My Dad Crushed My Home Game

[KingJames 11]

So last night was my brother's 22nd birthday. My parents hosted a party at Morton's and we feasted on steak, seafood, wine and scotch.Everyone had gone out hard to the bars the night before, so post dinner we decided to head home and play some cards. There were 7 of us and we decided to play .25/.50 NLHE.My dad, who definitely had the most wine and scotch, told us to get him a stack of chips. I was excited cause I figured it would be a quick donation of $50.Now, I know my dad is a good bridge and gin player. I have also heard of big poker games at the country club, but they only played stud hi, stud hi/lo and 5 card draw, but he has almost no experience playing no-limit.After folding the first couple of hands, pops wins the first big pot of the night with KQ on a KKT44 board against a friend calling down with JT. I didn't think much of it as most people would play KQ and bet trips.In order to make a pretty long story short, over the next 3 hours he ran his $50 to over $200 and was crushing. He played just about every hand pre-flop and would structure his betting similar to limit hold'em. If the raise was $1.50 or $2 pf, he'd value bet $2 on the flop and $2-5 on the turn/river and was pwning. He never made a bet bigger than $5, but when he called people's big bets, he almost always had the best hand.A few highlights from the session.Holding JTs on the button he flops the King-high straight and wins a $75 3 way pot.My dad raised UTG with KK for $2, a short stack moves in for $15. My brother moves in for $50. My dad mucks his KK. Short-stack shows JJ and my brother shows QQ. Dad would have flopped top set and won even more money, but he announces that from his experience, one of the players had to have AA... I was shocked.A friend who is TAG raised in early position, and my dad and 2 others called, seeing a flop of 678. TAG was down to about $20 dollars and over-shoved into the $10 pot. My dad calls, my brother shoves for $50, Dad calls. $70 in the main pot, $60 side pot.TAG shows TT for an over-pair and gutter-ball. Brother shows A5 for open-ended to the low end. Dad shows 88 for top set. (My brother is terrible if you can't tell.) Turn comes a T, River J and TAG wins main pot, Dad wins side-pot.Anyway, we played until 2:30 or so, my dad had ~$200 dollars, and it would have been more if he played the KK and the 88 held up...Being the generous guy he is, he told the 5 (2 hadn't re-bought after busting) of us remaining to chop his $200. So we each added an extra $40 when we cashed out. I was able to avoid playing big pots all night, chipped up slowly from $50 to $85, added the $40 and walked with $125.A real fun night and I can't wait to go to Vegas with my dad this fall!Cliffnotes: my dad crushed my home game for 3 buy-ins and it could have been more.

[gatortom64 1]

Moral: Does mess with us old people.also, you were all probably teary eyed after the Magic win.

[TheWynn 0]

He was a ringer. LOL.

[kobe2odom8 14]

sounds fun... lol @ dad folding kings

[rcgs59 15]

he sounded logically about the Aces though, but I would of at least seen the flop. and us older ones can play poker sometimes lol

[irishguy 14]

he sounded logically about the Aces though, but I would of at least seen the flop. and us older ones can play poker sometimes lol

Tough to just see the flop with two all ins in front of you...

[rcgs59 15]

Tough to just see the flop with two all ins in front of you...

that's true, still super hard to fold Kings, but I would have to look at those players to see what tells and reads on them I could pick up, especially on a home game.

[bbgun 0]

that's true, still super hard to fold Kings, but I would have to look at those players to see what tells and reads on them I could pick up, especially on a home game.

The only "read" that would convince me to fold KK preflop in a 7-handed home game would be the villian tabling his hand before I called.

[lurbz 2]

The only "read" that would convince me to fold KK preflop in a 7-handed home game would be the villian tabling his hand before I called.

How about a SNG with a 5bet and 6bet shove in front after you 3bet it? (No, I'm not kidding, I almost folded it but couldn't pull the trigger. 5 better had AA, 6 better had TT, My KK 3bet, and there was a 4 bet AQ in there for some unknown reason...flop AKx obv. Craziest action hand I've ever been involved in.

[kobe2odom8 14]

lol if there are 6 bets in front of you..... aa seems like a possibility. that hand is just super lol

[rcgs59 15]

How about a SNG with a 5bet and 6bet shove in front after you 3bet it? (No, I'm not kidding, I almost folded it but couldn't pull the trigger. 5 better had AA, 6 better had TT, My KK 3bet, and there was a 4 bet AQ in there for some unknown reason...flop AKx obv. Craziest action hand I've ever been involved in.

now that is sick

[tuckermitchell 1]

reading the posts here lately makes me wonder if I missed a second charter member signup at some point. Did I?

