August Low-Content Thread

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On Friday someone told me the greatest thing I've ever been told in a poker game. I raise A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] in the HJ, tight passive crappy guy 3bets the button which is great news for me because I'm dominated 100% of the time here.

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I bet because I want to see what's going to happen and playing wacky is always fun. He raises and I contemplate folding immediately but then recall a situation in which he raised on this sort of flop and then checked both the turn and river with what I assume was TT-QQ so I call.

Turn is a black 7 and I check/fold face up. He tells me "I don't get you Sean, sometimes you 3bet with pocket 5s and other times you fold top pair". Not only does it make me happy that my style of playing (non-retarded) confuses him, it also makes me absolutely ecstatic that he is one of the better players in this game (he is horrible) yet his thought process is apparently more primitive than that of a baboon. I guess I am supposed to start folding pocket 5s to a raise when they are the best hand and calling down with top pair when it is clearly the worst hand. All this time I thought poker success was measured by how well you played and the quality of your decisions, it turns out that it is measured by the power of your hand at showdown according to some magical chart that I have never seen with no regard for what your opponent might have.

Also today I discovered something unusual. Apparently it is possible to leave a casino with MORE money than you started with. I just need to repeat tonight about 30 more times and things will be square again.