Now this is how you take advantage of fish

Reads: Bothin, seated just to my right, was a mega fish - betting and raising with garbage, calling raises with crap hands, min-betting a lot... just a bad player all around. He was my real target here, particularly after a hand where I raised with AK, flopped aces, and turned trip aces, only to have him call me down all the way with a pair of nines (and his hand was 92 suited). The other two that ended up in the hand... the first player was a typical short stack so I had little fear. The other one I didn't know much about; luckily he was making what had to have been a play out of desperation or boredom.

***** Hand History for Game 2201609981 *****
$50 NL Hold'em - Monday, June 13, 16:31:32 EDT 2005
Table Table 36661 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 3: FingerFox ( $60.33 )
Seat 5: silent_man ( $50.95 )
Seat 1: stressball10 ( $78.62 )
Seat 4: Mrjack111 ( $32.01 )
Seat 2: whitestripes ( $4.1 )
Seat 6: Bothin ( $27.95 )
stressball10 posts small blind [$0.25].
whitestripes posts big blind [$0.5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ Jd Js ]
FingerFox folds.
Mrjack111 calls [$0.5].
Bothin raises [$1].
stressball10 raises [$27.75].
whitestripes is all-In [$3.6]
Mrjack111 is all-In [$31.51]
Bothin is all-In [$26.95]
stressball10 calls [$4.01].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, Kh, 8h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8s ]
stressball10 shows [ Jd, Js ] two pairs, jacks and eights.
whitestripes doesn't show [ 7s, 7h ] two pairs, eights and sevens.
Mrjack111 doesn't show [ Qh, Ac ] a pair of eights.
Bothin doesn't show [ 3d, 3h ] two pairs, eights and threes.
stressball10 wins $8.12 from side pot #2 with two pairs, jacks and eights.
stressball10 wins $70.35 from side pot #1 with two pairs, jacks and eights.
stressball10 wins $15.6 from the main pot with two pairs, jacks and eights.

Yeah that play looks fine if you were positive you could isolate the maniac, but imo you are incredibly lucky that the other two didn't have you beat.

nice pot though

Originally Posted by Bmxicle

Yeah that play looks fine if you were positive you could isolate the maniac

Hence the giant raise... I had no idea I was getting two more callers after that. Wasn't worried about the short stack, obviously, but mrjack was a source of concern. At that point there was no getting away from it though. I can't believe he only had AQ.

This was the final hand against Mr. Bothin, and is a rock solid case for sometimes trusting your read above all else:

***** Hand History for Game 2201999982 *****
$50 NL Hold'em - Monday, June 13, 18:03:36 EDT 2005
Table Table 36661 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: stressball10 ( $193.19 )
Seat 6: Bothin ( $26.02 )
Seat 2: JungleNinja ( $50 )
Seat 3: glumpers ( $24.05 )
Seat 5: Ztreban ( $27.69 )
Seat 4: mockster20 ( $71.55 )
Bothin posts small blind [$0.25].
stressball10 posts big blind [$0.5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ Th Td ]
JungleNinja folds.
Ztreban calls [$0.5].
Bothin calls [$0.25].
stressball10 raises [$1.5].
Ztreban calls [$1.5].
Bothin calls [$1.5].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, Qs, 6s ]
Bothin bets [$5].
stressball10 calls [$5].
Ztreban folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4d ]
Bothin bets [$10].
stressball10 raises [$20].
Bothin is all-In [$9.02]
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ]
stressball10 shows [ Th, Td ] two pairs, queens and tens.
Bothin shows [ Ks, 7s ] a pair of queens.
stressball10 wins $0.98 from side pot #1 with two pairs, queens and tens.
stressball10 wins $52.04 from the main pot with two pairs, queens and tens.

Wow, when that king flopped I thought for sure you were beat. 2nd one. . .they were s00ted. NHs