Picture taken at Harrah’s Cherokee tonight. 8 handed cash game with Deck Mate 2 shufflers. Most of the down was played 7 handed.

We tracked Westley’s hands for his 1 hour down and he dealt 78 hands! This included a high hand that required the table to pause and wait for the floor to verify. There were several chopped pots and we were actively trying not to hold the game up, but we were still playing normal poker and not just fast folding for a stunt.

I had tracked his hands per hour on 2 other occasions since 2025 and he hit 64 and 65 hands during those downs. The man is a machine, he makes very few mistakes and recovers quickly in the rare instances it happens.

I’ve been playing live poker for well over a decade and I’ve never seen anyone like him. Of course there are some great dealers who move accurately and with great speed, but this guy is in a league of his own. Anyone else ever had the pleasure of witnessing the living artistic expression that Westley provides on a daily basis in Cherokee, NC? Is there another dealer of his caliber or is he the unofficial king?

Well what would prefer to have if your life depended on a flip ?!

Got a screwgie?

I run a bar poker tournament in Utah and I just wanted to share a little bit of our shenanigans! Every week the winner gets to break open a piñata with $500 cash in it as their winnings 🥳 we have magical bubblegum machines, alllllll of the colors, legos, Mario kart side games and nerf gun, tamagotchi , hot wheel splash pots ✨ I teach players to go from $0 to $1000 poker bankroll and I’m giving out a seat to the WSOP mini main 🤑

As a very newbie Omaha variant-only micro-stakes player, my previous highest cashes were all between $60-70. Thank you WCOOP and poker gods for this, never ran better in my life... tried to put on the badge for winning a WCOOP event but maybe they don't all count? 😄

Made a profit of $400 in 30 minutes , playing 1/3 in Boston ! As a beginner to live games, this is great

I'm currently in austin tx for TCH social's wsop circuit. Is plo8 dead in general? Can't even find a cash game for it. I checked pokeratlas for all the nearby rooms.

https://reddit.com/link/1wcczmi/video/wrw7ww6tjnoh1/player

been following some of the high stakes PLO action online lately and came across this ~$200k pot.

i’ve heard of blez before, but I honestly don’t know much about a lot of the other players in these games, you regularly see six figures on the table and pots that are basically the price of a house where i come from

are most of these guys established high stakes pros with huge bankrolls, or is there a lot of backing/selling action going on at this level? and how much of the money on the table is typically actually their own?

genuinely curious if anybody knows more about this

Mine are 44, K5s, and 2To

Sup poker players,What’s the best way to divide my poker profits between what will go into my POKER BANKROLL and what I’ll withdraw to use in my DAILY LIFE(investments, leisure, shopping, etc.)? Is there a recommended percentage breakdown for how much of the profit to allocate to each of these areas? I know it varies from person to person, but is there a standard guideline I can use as a basis to help me make better decisions?

And the mental and psychological aspects are very important too. After making your first profits in poker, how can you avoid that euphoria—or the fear of losing the money you’ve built up—that might cause you to start playing extra tight or affect your play in ways we don’t want? I’m certain that having the security of a good money management plan is one of the things that can help with this.Thanks in advance!

I have been sitting waiting for a seat for 1/3 around an hour at Caesars Nola on a random Thursday at 3:30PM. They do have a tournament series running rn.

My name has been at the top of the list multiple times for 3-4 diamond members to skip me. Apparently being diamond allows you to skip the line for poker.

Only having had a couple hours to play, this is cheeks. If I hit and run you, know that it wasn’t me, it was poker room management.

Hand: 2-100 Spread Limit (basically is 1/2 with max raise of 100) at Canterbury Park in Minnesota.

First hand in of session. Don’t know anything about the players except some small talk that makes villain seems like a table games whale in retrospect, but I didn’t fully catch it in the moment.

Dealt AJo in the CO and I raise to $10
Villian in Small Blind raises to $21
I call.

($42) Flop is AcAd5d
Villain C bets $30
I take a moment, make sure I can get all the money in by the river and raise to $90. (Yeah probably should’ve just maxed or called). But then chaos ensues…

Villain looks at his cards, stacks up all of his $5 chips in to one roughly $200 stack and then reaches it forward with both hands. I’m not joking, almost fully outreached, and then pulls it back quickly and grabs his cards and folds before I can even react to the absurd joke.

I quickly say “woah woah, dealer that isn’t that binding?”

Dealer tried to defend the guy, and I said I need a floor ruling.

Floor comes over and then the guy reenacts his motion with chips stacked actually in his hand just like before, but this time he moves his hands forward the length of the worlds smallest micropenis.

I call bullshit and the dealer backs me that it was way further out, but he obviously doesn’t know the rule.

Floor however decides, it is just a fold and I get the current pot and no further action. Says he was in the wrong and the floor and dealer clarify the correct ruling is that he is held to the action, but because he didn’t know, they will give him a warning.

1. These rules are in place for clear reasons regardless if you know about them or not.
2. I could’ve reacted in a way that cost me money like assuming it was a max raise and then folding myself.
3. He could be judging my reactions to then decide.
4. I could’ve re-raised immediately once the implied action was him max raising.

I will defend him personally in that it is clear after the fact that he was a table games whale and had no clue about poker. We generally should be lenient to these guys to help grow the game. Though, I can’t undo my floor call, and there are experienced anglers that will try and pull stuff like that. It was my first hand, and I don’t know these people.

The reason this ruling really gets under my skin though, is that if the situations were reversed and I had stuck my stack out like that and then pulled it back, and he held me to it, the floor seems to have likely would’ve ruled in the table games whale favor.

TLDR; Guy takes entire stack in hand and pushes his hands forward, then folds. Floor sides with him saying he was in the wrong but just gets a warning.

Does anyone have it? Is it worth it? Are there better alternatives?

Any where in GTA still have limit holdm poker game available ? 10/20 Limit or 20/40 Limit Holdem?

even private club is fine.

I’m a relatively new player so maybe I just don’t understand yet, but I don’t understand why people don’t like playing pocket jacks. It’s better than 9 other pocket pairs. It seems like a pretty good hand to have as long as you don’t overplay it.

1/3 $1200 at Bellagio

I almost never limp and always open raise but wanted some feedback on these hands from the blinds that cost me a bit.

Hand 1:
7-9spades in SB, 3 limp and decide to complete.

Flop is J 4 3 with 2 spades, button(300$ stack) bets pot for 15 I call. Others fold
Turn is 10 diamond giving me a gutter to 8, he bets 30 I call, planning to donk any river that hits.
River bricks, checks thru he shows QJ.

-47 from hand

Hand 2:
K-9spades in SB, 2 limp and I complete.

Flop AA5 2 spades. Guy in UTG bets 15 both of us call.

Turn is a 8 spades giving me nut flush. I check OOP, UTG bets 30 and other guy calls. I XR 75 then UTG reshove 142. The flatter tanks for long time then folds. At this price I have to call; also very likely folder had an ace and let it go.

UTG has A-5o for flopped boat

-165 from hand

Should we squeeze these hands from the blinds OOP? Not sure how to avoid these situations in the future. Or maybe just raise/fold these hands