It's about equidistant from "Go Vols" and "Roll Tide."

Texas has got to pull the center of gravity westward.

fyp

Anybody ever go this far to keep the game friendly and build goodwill?

Talking Stick's BBJ qualifier is Aces full of Tens or better beaten by quads or better. It's most often hit when somebody's got a pair 10-10 thru K-K, 3 Aces end up on the board and a player has an Ace w/ a kicker that at least ties the board.

I was playing the 4-8 as my punishment for blowing money at BJ when this hand came along:

Game's a limp-fest, I come along w/ A2, everyone is in when the button raises.

Flop: A-A-A. Procedure is for the floor to monitor what happens next. I bet the flop and only the button calls. The only way to hit the BBJ would be for 2 deuces come and the main reason for the button to call is bec he's got a big end hand. I decided to check turn/river and he thanked me.

To me it's worth it to give up 2 BB's for good will. But I wonder what some of you think about it.

I think you should play it however you would if there were no jackpot. Seems unlikely the guy would fold a big pair there headsup anyway.

Yeah, thats called softplaying and not in the spirit of the game.

I look at it as a courtesy in a matter that happens extremely rarely.

I'd rather check if I had the jackpot hand. I've never done this, but I actually witnessed a guy fold TT on the turn on an AA83 board when he got raised and there was a very good chance they had one out to the jackpot.

He knew the situation and folded out of spite. Which is better than the time I folded 22 on 9929 without even considering the jackpot (I folded like at least $200 in EV depending on how you range my opponents' hands).

anyone else ever rage-spew 50 big bets in four hours before in O8 chasing and missing?

Nobody's folding an actual jackpot on the river so it's pretty unethical to check that through.

You mean, at least 50?

That bad? I'm surprised. I gave up 2 BB's of my own money.

HOWARD you played to your vices without a report or inviting me?! I wanted in!

If I were a new player who wasn't well-versed in jackpot "etiquette", it might make me very unhappy later when you played the nuts strongly headsup against me, and decide this was a place where the regs were just colluding to get the visitors' money.

+1

It's the same as if you showed the nuts and told people to save their money, or refunded someone's call. Yes, you're giving up your own money, but that doesn't automatically give you a pass.

I have checked the nuts out of position when I knew we were winning a jackpot.

But I would not do that in position. (And had the opponent been stupid enough to bet when I checked out of position, I would have raised him.)

Seems harsh to call someone stupid for not betting the second nuts, which is as least aces full, when checked to on the river. I can't imagine not betting there.

It was ugly, you didn't want to be anywhere near it.

I bet the flop multi-way. HU on the turn and river the other player is nearly being forced to call a hand that he'd fold otherwise. As much as I play for blood I'd rather not have that money. The part regarding a visitor is valid but is easily explained.

Well I dumped about $2400 in 2 hours of 40 mix while waiting for a 20 seat last weekend, mostly big-o dumping.
Most painful hand:

UTG limps, UTG+1 raises, 2 callers to me in BB and I call Ac3x7c7hJh

Flop 26Qhhc, I bet and everyone calls
Turn 9c, I bet and get raised and 3!, decide to 4! and call a cap with nut club draw, third nut heart draw, nut low draw.

River Kh and I b/c against the nuts
Probably should have checked.

>$3k pot

^ Check-call flop, check-call turn, check river, consider folding, depending on action.

Really? I was thinking 3b pre, bet flop, b/c turn, c/c river.

I think I'd need to be facing 3 cold on river to fold in a 40 BB pot.
I think I missed something, it must have been capped pre in order to get to 40BB

Honestly have never played Big O before, so am no expert. But extrapolating from regular O8 and pretending you are still double suited but only have one 7. I would never 3 bet that hand preflop. Might bet the flop in regular O8, but it seems to me in Big O, someone is more likely to have the same nut low draw, and more likely to have something good for high. I don't love the J high flush draw even in regular O8, and I totally hate it in Big O.

Had a very similar situation in bigO but it was 10/20, i think 6 ways to the river capped preflop and turn.

Either way, ended up with 2nd/2nd and call/folded river irrc in a >1k pot just having a sad chuckle

BTW Howard, at least one car rental company has the Nissan Versa as the SECOND cheapest car they rent.

Obviously fit for freeway travel.

It's great going downhill or on flat terrain but going uphill it's best to take the escalator.