And now, for something completely different involving the hand that Bradley used to separate me from my stack last week.
This week at Greg's game, I limped in (or did I call $4? - I forget) on the button with 8 7 and the flop came A T 6 into a three-way pot.
The early player checked, and Greg bet $6 into the pot. Having the inside straight draw and the flush draw, I decided to play a bit of a gambit and I raised to $12. The early player folded and the action came back to Greg.
Greg knows me enough to know that when I have a big hand such as top pair, I will often try to shut down my opponent on the flop. Considering this, he seemed a little confused whether I was (a) bluffing poorly, (b) held a monster and wanted a call, or (c) thought I was winning but failed to press my advantage correctly. I believe that the smallish amount of my raise may have factored into Greg's later aggression. At any rate, he simply called.
The turn (wouldn't it be a boring story otherwise?) was a 9, and I made it something like $40 to go. (I can't recall if Greg bet into me or not. If he did, it was for a small amount.) He immediately asked for a count of my remaining chips, and I made a bit of a production out of gleefully obliging. (The demeanor I display when responding to chip count requests is usually fairly random - since they usually come from Bradley, and even then before the cards are dealt :-) or during early play - but in this case I did my best to sell Greg on the idea that I was displaying false bravado. I think it worked.)
After thinking it over for thirty seconds or so, and delivering a little sermon about how he might just go all-in over the top of my big bet, he did so. I quickly called with my remaining $50 and flipped up my made straight + weak flush draw. Greg gave a little "oof" as if he had been way off on the strength of my holding, and the river did not make his hand a winner.
Despite the fact (or because of it?) that Greg and I are good friends, he declined to give me any insight into what he had. Given the amount of strength that I had shown, and the amount of respect that he tends to show me when I am the aggressor, I have to conclude that he had flopped a set of sixes and couldn't put me on my weird combo draw when I filled up on the turn. The other possibility is AT, but I can't imagine him pushing in his whole stack with two pair when I was acting like someone who had flopped a set. Perhaps if I get him a fruitcake for Christmas, he'll tell me.
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Damn suited cards
Date: 2004-12-23 20:35 (UTC)This week at Greg's game, I limped in (or did I call $4? - I forget) on the button with 8
The early player checked, and Greg bet $6 into the pot. Having the inside straight draw and the flush draw, I decided to play a bit of a gambit and I raised to $12. The early player folded and the action came back to Greg.
Greg knows me enough to know that when I have a big hand such as top pair, I will often try to shut down my opponent on the flop. Considering this, he seemed a little confused whether I was (a) bluffing poorly, (b) held a monster and wanted a call, or (c) thought I was winning but failed to press my advantage correctly. I believe that the smallish amount of my raise may have factored into Greg's later aggression. At any rate, he simply called.
The turn (wouldn't it be a boring story otherwise?) was a 9
After thinking it over for thirty seconds or so, and delivering a little sermon about how he might just go all-in over the top of my big bet, he did so. I quickly called with my remaining $50 and flipped up my made straight + weak flush draw. Greg gave a little "oof" as if he had been way off on the strength of my holding, and the river did not make his hand a winner.
Despite the fact (or because of it?) that Greg and I are good friends, he declined to give me any insight into what he had. Given the amount of strength that I had shown, and the amount of respect that he tends to show me when I am the aggressor, I have to conclude that he had flopped a set of sixes and couldn't put me on my weird combo draw when I filled up on the turn. The other possibility is AT, but I can't imagine him pushing in his whole stack with two pair when I was acting like someone who had flopped a set. Perhaps if I get him a fruitcake for Christmas, he'll tell me.