From: "Steve Day" Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:50:04 -0700 Subject: [BARGE] BARGE trip report, day 1 Tuesday, July 27th, 2004 (BARGE Day 1) I’ll spare the boring crap about the flight and checking into the Las Vegas Club. I have a room with two doubles for $38/night (averaging the weekday and weekend rate) which makes me happy… I like the location relative to the Binion’s poker room a lot. Way closer than the Nugget rooms way in the back of that casino. I got in around 6:10, grabbed my luggage, and took a cab here (via Paradise, $20.50 by the meter). I dropped my stuff off in my room, checked my email and a couple RGP threads, and headed down to grab dinner before the 8pm triple draw. I got a meatball sandwich (on special, yummy) and a shrimp cocktail (same as always) at the Golden Gate, then headed over to Binion’s. I chatted with a dealer friend of mine, David, who headed out to deal the LA tournament later that night. He introduced me to a couple of dealer friends, which was nice, since I know exactly nobody until Murray arrives tomorrow. I picked up my BARGE nametag and awaited the tournament. Everything seems well organized, and people seem friendly. Anyways, the triple draw. There were 36 entrants at $50 each. 20% of the prize pool was to go to a charity of the winner’s choice. It paid 6 places, with a package of Pokerstars apparel for the 7th place finisher. There was a nice trophy for 1st and plaques for 2nd and 3rd. Quite impressive, really. The rounds were 30 minutes and blinds started at 25-25 with opening stacks of 1500. It was a limit tournament, with the small bet before the draw and after the first draw and the large bet after the 2nd and 3rd draw. Did I mention that I’ve played triple draw online about 10 times, at a home game about 3 times, and never in a tournament or in a casino? Wheeeeeeeee! The good news is that there were plenty of other players with similar levels of experience. At my starting table, only Barry Tannenbaum would have claimed to know what he was doing… maybe fich, too. Andy Bloch was in the tournament, and I would presume that he has played his fair share. Greg Raymer was in too, but as I suspected he didn’t claim to be an expert. Certainly he was above average for experience by far in this field though. I might have been too, as I’d actually played for real money on UB, including against Hellmuth of all people at a 1-3 table one time. On my first hand, I showed down my cards after the second draw. I had a rough 8. I got to turn my cards back over. My opponent wisely broke his hand, but made a ten and I won the pot. The next hand I played, after the 2nd draw and check around, the first player exposed a J discard, but I again thought we were showing down and they were representing a Jack. Oops! I mucked my hand instead of drawing. My hand sucked anyways though. I also at one point drew three, but acciently kept a pair of 6s instead of the 6 4 I meant to. I got a 4 in the next draw anyways, so no big deal, but… definitely I got my big execution screwups out of the way while the blinds were still small. I raised on the button to steal on one hand and got called by both blinds. The SB then drew one… showing his 9 discard. So, I drew 3. In the only perceived non-friendly action from a BARGER that night, an opponent who had just recently been moved to the table turned to fich on his right and scoffed at my play in a non-friendly, non-joking way. This was my only bad (non)-interaction of the evening… definitely BARGErs are more fun to play with than an average table. I was up and down early, floating between 1500 and 2500 chips. Everyone was pretty nice at the table, and they laughed when I asked if presto made a hand playable, etc. I sucked down 4 frozen margueritas at my first table. They make it seem like a good deal with free drinks, but it only felt like they had a half shot of liquor in them each at most, and I tipped $1 a drink…. Not THAT good a deal. By the break, I was up a bit, and we’d lost a couple of players. The nice Vegas local to my next who I’d chatted with a bit made a very ‘interesting’ (to me) play on the last hand before the break. He had 125 left in chips and was in the BB with the blinds 50-100. It was raised back to him with 3 opponents and he folded his hand. He had a chance to win a 550 pot if he caught (really) well, but instead