^FT, how do you think Wild Bill would play this hand if he actually had the 3?

I dunno, but if I can only win in home games then quitting my job to play poker full time might have been a really bad idea...

Hey tytythefly, thanks for the support! While I try to be pretty much an open book on here, my location is the one thing I've been evasive about mentioning. There are a few reasons for that, one of the main ones being I really don't want anyone I play with to be able to find this thread. To answer your question in general terms, I play in underground $2/$5 games in my hometown three or four nights a week. The player pool in these games is pretty small, and on any given night you can expect that almost the whole table will be made up of regulars. We do get the occasional new player, although a lot of the time they don't last very long. Fortunately most of the regs are terrible, so these games are really profitable.

Other than these local games, there are a number of legal card rooms within a few hours of where I live that I regularly visit for two to three days at a time. These are large rooms with huge player pools, so it’s a totally different environment than my local Tuesday night game for example.

I think he’s capable of taking the same line with a 3, but a lot of the time he would raise smaller on the turn. The main thing though is that I think his range for raising to $300 over my small turn bet is really wide, he’s going to continue on with that $600 river bet almost 100% of the time, and the vast majority of his range in that spot doesn’t beat TPGK.

Anyway, my trip to South Florida this week went well. This was a much longer trip than I'm used to taking distance-wise, but my friend was going down for work so most of the expenses were covered. We mostly played at the Pompano Isle casino, which is apparently where the ****tiest dealers in the state of Florida all go to work. Seriously, the amount of dealer mistakes and situations where the players were having to tell the dealers what to do was unreal. Fortunately the action in the room was so good that I didn’t even mind the incompetent dealers, and I booked a decent win for the trip.

Culturally, South Florida was a unique experience. Perhaps the most interesting example came up around 2:00 a.m. on Monday. The room closes at 3:00 on weeknights, so we had about an hour left to play when this guy walks in to take the vacant seat on my left. He was probably in his late 20’s, but he looked 45+. To say this guy was strung out would be an understatement. Dark bags under his eyes, skin pale and clammy, super jittery and muttering to himself, the guy appears to have come straight from a meth bender to the poker table. He whips out a zippered bag with the Bank of America logo on the front (which I think there’s a reasonable chance he stole from somewhere) and extracts a wad of crumpled up $20’s and $10’s. It takes him a minute to figure out how much he has, and when all is said and done he’s got a $260 buy in.

On his very first hand, a tight player raises to $20 from up front. Skinny Pete calls, and there are a couple more calls behind. The flop comes out QT7 with two diamonds. Preflop raiser bets $70, guy goes all in, everyone else folds and the preflop raiser calls. Meth guy says “I’m trying to hit something good,” and turns over KTo. Preflop raiser has QJ. Turn is an offsuit 3, and an A rolls off on the river. The new guy loudly claps his hands and yells “BOOM! That’s that I’m talking about! Wait...”

Now he starts thinking aloud as he’s trying to read the board. “OK… ok… he’s got a pair, I’ve got a pair… what did he hit? Did he hit two pair? Oh no, straight. Wait, no. No… no…. Hang on, what’s he got? Pair?” This goes on for another couple of seconds until meth guy finally accepts that he’s lost the hand. He mutters something about going to the ATM as he walks away from the table.

About 30 minutes go by, and now with only a few hands left before closing our buddy comes sprinting back to the table, out of breath and even more sweaty than he had been before. “I’ve got $500! Is there still time? Deal me in! Deal me in!” Now, it’s not unheard of for somebody to have chips coming from the cage when they first sit down at the table in this room, and the guy was in such a hurry to get a hand that the dealer let him come in UTG+2 while we’re all still waiting for his chips to show up. So, both EP players fold and now the guy announces a raise to $20, still with no chips. Dealer verbally confirms it’s a raise to $20, and indicates to the next player that the action is on him.

At this point something seemed really sketchy about the whole situation, so I speak up and ask the dealer “hang on a second, does this guy actually have any money?” The dealer’s response is “yes, he said he had $500 behind,” like we’re all supposed to take Badger’s word for it. The floor guy was actually not far from our table at this point, so I called him over and asked if he knew whether the guy actually had any chips coming.

The floor asks him, “did you go get chips from the cage?” The meth guy’s response was about what I expected: “What? No, you said I could have $500!” Floor gives the guy a blank look. “No, I said you could buy back in if you went and got money. Did you get any money?”

Long story short, it turns out the guy did not have any money, and he was going to try to play the hand without chips as a freeroll because he wouldn’t have been able to pay up if he had lost. And apparently the dealer was going to be more than happy to let him if somebody hadn’t spoken up. Anyway, the guy finally got escorted out, still appearing genuinely surprised that the floor wasn't going to let him play with no money.

I'd never seen anything like this before in my life, but I guess maybe I just haven't played in Florida enough...

Wow crazy druggies...

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^^ LOL Skinny Pete. Always love a good Breaking Bad reference..

Yeah i love to induce raises with weak bet sizings vs. maniacs. More so OTF because more people tend to x-raise bluff the flop then the turn even just average reggish players.

Also it's important that we don't block parts of his bluffing range for example if we had AQ it would be less likely this guy is bluffing because of the discounted bluff combos. Also if we usually WANT TO INDUCE we have to make sure we can call down on almost all future cards esp bricks.

I think if we have something like KK or AA these hands would be the best to induce more so then QJ. Because we don't block the hand combos in which this guy would spazz out + there aren't any overcards anymore that this guy will put us to tough decisions on.

Making induce bet sizings like this vs. maniacs at LLSNL will def increase ur winrate... Online not so much most guys won't raise you vs. these sizings unless they've got a read/the nuts.