Some poker thoughts
May 21st, 2010 -- Posted in Online gaming | No Comments »From time to time luck lines up in funny ways, and you end up beating the same guy over and over in unexpected ways. Poor man. I had just sucked out on him in our last three confrontations. Then these two hands came up. In the first hand, I semi-bluff the flop with my baby flush draw and he raises me. You’d think he’d raise me with a real hand since I’d been holding over. Alas for him we check it down the rest of the way and my 8-high is good. Score one for the dominating hands.
In the second hand, he has the unfortunate luck of calling my raise with a dominated hand. No suck outs and my 54s beats his 43o. With a board of T4K5K, I can’t bet the river because any pair (except 4s) beats me now. Score two for the dominating hands.
Sometimes when you are right, you are right, even when you are wrong. There is nothing like hitting your nut draw and losing. My opponent was just one of those nutcase players. Not totally insane, and clearly not a genius. But he will mess with your head quite a bit. When I bottom paired my flush draw on the turn, I felt it would be a good time to raise for a free river.
The jammed flop gave me the sense that any pair just might be good. And it was. Unfortunately, my flush draw hit giving this maniac a straight flush to my Ace-high flush. I don’t think I’d have gone more than seven bets here in a live game, but his turn 3-bet would have made sure that at least seven bet would have left my stack on the river.