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Bellagio 30-60 Stud/8: Rolled Jacks Build a Pot and Get Scared Bellagio 30-60 Stud/8: Rolled Jacks Build a Pot and Get Scared

04-18-2017 , 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Dynasty
It wasn't David. He was a tourist.
Impressive fold. My main question is how you decided that a tourist had enough hand reading skills to put you on a rolled-up hand? Ya, it looks obvious, but I have seen a lot of tourists who are simply incapable of making even the simplest reads. Had you seen enough of this guy to be really confident?

I made a really bad fold at the 20-40 Commerce stud hi game a while back. The next day, one of the main villains in that hand went full-on maniac. A really experienced stud veteran (2x WSOP stud winner) looked at me and asked if I would ever make that fold again. He told me that my mistake was that I played the cards and not the players. Which was entirely accurate.

Which in part leads to my question about this tourist.
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04-19-2017 , 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by lstream
Impressive fold. My main question is how you decided that a tourist had enough hand reading skills to put you on a rolled-up hand? Ya, it looks obvious, but I have seen a lot of tourists who are simply incapable of making even the simplest reads. Had you seen enough of this guy to be really confident?

I made a really bad fold at the 20-40 Commerce stud hi game a while back. The next day, one of the main villains in that hand went full-on maniac. A really experienced stud veteran (2x WSOP stud winner) looked at me and asked if I would ever make that fold again. He told me that my mistake was that I played the cards and not the players. Which was entirely accurate.

Which in part leads to my question about this tourist.
Interesting comment. When stud was a more popular game, I always felt there were local optimizations as to most profitable play. I've had players pointed out to me as winning pros from another locality who did things that I thought were egregiously bad. At the same time, I reasoned that I must be doing things that they felt the same way about. A lot of the time when I'm confronted by a strange player, there's nothing else to do but play the cards until I have a better feel for his game.
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