Quote Originally Posted by The Bean Counter View Post
Lol live poker. Some classics I witnessed during last night's mtt and cash session include:

- cold calling a nits 3bet with 74o for a third of your stack because "I just had a feeling that would happen" when you flop 356.

- limp calling 23s oop, donk/calling a jam for 30bb on a 742 rainbow flop because "deuces have been lucky for me lately" and "I put him on ace-king" before spiking a deuce and proclaiming "I knew deuces would come good for me again"

- checking your option in the bb with kk in a 7-player limped pot and c/jamming heavy on a q65r flop and getting called by Q3s.

- checking a flopped boat with initiative 5 way and betting 1bb on ace turn and 1bb on river.

- cold calling a heavy 3bet in the sb and donk jamming 250% pot on 873 rainbow board and flashing 83s

- donk/calling A2 on KQ2, check/calling turn and chk/chk deuce river.

- donk/folding half of your remaining stack on a kjx rainbow flop.

I could go on forever! The standard is so bad at live poker, yet all these guys must play regularly as they all seemed to know each other. What I don't understand though is why they have obviously never made any effort to improve despite all of the resources out there!

Despite being insanely profitable however, I can't see myself ever playing much beyond a social event. Firstly, there's not much cash game action available in the UK, but mainly because I also find it really tiring and a little bit boring too compared to the constant action online (plus you don't have to listen to inane "strategy" talk when sat in your underwear clicking a mouse).
Haha amazing. Yah I agree, live play so definitely pretty brutal. I've been playing a bit more live lately and posting about my sessions on my blog. I usually play $1k buyin ($5/5) so I don't see things quite as crazy as some of those hands, but still some pretty dumb stuff happening nonetheless.

I will probably try playing live 1-2 times a month going forward.