1/3 blinds. Friendly heads up homegame versus a pokerpal I've known for 5-6+ years. He plays relatively solid in the full ring but tends to loosen up when heads up quite significantly because that's good strat. He's not a drooler by any means. Thinks through his decisions everytime and seems to be profitable in the longrun. He's actually up quite a bit on me lifetime. We mostly play holdem 99% of the time but there was a period where he'd play omaha and mix games with me when I asked and I think I have the edge in him in those since he doesn't have almost any experience in that world. He's an actuary by day and definitely knows the math of the game, but I've seen him do some wacky loose passive stuff heads up holdem like limp/call 3-4x BB raises on button with dogshit hands (T3o) and defends versus my openraises OOP from BB with some raggy offsuit connect/gap hands more than I think he should. Postflop is relatively solid though but seen him make a handful of light calls over the years. I've been playing pretty straightforward this specific session but he's seen me pull wacky moves in the past for sure. I've been a bit limpier than usual lately and don't limp-reraise very often though, hardly ever. TBH the times that I have, I almost always have it versus him and rarely do those hands even get to river for him to know the truth though. I've been doing quite a bit of limp/folding this session and had a feeling he'd try to take advantage of it this time.
We are about 450 deep to start this hand.
A couple funny little things to add on here. I'm not exactly sure whether the 27 bounty was on during this session but lately almost always we turn a small friendly bounty on. Usually like $15-$25 (depending on blinds). His typical rule of thumb is if the blinds are 1-2, 1-3 the bounty is 15 and if the blinds are 2-5 or 5-10 the bounty is 25. Or maybe it's $10 versus $15, honestly I'm not even 100% sure. This hand happened within the past few months so I think there's decently high chance 27 bounty was on.
We have a few other funny wacky "bounty" type hands we play as well. Typically we start the game at either 1-2 or 1-3 blinds and have a "sign from the (poker) gods to raise the blinds" hands that will force us to raise the blinds if someone wins with the hand and tables it. Those hands include
A2 = 1-2
A3 = 1-3
25 = 2-5
35 = yonkers aka 3/5 blinds lol
5T = 5-10
This playa is too scared to play me in anything higher than 5-10 though we have played quite a bit of hours at the 5-10 stakes over the years (idk, maybe roughly 25+ hours if I had to guess). We probably play heads up somewhere in the realm of a few hour session every few months on average but there's times where we'll play 4 days in a row and times where we take 6-8 months off perhaps.
He had an old roomate we started this with and when him and I played we include
TQ = 10-25 ten and quarter
25 = 25-50
A5 = 50-100 (also was $0.50-$1.00 when we started at $0.25/$0.50 stakes...the first stakes games I met these guys at years ago)
It started as the blinds can only go up. Recently for the lolz we have allowed the blinds to go up and down throughout the session based on the "signs from god" depending on what winning sign is shown. God is dead if you flash the opponent a sign from god and muck it lol.
And finally, there is another sign from god to play black(jack). These signs started as signs from god to double down (any 92, 83, 74, 56, i guess a8 counts too etc.). Recently we've also added any blackjack hand (AT, AJ, AQ, AK) is a sign from god to play black(jack) where if he or I win with one of these and table it then the loser has to deal the winner a hand of single deck blackjack. Usually like a flat bet of $20 or so.
So a few wacky random side-game/bounty plotpoints to keep in mind anytime I play this playa
I have black aces. I limp in. He raises to $10. I re-raise to $42 and he calls after a moment thought.
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He leads into me. $40. Seems pretty strange spot to lead since you'd have to expect the limp-re-raiser to make a Cbet here almost 100% of the time so I'm not thrilled about it on this board versus this opponent so I elect to just call
Turn 5
He bets $80. Hero?
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