I love how this highlights that most players barely understand that poker is a fight over the money in the pot. What do they expect their $20/$16 bets to do? It really shows that they just have no idea how to fight for the money in the middle and just copy the standard sizes they have learned. They probably think you are a maniac for making such a "huge" shove.

Agreed. I think it was a horrible raise by the V with K high here. Usually how I play splash pots is that I won't raise PF unless I'm willing to get at least 100bb in with the hand. Your normal-ish opens just aren't going to get through often enough, and a large percentage of the time someone else is just going to jam over top of you.

I usually open very large (sometimes open jamming depending on stacks and the size of the "splash") with hands that I'm willing to GII with, or I limp a lot of medium/weak hands in hopes that it checks through and I get a chance to bink a flop. This is definitely exploitable, but this situation arises so infrequently that I doubt anyone will ever see you do it enough to adjust. The one thing I never want to do is raise then fold pre in a splash pot.

In splash pots if I'm UTG I will straddle. If UTG+1 I will probably call blind. Think of it as an ante. Odds are someone somewhere raises and then you get to figure out what to do with your hand.

I bet you are fun at parties.

hahaha what a horrible play by Villain.

i got a cool splash pot story i went thru last month.

1/3 600eff.
$100 splash pot
folds to me in MP, I open shove with AKo
Short Stack calls
Unknown whom covers me calls

Flop is like J8863 or something. I know the unknown guy had QT, I think the other short stack had KQ. All in all A hi won a 1500 splash pot at 1/3.

Come on, the behavior he is describing is way out of line and completely unacceptable.

That said, I often don't mind it, because it's usually people calling me out pre-flop for being a nit, and most of my range wants to see folds pre-flop.

Rec players would rarely process that info correctly. We lose so much more by being a jerk. Keep the game fun. Don't send the message that paying attention to prior action is an edge.

I ship, and maybe exploitatively make it smaller with AA KK, maybe QQ but prob just ship that too.

Doesn't really matter lol, you're winning $100 aren't you? That's worth folding our equity.

+1

So many better ways to handle this situation.

G/derailG

you're underestimating your competition. one player telling another player information regarding player behavior or past action is just plain wrong. i hope you dont do it at my table buddy.

Good talk, nice hand, well played. (taps table)