Why won't people respect a decent raise?

I'm in MP with $1300 left, 8 people still. Table is looking really fishy. I catch queens, and livepokerforum (blinds are 25/50), so my bet was $175. BB calls. Flop is 8 9 9. He checks, I bet the pot again $350. He goes over the top. Now I know this tool box has a 9, but I call it anyways because I'm just tired of this crap. He has 9 7 os!!!

MOTHER FUCKER. What do you have to bet with queens? Do I just have to push all in every GD time with them?

I know I shoulda folded, but F the GD fish sometimes.

Oh, man, do I feel your pain. Your post sounds like what I've been going through the last few nights.

Similar hand: A couple of nights ago at PokerRoom, to my immediate left is a guy who's not playing every hand, but when he does, he calls down everything to the river. Then on the river, he'll check it if he's betting first, fold if you bet into him or bet if you check it to him.

The few times we've seen his cards, he's hanging on with second or third pair, a couple of times with a non-paired Ax. But he's won enough that he actually has the chip lead.

Blinds at $25/50, I catch TT in the SB. One limper ahead of me, I bet $200, calling station in BB calls (of course), limper folds, so it's heads up, calling station and me.

Flop is Q33. I overbet the pot, half my stack, $1000 to try to either shake him or get him to reraise all-in if he has a Q or a 3. He calls. Turn is rags, I say screw it, I'm all-in. He calls. He shows freaking A6, offsuit, nothing close to a draw even.

And you know what hits on the river. I'm out.

That sucks Fishy. Read my recent post on the complete opposite that just happened.

I'm really struggling to get going on the $22s.

Do you feel strange pressure when you go up in buy-in?

Oh, I just answered this in your other post.


Just played in another SnG this morning with one of those guys. Not the same guy, but he would do the same thing. Call. Call. Call. Call. Never raise. Never fold. Just call. Makes it impossible to play any hand short of AA or KK. If you limp in, he'll limp. If you raise 3X, he'll call. If you raise 6X, he'll call. ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH.

So I get AK suited in diamonds on the button. He's in BB. I raise 5X. He calls. Flop is Kc7d2d. He throws out a minibet ($30, I think). I go all-in. He calls. He's got Qc7c, turn is Ac, river is 3c. I'm done.

This is happening to me every day, it seems.

Well, I'm back to playing SNGs again, despite my best efforts to avoid them. So far, I've been doing well. I've been knocked out with QQ running into AA and TT in LP, losing to KK. Other than that, I've been doing ok.

The trick I'm finding is following Nash's advice. I ain't playing nothing but big hands until the fourth round. By then, most of these nimrods are either gone, or full of themselves. When the blinds get high enough, their asses pucker up tight and they are vulnerable to a very tight player suddenly getting all over them. They often choke up, completely. That may be the only way to play these weak chumps.

The ones I hate are the ALL IN or fold bunch. They are damn near impossible to play.

Hi, I'm Cactus Jack and I'm an addict. <Hi, CJ.>

Funny last line Cactus. I agree with using Nash's strategy as well. But....I've learned to "let myself get lucky" - limp with crap in the SB with anything (almost) if cheap. I still play big aces, but I either limp with them or min-raise them. If you bet em big early, its almost like you are challenging the tool boxes to come over the top with their 9s or 10s, etc. So, I almost play big aces like I would a medium pair - cheap, and hope to catch. Then you have to put out some kind of a feeler bet and see where it goes.

Good luck from another addict. BANG BANG!