Re: First Post
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Okie doke.
Can you explain your thought process behind the 55 vs. AK hand with Josh Arieh when you checked in the dark?
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I figured this hand would come up. The check in the dark is basically a move that helps you pick up "tells" on your opponent, without comprimising position. Mainly I want to see how he comes out, is he betting, is he checking, does he look weak, strong, etc.. So by me auto-checking, im now putting the ball in my opponents court without him having any clue as to what I could be holding. I figured if I don't flop a set, im not really sure where I stand. So basically, I was going to defer my move, and then counter any move made by Josh. A check in the dark works the best with medium to low pairs and suited connectors. In this situation the check in the dark did work out wonderfully. It's not a play that I highly suggest, its just something that I did because I think I did get caught up in the moment. It was by no means me trying to show off or be cocky.
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this analysis is very incomplete without knowing stack sizes...that makes a huuuuuuge difference in whether or not the dark check was a good play or not. I suspect that you had too high a percentage of your chips in the pot preflop for the dark check to give you enough implied odds to hit a perfect flop (which you did...A5x, Josh holding AK).
The fact that he put you all in on the flop leads me to believe that the pot represented somewhere in the neighborhood of at least a quarter of your stack, if not more (since Josh probably doesn't overbet the pot the pot there with TPTK).
By checking in the dark, you gave up your only other way to win the hand...by firing on a flop that had only 1 or 2 non-face card overcards (assuming you put him on unpaired Face-face or Ace face).
As far as the A4 final hand....if you put him on unpaired overcards, you really should have put a raise in there on the flop or at a minimum, on the turn....your hand is much, much too vulnerable to allow him to keep peeling off cards.
Again, without a good idea of stack sizes, all this analysis is pretty useless.
Again, welcome...
-SossMan
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