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Posted Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:10 am GMT by wakalaka
i just played a game with my friends older brother and his buddies for a $25 buy-in winner walks away with 140. I started out well knocking out the first person 5 hands in with the boat. then the tables turned real quick as one bad call left me short stacked. Then the 80 year old man ran the table using his chips as power to bark at other oppenents and stole pot after pot. I had to lay low and didnt want to get them pissed off, since im only 21 and they were all double and triple my age i expected them to have more experience.
well good thing i have a liver problem because they were drinking beer after beer and when it finally came down to the last 4 i was still there with barely playing any hands. i let them fight over the chips as i was still shortstaked and they just pushed each other out. finally it was just me with about $2000 in chips and the chip leader with about $7000 in chips. This is where he went wrong.
I was big blind and he folded. He was big blind i called he raised i folded. i was big blind he folded. then finally he was big blind and i raised to test the water and he raised on top. i called we played it out and i won but didnt take many chips. the deals kept coming out and he kept folding when i was big blind. i quickly picked up and prayed for a good hand. Finally pocket rockets. i thought about a raise since i was small blind but he raised everytime i have called up to this point when he was big. So i just called the blind knowing he would raise. And sure enough he raised and i pushed all him and he called with a 7-3 off suit. He really had no choice his raise was high enough that it didnt cost him much. he went down that hand and was quite angry. Sure enough the very next hand he went all in and instantly i called with pocket 10s. He had Ace-Jack suited but nothing but low came out and i came back to win on his mistaked betting pattern.
Good news is that they were nice enough to invite me back after taking all their money.
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Posted Sat Jan 08, 2005 4:12 am GMT by fonzerelli_79
nice one
heads up obviously isnt his strong point
i had to watch 2 of my friends play heads up last week after i went all in and got put out. It was torture - no one raised until the river and when they did it was either so low it didnt really change the chip count or it was soo large the other guy knew he had a hand and folded.
My mate with the lower chip count died a slow death by folding too many hands - i tried to explain that he needs to win a good pot before the blinds eat him up and he cant do any damage but he never listened
more fool him 
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