10-16-2001, 01:03 PM
Back from a delightful week off. Sorry if I owed some replies and didn't follow up.
I'm in position against the blinds with AK of spades. The flop is 10-10-9 with two spades. They check, I bet, and one of the them calls. Heads up now. The turn card is another nine, and he bets out.
Hmmm. I didn't think he had a full house. He's the kinda guy who traps with a real hand and bets with draws. And given that I could still have anything at this point, I gave him credit for having the gumption to bet a draw, but not the will to reraise with one. So I raised the turn. He slumped a little and called. I really liked my hand at this point.
The river was the 7 of spades, giving me the nut flush. He bet out.
Oh my. I still didn't think he had a full house, but if he made a flush (or a straight), how could he bet into me on the river after I raised the turn, when any ten or nine makes a full house?
I almost raised here, thinking that he would payoff with a flush of straight. Sorry I haven't done much player profiling. That's because this player is very tough to profile. A huge loser, long run, plays tons of flops, but he has no fear, which is easy to confuse with having no sense, but that's not quite the case with him.
I couldn't bear the thought of getting reraised on the river because I did not have a clear plan as to what I'd do then. This is one of those hands where the thinking, though valid, mushed itself into a quagmire of uncertainty and nonsensable possibilities, so I did a brainless call on the river.
He had a straight-flush, which means that my thinking was right all along. Pretty good bet from him on the river, since I HAD represented the full house, meaning he'd get three river bets out of me by betting out if that's what I had, whereas if he check-raised the river, I might not reraise, and heck, I might not even bet the river with an overpair, another hand I could very well have.
I don't know if his thinking went that deep. I doubt that it did, but hey, ya never know. Even big losers have moments of brilliance.
Tommy
I'm in position against the blinds with AK of spades. The flop is 10-10-9 with two spades. They check, I bet, and one of the them calls. Heads up now. The turn card is another nine, and he bets out.
Hmmm. I didn't think he had a full house. He's the kinda guy who traps with a real hand and bets with draws. And given that I could still have anything at this point, I gave him credit for having the gumption to bet a draw, but not the will to reraise with one. So I raised the turn. He slumped a little and called. I really liked my hand at this point.
The river was the 7 of spades, giving me the nut flush. He bet out.
Oh my. I still didn't think he had a full house, but if he made a flush (or a straight), how could he bet into me on the river after I raised the turn, when any ten or nine makes a full house?
I almost raised here, thinking that he would payoff with a flush of straight. Sorry I haven't done much player profiling. That's because this player is very tough to profile. A huge loser, long run, plays tons of flops, but he has no fear, which is easy to confuse with having no sense, but that's not quite the case with him.
I couldn't bear the thought of getting reraised on the river because I did not have a clear plan as to what I'd do then. This is one of those hands where the thinking, though valid, mushed itself into a quagmire of uncertainty and nonsensable possibilities, so I did a brainless call on the river.
He had a straight-flush, which means that my thinking was right all along. Pretty good bet from him on the river, since I HAD represented the full house, meaning he'd get three river bets out of me by betting out if that's what I had, whereas if he check-raised the river, I might not reraise, and heck, I might not even bet the river with an overpair, another hand I could very well have.
I don't know if his thinking went that deep. I doubt that it did, but hey, ya never know. Even big losers have moments of brilliance.
Tommy