andyfox
02-28-2004, 12:46 AM
A while ago, I posted about my putting in far too many raises with a flush because I felt it was impossible my opponent would have 3-bet pre-flop with a hand that gave him a higher flush. A similar situation occurred this week that had me thinking deja vu all over again.
The villain in this piece is hot and stuck. Very hot and stuck. He has already been given a twenty minute time-out for throwing cards and a bunch of F-bombs. Yes, management is tough at the Commerce.
40-80. All fold to me in latish position and I raise with A-Q. He calls from the small blind and the big blind also calls.
Flop is A-Q-2 rainbow. Good. He bets. Big blind folds, I raise, he 3-bets. I call, he-he, waiting to administer the proverbial Fekali enema on the turn. Which is another queen. Good.
He bets. I raise. He 3-bets. I 4-bet. He 5-bets. I 6-bet. He 7-bets.
Yikes. Could he have pocket aces? No, of course not. I have an Ace and there's one on board, so, by my fuzzy math, he's unlikely to have the other two. And he'd have 3-bet pre-flop with pocket queens or pocket aces. He never slowplays big pairs pre-flop. Never. I know this.
So I 8-bet.
He 9-bets.
And, of course, I just call the 9-bet and just call his bet on the river. And of course he had what I should have known he had, A-2. He was hot and stuck. He was just going to keep throwing in as much money as he could with that hand come hell or high water.
Over the years I've noticed that oft, especially when a guy is on tilt, he falls in love with his hand and when the choice becomes either put him on a hand that logically must have you beat, given what he surely must know you have, or put him on a hand he's fallen in love with or on I-don't-care-what-happens, logic should be ignored. But I suppose discretion is the better part of valor. Whatever the hell that means.
But the poker gods were looking out for me. Just before the hand, he was almost down to the green and he took a wad of bills out and was undecided about letting them play in the small blind. He was holding them in his hand without putting them on the table when the dealer, a good one, asked him if the bills played.
They did.
BTW, did I mention the games at Commerce are pretty good?
The villain in this piece is hot and stuck. Very hot and stuck. He has already been given a twenty minute time-out for throwing cards and a bunch of F-bombs. Yes, management is tough at the Commerce.
40-80. All fold to me in latish position and I raise with A-Q. He calls from the small blind and the big blind also calls.
Flop is A-Q-2 rainbow. Good. He bets. Big blind folds, I raise, he 3-bets. I call, he-he, waiting to administer the proverbial Fekali enema on the turn. Which is another queen. Good.
He bets. I raise. He 3-bets. I 4-bet. He 5-bets. I 6-bet. He 7-bets.
Yikes. Could he have pocket aces? No, of course not. I have an Ace and there's one on board, so, by my fuzzy math, he's unlikely to have the other two. And he'd have 3-bet pre-flop with pocket queens or pocket aces. He never slowplays big pairs pre-flop. Never. I know this.
So I 8-bet.
He 9-bets.
And, of course, I just call the 9-bet and just call his bet on the river. And of course he had what I should have known he had, A-2. He was hot and stuck. He was just going to keep throwing in as much money as he could with that hand come hell or high water.
Over the years I've noticed that oft, especially when a guy is on tilt, he falls in love with his hand and when the choice becomes either put him on a hand that logically must have you beat, given what he surely must know you have, or put him on a hand he's fallen in love with or on I-don't-care-what-happens, logic should be ignored. But I suppose discretion is the better part of valor. Whatever the hell that means.
But the poker gods were looking out for me. Just before the hand, he was almost down to the green and he took a wad of bills out and was undecided about letting them play in the small blind. He was holding them in his hand without putting them on the table when the dealer, a good one, asked him if the bills played.
They did.
BTW, did I mention the games at Commerce are pretty good?