opted to keep his 25 chip. During the break they ran off chips and he was automatically awarded a black chip because you can’t be eliminated by a runoff. He of course then immediately claimed that was his plan by folding, but it seemed pretty clear that it wasn’t. He was out soon afterwards. So, as the blinds raised, I tightened up. We got down to 24 players and our table broke, moving me to another table. As soon as I sit down, I watch one player put another player all-in, get called, and triumphantly turn over his 7… only to have the player to his left immediately remark ‘that’s a straight’. And a 7 high straight it was, much to his embarrassment. He had a mountain of chips, though. He was a nice guy too… I’m sorry I don’t have names, but I can only pick up a few a night, and I started the night not knowing who anyone was. This guy, it turns out, had never played triple draw before this tournament. He ended up outlasting me. I played several pots at this table, going up and down. At one point I tried to steal only to defend and have the blind draw 1 and me draw 2. This happened on the first and second draws, and I bricked on both draws. I bet after the first draw. I decided to bet after the second draw and stand pat. He drew again, and I bet…. And he called. My snow had failed, as he’d caught a 7. I was left with 1300 in chips. I built it back up though, fairly quickly, and had 9500 chips not too long after. Pretty soon we were down to 8 players… tables were breaking, and people were dropping pretty quickly with the high blinds. I survived a couple all-in battles, including one with 7 of us left, to have an average stack. The player to my right was a nice guy… we had several epic battles with the all-in player winning them consistently. Finally I got him down to 400 chips, which put him allin in the SB the next hand vs my BB, and I picked up a nice hand and beat him. I made an interesting decision. I drew three to a wheel on my first draw, and caught to have T7522. I actually drew TWO on my second draw after he drew two, though I considered holding on to the ten. I caught a 6 that draw, then picked up a 4 on my last draw for a rough 7 to knock him out. Andy Bloch went out on the same hand at the other table (we were hand for hand), but had 1200 chips so he was awarded 6th. It was pretty funny to see him care so much about making the final table in a $50 tourney. He was easily the person most intensely involved, going as far to check beforehand how prizes would be distributed if two players went out on the same hand. He got paid a whopping $110…quite the competitor. So, the 5 of us who were left redrew for the final table. Greg Raymer, WSOP champ and another player both had a lot of chips, and Greg took a nice pot off the other player pretty quickly to take a commanding chip lead. I was 3rd in chips by a small margin over the player with the 7 high straight from earlier and had about 4k more than Sabyl. I got into two confrontations with Sabyl within the first 4 rounds of the final table that sent me out in 5th place. In the first one, I made a really bad mistake, one that showed my inexperience, one that deserved to have me bounced from the tourney. I got Sabyl almost allin preflop when I had 4 cards to smooth 8 with no straight possibilities. She also drew one. I caught a 9, she bricked on the first draw. She checked, I bet, she called. 2nd draw she took 1 and I stood pat. She checked, I bet her allin (last 1200) and she called and stood pat. I had to decide whether or not to break my 986. I could only beat a 10, and logic would dictate that drawing one, she would not have stood pat with a ten. I was scared of breaking a winning hand though, and stood pat. She showed down an 8…. One that I would have beaten if I’d drawn and taken the 3 that was next up (the dealer rabbit hunted for me… actually without me asking, as we were friendly and had been chatting earlier). That pot was 11,700 chips, very significant. I got allin shortly thereafter with my last 3200 vs Sabyl again. I was drawing one to 8432, she was drawing one to ??? I caught two bricks, then a 9 on the last draw. She made a 86 on her 2nd draw. Out I go. I took home $140 for my 5th place finish… no plaque or trophy, but not bad for my first triple draw tournament ever. I headed back to my room to get online. I checked my emails, and saw I had a