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Old 06-20-2004, 03:56 AM
SkippingGoat SkippingGoat is offline
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Default Re: The book is paying off.

Ugg. I think this looks horrible. First, calling UTG with K2s is probably a bad play. Even if you flop a draw you're in the dubious position of having to play a draw in early position. If you're relatively new to NLHE the difficulty of playing this kind of hand in early position will become apparent. If you semi-bluff this hand (which I'm surprised you didn't do considering tht you just read SS) a call forces you to bet again or basically give up the pot on the turn if you miss (which you will probably do). In late position you can semibluff and, if you get a caller, that person will likely check to you on the turn. In this way, your semi-bluff buys two cards instead of one. To add insult to injury, you called the raise which could easily have pit you against AK, which leaves you dominated with respect to your king outs.
On the flop you immediately put yourself in the position of a caller. One of the main ways the Super System wins money is by BETTING or RAISING draws and picking up a lot of pots through people folding. Since the stack sizes behind you weren't all that large, a decent bet by any of them will basically pot commit them and ruin any hope you have of buying the pot by pushing. That is, trying a check raise here is not a good idea because you won't get anyone to fold with it. All that being said, your push wan't bad on the flop simply because you were getting pot odds to draw to your flush. The push wasn't neccessary since the chance of MP2 folding here is slim given that he initially raised to $32 (however, in your defense, MP2 would have almost certainly gone all-in on the turn or river so you were probably going to have to put the extra $32 in anyway). While you credit the Super System here, all you really did was call a bunch of bets drawing to the non-nut flush showing very little aggression and got lucky in hitting. You really have to ask yourself whether calling raises with Kxs in early position is going to make money for you in the long term.
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