still not a statistically significant sample.

-13.3bb/100 in no limit, over 4,025 hands. Obviously you had a bad year, and this also demonstrates how these hand samples aren't statistically significant.

I really don't know how to deal with spread limit or 2-4-6, though you clearly made small amounts of money at those limits.

in no limit i lose about one big blind a game. the mid limit shot is where i got killed.

for this year i'm trying to go to horseshoe as much as possible and i'm throwing in some no limit where i'm trying to buy deeper like thaskalos said.

my humble goals are to grind 15,000 tier credits to become caesars diamond again while moving ahead in no limit and continuing to win at 3/6, ultimately getting up over $2000 lifetime at 'shoe.

i'm also trying to get there as much as possible for promo vouchers and gifts.

how did your year end up going??

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by proximity

in no limit i lose about one big blind a game. the mid limit shot is where i got killed.

for this year i'm trying to go to horseshoe as much as possible and i'm throwing in some no limit where i'm trying to buy deeper like thaskalos said.

my humble goals are to grind 15,000 tier credits to become caesars diamond again while moving ahead in no limit and continuing to win at 3/6, ultimately getting up over $2000 lifetime at 'shoe.

i'm also trying to get there as much as possible for promo vouchers and gifts.

how did your year end up going??

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[ReplayRandall]

Originally Posted by dilanesp

+2.54BB/100, playing over 950 hrs.

According to what you had posted, you're claiming you won $241,300 this year playing 100/200 limit?

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by ReplayRandall

According to what you had posted, you're claiming you won $241,300 this year playing 100/200 limit?

Nope. No way no how.

1, I don't play that high, 2 I am not that good, and 3, I didn't post that.