poker story and the walls didn't come tumbling down
my poker game did not seem to have gotten rusty, i won a little short of 200 yesterday at mandalay bay.
there will be situations in a game where two (and sometimes more, but usually just two) players will get in a "pissing" match where their goal is to beat THE OTHER GUY. now, if you can be in a hand with those two and you have the monster, you can use them to bet your hand for you. here was a situation yesterday when i wished i had bought in for more money.....there is an asian fellow and a tourist from germany who were the two gamblers at the table and as a consequence they played many hands against each other with no other players involved. both had a history of raising ten dollars, the asian with usually good cards and the german with almost anyfuckingthing. i am on bb and asian raises to ten and german calls, i look down and i have ace-9 of spades, i call the extra 8 dollars. flop comes 8h 3s 2s. i check, asian bets ten dollars and german raises to 20, i call. i have two overcards and the nut flush draw and at this time i only have 110 dollars in front of me from my buy-in of 140. the next card is the 5s, i have the second nut flush (the 4-6 of spades would be straight flush) and so i check. asian bets 30 dollars and the german goes all in. i can't get my money in quick enough. lol. the asian hesitates and then he calls as well. the german had 8-Q off suit so he went all in with top pair, fair kicker with both a straight and a flush possibility on board, the asian had KJ of spades so he had third nut flush. they were both surprised when i turned over the winning hand. fact of the matter is that THEY NEVER EVEN SAW ME. THEY WERE SO INVOLVED IN TRYING TO BEAT EACH OTHER THEY NEVER ASKED THEMSELVES, JUST WHY IS THIS LOCAL ROCK IN THIS HAND. and now they know.
on to something else. i have always had a problem with "gated communities" because i think they are elitist and racist. this past monday there were heavy thunderstorms here in las vegas and one of the gated communities flooded because THE WALL HELD IN THE WATER! kept the colored folk out though.
oh well, off to have breakfast with my lovely wife and one of my very best friends and then off to relieve some tourists of some money.
there will be situations in a game where two (and sometimes more, but usually just two) players will get in a "pissing" match where their goal is to beat THE OTHER GUY. now, if you can be in a hand with those two and you have the monster, you can use them to bet your hand for you. here was a situation yesterday when i wished i had bought in for more money.....there is an asian fellow and a tourist from germany who were the two gamblers at the table and as a consequence they played many hands against each other with no other players involved. both had a history of raising ten dollars, the asian with usually good cards and the german with almost anyfuckingthing. i am on bb and asian raises to ten and german calls, i look down and i have ace-9 of spades, i call the extra 8 dollars. flop comes 8h 3s 2s. i check, asian bets ten dollars and german raises to 20, i call. i have two overcards and the nut flush draw and at this time i only have 110 dollars in front of me from my buy-in of 140. the next card is the 5s, i have the second nut flush (the 4-6 of spades would be straight flush) and so i check. asian bets 30 dollars and the german goes all in. i can't get my money in quick enough. lol. the asian hesitates and then he calls as well. the german had 8-Q off suit so he went all in with top pair, fair kicker with both a straight and a flush possibility on board, the asian had KJ of spades so he had third nut flush. they were both surprised when i turned over the winning hand. fact of the matter is that THEY NEVER EVEN SAW ME. THEY WERE SO INVOLVED IN TRYING TO BEAT EACH OTHER THEY NEVER ASKED THEMSELVES, JUST WHY IS THIS LOCAL ROCK IN THIS HAND. and now they know.
on to something else. i have always had a problem with "gated communities" because i think they are elitist and racist. this past monday there were heavy thunderstorms here in las vegas and one of the gated communities flooded because THE WALL HELD IN THE WATER! kept the colored folk out though.
oh well, off to have breakfast with my lovely wife and one of my very best friends and then off to relieve some tourists of some money.
posted by Ron Shock | 9:59 AM
4 Comments:
I like your example here. And you're absolutely right; when two players are going after one another, you become invisible to them. They will do all the betting and raising for you, and you can just sit there and remain inconspicuous.
The opposite, of course, occurs when one of the players decides to go after you (to get even, teach you a lesson, or whatever). Here they are focusing on you too much, which creates other types of opportunities for relieving them of their money. You can then create false tells, feign weakness, etc., and have a whole lot of fun.
Some of the gated people will probably want to keep the wall despite the damage--You can insure against flood, but you can't insure against undesirables...
Hey, son of skansky, you don't know crap about poker. I've read your posts before, and I think you stink. You'd better hope you never see me in one of your poker games, you wuss!!!
I would love to have you in one of my poker games, sir. Anytime. And I should point out that the correct spelling of the name is "sklansky", not "skansky", in spite of all those underaged girlfriend rumors you might have heard about. I might be a DOM, but I am not a wuss.
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