reminder from North Shore Mike about the Symposium syndicate. I had some thoughts about that, so I went on pokerstars and did a search for Murray, and sure enough, he was there playing a 2/4 NL table. I chatted with Murray a bit about strategy and the like for the Symposium. Apparently I got screwed by being paired with a strong player (past champion Steve Brecher). I have the option to buy ½ of my own action by paying ¼ of the pairing price to whoever buys us. If I was paired with an unrespected player, that price would obviously be lower. Quite unfortunate. I’m not about to share our Symposium bidding strategy here, so I’ll move on… I walked down to Walgreens and bought a few gallons of water for the room, and chilled out catching up with people via instant messenger and email. I had been reading ‘The Demolished Man’ on the airplane, so I got back to that, falling asleep shortly after midnight. BARGE really ‘begins’ for me, I think, when Murray and Mike arrive tomorrow night. This was not a bad prelude, though. -s From: "Steve Day" Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:16:21 -0700 Subject: [BARGE] BARGE trip report, day 2, part A (Today's report was too long to be posted as one email without manual moderator approval, so I've split it into three parts) Wednesday, July 28, 2004 Since I had an early night (12:30 or so) Tuesday, I woke up right around 8am. I promptly got up and. took a long bath, finishing 'The Demolished Man' in the process. I then caught up with a couple people on messenger and answered my emails. At 11AM, I headed to Mamacita's (the Mex/Cuban place across from the El Cortez) for lunch. Oh, man was I in luck. Several times I'd been there for lunch, seen the specials menu, and promised myself I'd make a point to come back on Wednesday. Well, I'd forgotten about that, but I stumbled on to. Carnitas day! Woohoo! The carnitas were large lumps of pulled pork, not cubed like you sometimes see in Mexican restaurants. Very tasty in corn tortillas with rice, beans, a touch of guac, and some of their fabulous green salsa. Man is that salsa good. They offer red, too, but I like red salsa less in general, and theirs is nothing special anyways. I stuffed myself so much that I literally did not consider eating again until 1 AM. I got back to my room 5 minutes before the noon start of the first WCOOP event, $320 PLO/8. I decided to jump in and play it since I'm not registered for any BARGE events today. A couple of my friends were playing it as well (TillerMaN, Bushman) so we engaged in the appropriate trash talk (Tiller) and support (Bush) prior to the tournament. I played a pretty boring tournament, really not my 'A' game by any means. My connection kept giving me out, leaving me tending towards aggressively playing any hand I got when my connection seemed like it would hold up throughout the hand. I dropped down to 1300 chips after a bluff got snapped, then doubled back up to 2850 when I flopped a wheel vs HEAT who had only 30 chips more than me. A few rounds later I engaged in the following hand (Hand history #1 at bottom of trip report). I was dealt [6h 4c 3c 6c] two before the button and flat called behind two other flat callers. We ended up seeing the flop 7 ways. The flop came [6d Jd 9d] . The BB bets 300 into the 700 pot, and a short stack in front of me calls. I call as well and the rest fold. I figure if I don't hit the turn, I'm mucking. Turn comes. board is now [6d Jd 9d] [5c]. The BB bets 1565 allin, the small stack calls 540 allin. It's clear the BB has a flush, and the caller likely does too. I think it's likely the A2 hands folded on the flop already, and I think the BB woulda pushed his hand harder on the flop if he also had an A2 to drive the others out. I figure I scoop if the board pairs, and I have several outs for low, and I'm pnly putting 1565 into a pot of 5270... so I call. Turns out it was a good call, I actually had +EV on it. I was 36% to win both the main and side pots. I didn't hit though. the BB scooped with the nut flush as a black king came on the river. On the next hand I lost the rest of my chips and was out. I am actually glad I played - I learned that my connection is not really good enough to risk playing other WCOOP events while in Vegas. I'd considered skipping out of Thursday's BARGE TOC tournament (ick, limit poker!) to instead play the WCOOP NL heads