Sucker

Posted by wynn on Mar 8, 2010 in Rounders | 0 comments

[This post is part of my series on Mike McDermott quotes from the movie Rounders] “Listen. Here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” Easy games. Tough games. Home games. Casino games. Crooked games. Straight games. Every game has at least one sucker at the table. Even...

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Donkey Brutality

Posted by wynn on Mar 4, 2010 in Bad Beats, Donkeys | 0 comments

What a brutal session! My first hand was A-A. It held up for a $100 profit. Then, it was all downhill from there. Missed flops and forced blinds took me down to even. Then up another hundo. Back down to even. Up a couple hundo. Then down to the felt. It was a terrible session for me. A combination of bad players and my fatigue. There was, however, some symmetry...

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Quittin’ Time

Posted by wynn on Jan 17, 2010 in Bad Beats, Donkeys, Great Reads | 0 comments

I was forced to sit in seat 4 in a $1 – $2 – $100 spread limit game last night. It was one of the softest games I ever sat at. An entire table of weak fishes. I felt great and my reads were 100% dead on. I had one playable hand in three hours: Q-J where I turned a King-high straight and rivered Broadway. At this point because of blinds, I was roughly...

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The Worst

Posted by wynn on Jan 6, 2010 in Bad Beats, Donkeys, Great Reads | 0 comments

I played with two of the world’s worst poker players last night. The absolute worst. My experience with extremely bad players is they have an abundance of luck. One of the donkey twins called a $100 pre-flop bet at a $1-$2 game with J-2 off. He flopped J-2-2 to crush A-A. My table image is typically strong, so guys like this usually get out of my way....

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Unlucked

Posted by wynn on Dec 23, 2009 in Bad Beats, Donkeys | 0 comments

I got unlucked. Again. Day 4 in a row. Five out of six. And it is sick. I don’t want to go on and on about bad beats, but these are just sick. For your entertainment and my therapy, here is what happened yesterday: I am in the big blind with 8-6 off. The player under the gun limps in. The player two off the big blind also limps in. Everyone else folds. The...

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