100/200, very young kid in CO opens to 450, I call with Js 9s in SB, relatively bad German calls in the BB. Flop Q c Tc 5s. I consider leading out but decide to check, and we check it through. Turn is a blank, I bet 750, BB raises to 2K, CO folds, I think a long time and call with about 6K behind. River is the Ac, I shove pretty quickly, he folds disgustedly.
100/200, aggressive and very good guy raises to 450 UTG, I call next to act with Ac7c, same young kid from before calls in BB. Flop 7h 4h 2c. Checks to me, I bet 400, kid calls, original raiser folds. Turn 9c, kid checks, I bet 1100, he raises to 3500 with about 10K behind. After considerable thought, I call. river 9d, he bets 3500 pretty quickly, I call, he shows something random like Qd6d.
Sometime after this hand, the kid asks me what my screenname is online. “I don’t play online” I tell him straight-faced while wearing a Poker Stars cap and sweater.
He doesn’t get the joke and insists, “No no I recognize your voice, from a training video.” I can’t help but smile at being recognized. “Yeah, I’m Foucault82.”
“Oh yeah, from Poker Savvy!” I believe this is the first time I’ve been “recognized” in real life for the celebrity that I am.
Anyway, 100/200, the kid raises to 500 on his button, good aggro guy calls in SB. I have AKo in the BB and insist on counting kid’s stack precisely as he shouts random numbers, waves his hands back in forth in front of his chips, and generally behaves immaturely. Looks like he has a little over 6K behind. I squeeze to 1675, he shoves, SB folds, and of course I call. Kid shows A5, so I don’t know if he thought he had fold equity or if he was value shoving, but damned if he didn’t flop trip 5’s. “Don’t go telling people I taught you that,” I caution him as he drags the pot.
150/300/25, new, seemingly pretty decent young guy at table opens for 800 in CO, good aggro guy from before raises to 2200 (second time he’s done this), I count my stack and eventually cold shove for about 15K with QcJc. He snap-calls AK and I lose the flip. To be honest, as aggressive as he was, the dude really didn’t 3-bet very often at all. I think his range is pretty polarized there and he’s not folding many if any of his value hands just because I’m cold shoving. Stuff like AQ that he might lay down he’s probably not 3-betting.