Full Tilt<\/a> and found myself seated with three aggro players. Standard m.o. was to raise the pot pre-flop and bet the pot post-flop. Finally I called with a pocket pair, saw the ragged flop, and put the aggro to the test with a check-raise (not a minimum raise, either). He min-raised me, and I considered my options. It was possible that he had a bigger pocket pair, but unlikely. I called. The turn was another rag, and I put him all-in. He called, getting perhaps 3:1 from the pot. He flipped up overcards and was drawing to six outs, one of which came on ….<\/p>\nSo that makes three $300 pots I’ve lost this week to river beats. Which should make me the poster child for something<\/i>. <\/p>\n
Bankroll management dictates I step down in limits (it’s boring down here) and that goes for live play, too. Which is too bad, because the 1\/2 NLHE game seemed a hell of a lot more interesting than the .50\/1 and .25\/.50 NLHE games. But I just can’t afford those swings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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