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Originally Posted by esjaysharks
No problem, Zombe. I enjoy your writing, and your general outlook on things. Thanks for following along in my thread also.
Fwiw, I think the older guy was out of line in the hand you described above. In a small stakes cash game, there's no reason to tell the dealer to flip over the kid's mucked hand. Poor etiquette, imo.
GL today!
Thanks, man! I usually don't comment on on things like this, but I haven't seen this kid playing in the room much and I know the older guy is a reg. Basically, I didn't want to jeopardize the kid not coming in to play more frequently, and I knew the old guy would just bitch about it and continue to so up and donate regardless.
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Originally Posted by 2good2bTrue
Great thread,enjoyed reading it sofar!!
Good luck on the tables OP,will be following
Great! Welcome aboard! Also, thank you!
Couple of interesting spot from last night:
My image is TAG, Villain has only been in the game for an orbit or two. I have a $220 stack, villain covers me, and I cover the CO.
Action folds to CO who limps, I raise to $12 otb w/ K
J
, villain in the sb calls, and CO calls.
Pot: $38
Flop: 6
9
J
Check, Check, I bet $20, villain calls, and CO folds.
Pot: $78
Turn: 10
Villain leads out for $35, I contemplate for ~1 min. and call.
Pot: $148
River: 5
Villain leads out for $35. Again, I think and call. I really did think that I was beat, but I was getting laid way to good of a price to fold. However, the more I thought about things, I do not think that villain has a big hand, the line would be way to weird in my way of thinking.
In another hand against a thinking player, who rarely gets out of line w/ big bets. From my experience he will bluff smaller amounts but won't bring out the big guns on a bluff.
I start the hand w/ ~$425 and villain covers. I have K
K
utg and raise to $12. two middle position players call and villain calls otb.
I can't remember all of the particulars after, but action went something like this:
flop is TxJ
2
, I bet $25, villain calls. Turn is 10x (Can't remember the suit but the flush didn't come in). I check and villain bets $70. I think for a bit and call. I think that if he is repping the 10 and doesn't have it, he will check back the river. The villain has seen me make a couple of calls that I don't think that he is going to try bluffing me out of big pot, plus my initial read on him. River is Ah. I check, villain bets $170 very deliberately and calculated. I tank for a bit, and I make a comment of "Why does it feel like you have quads?" to which he kind of giggles. After his reaction to my comment I am almost sure that he has a big hand. I almost talk myself into a call. Just due to the way that I have played the hand, villain being in position can almost play the hand perfectly as he knows that I have a big pocket hand, but vulnerable to the board. Also, I think that my hand is pretty under repped so he could be pouncing with worse, I'm considering maybe QQ.
In any case, I fold. About 20 min. later, villain taps me on the shoulder and asks me to come over to the side to chat with him. Villain says that he doesn't usually reveal his hands, but he like the way that I play and wanted to tell me what he had. Villain tells me that he had AT. I believe the guy. Another old man that had just sat down at the table that watched the hand go down said that he thought villain didn't have anything and would have shoved all-in on him. I kindly and respectfully disagreed.
Lately I have been working on the psychology of my opponents. I am going with my reads on players and what their bets mean about 90% of the time. I think that going with your read is really the best thing that you can do at the table. What I mean to say is that, I don't see monsters under the bed and pick out 1 or two hands that an opponent could have to beat me. I strongly consider all of the psychological aspects of things that have gone on during the course of the current and previous hands, and go with my gut. I don't get mad when I am wrong, or to happy when I am right, I just use the information acquired for future play. The other 10% I don't go with my gut is if the price is too great, like the first hand I posted.
6 hours 38 min.,
+$146
Totals:
Time Played: 67 hours 34 min.
Bankroll:
$9,715