I Love "Juicy" Poker Games

Last Saturday I had to leave the live game at about 10pm and I was bummed because it's what I call a "juicy" game.


Roland and Miguel (a/k/a "The Professional") were just being ridiculous.  They made a deal verbally in front of all players that if one of them raised, the other would call no matter what 2 cards they had.  If there was a re-raise by a 3rd party, they didn't have to call unless they wanted to, but if there weren't any re-raises they were obligated to call each other.  This got very juicy for everyone else.  Roland even re-bought for $1,000 at one point.


My favorite personal moment was when I simply decided I'd had enough of the $22 pre-flop raises by Roland (who was on my right and never looked at his cards for about an hour).  He would do this about every 4th or 5th hand.  I had 2-3 off-suit and called the raise on the button, as did Miguel and one other player.  The flop was 4-4-9 rainbow.  Miguel bet $20, the other player folded, Roland called the $20 and I raised to $40.  Miguel folded almost immediately as did Roland.  I decided to be mean and evil and show my 3 high.  Roland thought it was really funny and Miguel gave me the "ooshka ooshka" look like he wanted to strangle me. 


I decided to take my $325 profit and left shortly thereafter.  Paybacks are a bitch and I didn't want to have one handed to me - LOL.


I found out the next day that Miguel ended up the winner of that battle, taking almost $2,000 off Roland.  Ouch.