SirArthur
08-03-2004, 07:46 AM
Poker Stars $100 buy in (blinds .50/1.00)
Hero-$132.05 in chips
Villain-$97 in chips
Tight table, I've played with most at the table many times, and the game is dying, any preflop raise at all and everyone folds. However, I have no read on the villain here, as he is no regular to these games as far as I know.
Hero deal A /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 10 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
I'm in mid position and it's folded to me, I raise to $2 (don't know why, I never raise to anything less than $3 but thought I'd just do something different here)
The CO raises it $2, I call.
Flop=J /images/graemlins/heart.gif 5 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 2 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
I check, with the intent of making a check-raise semi-bluff on my nut flush draw.
Villain bets $5, Hero raises to $15
Villain Calls $10 raise.
Turn=4 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
Okay, now I've got myself into a sticky situation, I'm out of position, and missed my draw. What's my move?
Well, I decide to fire away another semi-bluff here, I throw in a $25 chip, hoping my opponent folds.
Uh oh, he comes firing back at me with a $25 raise. I'm in trouble now. I call his $25 raise here as the pot is rather large now and hope my draw comes.
River=Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
What a beautiful card that was, how fortunate could I be?
I put my opponent all in for his final $28, and he called and mucked of course.
So let's here it, I know I made mistakes along the way.
How would you have played this?
This hand goes to show how difficult it can be to play a drawing hand out of position, especially heads up.
I usually avoid these situations but got sucked into this hand and lucked out on the river.
Also, I could not place my opponent on a hand here, I was thinking maybe Q/Q or A/J, can you guess what he had? I later checked in the hand history.
Hero-$132.05 in chips
Villain-$97 in chips
Tight table, I've played with most at the table many times, and the game is dying, any preflop raise at all and everyone folds. However, I have no read on the villain here, as he is no regular to these games as far as I know.
Hero deal A /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 10 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
I'm in mid position and it's folded to me, I raise to $2 (don't know why, I never raise to anything less than $3 but thought I'd just do something different here)
The CO raises it $2, I call.
Flop=J /images/graemlins/heart.gif 5 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 2 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
I check, with the intent of making a check-raise semi-bluff on my nut flush draw.
Villain bets $5, Hero raises to $15
Villain Calls $10 raise.
Turn=4 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
Okay, now I've got myself into a sticky situation, I'm out of position, and missed my draw. What's my move?
Well, I decide to fire away another semi-bluff here, I throw in a $25 chip, hoping my opponent folds.
Uh oh, he comes firing back at me with a $25 raise. I'm in trouble now. I call his $25 raise here as the pot is rather large now and hope my draw comes.
River=Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
What a beautiful card that was, how fortunate could I be?
I put my opponent all in for his final $28, and he called and mucked of course.
So let's here it, I know I made mistakes along the way.
How would you have played this?
This hand goes to show how difficult it can be to play a drawing hand out of position, especially heads up.
I usually avoid these situations but got sucked into this hand and lucked out on the river.
Also, I could not place my opponent on a hand here, I was thinking maybe Q/Q or A/J, can you guess what he had? I later checked in the hand history.