Re: Checking in the dark
 

Sometimes I check in the dark so that people don't get to see my immediate reaction to the flop. Instead I can watch their response. It's more dangerous in no limit. It has a tendency to induce bluffs.

When I check in the dark in 6-12, people sometimes still call my raise. Heh.

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I suppose you could say I'm in the dark when it comes to checking in the dark.

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lol....

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In the main event, a player on my left (affectionately named "Card Rack" by myself) would repeatedly check in the dark. Every time he did so, he had a drawing type hand (JT, small pair, etc), and if he did so on the turn or river, he was on a draw. Very easy to figure out.

Unfortunately, he kept hitting his draw over and over and over. Hence the nickname.

Re: Checking in the dark
 

You're right, but you shouldn't check in the dark with Aces or Kings or any "real" hand. The dark check, in my experience, ussually earns a free card on rag flops and flops your opponent might be afraid of. If your opponent checks behind you, and if you get a nice read on him, you can lead on the turn and take the pot with no pair or draw. Who knows, you might even win with the best hand.

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There's a lot less hostility in this thread for dark checking compared to when David Williams did it a year ago in a hand against Josh Arieh.

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There's a lot less hostility in this thread for dark checking compared to when David Williams did it a year ago in a hand against Josh Arieh.

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That was a sweet dark check. It induced Arieh to make a mistake and go all in with no thought really and it ended up trapping him. Nice play Williams.[img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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There's a lot less hostility in this thread for dark checking compared to when David Williams did it a year ago in a hand against Josh Arieh.

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That was a sweet dark check. It induced Arieh to make a mistake and go all in with no thought really and it ended up trapping him. Nice play Williams.[img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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That was a retarded dark check with a small pair and he got damn lucky that his opp. hit TPTK and he hit a set.

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There's a lot less hostility in this thread for dark checking compared to when David Williams did it a year ago in a hand against Josh Arieh.

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This is a stupid statement, all the money was going in on that hand dark check or no dark check.

Williams put half his stack in and then dark checked with a pocket pair. How would you feel about this play if the flop had come 8 9 J. Arieh checks it through and then hits a A on the turn.

What does williams do on a flop that he dark checked which doesn't give him a set such QJ8 where Arieh pushes All In with his AK. Does he get pushed off his best hand.

This was a time that David Williams tried to use a play taught to him by his mentor Luske. However, I would bet even Luske would state that was not the time or place for that play given the chip stacks and blinds.

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in tournament play when people check to me in the dark i have said "im all in in the dark."

ive done it three times once the dude flopped the joint and the other times they folded.

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checking in the dark did not begin w/ David Williams