James282
03-13-2004, 02:49 AM
So I've been thinking about Shania. I want Shania, I need more Shania - Shania doesnt love me as much as she should. So then I was playing in a 10/20 game...and the game is very tight except for 2 very bad players. The button here is a calling station and I have a LAG to my immediate right. It's folded to the button who calls, SB raises, I call with Th8h, button calls of course.
Flop is T /images/graemlins/spade.gif 9 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 2 /images/graemlins/spade.gif LAG bets, I raise, calling station calls, lag 3 bets, I get nervous, Button calls.
Turn is an average 8 /images/graemlins/spade.gif LAG bets, now I raise and calling station goes away, perfect. Now Lag three bets me and I know that this could mean as much as the nuts or as little as a pair with the A of spades. I wuss out and wait for the river...which bircks a rag non-spade. He bets, I raise, and he folds. Now THIS is an interesting lag - one with hand reading abilities(or who doesn't like a simple ace high if he was just semibluffing the naked As).
About two orbits later, our lag open raises in MP, and I three-bet him with K /images/graemlins/club.gif 9 /images/graemlins/club.gif - I know. But the rest of the table respects me and I haven't gotten out of line with any of them yet. So they fold it around to our lag who caps(he will cap with anything he will raise with). I am not scared, I am James.
Flop is Q /images/graemlins/heart.gif 2 /images/graemlins/club.gif 2 /images/graemlins/spade.gif. I consider it to be a great flop. He bets, I raise, he just calls - I smell victory.
Turn is an even more beautiful 4 /images/graemlins/club.gif He bets out and now I raise - he three bets me once again and now I just call. The river bricks a 5 of groceries and he now bets out again, I raise and he insta-mucks. I go to muck my cards, but instead turn them face up. He gets absolutely furious but says nothing - his furrowed brow behind his little glasses says it all. The rest of the tabe just shakes their heads like the typical new jersey rocks that they are - with only one local nodding in approval.
I almost never show bluffs, especially live, because I feel like it just pisses fish off and it hurts my nice-laughing-guy action. But I was tired of getting folds - I sought Shania.
Now to the exciting climax. I am in the BB with red cowboys. 2 rocks limp and the SB raises, I make it three bets, everyone rolls their eyes and calls and now the SB caps it, I look worried and call.
The flop is T /images/graemlins/club.gif 8 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 4 /images/graemlins/spade.gif - bingo. My pal bets it out and I raise, one rock looks grumpy and calls, maniac makes it three bets, I cap, and rock calls again now looking pretty annoyed.
Turn is a 6 /images/graemlins/heart.gif - no help for you suckers! Maniac bets out again and I throw in another raise. Rock calls 2 now looking visibly upset and maniac makes it three bets, I cap it off and rock thinks and thinks and thinks, shows his hand to another local and mucks. Maniac calls.
River is a Q - maniac throws in his last red chip and says "all-in". I call and he shows me beautfiul Shania(jj). Now the guy sitting next to Rock man starts cracking up because he had flashed him QT(sooted!). His friend says "That is why you don't play QT!" and rock man says "Shut the [f curse] up." We all laugh and the table loosens up considerably and maniac rebuys.
The big question - How frequently are we showing bluffs for Shania?
-James
Flop is T /images/graemlins/spade.gif 9 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 2 /images/graemlins/spade.gif LAG bets, I raise, calling station calls, lag 3 bets, I get nervous, Button calls.
Turn is an average 8 /images/graemlins/spade.gif LAG bets, now I raise and calling station goes away, perfect. Now Lag three bets me and I know that this could mean as much as the nuts or as little as a pair with the A of spades. I wuss out and wait for the river...which bircks a rag non-spade. He bets, I raise, and he folds. Now THIS is an interesting lag - one with hand reading abilities(or who doesn't like a simple ace high if he was just semibluffing the naked As).
About two orbits later, our lag open raises in MP, and I three-bet him with K /images/graemlins/club.gif 9 /images/graemlins/club.gif - I know. But the rest of the table respects me and I haven't gotten out of line with any of them yet. So they fold it around to our lag who caps(he will cap with anything he will raise with). I am not scared, I am James.
Flop is Q /images/graemlins/heart.gif 2 /images/graemlins/club.gif 2 /images/graemlins/spade.gif. I consider it to be a great flop. He bets, I raise, he just calls - I smell victory.
Turn is an even more beautiful 4 /images/graemlins/club.gif He bets out and now I raise - he three bets me once again and now I just call. The river bricks a 5 of groceries and he now bets out again, I raise and he insta-mucks. I go to muck my cards, but instead turn them face up. He gets absolutely furious but says nothing - his furrowed brow behind his little glasses says it all. The rest of the tabe just shakes their heads like the typical new jersey rocks that they are - with only one local nodding in approval.
I almost never show bluffs, especially live, because I feel like it just pisses fish off and it hurts my nice-laughing-guy action. But I was tired of getting folds - I sought Shania.
Now to the exciting climax. I am in the BB with red cowboys. 2 rocks limp and the SB raises, I make it three bets, everyone rolls their eyes and calls and now the SB caps it, I look worried and call.
The flop is T /images/graemlins/club.gif 8 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 4 /images/graemlins/spade.gif - bingo. My pal bets it out and I raise, one rock looks grumpy and calls, maniac makes it three bets, I cap, and rock calls again now looking pretty annoyed.
Turn is a 6 /images/graemlins/heart.gif - no help for you suckers! Maniac bets out again and I throw in another raise. Rock calls 2 now looking visibly upset and maniac makes it three bets, I cap it off and rock thinks and thinks and thinks, shows his hand to another local and mucks. Maniac calls.
River is a Q - maniac throws in his last red chip and says "all-in". I call and he shows me beautfiul Shania(jj). Now the guy sitting next to Rock man starts cracking up because he had flashed him QT(sooted!). His friend says "That is why you don't play QT!" and rock man says "Shut the [f curse] up." We all laugh and the table loosens up considerably and maniac rebuys.
The big question - How frequently are we showing bluffs for Shania?
-James