Reason #2 why we don't bluff at low limits:

1/2, MP raises to $10 a few callers, I call with QTs in the BB
Flop ($45) AJ9r, checks around
Turn ($45) 5x, I check, a few other check and the button bets $20 I call, others fold
River ($83) Kx, I consider my options for a few seconds and while I do he bets $75 out of turn, so I happily check/rs all in for $450. He calls after 15 seconds or so and mhig.

Reason #3 Why You Don't Bluff at Low Limits

2/5. Villain sits directly to my right and I already have a read that he is somewhat of a station. He is sitting on $700 and I cover.

2 limps including V and I make it $35 with LOL AK on the Button. Both call.

Flop ($100)
QJ9
Checks to me and I C-Bet $60. Limper folds and V takes a few seconds, but calls.

Turn ($220)
8
V checks. I make it $125. V goes into the tank. Picks up his cards, holds them in between his fingers pushing them back and forth like he really wants to fold, but ultimately makes the call.

River ($470)
6
V Checks. I shove for his last $480. He goes up to the high dive and goes deep into the tank. I go smoke a cigarette and take a piss. I come back and he faux mucked at least a dozen times before he finally meekly pushes out the chips for a call.

I ask if he has the Ace of Spades. He has a puzzled look on his face and he turns over....

Good grief! Are you messing with us?

Are you saying he should have known you had a straight?

I was kind of thinking that also. I thought H should check back turn against known station?


I hope you weren't firing river with ace high if you missed...


However, just don't bluff that guy, ever.

Guy on my left is a semi-reg, known degen. Constantly gets up and play some baccarat or something for 20 min before coming back for an orbit or two. The rule is 3 missed BB and you're picked up, always a wait list. But we tell the dealers not to give him the missed BB button cuz he's so good for the game. Eventually he comes back, shows me a screenshot on his cell, he just won about 3500 at roulette. A couple hands later, I've got TT and make it 20 over a couple of limps. He looks at his cards, grabs a random amount of his chips, about half of his $180 stack. Turns out to be 80. Folded back to me, I shrug and have that "whaddaya gonna do" look on my face, announce all in. He quickly slams the rest of his chips in the middle. I show him TT, he makes a hilarious groan. Flop is AQJ. Worst. Flop. Ever. Turn is another ace, river is another queen, board is AQJAQ. I'm playing the freaking board...and he turns over 84o for a chop. Funniest thing I have seen in weeks, everyone gets a huge laugh (including hero, cuz whaddaya gonna do).

2-4 NL

V1- in BB, Mega fish, loose passive, older guy, plays 90% of hands, calls almost any amount post-flop with almost any draw. Has gotten stacked at least four times, but kept pulling out hundreds until he ran out of money, then he went to ATM twice.

V2- in EP. For this game, he's a decent player. Young, seemed tight-aggressive.

Hero- on Button. V1 has about $300, V2 has maybe $1200, Hero has about $500.

V2 opens to $17 from EP. All fold to me on the button and I decide to three-bet to $50. with Ad9d. V1 calls the three-bet cold from the big blind; his range is still very wide. V2, the opener, also calls, so we go three-way to the flop.

Pot- $152. Flop is 8d 7c 4d giving me the nut flush draw.

V1 checks, V2 leads for $65. I call, and so does V1.

Pot is $347. Turn is 6s, at which point V1 insta-shoves all-in for $166. Based on his action and his demeanor, I am just about 100% sure he has a 5 in his hand to give him a straight. While I'm figuring out my outs and price I'm getting, V2 calls the all-in. I have a NFD + open-ender, figure my chances more than justify a call, so I do call.

Pot is now $845. River is Ah, so my draws bust, but I get a pair of aces. V1 is all-in. V2 checks. I am still 100% that V1 will show a straight, and there is no side pot, so I feel I can't win the main pot. I consider a small bet to at least get some value from V2 if my aces are good, but decide its not worth it and check, thinking I'm screwed.

I fast-roll my Ad 9d. V2 says, "Aw man!....I can't believe you got there! You gotta be kidding me" as he shows TT and mucks.
V1 then says "I thought I had a straight, but I misread my hand." He shows K6, and my pair of aces pulls in the nice pot I thought I had no chance to win.

1/1 with almost mandatory 2 straddle

V1 - Bizarre drunk guy who kept making moves at the waitresses. He had been stacked 4 times in the last 30 mins (2 coolers & 2 droolers).

Hero has about 330 effective, villain somewhere between 110 and 120. Straddle in play, folds to me on the button, I look down at A6s so make a raise to $8 and only V1 in the BB makes the call.

Flop - A62 rainbow with one spade. BB open jams for 110 effective. I snap call. Villain rolls over 5T of spades.

Board runs out spade, spade and villain ships.

