Posted by Dr Fro 9:23 AM
Last night was a wild one. Two tables of 9 guys, each for $100, payouts to 1st –3rd. We each got 400TC. I turned my 400TC into 1300TC in about 45 minutes by trying to isolate myself against loose passive callers and it worked. My stack fluctuated a little for the next couple hours, but there is one hand in particular that I remember. I had 9-x in the BB and the flop was 8-T-J. The pot was a decent size and the bet from Kenley was moderate – a call from me would have been justified by pot odds to draw at the straight. But then I remembered, Kenley raised pre-flop. Also, Coach was in, and he was only playing premium hands except for his penchant for chasing straights. I put Kenley on A-K and figured Coach for 10’s or a straight draw. I figure I am drawing dead against Kenley and possibly sharing a pot w Coach. I lay down. Next card is a Q. My straight came. Kenly moves all in and coach calls. Sure enough, Kenly had A-K, and won the hand. Coach was eliminated and I would have been too had I not correctly read Kenley’s hand.

I went to the final table as either the chip leader or somewhere close. However, there really wasn’t a massive difference in stacks at the table. I made one masterful move when there was a big pot pre-flop that checked around on subsequent rounds. I moved all in on the river when it checked around again and stole the pot. Felt good. They knew I was making a move, but they couldn’t call, and that is what I counted on. I think they were kicking themselves that they had not tried the same. (Actually the board showed two pair, so my A-x was probably good enough to win or split anyway, and perhaps all I did was take an entire large pot that I would have otherwise split!)

Then came the defining hand. I had Ah-Jh preflop and raised 3xBB preflop, getting two callers. Flop came rag-rag-rag, with two hearts. The pot is worth taking right there, and I have 15 outs even if I get a caller (9 hearts plus 3 Jacks and 3 Aces). Those 15 outs give me a 54% chance of making a hand if I do get a call. But it is unlikely that I get a call with such crap on the board. So I am very much getting pot odds to make the bet, and I fire off several hundred TC’s. I get a call from Hunter from Texas Tech, who managed to make a pair of 3’s, the bottom pair. It is difficult to put into words how bad of a call this was on his part, and the likelihood of me having made middle or top pair was fairly high. I don’t know why he called, but as you may guess, my 54% chance of beating a caller did not come through. Lesson learned – you can’t make a move on a guy that isn’t very good at poker. They wont respect it and they will call because its more fun to call. I should know better. (no knock on Hunter, a very nice guy, but he calls way too much) Next time, I’ll make that move at Wilson and Boyd and James and Junell, but I will never ever make a move again at Hunter or his ilk (just as I promise to never drink that much again every Saturday morning!)

It was fun, and I only wish I could have played in the side games, but I was tired and had to go see Mrs Dr Fro.

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