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Originally Posted by bLtX+
65$ buy in tourny early stagei have 99 and the board is q hi on the turn, I believe he has pretty much ak so I bet pot, and calls and binks an a on the river. He checks I chec behind and he says, "I was going to trap you if you bet" I laugh and say well I was ahead til the river. Andhe replies I was over 50% to hit on the river. I look at him for a second and say oh yeah, I forgot. Lol
His thinking is actually quite common at this buy-in level. It also actually works sometimes, at least enough to re-enforce his incorrect belief. Just today a player was complaining to me about an almost identical situation through being checked-to on the river after the A hit on the river (although he also bet the turn). Instead of checking behind he bet out and then called a 1.5xPot bet. Obviously, he lost to the paired A.
One of the things I have noted playing tourneys at this level is that the frequency of players calling down with just an A trying to hit it is very high. For instance, I went out of a tournament today when I made a 2xPot shove with TPMK (I was, obviously, short stacked and had been checked to by a couple of people). I got called by A-high, no kicker (below all 3 flop cards). He hit the A on the turn. Frustrating result, but a typical, very profitable for me, call at this level. Unfortunately, I didn't get any comment from him, let alone a good one. He just sat there nodding his head with a silly smile. I just said "Nice hand. Good game guys. See you tomorrow."
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Originally Posted by pknight212
New shortstack nit record in a tourney last weekend....Saw an old guy limp/fold preflop utg to leave himself with a third of a big blind. Don't know what his thinking was, but I'm pretty sure it was absurd.
Impressive, but not a record. I've seen a limp-fold (also UTG) to a 1.1xBB shove (that's 1.1xBB total, not additional) from the BB (everyone else, including the SB, had folded around to the BB). The fold left the woman with 0.2xBB which she, of course, lost in the next hand. There were a few people at the table with their mouths hanging open at that one. I'm sure someone has an experience that can top this.