DrStrange
4 of a Kind
Playing 1-2 live, eight handed. We are very early in the session (maybe 20 hands?) though it already shows signs of volatility. Several of the guys have been away from the table for several months and are suffering poker withdrawals.
Cast of Characters:
Playing $125, the SB is joining us tonight after a couple of months off. He is on a long term losing streak and quite discouraged. Hyper-loose / somewhat passive preflop but the poster child for LAGtard post flop.
Crazy has the big blind and $300 in chips. So far, so good. Crazy has been winning the early hands and is already feeling good. His mortal foe is at the table too (very friendly, but they guy he wants to beat the most).
UTG folds
MP is our classic calling station with $250.
Folds to hero in the CO. Hero is playing $190 on a $200 buy in. At this point in the night all Hero has done is have a few fights over small pots. Nothing notable.
Button is Jekyll / Hyde with $200. So far tonight he is fully in Dr. Jekyll mode. Calculating TAG, rather mechanical and predictable.
Table note - - so early in the session, the table can play a lot more like a 'normal' table than the crazy place it will become later on. This manifests more preflop. No one is likely to call a $25 raise like they might later in the session. Even Crazy is 'moderate' with straddles only $4 and no blind bets.
The hand:
MP limps, action on Hero with the black jacks,
. Dr Jekyll, the SB and Crazy yet to act. Limp, raise or fold? If raising, how much. For what it is worth a typical raise now is in the $7 to $12 range.
DrStrange
PS Somewhere along the way most of you will want to flag Hero for Donkey Play. When you reach that point - say so.
Cast of Characters:
Playing $125, the SB is joining us tonight after a couple of months off. He is on a long term losing streak and quite discouraged. Hyper-loose / somewhat passive preflop but the poster child for LAGtard post flop.
Crazy has the big blind and $300 in chips. So far, so good. Crazy has been winning the early hands and is already feeling good. His mortal foe is at the table too (very friendly, but they guy he wants to beat the most).
UTG folds
MP is our classic calling station with $250.
Folds to hero in the CO. Hero is playing $190 on a $200 buy in. At this point in the night all Hero has done is have a few fights over small pots. Nothing notable.
Button is Jekyll / Hyde with $200. So far tonight he is fully in Dr. Jekyll mode. Calculating TAG, rather mechanical and predictable.
Table note - - so early in the session, the table can play a lot more like a 'normal' table than the crazy place it will become later on. This manifests more preflop. No one is likely to call a $25 raise like they might later in the session. Even Crazy is 'moderate' with straddles only $4 and no blind bets.
The hand:
MP limps, action on Hero with the black jacks,
. Dr Jekyll, the SB and Crazy yet to act. Limp, raise or fold? If raising, how much. For what it is worth a typical raise now is in the $7 to $12 range.DrStrange
PS Somewhere along the way most of you will want to flag Hero for Donkey Play. When you reach that point - say so.
and they check to us again. I can see an argument for firing again, but I wouldn't do it. And if I'm not going to do it, I'd rather check here and save my $20 bet on some of the bad turns and/or villains going crazy ahead of me with their monsters that they "checked to the raiser." If they were going to put $20 in bad on the flop, they probably still will on a blank turn. 
