The other day we were at the table and the topic of the lottery came up. I said "y'know that powerball game where the odds are something like 250 million to one. Well, if you just buy 250 tickets, you can reduce your chances to a million to one. The backlash I got was great. "Bull****! The odds are still the same." "You're so full of ****." "Where did you go to school?" Haha. Good fun.

well, as long as you don't buy the same number twice

Not quite sure I rarely ever play live I usually just play online since it's faster and games are always available. I am one of those rec player who jumps in once every couple of months on a weekend and just play super LAG until I lose my $200 and then proceed to lose more at the table games

I'm one of those players who sits there, limps a lot, and traps you. Am I the sort of player who encourages you to only drop one buy-in before moving to table games or do you not care?

Playing a 1500 nl euro highroller in a 500 main event series. Guy with sunglasses & headphones sits down. He asks what amount he can raise. Dealer says: anything you want, it's no limit. Asks more funny questions & stares down all players during the hands. In first break I am with this guy smoking a sigaret & wondering how he ends up playing this highroller. He says it's the 2nd live tournament he plays. First one was a satelite for this tournament the day bevore and he tought he was playing a satelite for the 500 main event and just found out it was for the highroller when he got the ticket in his hand. Never noticed the prizepool & pay-out for tickets was for a 1500, lol. Then I ask him about the staring. He says he watched some poker in internet & has already seen a lot of tells in the first 2 hours. He grabs me by the arm & tells me he has a really big one on me. Now I am interested & ask him what it is. He tells me, when you are in a pot and look at a player, you will bet. I then ask him, how do you see I have something or I am bluffing? He answers, I don't see, but I just see you will bet. I thank him for the advise. Funny guy, lol.

Being able to tell when a player will bet is very useful when you are considering check-raising.

I saw something similar once, a player is down to 5bb late in the tournament close to the final table and he has AQ in the SB. CO raises 3bb, SB just calls.

Flop(7bb) 3 3 7r
SB chks, CO bets 3bb which puts SB all-in, SB tanks shows AQ and says, "I missed" and then folds

CO mucks and says, "good fold" which was complete BS as he had been raising every time action limped to him with 100% of his range...

SB nods and says, "yeah, I knew you had a big pair or you have me beat with AK..."

yeah, out of the entire universe of late position hands when action is limped to the CO, CO can "only" have big pairs or AK... smh

I've played with uber-passive tournament players who open-limp 88 and AQ in the CO. It's obviously not true about this player, but it is probably true about some players. Heck, it's probably true about the guy who had AQ in that hand.

I was recently playing 4 8 limit. I am at UTG + 1 and have a tight, scary image (people often check call against me even when they have the near nuts or sometimes the nuts). UTG is a halfway decent player, plays a lot of no limit tournaments, doesn't have discipline for limit cash games. Button is very donkish and MAGWEPPY. See him occasionally.

UTG limps, I raise with JJ , folds to button who 3 bets, blinds fold, UTG calls, I call.

Flop AA5 rainbow. UTG leads, I raise (figuring UTG is testing the waters and wanting to see Button's response). Button 3 bets, utg folds I call. Turn is 5. Still rainbow. I lead, button raises.

In this game this almost always means raiser has ace or 5. *I figure 30% chance I have best hand. I want to see what magwep has so I call and check the river (blank). *Magwep checks behind and shows pocket deuces.

Normally, I would never expect to see that raise on the turn with pure air from the typical 4 8 player, and I was a little impressed with a guy I thought a complete donk pulling something like that. So I complemented him saying "nice try with that bluff on the turn, I almost folded man."

Magwep now becomes visibly angry and yells at me, "What the heck do you mean bluff? I didn't bluff, I had a pair of deuces, you were the one bluffing ... I knew you didn't have an ace or a five "I don't freak in bluff". His face was beet red. I just looked around and shrugged and said yeah you're right. It was very hard not to laugh.

It depends actually.....if I have a lot of time to kill I will probably rebuy if I know that I am playing well and have a chance to make it a profitable night. If I just feel like spewing and gambling then I just take my money to the table games instead of losing them at the poker table. More so to save myself from embarrassment.

20 stars

Sorry, fixed.

2 stars

A tight scary image playing 4-8 LHE? LOL

I find it strange too.... But regulars (except a few lags and maniacs) almost never bet into me or raise me when I have shown strength. They prefer to check and call.

I usually play 4 8 because it's the only lhe regularly available limit game where I play. I play 6 12 horse whenever they spread it or 10 20 lhe.

Most of the players buy in for 40 and just want to call all the way to the river. People who raise like maniacs annoy them. They just want to show down cheap.

That sounds more like the table being loose-passive, not you having a tight scary image.

Ok. Semantics. The fact that I have gotten people who usually call with anything to fold by bluffing at 4 8 made me boastful. The point was the absurd thinking which I found humorous. Glad at least part of my post amused you.

You haven't described anything that involves people folding hands they normally call with when you bluff.

The description was background. The point was his absurd thinking.

"I always fold my first hand of the tourney and my last one before break, without looking at my cards. Always."

I used to do this too somewhat. When I first started out playing live, I'd pretend to look at my first hand and muck it. I was afraid I'd pick up a monster, no one would believe me, get everyone calling and lose a big pot right away, killing my mood.

Lolabsurdme.

Playing a micro-buy-in tournament at Dover Downs in Delaware. I double someone up out of the Small Blind plus the blinds went up leaving me with only 7BB left on the button.

Small blind is shorter than I am but he has no idea how to play short so I figure I actually have Fold Equity against him so I push blind from the button when it's folded to me.

Small blind tanks for thirty seconds before he finally says "What the hell, I call. "

Big blind folds and we flip 'em up. He has AK.

After he wins the hand, I ask why the delay? If he was doing it to entice the big blind to call, that would make a little sense to me.

But no. His response: "Ace-King loses all the time and you could have anything."


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Reminds me of a lengthy debate I had once where the WHOLE table argued with me that if a coin has come up heads 5 times in a row the odds are it'll come up tails next.

The big know-it-all was telling me "yeah I know you think it makes sense that its 50/50 but it's not" as he had a little patronising chuckle at my expense with the other morons at the table. Believe me I was not being collectively levelled by the table.

Won 9 buy-ins in a 3.5hr session that night.

You must play in my cardroom. Ha. Incidents like these restore my faith that the games really are not getting harder.

he must CRUSH roulette