You make the call.
So here is food for thought with a poker hand of all things on a poker blog.
some background info first: the room i was playing in is known for being over agressive and loose. raising and reraising preflop with ace high and small pairs.
I was sitting at a table playing 1-2nl and i get 8d8h on the button I have around 325 in chips. It was actually folded around to me … which is rare. I raise and make it $12. the SB folds and the BB reraises, he makes it $40. huh ok. Well at this room I didn’t think much of it besides the guy was trying to “protect his blind” and he likely had a-k or something similar. He might have had an over pair also. But I thought it warranted a call.
The flop was 10d-7d-6d. Yes all diamonds, I have an inside straight flush draw a straight draw and a flush draw not to mention I have a pair. The guy fires out $100 as his bet. What do you do ?
ok after giving yall the morning to talk about it in the forum….
I thought about it and decided to push. I figured that he might have an over pair and he might not. What i was hoping was that all my outs where live and if he has an overpair I have a 52% chance of winning this hand. He immediately called, which i didnt like, he flipped over AhAd. I was surprised by this to some degree and disappointed that my Diamond draw was real slim as only the 9 of diamonds would help me out. Granted my inside straight draw was live and so were my 8’s. But seeing that A of diamondstook me from a 52% chance of hitting to close to just 20%. The turn flys out and i hit my small miracle the 9 of hearts… no straight flush but I am not going to complain. I then was chanting “no diamond”…”no diamond”…”no diamond”…and the river was a 2 of clubs. Tommy sucks out and wins a decent size pot. Sadly that only got me above evening for the trip.
August 7th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Punch him in the face?
Or just push. Even if you know you are behind an overpair I would probably push here. If you were deeper I’d play it differently.
Seems like a simple decision really. What am I missing here?
August 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Donkey
August 7th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
To zero:
You cannot be way ahead. You CAN be way behind. You’ve only got $40 in. It’s not that easy a decision.
To ttt:
All that considered, I think pushing is the right move, both on this hand and for future considerations if you’re going to be playing with these guys a lot now that you’re back on the underground circuit.