Tommy Angelo
10-18-2003, 12:40 PM
Compared to some, this $20-40 game at LC's was gentle and honest. Several players limped. I was on the button with QJ. Sometimes I would raise in this situation but I didn't want to disrupt the peace, so I called.
Six players to the flop. The flop came A-T-8 rainbow. Everyone checked to me. This is one of the those seemingly critical decisions that doesn't much matter. When I bet in spots like this, it feels right. When I check, that feels right too.
This time, for whatever reason, I bet. One player folded and everyone else called. Five-handed now.
The turn card paired the eight. All checked to me and I checked too, glad I had bet the flop.
The river was a king, giving me a straight. With five players in, the river betting went: check, check, bet, and at this point I was totally zoomed in on everything, trying to decide if I was going to raise or call. Then the next player raised right in front of me, and now all of a sudden I had a third choice to consider... fold! Fold? Really?Naw, I decided. He could have me tied. Or maybe he misread his hand.
Thankfully, it is a rare sensation, after a checked turn, to call two cold on the river, and lose. He had K-8.
Looking back, being all about results, the flop bet was right, the turn check was very right (he would have checkraised with trip eights) and if only I could have found an impossible fold (was it?) on the river, this would have been a dandy hand.
Tommy
Six players to the flop. The flop came A-T-8 rainbow. Everyone checked to me. This is one of the those seemingly critical decisions that doesn't much matter. When I bet in spots like this, it feels right. When I check, that feels right too.
This time, for whatever reason, I bet. One player folded and everyone else called. Five-handed now.
The turn card paired the eight. All checked to me and I checked too, glad I had bet the flop.
The river was a king, giving me a straight. With five players in, the river betting went: check, check, bet, and at this point I was totally zoomed in on everything, trying to decide if I was going to raise or call. Then the next player raised right in front of me, and now all of a sudden I had a third choice to consider... fold! Fold? Really?Naw, I decided. He could have me tied. Or maybe he misread his hand.
Thankfully, it is a rare sensation, after a checked turn, to call two cold on the river, and lose. He had K-8.
Looking back, being all about results, the flop bet was right, the turn check was very right (he would have checkraised with trip eights) and if only I could have found an impossible fold (was it?) on the river, this would have been a dandy hand.
Tommy