Five Jive

Posted by wynn on Jul 30, 2010 in Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

While I look forward to what should be a highly profitable weekend at the table, I reflect back upon my session last night at MGM Grand Detroit. Thursdays are generally quiet, but they had this Jive ballroom dancing lessons party thing going on in the Ignite nightclub that shares the 3rd floor with the poker room. As if that was not irritating enough, my table...

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Cowardly Bully

Posted by wynn on Jul 20, 2010 in Donkeys, Table Talk | 4 comments

I have noticed two changes recently at the poker rooms in Detroit. First, about half the seats are empty compared to a few months ago. The second observation is more new players are filling those seats. By new, I mean inexperienced. Inexperienced players come in two flavors: those that know they don’t know how to play and those that wish they knew how to...

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Good Gone Bad

Posted by wynn on Jul 13, 2010 in Bluffs, Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

“You flop a set ?” one of my opponents asks on the flop. I guess I played bad. That is all I can come up with when I replay the hand in my head. Here is what happened. I figure the player on my immediate right has a hand like A-Q or A-J when he raised to $75 pre-flop. I called with A-10d knowing I could outplay him on the flop. The player on my...

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McTrist

Posted by wynn on Jul 4, 2010 in Buy-in, Donkeys, Table Talk | 0 comments

On Friday, I lost my stack with K-K to Q-J with a board of 10-5-2-A-K. Sure maybe you gamble pre-flop by calling a big raise with two unsuited under cards. How you can continue the hand with Queen high on the flop is beyond me. It is not profitable over the long haul. The ace on Fourth Street gives you a gutshot, but if this kid could have put it all together,...

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Defiance

Posted by wynn on Jun 30, 2010 in Bluffs, Donkeys | 4 comments

Played in a private game last night near Defiance, Ohio. What a bunch of big talking donkeys. It was sick. Not a single card player at the table. The buy-in was $2500. Now, for me, an average night is a double-up. The cards usually act in defiance of me going 10X. Until last night that is. Walked out with just over $25,000. Thank goodness for donkeys that rebuy...

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