Confrontations with Mega Fish

[waynethetrain]

Thanks. It was a strange experience, but I am sure I learned a few things today.

[waynethetrain]

I agree. Check calling doesn't make much sense.

For better or worse, here was my thinking at the time.

I didn't think it was a certainty that he would bet if I checked. Once he did bet "I KNEW" it wasn't a certainty that he had me beat because of what I had seen him play previously.

Also, these players were playing and betting such crap I thought I might be able to drive them off their hands a decent percentage of the time with a flop and turn bet. I was obviously mistaken. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

I knew my hands were rather weak. So once I couldn't drive them off I was looking to get away without a river bet because I thought it was more likely I was beat than not, but no so much more likely that I had to fold given the money in the pot already.

The big lesson I learned was my inability to drive then off anything with a flop and turn bet.

[TomBrooks]

Hand 1 and 2: The way you played both of these looks fine to me.