Slow Rollers

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When you win a hand, do like our dad always told us: Act like you’ve been there before. The WSOP on ESPN has shown us the worst tap-dancing ninnies on the planet, and if you try pulling that shit on us, we’re likely to sit there and take it while fuming in silence cap you one. Fist-pumping is one thing, slow-rolling is entirely another. F-Train managed to find out you can be slow-rolled online, and shares his pain:

“Me: 46s in the SB. Half-price flop of 8-8-5 checks through 4-handed. Turn 4 puts two hearts out, I bet pot to see where things are, two folds, one call. River is an offsuit queen and my opponent has a touch less than the pot left in his stack because he is one of the aforementioned short buyers (bought in for 20 BBs, has 12 left). The alarm bells were ringing in my head that such a player wouldn’t call the turn on a draw without the 8, but I was bored so I put him in. He then took his time to ponder the call, typed “hmmmmmmm” into the chat, waited a few more seconds then called and showed 88 for flopped quads, ending with a “lol” in the chat. I typed back “slowrolling is bush league” and he answered with “blah blah blah”.”

Thoughts on Tight Games, and My Line from Friday [F-Train]