up championship (My best game and format, and the event I most want to play), but now I think it's obvious that's a bad decision. No biggie. I'm in Vegas on vacation, not for work, so I should be socializing with BARGERs instead of playing online poker. There will be other tournaments. and hopefully next year BARGE won't conflict with my favorite WCOOP events. I busted out around 2pm, and promptly took a 4 hour siesta, courtesy of the carnitas plate I had for lunch. Man, I understand why Mexicans/Spanish use such similar words, 'fiesta' and 'siesta', for 'party' and 'nap'. I mean they're awfully different activities, but both are among the best uses of time ever. I was refreshed when I woke up. I took the time to write up my trip report from the day before and send it out. After a quick shower and change, it was time to go join the real world, if BARGE can be called that. I walked over to the Binion's poker room and sat in the tournament area around 7:30 to wait for Murray and Mike to arrive. Murray had said he expected to be in the poker room by 8pm. As it happens, he didn't make it til 9, but I enjoyed eavesdropping on a few conversations of BARGERs who were sitting around. Yes, I know my day was pretty boring up to this point, but it's about to get a lot more exiting. Don Perry walked up, and having experienced him during the triple draw tournament Tuesday I immediately kicked up a conversation and let him entertain me for a while. Don did not disappoint, immediately going into a bit about missing BARGE last year because he was in the hospital due to some particularly vicious iguana shit. I shit you not. I got to watch Patrick Milligan work some of his magic with the tourney clock in preparation for the event. He's done some really nice things with it. really, BARGE is full of people who have their niche of what they do to help things go smoothly, and they are really good at it. I overheard the Binion's staff discussing what they're going to do on Saturday night to deal with the chip building contest. apparently last year they bought 30k in extra white chips, but this year they only bought 10k extra. Not good. They're planning on running the 4-8 games almost exclusively on $2 chips, and keeping $1 chips out of all other games as much as possible except what's needed for tips and the rake. Still, though, I can see big problems ahead in this area. Later in the night when I was trying to buy $500 in white, the poker area only had $100 in white. I went to the main cage and got the LAST $500 in white from the MAIN CAGE. And there was no chip building going on, and a large BARGE contingent was involved in or watching the CHORSE tournament that used different chips, so there weren't that many live games going on really. This does not bode well for the chip castle building competition. At 9pm the place was bumping, and Murray finally arrived. We said our hellos, and then Murray quickly went off saying hello to everyone in sight. I ended up on a cellphone conversation until 9:30, the scheduled start time. It was a lot of fun watching people get settled in for the event. a zoo. Cocktail service was nonexistent, so I found where Murray and Mike had set up camp. Predictably, they'd nabbed their own personal cocktail waitress who was just then making the rounds. Other drunks had gathered in the same area. Murray introduced me to a bunch of folks.very good about this. and Asya came up and gave me my Virgin gift. She gave me a Virgin button which I pinned on my nametag as well as a Virgin bust-out button for the NLHE tourney. At some point Murray introduced me to Randy Collack and we had a good chat. Nice guy, great to meet the person behind the posts on RGP. And, as Patrick's tourney program kept reminding me from so many screens, he is of course one of the people behind SARGE and MARGE as well. Randy had apparently read a few posts of mine on RGP and remembered them, so we had a brief discussion about the differences between being pro and playing for fun. (to be continued) From: "Steve Day" Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:16:21 -0700 Subject: [BARGE] BARGE trip report, day 2, part B Over in the drunks' corner I started chatting with ActionBob. As a general rule, at any given point in time one of us was talking and the other had a Corona to his lips. The cocktail waitress was being good to us, and