Sorry, but he's not worse than Trent Dilfer or Kerry Collins. not even close. Jake Delhomme. Rex Grossman. Vince Ferragamo. I'd take Foles over all of these guys, and I'm sure if I put more time into it I could come up with others.

When I first read this I thought you meant that two people were ending up with the same hand 40% of the time. I was going to reply by saying, I try to tell the joke "Dealers deal chops on purpose so that 2 people have to give them tips!" at least once per session. Usually gets 3 or 4 people to laugh, and usually gets the dealer to say, "If I could do THAT I'd deal a badbeat jackpot!"

But then I realized you meant everybody's folding to the blinds 40% of the time. I wouldn't still be AT that table after 30 minutes!!!!

Yeah it was pretty bad. I did end up leaving.

20 game at Commerce was much better last night and I got beat up.

And he's (probably) not just standing up for Foles because he's a Texas boy!

Played a short session on Merge for the first time in God knows how long. Got to play this gem:

Bluffy Fish opens sb, I just call A3o bb

A66r he bets I call

2 second spade he checks, I check to let him fire river (my standard is to bet FWIW).

A he bets I raise he 3 I 4 he calls. I scoop.

I probably did miss a little value by getting tricky because later on he cc a CO open from the BTN, peeled 873 and 4 bet the turn 9 with J4s (he did not have a FD nor BDFD on the flop).

So you think you lost value because he had a 6 and if you get c/r on the turn you make more because you sucked out? Or?

Moreso that he's an epic enough spaz to xr turn with air at a high in conjunction w/ all the stuff he could call down.

2-20 Spread-limit in Northern MN, blinds 1-2, playing with the biggest monkey in the game to my immediate right for strategic purposes.

Hero is BB with Q8
Limps to small blind monkey who goes 6, hero calls, three other calls

Flop Q86

SB checks, hero bets 14, three calls

turn 3

SB checks, hero bets 20, fold fold, SB calls

river K

SB immediately donks 26 bucks into the pot (lol monkey) and I start moooooaning. First, because he tried to bet more than the max. Second, he's fully capable of having K6o, K3o. Whatever. I say "nice clubs" and he responds "I don't have a flush."

I hold my hand face up without motioning to the muck so he can see it and he tables his ****ing hand of 83o and goes to pull his money back. I stuff 20 into the pot and the dealer shoves the 26 and the pot my way without counting his bet.

lol

Immediately get abused by SB. Dealer gets abused by SB. Table starts telling him "you shouldn't show your hand to someone who has a live hand, sir." Hilarity ensues.

Funny, and I don't feel bad for villain overall, but you really should have given him back the extra $6.

Yes, give him the $6 back or else you are scum.

And why are you nitrolling with 2 pair against "a monkey" getting 7:1 on a call?

Why people call out their opponents' hands is beyond me. Best case scenario is that you're wrong and worst case scenario is that you're right.

It's super standard in low stakes games.

I tried. He wouldn't take it. Eventually he threw it at the dealer and berated him some more for not "calling my hand dead"

He was on fire and I was weighing my options. Not my fault he turned up his hand before I inevitably called anyway.

Quick answer: stream of consciousness and fishing for information

Agree

If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?

I thought his story was leading to a fold.

That's funny, because I'm Always Folding there.

For many of the low limit players it's more like 'monkey see, monkey do.'

Howard bringing it back to the Monkeys!

A poker playing coworker (who doesn't know I play) makes an analogy in a meeting where he thinks an experiment would give really beneficial results a fraction of the time and makes an analogy to hitting a straight draw at poker and getting implied odds.

I agree if the experiment works it would be good, but I don't think the odds of it working are as good as he does. And I restate my opinion in poker terms, which is that I see us with an inside straight draw rather than open ended and insufficient odds to continue.

"It's not even open ended," he replies, "it's like a flush draw, which is even better."

So I ask him what he'd say is the probability of success is in a percentage and he says "at least 50%."

This is why I don't talk about poker at work.

It's about the same as talking about someone's hand at the table I'd say. We can't all be perfect

I was having an outdoor fire with a friend the other day in the city of Taunton, MA, where outdoor fires are not allowed by law unless you're cooking food, when the fire chief drove by and put on his siren for us. He didn't tell us to put the fire out, nor did he even slow down at all. He just kept on driving and turned off his siren as quickly as he turned it on, as if to say, "hello guys, we know you."

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oh good morning.

Did you put it out?

**** no.

That is the attitude I want my public servants to have!