I’m officially playing any pocket pair, for any amount, at any time.
Get a load of this:
$2-5 NL. Preflop raise to $55, I've got pocket 2s, one other caller (behind me).
Flop: AT2 ($300 goes into the pot. Total pot $450)
Turn: T ($1,000 more goes into the pot)
River: 2 (Everyone goes all in. Total pot $2,700)
One guy has AT (Tens full of aces)
The other guy has KT (Trip tens with top kicker)
I would have had QUAD DUECES
BUT I DIDN'T CALL THE $55.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
The Two of Hearts – My New Secret Weapon
It’s been a while since I posted a hand but I’ve finally got one that’s blog-worthy. After you’ve been playing for a while they all seem like bad beat stories or the “my full house was bigger than his full house” type, neither of which are all that interesting.
Anyway, I’m sitting on about $750 at the $2-5NL table at 4AM and I pick up 72h on the button. 8 people are in for $5 before it gets to me and before I know what's happening, I raise to $30. My conscience wakes up from his snooze and starts berating me, but it’s too late; the money’s in the pot.
I’m now hoping for one caller so I can bluff after the flop. I get three. I’m pretty much chalking up my $30 loss to stupidity when I see 8h on top of the cards about to roll out. Before I could complete the thought “that’d be pretty cool if I flop something nasty,” there it is; 8h 6h 4h. I’m staring at the flop in disbelief and a seven-high flush is staring right back at me.
It checks around to me and I don’t know why, but I don’t bet it. I think my thought process was that I didn’t want to play for all my chips with a seven-high flush when the 4th heart hits on the river, but I did think my flush was good right then. I decide to see the turn first.
Turn (864): 3 (no heart). I’m betting this is a good card for me. UTG bets $100 thinking it’s up for grabs and the guy next to me calls. I make it $400. If you want a fifth heart, it’s gonna cost you three bills. UTG folds immediately but I can hear the gears grinding in the guy’s head next to me. I got caught bluffing a minute ago and he thinks I’m up to something.
He TURNS OVER pocket 5s with the five of hearts. So he’s folding. Too bad, too, because he’s drawing stone dead. Then he says, “I guess I’m folding, but you don’t have a flush, and I’m thinking this is good.” Now the little guy in my head that was berating me earlier is back in the game and starts rubbing his hands together. What can I do to get this guy to call??
I tell him, “Tell you what; I’ll show you one and you can even pick the one you want to see.” He turns and looks at me like my dog used to when I would say “wanna treat?” If he would have had floppy ears, they would have been sticking straight up. So I’ve got a chance. My thought process is that when he sees a heart, he’ll think I would never SHOW him a heart if I had a flush and it’ll induce a call.
He agrees immediately and chooses a card. It’s the two of hearts. Then he calls IMMEDIATELY. REALLY?! (he’s now all in). The river is irrelevant and I rake an $1,100 pot with 72 (but they were sooooted). Not too shabby.
I try not to laugh but a couple other guys do. I still have no idea what he was thinking and am surprised that it worked. I just figured he was folding and had to try SOMETHING.
Fun hand.
Anyway, I’m sitting on about $750 at the $2-5NL table at 4AM and I pick up 72h on the button. 8 people are in for $5 before it gets to me and before I know what's happening, I raise to $30. My conscience wakes up from his snooze and starts berating me, but it’s too late; the money’s in the pot.
I’m now hoping for one caller so I can bluff after the flop. I get three. I’m pretty much chalking up my $30 loss to stupidity when I see 8h on top of the cards about to roll out. Before I could complete the thought “that’d be pretty cool if I flop something nasty,” there it is; 8h 6h 4h. I’m staring at the flop in disbelief and a seven-high flush is staring right back at me.
It checks around to me and I don’t know why, but I don’t bet it. I think my thought process was that I didn’t want to play for all my chips with a seven-high flush when the 4th heart hits on the river, but I did think my flush was good right then. I decide to see the turn first.
Turn (864): 3 (no heart). I’m betting this is a good card for me. UTG bets $100 thinking it’s up for grabs and the guy next to me calls. I make it $400. If you want a fifth heart, it’s gonna cost you three bills. UTG folds immediately but I can hear the gears grinding in the guy’s head next to me. I got caught bluffing a minute ago and he thinks I’m up to something.
He TURNS OVER pocket 5s with the five of hearts. So he’s folding. Too bad, too, because he’s drawing stone dead. Then he says, “I guess I’m folding, but you don’t have a flush, and I’m thinking this is good.” Now the little guy in my head that was berating me earlier is back in the game and starts rubbing his hands together. What can I do to get this guy to call??
I tell him, “Tell you what; I’ll show you one and you can even pick the one you want to see.” He turns and looks at me like my dog used to when I would say “wanna treat?” If he would have had floppy ears, they would have been sticking straight up. So I’ve got a chance. My thought process is that when he sees a heart, he’ll think I would never SHOW him a heart if I had a flush and it’ll induce a call.
He agrees immediately and chooses a card. It’s the two of hearts. Then he calls IMMEDIATELY. REALLY?! (he’s now all in). The river is irrelevant and I rake an $1,100 pot with 72 (but they were sooooted). Not too shabby.
I try not to laugh but a couple other guys do. I still have no idea what he was thinking and am surprised that it worked. I just figured he was folding and had to try SOMETHING.
Fun hand.
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