andyfox
05-05-2004, 12:38 PM
Since posting this on the Mid-, High-Stakes Forum might open me up to the self-appointed forum monitors' wrath, I humbly post this here, a sort of follow-up to mike l.'s wonderful "mike l. expert card reader" post there.
40-80. We are short-handed. I am in seat one. Seat two is empty. Snakehead sits down, not to play, but to discuss economics and real estate with me. There is nothing I can teach him about hold 'em. And there is nothing I can teach him about economics and real estate, but I bluffed.
Anyway, I'm fold-fold-folding as we talk and soon it's my big blind. A new player posts in the cut-off. All fold to him and he checks. He's a fairly aggressive, but not loose player, so he really must have pee-pee-ca-ca here. [My thanks to Tommy Angelo for teaching me this advanced hold'em terminology.] The button and the small blind fold so now it's easy: all I have to do is raise and I win the $100 in blinds. So I do. To my surprise and dismay, the poster calls. What could he have to call with head-up that he didn't raise with?
I have 7-6o. But I hope for a high card flop, since he most likely doesn't have any.
Ask and ye shall receive: the flop is K-J-5 with two clubs. I bet and, according to plan, the poster folds. I take my two cards, flash them triumphantly and sanctimoniously and egotistically to Snakehead, put a dollar tip on top of them and slide them to the dealer.
"No!" exclaims Snakehead, "he called."
He did? Crap, I thought he folded. I take my cards back.
The turn is some card. I glance over to my opponent. He doesn't have any cards and he's ordering lunch. He didn't call. The dealer tells me it's up to you.
WTF?
It is then I realized that the small blind has a hand. Being in seat one, and he in seat nine, I didn't see him. I thought he folded. In point of fact, I didn't raise pre-flop, he had raised and I had called. Yecch and Feh.
I check behind and Snakehead generously suggests that I also show him my cards.
The river pairs the jack and puts a third club on board. Small blind checks, I bet, and he folds. I beg Snakehead not to post about it. Fortunately, the forums are unexpectedly down for the day.
But the more I think about it, the more I thought it should be posted.
Because sometimes you have a perfect plan and it works out just so.
40-80. We are short-handed. I am in seat one. Seat two is empty. Snakehead sits down, not to play, but to discuss economics and real estate with me. There is nothing I can teach him about hold 'em. And there is nothing I can teach him about economics and real estate, but I bluffed.
Anyway, I'm fold-fold-folding as we talk and soon it's my big blind. A new player posts in the cut-off. All fold to him and he checks. He's a fairly aggressive, but not loose player, so he really must have pee-pee-ca-ca here. [My thanks to Tommy Angelo for teaching me this advanced hold'em terminology.] The button and the small blind fold so now it's easy: all I have to do is raise and I win the $100 in blinds. So I do. To my surprise and dismay, the poster calls. What could he have to call with head-up that he didn't raise with?
I have 7-6o. But I hope for a high card flop, since he most likely doesn't have any.
Ask and ye shall receive: the flop is K-J-5 with two clubs. I bet and, according to plan, the poster folds. I take my two cards, flash them triumphantly and sanctimoniously and egotistically to Snakehead, put a dollar tip on top of them and slide them to the dealer.
"No!" exclaims Snakehead, "he called."
He did? Crap, I thought he folded. I take my cards back.
The turn is some card. I glance over to my opponent. He doesn't have any cards and he's ordering lunch. He didn't call. The dealer tells me it's up to you.
WTF?
It is then I realized that the small blind has a hand. Being in seat one, and he in seat nine, I didn't see him. I thought he folded. In point of fact, I didn't raise pre-flop, he had raised and I had called. Yecch and Feh.
I check behind and Snakehead generously suggests that I also show him my cards.
The river pairs the jack and puts a third club on board. Small blind checks, I bet, and he folds. I beg Snakehead not to post about it. Fortunately, the forums are unexpectedly down for the day.
But the more I think about it, the more I thought it should be posted.
Because sometimes you have a perfect plan and it works out just so.