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 Defending Top/Top against Flush Draws, hudson, 28. Jun 2003 22:27 | ||
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| Hey yawl, No bubblegum anecdotes for you to chew on tonight; however, I do have a few questions that I may have already answered myself on the ride home... Feeling rather intrepid I decided to jump up to the 9/18 this evening and after getting rolled over for about an hour, I calmed down and realized that chips are chips and just because they happened to be red doesn't mean that they deliver the nuts to every other player on every other hand. So I chain-smoked for about fifteen minutes, gave myself that trite-high-school-basketball-coach-pep-talk and finally started to call some of these vultures and within forty-five minutes I had managed to pull myself back up to even and eventually walked with few hundred bucks, although I did run into trouble on several flush draws when I was holding top/top. I made a few nice lay-downs, won-out once and got crucified twice. So--and there is a question here I promise--how do you adjust the juggling of odds (implied and otherwise), a player's betting patterns and inclination to bluff, the all-but-non-existent tells, position and everything else black & white when the stakes increase? It seemed like the more experienced the player the keener their sense to smell blood. After I showed some sack at the table, the absurd aggressiveness wilted into something that almost resembled a normal kitchen game with your buddies. Perhaps this is a moronic rookie observation on my part but isn't one of the biggest disasters have someone else convince you that you do not belong at their table. Please--no snickering. | ||
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| Re: Defending Top/Top against Flush Draws, SendMoney, 29. Jun 2003 01:05 | ||
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| I forget who said it and the exact context of the quote, but one of the best lines I've heard about high limit poker is this: "You have to have a lot of money, and you can't be afraid to lose it all." Basically the idea is don't play scared. Another idea is waiting to raise on the turn and not the flop in order to chase out the long shots like guts shots, set hunters, even some open ended straight and non-nut flush draws. | ||
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