Your correspondent wins some big pots at $5/$5/$10 but leaves the casino a bit frustrated. Then, he thinks about how poker players think about money.

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0:19 $5/$5 and $5/$5/$10 session

0:36 AQo all-in preflop

1:46 K7o on 752rQss8sss

3:09 QQ on 853rQccJccc

6:31 AhKx on K95hhxTxTx

10:22 QJdd on AJ5dxdKx4ddd

13:34 AA (no heart) on J96rKhh8hhh

14:50 I return to $5/$5

17:36 Poker players’ weird relationships to money

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Your correspondent discusses how private games have created an imbalance in live cash-game poker, and what to do about it. Then, he discusses a $5/$5/$10 session in which he made several very strong hands.

0:15 On the migration of private games from high-stakes live poker to mid- and low-stakes poker, and the problems that has created

20:00 $5/$5 and $5/$5/$10 NLHE session

21:15 AA on 664r9r2

24:45 97hh on K85xhx6hh2x

28:28 44 on QT4hxhTx

30:51 44 (again) on 843rJcc

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Your correspondent briefly muses on the difficulty of finding ways to improve when poker continually finds new ways to challenge and mislead you. He then reviews a $5/$10 session that featured some wild street-poker hands, including two in which he made huge folds.

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0:15 On hunting for ways to get better

6:48 $5/$10 NLHE session

7:29 JJ on J65ddxThh

9:03 AJcc on A75xddKx2x

11:08 QQ on 962r5dd

13:15 KK on J53rTr

15:09 TT on 943rQcc8x

17:01 $200 splash pot -- 99 on AK6rQdd4x

20:12 QThh on T83rTr7x (including a discussion of the tactic of overlimping)

25:24 AA on 863hhhKxJx

34:08 JJ on KJ5ssxQx2x

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Your correspondent reads the anthropologist David M. Hayano's "Poker Faces," a book that, 42 years since it was published, has much to say about modern poker culture.

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0:30 "Poker Faces"

18:21 Anatomy of a Downswing, Part 1,000,000, featuring some weird digressions on nearly getting run over by a truck and of being in a mall in suburban Cleveland needing to buy a shirt

29:07 $5/$5 hand history: AA on 922r4hhJx

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Your correspondent struggles with his proximity to the recent Nick Vertucci scandal and wonders how long he should stay in the poker world. Then, he plays a $5/$5/$10 session.

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0:16 On the Nick Vertucci scandal

12:17 $5/$5/$10 NLHE session

13:03 4c4x on T32ccxQxTx

16:06 QTss on TT3rA6

18:25 QQ on T75r4Q

20:31 JJ on 332xddKx6x

22:01 66 on 652ccxKcccQx

24:57 AKo all-in preflop

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Your correspondent waits -- and waits -- for good opportunities at the table.

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0:22 On waiting for my turn

6:17 $5/$5/$10 hand history: AA preflop

10:20 $5/$5/$10(/$20/$40) hand history: A4hh on Q22ccx4xJx

15:51 $5/$10(/$20) session

16:41 7c7x on J95ccx8x3x (playing against an unusual opponent type)

21:00 AKo on AK3r4ss

22:50 QQ (no spade) on K96xss5x7sss

24:44 JJ preflop

25:51 AKo on QT9r57

27:43 QTo on T82cccAx4x

29:25 QQ on QT2hhhJx

30:49 KQo on KQ6r2r

32:21 QTo on J88r

33:05 AQss on QJ3ddxKx3x

34:57 AKo all-in preflop

35:59 $25 bomb pot with K5dd on AJ3dxx2dd7x

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Your correspondent defends "mandatory" under-the-gun straddles against recent criticism. Then, he plays a brief but fruitful $5/$10 session.

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0:16 Some not-so-obvious reasons why straddles are good for games

10:10 $5/$10 NLHE session

10:52 K4ss on JJ6rAssTsss

13:04 88 on K42ssxJx6x

14:28 KQo on QT9cxc7hh

16:54 AQo on AQ9sssAxQx

19:19 A4dd on A53ssx

23:08 JJ on 854xssAx2x

25:09 AhAd on J84ccx9ccc6x

Brent Jenkins on the Poker Zoo Podcast:

https://persuadeo.nl/pz94-brent-jenkins-is-that-guy/

The Anti-Straddle Manifesto:

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Your correspondent tries to fight off bad thoughts while playing $5/$10 and $5/$5 at two casinos.

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1:05 On the "dead zone" in late afternoon public poker games

2:32 $5/$10 NLHE session

2:39 AKcc all-in preflop

3:17 KK all-in preflop

4:14 KK all-in preflop (again)

5:46 JJ on QT2hxh4cc

8:15 QTss on QJ6rAxA

10:22 $5/$5 session later that day at a different casino

13:27 AKo all-in preflop

17:34 JJ on T32sxs2x

18:21 AQcc KJ8cxxQx

19:52 AJss all-in preflop

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Your correspondent talks to screenwriter and poker player Josh Wilcox, who wrote the upcoming poker movie "Dead Money." Your correspondent then reviews a recent $5/$10 session.

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1:35 Josh Wilcox on "Dead Money"

15:55 Playing a freeroll tournament

20:09 $5/$10 NLHE session

20:15 AKss on K72ccxAxQx

22:04 A7dd on Q96ddxJxAx

24:57 AKss (again) on KQ7xhhTdd

27:50 A9o on 963rTcc9x

33:47 AcAh on 632ddx

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Your correspondent offers a prescription for the recent controversy surrounding Jonathan Tamayo's victory in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. He then discusses potential cheating in online poker and -- ugh -- public live poker games, and finds parallels between what's happening now and descriptions of the early days of poker in James McManus' "Cowboys Full." Then, he reviews a profitable but sloppy session of $5/$10 NLHE.

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0:20 What can be done to address bad optics and a potentially unfair competitive environment in the World Series of Poker Main Event, and in live poker more broadly

Will Jaffe's tweet:

Alan Keating's tweet:

Apestyles on the Thinking Poker Podcast:

"Recent reports out of Paris ...":

Only Friends podcast episode on the alleged live poker cheating ring:

14:43 $5/$10 NLHE session
15:05 AA on K76r
16:00 KK all-in preflop
16:38 QJo on Q72xdd
18:58 QJhh KJ5hcc6x5x
21:08 KQo (both black cards) on KK5xdd6hh4hhh
23:48 JThh on 422hhx5xKx
25:55 AA all-in preflop
26:41 A9ss K87sxx5dd

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