BARGE
Big
Annual
Rec.Gambling Excursion
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"There are no strangers here,
just friends you haven't met yet"
— Peter "Foldem" Secor
BARGE is the most fun you can have while playing poker.
BARGE is the Big August Rec.Gambling Excursion, typically held the
week leading up to the first Saturday in August, in Las Vegas, Nevada. BARGE
is also an online community of poker enthusiasts associated with that event.
Our event features several poker tournaments, mixed cash games, a few very
peculiar
cash
games,
as well as a wide variety of
non-poker related activities including dinners, karaoke, a golf outing, a sushi
outing, a fun run, room escapes, shows, and shopping. Activities vary from
year to year and are based on whatever people choose to organize.
Since 2011, we have also hosted a winter event, EMBARGO.
Members of our community also host a variety of other events
all over the US.
Our members communicate throughout the year
via email, Facebook, Twitter,
other events, or even informally. The
BARGE event began in 1991 as a meet-up of the
rec.gambling newsgroup, and membership has grown significantly over the years.
Members come from all professions and ages. Our members include over 20 WSOP
bracelet winners as well as other major tournaments (WPT, WSOP
Circuit). Although many of our members have backgrounds in technology, science,
and the law, we welcome people to join regardless of their professional
backgrounds or poker accomplishments.
Why Join Us?
We're a diverse community of
fun-loving people. We all enjoy the game of poker. We have several WSOP
bracelet winners among us, and we have novice players. We host
tournaments and unusual live games during our events. No one is pressured to play above
their bankroll. We openly exchange ideas, and many of our members have greatly
enhanced their poker skills via BARGE.
But the most important reason to join
is: it's the most fun you will ever have playing poker! BARGE is what poker
should be!
Keep in Touch
Our mailing lists are a great way to get
to know our community and ask questions about our events.
Play More
Our community hosts a number of related other events
throughout the year.
No matter where you are, you can still play with us: We play daily, just
for fun, on craftpoker.com.
Translation – “Good lord you drink like a fish, … brought in a friend who stayed on 2-3, and we are sure you have more … please don’t take losing so seriously and go play elsewhere! Come back and gamble today!!!”
Complete results for 2017
Stratosphere Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
Eight Game Mix# Thursday, February 9th, 2017 $70 + $20 + $10 buyin 44 players $3,080 prize pool 1 Shari "pokerchimp" Silk $904 2 John "JZK" Scheinberg $628 3 Patti Beadles $524 4 Nolan "Omanyte" Hee $400 5 Rich "Omaholic" Bremer $308 6 Steve "Ice" Eisenstein $216 7 Patrick Milligan $100 World Chowaha Champioinship# Friday, February 10th, 2017 $70 + $20 + $10 buyin 34 players $2,380 prize pool 1 David "sam_6" Lawful $857 2 Oliver Juang $571 3 Bruce "Cyberchomp" Iwamoto $405 4 Jesse Capps $309 5 Ken "QB" Kubey $238 6-Max Pot-Limit Courcheval
w/lammers# Friday, February 10th, 2017 $70 + $20 + $10 buyin 26 players $1,820 prize pool 1 Dan "ADB smalltalk" Goldman $655 2 Louis "BOB_O" Ogus $437 3 Adam Haman $309 4 David "sam_6" Lawful $237 5 Kenny Shei $182 NLHE Escalator# Saturday, February 11th, 2017 $110 + $20 + $10 buyin 42 players $4,620 prize pool 1 Patrick Milligan $1432 2 Gillian Groves $1016 3 Kenny Shei $785 4 Ryan Beauregard $601 5 Derek "CindrllaMan" Gomez $462 6 Diana "Prof Chaos" Mercer $323 Win the Button HALT# Saturday, February 11th, 2017 $70 + $20 + $10 buyin 25 players $1,750 prize pool 1 Jesse Capps $630 2 David "sam_6" Lawful $420 3 Patrick Milligan $298 4 Eileen Milligan $228 5 Louis "BOB_O" Ogus $176
Great chess players are legendary for their ability to think many moves ahead. But in poker, forward thinking is undervalued by most players. How a hand will play out is the most important component of your decisions. Current odds are chiefly immaterial, implied odds are how you should calculate your probabilities. And to be able to closely estimate your implied odds, you must read your opponents’ hands, their tendencies, and predict how they will play differing scenarios.
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ABC loose-passive’s are the easiest opponent’s to play, and you generally have the largest edge against them. Most lowstakes players are ABC loose-passive. Aspiring to see many flops, they habitually limp. Their propensity to call pre-flop raises varies, but they call pre-flop raises much more than your average opponent. On the flop they tend to be fit or fold. Meaning, if they hit the flop, they continue, if not, they’ll fold. The good news is they’re easily exploitable.
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Many people don’t know the exact difference between equity and EV. In fact, some people use the terms as if they were identical.
Equity is the percentage chance that a hand will win after all the cards are dealt. The percentage chance includes splits and is utilized when comparing your holding against opponent’s hand(s) or range(s).
The term is used in different ways, with or without more cards to come. Without cards to come and your opponent’s hand unknown, your equity is calculated against his likely range. But with cards to come, when all the cards are known, your equity is calculated by your chances after the river card is dealt. In other words, your percentage chances on a runout. But with cards to come and your opponents hand unknown, your equity is the percentage chance against his feasible range.
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Much is written about poker psychology; mostly it’s about analyzing how your opponents react. But seldom discussed and of much greater importance is your own psychology. Being real and in tune with yourself has huge value, and those that aren’t never correct their leaks as they’re unaware they even exist.
People in denial can endlessly delude themselves. They constantly look for ways to blame something for their bad results. Stop kidding yourself. One can always find an angle from which the fault of losing lies elsewhere. It’s important to realize that if you’re consistently losing, the fault is not luck, the dealer, the deck, the seat or whatever else you may blame. The problem is YOU. You’ve got leaks!
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Many players calculate the equity of their hand at the current moment, compare it to the size of the pot, and base their decision solely on that calculation. Those decisions are correct if there is no future betting.
But when there is future betting or even the potential for future betting, the equation isn’t correct. That’s because the “implied odds” of the future betting affects the price the future pot is laying you. That future betting can either increase or decrease the value of your hand.
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Complete results for 2016
The story of my twenty-first BARGE. “Remember that the moose are in your car.”
