Nice

[Dice Man]

I find it a little depressing that I played low stakes STTs for ages and ages when money was so freely available as this. The run-up to this hand was that this guy hadn't been particularly psychotic at all. I had been on the table for 23 hands prior to this one, and every one I had folded, most pre-flop, and hence I am 12 BB down.


***** Hand 925045557 *****
0.50/1.00 Texas Hold'em (No Limit ) - 25 January 2008 03:35:34
Turbo TH 58 (Real /Cash Game )
Seat 2: MartiCAMM (137.73)
Seat 3: gage0_4 (103.15)
Seat 4: Any2canWin (160.10)
Seat 5: Dice Man (87.50)
gage0_4 post SB 0.50
Any2canWin post BB 1.00
** Deal **
MartiCAMM [N/A, N/A]
gage0_4 [N/A, N/A]
Any2canWin [N/A, N/A]
Dice Man [Qs, Qc]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
Dice Man Raise to 3.00
MartiCAMM Fold
gage0_4 Raise to 5.00
Any2canWin Fold
Dice Man Call 5.00
*** Flop(Board): *** : [5d, 2h, 5s]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
gage0_4 All-in 98.15
Dice Man All-in 82.50
*** Turn(Board): *** : [5d, 2h, 5s, 4s]
*** River(Board): *** : [5d, 2h, 5s, 4s, 7c]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 3.00 Total Pot: 173.00
MartiCAMM Fold Win: 0.00
gage0_4 [Ah, 6d] Pair of fives Win: 0.00
Any2canWin Fold Win: 0.00
Dice Man [Qs, Qc] Two pair queens and fives Win: 173.00

I considered the possibility that he knew I was slow-playing a monster and figured he could make some quick cash by pushing and have his AA beat my KK/QQ, but in the end this is just too unlikely IMO. It will happen sometimes I suppose but overall this was an insta-call for me. I still haven;t worked out why people make these stupid pre-flop min-raises out of position. I've seen them do it with good and rubbish hands. The average hand people do this with is obviously slightly better than the average hand (Q7) but it really isn't very much better IMO.

[CitrusSR]

I still haven;t worked out why people make these stupid pre-flop min-raises out of position. I've seen them do it with good and rubbish hands. The average hand people do this with is obviously slightly better than the average hand (Q7) but it really isn't very much better IMO.

I keep getting people doing that to me aswell with hands like ace-rag and low pocket pairs. It's like they think "This is quite a good hand so I should raise, but it's not really good so I'll just re-raise a little bit" or something?!!

[PokerWoody]

It's because they are idiots and most of there opponents are weak tight.