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#11
10-30-2005, 06:45 PM
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Re: Checking in the dark
Sometimes I check in the dark so that people don't get to see my immediate reaction to the flop. Instead I can watch their response. It's more dangerous in no limit. It has a tendency to induce bluffs.
When I check in the dark in 6-12, people sometimes still call my raise. Heh. 
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#12
10-30-2005, 11:23 PM
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Re: Checking in the dark
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I suppose you could say I'm in the dark when it comes to checking in the dark. [/ QUOTE ] lol....
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#13
10-30-2005, 11:27 PM
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Re: Checking in the dark
In the main event, a player on my left (affectionately named "Card Rack" by myself) would repeatedly check in the dark. Every time he did so, he had a drawing type hand (JT, small pair, etc), and if he did so on the turn or river, he was on a draw. Very easy to figure out. Unfortunately, he kept hitting his draw over and over and over. Hence the nickname.
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#14
10-31-2005, 01:37 AM
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Re: Checking in the dark
You're right, but you shouldn't check in the dark with Aces or Kings or any "real" hand. The dark check, in my experience, ussually earns a free card on rag flops and flops your opponent might be afraid of. If your opponent checks behind you, and if you get a nice read on him, you can lead on the turn and take the pot with no pair or draw. Who knows, you might even win with the best hand.
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#16
10-31-2005, 02:20 PM
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Re: Checking in the dark
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There's a lot less hostility in this thread for dark checking compared to when David Williams did it a year ago in a hand against Josh Arieh. [/ QUOTE ] That was a sweet dark check. It induced Arieh to make a mistake and go all in with no thought really and it ended up trapping him. Nice play Williams.[img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
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#17
10-31-2005, 02:53 PM
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Re: Checking in the dark
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[ QUOTE ] There's a lot less hostility in this thread for dark checking compared to when David Williams did it a year ago in a hand against Josh Arieh. [/ QUOTE ] That was a sweet dark check. It induced Arieh to make a mistake and go all in with no thought really and it ended up trapping him. Nice play Williams.[img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] That was a retarded dark check with a small pair and he got damn lucky that his opp. hit TPTK and he hit a set.
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#18
10-31-2005, 04:07 PM
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Re: Checking in the dark
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There's a lot less hostility in this thread for dark checking compared to when David Williams did it a year ago in a hand against Josh Arieh. [/ QUOTE ] This is a stupid statement, all the money was going in on that hand dark check or no dark check. Williams put half his stack in and then dark checked with a pocket pair. How would you feel about this play if the flop had come 8 9 J. Arieh checks it through and then hits a A on the turn. What does williams do on a flop that he dark checked which doesn't give him a set such QJ8 where Arieh pushes All In with his AK. Does he get pushed off his best hand. This was a time that David Williams tried to use a play taught to him by his mentor Luske. However, I would bet even Luske would state that was not the time or place for that play given the chip stacks and blinds.
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#19
10-31-2005, 04:15 PM
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Re: Checking in the dark
in tournament play when people check to me in the dark i have said "im all in in the dark."
ive done it three times once the dude flopped the joint and the other times they folded.
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#20
10-31-2005, 05:03 PM
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Re: Checking in the dark
checking in the dark did not begin w/ David Williams
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