Double Down Trent

[BrewCity]

I watched Swingers last nite and figured out why you named yourself that. Vince Vaughn so funny. I've seen the movie before, but i didn't catch the name.

[DblDownTrent]

"I'm Mike, this is Trent, we call him double down."

[douglan]

I watched Swingers last nite and figured out why you named yourself that. Vince Vaughn so funny. I've seen the movie before, but i didn't catch the name.

Vince Vaughn's character in that movie is one of the best characters in movie history! Jon Favreau's character actually says the line that gives DDT his name:

"This is Trent...we call him Double Down."

[douglan]

"I'm Mike, this is Trent, we call him double down."

Beat me to the punch there, DDT!

[Not Mike]

I watched Swingers last nite and figured out why you named yourself that. Vince Vaughn so funny. I've seen the movie before, but i didn't catch the name.

Vince Vaughn's character in that movie is one of the best characters in movie history! Jon Favreau's character actually says the line that gives DDT his name:

"This is Trent...we call him Double Down."
One of the best movies ever...

"Ladies, don't you always double down on 11?"

"Always"

[Drzy]

Not vs. an ace!

[douglan]

Couldn't agree more, Not Mike. That movie single-handedly started the swing craze of the mid-to-late 90s (at the end when Jon Favreau and Heather Graham are dancing).

Other classic lines from that movie:

(1) "Baby, you are so money, and you don't even know it!"

(2) "Vegas, baby!!!!! VEGAS!!!!!!!!!"

(3) "This place is dead anyway!"

Also, check out Bill Simmons (the Sports Guy writer for ESPN www.sportsguy.net for his columns on that movie - truly classic)!

[Not Mike]

Couldn't agree more, Not Mike. That movie single-handedly started the swing craze of the mid-to-late 90s (at the end when Jon Favreau and Heather Graham are dancing).

Other classic lines from that movie:

(1) "Baby, you are so money, and you don't even know it!"

(2) "Vegas, baby!!!!! VEGAS!!!!!!!!!"

(3) "This place is dead anyway!"

Also, check out Bill Simmons (the Sports Guy writer for ESPN www.sportsguy.net for his columns on that movie - truly classic)!
Man, we used to watch that movie almost every week before we went out to the bars... it's just so true... "this place is dead anyway", yeah that line still comes out every so often....

Some of my other faves:

"And I'm supposed to be excited because she's wearing a backpack."

"Like f'n House of Pain was going to do anything!"

"Daddy's gonna get us the Rain Man Suite."

Love the NHL Hockey scene.... love the diner scene ("Our little Mikey's all grownsed up")... love the scene when T gets wasted and is calling out Sue in the booth ("no, I'm sure that you've never mentioned her")... and I loved Heather Graham after that movie.

[Lane Meyers]

Not vs. an ace!


ALWAYS!

[DblDownTrent]

Trent: "You're doing what you want to do! What the hell is she doing?"

Mike: "Sells scrapmetal."

Trent: "And this guy she's seeing..What does he do?"

Mike: "I heard he drives a carriage around Central Park."

Trent: "Jesus Mikey! You're the fun loving party and you're sweating some lawn jockey?"

[douglan]

"I'm gonna make Little Wayne's head bleed for Super-Fan 99 over here!"

[Hummer]

Trent: "You bring something nice to wear"
Mike: "I'm not going to Vegas"
Trent: "Mike we're going"
Mike: "I'm not going to Vegas"
on the road: Mike: "Listen I got $300 dollara, but I'm only betting with $100 that's all I can afford"


Mike: "And half of them are just nasty skanks who wouldn't be nothing if they weren't surrounded by a bunch of drunken *******s, and I'm gonna tell you something T are you listening"
Trent: "Ya I'm listening"
Mike: "I'm not gonna be one of those *******s"
Trent: "Jesus, will you shut up just for a minute"

[Hummer]

"And I'm supposed to be excited because she's wearing a backpack."

