New OK room open

[Nomad84]

I just realized, it was 4.5 hours, not 5.5 hours. 35 BB in 4.5 hours ain't half bad [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[ClassicBob]

I'm currently in Norman and I haven't had time to get to the casino yet (classes...) though I probably will make it up there later tonight. I wanted to reply because my friend Matt deals there, and it might have been him that you referred to as being a great dealer. He's a young guy (22-24 or so) and has a beard, about 6' tall. Was this who you were referring to? He dealt in a lot of home games around the area, and I consider him one of the best dealers in the local games.

[Cory Neely]

lol matt widdoes? hes a great dealer btw so tip him well.

[Nomad84]

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I wanted to reply because my friend Matt deals there, and it might have been him that you referred to as being a great dealer. He's a young guy (22-24 or so) and has a beard, about 6' tall. Was this who you were referring to? He dealt in a lot of home games around the area, and I consider him one of the best dealers in the local games.

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That definitely sounds like him. He did a great job. The table was talking about him the rest of the night. I'm probably going to go out there tonight with my roommate. I hope to see Matt again.

Not sure what shirt I'll be wearing, but I'll have the Adidas hat on again. I'll probably be wearing some sort of Harley shirt. Say hi if you see me out there.

[Nomad84]

They are still getting some of the details worked out, but everything went relatively smoothly tonight. There were a couple of issues where dealers and/or staff didn't know the rules correctly. For instance, one woman was allowed to remove $100 from the table to cash in and give to her husband at another table.

There were also some changes to the limits offered compared to Wednesday. On Wednesday, your choices were 2/4 or 4/8 limit or 2/5 NL. Tonight, it was 3/6 or 4/8 limit with lots of 2/5 NL. They also started up a 10/20 limit game a few hours ago. I had to wait almost an hour for a seat at a 3/6 table, and by the time I left, there were many many more people on the rail watching and presumably waiting to get a seat.

Cardplayer magazine contributed some books that were given away throughout the evening. When I first saw a book under someone's chair, I actually thought the guy had brought it with him.

One rule was announced several times that may be of interest to some of you. Headphones are not allowed at the tables.

Unfortunately, tonight was not as good of a night as Wednesday. I managed to lose about $70 this time around. I had AK or AQ about 5 or 6 times, and they were suited about half of those times. Not once did they win. I don't think I won a single pot in probably the last 4 or 5 dealers. Only notable hand all night was when I had AA and flopped a set with 3 spades on the board. I bet, got raised by the guy on my left, everyone else folded to me. I 3-bet and villain called. Turn paired the board, giving me aces full of jacks. IIRC, he had flopped 2 pair, aces and whatever the other card was. Even though I was down $70, I felt like I played pretty well for the most part. My biggest problem was not paying enough attention on the hands that I wasn't involved in. Overall, -12BB isn't too much of a concern since I really felt like a lot of it was due to the cards. Honestly, though, I probably should have tried to change tables anyway. My table was not making very many huge mistakes, so it was a little bit harder to capitalize on opponent's bad play than it was on Wednesday.

[Ilovephysics]

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there were many many more people on the rail watching and presumably waiting to get a seat.

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Not always. It wouldn't surprise me if you had a few people who have never played at casino before who just wanted to see how 'fast' it was played, etc. A lot of new players are scared of sitting down, too. Or, they might be just watching you, too.

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One rule was announced several times that may be of interest to some of you. Headphones are not allowed at the tables.


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Kinda figured they'd get around to this and cell phone rules sooner or later.

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Unfortunately, tonight was not as good of a night as Wednesday. I managed to lose about $70 this time around. I had AK or AQ about 5 or 6 times, and they were suited about half of those times. Not once did they win. I don't think I won a single pot in probably the last 4 or 5 dealers. Only notable hand all night was when I had AA and flopped a set with 3 spades on the board. I bet, got raised by the guy on my left, everyone else folded to me. I 3-bet and villain called. Turn paired the board, giving me aces full of jacks. IIRC, he had flopped 2 pair, aces and whatever the other card was. Even though I was down $70, I felt like I played pretty well for the most part. My biggest problem was not paying enough attention on the hands that I wasn't involved in.


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Not that you probably didn't find this out the hard way, but you still need to be careful against 7 limpers playing just about any two cards. You might want to try a to run some numbers for yourself, e.g., like at sites like www.twodimes.net).

Since you are on this site, you probably have read enough books to know what types of hands you should be playing and in what position. I have found that these extra rules usually help:

0) Don't overestimate you own skill.
1) Don't bluff/semi-bluff.
2) Look for reasons to fold.
3) Raise on the turn typically means two-pair or better.
4) Bet your sets.

[Nomad84]

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there were many many more people on the rail watching and presumably waiting to get a seat.

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Not always. It wouldn't surprise me if you had a few people who have never played at casino before who just wanted to see how 'fast' it was played, etc. A lot of new players are scared of sitting down, too. Or, they might be just watching you, too.


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I'm sure this was the case for many, but there were also a lot of people complaining about the wait. They had all of the tables full.

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Not that you probably didn't find this out the hard way, but you still need to be careful against 7 limpers playing just about any two cards. You might want to try a to run some numbers for yourself, e.g., like at sites like www.twodimes.net).

Since you are on this site, you probably have read enough books to know what types of hands you should be playing and in what position. I have found that these extra rules usually help:

0) Don't overestimate you own skill.
1) Don't bluff/semi-bluff.
2) Look for reasons to fold.
3) Raise on the turn typically means two-pair or better.
4) Bet your sets.

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The 3/6 on Friday was noticibly tougher than the 2/4 on Wednesday. The 2/4 was full of rediculously bad players plus a couple of rocks that just sort of bled slowly. I know I'm not the greatest, but I am beating the Party .5/1 for a little over 5.5 BB/100 over about 8500 hands. I'm moving to 1/2 now that I got that last Empire bonus finished. I'll stick with 1 or 2 tables until I get the hang of things there. For books, I started with WLLH and TOP and I'm studying SSH now and picking up a lot of little improvements from it. I need to be spending more time in the micro forum here too... As for not semibluffing, I don't semibluff much in multiway pots in the .5/1 and the live games because it almost never succeeds in getting enough people to fold, but I value bet my draws like nobody's business when there are enough players to justify it. I like the additional side effect it has of making me look overly aggressive when people see that I was betting with "nothing". Gets more calls on big hands later on.


And one update on the poker room at Thunderbird: I called to see if they were dealing 2/4 tonight (my roommate doesn't want to play any higher) and they told me that they would no longer have 2/4. 3/6 will be the smallest limit game now. They said that they weren't making enough money off of the 2/4. Bummer. Oh well...that means all the newbies will have to play at the 3/6 and hopefully it will prove more profitable in the long run because of that.

[Ilovephysics]

Annoying about the 'not making enough money at 2/4'... though I suppose if 6 are going to cluelessly limp/call a single bet anyway, they'll get their $3+ per hand dealt at 3/6 much more often than 2/4... Then again, I was under the impression 4/8 was going to be the only game spread when I fist heard about thunderbird.. heh.

[Maudie]

I was a little concerned about playing 3/6 on Friday (current level online is 2/4), however I jumped in anyway. I would say the action and skill level was, on average, equivalent to 1/2 online. My table was fairly loose with a couple of really juicy fish. I played a very tight game and managed to stand up after about 4.5 hours up about 16 BB - and I had a great time.. still amazed we can play live poker in Oklahoma now! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]