Your opponent was ranked in the 40,000 realm, so a brilliant read if he took your bet for a bluff, but perhaps he was just not paying attention, or had seen you bluff on the river before.
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In all likelihood, it was "I have top pair! No way I fold here! "
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New table, opening hand, I have JJ, raise 6.66BB, flop brings 1 Q, player ahead of me bets, I call to the river, and what’s he holding? 73s. To be honest, I’m surprised he didn’t win with that hand.
A straight, and a flush, but not a straight flush.
Opening hand at the table, UTG+1 shoves his entire stack in. I figure he’s going to steal and then be annoying for the rest of the table. Wrong. UTG calls. Shover had QQ and gets crushed by AA.
A better way to describe equity is that it is technically the amount of the pot that belongs to you. So if there is $100 in the pot and you’re equity is 33% then you own $33 out of that pot. I think by putting a monetary value on “equity” and what it means then players trying to improve will maybe see how important it is to fight for the realization of your equity. To say it’s your chance of winning the whole pot makes it feel like gambling and not many players are defending their equity share of the pot because they look at the numbers as arbitrary.
$33 of that pot is mine damn it, and you’re not going to bet 1/2 pot and take it from me that easy. People, fight for your money and fight hard. DON’T BE A NIT!
Cheers
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So would a funny nit be called a nit-wit?
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I played my 20th game this week so I completed a leaderboard. I did not pay attention to the points at all, just played to win. I had several 7th-9th place finishes but I also had 7 wins, 2 2nds and 1 3rd. As strange as it may seem, it looks like I’ll finish in 1st for the weekly board, even with all the early exits. Those wins mean everything in real games and it looks like they do for the leaderboards as well.
Mid-stage in a SnG I get AdKs and open it. SB and BB both call. Flop is K73 with 2 diamonds. SB leads out for pot and BB folds. I’m sitting there wondering wtf is going on. Set of 7’s? Set of 3’s? K-something? Flush draw?. Maybe I could fold near the bubble in a tournament but not with 6 left in a turbo SnG. I have a little less than 2 full pot sized bets left so its fold or shove - I shove. Villain has KK. Ok then. NH, gg and move on. File under s*%t happens.
I like @dayman’s advice - don’t be a freaking nit! Open some pots. Get involved and try to play a little poker instead of trying to see if you can get hit in the face by the deck. There is more limping and praying going on here than at a faith-healers’ convention. What is the point in that? Is that really fun for anyone?
LMAO - some Limpy McLimpface told me not to quit my day job after seeing the way I played. All I could say was “Bless your heart”. People from a certain part of the country will know exactly what that means 
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Clutch moment from week 2 of the team promo. I probably should have shoved pre-flop, but eh. Anyway, this left me in a tough spot after the flop, but I couldn’t afford to fold.
Lucky river, imo
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Hahaha, ya think?
I had him on a 10x type hand. He would have raised with any ace and shoved any decent pair or premium ace hand preflop, which was the way he was playing. He could have had K10 or Q10, but might have opened these too, so I thought at least one of those would be live. I guess he could have had 66, but I thought something like JT or 9T was most likely. I didn’t expect him to have 2 pair. LOL
I also thought that he thought I wouldn’t limp an ace there. I had been opening something like 80% of the hands I played, so he would have been right to assume I didn’t have an ace.
Anyway, I thought I could win with any club, any jack, and maybe with a queen or king. I was wrong about the K or Q, so I was probably about a 55-45 underdog there. Still, folding wasn’t really an option.
The team promo is interesting in that it adds another layer of strategy. there’s the normal pokering layer, the tournament layer, then the team layer on top of all that! We are playing for team points, the chips are utterly meaningless to be, at least at this point. Every position gained helps the team.
Was it a lucky river? Sure, but there comes a time in every tournament where you get lucky or go home. When blinds are high and stacks are short, it’s just part of the game.
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Hi, I agree. Not a lucky river as such, just one of the run outs which gave you the win in this very close hand.
The flop hit you hard and I would have happily got it in here expecting to be at least a 45-50% chance. You possibly do not get called at all, given nobody showed any preflop strength.
I would have shoved preflop by the way.
Yeah, I probably should have, but then everyone would fold, so I ended up making out better by limping. It was riskier, but I think limping might have been the right thing there, even though I couldn’t afford to fold preflop if someone shoved.
Had I missed the flop entirely, I might have folded to any bet. I know, this would leave me with like 2 orbits, but that might have been enough for someone else to bust out. In a regular tourney, I’m allin preflop there every time, but this team format has me thinking more about trying to gain one more position where I can.
