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01-01-2020 , 10:41 PM

#7251

SpewingIsMyMove

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Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 3,533

Quote:

Originally Posted by uberkuber

Correction: T5o is best because you can make all straights in addition to 2 flushes.

Gonna have to be that guy that points out that you can't make all straights with T5.

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01-01-2020 , 10:50 PM

#7252

jpsychlady

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SpewingIsMyMove

Gonna have to be that guy that points out that you can't make all straights with T5.

What straight cant you make?

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01-01-2020 , 11:11 PM

#7253

Freewill2112

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Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3,372

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpsychlady

What straight cant you make?

Remember that every unique straight is named for its highest card (i.e. 8-high straight, J-high straight, etc). And there is indeed one straight that a T5 cannot make.

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01-01-2020 , 11:15 PM

#7254

SABR42

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It can make a 9-high straight flush.

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01-01-2020 , 11:16 PM

#7255

cbboy

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Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 4,655

Are you being pedantic and saying that it can't make all straights because it can't make a 9 high straight?

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01-02-2020 , 12:00 AM

#7256

SpewingIsMyMove

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Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 3,533

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpsychlady

What straight cant you make?

Cards talk, so the hand yo make is the best possible combination of your cards and the board. That being the case, it is impossible to make a 9 high straight, as these cards would also make a ten high straight

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Originally Posted by SABR42

It can make a 9-high straight flush.

A straight flush and a straight are not the same hand

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Originally Posted by cbboy

Are you being pedantic and saying that it can't make all straights because it can't make a 9 high straight?

Of course I am. i did warn you that I was going to have to be that guy.

Admittedly, no one likes that guy

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01-02-2020 , 12:03 AM

#7257

jpsychlady

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SpewingIsMyMove

Admittedly, no one likes that guy

You are correct

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01-02-2020 , 01:43 AM

#7258

rickroll

oddly catty

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 23,183

I enjoyed the humor but this is the most inappropriate thread to pull that one in

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01-02-2020 , 12:11 PM

#7259

Noles1724

grinder

Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 460

I had a guy get pissed at me when he was EP and limped, called my 17.5 bb preflop raise with J4. He flops 2 pair, pushes AI and I was getting 5:1 on a call and made a better 2 pair on the river.

failed to question if he should be calling (let alone limping from EP) with J4. Guess that limped investment of $2 was too much to let go.

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01-02-2020 , 05:54 PM

#7260

uberkuber

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Today I learned that I can't make a 9-high straight with T5.
My autistic tendency thanks that guy (the one that nobody likes).

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01-09-2020 , 12:03 AM

#7261

18000rpm

old hand

Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,414

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluto

Quantum theory:

The cards dealt on the flop are undetermined until they’re observed. They have the potential to be any remaining, unobserved cards in the deck.

Multiverse theory:

You’re dealt a hand and you have a decision to fold/call/raise, so there are three potential universes waiting on your decision. The chances that the flops in all three will be the same are pretty small, I’d guess.

Wrong and wrong.

Once the cards are shuffled and the deck set, it's not gonna change whether you folded or called. Jesus F Christ I can't believe I'm trying to explain this.

Whatever action he takes WILL affect all future hands though.

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01-09-2020 , 08:54 AM

#7262

SpewingIsMyMove

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Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 3,533

Quote:

Originally Posted by 18000rpm

So, is the cat alive or dead?

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01-09-2020 , 12:14 PM

#7263

PotatoStew

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 606

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpewingIsMyMove

So, is the cat alive or dead?

Yes.

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01-09-2020 , 12:48 PM

#7264

Kurn, son of Mogh

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Originally Posted by SpewingIsMyMove

So, is the cat alive or dead?

Standard poker answer: It depends.

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01-09-2020 , 07:20 PM

#7265

JDPuopolo

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Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 213

A guy checks back the stone cold nuts on the river. His reasoning: "It is called slow playing."

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01-09-2020 , 09:55 PM

#7266

MJ88

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Originally Posted by JDPuopolo

A guy checks back the stone cold nuts on the river. His reasoning: "It is called slow playing."

Yup.
Playing stud, a very long time ago:
"Why did you call? You were beaten in sight."
"I was bluffing".

(I actually heard that one once.)

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01-10-2020 , 08:25 PM

#7267

legionrainfall

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Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 654

Quote:

Originally Posted by MJ88

Yup.
Playing stud, a very long time ago:
"Why did you call? You were beaten in sight."
"I was bluffing".

(I actually heard that one once.)

He clearly didn't know he was beaten already.
Duh.

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01-11-2020 , 07:19 PM

#7268

RussellinToronto

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Quote:

Originally Posted by legionrainfall

He clearly didn't know he was beaten already.
Duh.

Many years ago we had a stud player in our home game (limit) who would occasionally call the last bet saying, "Well, I'm beat on the board but I want to see what you were playing."

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01-13-2020 , 07:15 AM

#7269

MJ88

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Quote:

Originally Posted by legionrainfall

He clearly didn't know he was beaten already.
Duh.

Obviously, but the absurd part was that he explained his call by saying he was bluffing.

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01-17-2020 , 09:31 AM

#7270

reno expat

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At an old home game, we had a friend who would call the final bet in stud games when he was beaten showing and say he was bluffing. He did it often enough that we started to refer to it as him "calling his own bluff"

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01-17-2020 , 10:18 AM

#7271

All-inMcLovin

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Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 50,117

Home game with a bunch of inexperienced players.

Player A who’s very new to poker doesnt raise on the river with the nuts. Player B not in the hand points it out. Player A then claims defensively, “Well he wasn’t calling anyway.”

lol

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01-17-2020 , 09:19 PM

#7272

legionrainfall

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Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 654

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Originally Posted by All-inMcLovin

Actually, he makes a good point.
Had he raised, opponent could have folded/mucked.
This hand was just info gathering hand

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01-18-2020 , 12:54 AM

#7273

Bighurt52235

I was born to eat hamburgers

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 24,218

Quote:

Originally Posted by javi

2 players get in a raising war with some knucklehead in the middle who just keeps calling in between. Eventually they're allin preflop for like 1k each and he's in there too for about 800. After showdown it's AK vs AQ and knucklehead has 46s. Says it was good to get it in with them because "they were going high so I had to go low" referring to card value/sharing. He lost.

Lol, reading back through the thread, this is remarkably similar to the infamous Postle hand.

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01-19-2020 , 10:50 PM

#7274

Fore

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Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 3,822

You do realize the 4-6 is ahead of A-Q and almost even to the A-K if he is the only one suited and is suited alone. Doesn’t mean he should be there but he isn’t that big dog.

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01-20-2020 , 01:32 AM

#7275

browni3141

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Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 5,678

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fore

You do realize the 4-6 is ahead of A-Q and almost even to the A-K if he is the only one suited and is suited alone. Doesn’t mean he should be there but he isn’t that big dog.

If he can see their cards, sure.

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