home game tonight...

junYUN · #1 12-30-04, 05:15 AM

more than just a bad beat, continual bad beats from novice players in my home game today just had me steaming. first beat im dealt 89s so i lead out 3XBB on the button, after 2 limpers to me. everyone folds except the guy to my right (who is drunk as a skunk) and we see a flop. flop comes 67T rainbow.. cha-ching i hit my straight. i lead out for a pot sized bet, he raises me -- i re-raise him to put him all in (i had him covered 2 to 1 in chips). he calls, turns over 67o, tun is a 7, river a blank. that had me kinda steaming. later on with my stack having been whiddled pretty low from blinds, plus that beat...i'm down to about 500 chips, move them in with A7s. i get called by this chick who it's only her 2nd time playing poker, she turns over 75o. of course a 5 hits on the flop and the rest are blanks. so, since it's a rebuy tourney i decide to rebuy, and first hand of the session i'm dealt TT. i lead out in MP 3XBB, two callers. flop comes 552. i figure at this point im most likely ahead, so i lead out for a pot sized bet after it's checked to me. both call. turn is an 8, checked to me again, make anotehr pot sized bet, and once again both call. river is a J. first guy goes all in (i have him covered by about 500 chips) second guy folds, and i fgirue i really have no choice BUT to call (it was only about 300 chips more). of course he turns over J6o. at this point i'm really steaming. about 5 or 6 hands later i get dealt A9s, real short stack, and i push them in. the girl to my left calls me (again) and i figure i probably have her beat pretty badly. guy two seats to my right (at this point he's actually seated next to me -- the drunk guy had been knocked out). he's probably the next strongest player besides myself, and he counts out his chips (got me covered by a long shot) and he goes all in after me. the girl calls his bet putting her all in, cards turn over i'm ahead of both of them. she has Q6o, he has QTs. flop of course gives him a ten, and he takes me down.

i wanted to beat my head into the wall.....god i hate playing novice players.

fonzerelli_79 · #2 12-30-04, 05:35 AM

that post was just screaming out for a paragraph!!!!

yeah the first one was a bad beat - but i see it time and time again. At every home game ive played there are always people who just have to play the first few hands and will go in and call almost anything. You didnt do anything wrong - with this kind of game when you win you will win big but theres always a big chance that you will lose really big as well

your clearly an agressive player (something im trying to be more in mygame), 67s is a hand that i will always try sand call (as long as it aint too high) but i doubt i would ever raise 3xBB with it

you just cant play your own game against novice players because they dont fold - no fold em hold em. You have to be mechanical and only play premium hands.

I played ay my friends last night and at the river i flopped over a full house - he flopped over king hgh!

sjay2k · #3 12-30-04, 11:06 AM

You played the pocket tens horribly. Sounds like a fun game though

2Tone · #4 12-30-04, 02:18 PM

I wouldn't go that far. A prior thread on protecting QQ taught me to be more agressive, and I probably would have gone 5x BB, but keep in mind he's in early position. Making it 5x the BB would of course have increased the amount of your pot-sized bet on the turn, which would have been a good thing as well. But I'm not sure I'd have pushed all-in with that hand.

jdiana86 · #5 12-30-04, 02:24 PM

Home games are a waste of time and energy, the real money is online.

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edited: If you can find the same group of people that don't care they ALWAYS lose to you, you're gonna be just fine.

junYUN · #6 12-30-04, 04:16 PM

what about it was played terribly? leading out to a limped pot with 3XBB is a pretty standard play for my style, i like to lead out when i sense people have limped with half decent cards. after the turn came, the two i was playing against had been tending to check when they didnt have a hand, and one guy seemed really disinterested. so i figured i was a head and made a big bet so i could take down that pot right there, assuming my opponents probably had either no chance of winning or they had an overcard to the board (which turned out to be true when i couldnt get him off that J6).

badblood44 · #7 12-30-04, 04:38 PM

I have exactly such a group

sjay2k · #8 12-31-04, 12:08 AM

You should have shut down after you got called on the flop. You'd have to put all least one of the callers on a 5. Calling the all-in at the river was a donation, as you were obviously beaten.

junYUN · #9 12-31-04, 02:41 PM

i had no choice on the river...i had him covered, there was TONS in the pot just to let it go for an extra 300 chips...i had no choice but to make sure i was beaten. also i was pretty confident in my read that neither of them had the 5, as it was their tendency to bet their good hands.