Grisgra
09-25-2004, 11:00 PM
First hand of a $30 Paradise SNG. Blinds are 5/10, 1000 in chips. I'm in the SB with 8 /images/graemlins/club.gif7 /images/graemlins/club.gif.
Three or callers, I complete -- I mean, why not?
FLOP:
5 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 9 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 6 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
I don't go overboard, just bet 50.
BB raises to 170!
Everyone else folds.
Now, I've got the nuts, but I also know that if BB has two hearts, and he's a fish (about half the players at this SNG are, on average, I think), he'll actually CALL. And I'll have a 33% chance of getting knocked out.
So though I have the nuts, I resist the urge to go all-in, deciding to wait and see what the turn brings.
TURN: 3h /images/graemlins/heart.gif
[censored]. I prepare to check/fold, given what I was told about not being too risky early in SNGs. He checks.
RIVER: 3 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
Do I bet here? A little something? I check, he checks.
I take it in, he had 96o. Did I play it right?
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VERY NEXT HAND I get AA
Two callers to me, I raise to 70. A guy behind me calls, one of the original callers also calls.
FLOP: 2JJ rainbow.
Greeeeat. Guy in front bets 65, I raise to 200 (okay?), he calls after the other guy drops.
He calls.
Turn is a 4, completing the rainbow.
He checks, I bet 100, he calls.
River is the 6 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif. The board is 2JJ46.
He checks.
I . . . . ?????
I check, that's what I do. Correct?
He shows J3 /images/graemlins/heart.gif, the fucker, and scoops it in.
Please, critique on all streets, both hands appreciated, but I felt pretty good overall.
(Of course, later in the match when the blinds were 15/30 I raised to 400 after a bunch of callers, and was reraised all-in by a guy in the SB. I foolishly called, he showed me AA.
Lucky me, I caught a set, and the match is still going on . . .
Three or callers, I complete -- I mean, why not?
FLOP:
5 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 9 /images/graemlins/heart.gif 6 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
I don't go overboard, just bet 50.
BB raises to 170!
Everyone else folds.
Now, I've got the nuts, but I also know that if BB has two hearts, and he's a fish (about half the players at this SNG are, on average, I think), he'll actually CALL. And I'll have a 33% chance of getting knocked out.
So though I have the nuts, I resist the urge to go all-in, deciding to wait and see what the turn brings.
TURN: 3h /images/graemlins/heart.gif
[censored]. I prepare to check/fold, given what I was told about not being too risky early in SNGs. He checks.
RIVER: 3 /images/graemlins/spade.gif
Do I bet here? A little something? I check, he checks.
I take it in, he had 96o. Did I play it right?
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VERY NEXT HAND I get AA
Two callers to me, I raise to 70. A guy behind me calls, one of the original callers also calls.
FLOP: 2JJ rainbow.
Greeeeat. Guy in front bets 65, I raise to 200 (okay?), he calls after the other guy drops.
He calls.
Turn is a 4, completing the rainbow.
He checks, I bet 100, he calls.
River is the 6 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif. The board is 2JJ46.
He checks.
I . . . . ?????
I check, that's what I do. Correct?
He shows J3 /images/graemlins/heart.gif, the fucker, and scoops it in.
Please, critique on all streets, both hands appreciated, but I felt pretty good overall.
(Of course, later in the match when the blinds were 15/30 I raised to 400 after a bunch of callers, and was reraised all-in by a guy in the SB. I foolishly called, he showed me AA.
Lucky me, I caught a set, and the match is still going on . . .