I have been paying attention
 

Here's a hand.

Party Poker 0.5/1.

I'm the big blind with T [img]/forums/images/icons/diamond.gif[/img] 5 [img]/forums/images/icons/club.gif[/img] .

5 players including the SB call. I check.

Flop comes

A [img]/forums/images/icons/club.gif[/img] , 8 [img]/forums/images/icons/heart.gif[/img] , A [img]/forums/images/icons/diamond.gif[/img]

It's checked around.

Turn comes 8 [img]/forums/images/icons/spade.gif[/img] .

It's checked around.

River comes A [img]/forums/images/icons/spade.gif[/img] .

I bet out.

Two EP fold, three calls.

My hand is good.

Comments?

Re: I have been paying attention
 

Good job! You should also have considered checkraising, provided that a late position player would be tempted to bet after being checked to. In this case you will split the pot less ways. Then again, you will lose more when you happen to have read the situation wrong (doesn't seem too likely to happen in this case) and will split with everyone when it is checked through. So, if you are going to checkraise, you have to be pretty certain that a late position player will bet.

-- Homer

Re: I have been paying attention
 

I bet out before the thought occured to me that I might get raised. That would have made me stop and think. I was pretty sure that any A would have bet the flop and that any 8 would have bet the turn.

I actually played pretty well this weekend. I posted this hand because it was fun to be right and watch those two players fold. I knew they would be kicking themselves as soon as they folded.

The monsters under the bed post and a few others on Friday, as well as re-reading Lee Jones over the weekend really set me up to play well this weekend. I had a pretty good idea where I was in most hands and I also had reasons for thinking that way for the first time ever.

The fog is lifting.

I have some hands that made me think hard this weekend. I'll post them when I get a chance.

Rockfish

What am I missing here???
 

I'm feeling feeble-minded today. Doesn't the board play, aces full of eights? If you bet out and got three callers on the river, how can your hand be good? Did you mean to say you chopped it up four ways?

Re: What am I missing here???
 

Yes. I was playing the board. My hand was good.

The fun part was the two people who folded who didn't recognize that the board was going to be played.

Rockfish

Re: I have been paying attention
 

hi rock
not a good bet there, but you did win.

Re: I have been paying attention
 

Rock,

I'm not a big fan of that bet. I know that the board was played, but consider this... "If you were reraised, what would you do?"

I ask since a pocket pair of 99 or higher could very easily check when the flop has AA in a multi-way pot. Compound that with the turn pairing the board, and checking around wouldn't be unreasonable. Of course, it's not likely that someone would limp in w/ a pair like that, but sillier things have happened.

eh923

\"My hand is good\"
 

I think that's the phrase that threw me. I usually expect to hear this from someone who won the hand. I think that is its intended meaning. I hate to argue semantics...

Re: I have been paying attention
 

Didn't someone (Homer?) start a thread a while ago about a bet and a raise, when both were playing the board?

It happens every now and again.

Re: I have been paying attention
 

Yep....the board was something like 76543, and it was bet and raised to me. I thought about folding, then about three-betting, and finally wussed out and coldcalled. The pot ended up being split three ways.

-- Homer