we were being good in return. Bob eventually mentioned that he played 15/30 limit on party for a living, so I responded that I play 5/10 NL on stars for a living, and the 'professional' conversation took off from there. It was interesting to hear why someone's chosen to play limit, and why he likes it better. I listed most of my reasons I wouldn't be caught dead playing on Party: 1) Crappy software. I'll get on a waitlist and magically get skipped over for the game 2) Crappy servers. you get screwed when they crash during tourneys (I hear they might be better these days) 3) Crappy support. Form email responses to everything you send in, although they seem to randomly help some small percentage of people with their actual problem. 4) Crappy all-in abuse in cash games. self explanatory. 5) Crappy Mike O'Malley. when I had support problems and posted the email exchange on the board, Mike was always extremely quick to flame me with personal attacks, call me stupid, say I didn't know what I was talking about, etc. If this is the public face of the company. what's the management like, and how safe can your money really be? Of course none of the above really apply to Bob playing limit 15/30, very few tournaments. All-in disconnects are a much smaller problem in limit, and the server crash issue doesn't affect ring games like it does tournaments. He really has no need for support. And to be honest, that site has so many players that there's no real risk of losing your dough. Having it 'lost' by them for a few weeks or months in a bum cashout, maybe. But not permanently lost. On the contrary, I have a friend that got a double cashout via wire transfer once.. So. I've always claimed that 4-8 omaha/8 is the ONLY game to tilt at. Why? 1) Naturally populated by rocks. They take their game ultra seriously and really hate it when you come in and play nuts and win. It's like they come hoping this will happen so they can get the joy of being pissed off. As it happens, this particular table had fewer of these due to it being BARGE. and we busted them and ran them off pretty quickly. In any case, they're always really fun to talk to. I've always enjoyed the situation of doing something completely OK, knowing that you're really screwing with the rocks and pissing them off. and at the same time being ultra friendly to them, making very polite conversation. A blast, I tell you. 2) The advantage of one starting hand over another is not that big, so you're not really giving up that much by going nuts preflop and on the flop if you play ok on the turn and river. And the regulars CAN NOT deal with you. 3) The ability to expose a card or two without giving away too much of your hand. Anyways, it didn't take long for Bob and I to decide we needed to go BARGE-ify a 4-8 kill limit Omaha/8 game. The drinks had been flowing freeliy for a while at this point. Bob got $300 in white, and I walked all the way over to the main cage and waited in line so I could come back with my desired $500 in white (and two beers). Now, ActionBob is not really an Omaha/8 player. He didn't really know how to play optimally, he claimed. But, he easily solved this problem by not looking at his cards. Ever. Until showdown. No, he didn't fold, ever. I was looking at my cards, but capping with Bob prefop and on the flop anyways. I was playing more intelligently from the turn on. Bob was too. as well as he could, without looking as his cards, which means that when someone else was showing obvious strength, he would slow down. If I had a strong hand, I would 'show obvious strength' by flashing my cards to the table. :-) In any case the first hand Bob took down half the pot with Q 4 two pair. The board had AKQ54 with three clubs. Nobody had 2 3. Nobody had a club flush. Nobody had JT. This was four way action. I MUCKED K 5 on the river in the huge pot because I didn't think I could possibly be winning. This is the type of hand that makes a hell of a story.usually. As it happens, it's just a part of a bigger experience. Bob tipped $20 or so to a pleased dealer. So, ActionBob continues to run over the table.without looking at his cards. as I assist by capping preflop and on the flop. He builds a monstrous stack, tipping $20/hand, while I whittle down to about $300 from my starting $500 and decide it's time to play more solid. And, right then. it's my turn to start