Everyone that knows me knows I love to play poker as one of my hobbies. So, I thought I would create a post about my poker experiences. Some of you may not be real interested, but it is what is going on in my life. I play in a regular thruday night game with a bunch of friends and this may give them the oppurtunity to vent about me beating the daylights out of them. :)
Tuesday night (April 1) I went out to our local casino here in Bartlesville and played in a small tournament. It was a straight Hold'em tournament with no add-ons and no rebuys. I don't like playing with add-ons or rebuys for big money becuase people seem to just go stupid with their play when the know they can rebuy. So they play stupid trying to get lucky and get a lot of chips. Well anyway, I played well and ended up eighth out of forty. I felt I played pretty well and I took a beat with 10-10 on the big blind. There were four limpers at 500/1,000 blinds including the small blind. I raised the bet to 4,500 (I know Vic, I was giving value to high suited connectors. But I had established a table image of being a tight aggressive player and showed that I had the best cards every time I drug a pot and I knew with my table I could have gone all in and not bet out the Ace.) I got one call from a lady I played with before and have tells on. The flop come A-5-7 with two spaids. I bet out another 4,500 thinking she was only able to call with either a nut flush draw or an ace in the hole. She called and I picked up her tell so I knew she had the ace. Next card on the board blanks so I check, she bets 2,000 at me and I laughed out loud as I folded my 10-10 face up and told her I wasn't stupid. From there I played UBER tight and limped from 21st place to 8th.
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4 comments:
You misplayed that hand in my opinion.
You should have raised more preflop and taken it down there.
Here's why.
You said there were 4 limpers + your BB. So there is 5K in the pot already.
Tens are a vunerable hand. You don't want to see a flop.
You bet 4500 preflop then another 4500 post flop.
You should have pushed to the 9K preflop. You were willing to commit that much in the pot. So, do it where it gives you the best chance of winning the hand.
That way you drive out A-small and they don't flop an A on you and make you have to make a tough decision.
Totally agree with you except that, as I mentioned in my original post, I didn't feel like I could push out an Ace pre-flop the way the table was playing.
In that case. You just check and play the 10's like a small pocket pair. If you flop a set, you get paid off big time. If you don't and a few overs come out, you can get away from the hand on the cheap.
yeah, you are probably right there. Good advice. Thanks
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