That's not the same as having 88 on a 9988x board and saying 99 is good as you show your hand. I think yourface had this happen to him once when we were playing and he didn't look too happy about it. There was this woman who would also pull stuff like this and would always be making a scene and calling over the floor.

ty for tips phatsmack, but im not busto, just stars busto

i had to get up and leave a dream seat the last time i played live poker because the guy sitting in that dream seat took 45-60 each street to act

i hate live poker so much

You mean he took a minute to act in low stakes limit? Ya, tilting.

Things I do like about live (low limit anyway):

1) The kid who forgets that it's limit and says 'ALL IN' and then sits there with his poker face on.
2) Everybody playing their cards face up.
3) Annoying nits with blind raises. Us kids just play too many hands and it will eventually work out for them because of this (and I'm not even a kid).

At a 10/20 game once I got talked into an UTG+1 blind re-raise by one of the table maniacs. The guy to my left was a nit, and not just because he refused to blind cap.

Two older people who had gone out to smoke and were sitting out before the blinds got to them say, "We were going to wait, but now we're priced in!"

Anyways, the cards are dealt and I wake up to 72. I show the nit next to me and call the 1 more bet for the cap. About 6 people, including me go to the flop in a capped pot.

Flop: 457

Flop is capped still 6 people in.

Turn: 2

Turn goes 2 or 3 bets but by now we've lost some customers. 3 people to the river.

River: K

I lead out, 1 fold and old woman crying calls.

I said, "You ready for this?" and flip my cards up. She looks pissed as hell and mucks. My guess is a mid pocket pair. Live poker is the nuts.

Last time I played live I think it was me and yourface. Yourface would blind open UTG and I'd blind 3-bet next in. The nits behind us would sigh, while the rest of the gamblers happily paid 3-bets with whatever hand they were going to limp in anyway.

It was a 1-5 spread limit game and every decision he treated like he was at the WSOP ME Final Table. I think he was 1 part moron, 1 part drunk, 1 part exhausted from being up 2 days straight. Either way, live poker is so slow as it is -- 20-30 hands an hour -- that I couldn't possibly entertain the thought of playing 10-15 hands an hour.

That same table someone cold-called my raise and bluff raised me out of a pot on the flop and proudly showed his 95o like he was a genius. Afterwards he said "I figured you for a good player so I decided to try to outplay you."

Idiots, all of them.

A few of us got hammered in Vegas last year and were sitting 4 in a row at a table. Every time it came around to us we blind-raised/re-raised/capped preflop. Man, people hate that.

I have probably told this story before, but it is worth repeating. A couple years ago during the WSOP we decided to have a 2p2 ssshe donkfest late night at Binion's Horeshoe casino in downtown Las Vegas. I believe the lineup was myself, Boc4life, vmacosta, NinaWilliams and Yourface. Dont think I left anyone out. Anyway the rules were that we had to limp every hand pf no matter what and couldnt raise premiums. The fun part was that if you were in the bb you had to take your option no matter what if it was limped around and ofc at 2 cheeseburger 4 cheeseburger was every hand. There was this skanky meathead in the game who kept calling us idiots and told us we didnt know how to play. At some point I think he threatened us. Ofc at Binion's they just issue a warning for terroristic threats so he wasn't 86'd. The funny thing was after like 10 orbits you would think some of these guys might try some sort of adjustment, like lrr or not limping every single hand they dont want to play for 2 bets, but sure enough everytime it was on one of us in the bb we would raise and here the groans and witness the head shaking as they through 2 more cheeseburgers into the pot. I think vmacosta was down like $400 in the 2/4 game.

The best part was when we all decided to get up and leave. One of the old guys who had taken a beating said "I guess this is when you guys all go back to your hotel room and chop up our money so you can play in those World Series events."

Also awesome was the homeless-looking dude who said he was a 2p2er. That's where I started to learn that EVERYONE you play live poker with reads 2p2.

That guy was hilarious. He randomly turned to me and said "I am a member of two poker forums." I'm like "really which one's?" He named one I have never heard of and 2p2. I asked him which forums he posted in he said Brick and Mortar, lol, and when he said Mortar he said it really slow and pronounced with emphasis on each syllable. Every time I say Brick and Mortar, I do it just like him.

wow i think i might have read that dude's posts in b&m lol... i think he was actually homeless/close to it, if its the same guy... but anyway around that time he was posting all the time and apparently always talking to 2p2ers etc at the tables

yesterday a guy calls my bluffs on the flop and turn. I check to him on the river and after tanking for 10 mins he checks behind with the 2nd nuts. He then shows off his awesome hand reading skills (that allow him to not fold the virtual nuts) by telling me "Your bets didn't make any sense. You would never bet a strong hand, you would check and call" He clearly read my soul . . .

it cracks me up when lousy players mention they read 2+2

like, are they spending all their time here in BBV4L? cuz they sure aren't learning a damn thing

Definitely false for 10/20 at the Borgata. He was probably trying to angle you for money/food/drugs.

I think skanky means something different than you think it means.

this is exactly the reason its so hilarious when people act all concerned that fish might "find out about 2+2"

Its what we used to call white trash rednecks in the south. Its not like the term "skank" is so well-defined that you need to be a grammar nit about it. Its basically just slang.

wow just scrolled down in the lobby and noticed 15 5/10 FR games going... most with 10+ on the waitlist... SNE chasers steppin it up lately?

its kinda like this -- you can hand a moron a basic college physics textbook that explains all the elementary concepts anyone will ever need to know

but that doesn't mean he'll be able to understand and apply it

I took 32 cents on FTP and turned it into $20,000 in a couple of months time. This was last year.

graph or never happened

I guess it never happened then, because I didn't save hand histories or use a HUD back then. I had 32 cents, cashed out and injected $20K worth of heroin and cocaine into my veins though. Totally baller.

and what game was it, lhe? what stakes mainly, etc?

started with 2c/4c 6 max LHE, barely had enough for the table minimum. brought it up to $5. Took the 5 and took first place in a PLO tournament. Then played a bunch of NLHE sng's and brought it up to like 5K and then played 5/10 HUHU and 6 max LHE for the rest. Took about 2 months.