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pat3392
Visionary
Silver Level
The other night I met a seemingly poker fanatic who invited me to a home cash game that she hosts regularly. This has no rake. However, I have very little cash game experience(I have played cash game 1100 hands and don't understand basic cash game theory, but have read Harrington on Hold'em vol. 1&2 and watched a fair few online videos) and was wondering if you guys could tell me if you'd think this player is a fish or not, going upon what she said:
She told me that it was a cash game, to which I replied, "I'm not experienced with them but I think one must play tight(something like that anyway)" and she replied, "nah if you play tight you will loose. You gotta play loose. It's common to see hands like 47 win. You miles as well throw away your high cards.(close enough to what she said)"
I played a short stack heads up game with her, it was play money. One hand she fired out a bluff on a non dangerous board on the flop; she went 3x the pot to which I criticized as a bad play. I said to her that just betting the pot would have achieved the same thing, but she said that she wanted to charge you to chase my random pairs, she was so convinced that the play was correct.
Another hand(the first hand) she criticized my play a fair bit and she was convinced, as was her daughters, that it was a bad play, no doubt about it. Here it is:
Villian (SB) 1475: limps
Hero (BB) (J6o)1450: checks
Pot=100
Flop: 987 rainbow
Hero bets 75
Villian raises to 250
Hero goes all in
I did the math and she needed to fold 40% of the time for that play to be neutral EV( I used the 3 J high cards in the deck as 1.5 outs, can someone PLEASE tell me if this is correct to do) This play also has the added advantage of making her play a little bit more straight forward against me and bluff less, consequently making the game easier. So was this such a bad move?
She also said that they are usually between 6-12 handed. Her daughter told me that she is the best of all the players that play there.
EDIT: I should add she called my all in raise(the hand with the J6o) with 94
She told me that it was a cash game, to which I replied, "I'm not experienced with them but I think one must play tight(something like that anyway)" and she replied, "nah if you play tight you will loose. You gotta play loose. It's common to see hands like 47 win. You miles as well throw away your high cards.(close enough to what she said)"
I played a short stack heads up game with her, it was play money. One hand she fired out a bluff on a non dangerous board on the flop; she went 3x the pot to which I criticized as a bad play. I said to her that just betting the pot would have achieved the same thing, but she said that she wanted to charge you to chase my random pairs, she was so convinced that the play was correct.
Another hand(the first hand) she criticized my play a fair bit and she was convinced, as was her daughters, that it was a bad play, no doubt about it. Here it is:
Villian (SB) 1475: limps
Hero (BB) (J6o)1450: checks
Pot=100
Flop: 987 rainbow
Hero bets 75
Villian raises to 250
Hero goes all in
I did the math and she needed to fold 40% of the time for that play to be neutral EV( I used the 3 J high cards in the deck as 1.5 outs, can someone PLEASE tell me if this is correct to do) This play also has the added advantage of making her play a little bit more straight forward against me and bluff less, consequently making the game easier. So was this such a bad move?
She also said that they are usually between 6-12 handed. Her daughter told me that she is the best of all the players that play there.
EDIT: I should add she called my all in raise(the hand with the J6o) with 94
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