Joined: Feb '13
Location: Canada
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 1204
Had this hand very early on and I think I read it perfectly.
Put my opponent on AK and played that way the whole way throughout the hand.
Let me know your thoughts if you would play it any different.
hand went they raised first position one call before me big blind I call. flop comes 3 Q 10. I have j10 and again put him on AK and maye even KJ but more than likely AK so He bets I call. 2 comes next he bets i call. and then he pushes and I call after 3rd player folds.
It seems to me that the game is absolutely normal .... The man was counting on the street and he was unlucky .... but if an ace came or 9 then you would be upset and angry .... recently I often see the discussion forum Distributions of card which are normal but why is that cause outrage
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 54 (M)
Posts: 7371
This is where your instinct takes over and sometimes you just have to follow these. A lot of the top players just go by the maths but sometimes you just have a feeling and, if you're wrong you just move on
Joined: May '09
Location: Croatia
Age: 38 (M)
Posts: 17980
well for me its easy to comment now,when I see what happend in hand and when everything is over!you had great feeling for this hand and its great that you payed him!you had pair and flush draw,but you couldnt know does he have Q or not!great play!
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 38 (M)
Posts: 10090
i don't know... this is really typical of the game on incomplete information, in many spots you have to trust your instincts or take what can be called calculated risks, but really in any hand you can win big or lose big even though you pretty much continue to do the same thing... so yeah genius, no one doubts about that...
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 57 (M)
Posts: 1703
hello my fellow mobsters
Well it`s a thin line that divides crazy and genius in this case he was chasing the straight and like n times it did´t pay off
If he stayed out and the straight came so he took a gamble did`t payout but that`s poker Ít`s a plesure and a true honor to share this amazing forum with you all my fellow mobsters Don´t forget to happy and enjoy life
Joined: Mar '14
Location: Japan
Age: 49 (M)
Posts: 8946
I guess it was not a super tough call with a pair of Tens on a Queen-high board if you had a good read on your opponent. You had him covered. Would you make the same decision if he had you covered? Is this a rebuy tournament?
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 58 (M)
Posts: 6783
If it works, it is genius, if not, it is crazy play. One need a very good read here, as opponent can easily have AQ or KQ instead of AK or KJ. And then all goes downhill very fast.
Of course, you need to play in most cases mathematically, but sometimes there is a feeling that now it's the card that's coming that will come .... and it comes ..... it's certainly a very pleasant sensation that my intuition was right ... nice
