Left for Windsor from Milton about 10:30 as Moose had said he and his group, himself, MMoose and MooseSR would be leaving about 11 from Cambridge. Figured that would get us into Windsor about the same time.
Traffic was fairly light all the way there, but I stopped for 20 min at one of the service centers to stretch my legs and grab a quick bite..
Arrived at Caesars Windsor about 2pm and went looking for everyone else. After about a half hour I ran into Hobbes but no sign of Moose’s crew or SeekTheGrail or MrsSeekThe Grail.
Hobbes and I wandered around, checked out the poker room, and signed up for the 4pm tourney. Only 1 registration prior to us. Not a good sign.
About 3:45 we finally see MMoose wandering towards the poker room, and the rest shortly afterwards. Not sure why everyone else was so late.
By this time there were only 8 entries but we were assured that more would sign up as we started. By the time the first hand was dealt I think we had like 13 players on 2 tables. Gradually built up to the point we had two full tables, then they allowed reentries until the end of 1st break which was at the end of level 3 (30 min each). We never got beyond 20 but eventually ended up with 28 paid entries, paying 5 spots.
Structure was pretty good for a casino although some obvious levels were left out making it sort of turbo-ish around mid tourney. During level 2 I took a decent pot from Moose when I flopped a set of 5’s vs his KK. Think this was at 50/100 level when I limped, LP raised to 400??, Moose smooth called in the blind, and I completed the action. Can’t recall flop but it had a 5 and no A so a perfect firestorm was created. Moose led out for 900?? I called and so did LP raiser. Normally I would raise there to let a friend know I meant business but I just called to keep LP in.
Turn is another small card and Moose leads out for 1500. I call but LP folds. River is another brick and Moose leads for 2K. I raise and he folds almost instantly.. Good move Moose, I show.. Since we had pieces of each other I really didn’t want to cripple him but with the LP raiser I didn’t want to lose value. Can’t really recall much else about this one as far as hands go but I busted 11th to create final and both Moose and Hobbes were still ok although Moose was short. He had played the short stack to perfection for a long time to get there and I wished them both luck while I went for a walk to cool off.
Came back when they were 6 handed to see Moose bust out on the bubble although they had arranged a bubble prize. Hobbes stack continued to do the rollercoaster until the worked a save at 3 and a chop heads up. Will let him describe in his thread.
Played 1 / 2 cash, 200 max with some of the worst players I’ve seen in a while but could never really get many decent hands and ended the night up a small amount.
Saturday morning met up with Hobbes in the poker room but found out that they couldn’t get enough players to run the tournament. Disappointed in this but turned out to be best as we played cash for 3 or 4 hours before going for dinner at Tunnel BBQ, highly recommend it if you are ever in Windsor. I had built my stack up to about $450. during the afternoon.
Managed to get an evening 1 / 2 $300 max PLO game going with a full table for at least 3 hours, total was probably 5 hours with 7 or 8 players. Moose two my left and SeekTheGrail Steve two to my right. Most fun I’ve had at a table in quite a while. 2-3 other decent players (besides us )
And the rest were a collection of complete newbie’s and gamblers. Seems like 2 <acronym title="Google Page Ranking"><acronym title="Google Page Ranking">pr</acronym></acronym> is the nuts in PLO and that’s the way they played it…I can’t even begin to describe all the crazy hands. I had one myself where I flopped a nut flush draw (in position) as well as top 2 and had 2 people betting into me. Made the flush on the river, no paired board EP leads out for 50, MP calls, I raise 70 more and they both fold. Moose won like a $600. pot when he flopped a set and took a poor players stack. Many people would rebuy multiple times for $100. at a time. Stupid, just plain suicide at PLO.
Sunday Update to come. (My fingers are getting tired)
I don't know if I am missing something or am just naive, but I think the two parts of comp's story that I bolded, are morally wrong. Should you not be trying to win as much as possible from your opponents, no matter who they are? Is soft playing not a form of cheating?
I don't play in casinos at all so I don't know if this is accepted or not. I would be disappointed if I ever found out players were doing this in any tournaments that I do play.
With that being said, I do not see where compuease has actually done this in the hands that he describes.
I am curious to hear what everyone here has to say about it.
I don't know if I am missing something or am just naive, but I think the two parts of comp's story that I bolded, are morally wrong. Should you not be trying to win as much as possible from your opponents, no matter who they are? Is soft playing not a form of cheating?
I don't play in casinos at all so I don't know if this is accepted or not. I would be disappointed if I ever found out players were doing this in any tournaments that I do play.
With that being said, I do not see where compuease has actually done this in the hands that he describes.
I am curious to hear what everyone here has to say about it.
Just read the TR (had lots to catchup on) but I don't disagree with you.
Unless I am misreading it, both bolded parts refer to the same hand, right? He says his actions were different from what he would normally do to warn off a friend, so how is that morally wrong? If he had in some way acted to let moose know that he should bail (his normal course of action) I might agree, but this is not what happened.
He says that he would normally warn off a friend. I say that is wrong. Like I already said, I don't believe he actually did do anything wrong in this instance. But I am curious if it is normal for people to slow play against friends.
Okay, so I misread your post, or did not go far enough, w/e. Yeah, I would tend to agree with you. My friends play for extremely low stakes when we get together ($0.05/$0.10), but we love beating each others brains out. The Missus loves to finish one rung up the ladder from me in any tourney we play, even if that means coming in second last, and likes nothing better than busting my ass. I would not want to stack a friend in a casino, and would most likely pick up the tab for dinner if I did, but I am taking those chips if I get the chance.
I would say it appears the hand played out in fashion that it probably would have if it was complete strangers. Although I do agree the bolded comments in the TR appear questionable considering there was a swapped %. As a host of games with a regular group that consist of Family, Friends and others, I believe the games would lose the players quickly if you didn't play the same against every player at the felt. Lori takes great pride in felting me in the cash game or knock me out of the tournament.
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Oh and nice % with Steve means you actually made more than I did for the weekend tourneys.
Many people were taking "her" stacks all day.
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Is this the... larger... lady that wears a baseball cap and usually sunglasses?
Probably.
Was hard to tell at first if it was a man or woman.
She had a ballcap and a sweatshirt on
That's her. She's a reg. Haven't played much with her but she's very hit or miss, mostly miss.
I noticed that.
Sent..
Nice try..
Shipped.
In training...
I don't know if I am missing something or am just naive, but I think the two parts of comp's story that I bolded, are morally wrong. Should you not be trying to win as much as possible from your opponents, no matter who they are? Is soft playing not a form of cheating?
I don't play in casinos at all so I don't know if this is accepted or not. I would be disappointed if I ever found out players were doing this in any tournaments that I do play.
With that being said, I do not see where compuease has actually done this in the hands that he describes.
I am curious to hear what everyone here has to say about it.
Just read the TR (had lots to catchup on) but I don't disagree with you.
Shipped..