Sure enough, I got most of it back with a c/r on the river with 3 high against him 2 orbits later which proceeded to send him into hyper monkey tilt. Probably a loss of 10 buyins over 2 and a bit hours in total.

Haha i forgot about this thread. I'll try and pay attention for some good ones this week as i see some pretty mind blowing stuff in my new room

1/2, 400 eff. I open JJ UTG to $13, UTG+2 flats, MP1 flats. Rest fold.

J97ss flop. I c-bet $30, UTG+2 calls, MP1 raised to $140. I jam, UTG+2 goes deep into the tank, verbalizes fold and mucks his cards so that they're still retrievable. MP1 snaps me off, board runs out J97ss94. I table Jacks full, MP1 shows AA and folds.

UTG+2 grabs his cards back out of the much (KITN to the dealer for not properly mucking his cards) and proudly shows the table KK, as to let us know how great of a laydown he made. So I run Jacks into both AA and KK, and not one, but both players decide to flat in EP/MP, allowing me to flop top set. Then the guy with AA decides he wants to play his hand fast OTF and stacks off. Of course if they both play their hands correctly, I never see the flop. Thanks I guess? Good 'ole 1-2 tables....

1/2 game. Just lost previous hand and have ~$190.

I open QJ to $12 after two limpers. 5 people call including the limpers.

Pot: $60
Flop: T98

SB leads out $50, EP calls, I call, Guy behind me is all in for $35 total, Button slams in $200, SB calls all in, EP folds, I stick it in.

Pot: ~$700
Turn: A

River: K

I scoooooooooop vs J7, T8, and an unknown hand.

Largest pot in terms of BBs that I've won in a long long time.

2/5 game
older guy talks about something like having figuered out secrets over the years, being active on 2p2 and a big winner.
Opens to 40 in HJ. I look down at AQ otb.

Lol, such a classic. I probably do folds like this in 50 percent of my sessions, because of unbelieveable betsizing tells from my villains.

Love it, thats how you just destroy these tellboxes- making exploitative folds and not showing anybody, so that nobody than you know what youre doing.

AQo is a default fold for me to a preflop raise (in most cases, of course: it depends).

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His name is dgiharris.

I lol at almost every post in this thread. Nice work guys

V is a spewy old guy who opens 50% of pots regardless of position. ~$110. Hero covers.

H looks down at AA in the BB.

V otb raises to 10, hero 3 bets to $40, V flats.

Flop QJ6

I think for a few seconds about how much I hate this flop but start to reach for chips to put him all in when he announces "all in" out of turn, which I "call."

Runout is K, 10

V shows down 108.

Couldn't contain my laughter, been awhile since someone just gifted me their stack like that

Is that what goes on in peoples mind if they "tank"?

To be fair it was literally 4-5 seconds. Usually when people tank they are just sitting there thinking about nothing, just hesitating because they don't know what to do.

Last week I saw a hand go down with the nut straight on the board and one of the guys tanked for a full minute before calling a shove.

Really it's just because fish project their own playstyles on everyone else. That fish would have NEVER called with AA on that board, because there's like so many hands that beat him, or will beat him since they are also terribly results oriented. If AA holds it's a good call, if AA loses it's a bad call. Point is he probably thinks this was an excellent bluff and that he just got unlucky you were bad enough to call.

Same thing when they do **** like raise trips on a 557 flop. Because that one time they got cracked by an overpair hitting a 2 outer scarred them for life, so they're making sure that never happens again. Go allin preflop with JJ to steal the blinds. Etc etc etc. They take absolutely zero notice of how anyone else plays and just assume everyone plays like they do.

1/2 Hero overlimps 22 OTB after five limps. Blinds join and it's 8 ways to the flop.

Flop (16) 333

SB checks BB checks UTG shoves 600. Everyone folds.

UTG proudly shows AA.

I LOL.

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2/5 NLHE

3 limps, hero raises to $35 OTB with JTo
3 calls

Flop QQ9r, check, check, limper jams $300+, everyone folds, guy turns over Q5 and says "my kicker was bad". He then laments how he wished he could have made a boat later in the next hand.

Not super donkalicious but from an odds perspective it was an interesting hand.

1/2. Folds to hero in CO who raises to 10 with AK.
Spewtard on button and both Loose Passive Fish in the blinds call.

Flop ($40) - QJJr
Checks to hero who checks, button bets $25, SB and BB call, hero folds.

Turn ($115) QJJ4
SB bets 50, BB goes all in for 150. Spewtard Button folds. SB calls.

River QJJ4Q -
BB Shows KJ
SB shows AJ and is pissed about chopping.
Spewtard freaks cause he folded KQ.

Never been in a hand where I had every single player dominated AND they all hit their kickers on the flop. Odds on that one must be crazy

Lol can't have those pocket kings getting sucked out on. I honestly think people playing big pairs face up is the single biggest leak people have against me.