Dealing with a Bully

#1 23rd December 2007, 9:32 PM

How do you depend against a bully? Someone with a 15k chip stack is raising EVERY HAND, stealing the blinds, While im sitting there folding A9, because I dont want to risk my 3k stack with this aggressive physco. What do I do?

#2 23rd December 2007, 9:39 PM

push your A9 or get blinded out

#3 23rd December 2007, 9:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corounder1

How do you depend against a bully? Someone with a 15k chip stack is raising EVERY HAND, stealing the blinds, While im sitting there folding A9, because I dont want to risk my 3k stack with this aggressive physco. What do I do?

Depends on the blinds... but if you don't make a stand at some point, then the above poster is correct. It's better to shove with some equity then to just be blinded out.

#4 23rd December 2007, 10:59 PM

maybe

1) you should be in a lower limit game
2) you wait til you get the cards to win - how many times have you seen someone like this lose it all?
3) this guy is rich and irrational - not much you can do about that

#5 23rd December 2007, 11:10 PM

Keep folding your A9. What if he has A10, or he is pushing with something better. Wait until you get a better hand to push with and push back, chances are he won't call.

He's probably rich like mentioned above, and he is probably raising every hand no matter what, and just when you think he is raising with crap, he will flop over a strong hand...... Thats why you don't push with your A9.

#6 23rd December 2007, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Crummy

Keep folding your A9. What if he has A10, or he is pushing with something better. Wait until you get a better hand to push with and push back, chances are he won't call.

He's probably rich like mentioned above, and he is probably raising every hand no matter what, and just when you think he is raising with crap, he will flop over a strong hand...... Thats why you don't push with your A9.

I'm assuming this is a tournament. If the blinds are even remotely large relative to your stack at this point, you have to shove with A9.

He is shoving every hand. That means his range is everything. The means A9 is well ahead of his range. So what if this time he happens to have something better? Crushing his range = +ev.

#7 23rd December 2007, 11:21 PM

IF blinds are high, shove with A9.

#8 23rd December 2007, 11:25 PM

well he has a 15K stack so the blinds are at 100-200 or less u should wait for a better hand
if the blindsare like 300-600 and u have a 3K stack u have to push

#9 23rd December 2007, 11:27 PM

Hey what do I know, I must be an idiot, heres why, (this just happend two minutes ago) and how ironic. I'm playing a tournament, raise big with AK get one caller, flop comes 9AA, bet big, get a call, turn comes J, I push all in with Trip Aces and a King Kicker, guy calls, guess what he flips over.........yeah freaking A9. I laughed at myself, still am shocked!!!

lol I hate poker!!

#10 23rd December 2007, 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crummy

Hey what do I know, I must be an idiot, heres why, (this just happend two minutes ago) and how ironic. I'm playing a tournament, raise big with AK get one caller, flop comes 9AA, bet big, get a call, turn comes J, I push all in with Trip Aces and a King Kicker, guy calls, guess what he flips over.........yeah freaking A9. I laughed at myself, still am shocked!!!

lol I hate poker!!

dont hate poker hate A9

#11 24th December 2007, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by pantin007

dont hate poker hate A9

Could have been worse. You could have had AA and he had A9 and the flop came AA9 with two spades. Then you call to the river, where the spade hits and you shove, representing the flush. He calls and you bust him.

Sure, this seems ideal. But this good-looking young punk just might come back later with determination on his face and his life on the line and bust you for a much bigger haul with his mad soul-reading and slow-playing skillz! And you'll have to give up oreos, which you love.

Beware A9! It can pwn you so many ways that you'll never see coming.

#12 24th December 2007, 2:40 AM

If that happens there's something wrong with the site/game as there'd be five aces in the deck, I think you mean flop of A99

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