LOL Strategy!

Shifty · Jan 21,2012, 04:06 PM

Some friends and I were talking about some crazy theory behind the play of some players and/or the logic (or lack thereof) which makes them do what they do on the felt. I recalled one of my last session of 200nl at Niagara, there were two instances that made my head just shake in disbelief. First, a lady rivers the nuts (flush) and just calls opponents bet. Opponent ask her why she didn't raise, and she replies that there was no point because she might be beat. Second, another lady, gets re-raised then tanks for 20 seconds, folds, and says to the guy next to her: "I don't care about him. He's not the one I want to bust." I actually LOL'd at this.
What have you heard that made you lol?

Hobbes · Jan 21,2012, 04:13 PM

$2/$5 FLHE at Brantford.

Guy says: "Down $1200. Guess it's not my night"

Not so much lol as drool.

JohnnieH · Jan 21,2012, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Hobbes

$2/$5 FLHE at Brantford.

Guy says: "Down $1200. Guess it's not my night"

Not so much lol as drool.

That's awesome. Clearly he's never heard of stop-loss.

My first time there a guy with (maybe) $10 Oakley knock-offs, playing 2/5 FL, wins with a flopped straight that was 3 bet pre flop with 69o! He insisted that he HAD to play it b/c it was BIG LICK! Oh dear.

djgolfcan · Jan 21,2012, 10:10 PM

Not so much what someone said, but their play said it all. I was having a good session at Niagara up to about $800. A younger guy sits down and after about 10 hands has it up to $600.

I am UTG+1 and he is cut off - I get dealt 4-4, just call pre-flop, it gets raised to $10, villain calls and me. $30 in the pot and the flop is 8-Q-4 rainbow, I check, original raiser checks and villain checks.

Turn is a 3 and I lead out for $20, raiser folds and villain calls. $90 in the pot, river is a 2 and I bet $50 and villain tanks for a minute and calls, I show my trips and he slaps his trip eights on the table and says "YES !!".

The rest of the table and myself just start laughing, he was as proud as could be that he won the hand and didn't realize all the money he saved me.

westside8 · Jan 21,2012, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by djgolfcan

Not so much what someone said, but their play said it all. I was having a good session at Niagara up to about $800. A younger guy sits down and after about 10 hands has it up to $600.

I am UTG+1 and he is cut off - I get dealt 4-4, just call pre-flop, it gets raised to $10, villain calls and me. $30 in the pot and the flop is 8-Q-4 rainbow, I check, original raiser checks and villain checks.

Turn is a 3 and I lead out for $20, raiser folds and villain calls. $90 in the pot, river is a 2 and I bet $50 and villain tanks for a minute and calls, I show my trips and he slaps his trip eights on the table and says "YES !!".

The rest of the table and myself just start laughing, he was as proud as could be that he won the hand and didn't realize all the money he saved me.

He was afraid you had QQ, duh!

Pinhead · Jan 21,2012, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by westside8

He was afraid you had QQ, duh!

Nah backdoor A5 FTW

Shifty · Jan 22,2012, 09:51 AM

1/2nlhe cash game last night. Family pot of limpers, flop A-7-7, checked around. Turn A. Checked to button, he raises and table folds. He tables 4-4 and says "Had to raise, didn't want anyone to pair up"

Shifty · Feb 05,2012, 04:30 PM

Rama last night 200nl live. Lady calls a post flop re-raise with middle pair top kicker to a made straight board. She goes runner runner for a boat and the win. Guy with straight says "you know i made the st8 on the flop with my huge re-raise didnt you? Lady "yeah, but i had a feeling" Him "sooo, (pause) you know you were beat but called anyways? You had a feeling of going runner runner boat? Her "yes".

Milo · Feb 05,2012, 08:16 PM

Not really a strat play, but next time you see a 6, 7, or 8 on the flop make not of it verbally. See if anyone strikes up a conversation. Tell them you like to play hands with those cards because one ALWAYS seems to show up on the board. You could even make a prop bet out of it to make even more $$$ at the table. In general, it's funny to see who follows the conversation, and who actually changes how they play.

