12-03-2001, 04:18 AM
Played tonight with a player who, in addition to anteing every hand, would put up $20 blind automatically. He then would bet raise, or call all the way down without looking at his hole cards. He actually would put chips on his hole cards to show that he was playing blind until the river, when he would finally look and then act accordingly. Surprisingly enough, this must be a great strategy, because I never saw so many straights, small two pairs, and full houses snap off so many legit starting hands. The guy went up at least three yellow chip racks in less than an hour--even though he lost some of these pots.
Anyway, two questions:
What's the best strategy here, given the fact that you are essentially dealing with a killed pot every hand? How would you people approach it?
Secondly, the following hand came up between myself and this guy:
I had jacks with a four in the hole and I raised it before it got to the kill--the way we were playing, you could raise after the bring in and the blind raise made by the live player was semi- live--i.e. he could raise it if someone else raised before him--(we made these rules up on the fly, because the player was soooo live no one wanted to consult the floor man)--but he couldn't raise it if no one else raised--which of course, now that I think about it, put him at an even greater disadvantage than he already was. Long story short, some people got out of the way, and we managed to cap it on third street.
On fourth I snagged a four, and bet. He was showing two red cards, a ten and another card like a six or a seven, but they were offsuit. I had a two flush of some kind. I bet, he raised, I reraised, he made it four bets, and I made it five, at which point he said "Hey, you can't do that" and we explained to him that there was no limit on raises heads up. He pushed all his chips in. Keep in mind that he hadn't looked at his hole cards at all.
What would you folks do?
Anyway, two questions:
What's the best strategy here, given the fact that you are essentially dealing with a killed pot every hand? How would you people approach it?
Secondly, the following hand came up between myself and this guy:
I had jacks with a four in the hole and I raised it before it got to the kill--the way we were playing, you could raise after the bring in and the blind raise made by the live player was semi- live--i.e. he could raise it if someone else raised before him--(we made these rules up on the fly, because the player was soooo live no one wanted to consult the floor man)--but he couldn't raise it if no one else raised--which of course, now that I think about it, put him at an even greater disadvantage than he already was. Long story short, some people got out of the way, and we managed to cap it on third street.
On fourth I snagged a four, and bet. He was showing two red cards, a ten and another card like a six or a seven, but they were offsuit. I had a two flush of some kind. I bet, he raised, I reraised, he made it four bets, and I made it five, at which point he said "Hey, you can't do that" and we explained to him that there was no limit on raises heads up. He pushed all his chips in. Keep in mind that he hadn't looked at his hole cards at all.
What would you folks do?