| 15 Feb | Bad luck or bad strategy?Posted by PokerBarney on 2:46PM, 15th Feb 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
Today's STT went terribly, but started so well! I gained chip lead early on with pocket rockets, and stayed that way until there was only three of us left (top 2 pay out).
The other two guys are very aggressive, raising outrageously and unnecessarily most hands. We barely get to see any flops, and it's getting boring. So, the killer hand - I'm on the big blind, and the other two just call. I smell a rat... but the flop suits me nicely:
Me:
2
3
The flop:
Q
5
9
Great! I'm well ahead. I check raise, knowing I'll get a caller because of the over betting style of my opponents. Sure enough, I get one of them all in and he turns over:
A
A
Even better, I'm so far in front it's not true - 95% to win, 2.5% to lose, 2.5% to tie. Either way, he needs runnings cards... and guess what? Two more spades make a higher flush on the table and we tie. I couldn't believe it.
So is this bad strategy on my part? Mostly, I play tight aggressive, but with two maniacs raising 5x the blind almost every hand, I have to fold junk so almost end up getting blinded away. Eventually I had A2 offsuit and went all in to steal, only to get called by AQ. Should I be playing more agressively earlier on when the blinds are low to get a bigger chip lead? Or should I just fold everything and let them take each other out?
I think my biggest problem is getting bored - raise fold, raise fold, raise fold get's quite monotonous after 20 minutes of not seeing a flop.
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Fri 22nd Sep 2006 15:18
as soon as i saw that flop i wouldn't be happy as you have a flush yes but it's the worst possible flush available. catching running flush cards is unlucky but if only one had shown up you'd probably be forced to check and maybe fold as anyone holding any spade had you beat.