Biggest B&M Pet Peeves
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My biggest pet peeve by far is when someone bets on the river, I call, and they delay showing their hand and say something like, "Can you beat an ace?" You bet, I call, you show. It's not very difficult. A variant of this that is just as bad is when they only show one card.
My second bigest pet peeve are the jackasses who think they are Johnny Chan and look up into the air during decisions like Chan did against Seidel in the WSOP hand from Rounders. A couple of months ago at the Borgata I was playing a 2-5 NL game against a young Asian guy who was pulling this routine (I mention the fact that he is Asian because Borg regulars may know him because I have seen him there several times). Anyway, the kid was a good player, but he was taking forever and staring people down on even the most trivial decisions. He also had the annoying habit of announcing his opponents hand every time he laid down a hand (Your kings are good, etc.) So after this went on for a while I decided to intentionally get in a heads up pot against him with total junk and show it down when he announced my hand. So after a while he opened for $20 from early position, I minraised to $40 with 47o and it was folded around to him. After staring me down and saying "Why such a small raise?" he called and we saw a flop. T-8-3. He led into the pot with $50, and again I minraised to $100 (I knew this would piss him off) and he stared me down again, then looked up into the air while thinking, and finally said "Your Aces are good" and folded. I showed my 47o and the look on his face was worth much more than the $100 I just won.
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