showdown

[iversonian]

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He's been doing it with a friend and nobody has suggested to them that they shouldn't do that. Suddenly you become a nit and don't understand that they may feel a bit blindsided.

Why does this have to be a game of chicken? Why can't you simply table your hand? If you win, great, good range read on the guy. If he mucks, obviously his kicker is worse than yours and doesn't pair the board. You want to continue making money off of him, right? Why antagonize him? As to others, anybody who is smart enough to even care about your hand could piece together something reasonable if he showed and you folded. I see nothing to gain by holding up the game here. What do you have to prove and to whom?

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I'm not looking to make money off this guy. I, along with everyone else at the table, was looking to make money off the lunatic. Neither do I care about pissing him off and having him walk away. If anything, it would be better for me, not because he's particularly good or anything but because he's a short stack (if we're in a pot together, he'll probably be ahead) and that's one less player to take lunatic's money (it was 7am with no waiting list). Also, this guy is a loudmouth that the rest of the table is probably annoyed by as well, but table dynamics aren't changing at all in any case. We're all after lunatic's money and that's that.