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Message: [QUOTE="Aldito, post: 1734697, member: 68631"] Last night I went to a friend's house to play poker. There were 7 players including me; 3 of whom I am very good friends with, 1 of their younger brothers and 2 guys who I get on reasonably well with. I would happily play €10NL, but the guy whose house it was insisted on €20NL. It's usually a fun game, most players buy in for €20-30 but the host buys in for 500bbs at €100. He is probably my second best friend there, having known him for about 4 years. Anyway I had been playing reasonably tight and not really picking up anything of note for a few hours. My friend already stacked one of the other guys for €18 calling his A6 shove on a AT4 flop with 34 and rivering trips. A while later I picked up AA, and a reasonably tight player raised 4x from EP. My donk friend flatted and I popped it to €3. Flopped top set and the turn paired the board. After calling the flop my friend managed to catch his gutshot so I won a pot of ~€45. About an hour later I oversetted his little brother who was sitting just as deep as me, which was pretty sick. TT vs 55 on T56r. So a while later I'm sitting with €90, knowing I'm leaving the next blind comes, because I have to catch a bus home. I pick up AA in a straddled pot. I open for €3 and get a call from the tightest player on the table. My friend shoves €75 and I call. The other guy folds. My friend flips(58s). So we have a ~700bb pot with AA vs 58s. I wanted to run it twice(this is a huge amount of money for me). He declined and said I could take the pot and fold or run it once. I eventually called(Obviously it should be instasnap but it was scared money; I had never planned on sitting so deep in the game.) The aces held so I finished the night with ~€170. Anyway the mood turned pretty bad. Everyone was tense and it was time for me to leave anyway. My friend has been given problem gambling booklets by his parents before(although they are quite religious), and this was the first time I've thought he may actually have a problem. I don't feel right about taking money off a degen(well, one I'm friends with at least) , although he has made a lot more than that sucking out on me before( QQ vs T9o last week in a 400bb pot). He has a poker notebook and is still up €900 this year. His money is not rent/food money though, he lives at home, is in college and has a well paid part time job. My point is, our friendship is not worth losing over a stupid poker game and I'm wondering if I shouldn't play there again. I was talking to my other buddy on the way home and he seemed to think it won't have any bearing on us being friends and it was just poker. The guy is really stubborn(even justifying his play saying I would have folded KK[I might have tbh]. Should I feel bad or just forget about it. Thoughts??? Cliffs Poker with friends Massive 700bb pot Friend may be degen. Should a home game involve such large amount of money? Should I play there again? [/QUOTE]

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