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Originally Posted by Ray Zee
that is a standard play a good player may make and others think it screams cheating.
he knocks your aces out of the pot and gets to play headsup against a hand he may think isnt trips. maybe he has a ten in the hole.
The villain (call him mani - short for maniac) here is not a good player. He can be an absolute maniac. Case in point. Guy with a king door raises to this guy, who has another king. Mani raises him. Original raiser, raises him back. Mani puts in nine bets before original raiser finally stops.
On fourth, original raiser pairs his king door, and bets into Mani. Mani raises him back. They get into a raising war and Mani ends up all-in. So they go to the river. Mani's starting hand was two diamonds and an unsuited king door. Nothing else. Of course he rivers the flush and wins vs pocket aces that didn't fill. The guy who lost was getting killed in the game, and this hand pretty much finished him.
This was the day after the hand I originally posted about. So this very experienced guy (winner of two Stud WSOP bracelets from quite a while ago) looks at me and says something like "after that hand, are you ever folding in that spot again - you played the cards and not the players" He was essentially calling me a dumb-ass for that fold. My problem was that I didn't know much about the guy with the paired tens.
The next day, Mani has a repeat performance. Ace door raises him, and they get into a raising war, and by fifth Mani is all-in again. He had pocket sixes. Ends up with sixes and deuces and the split aces never improve. And Mani sits there both times bragging about how people better not mess with him. Needless to say, this guy is great for the game, but if he hits, the losses really pile up fast.
Edit - one more thing. When Mani busts out, he will often re-buy for ten racks.
Last edited by lstream; 02-03-2017 at 04:33 PM.