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 Originally Posted by iopq
Originally Posted by LawDude
I do remember one memorable straddle hand. I had established my image as a tight player at a $100 NL game ($2/$3), and somebody out of nowhere announced a straddle (we'd been playing for a couple of hours and nobody had done it before) when I was in the big blind. So everyone dutifully called, and nobody raised. I think I had pocket 3's or something, and I mimed like I couldn't wait to get into the hand and when it got to me I shoved my entire stack in really quickly. Everyone looked at me like the skunk at the garden party, and they all folded to me, and I collected everyone's 2xBB.
so you get 3.5BB pot risking 33BB?
sounds like a move you should be making with AK, not 33
Nobody had anything (which I was quite aware of from the "OK we'll take a shot at this" behavior that I was witnessing-- they were treating the straddle as if their parents had given a new toy for Christmas). My 3's were actually probably good if anyone was going to call me. The pot I took down was 16x the big blind, and I risked 33x (probably a bit more in the sense that I had built my stack, though also probably a bit less because most of the other players had short stacks) the big blind to take it down. If someone called me, I was probably more than 50 percent with my pocket pair to win a pot of 82x the big blind.
Last thing: I stopped the straddling nonsense, which adds nothing useful to the game.
I say it was a great play.
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