08-12-2005, 04:38 PM
Playing $1-$2 NL at the Golden Nugget about a month ago and this hand comes up:
I've got JsJd and I'm close to the button. I make it $15 to go and all but the guy opposite me at the table fold, so now it's HU.
I've got about $250 in front of me in chips, and the guy across the table from me has maybe $100 in chips and a stack of paper.
Flop comes:
2h 6h Jh
Guy across from me checks to me. I've got a set of jacks. I don't want him catching a heart if he happens to have one. I shove all in. He calls, and turns over two small hearts. 2 cards to come with 7 outs and I don't make my filly. I'm broke. (No more hearts came.)
In retrospect, I think shoving all in might not have been the best play, but for a $15 raise that cleared the table out I didn't put him on two hearts (let alone two small hearts.) I would have had to make a large bet on the flop anyway to charge him for a heart draw / protect my hand. Again, in retrospect I think the only hands that were going to call me were hands that were going to beat me but I wanted to win the pot right there.
Did I just get unlucky, or did I play this totally wrong?
I've got JsJd and I'm close to the button. I make it $15 to go and all but the guy opposite me at the table fold, so now it's HU.
I've got about $250 in front of me in chips, and the guy across the table from me has maybe $100 in chips and a stack of paper.
Flop comes:
2h 6h Jh
Guy across from me checks to me. I've got a set of jacks. I don't want him catching a heart if he happens to have one. I shove all in. He calls, and turns over two small hearts. 2 cards to come with 7 outs and I don't make my filly. I'm broke. (No more hearts came.)
In retrospect, I think shoving all in might not have been the best play, but for a $15 raise that cleared the table out I didn't put him on two hearts (let alone two small hearts.) I would have had to make a large bet on the flop anyway to charge him for a heart draw / protect my hand. Again, in retrospect I think the only hands that were going to call me were hands that were going to beat me but I wanted to win the pot right there.
Did I just get unlucky, or did I play this totally wrong?