MORE ATLANTIC CITY POKER--SAME DAY
two hands will tell you everything you need to know about the ac players: i have raised with ace jack of hearts and am called in two places. flop comes Js, 5h, 7h. first guy checks, second guy bets 15 dollars into me and i raise to 40. the other player folds and this guy calls. the next card is another jack giving me 3 jacks, ace kicker, nut flush draw. my opponent bets 15 dollars and i go all in, he cannot get his money in fast enough, leaps to his feet and shows KING TEN OFF SUIT. HE HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, NO DRAW, NO PAIR, NO NOTHING! he had misread his hand and thought he had jack ten. mercy.
30 minutes later i raise with ace king of spades from the button. two callers. flop comes Kh 6s, 9s. they check to me and i bet 20 dollars and am called in one place. next card is a 5 of diamonds. he checks i bet 45 dollars and he calls and the last card is another king and he puts me all in. i call and he show a pair of 5's for two pair against my 3 kings!
am now up over 900 dollars and have to go to do a show but will be back at the tables later tonight.
i think these people bluff so much that they think others do it as well. how else can you explain these plays. (well, one guy did misread his hand but even then, he thought he had a jack with a ten kicker and the second jack on the board did not seem to slow me down at all.)
oh well, one time here i won 1,800 dollars in two days playing 1-2. they are really bad.
30 minutes later i raise with ace king of spades from the button. two callers. flop comes Kh 6s, 9s. they check to me and i bet 20 dollars and am called in one place. next card is a 5 of diamonds. he checks i bet 45 dollars and he calls and the last card is another king and he puts me all in. i call and he show a pair of 5's for two pair against my 3 kings!
am now up over 900 dollars and have to go to do a show but will be back at the tables later tonight.
i think these people bluff so much that they think others do it as well. how else can you explain these plays. (well, one guy did misread his hand but even then, he thought he had a jack with a ten kicker and the second jack on the board did not seem to slow me down at all.)
oh well, one time here i won 1,800 dollars in two days playing 1-2. they are really bad.
posted by Ron Shock | 4:42 PM
3 Comments:
Good point about how loose bluffers often just assume that the other players are doing the very same thing. We tend to project our own styles and preferences onto others, and this is a good example of how it can be costly to do so in a poker game.
i call it, "way too much TV" where they see players IN A TOURNAMENT LATE IN THE GAME WITH RISING BLINDS have to resort to bluffs. gotta love 'em.
WAY TOO MUCH TV.
These Midwest casinos and riverboats are even better, because often there are only 1 or 2 poker rooms in the state. You get people playing in their basements against their friends every Friday night who walk into the Horseshoe Casino where I live and play the same damn way.
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I'm only an OK no-limit player. Sometimes I think I need the structure that comes with limit games. But I'm quickly finding that there's an endless supply of BAD no-limit players that run to the Horseshoe 24/7.
It's not even a "spot the sucker" situation. I've taken to spotting the one or two good players and having nothing to do with them in no-limit. I don't think I'm good enough to read them and bet properly against them over a period of time. But I know I can read and manipulate a few bad players into big pots and win those hands.
Financially speaking, that's all you want to do, just a few times a night, and you're golden.
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