Interesting hand from my TNS poker club this week. I still wonder if this was a bad fold.
If you thought she had a flush on the turn, then why call? And if you didn’t think she had a flush on the turn, then why fold the river?
I didn’t think she necessarily had a flush on the turn. If you look at her aggression rate, she could have had a lot of things I had beat: the ace of hearts, TPTK, two pair, maybe even a set. But on the turn, there’s 1371 in the pot, and it’s only 274 to call: 5-1 pot odds. On the river, she bets full pot instead of half pot, and the other two players drop out, leaving me to call a bet six times as big as the one I had to call on the turn, and only giving me 2-1 pot odds. The fact that she barreled again OOP, with such a big bet, after getting called by all three of us on the turn, seems like a bad sign as well. Those are all the reasons behind why I played it this way–but I do wonder about it, which is why I posted it. I don’t think I could ever fold the nut straight on an unpaired three-suited board with 5-1 odds though.
I have signed up. While I don’t post a lot here, I am a regular here.
Welcome! I just approved you. We’re up to seven players total now, a nice little group building. 
Next tourney is of course coming up in a little over seventeen hours as I type this. I’ll remind you again an hour or two before it starts.
Here’s that two hour reminder, although I see six of the seven of us are already registered. Great! That means our first tourney that’s not WTA (we will “pay” three places, in play money/leaderboard points). See you at the table.
Bring your A-game! I’ve only had 5 beers so far!
Only five!
BTW, looks like PokerStars’ results tracker is broken. Our previous game does not show up, and I checked my other poker club and it’s the same deal there.
So I guess I’ll just start tracking people’s totals here. I’ll start fresh with this week, letting last week’s result fade into oblivion (which doesn’t step on anyone’s toes but mine, since it was WTA and I won it). I’m open to suggestions as to whether we should use just a lifetime total, some kind of rolling 90-day total, or a per-game average (maybe with a minimum of three games).
Pretty sure I was robbed somehow 
Start another tournament after you finish that one.
I’m up for it.
For those who weren’t there, Manson was for some reason unable to rebuy even though it was well within the first hour.
With that and the results/standings tabs not working, I’m a little worried PokerStars is not properly maintaining their Home Games code or something…
Where are the standings anyway? They have standings for home game groups?
They are supposed to, but they don’t seem to work anymore.
Okay, I’m still the man to beat. 
Fought my way back from the short stack to take it down.
I will set up a “just for fun” 8-game tourney again, to start in a few minutes, for me and Manson and anyone else who feels like joining. Won’t count for club standings though.
Here is our first leaderboard, such as it is:
- SlackerInc 68K
T2. MotherMucker2 (-17K)
T2. Frostedglass (-17K)
T2. Mentalguy31 (-17K)
T2. manson1972 (-17K)
ETA: Not sure where that weird formatting came from. I suppose in the future without the “T”, it will look better.
ETA2: I’m not counting the 3K vig against anyone. I initially forgot to deduct my own buyin, but I fixed that.
Thanks for the game today. Is the leaderboard based on finishing position in the tournaments, or just the total money won?
Yeah, it was fun!
I am so far just posting how much total play money has been won or lost (not counting vig/rake). But I’m open to suggestions for alternate ways to compute/display it. Certainly if we get new members months from now, it won’t be fair to them if they can never realistically catch up.
How about each player gets (number of players) / (finishing position) points, and only the best 10 tournament results from the past year counts? So today you would get (5 / 1) = 5 points, and new players only have to play for a maximum of two and a half months to reach the top of the leaderboard.
This is based off of the player ranking algorithm of an international sports federation which I follow.
EDIT: hmm, after some thinking I see this could be biased towards players who enter tournaments with a lot of other players.
I’m cool with that if everyone else is. Can you make and manage a Google Sheets spreadsheet, that we can all access with the link? That’s what someone does in my other poker club (they use a form of exponential decay that I consider needlessly complex, so we don’t need to emulate that aspect).
ETA: Now I saw your edit. The other thing that occurred to me is that people today didn’t have an incentive to finish third instead of fourth, so if we change that we should probably wipe out what we have so far (I’m kneecapping myself for the second week in a row, LOL). I’m not as worried about it biasing toward large fields, though, because it’s always more lucrative to win a bigger tourney.
Sure, I can make the spreadsheet. Might take a day or so to get everything working correctly.
Sounds great, thanks!