Effing Nits

I play FTP’s 200 BB deep stack games almost exclusively. That’s in part because I prefer deeper stacked play but also because the higher stakes regular games are infested with people who buy in for the minimum of 20 BB (the minimum on the deep tables is 50BB). There are some who do it professionally and somehow still manage not to come all that close to a good short stacking strategy but then there are these absolutely atrocious guys who buy in short and play like the loose passive idiots that they are. I constantly make mistakes them against them because I assume that they can’t possibly be as nitty as they are when it comes to showing any aggression.

This isn’t really an example of me making a mistake but it does go to what I’m talking about.

Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 8 Players
LeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter

UTG+1: $138
MP1: $1,447.75
Hero (MP2): $1,000
CO: $1,523
BTN: $612.30
SB: $1,000
BB: $276
UTG: $1,067

Pre-Flop: Q Q dealt to Hero (MP2)
3 folds, Hero raises to $30, CO calls $30, BTN calls $30, SB calls $25, BB raises to $276 and is All-In, Hero raises to $1,000 and is All-In, 3 folds

Flop: ($642) 6 A J (2 Players – 1 is All-In)

Turn: ($642) 4 (2 Players – 1 is All-In)

River: ($642) K (2 Players – 1 is All-In)

Results: $642 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed Q Q (a pair of Queens) and LOST (-$276 NET)
BB showed A A (three of a kind, Aces) and WON $639 (+$363 NET)

Obviously when I’m holding Q’s and get three calls, I’m not thrilled. I was sitting there thinking how perfect it would be for the BB to shove so I could shove over the top and have a huge edge against his hand. From his perspective, he should be shoving really wide because the pot is already like half his stack and he’ll probably get heads up with just one other player.

But then I thought about how much these short stacks suck and they never in shove in spots where they should and how this guy probably isn’t going to do what he should to create a profitable spot for both of us. Then he does shove and I’m briefly excited to see that maybe he doesn’t suck as bad as I thought but then he turns out to have the nuts anyway. @#$%ing nits!