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Babygrand United States. Dec 19 2007 15:36. Posts 142

Last night I had a fun live session. Made 5 buy-ins at a 5/10 game. It is actually quite fun. Me and a couple buddies of mine play in windsor, canada a couple times a week and take some rich canadians' money. They are really cool guys so it is a good break from the online scene.

There is one guy there that plays good hole cards and he will make money at the game, but just not that much. He plays ".50/1 NL" AKA "my cards match the board cards" kind of poker. He is hard to beat but impossible to lose to. He got in a hand with the biggest fish I have ever seen in my life. He is holding 22 and the flop rolls out A T 2 with two diamonds. Now this fish will call pot bets, or overbets, to the river if he can somehow make nuts. But the guy with 22 just soft bets trying to "suck him in."

The turn comes A and he boats up. The fish, again, check calls his small bet. The total pot is about $400, which at the 5/10 game is really really small. The river comes diamond and the fish leads out $300. The idiot with the full house goes, "I just cant raise here, I am not beating anything you call." Each of them had $2500 behind, and I assure you, the fish was not folding. He had a J high flush. But the donk just called and missed a huge opportunity. This of course made me very happy. The guy to my left then said the funniest thing I have ever heard in poker. "If that guy flipped over his cards and had a higher boat, I would still shove my full house all in." Now I wouldn't do quite that, but almost that. A flush is a made hand to a fish and so are trips. There are 100 hands you are beating and only 8 that you lose to. Get it in!!!

The fish ends up getting cracked with KQ on a K high board to a made flush on the turn. He called about 300 big bets on the turn and river. I was sick. However, after he doubled up twice through my buddy and once through me (my KK, my buddy's QQ and set of 55s), he rebuilt up to about $2500 again. It was time he go broke.

I had A8 off suit and limped UTG, trust me, this is okay in this game. It limps around and flop rolls out J84, 3 players. I bet $30 and the fish calls. The pot is $95. Turn comes 6. I check, he checks. River comes a blank 8. I bet $150. He makes it $300. I thought for a second and said, no way is a fish checking a made hand on the turn. His eyes light up like a kid's at a carnival when he hits two pair or better. I know the read. He has a jack or an 8, both of which I can beat. So I repop to $800. He calls fast with the J. $1700 pot with trips, which was only $95 on the turn. Ridiculous.

End of the story, I clean him out when i flop 689 with 57. The game ended there, but it was quite the long road to get there. Another fun session with my canadian buddies.

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If he showed me a bigger full house, I would still go all in.

Kapol Poland. Dec 19 2007 15:40. Posts 4696

Looks like you have lost a bunch of dollars earlier in the game, if you were only up 5BI despite taking so much money from the fish at the end.

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Babygrand United States. Dec 19 2007 15:46. Posts 142

Up entire game actually. Not sure where you got that. +4800 on the session. +2500 late in the session to the fish (which was partly my money he took).

If he showed me a bigger full house, I would still go all in.

acdawg712 United States. Dec 19 2007 22:04. Posts 2639

hey you go to MSU, right? i go to UM and have been meaning to go Windsor for a while.

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Babygrand United States. Dec 20 2007 03:33. Posts 142

I did go to MSU. I just graduated in May. The big game at Windsor casino isn't there anymore. The game got shut down there cuz it didn't fill so this one guy moved it off site. But the 1/2 and 2/5 games arestill decent at the casino.

If he showed me a bigger full house, I would still go all in.