Third Man Walking Charlie Wilmoth

Your correspondent meditates on banging his head against the wall. Featured topics include being surrounded at the table by people getting massages, trying and failing to assemble a cardboard box, moving to a new apartment, the documentary "The Contestant" (streaming on Hulu), the Pittsburgh Pirates, growing up in West Virginia, getting into stranger and stranger music, and taking a call about a job in the tech industry. Then, he reviews a $5/$10 session.


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0:16 Banging my head against the wall13:36 $5/$10 NLHE session
13:42 AA on JT7hhx
14:38 KQo on J84ccx7x3x
16:20 ATo on T72cxc4x
18:06 A2hh on K94hhx7hhhKx
25:04 JThh on 987xxh2hh
27:28 KK on T73ssx7x
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Your correspondent reflects on getting slowrolled -- or something? -- in an annoying all-in pot, then reviews a $5/$10 session.
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0:21 A $5/$10 hand: 99 on J94xhh7x
12:30 $5/$10 NLHE session (and some thoughts on a recent casino promotion)
14:56 AA (no heart) on Q96hhx3xQx
17:43 66 on T76rKss
19:57 QQ on A98r58
23:15 J9cc on T84ccx
25:39 64dd on Q43hhx7x3hhh
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Your correspondent returns to the subject of his downswing, which continues despite his best efforts to jinx it into going away by talking about it.
0:21 Downswing Part 21:31 Taking variance is part of the job4:25 The downswing leads to bad habits8:53 Why I'll keep grinding instead of focusing on teaching15:04 5/10 NLHE hand: TT on T85rJxQx



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Your correspondent discusses his thought process as he endures the worst downswing of his poker career. He also reviews a recent $5/$10 session.
0:17 Maintaining a healthy relationship to the game in the midst of a big downswing8:29 Dealing with a long stretch of boredom, in which moneymaking opportunities are few and far between

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20:22 $5/$10 NLHE session21:13 AKo all-in preflop22:24 AA (no club) on 762ccc9x8x24:55 "Feel it in the heart of the cards"26:05 A9ss on AKTxdd9xKx32:17 AsJx on 985sss3x6ssss33:58 J9hh on KQTxssAx7sss
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Your correspondent visits poker rooms in the Bay Area and Sacramento, folding flopped straights and finding ways to lose ridiculous amounts of money with ace-king. Along the way, he compares live poker in Los Angeles to poker elsewhere, and reflects on a recent bad run.FORUM DISCUSSION:
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0:20 Traveling to Northern California0:42 Poker in American cities that are not Los Angeles or Las Vegas1:57 What it feels like to enter a new poker room2:57 3/5/10 at Lucky Chances in San Francisco3:35 K3hh on KT3ssxQdd5:34 A9hh on AQ5xhh
8:03 1/3 with straddles at Capitol Casino in Sacramento9:12 KQo on AJ8rTr311:57 J8dd on QT9ssd2x15:00 AQcc on Q54ddx
16:50 2/5 at Thunder Valley, northeast of Sacramento 17:58 QsTx on AKJssxKxJx19:05 AKo all-in preflop21:02 AKdd all-in preflop21:32 AKo all-in preflop (yes, all-in preflop with AK in three different hands)22:38 QQ all-in preflop23:32 77 on AQ7rKr9
25:16 General thoughts on running bad
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Your correspondent discusses Michael Craig's poker-boom-era classic "The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King." He follows up on how he finished in the tournament discussed in the last episode, then reviews a double-board PLO bomb pot he played that left him feeling frustrated with himself.






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0:20 "The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King"
12:32 A correction regarding a hand in the last episode (double-board PLO bomb pot with 8733)
14:03 $1200 LAPC tournament, Day 214:41 AKo all-in preflop (big blind = 15,000)15:41 JJ all-in preflop (big blind = 30,000)16:10 Q4hh on T84A4 (big blind = 60,000)18:46 Jx9c on JT6ccx3x5x (big blind = 60,000)21:58 AQo all-in preflop (big blind = 100,000)
23:21 $25 double-board PLO bomb pot hand: KQJ4 (no spades) on KT9ssx3x4x and J52ssxJxQsss
Sources used in the Garfield/Cleveland story:

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/502301891https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-doctors-killed-president-garfield/https://lib.arizona.edu/hsl/materials/collections/secret-illness/clevelandhttps://www.npr.org/2011/07/06/137621988/a-yacht-a-mustache-how-a-president-hid-his-tumor
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