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Go easy on me...1/2 PL local live game. I'm about 10 minutes away from leaving. I bought in for $200 and am up about $100 or maybe a little less, I'd just doubled somebody up who had A full of J and I had J full of A. I wouldn't consider myself on tilt. In fact, I was very pleased with my play to that point. I'd chased a straight earlier that had lowered my stack siginficantly, but had battled back including winning a 4 way pot that had 3 successive raises pre-flop, after I'd raised first. (Pocket 10's baby!). Anyway, I'm the button and get 95o. Crap hand, but in position and a "live five" pre-flop, I figure it's worth a shot at hitting something on the flop.There's 5 or 6 players to see the flop. Board is 234 two clubs. First player bets $10 next player calls pot...$45. Rest fold to me. I'm thinking about folding but with the OESD I like my chances. The only problem is calling a bigger bet on the turn. So I don't put him on a hand (1st mistake perhaps), but raise him the minimum. I figure this will buy me a free card next round. First bettor folds and he calls reluctantly, or maybe not so reluctantly.Some background. My opponent is a solid player who likes to play rags. He was the guy I'd chased against. He played two pair with an all paint board and just kept betting enough for me to call. He's pretty aggressive so as I start trying to figure out what he has, I guess I put him on two pair. I have him covered. Turn is 3c showing a possible flush. He bets out $75. I call, not quickly, but somewhat reluctantly. That's a bit expensive to chase, and I'm sure somebody will tell me it was foolish. I figure I hit my straight, I've got all his chips. The river is 10h. I've got a busted straight, but here's the coup-de-grace. He checks it to me. I figure I stand no chance of winning if I check. So I have to make a bet big enough to make him fold. In hindsight, I don't think he's laying it down for anything. I bet $100. He takes a long time but finally calls it and I don't even show my cards. He had 4-2, which of course with the board was two pair 4-3. I'm a novice and my own critique is that I should have raised his $75 either the pot, or all in. At that point he has to put me on a flush and in the unlikely event he calls, I've got 14 outs (at the time I hadn't figure both my cards were live, I just figured on 8 outs from the OESD). Of course, he may have had the flush at that point at which I'm drawing dead. I left the game with $20. All told I lost about around $250 on that hand.Regardless of the outcome, I love this hand...okay, well the outcome does put a bit of a downer on the situation. If he folds at that bet, I feel I'm King of the world. I walk away with a large win on the night (my most ever in this game). The way it played out, I feel I've learned a LOT about poker. The hard way no doubt. Thoughts?

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Anyway, I'm the button and get 95o. Crap hand, but in position and a "live five" pre-flop, I figure it's worth a shot at hitting something on the flop.I know you are in position, but I still don't think I'd see the flop with that hand, even with a number of limpers.There's 5 or 6 players to see the flop. Board is 234 two clubs. First player bets $10 next player calls pot...$45. Rest fold to me. I'm thinking about folding but with the OESD I like my chances. The only problem is calling a bigger bet on the turn. So I don't put him on a hand (1st mistake perhaps), but raise him the minimum. I figure this will buy me a free card next round. First bettor folds and he calls reluctantly, or maybe not so reluctantly.Some background. My opponent is a solid player who likes to play rags. He was the guy I'd chased against. He played two pair with an all paint board and just kept betting enough for me to call. He's pretty aggressive so as I start trying to figure out what he has, I guess I put him on two pair. I have him covered. You've got 8 outs for your straight, and maybe 11 outs if hitting your 9 will give you a higher pair if he's holding something like A3s. He could also have A5 and you have 3 outs to tie and 4 outs to win. If you put him on two pair, then with your 8 outs you're only getting 2-1 pot odds on your money and that's not good enough. Even with the implied odds of taking his stack if you hit the straight, I think you should fold at this point.Turn is 3c showing a possible flush. He bets out $75. I call, not quickly, but somewhat reluctantly. That's a bit expensive to chase, and I'm sure somebody will tell me it was foolish. I figure I hit my straight, I've got all his chips. Yeah, I do think it wasn't the right play to chase at this point. There's a good chance that you are drawing dead. He could have just made his flush. Even if he didn't, you said you put him on two pair, which means he very easily could have just filled up. You don't have the pot odds to draw and there's a good chance you are drawing dead, so you've really got to lay it down at this point.The river is 10h. I've got a busted straight, but here's the coup-de-grace. He checks it to me. I figure I stand no chance of winning if I check. So I have to make a bet big enough to make him fold. In hindsight, I don't think he's laying it down for anything. I bet $100. He takes a long time but finally calls it and I don't even show my cards. He had 4-2, which of course with the board was two pair 4-3. Since you said that you left the game with 20 bucks, you might as well gone all-in and put a little more pressure on him. That's not a bad try to bluff him out of the pot, since he's showing weakness and he obviously thinks you have something. Very tough call for him since you could easily have made your flush, hit trips, or even been playing A4 and now his two pair is meaningless since the board paired and he's got the worst kicker ever.I'm a novice and my own critique is that I should have raised his $75 either the pot, or all in. At that point he has to put me on a flush and in the unlikely event he calls, I've got 14 outs (at the time I hadn't figure both my cards were live, I just figured on 8 outs from the OESD). Of course, he may have had the flush at that point at which I'm drawing dead. As I mentioned earlier, I think you have the lay down the hand when he bet $75. Using hindsight, its easy to see how raising or pushing at this point could definitely make him lay his hand down (since you know he only had a 42o) but in the middle of the hand you don't know that at all and there's a lot of hands that have you drawing dead or only to your OESD. If you didn't put his hand in at the end, I don't think anyone would say you should raise or push at this point given his betting, his possible hands, and what you hold.

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