Rags to Riches

I log in and see all my old blog posts. Kill me now, the cringe is unbearable.

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I've been having some success at casino's/underground poker games but I'm still terrible overall.

Just sucked out on villain with KK vs QQ (me) all-in preflop when I hit my set on the turn. A few hands later, this happens:

I'm dealt on button. Same villain raises to about 10 and I reraise to 35ish. Everyone else folds and he flat calls.

Flop comes out . He bets about 50...

What do I do here? He has about 270 or so left in his stack. Just call?

Villain info: He doesn't like me and has been playing fairly TAGish

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In Canada, it is Victoria Day weekend meaning that the fish will be coming in droves to Casino Niagara. I went on Friday with $200 cash to check out the 1/2 tables. I promptly lost my roll in about 30 minutes due to some overplaying my hands (TPTK and sets losing out to draws). I withdrew another 100 and lost that within 15 minutes. I should have quit by now but I realized that I wasn't playing horribly and the problem so far had been some crappy luck. I withdrew another 100 and recouped all my losses and came up $100 on top.

I don't want this to look like a brag post but rather a demonstration of how bad players are at casinos. I'm not even close to being a good player but the people there were just horrible. Raising 6x+ the BB in any position was common and it would not be uncommon to see all-ins every few hands. All I had to do was wait for a nice hand and punish the people drawing when I hit.

Overall, I was very satisfied with how I played and hope to return within a month or so. The live poker tips in the articles section by Myth actually helped quite a bit as well.

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