Challenged to semi-10k fight yo/HU for rolls in real life, line?

HOWMANY · #1 12-15-2006, 04:58 AM

Cliff's Notes: Guy won't play me HU 20/40 unless I have $10k on me. What do I do when my manhood is put into question by someone who clearly has more money than me, and is thus a better person by default, no matter how much of a massive jerkoff he is?

Today's my first day of winter break and there were guys cleaning the carpet at my house, so it seemed like a good idea for a nice relaxing splash in the old kiddie pool of live 8/16. After a couple painstaking hours of shortstacking 1/3 NL I get a seat at the 8/16 that took forever to start.

The final player to make a full table comes from the pit, has multiple $500 chips in hand (at a real casino this isn't a big deal, at this casino it means he's an ultra balla) and proceeds to buy in for $800 and asks why there isn't a 20/40 and if one will likely start. Naturally I'd much rather play 20/40 than 8/16, especially HU. I decide to wait a bit and make sure that all the money he's been tossing around isn't a clever ruse, and he really is quite awful.

After he plays some offsuit 6 gappers from UTG or in late position for 3 bets I decide it's time to spring the question of "HU" as soon as the situation comes up. About 30-45 mins after his arrival he asks dealer again "where's 20/40" and she tells him it won't go today. So I pipe in with my most polite query of "hey you, hey 20/40 guy in 2 seat wanna play HU?" Seemed like a perfect fit. He wants to play 20/40 and he likes to play every single hand, I want to play 20/40 and I like money, it was as if we were made for each other. However, it was not to be, because he immediately asks "do you have ten thousand on you?" I reply with something like "no, I don't know why I'd need it for 20/40" to which he retorts "against me you will". [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Okay that's a bit unusual. Other than him I'm pretty sure that I had more money in my wallet to play poker with than anyone else in the poker room, I'm not too clear why I need to be 250 bets behind to have the honor of playing some douche bag HU. I suppose I could have driven home and grabbed like 7k more, but I would rather just stay home and play online for the same amount/more per hour with less variance in my normal games than to play HU with him, especially since I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of "winning" our mental bout, not to mention I have no [censored] clue why I'd go through all this trouble to get 10k together to play a 20 game. I'm guessing he thinks I'm just some annoying internet kid with only like $400 or however much I have in front of me, so I suppose it's understandable to not want to leave the game to play someone with $400, but I'm not going to say "I have $X" because I'm pretty sure he'd say no to be a dick and I'd rather not say how many dollars I have on me when I'm at the casino.

So BBV I ask you, what should my line in this situation have been? Be a bigger douche than him while he's at the table hoping he'll play? Wait for him to leave and kill him in the parking lot? Keep asking him for HU because the 3k I have in my wallet is very likely going to be plenty? Spit in his food if he orders some? Cave in like a coward and get money from home? Put a voodoo curse on him?

Gary Stevenson · #2 12-15-2006, 05:03 AM

tell him you'll play for $3k and that's all you have on you. if he declines, mutter something about him being a huge pussy who's scared to play some kid at 20/40...this should get him to play you HU

snowbank · #3 12-15-2006, 05:07 AM

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tell him you'll play for $3k and that's all you have on you. if he declines, mutter something about him being a huge pussy who's scared to play some kid at 20/40...this should get him to play you HU

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agreed, this will work

HOWMANY · #4 12-15-2006, 05:13 AM

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tell him you'll play for $3k and that's all you have on you. if he declines, mutter something about him being a huge pussy who's scared to play some kid at 20/40...this should get him to play you HU

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agreed, this will work

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I thought it would too, so I did. However he basically just ignored me saying something moronic like "you need 10k to play me". He played like a huge fish for another hour or so before leaving with all his tasty $500 chips, making me spend the rest of the night thinking about the big one that got away.

Gary Stevenson · #5 12-15-2006, 05:28 AM

you should have offered to play him in un-minbet big red state hold them.

HOWMANY · #6 12-15-2006, 05:33 AM

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you should have offered to play him in un-minbet big red state hold them.

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I offered a regular to play HU NO LIMIT TEXAS HOLDEM YEEHAW after he said he'd rather play me NL than limit HU. Strangely enough he was not interested once I said I would play no higher than 1cent/2cent. In other words I'm possibly the worst NL player on the face of the planet, I honestly think I might lose less if I didn't look at my cards.

RayPowers · #7 12-15-2006, 11:06 AM

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I thought it would too, so I did. However he basically just ignored me saying something moronic like "you need 10k to play me". He played like a huge fish for another hour or so before leaving with all his tasty $500 chips, making me spend the rest of the night thinking about the big one that got away.

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Some comments about "I don't have 10K on me yet, but if you keep playing at this table, I'm sure I will soon," might have done the job.

Ray

rokstedy · #8 12-15-2006, 05:03 AM

runon sentence mutch?

Bill King · #9 12-15-2006, 05:05 AM

dude stop being a donkey and play him HU 4 rollz

ship

snowbank · #10 12-15-2006, 05:06 AM

do you have ten thousand on you?" I reply with something like "no, I don't know why I'd need it for 20/40" to which he retorts "against me you will".

HAHA, awesome.

So BBV I ask you, what should my line in this situation have been?

Chances are he probably wouldn't have played you if you had $10k on you. If he knew you at least had enough for the game, he probably was just wanting to up his ego and look big saying he would play for $10k. That's the standard line online.... fish playing 1/2 and challenge you to heads up to say they will only play 10/20 HU, knowing they will not actually do it if you wanted to.