[AceJackOffS 0]

sounds a lot like my dad, he plays extreme small ball (not actually knowing what small ball is) seems to always win in home games. He doesn't really like holdem and would much rather play HORSE or just H/L split gamesbig difference he would take the money and run

[llou 0]

I loved the original post. "Dad" sounds a lot like my late father. He was a good general card player who played poker with a regular group of friends every Thursday night. They were all small-town community leaders and it was considered a little naughty that these upstanding citizens (the high school principle, a few teachers, a leading business, etc.) would actually play poker.Dad used to let me take a piece of his performance -- whatever percentage of the action I would want. If he won, I got my share of his winnings ... but if he lost, I had to pay my share of his losses -- and I really had to pay my share so that I would learn about both the joys and sorrows of gambling. (It was a nickle and dime game in which it was rare to win or lose more than $20.) Mom didn't exactly approve of his deal with me, so we didn't always tell her.When my younger brother grew up, he played with Dad's group ocassionally to learn the game and to fill the seats at the table. By then, the guys were all in the 60's. After Dad died and my brother had gotten his own house and Dad's old poker table, he invited Dad's old gang over for a game. The surviving members were in the 70's and 80's by that time. I think that was kind of nice of him ... to host a little reunion for them And yes, I'm pretty sure he won enough to pay for the refreshments. Thanks for sharing the story.

[KingJames 11]

I loved the original post. "Dad" sounds a lot like my late father. He was a good general card player who played poker with a regular group of friends every Thursday night. They were all small-town community leaders and it was considered a little naughty that these upstanding citizens (the high school principle, a few teachers, a leading business, etc.) would actually play poker.Dad used to let me take a piece of his performance -- whatever percentage of the action I would want. If he won, I got my share of his winnings ... but if he lost, I had to pay my share of his losses -- and I really had to pay my share so that I would learn about both the joys and sorrows of gambling. (It was a nickle and dime game in which it was rare to win or lose more than $20.) Mom didn't exactly approve of his deal with me, so we didn't always tell her.When my younger brother grew up, he played with Dad's group ocassionally to learn the game and to fill the seats at the table. By then, the guys were all in the 60's. After Dad died and my brother had gotten his own house and Dad's old poker table, he invited Dad's old gang over for a game. The surviving members were in the 70's and 80's by that time. I think that was kind of nice of him ... to host a little reunion for them And yes, I'm pretty sure he won enough to pay for the refreshments. Thanks for sharing the story.

That's a great story! As much as I like playing a high volume of hands online, and bigger cash games live, kitchen table poker with friends/family is a lot of fun!

[KingJames 11]

Moral: Does mess with us old people.also, you were all probably teary eyed after the Magic win.

Denver fan, so still teary eyed from the loss Friday night. And I like LBJ but he is a little obnoxious; to not shake hands at the end of the series is pretty weak.

[llou 0]

That's a great story! As much as I like playing a high volume of hands online, and bigger cash games live, kitchen table poker with friends/family is a lot of fun!

If more families regularly played cards together, there would be fewer dysfunctinal families and messed up kids. Both sets of grandparents played a variety of card games with us as kids and so did our parents. As we got to be teenagers, we played with our parents 3 or 4 times per week (usually hearts or bridge). How many parents regularly share fun with their teenagers like that?My younger brother married a woman whose family also plays cards regularly. Their kids were all learning to play little card games by the time they were 2 or 3 years old -- finding cards that matched, making pairs and trying to make 3-of-a-kind, learning to keep a poker face when you get the "Old Maid," etc. Now that they are in elementary school, they are all exceptionally good at math and all of them could read and do simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with small numbers by the time they started 1st grade. I don't think that was a coincidence. They had been adding the numbers on dice, reading cards, keeping score, etc. longer than they can remember.That's one of the things that frustrates me most about the political resistence to poker in the United State. To me, I associate card-playing with health wholesome family activities -- and to not allow it seems ridiculous.Oh ... and one last thing ... My Dad was playing poker in an Air Force officer's club the night of the day I was born. If it was legal there, why is there a problem playing it online in my living room?

[Gallo 1]

he sounded logically about the Aces though, but I would of at least seen the flop. and us older ones can play poker sometimes lol

looooooooool

that's true, still super hard to fold Kings, but I would have to look at those players to see what tells and reads on them I could pick up, especially on a home game.

loooooooooooooooooooler

[rcgs59 15]

loooooooooolloooooooooooooooooooler

<3 there Gallo, I will play against you and your friends anytime sir

[owise1 0]

reading the posts here lately makes me wonder if I missed a second charter member signup at some point. Did I?

now that's funny. Anything with charter member makes me lol but in a droll kind of way

[Jambot 0]

Wish my old man could make a decent showing at a home game. He plays some of the most moronic poker I have ever seen. It baffles me how such a smart man can do such foolish things in poker. Also, almost without fail, it's my cousin he spews all of his chips to. I'd suspect coludaments, but surely they'd make it more subtle than all in river calls with queen high. I honestly think he just has something in his brain that causes a full on blind spot for any concept of what makes a good hand.