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There are a number of circus games that thrive in short handed situations.

I will assume this is something like a true home game. No rake among people with passable connections to each other. If this is somehow an unraked game acting like an underground casino, that is a wholly different thing . . . As I see the comments, they look to me like people want to play...

Seems like the right thing to do. checking out of turn with the nut is easily seen as an angle-shoot. What else could it be - mistake or angle? Good for Hero to clear up the situation before it becomes a situation.

Be mindful not to post listing for chips you don't have in hand. There are people who will snipe your action. Even offer the seller money to break a deal you already paid for. Keep your great finds very close to the vest. "Dibs" doesn't mean a damn thing. Do not find out the hard way -=-...

Have to say, I am no fan of the new black out rules. Even though I pay hundreds of dollars for "all" the MLB regular season games, I find that MLB thinks both the rangers and astros are "local" games to be blacked out. Sure, its 200-300 miles to the respective ballparks but in Texas, that...

Woah, woah, woah! Are we losing our minds? If the villains want to play Q6 vs KK and/or T9 vs JJ for stacks preflop - - - SIGN me up! Both hands have ~86+% equity. What more does a Hero want? Its essentially the same QQ vs 53. Do folks really hate taking the risk, are the stakes too high...

I exploit the shit out of bad players while doing my best to make sure they have a good time. I also go out of my way to remind them of every time I got whipped by their style of play. I want memories of the "happy" nights I got my guts cut out by AA losing to Q3 and not remembering the nights...

The buy-in rules are far more important than an extra blind. I doubt it makes much difference. Not sure why a host would want to do this.

Wonder what this thread would have looked like if . . . . a) Hero didn't disclose the results before discussions. Or, b) Hero has seen villain turn over Ax of hearts and won the pot. Somehow, I think the discussion would have been substantially different without people knowing how Hero's line...

Grunch . . . We don't know a lot of useful information. Stack sizes, villain reads, Hero's table image. Hero had a lot more information than we have. Hero bets 9bb from UTG. Seems a bit big, but maybe that's normal. I have played in games where that sizing wouldn't be surprising. Given...

"flop hits hard" but playing 20bb deep with a SPR of 3. This shallow, "hits hard" means little better than top pair to me. Maybe top pair plus a gutter ball. Mostly Hero is going to want to get it in if he hits the flop hard. Maybe we can find merits in finding folds on a :js::ts::9s: board...

Hero has a sample of five hands. Five. I would be hard pressed to build any reasonable villain reads outside of the most extreme situations. Short stack play should be aggressive. The one example hero offers we have a short-stacked villain with a good draw plus top pair vs whatever range he...

Adding action inducing features will diminish the effects of skill / increase the effects of luck. Is this going to be "fun" for your gang? Not sure I can say one way or the other. I would be careful about making changes that effect specific players more than others. e.g. the stand up game...

Cash is that stuff people lose most nights at the poker table.

My investments have changed in value enough that I wonder if I should do something about it. The general plan was 1/3 in liquid equity indexes, 1/3 in liquid mid-risk fixed income securities and a third in illiquid higher risk assets. This mix has served me well overall though in short time...

Got bunches of these.

Hero gets to play his aces heads up with a spr of ~ $700/$200=3.5 and gets the hoped-for dry flop. Hero c-bets pot. Perhaps there would be discussion about sizing as Hero wants calls from villain's entire range. can't see checking the flop, this board is great for Hero's hand Villain jams...

Perhaps this is an overreaction? Not seeing the causality between lying about a poker hand and outright theft / cheating.

Thanks for the data. I vote call. Its a thin call. risking 2x to win roughly half of 7x. Hero must have some small chance to win the draw side, but I can't even give hero a 10% chance. Maybe the one card draw was some sort of flush/straight draw that missed - - it could happen that way...

Missing data - How did villain draw? How much dead money in the pot? Is there any action on the turn - if so what was it? What is Hero's draw hand - can he hope to be winning that half of the pot? Is there a straight-flush possibility? How skilled is villain? Does he know what a "good" hand is...