| Posted by: Moose763 at April 27, 2005, 7:19 pm | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
It was most certainly not lucky, you went with your instincts, and that is not by accident because thats what a read is, going with your gut instincts god hand man, you deserve all 80 of those dollars
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| Posted by: jjhooksjj at April 27, 2005, 7:14 pm | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
bottom two pair is a hand people will play really aggressively, whereas a set is a hand people will put on the breaks at first, and set the trap with more. When you raised the all-in player, you were betting into a dry side pot, and it was evident that you were not bluffing. The player with bottom two pair thought that you could have had an ace, in which case if you hit an ace, your kicker, or a running pair on the board would win the hand for you. He put the pressure on you. If he had a set, which was the only hand that beats you at the time, he liekly would have just called your raise. You played the hand well considering he was drawing slim, and you did not want to take him out of the lead.
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| Posted by: DAVEANOVA at April 26, 2005, 4:57 pm | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
I think you think to much, sometimes people analyze things to much. You were right. He was just trying to get rid of you.
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| Posted by: KK_Cowboy at April 24, 2005, 3:37 am | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
Well I think you should have re-raised again on the flop, but obviously you did something right there. If you have 2 pairs and he had trips more is the pity.
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| Posted by: ytseshred at April 21, 2005, 10:03 pm | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
I think I need to start taking the size of bets into account when i'm "in the tank" as you said. Your reasoning, and Grumbledook's response are especially helpful, but thanks ery much for sharing that story. That'll get my gears going a little more next time I play.
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| Posted by: hosenose at April 20, 2005, 2:52 am | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
When cards are like you called them more times than not I get caught with the trips. It is amazing how many times a person with small pair in hole hits and two high pair go to heck. I am not a big believer in two pair hands when people are raising on turn and river. Sometimes its better to give up w winner for small change than get your almighty azzzz kicked with a relatively weak hand! I always remember that half the cards are out there and with seven or more players it is time to be real tight! Then again i keep getting caught with st8s and flushes after trying to qualifty with 30% raises on flop with trips or two high pair. Will learn sometime
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| Posted by: PattyG at March 7, 2005, 3:09 pm | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
Yeah, all that thnking will usually do nothing for ya in lo limit, cause some people don't care if they lose 20 bucks, and others will GO NUTS for 20 (like me) ...
But lets say a guy had 23 off and wanted to buy it, and hope that he hit his draw, then your looking at all these fearfull hands that could beat your top two pair, and quite frankly,... I just would not want to be in that situation...
...And thats why i hate to love poker!!
PattyG
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| Posted by: leetodie at March 3, 2005, 1:26 am | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
Yeah, when he's doing his betting like he did, the possibility that he hit a set is rather big, and then slowplaying it. Hard to tell about it was luck or good playing.
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| Posted by: themyst at February 28, 2005, 10:45 am | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
He could have ery well had a set of 5's, or even 6's along with you. Given your situation, I would have moved in on him on the flop, chances are you do have the best hand... seems like you knew in your head the whole time you were winning, so why not push it? I've seen many times where the case card hits on the flop when 3 of them are held among players. However, it is as rare as set over set, heck, I've seen instances where it was a huge battle between AA s AK, and the flop came A K rag.
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| Posted by: Grumbledook at February 15, 2005, 9:25 pm | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
Interesting hand that one. Its a bit hard to digest though as its often hard to put people on hands at the lower limits, even more so if there were a few limpers preflop.
Quite what he put you on after you had called I am not sure, thats if he even thought about it ;]
The key bet I think was his $11 on the turn, though I would have been worried about him milking a set. Here its marginal and he could have had either the set for slow play the hand he did have or what you thought. In which case an $11 call for that size pot which you would win more often than not based on that thinking does make sense. Consider the fact that the only possible set at that point was 5s as you and the board had 2 aces and 2 6s that left 3 possible starting hands of pair of 5s which had you beat.
At that point top 2 pair was almost certainly going to be the best hand. So maybe it would have been best moving all in after his reraise and putting him to the test there.
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| Posted by: Heshkak at February 15, 2005, 5:30 pm | | Topic: Good read or just lucky. Forum: Card Chat |
Hi all,
Just wanted to get people's opinion of a hand I played recently.
It's a 50c/$1 NL Holdem game, 7 at the table. I'm in the SB and dealt A6off.
Two limpers, myself and BB see the flop for the min.
A65 rainbow flops.
I bet $1, fold from the BB, first limper raises to $2, second limper goes all in for $4.
I, thinking that the second limper all in was desparation, raised $8 to try to isolate. The first limper re-raises another $8.
So I go into the tank. He didn't raise pre-flop so he's slow playing or has some sort of connector or suited or low-medium pair.
Suited can't be cause the flop was rainbow, no one would bet like that hopeing for runner-runner.
Connector, maybe, but why would you re-raise on at best an open-ended draw. I really doubt he's drawing.
Low-Medium pair is possible. He could have flopped a set. But the betting pattern isn't right. Why only raise $1 on top of me, if he had a set it should ha... | | Read Entire Entry |
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