08-23-2005, 05:44 PM
Last night was my first trip to a casino, and one hand in particular really stuck out in my mind. I'm wondering how badly I misplayed it.
In this particular pot there were three players.
UTG- Young, fast, loose, goes too far with hands. He was tilting badly after loosing half his stack in the last couple of hands. Plays a lot of hands, and often raises questionably preflop. He was very upset with MP1, who had drawn out on him a few times. I got the impression that he really wanted to try to win back his money especially from MP1.
MP1- My buddy who I drove up with. Somehow we were at the same table together. He is pretty loose, decent knowledge of the game, and has a tendency to make some careless plays.
Me- in this hand I'm BB. I've been playing for an hour, and have only played one hand (no other playable hands). The one hand I played I was aggressive on it, and I figured that at that point the table would respect my raises.
In this hand UTG raises. MP1 reraises. I look down at KK and reraise. UTG caps. Both MP1 and myself call. At this point I don't put either of them on anything too good, something like 55-JJ, or AK-AJ. Their previous history together made me think of their raises as nothing more than a pissing match between the two with me stuck in the middle. My plan going into it was to play aggressively, unless the flop is extremely coordinated, or there is an ace. At that point, I have no problems letting go of my hand.
Flop comes 87 4 rainbow. I bet. UTG raises. MP1 reraises. I cap, UTG and MP1 both call.
Turn comes 9. I bet, UTG raises, MP1 reraises. At this point I figure that I've probably not given the two of them enough credit for their hands and I fold. UTG caps, and MP1 calls.
River is a blank. They cap the betting.
I really felt like before the flop and on the flop I had the best hand and that I had a pretty good read on both players. But because of the constant capping on every street, I had to throw my kings away.
UTG- 55 for a pair of fives
MP1- JTo for the nut straight.
How did I screw this up? I'd like to think that I just got badly outdrawn by MP1, but I think there is more to it than that. Thanks for all your imput. And sorry if I messed up some of the writing, it was a late night last night.
In this particular pot there were three players.
UTG- Young, fast, loose, goes too far with hands. He was tilting badly after loosing half his stack in the last couple of hands. Plays a lot of hands, and often raises questionably preflop. He was very upset with MP1, who had drawn out on him a few times. I got the impression that he really wanted to try to win back his money especially from MP1.
MP1- My buddy who I drove up with. Somehow we were at the same table together. He is pretty loose, decent knowledge of the game, and has a tendency to make some careless plays.
Me- in this hand I'm BB. I've been playing for an hour, and have only played one hand (no other playable hands). The one hand I played I was aggressive on it, and I figured that at that point the table would respect my raises.
In this hand UTG raises. MP1 reraises. I look down at KK and reraise. UTG caps. Both MP1 and myself call. At this point I don't put either of them on anything too good, something like 55-JJ, or AK-AJ. Their previous history together made me think of their raises as nothing more than a pissing match between the two with me stuck in the middle. My plan going into it was to play aggressively, unless the flop is extremely coordinated, or there is an ace. At that point, I have no problems letting go of my hand.
Flop comes 87 4 rainbow. I bet. UTG raises. MP1 reraises. I cap, UTG and MP1 both call.
Turn comes 9. I bet, UTG raises, MP1 reraises. At this point I figure that I've probably not given the two of them enough credit for their hands and I fold. UTG caps, and MP1 calls.
River is a blank. They cap the betting.
I really felt like before the flop and on the flop I had the best hand and that I had a pretty good read on both players. But because of the constant capping on every street, I had to throw my kings away.
UTG- 55 for a pair of fives
MP1- JTo for the nut straight.
How did I screw this up? I'd like to think that I just got badly outdrawn by MP1, but I think there is more to it than that. Thanks for all your imput. And sorry if I messed up some of the writing, it was a late night last night.