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If I have a possible high hand for a promo I'll typically respond with "I'd like to see a flop" when poised with the chop question. 9/10 we check it down to get through the hand quickly but I don't see anything wrong with a quick interaction between the blinds. One question, one answer, get on with the flop.

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05-01-2017 , 11:57 AM

#752

Howard Beale

Formerly red

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22,190

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Originally Posted by Noles1724

So if you're in the BB you expect the SB to happily toss in a call w/ rags so that you can try to hit the high hand? That would be fine if you could toss him back his money but at Talking Stick that's not allowed. It's the same waste of money for the BB as well.

OTOH, I play 8-16 limit so it costs a lot more than you folks who play 1/2 NL.

AND, it's not the 'run it out' that bothers me, it's the 'explanation.' Same damn thing a gabillion times.

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05-01-2017 , 02:13 PM

#753

beanpudd

stranger

Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 13

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Originally Posted by AlexanderJ888

showdown draws out the biggest pet peeves of mine!

There isn't any circumstance where I would turn turn my cards up first unless I was obligated (aggressor/position etc). I want to see my opponents hole cards. Period. Especially of the regs and more skillful players. Whether I'm in the hand or not

This is why I hate when the noobs are just so eager to show their baby flush that got their on the river, oblivious to all the information they will receive by allowing his opponents to rightfully show their cards first. It makes me so angry, to spectate a hand, keeping up with the action, to get better reads on my opponents down the road. All while hoping to get confirmation on whether my spectating reads were right . Just for all that work to be spoiled by an eager beaver that's excited to win a pot, showing first when he does not have too, allowing the tougher player to muck his cards for free

I get a lot of attitude for this by other players, but I will directly tell a guy "LET HIM SHOW FIRST" as if I was the dealer.

I also can't stand the guys that know they are beat and fiddle around with the cards at showdown and verbalize what they have. "I have a jjack". And I'm like, cool story bro, turn your cards up, then you'll see mine/his.

Don't get suckered into turning your cards up when you don't have too, even if you know you got the nuts.

I guess that's the very same reason people are reluctant to show their cards and beat around he showdown bush in the first place...

You sound like an insufferable baby. What are you doing with this precious information if you do receive it? Maintaining live HUD stats? I doubt it. Fast rollling = more hands = more $$.

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05-01-2017 , 03:32 PM

#754

Noles1724

grinder

Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 453

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Originally Posted by Howard Beale

usually I will throw the player back their half blind. if not back to the player, I'll throw the dealer a dollar.. I always throw the dealers a buck at my local place as they manual shuffle and I like to put out good mojo in hopes that it returns(not really but it can't hurt).

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05-01-2017 , 03:57 PM

#755

psujohn

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,173

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Originally Posted by Howard Beale

One trick I've seen is the BB (if it was he who requested to not chop) will show the SB his cards and then muck on the river. So the SB gets the pot. But in a 1/2 there's no rake if just the blinds call and check it down. In 8/16 I'd never go for it.

It's like all those fools who say - You should have just seen the flop - when I open AKs after 4 limpers and take it down pre. "Yeah that's what I should have done" is what I say. "Yeah or I could actually play poker and not chase the high hand" is what I think.

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05-01-2017 , 08:05 PM

#756

Howard Beale

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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22,190

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Originally Posted by psujohn

It's like all those fools who say - You should have just seen the flop - when I open AKs after 4 limpers and take it down pre. "Yeah that's what I should have done" is what I say. "Yeah or I could actually play poker and not chase the high hand" is what I think.

I can't even guess the amount of money that recs lose trying to hit a jackpot in my room. I ignore it completely and if I hit (which I have) it's not bec I was trying to.

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05-02-2017 , 01:36 AM

#757

Phat Mack

Twat-Waffle

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 11,961

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Originally Posted by Howard Beale

I can't even guess the amount of money that recs lose trying to hit a jackpot in my room. I ignore it completely and if I hit (which I have) it's not bec I was trying to.

The games can be oh so good when the jackpots are high.

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05-02-2017 , 04:34 AM

#758

floattheboat

centurion

Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 187

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Originally Posted by beanpudd

You sound like an insufferable baby. What are you doing with this precious information if you do receive it? Maintaining live HUD stats? I doubt it. Fast rollling = more hands = more $$.

Anyone who doesn't mentally track VPIP, PFR, 3B, 4B, F3B, F4B, AG, CB, FCB, CFF, WWSF, CC, and open stats by position live is a noob. Think of the additional skill edge your opponent has when they have the last 5k live hands committed to memory.

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05-02-2017 , 08:36 AM

#759

SpewingIsMyMove

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Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 3,530

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Originally Posted by floattheboat

Heck, this skill is mandatory when you are live multi-tabling.

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05-02-2017 , 10:16 AM

#760

psujohn

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Originally Posted by Howard Beale

I can't even guess the amount of money that recs lose trying to hit a jackpot in my room. I ignore it completely and if I hit (which I have) it's not bec I was trying to.

Hell I barely alter play based on promos and I've lost money because of it.

