question regarding loose players late at night

[boooomer42]

i like to sit at the no limit tables at about 3 in the morning, i seem to make lots of profit there because everyone plays loose (i'm assuming its alcohol)... anyway, i sit down and watch a couple hands and notice a guy is going allin every hand. I get JJ and he goes allin again, the last couple times he did this he had rags and the callers took huge pots off him, what would you do? call and hope the J's hold up? or wait for a better starting hand?


i ended up calling.... a Q came out and he had Q 2 for the win, i'm still not sure if i did the right thing, any input would be appreciated

[AllinLife]

if he went allin EVERY HAND

it would be correct to go ai with any pocket pair, ace anything

btw, is it really that fishy at 3 am ?

what limit/where ya play

[boooomer42]

yes its very fishy at the 2 dollar NL tables and the 10 dollar NL tables on paradise, i don't know if its the same way at other sites, i doubt if its this bad at higher limits

[JJgoneMAD]

I've seen players who like to go AI pretty often at NL tables (PP anyone?). Usually gives one or two bad beats to callers and bust out in one hand shortly after. Call AI at your own risk i guess, you don't want to be the first 2players that pay off the maniac and later watch your money be put under someone else's stack. One thing's for sure, someone on your table other than the maniac will get richer, hopefully that's you. I used to play NL ring games at around 3am, even i used to make profit out of those games 3am or not. I don't think AllinLife would have much problem making some dough there as long as you have no problem with NL games.

[pokerfanatic]

party poker is bad about all in stuff, especially play money, dear god I got at one table and like 1 of 6 or all 6 were all in pre-flop very time, I got up and left that table, screw that! I play for experience not to gamble, even though its play money experience dealing with supper fishes is helpful. I do play real on occasions however, real is a little calmer but still get the “supper fishes” time to time.

[Spammy12345]

Yeah Party Poker in the play money sight is awful. I've seen 6 out of 9 people go all in on the first hand. I guess it's play money so they don't care, but I still think you should play normal.

[VeraN]

Yea it's really fishy late night. It's kinda like fishing where you really won't catch any fish during the day since they are out deep in the ocean. Where as at night, the tides rise and bring em closer to the docks. And it's also food time for fishies at night.

Same exact concept for poker, during the day all the rich working business men are at work, then around 6-8 you see a huge increase in players. A lot of them are loose players and dead money. At 3 AM people who don't have work early in the morning are on, consuming alcoholic beverages or whatever that impairs their mind. Maybe it's lack of sleep/tilt from the fact that they lost money from 8 PM and they're still on trying to make break even before they decide to go to sleep.

[Krapp]

Ppl play badly (looser too) when they are sleepy.
In your situation JJ was a good call. However, going all-in with JJ preflop is not generally a good thing to do.

[Fnord]

To speak of the devil...

Party Poker Pot-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (10 handed) converter

CO ($27.60)
Button ($15.30)
SB ($100.44)
Fnord ($24.50)
UTG ($23.75)
UTG+1 ($13.40)
UTG+2 ($24.50)
MP1 ($28.87)
MP2 ($37.45)
MP3 ($22)

Preflop: Fnord is BB with Q, Q.
UTG calls $0.50, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 calls $0.50, MP1 calls $0.50, MP2 calls $0.50, MP3 calls $0.50, CO folds, Button calls $0.50, SB completes, Fnord raises to $4.5, UTG calls $4, UTG+2 calls $4, MP1 calls $4, MP2 folds, MP3 calls $4, Button folds, SB folds.

Flop: ($24) A, Q, T (5 players)
Fnord bets $20 (All-In), UTG folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP3 calls $17.50 (All-In).

Turn: ($61.50) 6 (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: ($61.50) 5 (2 players, 2 all-in)

Final Pot: $61.50

Results in white below:
Fnord shows Qc Qh (three of a kind, queens).
MP3 shows Jc Kc (straight, ace high).
Outcome: MP3 wins $59. Fnord wins $2.50.

[robe43]

is it just me or is the white text almost impossible to read?

[Xianti]

is it just me or is the white text almost impossible to read?

Click-and-drag over the white text to highlight it.

[robe43]

Thanks. i'm the dumbass of the forum...i still can't get the quote thing to work

[Toasty]

hehe Robe, it's white so you can't read the result until you highlight it

[Legendash]

I couldn't get the quote to work properly either, when other people use it the get for example Toasty Wrote at the top, when i use it i get

hehe Robe, it's white so you can't read the result until you highlight it

what am i missing here? to get a quote i paste in some text, then i highlight it and press the quote button.

[Toasty]

Just Click the quote button and delete what you dont need, to quote its:


(quote="toasty") I rock(/quote)

where () are []

I rock

[Xianti]

what am i missing here? to get a quote i paste in some text, then i highlight it and press the quote button.

You don't need to copy-and-paste anything. Just click on the "quote" button to the top-right of the post you want to quote (each post has its own button). You'll then see the appropriate code written for you in your message composition window. You can edit anything between the [ quote ] [ /quote ] tags.


Alternatively, you can type in the code yourself.

For example, with this:

	

		

			

			
				
				
All-in! All-in! All-in!
			
		
	

...you get:

All-in! All-in! All-in!