You’ll probably know them. It’s a very special sort of people. They fill their wallets with a lot of ammo before they go to war. When they arrive at the frontline they load their guns with a first buy-in. From then on, you can observe their greedy eyes from a distance, waiting for two random cards to shoot at a pot.

Me and another seven players had the honour of having two members of this race on our table at a weekly homegame (cashgame, €.10/.25). I was playing a very solid game and was able to upgrade my stack from a €15 buy-in to an amount of approximately €28, basiccaly by just overplaying most of the other seven opponents. Luckily for those poor guys they were restacked now and then by the brilliant play of our two heroes.

Unfortunately for the game, the first clown had to leave after he lost his last ammo on an all-in preflop call (€30, 120 big blinds that is) with the legendary Q3 offsuit against the other one (how could we, anxious and tight as we are, know that he made a fabulous call after reading his retarded opponent and knowing he was against 22 and thus had two overcards). We praised ourselves lucky for the fact that his partner in crime couldn’t get enough of showing us his absolute brilliance in the following hours.

After I enjoyed watching the miserable play for about an hour, I woke up with two kings in early position. I raised to €1.25 and the table folded to my great hero with his big stack. When he announced a reraise there started one big awesome party inside my head. Finally it was my time to get paid off. He reraised €5 and I came over the top with €15, knowing this was the only way to double my whole stack in case an ace didn’t appear on the flop. He called, the flop came T 7 2 rainbow and he betted my stack. After a quick call he showed me an ace without showing me the other card (he probably thinks he’’s a genius by making this terrific move). Turn and river came 9 8. His other card was a lousy offsuit Jack. An enormous desire to throw up on the table made itself master of me.

Tags: homegame, loose cannons

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