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 Losing a bluff, Angel, 31. Oct 2003 22:31 | ||
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| $20/$40 HE. The field folds to the cutoff a loose aggressive player who auto-raises in this spot 100% of the time. The button and the SB fold and I look down in the BB to find AQs. I beat 95% of the hands he raises on in this spot but decide to call for deception. Given any show of weakness he will attack till he's out of bullets and given my position and his temperment, I decide that a call is best. Anyway, flop comes Q74 rainbow. I check to get three bets in. He will bet and respond to a check-raise with a re-raise and bet the turn if I check again and it plays out that way. Flop is check, bet, raise, re-raise, call. Turn card is a duece and I check. He bets again and I check-raise again; he responds by 3-betting again. I still don't believe I'm beat. He would bet a wide range of hands this way - particularly in this game where people are folding to his unbridled aggression. Nevertheless, I've opted to call and let him bet it for me on the river. I'm satisfied with the return on one pair and he could just as easily show me Q7. The point of this post is actually to describe what came next. I checked the duece on the river and he went to bet. I could have sworn his chips hit the felt but when I went to call he pulled back and I realized I had blown the $40. I took down the pot but it brought up a mistake I see so many people do... Why on earth do people threateningly telegraph that they are going to call an aggressor? Particularly one who has turned them into a calling station? He either has you beat or he doesn't. If he's bluffing and you beat him into the pot then he is simply going to withdraw his bet and you lose his last bet. So if he has the goods you lose and if he doesn't you lose money on the times he was going to bluff you (since you were prepared to call anyway) but pulled back because you beat him in the pot (or held your chips menacingly over the felt waiting to call). In the above hand I did win the pot - he had pocket nines. I could have called the floorman over and probably got that last bet - forward motion et al but it was my fault - I'll just wait the extra half a second next time and be sure he released his chips. Besides, he still had chips left to give me and I didn't want to send him away mad. :) | ||
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| Re: Losing a bluff, modestmice, 31. Oct 2003 23:06 | ||
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| youre right, the motion by him is a bet. but, whatever, i hate involving the floorman in that situation. i dont want to scare away the crazy person is my thinking. way to play it, it coulda gone either way, but putting your money/raises in there like that would be a risk i would take... | ||
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| Re: Losing a bluff, modestmice, 31. Oct 2003 23:11 | ||
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| but as to the tell you pointed out.....its always hard for me to not get caught up when heads up with freak like that, gotta remind myself not to get emotional when dealing with a maniac. when it gets fast and loose, i remind meself to not get caught up and give away tells...slow down | ||
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