mucka flush

[Tommy Angelo]

Full $20-40 at the Mirage. Two seats behind me is Gabe and two seats behind him is Clarkmeister. Good game except that I'd folded about 80 straight hands and lobbied twice in between so by my reckoning I'd saved about 100 bucks over what it would have cost me at home to have chips on the table and not see a flop for like a week.

Okay so maybe I was getting a little tired. I'd been playing hard all day and I was up a bunch. But now on a drippy downturn of no starters or flops or spunk of any kind really. Which is fine. Just sitting there. Oh, my turn? I fold.

The guy on my right, the first thing he ever said to me in his entire life, was after I'd been in the game for 30 folds and one lobby break, he said, almost in sympathy, on my small blind, after a bunch of people limped and you guess it I folded, he said, "Are you EVER going to play a hand?" I answered an earnest no, and went back to folding.

Then I got AQ of diamonds. The guy who raised in front of me hadn't been playing any hands either. I flat called with two players behind me. They both folded, both blinds called, and four of us saw the flop.

K-J-x all diamonds.

Three checks to me, and I checked.

The turn card paired the king.

I really played this hand bad. That's why I quit soon after.

Both blinds checked and the preflop raiser bet. I called. The SB called and the BB folded. So far I think I played it just fine.

The river was the nine of diamonds. The SB checked, the preflop raiser bet, and had this hand happened at any other time during this trip I would have flat called the river. But no like a tiring dolt I raised. The SB folded, the preflop raiser reraised, and I was left humming one of my songs while I mucked.

I slid over to the $10-20 game in an open seat right next to Ed Miller so I could watch him fold for a while before I called it a night. It's a night.


Tommy

[Evan]

I'm assuming that you put the preflop raiser on JJ. Any particular reason you thought he'd check the flop with a set?

[andyfox]

He's a Vegas tighty. They never bet a set on the flop. Then they explain afterwards, for fifteen minutes, why it was so brilliant.

[Evan]

Umm...okay. I've never been to Vegas, are all games out there this weak or just the mid/high games?

[andyfox]

They're very passive. And they pride themselves on being analytical. They consider it a crime against humanity to do anything with a set until the turn.

[Clarkmeister]

The flop check was terrible, especially since you had all the idiots involved in this hand. They'll call anything, but you've got to give them a chance.

I agree with your fold in the river. That guy had an ace high flush beat.

[andyfox]

What about Tommy's river raise? Would this guy bet 3 kings into the 4-flush on board?

It's starting to worry me when I would play every street in a hand different than Tommy.

[Mikey]

"Then I got AQ of diamonds. The guy who raised in front of me hadn't been playing any hands either. I flat called with two players behind me."

I would have folded preflop.

[SoBeDude]

Wow I woulda lost so much more money.

I'm 3betting preflop, betting the flop and raising the turn.

And then the pot is so big I'd have had to called on the river. But maybe I fold to his 5 bet on the turn.

-Scott

[Lawrence Ng]

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The SB folded, the preflop raiser reraised, and I was left humming one of my songs while I mucked.

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10-20 Last night.

Solid Player raises UTG, 4 call, and I call 6 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]4 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] on the button. Both blinds call.

Flop comes 4-4-10 Rainbow. UTB bets, 2 callers, I call, blinds fold

Turn comes 6. UTG bets, all fold to me and I raise. UTG calls.

River comes K. UTG bets, I raise, he re-raise. I fold.

Poker god say: "Punish the doubledown hand with 2 out beat on river you bad boy!"