Mike: "Look we're gonna spend half the night looking for this one party and you're gonna say it sucks and we're all gonna leave. I spend half the night talking to this one girl who's looking around to see if there's someone more important she should be talking to and it's like I supposed to be all happy 'cause she's wearing a backpack"

[KnightsPG]

Jesus Christ, would you just shut up for a second. I heard you out now you hear me out. You wear something nice

[fallout]

Not vs. an ace!


ALWAYS!

Perhaps. What about in those charity type casinos where the dealer doesn't take his second card until after you double, split...etc...

[MNBridge]

I'd much rather double down v an Ace than a Ten.

Why:
with a ten the dealer has a 4/12 chance of having 20.
with a ace the dealer has a 1/9 chance of having 20.

[Drzy]

I'm just basing my answer on basic strategy for blackjack with Mohegan Sun / Foxwood rules.

[lawfi5h]

DDT: How did you end up in the heads up tourny?

[DblDownTrent]

Went 3 and 1.

out #13. Won a small amount.

Fun tournament.

[DblDownTrent]

:bump: for no reason.

just bored.

[DblDownTrent]

Figured I'd put my thread to use.

Since most people are still plugging away at work, I thought I'd update you all on my afternoon so far so you could live vicariously through me....

Not nearly as exciting as freeman WPT/WSOP updates, but that's all I've got for today.


Event Place Win Cumulative
$109 turbo 4 of 9 $0 ($109)
$55 multi 53 of 153 $0 ($164)
$21 HU match 1 of 2 $40 ($145)
$210 HU match 1 of 2 $400 $45
now, on to the last match of the day .... afternoon heads up tourny

back with (hopefully good) updates soon.

[Cohete009]

Figured I'd put my thread to use.

Since most people are still plugging away at work, I thought I'd update you all on my afternoon so far so you could live vicariously through me....

Not nearly as exciting as freeman WPT/WSOP updates, but that's all I've got for today.


Event Place Win Cumulative
$109 turbo 4 of 9 $0 ($109)
$55 multi 53 of 153 $0 ($164)
$21 HU match 1 of 2 $40 ($145)
$210 HU match 1 of 2 $400 $45
now, on to the last match of the day .... afternoon heads up tourny

back with (hopefully good) updates soon.

Wanna give me a loan? $210 heads up match, wow. Largest I have ever played is a $21 last nite, and I didn't win :(

I'll be playing somewhere tonite, not sure where. I still wanna play at party, the fish bite much harder there...

[DblDownTrent]

Hand for discussion from my $200 heads up match.

Background: I've played this guy once before, and knew he was an aggressive heads up player.. 5th hand in.. As you can tell from the stacks, I had been laying down to his 5x BB raises the first 4 hands, he even came over the top of one of my earlier raises...

*********** # 5 **************
PokerStars Game #445948144: Tournament #1659635, Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2004/05/21 - 13:29:03 (ET)
Table '1659635 1' One on One Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: DblDownTrent (1320 in chips)
Seat 2: Kaden (1680 in chips)
DblDownTrent: posts small blind 10
Kaden: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DblDownTrent [Ah Qh]
DblDownTrent: raises 40 to 60
Kaden: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [3s 9d 8d]
Kaden: bets 40
DblDownTrent: calls 40
*** TURN *** [3s 9d 8d] [Qs]
Kaden: bets 1520
DblDownTrent: ???

Call or fold?

[lawfi5h]

Hand for discussion from my $200 heads up match.

Background: I've played this guy once before, and knew he was an aggressive heads up player.. 5th hand in.. As you can tell from the stacks, I had been laying down to his 5x BB raises the first 4 hands, he even came over the top of one of my earlier raises...

*********** # 5 **************
PokerStars Game #445948144: Tournament #1659635, Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2004/05/21 - 13:29:03 (ET)
Table '1659635 1' One on One Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: DblDownTrent (1320 in chips)
Seat 2: Kaden (1680 in chips)
DblDownTrent: posts small blind 10
Kaden: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DblDownTrent [Ah Qh]
DblDownTrent: raises 40 to 60
Kaden: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [3s 9d 8d]
Kaden: bets 40
DblDownTrent: calls 40
*** TURN *** [3s 9d 8d] [Qs]
Kaden: bets 1520
DblDownTrent: ???

