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Any good $50 or great tomorrow tournaments tomorrow afternoon or evening or is the one at Electric probably the best? I'm sort of getting the itch to play one.

Yeah came in 5th last night in that tournament, 1st took down $1,700 though. Not too bad

Go to ES

Hah... I was actually playing cash, so nope, I wasn't at your table. I was at a table where a guy hit nut broadway on the river, and his opponent checked to him, and he checked it back. Turns out his opponent also hit broadway on the river and was checking to him to induce. At least it saved us 30 seconds of sillyness, but still, cmon.

I was on the opposite end of a ridiculous hand last night in a $1/$2 game that sounded a lot like this one at the electric stick. For your sake I hope it wasn't yours lol... if you are the villain below, then 1) you described the hand veeery incorrectly; and 2) sorry I misjudged you, everyone does weird **** sometimes when they are way up.

Anyway, to the hand: villain is playing a pretty bad LAG style, constantly raising pre with garbage, oozing tells, and making obvious bluffs (I called one of his raises on the river in a medium sized pot 30 minutes previous with 3rd pair on the river and took it down).

7 handed. Villain is in the BB, and announces that he's calling the $4 button straddle blind and walks away from the table. I raise to $15 with KJdd. Everyone folds to him; he comes back to the table and exclaims hes calling blind once more.

Flop is 2 9 Q all diamonds. He checks, I check to induce future action because 100% this guy is going to try to take the pot down on turn/river if I check.

Turn is 8c. He bets $10 into $25 pot. I pause, and then call (I feel he's going to fold to a raise here).

River is another 2. Almost immediately, he goes allin.

Wut.

$45 pot. My stack is at about $300 behind, he has over $1k behind.

To me, this is a snap fold in almost any situation. Why is this guy severely overbetting the pot in this kind of situation? Why did he check back the flop when his default is to bet in this kind of situation?

The only rational explanations I could come up with were: 1) he has pocket queens, nines, or deuces, and checked the flop, but now is hoping I slow played a flush and am going to call; or 2) he has something like 2 8, where he bet a two pair on the turn and now made a boat on the river and again is making this bet hoping I have a flush (2 8 is possible because he called preflop blind). So I'm folding unless I pick up extreme reads off him.

Looking at him, he appears legitimately pleased with his hand. I show him my KJdd from far away (he had gotten up from the table), and then he quickly walks towards the table and is like "MAN, WOW... OMG...". And at first I think he's trying to convince me that my hand is good and to call. But then he says "wow, you folded that???".

So... I tell him I didn't fold, and he now looks extremely uncomfortable. The clock has been called on me, so after studying him for about 15 more seconds to make sure this wasn't some kind of genius acting job, I ended up calling. He had 2 6 for trips. I guess he was legitimately happy about his hand. lmao.

Maybe the most hilarious part of this hand was other people at the table's reaction to the situation. One guy straight up turns towards me after I flip over my hand and (not discreetly) mouths "C A L L" (how ****ing inappropriate is that). And everyone at the table besides a good player and the dealer were convinced this was an easy call. My hand is a bluff (or idiot) catcher at this point.

I lol'd and thought that if I was Omar I would say something similar

Not only is that a call but it's a snap call like before he even finishes saying all in I would have already called idk was that 300 on the table Ur entire bankroll lol

Let me summarize this for you. His bet is either 1) a ridiculous bluff to take down a tiny pot; 2) he thinks he has the best hand with something weak like trips and thinks I'm going to call with worse; or 3) he's trying to sucker me with a full house. 1) and 2) would only be done by someone that has no idea what they're doing and/or wasn't thinking at all because he was sitting on a $1k stack. It's never a good situation to be calling when you can only win when your opponent made a terrible move. I was able to call in this case thanks to live reads and some knowledge of the opponent's state of mind.

LOL.

It's $1/$2 dude.

Hah. Alright then, peace out and good luck to you guys.

Pa-Panamericano.

Ridiculous tank is ridiculous. I would have snapped your D I K off, lol. I'm really bad, tho.

Edit: Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally bad.

Yeah, that was the consensus at the table. IDK how they know you, Coach.

Just kidding, I meant about the tanking ofc.

It's the internet. Don't stop posting or let the regs get to you. Enjoyed your story, and no, it wasn't me. You will notice at the top of my TR I mention that this was at Firekeepers. Nice call and grats on the extra Eight Mile money.

You just have to strike back. Here, watch this.

You suck.

That first comma should be a period.

Edit: the grammar kind ,, not the blood kind/

Okay, thank god. I'd been lurking this forum for a few weeks now and thought most players posting here knew what they were doing.

Thanks for showing me how it's done omar... LOL reminds me of this time back in high school when some dudes were talking ****, and my korean friend was like wtf dude why are you letting these guys talk ****? And then he roundhouse kicked one of them in the chest and they ran away. omar: internet ninja.

Stop changing my posts so that you can find something wrong with them.

Never assume anyone that posts here is good, bad idea.

Yah its like a prison, poker dreams die there.

Touché.

Yeah. Good times. High school.

Another HS grad?