I just got back from my trip to Vegas and there's one hand that I can't get out of my head. Playing 1-2 NL at the Golden Nugget, a decent to weak player opens for a standard $10 raise UTG, then a call, I look down at 66 and call. Flop is AJ6. Raiser bets $40 and only has $50 left (I have like $850) other player folds, and I go into the tank as I just feel really bad about this. He starts talking **** about the Texas-Ohio State football game (as I had an Ohio State shirt on and he said he was a Texas fan) with no fear at all. I was really feeling that he had AA from the confidence of his speech, it seemed he wasn't scared of any hand, i.e. he had the nuts. I was really struggling for a decision and a couple players at the table were getting pissed at the time I was taking and started making comments (to which I shot back at them telling them I didn't like to be in this situation either). Around this time the raiser became much more quiet and stonefaced. That made me think that possibly he realized I was really strong and his AK or AJ was no good. The combination of that thought and the table talking **** about me hurrying up made me push in the $90 to put him all in, he turned up his AA and they held up. Two strong players at the table kept saying "Nothing you can do about set against set. It's just bad luck. That's an automatic call." But I was extremely close to folding so it wasn't an automatic call to me.

Nothing to do with the hand but a couple things I thought was cool about our trip: we saw Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson playing in a big game at the Venetian, the Rio itself and the WSOP room were just incredible things to see, I was at a 1-2NL table at Caesars and a young guy said something like "Well I have to leave, I'm having dinner with DN tonight."

i agree that it is an instant call, but there're always extenuating circumstances (sp.? grmmr?)

insta-call for me with those stack sizes and that level of game.

Ask gilbertology if you should fold that hand.

NLSFIDTS.

ha... no way i even think about folding.... that would be retarted!

Yep, auto call for me, especially since he only had 90 in his stack before he bet the flop. If you're not going to call this flop why bother calling his pf raise?

I think what a lot of you are ignoring is that he got some kind of guy feeling that told him the guy had him. But yeah... thats the kind of call you have to make, because if you start second guessing yourself like that all the time you'll start to fold the best hand.

easy call

Yeah my read on the guy is the only reason I didn't think it was an instant call. But you're right, not making that call would have a "second guessing" effect on other decision.

Very likely could've been another FCP'er. They Army is out there right now, and DN was planning on having a dinner with everyone at some point.

QFFT

Seriously. Especially, as many others have mentioned, with the stacks in question.

This is just how it goes.

How would you like someone calling off 80% of his chips with an A-8 with a totally uncoordinated, unconnected, "less than 10" flop and rivering his A against your KK and someone else's QQ? Happened to me Friday night. The QQ understood that I had him from hello, but together, we could have strangled the *******.
















got my bb story in ... hah ha hahahah hah hahaha

I think even Phil Hellmuth would beat him into the pot

And I heard that he can dodge bullets...






















baby!

When i play a hand I have an intention of what i'm going to do with it when i deceide to play it. With a small/mid pair i'm looking to flop a set then get my money in, so when i get that chance I don't spend a lot of time questioning it.

i hate stupid questions

Even your read isn't good enough to go on here. The guy could have top two pair or AK and think he has the nuts. With that small of a pot you have to call.