running over the table. Huge pot after huge pot after huge pot. First I chopped a big pot. Then, I scooped one. Kill pot! Then on the kill pot, Bob suggests that if he scoops the hand, he will split the pot with the dealer. I agree to do the same. When the hand is over, I've scooped a $436 pot. or, that is to say, split it with the dealer. I have never seen a dealer call for more racks for HIMSELF in a game before. Someone (I think Randy Collack) had to go color him up. He literally had his own stack between himself and seat one that was bigger than most stacks at the table. It was hilarious. You shoulda seen the look on the kid's face when Randy came back with the colored up $218 from the first pot and I tossed it to him. :-). So, anyways, I scooped the next pot too, making the kid another $150 or so. Someone pointed out that I had finished stacking my chips from this pot before the dealer finished racking his. Classic. Let's talk about some of the crap hands I was making this run with. I had J662 with the J2 of clubs and flopped. absolutely nothing! I proceeded to cap the flop and catch runner runner clubs.on a board that paired on the turn. only to scoop with the Jack high flush. Another hand I flopped nothing but a pair of threes and a backdoor NINE HIGH flush draw. 3 on turn, flush on river, 9 high spades good with paired board. Classic. On another hand I flopped a set of fours on a three-diamond board, then kept capping it and loudly asking for the dealer to pair the board, which he kindly did, pairing. the TOP PAIR on the river, but somehow my house was still good. On another hand yet I flopped top set with KKA2, A2 clubs (the only real hand I really had). When the turn came making the board KQTx, I loudly and frequently lamented that I 'no longer had the nuts', as I was raising. On the river I still had the 3rd nuts and turned over my cards before betting. ActionBob had to call, not knowing what his cards were. It's worth talking about how exactly ActionBob was building his stack. I mean, he wasn't looking at his cards, and. without fail, he'd have half the pot locked up after exposing his first two cards at showdown. He'd then be freerolling for the rest of the pot with his last two cards. As an example, one hand I had A36x on a 2456x board at showdown. Bob's first card over was a 3.. Second card A! Amazing. And he kept doing it, time after time. He ended up getting quartered on that one, which actually made me more money than if I'd scooped, because a scoop only earns half the pot as the dealer gets the other half. The dealer only got $25 for this particular pot. I mean, the pots were HUGE. $250 - $400 every hand. And. I mean this LITERALLY. there was not one pot at the table that Bob or I didn't take at least half of. It was nuts. (to be continued) From: "Steve Day" Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 10:22:38 -0700 Subject: [BARGE] BARGE trip report, day 2, part C So after about an hour, a pot comes up where neither ActionBob nor I win. I actually mucked on the turn as I had 0 outs (note that I'd happily participated in capping the flop), and got up to go cash out. a $270 winner, if you can believe that. I'd played for just under an hour at 4-8 with a half kill, EASILY toked $450, and still had $270 profit. THAT is running good, my friends. ActionBob lost about $100. When we regrouped in the druken corner afterwards, Bob revealed that on that last hand, he'd not won, but since nobody toked the dealer, he'd toked $30 before leaving. Gotta love BARGE. I later found out that the dealer I'd toked $218 to. who easily made over $400 for his down. had just been hired the day before and was nearly in tears with joy. Pretty sweet what BARGE can do for a dealer, ain't it? So, back in the drunken corner, we rejoined Murray and Mike and checked up on the CHORSE progress. Moosecock had been doing really well early, but were now out of chips. I resisted the urge to poke fun at Murray. earlier in the evening I asked him if he'd done any last longers, and he said 'well you don't do last longers, because you don't bust out'. Little did he know that I knew exactly how the tourney went. and my question did turn out to be appropriate. Kinda funny. Greg Raymer was playing a little Chinese poker, self-dealt, with three others. Binion's broke it up pretty quickly. The game did last long enough for me to go