After busting out about mid-way through Grubby’s Blogger Tournament I played some cash games. Hey, I had to make back my rebuy money. Anyway, I’m on one of the funniest tables I’ve ever seen before. Two guys are sitting next to each other and they are both maniacs. They frequently get into raising wars with one hand getting up to over 20BB and only three people in. So it’s the two of them in and one guy who I’ve got pegged as a little loose/passive (I’ve got over 1000 hands played against him in PokerTracker so it’s a pretty good read). Three players, flop comes JJJ. The raising war begins. Turn brings the case J putting quad fish hooks on the board. More betting and raising. One of the maniacs types in the chat window “Bluff That!” River is a junk card (I think it was a 4). More betting and raising. Finally, Maniac 1 turns up 79o. Maniac 2 tunes up Q5. Loose/Passive flips up KK. The maniac who thought L/P was bluffing (Mr. 79o) types “Never mind.”
I was almost in tears laughing.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
