What cardroom let's you run it 3 times at 2/5? What a disaster.

I don't understand that last one at all. Did you even mean to post it in this thread?

The only absurd thing in that story

In Texas, the cardrooms have different rules than regular casinos. And why is that a disaster? Keep the fish happy yo.

If I wasn't clear, we ran 3 full boards.

Treating this like some universal truth is absurd thinking. The fish would be happy if they won every pot - start mucking your cards even if you have them beat. Running it 3 times at low stakes games where people are constantly short stacked and getting it in grinds the game to a halt.

Wasting several minutes chopping a pot into thirds doesn't keep the fish happy. Run it twice or four times, never 3.

finally you posted something worthy of this thread

Would've been hilarious if V spiked 2 sets and rivered a straight on the 3rd

I'll just say this. Most of the games I play are 'invite only.' These games are on average way juicier than any casino games. If you guys poo pooing rules and and complaining about running how many ever times, you probably also going to complain about the chairs being uncomfortable and God knows what else.

Guess what, it would be the last time you play in that game. Not only that, most of the games run because of the regs in the games. You get bounced from 1 game and hosts of other games will find out pretty quickly and you are done. Time for you to find some piss-ant home game where you can enforce 'casino' rules to feed your ego at .50/1.

Not often you find 2/5 games at a casino where there might be 18-22K in play as the game matures into the early morning hours. So stick to the casino so you can call your mom, errr I mean the floor when something doesn't run to your liking.

/Rant

I totally agree. And I would have gladly shipped him his $500 and congratulated him on the win!

You're too dumb to get it. You are the annoying POS who makes the game unbearable for everyone. You have the option to run it 2 or 4 times and keep everyone reasonably happy or 3 times and make everyone hate you. You might as well be asking the dealer to run it through a calculator to equity chop it for you. Any "host" with a brain would tell you to stop running it 3 times unless you're the huge donator in the game, which I suspect you probably are.

It's my birthday today so I'm in a good mood. Lucky for your dumbass. I'm not the one that wanted to run it 3 times you idiot. The other player did and I just agreed.

He's gotcha on that point

I still don't get what the absurd thinking was.

He thought it was absurd the guy wanted to run it 3 times when there's only 2 kings left in the deck

When I started my old job, there as this group of old guys that used to play poker at lunch for like $1/hand type thing, and I basically won lunch money very day. They mostly played 5 cars draw with wilds.


Anyways, I made a royal flush in spades one day, called it a royal and one of the old guys said “the only Royal Flush is in hearts”. Then he pulled out the ‘rules/hand chart’ that came with the deck and said “see, hearts”.

All I said back was “does that mean the only 4 of a kind is with 8s?”.

No, running it 3 times is -EV for winning players and +EV for losing players

Damn it i deleted my post just after you quoted it. realized you guys are in a leveling war too late lol

i don't get how the guy has been a member since 2010 and still doesn't know what EV is and that it's the same no matter how many times you run it. maybe he's trolling us idk. i'm getting trolled i think. yes definitely getting trolled, trollception.

Immediate EV is neutral. Stinkypete may be talking metagame though.

Or sarcasm or something. Pretty sure pete knows the applicable math.

I think pete is talking about hands per hour going down

The important "meta" implications are unknown because they depend entirely on what the fish will do with different stack sizes. If he's on a single bullet planning to hit and run if he doubles up you should run it as many times as possible. If he's going to tilt reload when he loses and gamble it up if he gets a big stack you should run it once always.

But that's not what I was getting at... running it 3 times wastes so much damn time splitting the pot you're losing stupid amounts of money.

Without knowing the expectations of the fish it's hard to scale the 'absurd' factor. We have plenty of RIT (2/3) threads to discuss both sides.

I always defer to the 'Big Game' when PHell allowed the 'fish' to RIF (4 times) when his TT Flopped T94 against the 'Loose Cannon' KK .... and of course Phil lost 3 of the 4 to set, flush, set ...

The LC's only expectation was to somehow stay in the game by winning one. Of course Phil was looking to win at least three runouts ... not sure there's anything absurd either way other than the actual result being labeled in today's catch phrase adjectives. GL