It had been a long time since I'd seen it and I didn't have the old High Stakes Poker episodes handy. I'll edit the post shortly with the correction with a note about being short-stacked.
I shouldn't go out on a limb before watching the hand again, but it seems to me if he ends up on the flop with a short stack in that situation, perhaps he shouldn't have gotten to the flop with KQ in the first place. KQ is a pretty marginal preflop holding in NL HE, after all.
I don't really agree that the King high flush is a cooler against the Ace high flush. There are times when you get pot-stuck in that spot. Thing is, the action almost ends up being so obvious. Most players have flush fear anyway, so a reraise when a flush is possible almost always denotes the nuts. Even the worst of player generally just try to call down with weaker flushes when they are getting action.
Also, that is generally the danger of playing suited Kings in NL HE, and why suited aces are so much more valuable. It's tough to call something a cooler when a preflop mistake can often also be part of the picture of why you ended up with your money in bad.
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Date: 2006-08-30 19:52 (UTC)It had been a long time since I'd seen it and I didn't have the old High Stakes Poker episodes handy. I'll edit the post shortly with the correction with a note about being short-stacked.
I shouldn't go out on a limb before watching the hand again, but it seems to me if he ends up on the flop with a short stack in that situation, perhaps he shouldn't have gotten to the flop with KQ in the first place. KQ is a pretty marginal preflop holding in NL HE, after all.
I don't really agree that the King high flush is a cooler against the Ace high flush. There are times when you get pot-stuck in that spot. Thing is, the action almost ends up being so obvious. Most players have flush fear anyway, so a reraise when a flush is possible almost always denotes the nuts. Even the worst of player generally just try to call down with weaker flushes when they are getting action.
Also, that is generally the danger of playing suited Kings in NL HE, and why suited aces are so much more valuable. It's tough to call something a cooler when a preflop mistake can often also be part of the picture of why you ended up with your money in bad.