Unique steal situation. A pro and another guy who's pretty good.

[AdamL]

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is this a joke post? maybe i'm daft, but this is a clear fold to me, and why is a "pro" playing a .10c blind game and why are you trying to outfox him out of $20? i'm lost.

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No joke. It's a local game for fun with friends, where only two of us are any good. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] (edit: and of course, this isn't the regular game we play at. The pro plays online and so do I)

I'm actually the BB in this hand. The Button is a full-time player who really knows his [censored], generally. He also likes to get super aggressive with me when we play at these little home games. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] (Stakes relatively small, friendly banter, etc.)

[DavidC]

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is this a joke post? maybe i'm daft, but this is a clear fold to me, and why is a "pro" playing a .10c blind game and why are you trying to outfox him out of $20? i'm lost.

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Did that vaccuum your brain or something? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Amoeba's line is well thought out, but requires a pretty heavy investment. I don't know if I like it, especially since there's a ton of cards that can show up and kill hero and you wouldn't really have a way of knowing. This play also lets a free card fall if villain was on a draw.

His thinking lines up with mine, but I'm not sure what to do in this case.

I can only speculate about Adam and his crazy friends, but I'd say that maybe if it were an LHE pro playing a $20 NLHE cash game live for fun, learning experience (fairly tight game), and gloating rights.

Unless he just wants to play "deep stacks". [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

--Dave.

[Steve Chase]

Pro play at 10c blinds table?
what a waste of time and talent!

I am not a pro. I am playing at $200 ($1/$2) NL tables.
I moved up from NL25 to NL200.
If you cannot do that, don't be a pro.
8BB/hour=80cents/hour
You can make more money anywhere else.

[jjacky]

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Pro play at 10c blinds table?
what a waste of time and talent!

I am not a pro. I am playing at $200 ($1/$2) NL tables.
I moved up from NL25 to NL200.
If you cannot do that, don't be a pro.
8BB/hour=80cents/hour
You can make more money anywhere else.

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5c 10c blinds... that THE grind [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[DavidC]

Hey guys, does anyone have any preference between Amoeba's (and I respect this guy) line:

calling and raising / betting the turn

Or what I did, which was to shovel maybe $3 more in there, could have been $2 more though, but I think three.

(I was hero in this hand, villain was Adam)

--Dave.

To me, the idea of making a much larger turn bet, plus scary cards and land (including a jack, which I formerly would have been able to make fold), is really um... disheartening? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

But if it has to be done, I guess I could do it. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[amoeba]

it really doesn't matter I think if villain is checkraising with not much.

[AdamL]

Hey all,

Just wanted to say, I didn't think Dave played it well until afterward when he explained it to me. After recognizing it as pretty advanced (this is 4th level thinking here) I thought he should post it. He suggested I post it in the Mid-High stakes forum because that's where people would most likely appreciate the depth of the play.

Sorry for ruffling feathers, to me this hand is God-like, but most everything is for a peon such as myself. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Carry on... nothing to see here. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]