| 31 Jul | I give them far too much creditPosted by PokerBarney on 12:29PM, 31st Jul 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
I have TT on the button. I limp, hoping to catch a well disguised set against some early LAG players. Raising has no value because it won't thin the field, won't tell me more about their hands since they'll call with anything, and if I miss - well it's a waste of money.
Anyway, flop comes J84, rainbow. The short stack in the big blind pushes all in for a pot sized bet of ~800. One early limper calls, so I fold my TT thinking that one of them has a J.
Shorty shows K5o, caller shows Q4o. To compound matters, the third T comes on the turn.
A bit later, I'm the small blind with 76o. Many limpers, so I get 10-1 on a call. I do so, and the flop comes K86 rainbow. I check, not really over enamoured with bottom pair.
LAG in mid position bets about half the pot. One late position calls, so I move out the way (even though I'm getting 5-1 on a call!). Turn comes a 7, and to cut a long story short they end up all in on the river and show J9s and A5o respectively.
My two pair would've wiped the slimey smile of their faces.
I'm stunned by poor plays like this - to be fair, the first guys bluff was very convincing, but the second player's call(s!) with A5o is jaw dropping. It happens a lot that I think my opponent is better than they really are, so I fold these sorts of hands that turn into monsters, even when I'm getting great odds.
I know I made the right move in the long run with the 76o, but if that loosey goosey hadn't called with his Q4s, I'd have been sorely tempted to do so with my TT. Next time... although it does seem that when I call, I've got it wrong! Heh. Such is life.
On a side note, I've found a wonderful tool at www.SharkScope.com. You can look up players on PokerStars, and view basic stats on them - like total profit, ROI%, buy in levels, how many games they've played and so on. The site even gives them a little ranking of how fishy or sharky they are.
You get 5 free searches a day, any more and you have to pay. A bit expensive for me, but useful for that one final table I make in the day.
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