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It's the week for the HOME-GAME

IMO pretty bad that you didn't get anything settled with Alstarrt - would have been awesome IMO. Hope to be available next time

Just been "working" in the forrest all weekend. It's super cool and fun but damn hard for the body. So absolut no time/energy for poker.

@Boomer

That 64 River is super sexy but could you have bet/3bet - whith the utg calling BB's raise doesn't seem he believe the btn.

@ALL

For the home game - I think we agreed to try to reach Aldine first and see if he would participate, but I haven't been able to yet - just sent him another pm and asked BBB if he would hint him if he sees him online.

Anyway what's you deadline Aumorgan. We play on Thursday at 3.00PM EST, right time- right ?


Also where do we play, we did agree on PS right ? What about the limit - we need real money because of the HH's?


@ BG

Super congratz on this. I'm making my way up to 1/2 atm my self, not much difference in games I think. I've been at 1/2 myself a couple of times - but cashing out+running bad+not as skilled as now is'nt great combinations. Anyway it looks better now and I hope I'll be able to go beyond this time

@Boomer

That 64 River is super sexy but could you have bet/3bet - whith the utg calling BB's raise doesn't seem he believe the btn.

But then I would have lost the "Wind Pygmy Up" EV and lost my DC cred!!!

Plus this guy won't raise that. It was blatanly obvious from his play so far he had top pair and 0.5/1 nittags don't raise TP3K from a donk into 2 players. Plus UTG was a donkey passive station .

Then again I've played bad this weekend so you may be correct but I don't think he ever raises the river with Top Pair there.

@ALL

For the home game - I think we agreed to try to reach Aldine first and see if he would participate, but I haven't been able to yet - just sent him another pm and asked BBB if he would hint him if he sees him online.

Anyway what's you deadline Aumorgan. We play on Thursday at 3.00PM EST, right time- right ?

I'd say we have to have the 6 ready for tomorrow at 5pm EST. But if aumorgan needs to know sooner than that let us know.

Also where do we play, we did agree on PS right ? What about the limit - we need real money because of the HH's?

Ya PS. I think for this little excersie either 0.1/0.2 or 0.25/0.5. Everyone involved has got to feel comfortable with the limits since it's more than likely bets are gonna fly at some point and +40-50BB swings could easily occur so we don't want incorrect decisions being made becasue "Wow this is getting big now".

One more question. Who is recording? I'm happy to do it from my side if people want but if Jess is going to do it that's great too and would probably make more sense.

But then I would have lost the "Wind Pygmy Up" EV and lost my DC cred!!!

Plus this guy won't raise that. It was blatanly obvious from his play so far he had top pair and 0.5/1 nittags don't raise TP3K from a donk into 2 players. Plus UTG was a donkey passive station .



Then again I've played bad this weekend so you may be correct but I don't think he ever raises the river with Top Pair there.

Nah surely no raise with TP-not Top Kicker but def. a value-bet. Bad luck for him, he played it perfectly

Ya PS. I think for this little excersie either 0.1/0.2 or 0.25/0.5. Everyone involved has got to feel comfortable with the limits since it's more than likely bets are gonna fly at some point and +40-50BB swings could easily occur so we don't want incorrect decisions being made becasue "Wow this is getting big now".

One more question. Who is recording? I'm happy to do it from my side if people want but if Jess is going to do it that's great too and would probably make more sense.

Yeah I need to buyin for some 100-150BB I guess... Anyway, def. not higher than .25/.50 depends on how much everyone gots on PS. Maybe I should get that free $5 to grow, if it's ever possible :S

Not a chance in hell we are playing .25/.50, FYI

I will record so if I lose I can blame it on being distracted by Camtasia duties

it's more than likely bets are gonna fly at some point and +40-50BB swings could easily occur

wat, is this standard? or just special occassions?

PS Tanenbaum book is gooooot

Who all is going to play in the home game?

wat, is this standard? or just special occassions?

Pretty standard for me, 20-30BB swong in an hour is pretty easy even in LP games and I've got the feeling this isn't gonna be an LP game

40-50 is probably a little extreme but certainly not outside the realm of possibility in an aggressive game, it's why we've got to get the level right.

Ok so just confirming everything we have so far:

Game: 0.1/0.2SHFL
Site: Pokerstars

Time: 15:00 EST on 02/04/2009 (That's 20:00UK time and 21:00 CET)

Lineup: Boomer, Isac, Spiers, Rootbeer2k, Adri, Aldine/aumorgan (Decided by 6pm EST tonight)

Running Time: 60 minutes good?

