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Raising With One Card (I Love Live Poker).

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  1. xTEDFORRESTx xTEDFORRESTx is offline

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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 11:11am)

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    Raising with one card (I love live poker).
    So it is late Saturday night/early Sunday morning and the 10/20 game breaks up. The only game still running is a 3/6 limit, which I join while waiting for the early Sunday morning retiree crowd to show up and start up the usually juicy game. This 3/6 limit game is the usual passive limp-fest.
    To my left, I have a 4-player murderers row of any two cards any position limp in every hand. I was half way tempted to ask them why they even bothered to look at their cards preflop, since they limped in every hand every time with everything, but then I realized out of the 1,326 possible starting hand combinations, they would actual fold 2 of them and raise with 12 (when they weren't being "tricky" and merely call with those too). The other 1,312 hands were good to call anything with from any postion. The rest of the table was slightly tighter, but not by much.
    So I immediately went into "punish the limpers" mode. This means the 3/6 game became a 6/6 game. My preflop raise range went to about 50% of my hands, the other 50% was folded. Raise or Fold, and out play the table after the flop. Raise until the limpers stopped limping when I was yet to act. So I was just splashing chips around, joking with the dealer, and raising. The play every hand players to my left were actually starting to look at their cards, and would take a few seconds before calling, instead of instantly calling, and the players to my right were starting to mumble and grumble about the constant raises. I was up about $150 in an orbit or two, most of which was won by doing things like having a better kicker, or pumping the pot up on a nut flush draw.
    So I am in the small blind, and the dealer is laughing at the punch line of a joke I told him, and stops dealing 1 card short. He didn't deal me the last card, I only have one. The play every hand players to my left have all called as have the players to my right. I look down, "Hey, I only have one card". The dealers laughs and says, "You can only play with one, it's a new rule." "Okay!", I say and quickly look down at my card. The Queen of Clubs. Now if a Queen hits the flop, Queen no kicker is probably good considering the trash hands that have won the last few pots runs through my mind. In fact, it is likely Queen high is the best hand right now considering the quality hands these jokers decide to play (Ace/rag would have been a raise, the table was starting to adjust to my "punish the limpers" raise mode).
    I raise! I loudly annouce as I throw out 6 chips, at the same instant the dealer deals me my forgotten last card. The left side of the table proceeds to automatically call my raise over the din of yowls and howls from the right side of the table, who all eventually call too. I look at my late arriving second card. The lovely Ace of Clubs. Ace/Queen suited, and I didn't even know it.
    The flop comes Queen/rag/rag rainbow, I bet, and the whole table calls. The turn comes an Ace. I bet, and the entire table folds. Another $75 dollar profit for me. Weeeee! I start yelling at the dealer, as I expose my Ace/Queen, "Look at what you dealt me and I can't get any action". "Well", says the dealer, "You raised with just one card, they all knew it must have been an Ace, so that Ace on the turn made them all fold". "Yeah", I grumble, "but I got dealt the Queen first!". The dealer starts to chuckle.
    As the usual early Sunday morning retiree crowd was now starting to filter in, I grabbed a couple of racks, racked my chips, and got up to see about getting a higher limit game going.

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  2. dank773 dank773 is online now

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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 11:16am) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    Why did you fold the 10 billionth hand?
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 11:26am) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    Cliff Notes
    Some guy playing 3/6 limit raises before he is dealt his second card, hits 2 pair on the turn, and everyone folds.

    worthless story imo
  4. lockdownpokah lockdownpokah is offline

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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 11:35am) in reply to ShortStack3

    that story was so terrible and pointless
    kill urself
     
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 11:38am) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    I like stories.

