DISQUS

Get a condo near the strip.

Your description of the degenerate reminded me of another great (but sad) degenerate story... I once played at a table with a guy drinking, pushing all his chips in recklessly, unable to socialize unless it was to berate someone for sucking out or talking too much. He was mumbling to himself the whole time. Finally, he admitted he had been playing straight for the past month after his wife died. He said he tried to commit suicide but failed. He babbled on and on about how he wanted to die and was sunk for 100k over the last month.

It was terrible. I could tell some of the other players were looking at him like he was the biggest fish. Meanwhile, I didn't want to send him tilting to the wrong end of a pistol barrel. It was a real moral dilemma. I actually told him he should go home, that poker wasn't going to bring his wife back. Don't know if it had any effect on him but I got up and never saw him at that poker room again.

I will say for as many times as I've been cracked with pocket Jacks here... I've more often doubled through. A marginal pair here, A9 even down to 10,9, may make a reraise here, and could be putting you on an AK continuation bet. So I don't consider it a horrible play to get all your chips in here but again, with some more time at the table and with some kind of read on the players, you can make a more informed decision.

That said, they don't call me Dong Khee for nothing.

Fuck the Borgata.

Continuation bet makes sense here. At about twice the pre-flop raise ($70). Chances are, the Jacks are good, and if someone comes over the top, you can let go. What's tough is that the $70 bet against a $150+ pot might look weak and you might be getting a reraise from a dog like A9. But such is life when you have no information from just sitting down at a table.

Dude there's lots of good stuff here. I don't want you to reveal the beauty of the gut shot -- how paired with the ability to represent flushes and other straights on a bluff -- can be a very deceiving and lucrative play. I might have to school fools on this concept later.

I would played a set of 6s differently against the rock to get even more chips (if not all of them) from the rock. If you led out on the turn, I would've made it more like $125, the size of the pot. And the river you make it $200-250. You would've gotten an extra $50-150 out of him if he simply called those two bets... his whole stack if he got out of line.