Another Incident in Texas Poker 

Love CLP thanks to you I’m up 11k for the year. I’m building bankroll to up from 1/3 and $100 buy in tournaments. Thanks Bart.

Lol at Bart questioning the 420 turn bet 😂

"I bet $700". "I might size down....to $690 😎"

surviving seven shots is wild. two more and you can cut a rap album like 50. hope he makes a recovery.

If you are dumb enough to rob a cardhouse here in SA be aware that several players are carrying concealed.

I think the sizing of his river bet makes it a fold. As Bart pointed out if the hero makes it a blocker size bet then gets jammed on it opens up the villain potential bluffs. It's rare to see a guy at the higher levels bluff into a big river bet. For the same reason the hero found the call button. That all in screams value.

Tanks for 2-3 minutes, then lands on a jam? This isn't sounding alarms to anyone else?

I played 4 weeks in a Houston Legend's Poker room as an european and it felt very wild to me. Good times though.

I played on the stream at lodge last august. They told us that they wanted us to get escorted out by security when we left because they had someone who was playing on stream a short time before this and apparently there were some bad guys watching the stream and saw how much someone won, had his clothing description and knew what he looked like from the steam and they robbed him outside.

I play all over Houston. I stay in underground games and always carry a gun or two... I'm not the only one... robbing a private game would be suicide.

"Flop is like $80." "Well there's a $10 drop..." At first it's illegal, but pretty soon, it's just Tuesday. Continue with the hand.

10 dollar drop... isn't that worse than the LA games? And very illegal im guessing too?

Yeah, I played in casinos when I played full time and never worried about security. I played in Austin quite often and had too many sketchy vibes too often. I would have much more significant amounts of money on me in casino games yet felt way safer.

It's always Houston! lol I'm in the DFW area, best of both worlds... texas poker in Dallas and winstar just an hour north.

St. Louis was the worst I experienced, and I've played around. Never in Texas though. From what I know about Houston as a town, I believe they could be just as bad.

After the guy said he tanked for a long time then threw in 1 chip all in i immediately told myself he has to have 97 of hearts because thats the only hand he can tank and then reluctantly believe is valued for all the chips

Anytime the main bluff is pocket aces and you have a bluff catch I think you can find a fold. Hero has some 7h here which he can hero call off if he wants.

I could maybe see A5 hearts

Sounds like these Texas places only have bank security. L.A. casinos are in semi-ghettos, but they have a lot of armed security. We still have to be vigilant of possibly getting followed home though.

On the turn call, does Ace 5 or Ace 4 of hearts make sense? Thats what I'm thinking while watching

I ran it in a sim, not exact sizes and bb depth, used 200bb. But this is wild. For some reason the solver says villain should fold A7 sometimes on the river. Like 90% of the time to fold A7 of ♠️. A7 clubs says 22%x A7 💎 fold 40%z Anybody know why?

Houston is a Total Cess pool. This has happened there before

Him cbetting that flop is alarm bells

BART... Texas and safety... We need "more guns" more more more... Conceal and carry and more good guys with guns... see how much it helps??

I have a house in Houston and been to TCH Spring a handful of times. I perfer Legends I really don't like that one hand of Omaha that TCH does. Have yet to make it to the other TCH they opened not too long ago.

Houston (compared to other parts of the state) is definitely more of the Wild West.

Someone got shot at my local gas station. Now we have more regulations and taxes on gas stations.

In the games I play in this is a FOLD all day

buddy of mine got stabbed near Maryland Live a couple hrs ago. followed to a parking lot after cashing plo for ~ 15K…sad

Texas poker rooms are still in a gray area of the law. Yes, the Houston DA screwed it up but it shows that “the Law” could go after the poker rooms if they really wanted to. It’s why Texas poker is only in the metro areas with DA’s willing to look the other way. Very few, if any, poker rooms anywhere else in the state.

damn so he had you crushed no matter what more or less. It’s ironic the whole time what you really needed is for the board to brick

I think that was a check call on the river

I was thinking a5 of hearts

5h4h wasn’t mentioned, but it sure seemed like it made sense as well.

10$ drop / rake is illegal in Texas. 😮that why he didn't say what room he was playing.....

TBH I think this is a coinflip river decision. The bulk of our range here is straights, so we have got to fold some of them, but we can't fold all of them. No straight we can hold (other than Ah7x) has blocking properties to the flush, so just randomize. Interestingly, if we had bet small on river, and villain jammed, we'd be getting a much worse price so we can start to fold more straights.

For the hand break down - 7 x of hearts - I was thinking A/ 7 of hearts. If he had A of hearts 7 of spades than bravo. 7 x hand just calls, I don't think anything else other than a really sticky A/5 of hearts gets to the river

Lmao at the 420

Combo draw, again!! River jam did not sound like a bluff to me, but what was it? Some players could do the same with a set, or even with top pair (AA, KK)? A7h or A3h are the only hands I'd put V on. Well, good enough to fold, I guess. It's all player profile dependant. In order to fold here, one has to know the V profile.

I disagree think if you node lock this spot we would go massive on the turn. Think OOP is polar, has range and nut advantage at this point and all value bets beat over pairs. On the river I could see a block making sense

Hard to find bluffs when the one liner on the river comes in. Not being results oriented. 79hh was the first value hand I thought of

Could the villain be raising with a 7 and they chop it up if the hero calls? Or is the villain only raising flushes for value here?

