A Brag post ... ? Not quite! I wish I could have kept it as so, but I really need help from anyone out there on this potentially progress-halting hand;
6 Handed Table with 5 folk in play, I've bought in for $80 and after 30 mins I'm down to around $44. I'm on the BB against two fairly aggressive players. Scotby has shoved regularly enough for me to tab him as a 'RiskTaker' - he has shoved around 5 times in the 50 hands I've seen at this table, but the two occasions he's shown the nuts, he's 1/2 pot bet / slow-played them.
Then this happens;
There was a lengthy pause before he called my bet on the flop but he Insta-Shoves on the Turn. I take the full time allowance before deciding to call, thinking his $43 shove into a $24 pot is purely a play against the shorter stack and 'weaker' player! I call and briefly feel great that I had read his play correctly ... only until he hits his 3 outer on the river!
I realise that this was a very loose call for $35 with 3rd pair but was it a good one? Was it simply a Bad Beat in the end? Did I deserve to lose for being in a pot with a marginal hand? Did I played it badly somewhere, calling or betting when I shouldn't have? Having had almost 30 mins to reflect on it and having typed all this, I'm still not sure that I would have played it differently.
I'm sure you'll see that AGAIN, my chips went in when I was ahead!
2.5 sleeps 'til Paris! :) I MUST be due a reasonable win again soon! Hopefully this weekend and in the APAT Scottish National on 3rd & 4th May. Either / or would do me fine.
1 comment:
If you had just sat as the table and played this hand I think you would have to have put him on a straight draw and most likely KQ.
He called the initial raise pre-flop indicating some sort of hand. When he checked and then called your bet on the flop it was looking either like a straight draw or trapping with a set.
For a straight draw 89 is a possibility with KQ more likely. AQ is less likely as he would probably have raised that pre-flop.
When he insta pushes on the turn I’d think the trapping with a set is now very unlikely and would have to have put him on KQ. The insta push being the result of him looking for a straight, hitting his king and not wanting anyone else to hit a straight.
As it was I’d have been totally wrong and the extra info you had from having played against this guy for a while has obviously been the deciding factor in your thinking.
You decided you had a read on this player and went with that, so no problem with your call M8 - especially as it was right ;-)
As for anything else you think you may have done wrong in the hand??????
The call pre-flop:
It’s a short handed cash game so the call with QJ is not a bad play.
You say the other two were aggressive players but what were their thoughts about you? If they had you as a fairly tight player then there is an argument for re-raising here. The button may have been stealing and the small blind did only call so a squeeze play re-raise may have taken this down pre-flop. If your re-raise had been called you still have some sort of hand to take to the flop.
The Bet on the flop:
You’ve hit top pair with a decent kicker on a board with only a straight draw so betting half the pot is fine. It should win you the pot or give you extra info.
Long pause and then the turn:
Well see above ;-)
1½ Sleeps till Paris…………….
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