I’ve only busted out my entire buy-in a few times on this run. Every time I did, I felt bad about my prospects throughout the whole hand, only to be proven right. This last bust-out was particularly brutal.
I raise AK0 UTG, and get re-raised the minimum. The SB calls, and I call, hoping to see [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Busting Out
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Ace Queen Off
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Everybody knows that ten/two offsuit is known as “The Brunson” but AQ is also called “The Brunson” because he’s famous for almost never playing it.
I’m beginning to agree with him, at least at the low stakes tables online. I think from now on, unless its suited, I’m gonna fold AQ as if it were AJ.
Roman, Remember When I Read Your Hand?
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Friday night at the home game, I read Roman’s crippling weakness pre-flop. We got into a little raising war pre-flop. I wanted to know if I was ahead with my pocket tens so I induced a tell. He practically showed me his cards and I knew he had bubkis, so I moved all in, and [...]
Top Pair Top Kick
Sunday, September 30, 2007
That hourly total would be almost forty cents higher if I hadn’t called off a big chunk of my stack with AK, top pair/top kick, against two pair when I really should have known better. I found a caller on a flop of KQ4 and then a raiser, and I didn’t find the laydown when [...]
Suckout Karma
Monday, September 24, 2007
My suckout karma came back around to me. Here’s the hand history if you care. Please note that this is the loosest call I’ve made so far, and I didn’t feel great about it. The only reason I called was because he took so long to think before he went all in, and I read [...]