Call or fold?

Take it down. Call in a heartbeat. Maybe that is just me, but top pair, top kicker in heads up is pretty good. And if he is being aggressive, you really can't get any info from his bets.

Call and do (hopefully) a happy dance.

[DblDownTrent]

Take it down. Call in a heartbeat. Maybe that is just me, but top pair, top kicker in heads up is pretty good. And if he is being aggressive, you really can't get any info from his bets.

Call and do (hopefully) a happy dance.

TJ or two pair don't scare you?

[MNBridge]

Nope I'm all in

[DblDownTrent]

Yup, I called and he had 8J, took it down and then took him out a few hands later.

bad news on the HU tourney. Just lost all in preflop 99 vs AK, he caught the A on the turn.

Oh well, maybe time for one more match....


Event Place Win Cumulative
$109 turbo 4 of 9 $0 ($109)
$55 multi 53 of 153 $0 ($164)
$21 HU match 1 of 2 $40 ($145)
$210 HU match 1 of 2 $400 $45
$21 HU tourney 49 of 64 $0 $24

[lawfi5h]

Take it down. Call in a heartbeat. Maybe that is just me, but top pair, top kicker in heads up is pretty good. And if he is being aggressive, you really can't get any info from his bets.

Call and do (hopefully) a happy dance.

TJ or two pair don't scare you?

If he's got that, I pay him off. You guys can call me a dork, but when I am at my computer playing online and the chat is boring (er, non existant), I sit there and deal out two handed holdem on my desk. It is so rare that 1 pair gets dominated by something greater then 1 pair.

If I am playing heads up, I usually play middle pair as if its a winner (I wouldn't call an all-in bet, but I will bet). Just not as many winning combinations.

[DblDownTrent]

Had time for one more... unfortunate ending, but at least it wasn't in the 5th spot.


Event Place Win Cumulative
$109 turbo 4 of 9 $0 ($109)
$55 multi 53 of 153 $0 ($164)
$21 HU match 1 of 2 $40 ($145)
$210 HU match 1 of 2 $400 $45
$21 HU tourney 49 of 64 $0 $24
$60 2 table 4 of 18 $99 $63


*********** # 54 **************
PokerStars Game #446059972: Tournament #1658626, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2004/05/21 - 15:08:48 (ET)
Table '1658626 2' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: xgamblerx (14817 in chips)
Seat 4: DblDownTrent (1950 in chips)
Seat 6: disconected (2451 in chips)
Seat 8: kidkwik (7782 in chips)
xgamblerx: posts the ante 25
DblDownTrent: posts the ante 25
disconected: posts the ante 25
kidkwik: posts the ante 25
DblDownTrent: posts small blind 200
disconected: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DblDownTrent [As Ad]
disconected said, "suits me"
kidkwik: folds
xgamblerx: calls 400
DblDownTrent: raises 800 to 1200
disconected: folds
xgamblerx: calls 800
*** FLOP *** [Jd 9d Ks]
DblDownTrent: bets 725 and is all-in
xgamblerx: calls 725
*** TURN *** [Jd 9d Ks] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 9d Ks 7d] [7h]
DblDownTrent said, "nh"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DblDownTrent: shows [As Ad] (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
xgamblerx: shows [Qd 3d] (a flush, Queen high)
xgamblerx collected 4350 from pot
disconected said, "take em all out gambler"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4350 | Rake 0
Board [Jd 9d Ks 7d 7h]
Seat 2: xgamblerx (button) showed [Qd 3d] and won (4350) with a flush, Queen high
Seat 4: DblDownTrent (small blind) showed [As Ad] and lost with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 6: disconected (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: kidkwik folded before Flop (didn't bet)

**********************************************

Probably should have just gone all in preflop, but actually wanted a caller, he probably would have called my all in too, but I guess I got a little greedy. At least I didn't just call it.

