fools and their money

[marine]

So I was playing in a nice lil Hold em game not too long ago at a hole in the wall joint. Game was soft, but I just was not catching any cards at all. I mean NUTTIN! But anyway, its no limit and I am just hangin in there about even after the longest while... patience i keep telling myself, patience. There is a middle aged woman at the table a few seats from me who is playing her position like its the only factor in the game. If she is on the button... she is raising. If she is in the cut off... she raises the button out so she can have the button. Its driving me absolutely nuts watching her do this and the table seems oblivious to it as they are ALWAYS folding to her. She is yammering on and on about the tourneys she plays in and how she has done this and that in her poker life... yadda yadda yadda another windbag of a woman.

So on to the hand that fills me with joy. I get a seat change and get directly on her left. AMEN! I am the small blind for this hand and end up with duece duece... a lovely hand.. BLECH! anyway, one person joins the fun and everyone else folds to the hag on my right, who surprise surprise jacks it up. I think to myself, what the hell, lets go for it and see what she has been up to all this time!
So i call and so does the other goon.
Flop: A-A-J
UGH!
first guy checks, the hag makes a nice size bet and i call it just on a whim she has nothing. 3rd guy folds out so we are heads up.
Turn: 9
i check, she bets, i call, and she sighs and shakes her head at me as if i am just wasting my money at this point.
River: 7
no full house for me!!!! bummer
i check, she bets... i say okey dokey... i came this far, i will pay you off.
i tossed my dueces on the table and tell her to show me the ace just for fun.

NOW GET THIS... she looks at me, shakes her head and says... and i quote..

"BOY DID YOU GET LUCKY!"
and slams her cards down.

i saw one of the cards flip a lil bit as the dealer grabbed them and it was a red 3... no idea wha thte other one was tho. certainly wasnt the other 3... LOL!

 

[HONUS]

Great story and a great lesson for those who play. Sounds like she won a ton on position play alone. Tells you how much position strategy means in the game.

By the way, weren't you entitled to see her hand since she was in all the way? Couldn't you have asked the dealer, forcing her to un-muck her muck?

 

[Bluemound Freak]

My god, I thought I was bad at cards!

I guess she was playing that bluff for all it was worth! That crap might work at a local game with 4-5 players, but damn you would need some big ones to pull that crap in a room full of players! What an idiot!

 

[HONUS]

Sounds to me like she wasn't an idiot at all! From the story, she won quite a bit before Marine caught on. Probably would have kept on going had Marine not switched the position. Interesting to know what happened after that round. Anyone else catch on?
Did she adjust after that?

 

[spanky2]

BOOK 'EM DANO..
How you been kid ???
Hope you took my lesson from our last e-mail and cut the wife out of those nice winning nights you have.Shit boy, you do all the work and YOU GOTTA drink all that booze( what was that piss ,Jack and Coke) ... Get a beat -up old paint can and hide YOUR $$$$$.
The Jerky is almost gone(grabbed 6 bags in Florida), so I'll be dropping you a line shortly.
And stop pickin' on "Little Old Laddies". Shit, it was probably Mrs. Spanky. I 'll have to come back out ther and pound the crap out of you and ALL your crew
Hope you put the 'screws to the table' and grabbed ALL the Cash...
Over and out......Spanky.....

 

[marine]

The follow up....
(didnt get a chance to finish the post completely due to work)

No need to turn her cards over, everyone knew she had jack squat. L*

But, from then on. she was screwed, glued, and tatooed! Nobody respected her for squat! It loosened up the game a lil bit, and got some bigger pots going in the process. But man was she done. She was forced to show down the nuts anytime she went to the river... which rarely happened after that.
She stayed for maybe two hours after the hand and couldnt get nuthing going again and finally left in a huff after giving me the dreaded "evil eye".

She had a good thing going for her. A few other players at the table were the same way, but not so obvious (every single time) and they were much quieter. I just figured it was her time... L*
They way she kept blabbing on and on about this tourney and that tourney yadda yadda yadaa....

to quote myself on identifying who the sharks are and who the wanna bees are..
"No one is that good.... and advertises it."


and here i sit with a shot of tequila whispering to myself....
<i>"Here's to the finally tuned athlete on the verge of greatness"