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Hubba_Rocks · Straight Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 101

Okay, I'm in a very loose 1/2 game, and have been playing exceptionally tight, only coming into pots with premium hands.

I'm on the big blind with about $85, 3 limpers including the SB come in behind me. I look down to find AJs. I raise to $7 and two old guys who've been in almost every pot call, while the SB folds.

The Flop comes K 7 3, rainbow, so I lead out for $15. Both old guys call, so I assume one or both has middle or bottom pair, but no king, as they would've raised with any half decent King.

The Turn comes a 10, and I bet $30. Old guy #1 calls, while the other folds.

The River is a 6, and now my main focus is whether old guy #1 is pot commited enough to call my final $35 . I figure he is, it's already a $120 pot, so I check, and he checks.

He flips over A10os, and takes the pot. I muttered "Nice Flop" as I was little annoyed with what happened.

Was there any other better way to play this on my part? I dunno how the guy calls me on the flop, but any advice is appreciated.

dkgojackets · Straight Flush Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 429

I would have dropped the hand after he called your flop bet. You tried the bluff once, it didnt work, and now you still have nothing.

sensaike · High Card Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

I was playing today, just now. 5/10 blinds. I raise pre-flop to 50, guy out of possition calls me everbody else folds. Pot is 130. flop come 6-4-7 rainbow. He checks. I raise all in with A8s, 100 more. The guy calls and flip Q9s. Wtf, who call with this ****.

Turns come and is a Q, river is a 6 and he wins the hand. Wtf!!!

Who plays this. how, what, why, what that hell! man.......
is pissis me off seeing myself lose like this. when the guys was a complete idiot! calling with a Q9 who does this!?

Man that bastard probably dint even know how to spell poker like Phil said.

btw, this was the guys first hand at the table.

AllInDrawinDead · Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject:

I could see him calling before the flop all in just hoping to get lucky against a better hand because he feels like gambling it up. Once you see the flop you can't like Q9 and you know it's not the best hand and the flop was your best chance to get lucky and you completely missed. Absolutely abysmal.

matt2411 · Royal Flush Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Posts: 559

your 1st words describing them should have made you drastically alter your playing style. "I'm in a very loose 1/2 game,"

when people are very loose, you need to check and call more, and bluff a lot less, if ever.

reason being is every bet needs to be a value bet. you have to expect them to call, with uber calling stations who will call just about any bet on the flop, it wont narrow the field, if it wont narrow the field, continuation bets are useless.

know your reason for betting.... if they wont fold, you're just building a pot, so dont bet if you dont have it Smile

Hubba_Rocks · Straight Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Posts: 101

Guest · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:32 am Post subject:

Continuation beds after you've taken the lead pre-flop are most effective against just one opponent. Any time you have 2 or more opponents, you're odds of being able to purchase the pot with a continuation bet drops.

In addition, against players who like to call bets and will see you to the turn or river, you're better off just checking and see if you can hit the flop. If you don't and he bets, you're able to get away from the hand without much damage by keeping the pot low.

TTG2k

junkbutton · Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:47 am Post subject:

It blows my mind how people get so mad when they're playing people who obviously have no idea what they're doing. Take some mental notes (or if you're online, take some real ones). Remember what they do... Then next time, don't be bluffing! These are the people you want to be playing with! Unless you're plaing above what your bankroll allows, you will be able to get all that back and more. Unless of course you're just going to spend that time steaming and tilting and b!tching... Then you'll never make it back.

Calling all-ins with nothing = good.

sensaike · High Card Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 10

I dont mind playing with them. They're the easer of fish to catch.

is just that wow those guys really need to improve!!!

I made way more of him later on in the game. And if i remember correcly he had to re-load about 5 time the masximun before he got the messege and left the table.

dmoore1998 · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: Re:

Gonso · Three of a Kind Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 88

Nice catch dmoore, 15BB buy-in doesn't work, but he may have been short-stacked at the time. It was his opponent who was playing his first hand.

Anyway, this hand has problems.

You bet 5x the BB with A8s, which oddly was a third of your chips. You flop a gutshot straight draw with two overs, he checks, and you go all in. If the hand he held is as you said, it was a terrible, awful call - but so was the all-in.

Any hand that was good enough to call with, and many that aren't, have you in a bad way.

You mentioned it was his first hand - why not give the guy a little credit? After all, he could have checked a set to you! He probably saw you as a desperate shortstack who couldn't let go of a pot.

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