mike l.
10-16-2002, 11:58 PM
i have AsKh in the bb in a loose los angeles 10-20 game. 9 handed. utg limps. he's good and probably a winning pro from all ive gathered. he just sits there and smartly beats this little game for a few hundred or more a week and ive never seen him play higher. i kind of envy his smarts in this respect. he limps utg. a fish limps and a loose fish raises, sb fish cold calls, i 3 bet hoping to maybe knock the limpers out and then hopefully narrow the field further on the flop if im against a weaker A. quite a parlay i know but i just feel AKo is too strong a hand, even out of position against such crummy players. anyway, everyone calls and 5 of us see the flop...
..which is very favorable to my hand. KT5 all spades giving me top pair top kicker and the nut flush draw. sb checks, i check, utg bets, limper folds, raiser calls, sb folds, i checkraise, utg 3 bets, raiser folds, i call.
the turn is the 4s. i check, he bets, i raise, he makes it 3 bets, i wait a second. then i peek at my hand, then i peek at the board, then i peek at my hand again. i make it 4 bets. he beats me into the pot making it 5 bets. i go to 6 bets and he folds.
analysis: i screwed up. when he makes it 5 bets he is saying that he doesnt believe me and he think his Qs is good. i am smart enough to send a reverse tell and get him to make it 5 bets in the first place but then i blow it by making it 6 bets. he has reads on me from previous sessions as being tricky and overly aggressive, but not particularly good. so his 3 bet makes sense here and his 5 bet after i send that reverse tell (which he doesnt at all think im sophisticated enough to attempt) makes sense as well. but i cant expect him to call a sixth bet. however if i call with feigned resignation when he makes it 5 bets and then either go for a checkraise on the river or bet into him on the river (deciding which to try would depend on whether the board pairs) i will ceratinly make at least one more bet and possibly 2 or even 3!
so there you go: i suck.
..which is very favorable to my hand. KT5 all spades giving me top pair top kicker and the nut flush draw. sb checks, i check, utg bets, limper folds, raiser calls, sb folds, i checkraise, utg 3 bets, raiser folds, i call.
the turn is the 4s. i check, he bets, i raise, he makes it 3 bets, i wait a second. then i peek at my hand, then i peek at the board, then i peek at my hand again. i make it 4 bets. he beats me into the pot making it 5 bets. i go to 6 bets and he folds.
analysis: i screwed up. when he makes it 5 bets he is saying that he doesnt believe me and he think his Qs is good. i am smart enough to send a reverse tell and get him to make it 5 bets in the first place but then i blow it by making it 6 bets. he has reads on me from previous sessions as being tricky and overly aggressive, but not particularly good. so his 3 bet makes sense here and his 5 bet after i send that reverse tell (which he doesnt at all think im sophisticated enough to attempt) makes sense as well. but i cant expect him to call a sixth bet. however if i call with feigned resignation when he makes it 5 bets and then either go for a checkraise on the river or bet into him on the river (deciding which to try would depend on whether the board pairs) i will ceratinly make at least one more bet and possibly 2 or even 3!
so there you go: i suck.