jarrett40
05-04-2005, 11:21 AM
I think you'd do better if you did less thinking. The only person
you're going to trap with A5o is yourself.This is terrible
playing.Just horrible.You need desperately to read a poker book.
jarrett40
"Darrell" <anonymous@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3f648062$0$197$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com>...
> Ok, heres the situation.....I am playing in a multi tournament Pot Limit
> Hold em, there were over 500 people in the starting field. With 70
> players left I am the second chip leader, and I have at least twice as
> many chips as the 3rd chip leader, unfortunately, the chip leader is at my
> table also(he only has maybe a 1000 more chips, I think I had 25000, and
> he had 26000 or somewhere near there). We are both taking turns taxing
> the table, and have stayed out of each others way, but he started stealing
> every single blind, I decided that I wasn't going to risk a lot of my
> chips and fight with the chip leader, I probably had enough chips to fold
> my way to the final table, and our table was going to break up soon
> anyway. Ok, so now I am dealt As 5d in the BB, and the chip leader raises
> 2000 from middle position, everyone folds to me, my first immediate
> reaction was to reraise, because I am certain that I am leading at this
> point, but I thought maybe I could trap him a little if an Ace happened to
> hit the board, because i was certain that he would try and represent one.
> I called his raise, and the flop comes 6h 7s 8s, I have an Ace, open
> straight with only the 4 coming making me comfortable, and 3 to the nut
> spade flush. I bet 1000, and he raises me 2200, I just call, I still
> think he is on a steal, he has been way to aggressive for the last half an
> hour, and even before that I never really respected the way he plays, too
> loose, even before he had a big stack. Any way the turn card comes 4s,
> now I have the straight to the nine, and 4 to the nut spade flush, I
> really like it, so I bet 5000, he then pots it....at this point, I put him
> on a 5 also or that he thought I was on a steal, never once did I consider
> that he had spades. I really didn't think too long, I had already put him
> on a hand, and I had never really changed what I thought throughout the
> whole hand. So I called, which put me all in, and he had J 9 of spades,
> and a spade did not come on the river. So the second chip leader who had
> more than twice as many chips as the the 3rd chip leader only 10 more
> spots from the money round, did not even place, because of a very very
> dumb play, or just plain bad luck, that is what I am trying to find out.
> What do you guys think?
>
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you're going to trap with A5o is yourself.This is terrible
playing.Just horrible.You need desperately to read a poker book.
jarrett40
"Darrell" <anonymous@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<3f648062$0$197$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com>...
> Ok, heres the situation.....I am playing in a multi tournament Pot Limit
> Hold em, there were over 500 people in the starting field. With 70
> players left I am the second chip leader, and I have at least twice as
> many chips as the 3rd chip leader, unfortunately, the chip leader is at my
> table also(he only has maybe a 1000 more chips, I think I had 25000, and
> he had 26000 or somewhere near there). We are both taking turns taxing
> the table, and have stayed out of each others way, but he started stealing
> every single blind, I decided that I wasn't going to risk a lot of my
> chips and fight with the chip leader, I probably had enough chips to fold
> my way to the final table, and our table was going to break up soon
> anyway. Ok, so now I am dealt As 5d in the BB, and the chip leader raises
> 2000 from middle position, everyone folds to me, my first immediate
> reaction was to reraise, because I am certain that I am leading at this
> point, but I thought maybe I could trap him a little if an Ace happened to
> hit the board, because i was certain that he would try and represent one.
> I called his raise, and the flop comes 6h 7s 8s, I have an Ace, open
> straight with only the 4 coming making me comfortable, and 3 to the nut
> spade flush. I bet 1000, and he raises me 2200, I just call, I still
> think he is on a steal, he has been way to aggressive for the last half an
> hour, and even before that I never really respected the way he plays, too
> loose, even before he had a big stack. Any way the turn card comes 4s,
> now I have the straight to the nine, and 4 to the nut spade flush, I
> really like it, so I bet 5000, he then pots it....at this point, I put him
> on a 5 also or that he thought I was on a steal, never once did I consider
> that he had spades. I really didn't think too long, I had already put him
> on a hand, and I had never really changed what I thought throughout the
> whole hand. So I called, which put me all in, and he had J 9 of spades,
> and a spade did not come on the river. So the second chip leader who had
> more than twice as many chips as the the 3rd chip leader only 10 more
> spots from the money round, did not even place, because of a very very
> dumb play, or just plain bad luck, that is what I am trying to find out.
> What do you guys think?
>
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