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Elrohir44
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11-03-2008, 05:02 AM
Post subject: Story about a home game because I am bored (pointless)
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Riverside, CA
Posts: 37
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WARNING: Reading this will probably be a waste of your time, I just felt like writing about this.
Last night I played in a single table NLHE tourney at a friends house. The buy in was $20 with eight people. 3 spots paid and payouts were $80, $48, and $32. We started with 100 chips and blinds went up every twenty minutes.
I thought my two friends who were there had at least a little bit of poker knowledge since we all discovered the game at the same time. Much to my amazement they played about the worst poker I had ever seen anyone play and it turned out that I was the only one there with any sense for the game. The other five players were complete noobs that had no clue how to play. Loose passives all around.
Knowing that play would generally be bad my strategy was to see many cheep flops while the blinds were low. After the first few hands I was able to double my starting stack by hitting some lucky flops, but my cards dried up after that. Almost every hand had about five limpers. Nobody seemed to realized that you could raise more than 2xbb pre flop. As the blinds got a little larger I decided to start getting aggressive pre flop. Everyone seemed amazed at the size of my 3x raises and thought I was trying to "bully" them due to my raise sizing. Also, all post flop bets by these guys were 1x or 2x the blinds. It was hilarious and cute. We might as well have been playing limit.
The game move extremely slow at first because a) there was a complete lack of any aggression and b) nobody was giving their full attention to the game. It drives me nuts when I have to remind somebody three times that it is their turn. People would get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of a hand- and we weren't even drinking! (I was one of two people taking turns dealing by the way). I was able to keep my cool and not look like an ass fortunately.
After about 1.5 hours the blinds were big enough to be valuable to steal. When three people would limp I could steal with impunity. Some people would limp/fold with 2bb in their stack. I was amazed. I was the chip leader for almost the entire game.
The key hand of the tournament came when we had six guys left. Blinds were 6/12 and I had about 250. I picked up AsKs in second position and the guy on my right min raises With a stack of about 130. He is the loosest player in the game and values any two high cards and is willing to bet/call all in after flopping ANY draw. I rr to 60. Everyone folds and he calls.
Flop is AcQs4s. Villain bet 20 chips (lol) and I raise all in. He had 40 left, thought for a few seconds, shrugged and called. I turn over my TPTK w/ nut flush draw and everyone "oohs and awes" at my amazing hand while he turns over KJo. I almost laughed in his face for making such a dumb call with an inside straight draw. I even cancelled one of his outs with my spade draw. But, low and behold, he hits his miracle Tc on the river and becomes the chip leader and leaves me with 120 chips.
I sat for most of the rest of the game. Villain ended up knocking out three of the remaining players giving him about 1/2 of the total chips. When we made it into the money I had about 250 again. My other friend always donks off his stack when he gets into the money in a tournament because he gets bored at that point and considers his job done. When I got heads up with the villain I had 130 chips to his 670. Blinds were 10/20. On the second hand I shoved on the button with A3s and he called with something like J9o. He hit his 9 on the flop and it was over.
I could not believe how badly everyone played. They all seemed to play scared since they all seem to have trouble acquiring money. Some of them didn't even bring cash to the game and had to borrow from others (not from me of course). I would love to organize a weekly $.25/$.50 nl game with them but they are always broke. I could make a ton from them. The economy needs to bounce back so that we can get people like this to play recreationally more.
Sorry for wasting your time if you read through this pointless crap, but I did warn you.
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L_Clan_Sup3rMaN
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Home games like that should be about having fun. If ur not having fun ur better off not coming next time. If ur goal is to maximize profit than ur way better off spending ur time other places.
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oskar
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4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: in ur accounts... confiscating ur funz
Posts: 2,452
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I know what you mean. If it there were legal, organized 50NL and 100NL games around here, it would be a freaking goldmine.
200NL live at the card rooms is a goldmine, but how many are actually rolled for that? Grinding out a roll for 200NL online is pretty tough.
I play with friends every week, but the stakes are too low to be profitable.
Online it's much easier for bad players to play profitable by just 12-table nutcamping. Live these guys would be much more exploitable.
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The strengh of a hero is defined by the weakness of his villains.
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ghem67
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 45
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Home games are a good time
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bjsaust
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Straight Flush
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ballarat, Australia
Posts: 5,842
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I organise a similar game at work every couple of months. Players are getting better, but its still unusual to see a PF raise higher than 1.5x minraise, and its usually just a minraise. The thing that gets me though, is that postflop is the same. No matter what someone bets, if the other person wants to raise them its ALWAYS a minraise to double their bet (and only that much because I keep reminding them that a raise needs to be at least as much as the initial bet).
All good fun though.
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