So last hand of the night and I had been watching a player in early position, who'd been min -raising out of position all night, and the hands he'd shown consisted of K-Rag Q-T, Q-Rag. So last hand of the night he min-raises again, all fold to me and I call (Holding Ah4d - not normally a hand I'd call with, as I hate A-rag, usually) everyone else folds.
Flop comes Kd Ac Qc - he bets minimum, I put a 3/4 pot sized raise in - I'm certain I'm in front and hes playing a King/Rag. He doubles my bet, so I push All-In. I'm hopeful he's stupid enough to call - and Bingo he does ! - showing Kc7d
Next card is 4c, giving me 2 pair !! - then the river falls, and its another club ..... giving him the K high Flush.
Its not the bad beat I mind so much - but the fact that I read him so well,laid a trap and he took the bait - then the bloody thing fails to spring correctly, and it ends up snapping shut on me !
Bloody Poker !!
4 comments:
Ouch! You can be the best hand reader in the world, but if you get it all in with cards to come...... Thats why poker can be sch a bitch I guess. Great read though and if you come accross him again..... BINGO!
ATB
BM
How did you get on in the end last night VoJ in the PL blog tournie???
- after you put me out that was ;o)
(in fact I put myself out in reality a few hands earlier).
I finally finished 8th - wasn't impressed with my Final Table play.
I intended to treat it like a STT, which for me is play aggressive with the Premium hands when the table was fairly full - as there was very little between 1st and last (in respect that 1 pot won would send you from bottom to top).
However I got involved with Croc, - who I class as a tight player - when he re-raised and, I was holding QTs.
I'd already committed a fair bit with my initial raise and he was one of the smaller stacks -so I called, he turned QQ and My stack was decimated.
After that its push or die - so I pushed,and died!!
In retrospect my error wasn't calling the re-rasie, I think it was getting involved with the marginal hand with so many people still around.
But it was a good tourney, and the crack on the tables is always good in the PL Games
For me it was a bit strange for a PL tournament, because normally they are relatively tight for the whole game - but there were a few non-poker people playing, and early it was quite easy to nick a few easy chips.
A shame I didn't adjust my play when I hit the final table and some of the big boys were there.
I'm gonna be playing a lot on the PL again now - and the PL blog is starting up again in the next couple of weeks.
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