Had a hand where I made a 1 card quad Ks on the turn. My kicker still played but was vulnerable. I massive overbet shoved so V would fold. He did but there was quad As already on board.

That's about my only adjustment for high hand - 1 card quads but kicker plays now but is vulnerable and usually in a small pot that no one seems to be interested in.

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05-02-2017 , 01:33 PM

#761

Dominic

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Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,272

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Originally Posted by psujohn

Hell I barely alter play based on promos and I've lost money because of it.

Had a hand where I made a 1 card quad Ks on the turn. My kicker still played but was vulnerable. I massive overbet shoved so V would fold. He did but there was quad As already on board.

That's about my only adjustment for high hand - 1 card quads but kicker plays now but is vulnerable and usually in a small pot that no one seems to be interested in.

wat

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05-02-2017 , 01:37 PM

#762

Dominic

Tripod

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 74,272

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Originally Posted by Good Life

People who buy in the minimum or short get on my nerves. Especially when I stack them.

If they actually played good short-stack strat, it wouldn't bother me...but they'll sit there with $22 in front of them and limp, there's one or two other limpers, and I've got a stealing hand on the button like 98ss, and now I can't raise because of the short stack.

Or I do raise, and a short stack behind me calls the raise with half his stack. And we're heads up on the flop. Great. Now we're not playing poker, just playing who makes the best hand.

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05-02-2017 , 03:22 PM

#763

King Spew

Just average

Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 15,226

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Originally Posted by Dominic

wat

Quad kings no good for the HH because AAAA is on the HH board already.

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05-02-2017 , 04:53 PM

#764

psujohn

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Right and I couldn't see the board from where I was sitting.

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05-02-2017 , 07:00 PM

#765

Suit

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Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 4,744

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Originally Posted by JacetheMind

Asking "how much is it?" every single time the action is on you. Take your headphones out if you can't follow the action with them in.

I have this guy in my room. Except he asks how much the bet is every single time when he can see and hear just fine. He also usually insta folds as the dealer tells him the amount. Someone will be $5 in the form of one single red chip and its "how much is the bet?". "It's $5". Fold. No lie.

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05-02-2017 , 08:50 PM

#766

Lord_Crispen

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1,205

I like when someone asks what the raise is to, then I tell them there is no raise, and then they fold.

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05-02-2017 , 10:10 PM

#767

8ballJunkie

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Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 377

When someone takes forever to muck their losing hand at showdown (after another player has already shown a hand that beats theirs), AINEC. Come on people.

Someone on this forum called it a "card funeral" a few years back (maybe even this very thread?). It's a shame that term hasn't caught on.

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05-02-2017 , 10:58 PM

#768

5 south

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Originally Posted by Suit

That sounds brutal

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05-02-2017 , 11:19 PM

#769

TS2

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,505

That wouldnt be allowed anywhere... u cant toss someone chips from ur stack.... but u can pay them out of cash out of ur pocket.

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Originally Posted by Howard Beale

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05-03-2017 , 03:15 AM

#770

Howard Beale

Formerly red

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 22,190

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Originally Posted by TS2

That wouldnt be allowed anywhere... u cant toss someone chips from ur stack.... but u can pay them out of cash out of ur pocket.

Suppose that that's allowed. I'm not nearly enough of a math guy to figure out how many dollars would get spent trying to hit any promo but I suspect it's a lousy bet.

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05-03-2017 , 08:47 AM

#771

bobg3

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 258

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Originally Posted by Suit

I ask a lot. I'm colorblind, and I've been burned by dirty bets/stacks before..

Dealers at my room used to just announce the bet when someone made one, but apparently someone complained and now they aren't allowed to unless you ask.

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05-03-2017 , 05:04 PM

#772

floattheboat

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Join Date: Jul 2016 Posts: 187

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Originally Posted by TS2

That wouldnt be allowed anywhere... u cant toss someone chips from ur stack.... but u can pay them out of cash out of ur pocket.

Rule in the rooms around me (for cash) is that you can do whatever you want with your chips on the table as long as they stay on the table. A guy once paid me $2 to decipher what my shirt said for him and the dealer ok'd it. The only exception is buying food/drink - you can use chips from your stack to pay/tip.

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05-03-2017 , 05:15 PM

#773

TS2

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,505

May i ask what rooms those are? that dont use table stakes rule. so if i wanted to break the max buyin amount with a friend, we could just buyin for max ship my buddy my stack, buyin again and just keep doing it. Basically makes all the rooms games uncapped. If a fish doubles up we could easily get enough on the table to cover the fish.

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Originally Posted by floattheboat

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05-03-2017 , 05:32 PM

#774

Kelvis

banned

Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 8,737

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Originally Posted by floattheboat

Can you tip $200?

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05-03-2017 , 11:00 PM

#775

3for3poker

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 1,505

I posted this elsewhere, but this is the right place for it.

The tournament players who take a minute to cut 1975 out of their stack instead of just betting 2000. Then they don't keep the chips in order, so it needs to be counted.

Just bet the f%^&ing 2000

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