"Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude."

Good Luck!

My God, James...

A good friend of mine from my childhood committed suicide while I was at University. It happened years after we'd grown apart - we lived on the same street, just a few doors away, but hadn't really spoken in ages - but it still affected me deeply.

I don't know what to say, except my condolences to you.

what has a hazelnut in every bite

was it not Topic?

When i do that it says nothing is in the text box...

I think you also have to type something in the text box, you can't just post the picture.

So type something, even if it's only a few dots (like, type .... into the text box when you upload the pic.)

Flushy was the first person to congratulate me (before I'd even told anyone) when I won my Vegas weekend.

There is an extent to which I believe that Ivey could make a play on a televised cash game that he wouldn't necessarily make in his bread-and-butter playing life... but if anyone who sees this on TV and thinks Ivey has 6-4offsuit whenever he re-re-raises, then so much the better for him.

  (it's the "admit to" bit that got me.)

I am considering moving off Alonsus server to find a better guild

Does Blonde not have a guild?

It's tricky, but you've put half your stack in!

I'd need to be dead sure of my opposition (e.g. that they'd play AA or QQ in this fashion), before I'd fold... and I'm not sure I could ever be that sure.

You have to judge the situation carefully though; some loose/weak minraisers will call the all-in reraise with e.g. any ace-x or KJ, especially if they have somehow acquired a lot of chips. You have to know if your particular brand of habitual minraiser (habmin) is a folder or a caller.

Either that, or just try to rely on live cards to save you when you get called.

I think this is partly one of those Harrington-derived situations; since most people are looking for the first-in vigorish, some people have worked out that they can minraise any small-ish stack and pass to an all-in, and make chips because so many players will simply fold and wait for a moment where they can be the "first in" with a raise.

The counter-proposal is to ignore limps and min-raises for the purposes of most first-in vig confrontations, unless you have good intel that a player would normally raise more and is now raising minimum because they have a monster. (Another reason for taking notes on all the habmins you see in your games.)

I just thought of something else about this (couldn't sleep last night ).

Most people, having flopped a full house would choose to slowplay it and flat call. Even though there's two players in the pot with you here, a flat call (rather than the check-raise) would still have been an option; realistically, if you're putting the original raiser on an overpair (a good scenario for you!) and the check-calling CL on a draw of some kind, you know that the original raiser is likely drawing to two outs and the chip leader is drawing probably almost dead with his flush draw/straight draw/whatever he's got.

Now - here's the point: if you flat call the flop bets... then the turn comes down with another 5. Horror! Terrible card, because now your full house has been counterfeited, you're basically playing the pair of threes and anyone with a bigger pocket pair is beating you.

From this position, you have gone from slowplaying a monster to suddenly being extremely vulnerable; you might curse and grind your teeth about it but at least you can likely get away from the hand if there's a lot of action. Not good news when you'd been expecting to make a lot of chips on this hand, but at least you still have 47k to make a comeback.

Alternatively, if the original raiser has overcards but not an overpair, and shows any weakness, you can bet and maybe take the pot right there. Whatever draw the chip leader was on, he has to give up now because of the trips on the board and the possibility of drawing dead vs. a pocket pair higher than 6's. Of course, the problem now is that the pot is huge and you only have 47k to chase them out with, but it might be achievable.

Just another viewpoint.

This in my experience for a party (?) sng (I presume this is a mid limit one say 22)

Longy is spot on, it was $22 on Party... whether that helps or not!

 

Just saw the South Park "Make Love, Not Warcraft" episode

So how are the Blonde Warmongers getting on?