Posted Sat Dec 23, 2006 11:13 am GMT by pokerTim
Hi everyone. I played last night ( only for about 1.5 hours. ) It was supposed to be 2.5 hours but I got eliminated before that.
I was playing in a hotel near my place and there were about 9 of us at the table. I think most of them were just starting out or had been playing for about one year. Just like myself.
I was folding quite a few hands early as I was gettng nothing to play ( 2  4  that sort of thing. But on the eighth hand I got dealt A  A  and I remembered what the posters on this site told me to do ( I was the first to act BTW) which was to bet 4 to 5 x the BB ( the sb was 1 white chip $100.00)and the BB was 2 white chips $200.00 so I bet about 300.00 and about 5 people called, or raised. I raised another $300.00 and everyone else folded and I took the pot ( about $3K in chips)
Later on I got knocked out calling all in I had KQ, and the other guy had KK. I had a lot of fun last night and I will be a at it again on New Years eve.
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Posted Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:11 pm GMT by Jauron
Blinds were 1/2 and you lead out for 300 and got multiple calls and raises?
Posted Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:53 pm GMT by Ensano
plz invite me to this game... willing to fly there if needed... 
Posted Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:51 pm GMT by pokerTim
The smallest chips were white ( $100.00) blue was $500.00 and red was 1000.00
Posted Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:55 pm GMT by aaronw
| pokerTim wrote: | | The reason why I raised $300.00 is because those were the smallest denomination chips. 100, 500, and 1000 were the chips |
And what were the blinds? If I read the original post correctly, the blinds were $1/$2 and you raised to $300?
Posted Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:03 pm GMT by pokerTim
The blind were 1 and 2 dollars, if they had 5 and 10 dollar chips, I would have raised about 50.00
Posted Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:27 pm GMT by Sean_in_NJ
I'm fairly certain we're all terribly confused right now.
How could you have blinds at $1/$2 when your smallest denomination chip was $100?
As for your raise, our advice was to raise 3-5x the BIG BLIND, not 3-5x the smallest denomination chip. In this case, it shouldn't have been more than $6-$10, although that sounds as if it were impossible.
Of course, the blinds sound impossible too.
Posted Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:11 am GMT by MasterMike
Maybe hes just not good with decimals? or even worse at math
Posted Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:44 pm GMT by Replica
Pocket rockets are the most deceivingly good hand in poker to be honest, none of them should of called a raise like that to begin with.
Posted Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:20 am GMT by pokerTim
The blinds were 1 & 2 chips, which were white. I made a mistake in my earlier post. The white chips were $100.00 not $1.00 (I suck at math)
So the blinds were $100.00 and $200.00 ( 1 white chip for the small blind, and 2 chips for the BB.) The BLue chips were $500.00 and red were $1,000
Posted Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:40 am GMT by Sean_in_NJ
| pokerTim wrote: | | The blinds were 1 & 2 chips, which were white. I made a mistake in my earlier post. The white chips were $100.00 not $1.00 (I suck at math) |
Ok, now it's making more sense.
Question: Did you raise $300 or did you raise TO $300.
The first is ok (that would've been $500 to go), although I'd have liked to see a bigger raise to $600-$800.
The second is illegal. The minimum raise is $400 in that situation.
Most of this is speculation since I have no idea how many chips everyone started with.
Posted Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:46 am GMT by pokerTim
I raised $300.00 I don't know how much everyone started with as when everyone arived to play, the chips were already waiting.
Posted Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:56 am GMT by Sean_in_NJ
| pokerTim wrote: | | I raised $300.00 I don't know how much everyone started with as when everyone arived to play, the chips were already waiting. |
That whole Kenny Rogers thing about never counting your money at the table?
Bad idea.
ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU!
Posted Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:13 pm GMT by pokerTim
Next time I play, I WILL count how much I have in front of me.
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