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heatman

05-18-2004, 11:43 AM Post subject: Would you play in this game?

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I was at a local B&M playing $3/$6 up about $150. The game was perfect for me. I had a calling station on my left. This guy called everything to the river on any kind of a draw and pulled out about $350 in re-buys while I was there (4 hours). The guy on my right was a local who everybody knew and loved. Classic maniac before the flop and loose/passive post flop.

Then the game changed drastically. Two new players at the other end were old buddies and started to challenge each other with capped raises. One hand AAQ flopped, I had KQs late. BB bet, raise, re-raise from the buddies, I fold, BB folds, reraise, cap. Turn was rag, cap. River rag, cap. One guy had J4o, other had small pair.

I played to the blinds, and it was the same thing, hand after hand. A couple of times one of them actually had a hand. The others, anybody with the cards to stay took down a huge pot.

Since I was up, and about even for the month, I stacked up and bolted. Ever since, I've been thinking that I may have walked away from the chance to make a killing. Sit back, wait on a huge hand, cash in, but I was afraid of the variance at this wild table.

I'm sure its a style question, but what does anyone think? Play or go home?

Oh, another question. The loose/passive guy kept doing this thing they called, Straddle. When he was UTG, he posted 2BB before the cards were dealt, and the dealer would call out "Straddle." Then play was normal from that point. I saw no advantage to this, its basically a raise UTG without looking at your cards. Anyone run into that and what am I missing?

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Toasty

05-18-2004, 12:34 PM

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Sounds like there were more in collusion than in a competition.

i.e. every hand is folded to there maniac betting, when they leave they split the winnings. I would have left straight away and wouldn't have been a happy either!

I've seen people trying to pull this sh17 online and poker sites are swift to delete the accounts of these people. Some people would even inform the floor manager of this kind of stuff, I'd personally want more evidence, could just be they have more money than sence.

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08-13-2004, 09:14 PM

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I most likely would have got up and walked away because that's just asking you to go on tilt when you play a good hand and get it cracked, even though I really don't get on tilt very easy, but it's possible for anyone too even pros. My ass would have cashed in and left. Good move in my opinion, but I wouldn't have been too pleased by having to make that move.

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mike4066

08-14-2004, 03:45 AM

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Heat , i swear i sat at this exact table 4 months ago.

My first time at a 5/10 table.

The table was nice and calm then 2 drunk friends walk in and start re-raising each other. (directly on my left).

10 minutes later 2 other drunk guys sit down to the left of them.

These 4 guys are capping everything pre/post/turn/river. within 30 minutes the first two guys had over $700 between them. The last two were just raising and digging in their pockets

Anyways I stayed around and managed to lose about $200 before I took down a $300 pot. Played about 30 minutes longer and left $30 down for the night. I just didn't have the game to compete with those guys and I started tilting after i mucked 2 pair that endup as a boat.

Needless to say the 2 drunks only cashed about $300, 2 people managed to make a killing while the rest of us got hammered touching a pot.

I think you did the right thing by getting up. You had a good game going and you maximized that. You added $$$ to your BR and quit. (in NL i'd play against those guys ANY day, but not 3/6)

stevedonel

08-18-2004, 04:35 PM

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Its the classic limit players team, cap it at any pot. You have to call with your Ace hi flush draw, ect., and then fold at the river when it misses. They take the pot down with their nothing hand, and your out 8 BBs.

If you do decide to take some $$ off these a-holes, the best thing to do is wait for your monster, take down that one pot and call it a night. This very rarely works though, and you MUST set a limit on how much you will drop before getting that monster. Then tell them to come over the the NL tables if they want it back.

Is that guy still part of the forum??

Schlafly

08-20-2004, 05:18 AM

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I see this same kind of activity at least once or twice a month. I live in St. Louis and my choices of poker rooms are extrememly limited, especially because I work at one of the casinos and can not gamble there.

As Toasty said, it's kind of strategic. It forces someone to have a massive hand everytime or they collect the blinds and then some. In a $3/6 game, can you really call two $12 rounds and two $24 rounds on a draw or two pair? If you could afford to lose that much money on a hand, why not just play a no-limit game. When I sit down at a $3/6 game, I don't intend to win or lose a lot of money.

I admittingly have used this technique with a friend on a couple of occasions. Sorry.

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