Poker Zombie
Royal Flush
I'm just going to fall back on "Online poker is rigged".1) @Poker Zombie When Boyfriend is in the SB with almost nothing left, no one can get a read on his hand when he puts that last .25BB in pre. Including Girlfriend.
So sure: You can read your wife’s moves like a book and vice-versa, and you guys may pay it totally straight. But this situation is different. He’d be wrong to fold even 72o in that spot. He’s getting something like 24-1 odds on his last few hundred chips, which would be almost impossible to build back into a useable stack if he folds instead.
It’s meaningless for opponents to guess at his range. It’s the whole deck minus your own holdings.
2) It is of course quite possible that both hands represent Girlfriend just being a protective Mama Hen toward Boyfriend, without any actual sharing of hands between them.
In Hand #1, she may have started out trying to trap me (the initial raiser) by flatting with aces; but then when he re-raised she panicked and felt she needed to signal to him with a 5bet: “No! Don’t put any more chips in this pot!”
In Hand #2, she likewise may have just independently decided to get him back to ~6BB (I forgot there were antes) by flatting with a plan to reraise any preflop steal attempts or else to bomb the flop/turn. Which again, is uncharacteristic aggression from this player especially considering the stacks she’s facing.
These are less malicious than outright collusion but still problematic.
3) A good point is made above that Girlfriend’s A6o is one of the worst aces in the deck on the flop. It loses to every other A except A3 and A5, and some of those combos have draws. On the turn A3 pulls ahead and A5 is the nut straight. AcXc also has her in additional danger. So it’s really iffy to double barrel bluff there. Either it’s terrible play, or an epic baller move from a tight passive newbie, or just being protective of BF.
I miss it, but I never have trusted it. Too many ways to angle-shoot. Same-house play, players texting offline, dashboards and bots. You either have to have implicit faith that your friends aren't cheating, or you quit. In my home games, I trust everyone - but I take every anti-cheating precaution. Online... you can't take even one precaution.