I’m really not sure if this is the right way to look at it or not.
IMO your way of thinking wasn’t great in this spot. If you shove and they fold, I would be happy ! You have 4 BB’s, if they fold, you win 1.5 BB’s which is a not insignificant amount of chips. Do you want to limp there, and let the SB and BB see a free flop to have a chance of hitting ? You are also almost committed in these pots, where you have 11k with a 12k pot, so you’re hardly gonna fold a flop, even when being behind, which is of course also not smart.
So IMO no, you really shouldn’t call, only if you want to take huge huge risks which are just not profitable, especially here in these kind of endings… This time it was, but you were lucky.
It’s shove or fold here, if you shove and they call, you often still have a nice probability of taking it down.
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Yeah, I think you’re both right. If I was willing to call allin, I should have just made the bet in the first place and maybe picked up a little fold equity. The fact that this was in the team thing shouldn’t have been a consideration at all.
I see… Yes, you should not be playing differently if you’re in a FT for example in a very big event ; you shouldn’t try to limp to survive, because if you think about it, it’s just not the way to go. Afterwards you’ll regret not having played correctly, due to pressure!
Nice score btw !
First (of many, I’m sure) ridiculous hands at the 100K buy-in level.
My exit hand, I am dealt AKo, and raise, but just to 2BB. The BB calls, they have 64o. The flop hits them perfectly, 379, I shove, they call the inside straight and OF COURSE they #@#%$#ing hit it on the Turn with a 5, I pair my King for a consolation prize on my way out.
FFS
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This absolutely ridiculous table:
8 hands and done.
- AKo UTG, I raise 3BB, get a call. Flop miserable, wrong-suited rags, and dump it.
- TT. I can feel the rage building already, so I get ready to get beat by a pair of Jacks. Try to buy the pot preflop, 3-betting two raises ahead of me, and the player behind me re-raises over me. I shove. He calls, flips up AKo, misses the board, just missing Broadway, my tens blocking it, and I win the hand. #9th player out.
Now I’m sitting on a nice fat stack.
- JTo, I limp in and flop a scary Broadway draw, QKQ, which fills on the Turn. I bet all the way to the river, and get calls. It’s a bit nuts, I’m certain I’m about to get killed by KK, QQ, KQ, but no, I take the hand. Already I’m up to nearly 7000 chips, and it’s only the 3rd hand of the game.
- J7s, on the button, a raise ahead of me, two callers, I decline to enter the hand. 6d7d8h on the flop, the betting gets cray cray. J on the Turn would have me on JJ77. A player shoves, and is called. Twice. 54 diamonds wins the hand with the idiot end of a Straight 4-8; one caller was on a King-high diamond flush draw, another had KK, and a fourth has 99 and goes bust for want of a Ten.
- 86o, in the CO, I fold. I still have nearly 7000 chips, and expect I’ll at least money at this table, all I have to do is hold on to my chips. This hand is a small pot, and goes to Rich4544 on the Turn.
- AQo, a small stack shoves, the whole table shoves, including the other small stack, wo two all in here. Both small stacks go bust, @Sasshy_Sarah with AJ, hitting two pair AAJJ, @nannanucci on 66, missing the board. My AQ hits Two Pair AAQQ, but it’s @BERTS with ATo who hits the jackpot with Broadway. I drop down to the #3 stack, and am saddened.
- 78o, UTG, I fold. Table is already 5-handed. @Patriotman shoves 55, @JERSERYMAC makes a dumb call on bottom pair, but immediately improves to two pair on the Turn, and his 6644 beats @Patriotman’s 55. We’re suddenly 4-handed.
- 99 in the BB. Can’t do anything here but shove, right? I go bust, getting called by 66 flopping a set of 6s and improving to 6’s full of Aces by the river.
Out 4th. No money for me. A nice even goose egg on the night between Pegasus and Ursa Major league play.
Oh well. Easy come easy go.
Welcome to the Astral Puggy-sus League
Sad to see the play is still about the same as it was in the 5K games
If it makes you feel any better, my games were like Minnie Mouse tonight - f-ing Goofy
When people have been here for years and still have less than 5K chips, you know its going to be “interesante”. K6o? Good enough to shove over an UTG open and UTG+1 raise. Well, it is if you know you are going to make trip 6’s. Just SMH
TT vs KK vs AA - when the KK his a set on the flop, you’re pretty sure you’re good, right? Nope, TT rivers a straight : 508851974
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