I’ve been doing most of my online play at Full Tilt Poker for the last week and have had a pretty good go at it. Out of five days of play (small sample, I know!), I’ve been in the black on four of them. I’m not sure how many hands that represents, but I’ve cleared $44.54 of the bonus, which should give you some indication of how much I’ve played. <\/p>\n
While I’ve generally done well, you do often see the same players at the table night after night, and a fair number of them seem tight-weak. This has forced me to do a bit more bluffing and slow-playing. It’s rare that a true live one enters the waters, but tonight a fish sat down at our table and suddenly one third to one half of the players sprang to life, playing weaker cards and raising to get heads-up against this guy. I had the good fortune of being in two pots against this guy that padded my account by about half a buy-in.<\/p>\n
So here comes the hand we all wish we had played:<\/p>\n
BB has about $30, Fishy Guy has about $25, I’ve got them both covered with $60. BB is a semi-aggressive, somewhat solid player.<\/font><\/p>\n I’m on the button with [9c Qc].<\/p>\n SB posts the small blind of $0.25 The flop is [7s Tc Jc] Damn. I really really want to play my open-ended straight flush draw. <\/p>\n There’s $3.50 + $3 + $10 = $16.50 in the pot. The pot is laying me 1.65:1 and I have 15 outs against top pair\/overpair\/straight draw\/flush draw\/two pair\/set\/made straight. <\/p>\n Hmm… Hmm… If only I had Kc instead of 9c. <\/p>\n If I call and the BB goes all in, that’ll be another $18.80, so I’m potentially going to lose half my stack here. (I forget how much SB had, but he might have been able to do some damage, too)<\/p>\n But I can count on Fishy Guy to call and basically lay me almost 2:1 for my half-stack, right?<\/p>\n Argh.<\/p>\n And I’ve got position.<\/p>\n Oh, but with the pot this big and our relative stack sizes, position isn’t going to help. glyphic folds The commentary, by the way, consists of all the things I was thinking, but not necessarily in the order I was thinking them.<\/p>\n I’m pretty sure Fishy Guy had crap. He tended to play bad hands and bet with top pair, no pair, poor draws, etc.<\/p>\n BB, on the other hand, probably didn’t have the nut flush draw or a flopped straight. I’d say two pair or a set is most likely.<\/p>\n So. Good fold? Worth risking half the stack?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been doing most of my online play at Full Tilt Poker for the last week and have had a pretty good go at it. Out of five days of play (small sample, I know!), I’ve been in the black on four of them. I’m not sure how many hands that represents, but I’ve cleared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-hG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBB posts the big blind of $0.50
\nEP posts $0.50
\nUTG folds
\nEP checks
\nMP calls $0.50
\nMP2 folds
\nFishy Guy calls $0.50
\nCO folds
\nglyphic calls $0.50
\nSB calls $0.25
\nBB checks<\/p>\n
\nSB checks
\nBB bets $3
\nEP folds
\nMP folds
\nFishy Guy raises to $10
\nglyphic has 15 seconds left to act<\/p>\n
\n<\/font><\/p>\n
\nSB folds
\nBB raises to $28.80, and is all in
\nFishy Guy folds
\nUncalled bet of $18.80 returned to BB
\nBB doesn’t show
\nBB wins the pot ($21.85)\n<\/p><\/div>\n