I just remember watching some hand where person who was identified as winning 40 reg limps UTG+1, couple of overlimps, maybe late spite raise in LP, and a blind calls. Somehow UTG+1 and some limper go 3 or 4 bets on a T32r flop and a couple more bets on some low blank (another 3?). River is a K and it checks through. 9s vs. 8s. Expert.

My personal favorite was seeing some hot girl raise/4/call a guy on T32 in a MW raised pot, call the 5 turn and 4 river, and could not triumph over KT. Know thy customer, I guess.

I was playing .05/.10 FR on stars yesterday. I was on a full table and I'd opened another that was just getting started, with two people playing HU. I'm a fairly new player, and I'm not too confident playing short handed yet, so my plan was to wait for more players to join, or take a seat after watching a few orbits if the standard was really bad.

After watching a couple of hands, I noticed a really weird pattern:

Player 1 would raise from the sb, player 2 would 3-bet, player 1 would fold.

And then:

Player 2 would raise from the sb, player 1 would 3-bet, player 2 would cap, and player 1 would fold.

This carried on until player 1 was all-in on his last blind and busted out. I think he went through about 20bb like this and never saw a flop. Surely no one is that bad? Has anyone seen anything like this before?

A semi-reg in my OL 30 game frequently opens his BTN and folds to the three bet. I once saw him three bet and fold to the cap.

That's pretty bad, but I can rationalise someone folding an iffy blind steal -- not that I agree with folding for the sake of one more bet. But this was happening hand, after hand. The more I think about it, the more I think that one of them got bored and just offered up his money. Maybe I missed something in the chat.

Yes, but also remember that this is a person trying to play a TAG style in the biggest regular FL game offered online currently for US players, making fundamental mathematical errors. I'd say that's worse than a guy playing like a total donkey so that he can dust off $10 at the lowest stake possible.

No rake if villain folds preflop? Chip dumping ftw.

Yeah. That's what I think now. You're right about the rake too. I didn't know that.

I agree. I don't think he was playing like a donkey though, I think he was intentionally gifting his money to the other player.

Once someone steals an account, wouldn't it be better to empty it out to an "innocent" 3rd party who can just claim he played a HU fish and shouldn't be penalized?

I smell a rat

LOL! Like that photo.

Sounds like chip dumping to me. That is the first thing I thought of when I read the original post about it.

Doc

Speaking of dumping, **** comcast. Want to know why your internet and phone is down? It's because it's hot outside. They have known about this issue since '08. They have some cheap ass components that quit when they get hot. When the sun goes down and they cool off, presto! It would cost millions to replace all the known components, so they send those poor service techs who have no idea about how to "fix" problems without knowing about this issue. All they need to do is read their own forum lol.

http://forums.xfinity.com/t5/Basic-I.../567815#M93969

i hate Comcast as much as anyone.(as a customer and past sub contractor) but ALL connectors fail in extreme temps. I've seen cable plant oscillate for weeks until the lashing wire fails and tension is released.

Underground is slightly better until it sucks water around the heat shrink.

I admit, some fittings are poorly designed though.

You guys have definitely lost me to NL. Having fun currently crushing 2NL, lol

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I feel so betrayed!!

But dont you miss those epic thin call downs?? (yes i was going to call a river bet!)

Player1: $12.12
Hero (SB): $7.88
Villain (BB): $20.60
Player4: $9.54

Pre Flop: ($0.45) Hero is with J 9
2 folds, Hero calls $0.05, Villain checks

Flop: ($0.50) Q K Q (2 players)
Hero checks, Villain bets $0.25, Hero calls $0.25

Turn: ($1.00) 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, Villain bets $0.50, Hero calls $0.50

River: ($2.00) 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, Villain checks

Final Pot: $2.00
Hero shows J 9 (Pair of Queens)
Villain mucks T 8
Hero wins $1.91
(Rake: $0.09)

I raise it up with the Jack nine off preflop and I don't think it's close from any position other than HJ or worse.

Agree 100%

I'm still trying to eliminate limping from my overall game..its a bad habit!

I'd limp some stuff in the small blind in that structure, but J9o is way too strong to limp imo. I'd raise down to J6o there.

I've been working on a "limp 100%" strategy from the SB in BvB battles vs overly aggressive opponents.

In 1/2 structures I might limp really bad hands against a very passive opponent, but otherwise I play raise or fold. If I find an overly aggressive opponent in the big blind, then I'll adjust by 4 betting a range like this: 66+, A8s+, ATo+, KTs+, KJo+, QJs, JTs and calling the three bets with everything else. I'm never 6 betting though.

In the structure above, getting 9:1, I'm limping the bottom ~20% and calling a raise. I'll also mix in some limp reraises with good but not great hands such as a range like this: 77-JJ, A9s-AJs, K9s-KJs, QTs+, JTs, T9s. Anything better than that gets raised and 4 bet. I'm still never 6 betting.

this message will self destruct in 25 minutes.

Not as wet as I expected, tbh.

Messing around on Bovada playing a .05/.1 6 max table and some guy sits down with $1432.72. WTF????


Doc