Poker Stories: His excuse for calling? He had a "note" on me

Game #4733825023: Table Goldspur (6 max) - $2/$4 - No Limit Hold'em - 11:52:20 ET - 2008/01/04

Seat 1: JBNYC ($166)

Seat 2: gomore ($435.60)

Seat 3: nonthinking ($443)

Seat 4: thebot1001 ($194.80)

Seat 5: 2konkok ($45)

Seat 6: JMurda88 ($187.70)

2konkok posts the small blind of $2

JMurda88 posts the big blind of $4

JBNYC: $34 down

The button is in seat #4

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to JBNYC [Jc Jh]

JBNYC calls $4

gomore raises to $18

nonthinking folds

thebot1001 folds

JBNYC: getting destroyed

2konkok folds

JMurda88 folds

JBNYC: i am going to raise you gomore

JBNYC has 15 seconds left to act

gomore: its ok

gomore: ;p

JBNYC raises to $50

gomore has 15 seconds left to act

gomore raises to $435.60, and is all in

JBNYC calls $116, and is all in

gomore shows [Qs Kh]

JBNYC shows [Jc Jh]

Uncalled bet of $269.60 returned to gomore

JBNYC: good luck

*** FLOP *** [Jd 9c Th]

*** TURN *** [Jd 9c Th] [5d]

*** RIVER *** [Jd 9c Th 5d] [Ad]

JBNYC: lol

gomore shows a straight, Ace high

JBNYC shows three of a kind, Jacks

gomore wins the pot ($335) with a straight, Ace high

JBNYC: that's gross

JBNYC is sitting out

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot $338 | Rake $3

Board: [Jd 9c Th 5d Ad]

Seat 1: JBNYC showed [Jc Jh] and lost with three of a kind, Jacks

Seat 2: gomore showed [Qs Kh] and won ($335) with a straight, Ace high

Seat 3: nonthinking didn't bet (folded)

Seat 4: thebot1001 (button) didn't bet (folded)

Seat 5: 2konkok (small blind) folded before the Flop

Seat 6: JMurda88 (big blind) folded before the Flop

The amount of times you call an all in for your cash and lose with JJ against someone with a slightly better hand/coin flip I bet is more than the amount of times you will win with it - thats in my experience. I really dont get people that call all ins like this in a cash game unless you have something huge - you can just sit and wait for a hand. If it was a tourney of course I'm calling every time - but in a cash game its not a race.

It's $116 and we're getting 2:1. Even if his range is as tight as KK+ and AK, we should call. And that's a pretty ridiculously tight range. Folding and waiting here is stupid. It's a cash game, not a tournament. And it makes absolutely no difference whether it's us or the opponent who is short.

Don't forget

talks too much during hands that he's in

JBNYC,

Everything in life is a matter of perspective and I think you are letting your perspective get distorted. The most important element is the one you are overlooking. The most important element is that you are able to sustain this beat and still have money to keep on playing.

Beats like this are going to happen on every level. The question is if it happened on a $10/$20 where the pot would theoretically be 8 times the size of this one would you have been able to sustain the loss better?

peace,

dumwaldo

FYP

apparently i only win when i play "outside my bankroll" my man. A guy just called an all in from a $30 raise for $350 with AK against my KK and just hit an Ace on the turn...that's genius. I'd rather play $10/20 than this 2/4 garbage.

I can't remember ever seeing JJ played any worse in a cash game then this hand.

When your opponent came back over the top of you, surely that was a sign that you should consider losing $50 and keeping the rest of your cash to fight another day.......yes, you did make the right call, and its a sick beat but your practically on a coin flip. In a cash game if I've been re-re-raised pre flop with Jacks I'm lettign them go - only ever calling if i have a read or they are short stacked.