Shortly, the second hand was dealt to me, I flipped it over to look, it was pocket 10s. In general, a variety of ways can be played depends on the player's playing style, tight-aggressive, loose-aggressive, and so on, different playing styles of people playing it different ways. I define myself as a loose-aggressive player, which means that when I play a hand like this, I usually make an appropriate raise.
I stared at Pocket 10 in my hand, and seeing that I was now in a good position on the button, I decided to make a small raise, 1-3 NL, so I'll raise it to $10.
I gently throw the chips across the line, and the dealer quickly pushes the two red $5 chips into the pot to the center of the table, saying: Raise, make it $10. $10 now.
After I tossed my chips, I did a quick scan of the table to see the reactions of the others at the table. As I scanned the room, I caught a small detail. The young woman in seat 5 gave a quick wink to a young man sitting opposite her in seat 10.
When I saw this detail, I began to laugh wildly in my heart. I knew they were playing as a team, and they thought I was some fledgling chicken, they were ready to clean me up. As I thought about it, I began to think about how I could get them in together and take down a very large pot. Or if not, trap one person to join, I can also take a large pot, that would also be good.
The dealer has already turned to me and said, "Now it has been raised to $25, what are you going to do?"
I was happy, they were indeed playing as a team, because, after the female at seat 5 flat called, the young man didn't do much thinking and raised to $25, I analyzed the situation, and then concludes: they must playing as a team, because this way, with the female called, left the chance to act to the young man, then they can play it by ear, and the young man raised to $25, is an invitation, wishful thinking to make the pot bigger. I was happy, it was just what I wanted.
And I said to myself, "Come on, come on, make the pot bigger, make it into a super large pot, and I'll take it."
The action came to me, and I re-raised to $75, 3 betted, then I stared at the young man with impudence.
I saw an angry look on the young man's face, but it lasted only a fraction of a second, and his face was quickly restored to calm.
The players in positions 2-4 behind me quickly abandoned their cards. Then the woman made a move, she thought for a second and called the bet. No one had cards behind her, and then the young man called.
After this round of action, I have pretty much figured out the whole game.
After two rounds of actions, I analyze the whole situation and concluded the following: 1) The others at the table were respectful of me, I just sat down for not long, they wanted to check out first 2) The team of the man and the woman, clearly think that I am young, treated me like a fish, they would like to clean me out. "You two are too impatient, don't you know the old Chinese saying: A watched pot never spoils?" "I laughed to myself, thinking, " Wait for me to clean up the two of you."
The service guy from the Poker Room arrived at the table just then. "Drinks, anyone?" Shouted the waiter enthusiastically."Red Bull, Thank you!" I ordered a Red Bull.
As I waited, I snapped my fingers in my mind, thinking, "Come on, attack."
"Alright, A 10 5 rainbow board."The dealer flipped over the first three cards (Rainbow Board - three different suits)
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I hit a set, but there is an A on the board. I wondered if either of them has pocket A in their hand, and the set A would be nuts.
I thought about it breathlessly for a moment. I didn't think it was likely. This depends on my mind-reading ability, it seems like that they want to bluff me.
So I bet $200 into the pot, which is about two-thirds of the pot and that's a classical value bet. I want to disturb their judgment, so they don't know how to read my hand.
Because according to my observation, I think the young man has AK in his hand. At this point, he's got the top pair, with the best kicker.
He may be tempted to call my value bet, thining that I was bluffing.
See I bet $200, the man paused and took some time to think, he then re-raised to $1200.
When I saw him roll out his stack of chips from his deepstack, I couldn't help but to doubt myself, the $1200 flop raise is a bit too big for a $1-3NL table.
I looked at the huge pile of chips in the middle of the table, my heart started to churning a little.
I was asking myself, was I being arrogant and reading the cards wrong, or was he too good at acting?