Everyone fine with that?

No such thing as .01/.02 is there? I'm fine with anything up to .05/.10

60 mins might be too long with analysis and everything... we'll have to ask Michael about that

Time sounds good

Yeah I think it's gonna be around 40-45 mins, but gotta find out.

If we play up to .05/.10 then I think I even got enough to buy in for 45BB's on PS

Time's fine - I even converted right I guess

About the swongs, I got a standard deviation per 100 hand on 18.5BB/100 and that's the pretty looose games. And loosing/winning 20-30 BB's happens very often wihtin 1 session like, btw thats one of the strongest reasons IMO to add more tables.

Haven't heard from Aldine yet, so we gonna find out.

I'd say we have to have the 6 ready for tomorrow at 5pm EST. But if aumorgan needs to know sooner than that let us know.

sorry took me so long to get back. all i need is to know by thursday morning. i can arrange work to get around the 3:00 EDT start. would love to play with you guys if possible.

michael

Yeah guys, something like 40-45 minutes would be best. It'll still take WAY over an hour for me to get through that much (see: tomorrow's vid or Chris and Rob in the last Home Game), but I want to make sure you all get a decent amount of playing time too.

I would strongly suggest you make a group Skype chat once you're getting all set to go, and if I'm online please include me in it.

We'll make a skype chat before playing for sure...

Also that random number generator you used in the last homegame do you have a link to that or is it just like this http://www.random.org/ we need this for the fairness of who I'm sitting to the right off... or is it the left

You're sitting to my left obv so I have to behave and you get to iso me at will duh....

Yeah guys, something like 40-45 minutes would be best. It'll still take WAY over an hour for me to get through that much

Dammit you're expecting us to entertain???

There goes my plan of 9VPIP

wat, is this standard? or just special occassions?

PS Tanenbaum book is gooooot

Yeah that book should help you.

STANDARD

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $1(BB) Replayer
SB ($19)
Hero ($105)
UTG ($83.25)
CO ($35.75)
BTN ($68)

Dealt to Hero AJ

UTG calls $1, CO calls $1, BTN raises to $2, SB calls $1.50, Hero calls $1, UTG calls $1, CO calls $1,

FLOP ($10) TQ2

check, check, check, check, BTN bets $1, SB calls $1, Hero calls $1, UTG calls $1, CO folds,

TURN ($14) TQ2K

check, check, check, BTN bets $2, SB calls $2, Hero raises to $4, UTG folds, BTN raises to $6, SB calls $4, Hero raises to $8, BTN calls $2, SB calls $2,

RIVER ($38) TQ2K2

check, check, BTN bets $2, SB calls $2, Hero calls $2,

If I win it's +21BB's and if I loose it's -6.5BB as played but if the river hadn't fucking paired the board I had won atleast 4BB's more (assuming not chopping) and probably more vs those guys

He really had QQ-KK-AJ-J9 there the SB was just a buddy playing any holding the same xc xc xc

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $1(BB) Replayer
SB ($21)
BB ($47.25)
UTG ($70.25)
UTG+1 ($17.79)
Hero ($80.75)
BTN ($51.25)

Dealt to Hero A3

UTG raises to $2, UTG+1 calls $1, Hero raises to $3, fold, fold, BB calls $2, UTG calls $1, UTG+1 raises to $4, Hero raises to $5, BB calls $2, UTG calls $2, UTG+1 calls $1,

CAP IS STANDARD - NOW YOU ALL KNOW

FLOP ($20.50) 77A

check, check, UTG+1 bets $1, Hero raises to $2, BB folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 raises to $3, Hero calls $1,

TURN ($26.50) 77A3

check, Hero bets $2, UTG+1 raises to $4, Hero calls $2,

RIVER ($34.50) 77A33

UTG+1 bets $2, Hero raises to $4, UTG+1 raises to $5.79 (AI), Hero calls $1.79,

Same session - just those 2 hands as played would either win me 41BB's or loose me 15.4BB's

Also that random number generator you used in the last homegame do you have a link to that or is it just like this http://www.random.org/ we need this for the fairness of who I'm sitting to the right off... or is it the left

Yes, that is what I used. I also used it for the HULA draft, but I've been accused of rigging that.