Legend5555
Full House
Last night my wife and I are going to bed and we turn on the local Little Kings and Queens live stream to watch as we are going to bed. Low and behold a guy that we used to play with very regularly but haven't seen in probably 10 years is playing in the game. $1/$3 with a $500 cap. And he played two hands in the last hour I wanted to share for the lolz.
First some setup. My buddy's name is Shaun. He is in the 1 seat. I've played with him a lot and judging from how he played during the stream, he hasn't changed much in terms of his play in the last 10 years. He isn't a pro or anything, purely a recreational player. But he is very much a exploitative and feel player. He tries to cultivate a very ridiculous loose image and capitalize on it. He will limp junk from up front, call raises with 23o, etc. He also reads people pretty well and knows how to capitalize on his image against people that notice it. But when the big money goes in, he almost always has it. Granted, none of these players on the stream know this about him. The two hands highlighted below happen 3 hours into the stream. By this point he has mostly just been floating around the initial buy-in. Was down to $300 early after playing his normal ATC image setting game. But by the time the hands come up, he is at $700. In the 30 or so mins prior to this he has shown that he 3 bet pre with 35o after he got the initial raiser to fold, and limp reraised 99 from the BB after a button straddle to $10 and got TT to laydown pre. He showed this too. In addition to just showing down all sorts of other garbage throughout the night.
To paraphrase what he said to me, "they all just played so badly that I knew when I finally hit a big hand they just weren't going to be able to fold. It was fairly obvious when I was ahead with my junk and when I was behind post flop. And they tended to play fairly face up."
His strategy would get killed by better players as they wouldn't let him get away with seeing flops with the ranges he plays. But when he isn't getting punished, and nobody knows what he's doing, when he hits something with junk he is almost always going to get paid. He is good at putting people on tilt too. Not sure how much of his table talk he did on stream though as it was hard to hear, but he knew how to push people's buttons back in the day.
Anyway, onto the hands. Tagging @boltonguy and @grebe as I think you'll find this funny to see the "strategy" employed by all players in these hands. I'm going to try to get on this stream before the end of the year.
First some setup. My buddy's name is Shaun. He is in the 1 seat. I've played with him a lot and judging from how he played during the stream, he hasn't changed much in terms of his play in the last 10 years. He isn't a pro or anything, purely a recreational player. But he is very much a exploitative and feel player. He tries to cultivate a very ridiculous loose image and capitalize on it. He will limp junk from up front, call raises with 23o, etc. He also reads people pretty well and knows how to capitalize on his image against people that notice it. But when the big money goes in, he almost always has it. Granted, none of these players on the stream know this about him. The two hands highlighted below happen 3 hours into the stream. By this point he has mostly just been floating around the initial buy-in. Was down to $300 early after playing his normal ATC image setting game. But by the time the hands come up, he is at $700. In the 30 or so mins prior to this he has shown that he 3 bet pre with 35o after he got the initial raiser to fold, and limp reraised 99 from the BB after a button straddle to $10 and got TT to laydown pre. He showed this too. In addition to just showing down all sorts of other garbage throughout the night.
To paraphrase what he said to me, "they all just played so badly that I knew when I finally hit a big hand they just weren't going to be able to fold. It was fairly obvious when I was ahead with my junk and when I was behind post flop. And they tended to play fairly face up."
His strategy would get killed by better players as they wouldn't let him get away with seeing flops with the ranges he plays. But when he isn't getting punished, and nobody knows what he's doing, when he hits something with junk he is almost always going to get paid. He is good at putting people on tilt too. Not sure how much of his table talk he did on stream though as it was hard to hear, but he knew how to push people's buttons back in the day.
Anyway, onto the hands. Tagging @boltonguy and @grebe as I think you'll find this funny to see the "strategy" employed by all players in these hands. I'm going to try to get on this stream before the end of the year.
