10-08-2002, 04:58 AM
Home game, $300 buy in, dealer antes $5. Most of games are HE, O8, 7 hilo etc... no wild cards. We play either $10-20 or PL. Game is very aggressive, but extremely loose.
Anyway, 3rd hand dealt (ie. everyone has equal stacks of $300 approx.).
I'm dealt 5-6-7, all spades. Damn...why couldn't they call hilo.
J bets $10, gets 3 callers. I decide to just smooth call. BTW, we almost never play 7 stud high only, and when we do its usually limit.
Fourth Street:
(J) 2
(7) 3
(5) 6 (me).
J-2 bets $25, 7-3 calls, I decide to just call.
Fifth street: J pulls 9, 7 pulls Q, I pull 4 clubs.
Jack checks, Q bets $100. He is a maniac, and I am almost 100% certain he is bluffing. With my small pair, 4 straight and backdoor low, I reraise my final $80 (I lost first few hands of night).
J folds, Q, realizing he is beat, calls because the pot odds frankly warrant it. We turn over our cards: all he has is a pair of sevens.
I don't improve, neither does he, and he takes down sizable pot.
Did I make a good play with a bad outcome, or do I need to brush up on my seven stud. Obviously, if this had been limit it would have been much easier to play.
Thanks.
Tim
Anyway, 3rd hand dealt (ie. everyone has equal stacks of $300 approx.).
I'm dealt 5-6-7, all spades. Damn...why couldn't they call hilo.
J bets $10, gets 3 callers. I decide to just smooth call. BTW, we almost never play 7 stud high only, and when we do its usually limit.
Fourth Street:
(J) 2
(7) 3
(5) 6 (me).
J-2 bets $25, 7-3 calls, I decide to just call.
Fifth street: J pulls 9, 7 pulls Q, I pull 4 clubs.
Jack checks, Q bets $100. He is a maniac, and I am almost 100% certain he is bluffing. With my small pair, 4 straight and backdoor low, I reraise my final $80 (I lost first few hands of night).
J folds, Q, realizing he is beat, calls because the pot odds frankly warrant it. We turn over our cards: all he has is a pair of sevens.
I don't improve, neither does he, and he takes down sizable pot.
Did I make a good play with a bad outcome, or do I need to brush up on my seven stud. Obviously, if this had been limit it would have been much easier to play.
Thanks.
Tim