My first live straight flush |
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Posted Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:01 pm GMT by darthsikle
I was at Harrah's this last saturday. I was on a wierd table 1-2 NL table. If you raised it to 10 or 15 before the flop, you got about 5 to 6 callers. Anyway, i adjusted my style to take marginal hands for the $12 or else I'd never play. Anyway, I am on the button and I get 5  7 . Someone raises it to $12...6 callers including me.
The flop comes 6 8 9 . I almost sh!t myself. A str8 flush off the flop. An agressive player calls a $35 raise. Everyone folds to me. I glance at my cards, look back...take about a minute. ruffle my chips and call. There is also another caller. I am now praying this guy has the A
Anyway, turn comes K  Agressive guy bets $25. I do my play acting and eventually call. The other guy also calls. River comes 3  Agressive guy bets $25 again. This is where i blew it. I go "All in". The other two quickly fold. I turn my cards over and everyone gasps.
I should have just done a raise to $50 or $75. Turs out he had 3 3 or so he says.
Anyway, that was pretty darn exciting.
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Posted Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:05 am GMT by Swainy2k
he played all the way to the river with just pocket 3's?
Posted Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:15 am GMT by Dave B
I ran into one on Tuesday 5-9 diamonds.
It was one of the good dealers (nice guy too) playing with us. The river hit and I had the A  , only 7 would beat me. He bet and said "I have the straight flush". Like a dope, I said "I believe you I sincerely did but I have the Ace, so I need to raise you once". He said OK and 3 bet. I called.
He never lies about his hands, but for some reason I just couldnt bring myself to call w/ the 2nd nuts with only a single card could beat me.
Posted Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:22 am GMT by darthsikle
| Swainy2k wrote: | | he played all the way to the river with just pocket 3's? |
that's why I said, so he says. He was notorious for bluffing the whole night. That's why I played it wrong by going all in. I should have double or triple raised.
Posted Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:53 pm GMT by Jauron
You can't sit there and act uncomfortable and then go all in, it's the worst thing you can do.
If you are gonna act, then you have to price them in the pot, but in this case you are probably better off not acting at all, count to 10 or 15 and then call each time, leave the acting out of it, make it seem like you are calling on the draw, that way when you reraise it's not out of the question you are trying to bluff.
Guys who act are normally easy to spot, they overdo it. You have to do sublte things when you act, a very small frown, a small face of not liking it, you are not watching you will miss it type thing. It needs to register as a tell, not as plain as day.
My thoughts at least.
Posted Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:17 pm GMT by darthsikle
you're absolutely right and I usually do not "act", the str8 flush off the flop just threw me for a loop
Posted Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:23 pm GMT by Soup_dog
| darthsikle wrote: | | you're absolutely right and I usually do not "act", the str8 flush off the flop just threw me for a loop |
LOL I bet. My best hand in a casino was 4 aces. I had two in the hole and two more came on the flop. This crazy college kid kept betting me and reraising me no matter how often I raised him. I don't know what he was thinking. I finally stopped raising him because I felt bad for him. (Still don't know what the heck I was thinking. I won't make that mistake again.)
Posted Thu Feb 24, 2005 4:07 pm GMT by BeerWench13
Nice hand, darth! I've not had one in a casino yet, but had 2 in home games.
I think that if you're going to "act" apprehensive about calling, that the best thing to do is look at the pot, look at his bet, look at the stack of the other player(s) in the hand, then look at the ceiling like you're trying to calculate odds. This throws them off every time because they instantly put you on a draw. I flopped the straight flush, used this technique and had two players betting all-in at me by the turn. It was beautiful. And, in a tourney with only 4 players left, that was exactly what I wanted. I took down two players in one hand putting me in the money and at a huge chip advantage for heads-up play.
I'm not sure that had I been somewhere other than at home playing with friends I would have been able to keep such a cool head when my hand hit. I can understand your being a bit flabbergasted and not being able to think but so well. I can only imagine what your pulse rate was like. Were your ears ringing after the hand? When I've had mine (especially the one I described above), my hands were shaking for at least 30 minutes.
Posted Thu Feb 24, 2005 8:25 pm GMT by proudcapitalist
Also, move your lips a tiny bit as if you are thinking/calculating to yourself and are trying to hide it.
By the way, I just got 72o for the third time in this sng.
Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:24 am GMT by darthsikle
Luck hit me again online, however, it was not on the flop and I eventually lost the SNG:
***** Hand History for Game 1643586524 *****
vito9169 finished in tenth place.
15/30 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 9868341) - Thu Feb 24 22:53:32 EST 2005
Table British Poker Open Satellite Qualifier 993426 (Real Money) -- Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: SusanSherric (800)
Seat 2: darthsikle (545)
Seat 3: dan_b_j (800)
Seat 4: train666 (990)
Seat 5: oknewcastle (1855)
Seat 6: newharte (650)
Seat 7: pheen915 (785)
Seat 8: zzyzx (775)
Seat 10: HaroKitty (800)
HaroKitty posts big blind (15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to darthsikle  
SusanSherric folds.
darthsikle calls (15)
dan_b_j calls (15)
train666 calls (15)
oknewcastle folds.
newharte calls (15)
pheen915 calls (15)
zzyzx calls (15)
HaroKitty checks.
** Dealing Flop ** :   
HaroKitty checks.
darthsikle bets (15)
dan_b_j folds.
train666 raises (30) to 30
newharte calls (30)
pheen915 folds.
zzyzx folds.
HaroKitty folds.
darthsikle calls (15)
** Dealing Turn ** : 
darthsikle checks.
train666 bets (15)
newharte raises (150) to 150
darthsikle calls (150)
train666 folds.
** Dealing River ** : 
darthsikle bets (350)
darthsikle is all-In.
newharte calls (350)
Creating Main Pot with $1210 with darthsikle
** Summary **
Main Pot: 1210 |
Board:
SusanSherric balance 800, didn't bet (folded)
darthsikle balance 1210, bet 545, collected 1210, net +665 a straight flush six high --
dan_b_j balance 785, lost 15 (folded)
train666 balance 930, lost 60 (folded)
oknewcastle balance 1855, didn't bet (folded)
newharte balance 105, lost 545   a flush queen high --
pheen915 balance 770, lost 15 (folded)
zzyzx balance 760, lost 15 (folded)
HaroKitty balance 785, lost 15 (folded)
Posted Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:16 am GMT by BeerWench13
Nice. :D
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