Slow Down, You Move Too Fast . . .

[Luv2DriveTT]

I assume he looked like one of these two juvenile delinquents?

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I am a rock, I am an island.

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[Georgia Avenue]

Stolen from Matusow singing to Phil Gordon in 2001 WSOP ME.

But.

Still.
Nice/hand.

"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
( Simon & Garfunkel )

Slow down, you move too fast
You've got to make the morning last
Just kickin' down the cobble stones
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy!
(La,la,la,la,la,la, feelin' groovy)

Hello, lamp post, whatcha knowing?
I've come to watch your flowers growing
Ain't ya got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in' doo-doo, feelin' groovy!
(La,la,la,la,la,la, feelin' groovy)

Got no deeds to do, no promises to keep
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me
Life, I love you, all is groovy!
(La,la,la,la,la,la, feelin' groovy)
(La,la,la,la,la,la, feelin' groovy)
"

[drewjustdrew]

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Stolen from Matusow singing to Phil Gordon in 2001 WSOP ME.

But.

Still.
Nice/hand.

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It was Hellmuth.

[andyfox]

You're too young. I should have posted this on the over-50 forum.

[Rick Nebiolo]

Good story Andy! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Even when playing limit, perhaps because down deep I'm an overly careful nit, I've never (OK, virtually never [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]) reached for my chips to call until my opponent has completely released his chips. Maybe I take protecting myself against angle shooters (and not giving off reaching tells) a little too seriously. But now I play more no limit, and you really do need to be careful. Here's an example:

A couple years ago a well-known angle shooter (WNAS) is playing one of the small fixed buy NL games. On the river he takes one stack ($100) of chips and pushes it into the pot while keeping his hand almost on top of his stack. His opponent pushes out a matching stack immediately. WNAS pulls back his stack while claiming he didn't release his chips. Two or three witnessess (including me) vouch that he took his hand off the stack, albeit barely. WNAS grabs his $100 bet and runs out the door when the floor was about to make the decision that his chips play. (As an aside, WNAS was barred and the house compensated the other player for his lost bet.)

WNAS is a huge loser and the doesn't mind loosing ten to twenty buy-ins as long as he can shoot one angle. Don't let him angle you since I've seen him play 40/80 at the Commerce (but perhaps not days).

~ Rick

[Lottery Larry]

I got it and I'm under 50

Now, was it real or just a good joke?

[andyfox]

Seems to me there are fewer angle shooters around these days, at least in my game. Most of them, like your villain, were losing players, so perhaps their money has dried up or they've moved to smaller games or elsewhere. But your point is a good one. There are often six or seven "regulars" or semi-regulars in the game and we know each other as honorable people. Last time I played two of these regulars were in a hand and one guy made a motion to bet and, same as the situation in the original post, the other guy called before he even got the chips out of his hand. Even though he could have said he didn't bet, because he hasn't really made a foward motion, he did indeed make the bet and then mucked.

Here's an exception: hand is head-up and I make trip kings on the turn: I have K-Q and the board is A-K-K-x. I bet first to act and my opponent calls. It is obvious to me and everyone in the cardroom he has an Ace. On the river I intend to bet again and I take the chips in my hand and hold them up waiting for the river card to come. It comes an Ace. So instead of betting I lower my arm to the table, with the chips in my hands, and tap the table twice to check. My opponent insists it's a bet. I've played with him quite a bit and I'm genuinely shocked. He knew my intention was to check. I ask him if he really is going to insist I put in the chips. He says yes. I put them in and, of course, he raises. I fold and I actually left the casino in anger, the only time I remember being angry in a card game in a long, long time. (This happened perhaps a year and a half ago.) A few days later, I apologized to him for my petulance, but, of course, he didn't apologize for doing the wrong thing. There are still some guys who are jerks either on or just below the surface, but, as I say, the amount of angle-shooting seems to me to have diminished over the last few years.

[andyfox]

A little of both.

[Lottery Larry]

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I guess this particular lamppost doesn't know much about S&G.


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Are they coming out with a new poker book this summer?

Or doesn't the poster play online tourneys? :P