Jordan Olsommer
07-24-2005, 01:12 AM
GSIH, p. 50:
"But when you have the button, as you do this hand, most of the warnings come before you act. Only one of the two blinds can spring a surprise raise on you. So when it looks safe, you can slip in with the vulnerable hands you had to avoid in early position."
(emphasis mine)
OK so for the past five minutes or so, I've been drinking coffee and staring at the wall and trying to figure out how the hell that statement can be true. Does EM play in games where the big blind is dead for some reason? Is there some alternate definition of "surprise raise" with which I was heretofore unfamiliar?
This is seriously bugging me. You know how you're in the car or some other place without access to a computer and you suddenly think "what was the name of the actor who played so-and-so in that movie I saw?" and it bugs the living crap out of you until you can find out? Same thing here. I'm sure it's just something ridiculously simple that I'm missing, but I'm damned if I can see it.
"But when you have the button, as you do this hand, most of the warnings come before you act. Only one of the two blinds can spring a surprise raise on you. So when it looks safe, you can slip in with the vulnerable hands you had to avoid in early position."
(emphasis mine)
OK so for the past five minutes or so, I've been drinking coffee and staring at the wall and trying to figure out how the hell that statement can be true. Does EM play in games where the big blind is dead for some reason? Is there some alternate definition of "surprise raise" with which I was heretofore unfamiliar?
This is seriously bugging me. You know how you're in the car or some other place without access to a computer and you suddenly think "what was the name of the actor who played so-and-so in that movie I saw?" and it bugs the living crap out of you until you can find out? Same thing here. I'm sure it's just something ridiculously simple that I'm missing, but I'm damned if I can see it.