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Brag - Cracking the older, angry-all-the-time players
In my live 0.25/0.50 NLH matches, there are always several older fellas who are dead serious about their money. They complain about everything. They complain about me more than anybody, because I'm the Gus Hansen type who uses smallball strategy. Near the end of the night Thursday, two of the grumps got burned.
First to act folds. I call 0.50
Player three calls 0.50
Small blind calls 0.50
Big blind checks.
Flop comes
Small blind goes all-in to defend his aces 49.50
I smell the pocket pair and go over the top all-in 81.25
Player three calls all-in 39.25
Big blind announces he thinks a higher draw was alive, and folds.
I really don't get the play, but I guess it worked for you here. Your open ended straight draw is dominated by flush draws, any pair, etc. What was the logic behind your raise? You knew you only were like a 10% favorite to win, right?
Thanks for the example of what a bad player you really are.
I agree that it was a horrible play. I was merely up a lot that night and trying to prove that they needed to loosen up a bit. Pokers supposed to be fun, not a chore.
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Originally Posted by Graham
I really don't get the play, but I guess it worked for you here. Your open ended straight draw is dominated by flush draws, any pair, etc. What was the logic behind your raise? You knew you only were like a 10% favorite to win, right?
My main goal was to isolate the aces. For all other purposes, my reads were way off and I fully expected to lose. Somehow I didn't, heh.
Last edited by Mchempstein; Apr 28,2009 at 01:33 PM.
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First of all AA deserved to get cracked, no raise, huge overbet on flop when only someone who is already ahead calls, and U getting it all in on a non nut draw for a small preflop pot? That's not what I call a smart play... Sounds like a whole table of weak players.. Can we get in?
I love people that call it the "______ Small Ball" strategy because apparently it makes it ok to play like a moron if you can name a pro that you saw do it once without understanding the reasoning behind why they played like that.
I won't argue about getting people to loosen up about things as we can all take it too seriously at times. That play won't do it.
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