Stud hand for discussion

Amusing hand from Taj yesterday. $10/20 regular stud game; these people are
supposed to have some slight knowledge of the game. I'll be missing most of
the irrelevant cards, I'm afraid.

Table of 8; $1 ante; $3 bring-in; $10/20 betting limits. No short stacks
involved. Curly has taken some tough beats lately and may be on tilt. Moe
(that's me) has been lucky a couple times lately and may also be on tilt.

Curly holds (TT)T; Larry holds (57)7; Moe holds (KK)5. A 5 is dead; no aces
are exposed.

Curly calls the bring-in, Larry raises, Moe re-raises and everyone calls,
losing the other five players.

Fourth street: Curly catches a rag (TTTx), Larry a 7 (5777) and Moe a 5
(KK55). Larry checks, Moe bets $10 and both others call.

Fifth street: all rags, although Moe gets an ace. Larry checks, Moe bets,
Curly calls, Larry raises, Moe calls and Curly calls.

Sixth street: Curly (TTTxxx) and Larry (5777xx) rag, but Moe catches a K
(KK55AK). Larry bets, Moe raises (saying "Let's see if you mean it"), both
others call.

River: Larry fills. Larry bets, Moe raises, Curly mucks (correctly
identifying Moe's hand), Larry calls.

Curly and Larry bicker for the next five minutes about who should have done
what to get Moe out before he filled.

My excuse is that I didn't see anything unusual going on until the response
to my fifth-street bet, calling that raise was pretty automatic, and I
filled right afterward. I honestly thought that Curly had a pair of aces,
not trip tens (I knew he had SOMETHING that he could have played faster).
Larry knew that my paired door card wasn't trips because he held the case 5
(I am well known to raise small pairs with a big live kicker on occasion, so
it wasn't obvious otherwise).

An added aside: the structure of the Taj $10/20 stud game favors tight play,
and until this Summer that's what I always saw (in fact, play was often
incorrectly TOO tight). Why have these games loosened up so much?


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