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and we're back at the south point hotel casino plan a was to actually go to the venetian for the
first time in a few years to end my boycott just to show you what the 2-5 is like there
but my buddy hit me up and he said he's been crushing the 3-5 game at south point so the
games are soft after 11. it happens to be just after eleven i was buying for fifteen hundred
profit two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars and complete the bankroll x challenge
with blinds at three dollars five dollars second orbit off the deck we decide to get in the mix we
buy it for 1500 and i look down at king queen offsuit could raise to 15 or 20. don't think
it matters too much uh we're going to go with 15 this time tony scratch calls the button and the
two blinds come along for the ride 60 bucks in the pot which comes queen five deuce two spades checks
to me about thirty dollars tony folds small blindfolds and the big blind puts in the call
hoping for a non-spade turn and the turn is a jack of clubs i believe and the big blind decides
to lead out into me very unconventional line why didn't he just check raise me on the flop it would
have been heads up regardless could be naming his own price with a flush draw or a hand like
ace three or ace four possibly a worse queen but after he bets 80 dollars i have no option other
than calling let's play some rivers the river is an offshoot four ace three got there and he fires
225 dollars this player started the hand with six hundred dollars and we have a decision to make we
can eliminate most ace queen combos because we have to assume they three bet squeeze pre-flop
he will have the full weight of pocket deuces and pocket fives that are played this way
and the occasional queen jack miss flush draws such as 910 would probably take this line
but as played i think our top pair is still too good to be folding we put in the 225 and he shows
queen 10 off suit we got him pipped and we take down a nice pot right off the bat
about an hour later there's an under the gun limp the guy on my right makes a 20. i'm next to act
with two red pieces love aces let's pump it up to 65 hopefully someone else has a monster and
we can just get it in pre run it like a tournament unfortunately the blinds fold the limper folds and
the original razor just puts in the call so we do have some action and we're in position but this is
a good situation flop comes king jack seven two spades we don't have an ace of spades he could
have king jack or pocket sevens but we're gonna try to target hands that are worse than us when he
checks to us we bet 75 pretty wet board so i think just a little over half pot is uh pretty good here
he puts in the call he has approximately five hundred dollars behind the churn brings off suit
five and when he checks to us we have to think what's the best sizing i think an all in bet for
over the pot size is attractive but i don't think that will accomplish much that will get all better
hands to call and all worse hands to fold so we want to milk him a little bit give him the wrong
price to chase his draws out of position and get value from his king queen type holdings so i bet
225 3x my flop bet he thinks about it and lets it go and we take down a nice pot with asis
one thing i really noticed about these live cash games is the general looseness of the players i
mean the ranges are very wide and people really play more or less face up they over value a lot
of their holdings when when we're five to nine handed they're only going to get action from
hands that beat them they're turning mid pairs into bluffs effectively and that's why paying
attention to your opponent's tendencies is so important resist the urge to be on your phone
there's a lot of money at stake every hand matters focus and positive aggressive mindset are the two
most important qualities when playing live cash games of course seat selection table selection
venue selection also important i mean definitely good to network definitely good to know people
in other games that say hey there's an open seat at the encore 2-5 a guy's waisted open jam and a
thousand a hand that's important to be effectively invited into that game knowledge is power the more
knowledge you have and the better connections you have the easier life's gonna be so don't be afraid
to reach out to people make friends build relationships and don't burn bridges
you never know when someone can help you out in the future and that's the pro tip for this fall
on this night there are two three five no limit games running at the south point we
are in the feeder game or secondary game waiting to get moved to the main game we are currently
five-handed as they balance the main game and the secondary game new player comes to the table
very first hand he's under the gun and he raises to 15 off a fresh 500 stack i'm on the button with
two red jacks of the three wrong ways of playing them i'm going to option c three bet uh usually
i make it 45 or 50. for some reason i made it 40 this time i think short-handed you can go slightly
smaller sizings because ranges are wider i'm not sure whatever 45 50 40. what's the difference
it's just math action folds the original razer who puts in the call flop comes ace 10-3 rainbow
great flop for our range and we stand to have the best hand a good percentage of the time so when he
checks to me i down bet to 30 dollars and he quickly puts in the call we're hoping he has a 10
or a hand like king queen when the turn brings a king he checks and my level zero thinking says oh
two overs we must be beat now let's just shut down and pray to hit a straight in retrospect i don't
think this is the correct line of thought since we have a pretty good range advantage on this
board texture i think we can effectively turn our pocket jacks into a bluff here and i think we want
to use a very large sizing to accomplish this to even possibly fold out his ace rags because
we're gonna have aces ace king kings tens some king 10 suited queen jack suited this board just
crushes our range so we should be betting big we should be betting near the pot which is around 140
but like i said instead i check back scared money don't make money the river's a brick he bet 60
dollars and he takes down the pot without what i assume is like ace deuce off suit or something or
possibly the ugliest hand poker ace six offsuit oh well you live and you learn yo what's up jeff
good luck on your bank rolex challenge buddy head down graph up visualize the win and think about
what it's going to feel like to have one of these on your wrist when you're playing at the table
good luck good luck in for 1500 out for 2040 for a profit of 540 not the 2270 i was looking for but
progress it's a slow process we're that much closer to the coveted rolex let's keep banging
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