With all due respect, Houston is pretty ghetto. There's crime everywhere, very rampant. I've played all over Texas and Houston seems like they're the wild, wild west. They do whatever they want. I'm in DFW area, TCH here is very nice and secure.

Seems like villain has all the nut flushes and combo-draws in his range. He could open pre from the HJ and call the flop x/r and large turn bet with all of them. When hero just flats pre, he's really removing all the best AX flush draws from his range. Hero's x/r on flop and large turn bet make it look like 2-pair, sets, or flopped straights, plus maybe something like bottom or middle pair with a flush draw, like Ah4h. I'm surprised villain jammed over the top with just the 9-high flush. Seems like it would just be a call. But as played, villain has so few bluffs when he jams over hero's river bet. Even getting 3-1, when you're struggling to find your opponent's bluffs, you should fold.

The lack of oversight of cardrooms in Texas is crazy. No auto-shufflers. For sure cheating going on with all that money at stake

Anyone want to lay odds on the “authorities” catching the perpetrators?

2:14 Threebet Panda?

H had him till river. 4:42 yes, it was either 3bet or fold pre.

Is this a repeat Bart. Seen this before I thought

@CrushlivePoker - if hero bets $450-$500 on river, and villain jams, is hero supposed to fold or call? Is checking really never an option here, when villain might want to bluff on this river card? Say hero checks, and villain bets 2/3 pot ($850-$900). Hero can bluff-catch with his straight, and win more than he would if villain called his block bet, or lose less than he would if he block bet then called villain's jam, or if he just check-folded to an over-bet. How often is villain going to check-back on the river after he raised pre, called hero's flop x/r, and called hero's big bet on turn? What is he checking back with that's worse than hero's straight and would call hero's value bet?

5 4 of hearts?

Ace 7 oh hearts made compete sense

I had an issue with a dealer I won a 1K pot at 1/3. I tipped $2 and she call me cheap and gave it back.

Don't you hate it when the card that makes your hand also breaks it.

Jesus he did not even need the flush.

Half size pot and call his shove and live with it.

Instead of getting the government involved, these TX poker rooms just need to take down the stupid signs they all have on their doors preventing their players from protecting themselves. You know the signs I'm talking about.

TCH spring has good management but there is too much drug dealing out of that room . Seen it with my own eyes an seen management take a cut from the dealer.. that's playing at the table. Sad in my book

Be humble. Especially in poker rooms. Don’t trash talk people and needle them. Never know how reckless somebody can get.

So.many mistakes..... Check raising flop to $200.. Just burning money ....would love to play against this guy !

It is better if poker rooms are regulated.

"a shooting night change things". No Bart we're in the u.s.

Why not A h q off?

420 all day everyday

Yeah things here in Texas are a lil wild. I love Poker. I do hope they can sort this stuff out. Would be nice to not have to travel so far to play poker. Dear Texas, can we just accept gambling, stop bible thumping, and take the tax dollars. Makes no sense scratch off lotto is fine but playing a game of skill is in the legal gray area??

You acted like you had a read on what type of player this guy is but never gave me the impression he would open with mid gapped connectors. This is just a case of I thought my player was a nit but turns out I’m a donk. You inflated this pot for no reason. Why check raise flop if this flop hits his range.

Clear fold for 100% sure. How can the villain have any bluffs here!?!?! And if he isn’t value owning himself then what do we beat? Villain must realize the amazing pot odds hero is getting as well.

If it was an 8off he lost anyway

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This is the most American thing I have ever heard lol

I work security in dfw Texas area majority of these guys that do security at clubs are making no more then 25 hr and def not training Also says can’t carry in the clubs but you gotta do what ya gotta do

This is the very reason to exercise your God given right to arm yourself. There would be a lot less crime in this world if everyone did this. Who, honestly, relies on someone else for their safety? When you truly can't. USSC has ruled many times that police are not obligated to protect you. They even show it with their behavior since their safety is more important than yours. Grow a pair. Arm yourself. Protect God and country, foreign or domestic (that does include from officials/officers) for the love of your fellow man. Don't rely on others.

Wow what an interesting hand

Texas reminds me so much of California, a whole bunch of people that are unwilling to admit when they're wrong.

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I always make it 420 or 69 if i can 666

Gotta love people playing 10/7, then call in like they're geniuses for playing that trash bc they win the hand... bravo 👏

So what he had? He had 79 of hearths. Ok thanks for the call bye. lol

@bart crush live poker you know the owners of the Austin room there's three owners and even the one down here in Houston (bill) they don't run it like the Austin room or the Dallas one I told him because of the way people get treated in that place on top of the security being so low thats was going to happen and the way the dealers and the staff well most of them treat people I'm surprised it didn't happen before I told them yinz are crazy people are going to get upset and flip but like I said if it wasn't so much money I wouldn't go it's not safe specially when they paid brad Owen to promote it it got bigger then what can be handled there with the little security guard they have

I'll see him again and I'll get him a good lawyer on me to sue for unsafe working conditions from both the tch Houston and his employer ...he's a good dude

@crushlivepoker (bart) it happen at 6 in the morning that place is prime to get robbed (surprised it hasn't happened before) it was more likely an inside job and they were hanging in the parking lot probably lost a good bit of money and went back in there to go get it back (speculating) nobody was playing Superman the dude just rushed him and he turned around and when he did he drop the gun and he fired back and when he did fire back that's my shots were fired and it was hit they started concentrating on him...(not to take it away from him scaring the people away) it only ever has one security guard I wouldn't go if it wasn't so much Ev I go in there make $600 in two to three hours and leave