toots
05-06-2005, 03:46 PM
So, I play these online microlimit games, and I'll often see four or five people, not counting the blinds, seeing the flop.
Huh. There are four or five aces in the deck? Four, I can believe, but when I'm sitting in the big blind with two of the aces and four other people call, I find it dang difficult to figure out what the heck they're playing.
For the most part, I find that this means that I have to play ABC O8: Either I have the nuts or I don't, and just prepare myself to get double-counterfeited by the river, only to see some fish scoop the pot with a 46 low and three of a kind, 7s. It doesn't hurt too much, because I figure it's all coming back my way sooner or later.
Even still, I am finding that I have an enormously difficult time figuring out where I am with these people. Yeah, I know if I have the nuts, and if I have a draw to the nuts, but that's about it. I will often lose pots when my nuts don't hit (or get counterfeited), and I assume that the reason the other guys are raising like a gaggle of drunken freight trains is that they backed into the nuts. I'm often wrong, and only discover after folding that I probably woulda won.
Which then leaves me chasing pots that I probably shouldn't.
I'm stuck.
Huh. There are four or five aces in the deck? Four, I can believe, but when I'm sitting in the big blind with two of the aces and four other people call, I find it dang difficult to figure out what the heck they're playing.
For the most part, I find that this means that I have to play ABC O8: Either I have the nuts or I don't, and just prepare myself to get double-counterfeited by the river, only to see some fish scoop the pot with a 46 low and three of a kind, 7s. It doesn't hurt too much, because I figure it's all coming back my way sooner or later.
Even still, I am finding that I have an enormously difficult time figuring out where I am with these people. Yeah, I know if I have the nuts, and if I have a draw to the nuts, but that's about it. I will often lose pots when my nuts don't hit (or get counterfeited), and I assume that the reason the other guys are raising like a gaggle of drunken freight trains is that they backed into the nuts. I'm often wrong, and only discover after folding that I probably woulda won.
Which then leaves me chasing pots that I probably shouldn't.
I'm stuck.