30 out of 36
two more winning sessions today making it 30 out of the last 36.
as a guy was rebuying for the second time he says to me, "you have to gamble sometimes, you just can't sit there and wait for good cards."
i said, "yes, i can and yes, i do."
this is not to say that, once ahead, i don't play some speculative hands, i do, but i pick my spots and know my table. this was an interesting hand from last night late session: i am in early position with Jc-9c and cold call with it. the table i was at had the tendency to just call or put in small raises and that is what happened in this case; the guy right after me made it 7 to go and by the time it was back to me there were 5 callers so i put in the extra 5. the flop comes Qd-Td-2c. i have an open end straight and back door flush and am second to act. the bb, who has called the 5 dollars, checks and i bet 15 dollars into the pot with two aims in mind; one: to take it right there or two: sit them up just in case i hit the straight which they won't see because i bet it now. i am called in 3 places including the bb. the turn is the perfect card, the 8 of clubs; i now have the nut straight and a flush draw. i bet 50 dollars and am called by the button and the bb. there is now 250 dollars or so in the pot. the river is a queen. not what i wanted to see. bb checks, so far so good, i check and the button hesitates and bets 40 dollars into this huge pot and the bb just calls which means that she didn't have the full house, which is, of course, what i am worried about and now there is just way too much money not to call with my straight. i call. when i call, i say, "full house wins." button says that he has three queens and the bb had queens and tens and so my straight took it down. now go back over all of that: he called a 50 dollar bet with only one pair, queens with an ace kicker, she, the bb, called a 50 dollar bet with SECOND PAIR also with a king kicker. then he bet the river without the straight or a full house and she called with only two pair. these are really bad players making really bad plays. but their bad plays were set up by my original bet of 15 dollars, but they, bless their little hearts, did the rest. neither one of them should have called that fifty dollars. that is a big bet in this size of game and you need to either have two pair or a set or just a monster draw to make that call and neither of them had any of that. they made the call anyway. thank you. no, seriously, thank you.
i have a friend who is just a great player and he terrorizes the medium good players. i go after the really bad players. atlantic city tropicana poker room has a ton of really bad players. to add some more to the story; a case could be made that i misplayed the hand and could have check raised them on the turn but, as i have said before, i don't have to be good, i just have to be better than the ones i play against. lol.
johnny chan said that "you make your living with big cards but you make your big hands with cards they don't expect you to have." i spend the first couple of three hours proving to the table that i am a stone cold rock and that i only play great hands. this way when i do something like call with the two-three suited in the cutoff position and flop comes 2-2-3 no one sees me with that hand which is incidently a three hundred dollar hand from reno last year. remember, i only do this once or twice all session and ONLY after i have established my rock persona and i am ahead by a good margin. then when i make that call, i am making it with THEIR MONEY. doyle brunson said that in his book.
poker talk at 3:30 a.m. est
the day after thanksgiving
and i am far away from home
as a guy was rebuying for the second time he says to me, "you have to gamble sometimes, you just can't sit there and wait for good cards."
i said, "yes, i can and yes, i do."
this is not to say that, once ahead, i don't play some speculative hands, i do, but i pick my spots and know my table. this was an interesting hand from last night late session: i am in early position with Jc-9c and cold call with it. the table i was at had the tendency to just call or put in small raises and that is what happened in this case; the guy right after me made it 7 to go and by the time it was back to me there were 5 callers so i put in the extra 5. the flop comes Qd-Td-2c. i have an open end straight and back door flush and am second to act. the bb, who has called the 5 dollars, checks and i bet 15 dollars into the pot with two aims in mind; one: to take it right there or two: sit them up just in case i hit the straight which they won't see because i bet it now. i am called in 3 places including the bb. the turn is the perfect card, the 8 of clubs; i now have the nut straight and a flush draw. i bet 50 dollars and am called by the button and the bb. there is now 250 dollars or so in the pot. the river is a queen. not what i wanted to see. bb checks, so far so good, i check and the button hesitates and bets 40 dollars into this huge pot and the bb just calls which means that she didn't have the full house, which is, of course, what i am worried about and now there is just way too much money not to call with my straight. i call. when i call, i say, "full house wins." button says that he has three queens and the bb had queens and tens and so my straight took it down. now go back over all of that: he called a 50 dollar bet with only one pair, queens with an ace kicker, she, the bb, called a 50 dollar bet with SECOND PAIR also with a king kicker. then he bet the river without the straight or a full house and she called with only two pair. these are really bad players making really bad plays. but their bad plays were set up by my original bet of 15 dollars, but they, bless their little hearts, did the rest. neither one of them should have called that fifty dollars. that is a big bet in this size of game and you need to either have two pair or a set or just a monster draw to make that call and neither of them had any of that. they made the call anyway. thank you. no, seriously, thank you.
i have a friend who is just a great player and he terrorizes the medium good players. i go after the really bad players. atlantic city tropicana poker room has a ton of really bad players. to add some more to the story; a case could be made that i misplayed the hand and could have check raised them on the turn but, as i have said before, i don't have to be good, i just have to be better than the ones i play against. lol.
johnny chan said that "you make your living with big cards but you make your big hands with cards they don't expect you to have." i spend the first couple of three hours proving to the table that i am a stone cold rock and that i only play great hands. this way when i do something like call with the two-three suited in the cutoff position and flop comes 2-2-3 no one sees me with that hand which is incidently a three hundred dollar hand from reno last year. remember, i only do this once or twice all session and ONLY after i have established my rock persona and i am ahead by a good margin. then when i make that call, i am making it with THEIR MONEY. doyle brunson said that in his book.
poker talk at 3:30 a.m. est
the day after thanksgiving
and i am far away from home
posted by Ron Shock | 12:00 AM
1 Comments:
This is essentially Mason Malmuth's approach; you establish a rock image to set up bluffs later on. In contrast, there is also Mike Caro's approach, which is to establish yourself as a maniac so that you will get paid off when the good hands come.
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