Why do I do it?......Why?

[BobbySalami]

Why the crap do I try and rep high PP's against fish?.....Why? They dont care...........I had tried before at this table with a 2/3 pot size bet...and it got no respect with my opp. calling me down with an underpair....

So I tried to show it for real this time by betting pot to rep a PP...geuss I just need to stop.

Also, should I just complete from SB with AK....I dont want to be against that many limpers do I?

FullTiltPoker Game #167050070: Table Decatur - $0.05/$0.10 - No Limit Hold'em - 18:49:02 ET - 2005/07/27
Seat 1: Luvcheez ($5.85)
Seat 2: papa24 ($1.55)
Seat 3: GnomePower ($4)
Seat 4: Rosco Coltrane ($7.25)
Seat 5: ccrazy89 ($26.75)
Seat 6: BobbySalami ($10.65)
Seat 7: Marc25 ($6.60)
Seat 8: eks ($10.85)
Seat 9: pgriv ($9.85)
BobbySalami posts the small blind of $0.05
Marc25 posts the big blind of $0.10
GnomePower posts $0.10
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BobbySalami [As Kd]
eks folds
pgriv calls $0.10
Luvcheez calls $0.10
papa24 folds
GnomePower checks
Rosco Coltrane folds
ccrazy89 folds
BobbySalami raises to $0.60
Marc25 folds
pgriv folds
Luvcheez calls $0.50
GnomePower folds
*** FLOP *** [2h 5h 7d]
BobbySalami bets $1.50
Luvcheez calls $1.50
*** TURN *** [2h 5h 7d] [2d]
BobbySalami checks
Luvcheez bets $3.75, and is all in
BobbySalami folds
Uncalled bet of $3.75 returned to Luvcheez
Luvcheez shows [2s Ad] (three of a kind, Twos)
Luvcheez wins the pot ($4.30)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $4.50 | Rake $0.20

Board: [2h 5h 7d 2d]
Seat 1: Luvcheez collected ($4.30)
Seat 2: papa24 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: GnomePower folded before the Flop
Seat 4: Rosco Coltrane didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: ccrazy89 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: BobbySalami (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 7: Marc25 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: eks didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: pgriv folded before the Flop

[evman150]

If it was me I wouldn't even raise from the SB like that.

Maybe if I was playing with decent players, but against fish the raise is -EV imo.

[Theeggman]

You can't bluff the unbluffable. Don't try. This move might get respect at higher levels (might), but here just wait for your made hands and be glad you're at a table that will pay those hands off.

[BobbySalami]

Yah....I need to put a damn sticky note on my monitor telling me to stop doing it....I have lost too much damn money doing this.

But do you want a lot of callers in this hand?....If I wouldnt have raised it would have been 5 handed to the flop....and If I hit there is a better chance that TPTK is no good.....

[Fnord]

Don't jam pots a bunch pre-flop and show them hands.

I might just build a pot a bit here pre-flop...

[SinkRox]

know thy player.. important even at these stakes - there will be many that will call cont. bets with underpairs, get a read and if so dont cont bet without goods.

[Silly String]

Bobby, I look back at my biggest losses and most stem from bad calls on pushes and . . . you guessed it, BLUFFING. Bluffing at low limits is akin to steer roping with dental floss. I just don't do it anymore. One stab at the pot, and then let it go or at worst call it down cheap if you must know his cards.

[Robert Tiltin']

Bobby, I look back at my biggest losses and most stem from bad calls on pushes and . . . you guessed it, BLUFFING. Bluffing at low limits is akin to steer roping with dental floss. I just don't do it anymore. One stab at the pot, and then let it go or at worst call it down cheap if you must know his cards.

I think I will tattoo this on my eyelids. So true. No respect given.

(insert rant about low-stakes people getting lucky even when you do have the goods)

[BobbySalami]

All good replies, so with AK the agreement at these stakes is limp in EP...and juice the pot a bit with MP-LP...then if you miss muck it, and if you hit make sure you aint beat with TPTK?

[DimitriT]

Everybody does it. We ALL do it. I just did it and I want to do it again.

Couldn't resist the Mel Brooks quote...

But serious at .5/.10 you gotta play them for what they are: beginners. These guys don't understand pot odds or reads yet so don't try the poker-judo on them. Just play them straight and make 'em pay for cards.

[EricE]

These guys don't understand pot odds or reads yet so don't try the poker-judo on them.

hahahaha.