Chronicles of Moron Calls: Feeding The Nit 🐡

1/2 Game at Masters Poker Club, Manila 

I open 3x under the gun with A♣️K♣️ and only the big blind calls. He is still racking his chips after limp-reraising AA and stacking the guy with AK. 

Limp-reraising the aces is so bad that it is officially banned at our Bali game. I think there should be a diagnose for this move... well, at the poker table you can at least easily diagnose him with a certain player type.

He is a straightforward reg who valuebets like crazy when he has it, plays his hands face up and likes to do what he thinks is a cunning Hollywooding, what live thinks is giving away textbook tells.

Limp-reraise with aces will remain his biggest erotic fantasy (second one will be a 7x open from the later position) and top the list of his creative plays until he dies.

Flop comes J♥️7♦️4♠️ we c-bet 4bb and it does not get through. 

The turn is 2♥️, I check, pretty much done with the hand, the villain checks back.

River comes and A♥️, when all over sudden my opponents clicks his tongue (that is what Mike Caro called a “poker clack” - a fake “I have no luck today” sound, usually followed by a bet or a raise with a big hand. Just another 100% live tell) and leads with a 18bb overbet.

He’s given me a million reason to call, yet, like Lady Gaga, I am looking for a good one, good one, to stay...

POKER CLACK

BET SIZING

Had he bet around half of the pot, I might have been calling, because it would mean “Hey, I have an ace”. Wait... given that he called me on the flop with something, that would more likely mean aces up. Nope, still a fold. 

When he makes an overbet here, he might as well scream into a speaker: “I hope you have an ace to pay me off, because I have it crushed.”

PLAYER TYPE

This guy is not capable of overbet bluffing ever. But he can fold the second nuts to a shove, yes.

RESULT

I call and he shows a 6♥️5♥️ for a flopped open-ended amd a backdoored flush.

CONCLUSION

When an ace hits and a Manila regs bet way too much, this bet is designed to get paid off by an ace, especially when the opponent’s hand looks like AK/AQ. 

If you have a just top pair, fold every time.