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Three Morons in One Hand--Which Was Biggest?
Posted Mon May 18, 2009 7:13 am GMT by lwestatbus $2/4 FL Ring game on Stars. Moron #1 (M1) was a certifiable moron I'd been at the table with for 45 minutes or so. Seeing 80% of flops with unbelievably idiotic play post-flop. Hyper aggression with any pair regardless of pre-flop action or board. Would bet 60% of flops or raise 30% if he wasn't first to act. He had never raised preflop in the time I'd seen him.
M1 is under the gun and raises for the first time.
M2 is myself in middle position with AQ offsuit. I would have raised this hand but M1's first ever raise caused me to step back and just call.
M3 is on the button and relatively new to the table. I had one old player note on him showing a loose call. M3 calls.
Flop comes Q-9-9 rainbow. I figured that I was in pretty good shape here given M1's previous play, though his first-ever preflop raise had me a little concerned. I decided that at an absolute minimum I was going to call this down.
M1 bets the flop, I call, and M3 raises, M1 reraises. I actually stopped to think. I can give no credence to M1 having a hand as his play to date had shown hyper aggression with moronically weak holdings before (and it turns out that I was right--see below). With only a weak read on M3 I actually started thinking he may have a big queen as well. I called and M3 capped.
Turn and river had M1 and M3 capping the pot both times with no threat developing on the board and I was calling down.
M1 showed A 2 for absolutely no hand except Ace high and he never even developed a wheel draw. He was just betting to bet. M3 showed Q 9 for a flopped full house. I dumped $30+ into a $90+ pot.
In retrospect I think that I should have reraised M1 preflop to isolate but folding should have been an option as well.
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