AlanBostick
09-07-2002, 02:02 PM
Here's a hand I'm wondering about from last night.
It's the 6-12 stud game at the Oaks -- the biggest stud game in the Bay Area!! -- and the structure is $0.50 ante, $2 bring-in, complete to $6. The table is full, has one real soft spot, and the other players range from third-rate-solid to half-way-decent (I rate myself as a half-way-decent stud player, and one of the best at the table).
I am sitting to the left of the bring-in, holding hidden eights with a ten up, and a two-flush in spades. Two spades are out, and so are two jacks. The highest other card on the board is the nine of diamonds, to the bring-in's immediate right. This player is another of the best in the game.
I open by completing the bet, and everyone drops out but the nine of diamonds, who calls. Fourth street gives me the ten of clubs and my opponent the ten of diamonds: (8d 8s) Ts Tc vs (XX)9d Td. I bet a full $12, and my opponent calls. I put him on some kind of draw, perhaps diamonds or a straight draw.
On fifth street, I catch an offsuit rag (call it the trey of hearts) and my opponent catches the nine of hearts, pairing HIS doorcard.
If my read is correct, he's just improved from second-best hand to second-best hand; but he just might have three nines. I think for a long time, and decide to trust my read and bet into him. He just calls.
Sixth street gives ANOTHER offsuit blank to me, and gives my opponent the eight of hearts. So our boards look like:
Me: (8d 8s) Ts Tc 3h 4c
Him: (X X) 9d Td 9h 8h
He may have not hit his flush yet; he may have made his straight; he might even have three nines or a hidden, bigger pair (although I tend to doubt these because he raised me neither on third nor fifth streets). One of MY tens and one of my eights are gone, leaving me only two outs with which to fill up.
Do I bet into him, and risk being raised by a hand I have little hope of outdrawing to beat, or do I check into him and risk giving a free card to a draw?
It's the 6-12 stud game at the Oaks -- the biggest stud game in the Bay Area!! -- and the structure is $0.50 ante, $2 bring-in, complete to $6. The table is full, has one real soft spot, and the other players range from third-rate-solid to half-way-decent (I rate myself as a half-way-decent stud player, and one of the best at the table).
I am sitting to the left of the bring-in, holding hidden eights with a ten up, and a two-flush in spades. Two spades are out, and so are two jacks. The highest other card on the board is the nine of diamonds, to the bring-in's immediate right. This player is another of the best in the game.
I open by completing the bet, and everyone drops out but the nine of diamonds, who calls. Fourth street gives me the ten of clubs and my opponent the ten of diamonds: (8d 8s) Ts Tc vs (XX)9d Td. I bet a full $12, and my opponent calls. I put him on some kind of draw, perhaps diamonds or a straight draw.
On fifth street, I catch an offsuit rag (call it the trey of hearts) and my opponent catches the nine of hearts, pairing HIS doorcard.
If my read is correct, he's just improved from second-best hand to second-best hand; but he just might have three nines. I think for a long time, and decide to trust my read and bet into him. He just calls.
Sixth street gives ANOTHER offsuit blank to me, and gives my opponent the eight of hearts. So our boards look like:
Me: (8d 8s) Ts Tc 3h 4c
Him: (X X) 9d Td 9h 8h
He may have not hit his flush yet; he may have made his straight; he might even have three nines or a hidden, bigger pair (although I tend to doubt these because he raised me neither on third nor fifth streets). One of MY tens and one of my eights are gone, leaving me only two outs with which to fill up.
Do I bet into him, and risk being raised by a hand I have little hope of outdrawing to beat, or do I check into him and risk giving a free card to a draw?