This one hurts
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Crazy hand from a 1/3 game at Aria the other night:
I'm playing with a buddy and we're drinking and having a blast with a loose and active table. There's this one older white guy fish who raises to $20 with about half of his hands, but then he turns into a weak/passive pussy who's easy to read after the flop. As he's about 300 bbs deep, I'm looking to play as many hands with him as I can.
Fish raises UTG to $20. I've got 5
4
and call in the HJ (I've got about 200 bbs)
Both of the blinds call, as well, but I'm not paying attention to them, only the fish. I'm at one end of the table - seat 8 - and the other 3 are at the other end - seats 2, 3, and 4. My buddy is next to me, and he's telling me some kind of hooker story, so I'm only half paying attention to the hand.
FLOP ($80):
K
8
6
So I flop a gutter and a backdoor FD. I'm usually not going to put much more money into this hand, but then...
Checked to the Fish, who makes a timid, $30 bet. He's got a flush draw! See, when he makes a hand, he overbets the pot and when he wants to draw he bets small.
So I figure I'll float him on any safe card and take it away on the turn.
Well, the other two players call, as well! ****.
TURN ($200):
6
Fish leads for $50. Well, screw that. I make it $200, thinking they'll all fold.
SB folds, but before I know it, the dealer is flipping the ALL-IN card in front of the BB.
"He's all in?"
"Yep. For $3 more."
The mothereffer only had $3 behind after his flop call, but I didn't notice because he's at the other end of the table, my buddy's hooker story, and me concentrating (sorta) on the Fish. (Guess I'm the fish now!)
The the Fish tanks some, hemming and hawing, and I realize I didn't really raise big enough - so now I've made TWO stupid mistakes in the hand (three, if you count calling $20 preflop with 54)
He calls.
RIVER ($60
3):
J
Fish now hems and haws some more, looking back at his cards, and the pot. He looks a bit deflated. He didn't make his hand and he's trying to screw up enough courage to take a stab at it - a stab I will obviously not be able to call. But he checks.
I say screw it, I'm going to at least get that dead $396 in the pot, and I shove. LOL
Fish finally shows A
Q
and mucks.
Before I can celebrate the side-pot being pushed to me,
THE SB TURBO-MUCKS HIS HAND WITHOUT SHOWING IT.
And now I get the whole pot with 5 high. Against an all-in.
Naturally, I show and the whole table erupts. Fish looks like he's about to cry. This bothered him so much, he tilted off the rest of his stack in short order.
SB is incredulous. He says, "I had pocket nines, but no way did I think it could be good."
If this idiot had just shoved on the flop with his extra $3, I would not have been able to raise the turn, obviously, but for some reason, he chose to just call the flop with $3 behind.
Sometimes, you play bad and things just work out. But usually, it comes in the form of a 4-outer, or something. Not by getting an all-in to muck without showing. Heh.
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