look at someone's hand, remark about how little I knew about Chinese poker but state 'but I know she has a good hand'.. Only to watch her get creamed. Oh well. this is why I don't play Chinese. At some point in history I got Gpoker running and played some Chinese on irc poker with SpicyF and his gang, but never really learned proper strategy. Their clique was rather hard to break into with chat (impossible?) as it was pretty well established, and I never really "enjoyed" the non-graphical interface. I screwed up setting my hands many times because the cards were listed as '5h' in text and the like instead of being graphically displayed. At some point I lost $5 in a bet to Murray. Patti Beadles posed the question of 'how many whips do you think I own?'. I set the line at 2.5, Murray took the over. and Patti said that 'I might have had to count if you'd set the line up in the dozens'. There goes $5. I should have been tipped off by the number of different categories of whips she listed when discussing what would and wouldn't count as a whip. Oops. I actually lowered my line because she said one particular category wouldn't count. Drunk sucker, that's me. I chatted with random people. I remember very little of this. then decided I needed food. I headed to the coffee shop and chowed down two of their $2.95 specials. It was 1:30 AM and I hadn't eaten since 11 AM, remember. I had told Murray I was going to come back and we'd start a Chowaha game, but I had done a poor job of moderating my drinking, and after the meal it really was time to head back to my room and crash, which I did. So, the three things I've been looking forward to most at BARGE are the Craps Crawl Thursday, the Symposium on Friday and Chowaha / Chip castle building on Saturday night. We haven't hit any of those events yet, but already I'm glad I've come. Good times. -s (end report) ------------------------------------------------------Hand Histories---------------------------------------------- Transcript for game #575306295 requested by ackbleh(admin@ackbleh.com) *********** # 1 ************** PokerStars Game #575306295: Tournament #1742787, Omaha Hi/Lo Pot Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2004/07/28 - 16:55:51 (ET) Table '1742787 80' Seat #8 is the button Seat 3: Tutnik (6596 in chips) Seat 4: scrapper41 (1415 in chips) Seat 1: Volts (1965 in chips) Seat 2: pogari (5629 in chips) Seat 5: shine (940 in chips) Seat 6: ackbleh (2611 in chips) Seat 7: OmahaEd (3093 in chips) Seat 8: Gooch (1221 in chips) Seat 9: lisatex (3305 in chips) lisatex: posts small blind 50 Volts: posts big blind 100 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to ackbleh [6h 4c 3c 6c] OmahaEd said, "steaming at a lack of hands" pogari: calls 100 Volts said, "I mean , not many hands your in" Tutnik: folds OmahaEd said, "I fell similiar--just hit one so far" scrapper41: folds shine: calls 100 OmahaEd said, "to stay alive" ackbleh: calls 100 OmahaEd: calls 100 Gooch: calls 100 lisatex: calls 50 Gooch said, "i'll play one soon enough lol" OmahaEd said, "7 way action----love it" Volts: checks *** FLOP *** [6d Jd 9d] lisatex: checks Volts: bets 300 pogari: folds shine: calls 300 ackbleh: calls 300 OmahaEd: folds OmahaEd said, "don't love it anymore" Gooch: folds lisatex: folds *** TURN *** [6d Jd 9d] [5c] Volts: bets 1565 and is all-in shine: calls 540 and is all-in ackbleh: calls 1565 *** RIVER *** [6d Jd 9d 5c] [Kc] *** SHOW DOWN *** Volts: shows [5d Ks 5s Ad] (HI: a flush, Ace high) ackbleh: shows [6h 4c 3c 6c] (HI: three of a kind, Sixes) Volts collected 2050 from side pot shine: shows [7c 7d 2c Td] (HI: a flush, Jack high) Volts collected 3220 from main pot No low hand qualified *** SUMMARY *** Total pot 5270 Main pot 3220. Side pot 2050. | Rake 0 Board [6d Jd 9d 5c Kc] Seat 3: Tutnik folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 4: scrapper41 folded before Flop (didn't bet) Seat 1: Volts (big blind) showed [5d Ks 5s Ad] and won (5270) with HI: a flush, Ace high Seat 2: pogari folded on the Flop Seat 5: shine showed [7c 7d 2c Td] and lost with HI: a flush, Jack high Seat 6: ackbleh showed [6h 4c 3c 6c] and lost with HI: three of a kind, Sixes Seat 7: OmahaEd folded on the Flop Seat 8: Gooch (button) folded on the Flop Seat 9: lisatex (small blind) folded on the Flop If you have any questions, please contact us at support@pokerstars.com