Tribeca 25c/50c NL. I just sat down a few hands ago1, but I do have reads: everybody around me is a donk like most Tribeca tables. I have notes on a lot of people and they all say the same thing: not so good.

Someone UTG raises to $2.50, folds to me, I reraise to $7. Now the guy next to me, a shortstack, raises all-in. Another shortstack calls. So does the preflop raiser. If this were Prima I could push but NOOOOOO, this has to be Tribeca.

Anyway, the pot is about $40 going to the flop. I have $40 left behind. So I'm ready to play for it all on any flop. There's not much room to do anything else.

But then the flop is KJ8 with two clubs. I have the Ac. I'm already unhappy, and get more unhappy when the pfr guy bets into me, about $8 into the $40 pot. WTF do I think he has there? QQ? AK? I don't know. Anyway, I think a raise commits me, but I don't really realize that a call does, too. I have to push or fold. Anyway, I butcher the hand and flat call, then call when he pushes the turn, and lose my stack like a total donk. (If I had pushed the flop I still lose it, but a tiny bit less donklike.)

And my aces were no good, of course. The big stack shows JJ. The two shortstacks show ... are you ready ... KJ and 88. All three of them had my aces beaten.

Should have known this was a bad sign. Later I limp QQ in ep and find a flop of Txx with two diamonds. 5 see the flop. Someone bets the pot, I raise strong, he calls, someone else calls in a blind. Turn is a J and it checks to me, I bet half pot which is also almost half his stack, he check-raises all-in, and I think and think and finally call. He's on T7 of diamonds. I then watch as of course he catches a third diamond on the river. Bye bye most of another stack.

Two stacks is no big deal, of course. Just venting. I've been on a roll at Tribeca prior to tonight.

I did think the AA hand was kind of cool, though folding it on the flop would have been a lot cooler.

k3nt i think you need to take a screenshot of that from pokertracker... wow... just wow!

That is SO Tribeca. Ugh!!

I don't mean to argue that your low-buyin tables can't be profitable. But do you really want to train yourself to expect lunacy on the table, and develop a defensive game to handle that? I'd rather work in reality, where you have some fish, some maniacs, and some pros, and develop a balanced game I can take up the levels with only a need for sophistication and tweaking as I move up, not total overhaul.