Close Encounters of the Check-raise Kind

[AlexMartin]

hi, welcome to blonde. What totalise said. also raise more preflop in a live game.

Is raising 5x under the gun not quite a big bet already being first into the pot? What would you make it pre-flop?

No word of a lie, my experience of live NL cash is people call outrageous bets preflop at will. The majority are awful tbh. A tenner preflop (10*BB) will get callers.

[cooker3]

Also lol @ this guy being a good player. He limps utg with T3 then calls a raise from someone with 65 big blinds and then check min raises flop. Play of an master

my claim that he's a good player is not based on this hand, it's based on the fact that he's a good player.

this particular hand was played this way because a) he was playing way under the level he's bankrolled for, having a laugh with a wide range of starting hands (but playing solid poker post flop) b) expanding his range even further to include T3 UTG as sat opposite him was his good mate and in their homegame (not in all of Leicester apparently) T3 is classed as the nuts.

it's things like this that you can't account for in poker

"it's things like this that you can't account for in poker" Those things being bad play?
He massacared the hand in every respect. And saying he created the perfect table image which somehow justifies this play is just crazy.

[Pyso]

I don't know what to say really!

I'm with Alex on him massacring (is that a word?!) the hand, but gatso you know the context better and I DEFINITELY agree that it's "things like that you can't account for in poker"

Actually what it makes me think is that I should go back right to the start when I sat down with £75 (reasons explained at the beginning of the post) and realise that if I'm playing with someone who is playing way below his bankroll then what actually transpired was quite likely.

It really illustrates the need for sitting at the table whilst correctly bankrolled.

A good lesson

[Pyso]

Sorry, I meant I'm with cooker3 on him massacring the hand. (Actually, I massacred it as well!!)

[TEX FITZ]

  I actually say to him, “Good luck if you have the Queen“, to which he replies, “No, I’ve got a full house.”

He starts counting out his chips to match my bet

You have just told him you havent got    or   

[Pyso]

Hi Tex,

Sorry, my post wasn't clear enough, I said this after he had called.

But a good point nonetheless..

[TEX FITZ]

aaah ok