    Seriously, this sounds like the 4-8 game at Foxwoods. Although I have to tell you, in those games if I'm on the button why even look at your cards just raise blind!
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 11:40am) in reply to Futon

    You are correct, Sir.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 11:56am) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    how is it possible that you were the only one that wasnt dealt two cards when you were the sb, and should have been the first one to be dealt to. wouldnt that be a misdeal. if you were on the button, than it would be a different story
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 11:59am) in reply to idigbroads

    LOL. Where do you deal? In most places he who is dealt the first card, gets the last card too. I guess you deal each player two at a time?

    Scary.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:04pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    If you were in the small blind, the dealer should be reprimanded for a miss deal...

    guess two ther saw the same as me ... im last
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:06pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    Um, have you ever played poker? The small blind gets the first card, the button gets the last card.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:07pm) in reply to Papa Bull XL

    $3/$6 5 am half the table drunk or hung over, there are no misdeals.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:08pm) in reply to idigbroads

    Ummmm... only pokerstars deals perfectly every time.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:09pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    Oh my God...now I see why you folded the billionth hand....LOL
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:10pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

     
    Originally Posted by xTEDFORRESTx View Post


    LOL. Where do you deal? In most places he who is dealt the first card, gets the last card too. I guess you deal each player two at a time?

    Scary.

    seriously, do you understand that what you said here indicates that you have no clue
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:15pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    is this guy serious? sb gets dealt last hahahahahahah
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:22pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    loool, no misdeals at that time? was the dealer drunk and hung over too?
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:30pm) in reply to idigbroads

    seriously, nits like you get thrown out of low limit donk fests.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:31pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

     
    Originally Posted by xTEDFORRESTx View Post


    LOL. Where do you deal? In most places he who is dealt the first card, gets the last card too. I guess you deal each player two at a time?

    Scary.

    any shred of credibility you somehow still had is now gone
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:31pm) in reply to TheDeparted 1

    No, just coming down off the coke high I believe. He also had me jacking with the entire table and chewing on his ear. Stick with online.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:37pm) in reply to TheWacoKidd

    Unlike online poker, where misdeals never happen, in live poker declaring a misdeal is always the very last thing a dealer wants to do. Not only do they have to listen to at least an hour's worth of grumbling, it slows the game and the rake down for a good 5 or 10 minutes, since everyone has to show everyone else their hand before tossing them in. They will do almost anything to avoid a misdeal, and since none of the players started hollering "Floor", play on.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:41pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    "since everyone has to show everyone else their hand before tossing them in."

    what fucking poker planet are u from sir?
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:43pm) in reply to DJ_Chaps

    Yes, I know. Misdeals are so rare you probably have never observed donk behavior when it occurs. Naturally the guy with the Ace hangs on to his hand the longest (and bitches at the dealer afterwords the loudest). LOL At least, I think everyone has to show each other their hands, as I have never seen it done any other way. LOL
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:45pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    Ted, for awhile I forgot why I thought you were a douche. Thanks for reminding me.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:46pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    no, quite simply in the event of a mis deal the cards are all mucked and re shuffled etc etc......we dont have to show everyone our hands.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:49pm) in reply to DJ_Chaps

    I don't think you would be allowed to play in this room either. Unless they just let you in in order to be able to jump you in the parking lot later.

    Remind me to tell you about the time the rail bird demanded "to see all the hands" at show down when he wasn't even playing. The losing player got so mad he took a 30 minute break.
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:50pm) in reply to camate

    make that profitable douche
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:54pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    make that dumbass douche
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 12:56pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    ^^^^^ thats a credible statement
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 1:00pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    remind yourself to make sense. kthxbye
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    Apr 9th, 2008 (4/9/2008 1:01pm) in reply to xTEDFORRESTx

    As a poker dealer for 6 years now and the fastest I might add (ovb brag on my self) but anyways, yes it should have been a misdeal, but ted is right in a way, Dealers hate to have to have all the cards thrown back at them and hearing people bitch about how they have Ace jack yada yada and in a game where half the table is drunk the dealer really dosent care, and most of players dont obv, but if it were at a high limit table, almost imed a good player would call out misdeal. but the person to get the last card is always the button Ted.
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