Richard~ · Feb 08,2012, 04:21 PM

OnGame - 10.00+1.00|00/200 NL - Holdem - 10 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: PokerTracker

Hero (MP+2): 12,094.00
LP: 3,300.00
CO: 23,168.00
BTN: 5,810.00
SB: 4,222.00
BB: 7,987.00
UTG: 2,150.00
UTG+1: 5,936.00
MP: 9,269.00
MP+1: 6,864.00

SB posts ante 20.00, BB posts ante 20.00, UTG posts ante 20.00, UTG+1 posts ante 20.00, MP posts ante 20.00, MP+1 posts ante 20.00, Hero posts ante 20.00, LP posts ante 20.00, CO posts ante 20.00, BTN posts ante 20.00, SB posts SB 100.00, BB posts BB 200.00

Pre Flop: (pot: 500.00) Hero has

fold, fold, fold,
MP+1 raises to 400.00,
Hero raises to 1,200.00, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold,
MP+1 calls 800.00

Flop: (2900.00, 2 players)

MP+1 checks,
Hero bets 1,550.00,
MP+1 calls 1,550.00

Turn: (6000.00, 2 players)

MP+1 checks,
Hero bets 4,500.00,
MP+1 calls 4,094.00 and is all-in

River: (14188.00, 2 players)

Hero shows

(Two Pair, Queens and Eights) (Pre 71%, Flop 70%, Turn 84%)
MP+1 shows

(Straight, Nine High) (Pre 29%, Flop 30%, Turn 16%)
MP+1 wins 14,188.00

the old call 3bet oop with k9o, flop gutshot and check call cbet check call 70% pot turn shove

eeetee2011 · Feb 08,2012, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Milo

Not really a strat play, but next time you see a 6, 7, or 8 on the flop make not of it verbally. See if anyone strikes up a conversation. Tell them you like to play hands with those cards because one ALWAYS seems to show up on the board. You could even make a prop bet out of it to make even more $$$ at the table. In general, it's funny to see who follows the conversation, and who actually changes how they play.

lol this is such an old prop bet trick lol

Card Dead · Feb 12,2012, 03:50 PM

A few years ago at Brantford $2/$5 FLHE.

Hero has ATc in bb facing a single raise and 3 callers behind. Villian is UTG and calls the extra bet as well.

FLOP: Qc 8c 3h

TURN: 5c

River: 9d

There has been betting on every street all led by H in bb, so pot is at about $120. H has about $200 behind, V has $140.

Hero bets out, V raises, H re-raises, and this continues all they way down until V is all in (Remember, this is FL so the bets are only in $10 increments).

H turns over the nuts and V is exasperated as he shows K2c and exclaims":
"How can you have the nuts, you bet the flop?

holychow · Feb 12,2012, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Card Dead

H turns over the nuts and V is exasperated as he shows K2c and exclaims": "How can you have the nuts, you bet the flop?

That is classic Brantford logic!

Gottaget · Feb 22,2012, 02:19 PM

A few days ago in the women's league on P*'s: Action gets folded around to sb who goes all-in. It's just over 1x for me to call her from the bb. She turns over AQ (maybe AK) and my 26 catches and knocks her out of the tournament on the bubble.

She types in the chat: B1tch-what u call with?

DennisG · Feb 24,2012, 01:43 PM

This thread kind of reminds me of a home game that runs here in town, that I have played...once.

Buy in 20 bucks, get 40 chips. Every chip is worth .50, and blinds are "one chip and two chips" as I am told...betting is done in number of chips..not dollar value. You can't buy in more than 40 chips and have to be empty before you can reload... Then they want to play PLO half way through the game...which is no biggie...but no one can count the pot accurately and it becomes an all in fest very quickly....simply a clusterfuck.