If a table is playing really friendly, is it bad etiquette t

Posts: 6 · Posted: 16.07.2007, 12:34

I was playing about a month ago, the table was playing really friendly poker, no one was jamming a bunch of chips into the middle. On this particular hand, I wake up with pocket Kings, I raise 3x bb to $1.50. BB calls. The flop comes 4s 10c Kc. I bet the pot ($3) and BB comes over the top for $6. He's been playing pretty tight, so I put him on AK. I shove all in for the rest of my chips ($74). He has me covered and calls and turns over Ks 4h. The turn and river are blanks, and I take down the pot.
Was that bad etiquette to go after his stack? I play because it's fun, but also to make some money - like everyone else I imagine. The guy was really cool about the beat, said "that's poker" and that he put me on Aces. Anyway, I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks

Posts: 3276 · Posted: 16.07.2007, 13:56

Your play was exactly what I and I believe everyone here wud have done.
You're at the table to win,making friends is secondary.Your opponent was obviously an experienced poker player by his reaction to his loss.I expect to be beat by some great hands,what kills me is when some donkey stays with nothing and sucks it out on the river to beat you,that's not playing poker in my book.

Posts: 379 · Posted: 17.07.2007, 05:58

I see no problems there, he could cover the bet, he thought he could win, but didnt.

good call in my book.(yours that is) Very Happy

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I don't care how friendly the game, if you are going to play any poker ', game like No Limit Texas Hold'em you have to play properly, i.e. to win. To learn more about "friendly" strategy see some online sites like this. In this case you shoved all in, he CHOSE to call you, he could have folded. If you did have access and his two pair was best, do you think he would have chopped the pot with you just to be nice? Of course not. You have to play to win, or you might just as well not play for real money at all.Frankly, he should not have called a raise with such a junk hand. He was vulnerable to pocket kings, tens or fours. He was also vulnerable to a flush.">flush draw or a straight draw, or even king ten. There were so many hands that could have him in trouble, it is questionable to call off $74 to win the comparatively small amount that was in the pot.In any case, good hand. You should not feel bad about this kind of thing, if you do you should just pick a less competitive game.

Posts: 654 · Posted: 17.07.2007, 22:09

Rhea ~

I agree completely with everyone else who has posted a reply. They have said it all.

You should not have given it a second thought, no matter how nice or friendly you are! You were at a poker table and that says it all, too.

royalblush

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if everyone played 'nice nice' poker would be a very boring game. you're not there to make friends, you're there to have fun and make money, that's why you play. No its not bad etiquette to move all in here.If people want to play nice they can play the limit tables. No limit is a ruthless game!

Posts: 398 · Posted: 14.09.2007, 22:16

welll welllll whellll....... coke~ i read the words above this post , or previous posts of my dear crushers.....they all were of appropriate manner.....and good thought.....for like you though not in the amount of stakes as you....i have wondered basically the same thing.....thank you for the post.....though from what i read....the other player thought you to be some type of bluff...or even newbie . ooops you even tried to give an extreme hint, very curtious of you, so if i wrote a book, and used this as a possibility note or for example it would be found in the being extremly nice oooops the other player couldnt take a hint section......welllll done !!!

(just in case i incinuated i was writing a book....not happening)

Posts: 2913 · Posted: 14.09.2007, 23:04

Very interesting discussion! The kind I like to see.

And I could not agree with you all more. You've all got it right!!!

Keep up the good thinking!

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