Does this guy have the random number generation cracked? (nc)

[ononimo]

never say never -- it's important to vary one's play. maybe this guy plays this way all the time or maybe he decided he'd do something different just to throw people off and got lucky.

did he get paid off? yes. did he probably put you on at least a mini-tilt? i'm guessing he did. are you more likely to assume that he's always raising with weak hands and therefore pay off his future monsters? probably.

looks like he plays g00t.

I don't understand this at all.

[ononimo]

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let's start slow: do you understand why you shouldn't play predictably?

[tdarko]

i was the button and yes i do.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

Given the right table conditions I would do this play in limit, but only if I would be sure that the two opponents would "understand" the strength of my hand when I 3-bet into a raiser and cold caller. Either he had good enough read or he was lucky. Remember that your play can be a steal with crap if he has noticed that you have noticed that the BB is very tight. If he has noticed that the cold caller has noticed that you steal from this BB-guy a lot he can think that the CO gets angry about your steals (since it destroys his ability to steal) and thus button might think that CO might cold call with a mediocre hand using position against you.

[ansky451]

Betgo! Do I detect a bad beat post...?

[Toro]

You know, you don't always have to hit the garbage hands to win, don't you?

I made this play at Foxwoods 10/20 against a tough player who is not easily bluffed. Everyone calls him Judge because he's a retired judge. He raised and I 3 bet with 78s. The flop came AAQ and he checked to me and I bet and he called. The turn was a 3 and he checked and I got stubborn and kept up the charade and bet and he called again.

The River was another Q and he checked again and I was sick to my stomach knowing that my only chance to win was to waste another $20 so I bet the River and he disgustedly flashed JJ to his friend and sarcastically said "nice board for JJ" and to me "were you full?" and of course I nodded yes.

Not telling anyone anything new here but deception is a part of the game.

[Arnfinn Madsen]

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I know that you know it at least [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. I was leading a limit tourney feeling I was the clearly best player until I was moved to a table where this damned Toro-guy [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img], sat two seats left to me and literally outplayed me putting me on semi-tilt. I felt totally confused as to which hands you had, all the time.

[BettyBoopAA]

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You know, you don't always have to hit the garbage hands to win, don't you?
On Party in Limit Hold em you most certainly do.

[betgo]

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You know, you don't always have to hit the garbage hands to win, don't you?
On Party in Limit Hold em you most certainly do.

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Maybe in 50/$1, but not necessarily in a tournament, although the play was pretty loose at this point and this is only a $50 MTT. Getting two players to fold, though would not be easy and would require come more chips.

I think villain's checking the flop from the was bad. Having capped preflop, I wan't going to fold to one bet. I think he would be better off building the pot for various reasons.

He did create maximum deception. With the flop check and the raises on the turn and river, I was putting him on AA, AK, or AQ.

As for raise, since he is calling anyway, I don't think a call is that clear with 54s on the button with a 3rd position raise and CO call.

I think the reraise with 54s would have been better against one player. Against two players, he is getting better implied odds to hit something, but your chances to steal the pot are much smaller.

Sklansky in HPFAP recommends throwing in early position raises with suited connectors if your early position raises are getting too much respect. In a lot of limit holdem games, an UTG raise is assumed to be AK or QQ-AA and often picks up the blinds or gets called by the BB, who folds on the flop. I find that kind of play can create a lot of deception.