[lawfi5h]

Had time for one more... unfortunate ending, but at least it wasn't in the 5th spot.


Event Place Win Cumulative
$109 turbo 4 of 9 $0 ($109)
$55 multi 53 of 153 $0 ($164)
$21 HU match 1 of 2 $40 ($145)
$210 HU match 1 of 2 $400 $45
$21 HU tourney 49 of 64 $0 $24
$60 2 table 4 of 18 $99 $63


*********** # 54 **************
PokerStars Game #446059972: Tournament #1658626, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2004/05/21 - 15:08:48 (ET)
Table '1658626 2' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: xgamblerx (14817 in chips)
Seat 4: DblDownTrent (1950 in chips)
Seat 6: disconected (2451 in chips)
Seat 8: kidkwik (7782 in chips)
xgamblerx: posts the ante 25
DblDownTrent: posts the ante 25
disconected: posts the ante 25
kidkwik: posts the ante 25
DblDownTrent: posts small blind 200
disconected: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to DblDownTrent [As Ad]
disconected said, "suits me"
kidkwik: folds
xgamblerx: calls 400
DblDownTrent: raises 800 to 1200
disconected: folds
xgamblerx: calls 800
*** FLOP *** [Jd 9d Ks]
DblDownTrent: bets 725 and is all-in
xgamblerx: calls 725
*** TURN *** [Jd 9d Ks] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 9d Ks 7d] [7h]
DblDownTrent said, "nh"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DblDownTrent: shows [As Ad] (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
xgamblerx: shows [Qd 3d] (a flush, Queen high)
xgamblerx collected 4350 from pot
disconected said, "take em all out gambler"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4350 | Rake 0
Board [Jd 9d Ks 7d 7h]
Seat 2: xgamblerx (button) showed [Qd 3d] and won (4350) with a flush, Queen high
Seat 4: DblDownTrent (small blind) showed [As Ad] and lost with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 6: disconected (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: kidkwik folded before Flop (didn't bet)

**********************************************

Probably should have just gone all in preflop, but actually wanted a caller, he probably would have called my all in too, but I guess I got a little greedy. At least I didn't just call it.

Are you off today, or is this all from work!?!?!? :shake:

[DblDownTrent]

Are you off today, or is this all from work!?!?!? :shake:

off. I don't think I can access stars/party from work. If I can, I'd rather not know - I'd like to keep my job (at least until I win a very, very large tournament).

[lawfi5h]

Are you off today, or is this all from work!?!?!? :shake:

off. I don't think I can access stars/party from work. If I can, I'd rather not know - I'd like to keep my job (at least until I win a very, very large tournament).

I'll be bouncin around both sites most likely tonight. Look for me in there (lawfive on both sites).

I am hoping to do a bunch of S&G and possibly a multi.

[DblDownTrent]

I'm out tonight, playing my last SnG now.

good luck - take 'em down.

[Hummer]

Take it down. Call in a heartbeat. Maybe that is just me, but top pair, top kicker in heads up is pretty good. And if he is being aggressive, you really can't get any info from his bets.

Call and do (hopefully) a happy dance.

TJ or two pair don't scare you?

I would not be scared of either of those hands. All-in is way to aggressive for the nut st. Granted there are flush possibilities, but I find aggressive players will slow play very good hands (nuts or near nuts) despite the obvious dangers. 2 pair means he would've flopped it, in which case I think he bets higher preflop, or he has Qs up. I don't think he would bet Qs up all-in either. I call.

[DblDownTrent]

Alright, the poker day is over now, here's how I ended up...


Event Place Win Cumulative
$109 turbo 4 of 9 $0 ($109)
$55 multi 53 of 153 $0 ($164)
$21 HU match 1 of 2 $40 ($145)
$210 HU match 1 of 2 $400 $45
$21 HU tourney 49 of 64 $0 $24
$60 2 table 4 of 18 $99 $63
$38 SnG 4 of 6 $0 $25
$52.50 HU match 1 of 2 $100 $72.50


Stars made $36.50 off of me...

everyone have a great weekend.