Wednesday, January 23, 2008

A Fish called Paranoia

I sat down at 2x $0.50/$1 tables. I had played a few orbits and hadnt noticed anything too untoward. I didn't have many stats on anyone when the following hand came up.

$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:
UTG TJHOOKER65 ($112.00)
UTG+1 LAURELB ($14.50)
CO BRANDON77 ($16.80)
BTN Hero ($111.30)
SB ROLLIN60 ($76.36)
BB RYAN_454545 ($94.00)

Pre-flop: ($1.5, 6 players) Hero is BTN

TJHOOKER65 calls $1, LAURELB calls $1, 1 fold, Hero raises to $5, ROLLIN60 calls $4.5, 1 fold, TJHOOKER65 raises to $10, LAURELB goes all-in $14.5, Hero raises to $35, ROLLIN60 folds, TJHOOKER65 goes all-in $112, Hero goes all-in $76.3

Flop: ($254.8, 3 players)

Turn: ($254.8, 3 players)

River: ($254.8, 3 players)
Hero shows:
TJHOOKER65 shows:
LAURELB shows:

TJHOOKER65 wins $240.3 ( won +$118.3 )
Hero lost -$111.30
ROLLIN60 lost -$5.00
LAURELB lost -$15.50



I consider myself a level headed person in control of most emotions and understnad that bad hands will win sometimes, bad beats happen and decisions are the key to the game not results. BUT! wtf was this ? My mind started racing to all the recent allegations of cheating at Absolute Poker (AP) and Ultimate Bet (UB). How the heck can this guy min reraise out of position (OOP) and then push all in to a decent size rereraise with 67o ? He must have been able to know what cards were coming on the flop. I reload and start firing out questions. Not in a bad loser way but to try to get some conversation. This was for 2 reasons. Firstly i admit i was feeling tilt and couldnt just let that hand go, secondly i wanted to understand if this player was just a REALLY bad player sitting there with a nice stack. Well no response from villain but i did get a bit of grief from another player for so called crying at the table. Haha. I planned to start my own investigation on this player. track his stats, expose another maybe cheater. PARANOIA sets in deep...

Then a lucky break happened 13 hands later....

$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:
UTG ($34.90)
UTG+1 ($14.00)
Hero ($92.00)
BTN ($49.21)
SB ($191.10)
BB ($245.20)

Pre-flop: ($1.5, 6 players) Hero is CO

2 folds, Hero raises to $4, 2 folds, BB raises to $8, Hero calls $4

Flop: ($16.5, 2 players)
BB bets $15, Hero raises to $40, BB raises to $165, Hero goes all-in $44

Turn: ($265.5, 2 players)

River: ($265.5, 2 players)

Final Pot: $184.50
BB shows:
Hero shows:

BB wins $81 ( lost -$92 )
Hero wins $181 ( won +$89 )



Ha. Unlucky cheating player. This doused my paranoid flames for a bit as I reclaimed some cash.

4 hands later this happened

$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:
UTG ($190.60)
UTG+1 ($157.30)
CO ($31.90)
BTN ($14.85)
Hero ($180.00)
BB ($47.21)

Pre-flop: ($1.5, 6 players) Hero is SB

UTG raises to $4, UTG+1 calls $4, 1 fold, BTN calls $4, Hero raises to $20.5, 1 fold, UTG folds, UTG+1 calls $16.5, BTN goes all-in $10.85

Flop: ($60.85, 3 players)
Hero bets $45, UTG+1 calls $45

Turn: ($150.85, 3 players)
Hero bets $107, UTG+1 goes all-in $91.8

River: ($349.65, 3 players)
BTN shows:
Hero shows:
UTG+1 shows:

Hero wins $346.15 ( won +$173.65 )
BTN lost -$14.85
UTG lost -$4.00
UTG+1 lost -$157.30



OMG! how wrong was I. T5 offsuit calling a large preflop raise and going all the way with middle pair crap kicker. Unfortunately clever cheating player that i understand wouldnt have a clue how to cheat has just stacked off all his cash to me.

Dont take everything at face value. I should have controlled that emotional response in me and looked at all the options. Cheating ? Bad player ? Drunk ? likes conectors preflop ? my new ATM ? I been playing this game for a few years now and am a little concerned that I got so easily troubled. That could have easily taken me on a bad run where i was desperate to get it back but the thought of cheating made me play a little conservative for that short period of time.

Im not paranoid... hmm... or was he just covering his tracks by paying me back when I mentioned in the chat the possibility of cheat accounts ????

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