Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Poker!!!
It's pretty hard to win $29 on one hand at .15-.25 No Limit Hold 'Em. Here's one way to do it:
(If you hate reading about poker, skip this whole post.)
Sit down at a table and glean rather quickly that the players are maniacs who are raising and calling with anything. When you get ace-king on the button, watch skeptically as there's a raise/call/re-raise before the action even gets to you. Then re-raise all in. Watch all three raisers call your all-in (really not what you wanted). Flop the ace. Watch a guy bet on the flop; the original raiser, who called your $8.50 re-re-raise of his initial $0.75 raise, fold (meaning he most likely wasn't holding a hand that could afford his pre-flop action); and the third guy call the bet, which puts him all-in. When the dust settles without your top-pair/top-kicker improving further (very worrisome), find out that the guy who bet the flop was doing so on a stone bluff (meaning his original hand was donkey crap that didn't improve) and has an ace-high, and find out that the guy who called on the flop did so with a pair of sixes, meaning that he called a $0.75 cent raise and an $8.50 all-in reraise with 9-6 offsuit (even worse donkey crap).
Unbelievably poor level of play at the $0.25 no-limit tables on Full Contact Poker. Fun for making money, incredibly frustrating when you get sucked out on. Unfortunately, the 9-6 guy got busted and left the table shortly thereafter, and the other idiots tightened up considerably.
(If you hate reading about poker, skip this whole post.)
Sit down at a table and glean rather quickly that the players are maniacs who are raising and calling with anything. When you get ace-king on the button, watch skeptically as there's a raise/call/re-raise before the action even gets to you. Then re-raise all in. Watch all three raisers call your all-in (really not what you wanted). Flop the ace. Watch a guy bet on the flop; the original raiser, who called your $8.50 re-re-raise of his initial $0.75 raise, fold (meaning he most likely wasn't holding a hand that could afford his pre-flop action); and the third guy call the bet, which puts him all-in. When the dust settles without your top-pair/top-kicker improving further (very worrisome), find out that the guy who bet the flop was doing so on a stone bluff (meaning his original hand was donkey crap that didn't improve) and has an ace-high, and find out that the guy who called on the flop did so with a pair of sixes, meaning that he called a $0.75 cent raise and an $8.50 all-in reraise with 9-6 offsuit (even worse donkey crap).
Unbelievably poor level of play at the $0.25 no-limit tables on Full Contact Poker. Fun for making money, incredibly frustrating when you get sucked out on. Unfortunately, the 9-6 guy got busted and left the table shortly thereafter, and the other idiots tightened up considerably.
