soah
02-21-2005, 11:48 AM
Early Saturday morning, live 2-5 game.
I limp with JTs from early position because half the table is old geezers that don't understand the "no" part of no limit. Other people limp. Flop is Q9x with two clubs. My cards are diamonds. I'm gonna call a bet that someone makes, so I just bet it myself for deception. I bet $25 and get three callers. Oops. That's too many. Flop is a brick and I check because there's too many people in the pot. Guy two seats to my left who has been at the table for some 12 hours (I've been there longer) and has a massive $1500 stack despite the fact that I'm better than him (this is a $200 capped buy-in game) bets $50. The geezer next to him calls again quickly and I just freaking know that two of my outs make him a flush. Whoever else was in the hand goes away now. I sit there and agonize because I only have six outs but dammit look at my pot odds, and I still have money left to use on the river. I finally call and get the 8 of spades on the river. I sit there and don't know what the hell to do; the dealer points at me a second time and wants me to do something and I say I'm thinking, then I pull out two big stacks of red and bet $200, and as soon as I do it I know I've royally [censored] up the hand because there's no way in hell the guy on my left is calling that bet after what I did on the turn, and the geezer just has a busted flush draw.
Where did I go wrong in this hand?
I limp with JTs from early position because half the table is old geezers that don't understand the "no" part of no limit. Other people limp. Flop is Q9x with two clubs. My cards are diamonds. I'm gonna call a bet that someone makes, so I just bet it myself for deception. I bet $25 and get three callers. Oops. That's too many. Flop is a brick and I check because there's too many people in the pot. Guy two seats to my left who has been at the table for some 12 hours (I've been there longer) and has a massive $1500 stack despite the fact that I'm better than him (this is a $200 capped buy-in game) bets $50. The geezer next to him calls again quickly and I just freaking know that two of my outs make him a flush. Whoever else was in the hand goes away now. I sit there and agonize because I only have six outs but dammit look at my pot odds, and I still have money left to use on the river. I finally call and get the 8 of spades on the river. I sit there and don't know what the hell to do; the dealer points at me a second time and wants me to do something and I say I'm thinking, then I pull out two big stacks of red and bet $200, and as soon as I do it I know I've royally [censored] up the hand because there's no way in hell the guy on my left is calling that bet after what I did on the turn, and the geezer just has a busted flush draw.
Where did I go wrong in this hand?