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The consolation of playing micro stakes - a timely reminder.
Here's one that reminds me why I stick to the micros for entertainment value, and why I have (so far at least) avoided the temptation to play at higher stakes.
After the 6c hit the board I put player B on a set of 6s. It did occur to me that he might be chasing a flush, and I'm sure he hoped that's what I was thinking, but so what - FH will carry, and the chances of us both hitting a FH, with player B holding 6s over 8s was remote. So in it all goes, with only 3 cards in the 46 unseen that could result in a winning hand. Ker-ching . . . . I have to say I never expected the call, as with a pair on the board and a three BB raise on a 4,8,6, I thought the writing would have been on the wall? Perhaps he put me down as a bluffer chasing a spade flush? Perhaps he didn't even consider what I might have been holding?
The consolation thought is that if I had been playing this on a cash table it would have cost me at least a buy-in, possibly more, depending on what I could have shoved in. One of those one in two hundred-ish toxic hands I've commented upon in the past.
Good cards everyone.
Here's the synopsis:
Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance
A Small blind 15.00 15.00 4125.00
B Big blind 30.00 45.00 3795.00
Your hole cards 4c 4d
Goethe Call 30.00 75.00 1830.00
C Fold
A Call 15.00 90.00 4110.00
B Check
Flop 4s 8s 6h
A Check
B Check
Goethe Bet 90.00 180.00 1740.00
A Fold
B Call 90.00 270.00 3705.00
Turn 6c
B Bet 270.00 540.00 3435.00
Goethe All-in 1740.00 2280.00 0.00
B Call 1470.00 3750.00 1965.00
B Show Js 6s
Goethe Show 4c 4d
River Jc
Player B Win Full House, 6s and Jacks 3750.00 5715.00
After the 6c hit the board I put player B on a set of 6s. It did occur to me that he might be chasing a flush, and I'm sure he hoped that's what I was thinking, but so what - FH will carry, and the chances of us both hitting a FH, with player B holding 6s over 8s was remote. So in it all goes, with only 3 cards in the 46 unseen that could result in a winning hand. Ker-ching . . . . I have to say I never expected the call, as with a pair on the board and a three BB raise on a 4,8,6, I thought the writing would have been on the wall? Perhaps he put me down as a bluffer chasing a spade flush? Perhaps he didn't even consider what I might have been holding?
The consolation thought is that if I had been playing this on a cash table it would have cost me at least a buy-in, possibly more, depending on what I could have shoved in. One of those one in two hundred-ish toxic hands I've commented upon in the past.
Good cards everyone.
Here's the synopsis:
Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance
A Small blind 15.00 15.00 4125.00
B Big blind 30.00 45.00 3795.00
Your hole cards 4c 4d
Goethe Call 30.00 75.00 1830.00
C Fold
A Call 15.00 90.00 4110.00
B Check
Flop 4s 8s 6h
A Check
B Check
Goethe Bet 90.00 180.00 1740.00
A Fold
B Call 90.00 270.00 3705.00
Turn 6c
B Bet 270.00 540.00 3435.00
Goethe All-in 1740.00 2280.00 0.00
B Call 1470.00 3750.00 1965.00
B Show Js 6s
Goethe Show 4c 4d
River Jc
Player B Win Full House, 6s and Jacks 3750.00 5715.00