Suckout King
04-14-2006, 01:09 PM
I have not had much chance to play poker lately. Working in excess of 60 hours a week on other things leaves little time for poker.
Anyway I have played a couple of games recently and jumped down stakes for fear of being a bit rusty.
Its just as well because I made two quite basic errors in two hands.
Hand one is the first or second hand in a 50 player 10$ buy in on Party Poker. This is a new format and it looks like a good way of killing time between big games.
Anyway I have AA. I am loath to go all in with AA at the best of times (not that I fold it) so I am quite happy with my preflop play.
Ok blinds 20/40 player UTG calls. The next player raises to 125 the players fold to me in early/mid position. I reraise to 275 to get one caller next to me (after a wee pause) and the person who bet 125 calls.
He checks on the flop of three hearts queen high (no straight on).
The pot is pretty large. These tourneys start with 2000 chips and there is 900 in the pot. I do not want to let anyone draw for free but I think the guy still to act MIGHT have something like 2 hearts etc. ie i think he is chasing something. I bet 700 chips to get reraised all in by this guy (other guy folds)
I call. I think I am pretty much pot comited by that point. He could have top pair, overcards, 1 heart etc.
However I think this is a clear case for checking on the flop. If he checks I give him a free card but I think this is a case where i should have avoided comitting myself from me bet on the flop.
Second hand i have 26 in the BB - this time it is a limit tournament (10$ buy in 1 table). quite a few see the flop which is 22k with 2 diamonds. I check and it goes bet 200, call 200 call 200 raise 400. call (everyone does)
The turn is an ace - I bet and all but one fold.
Turn is a diamond ace giving me an underfull house
Mistake one I bet
Mistake two I call his reraise
I think if I check I will call his bet but if he has an ace i am in the soup and WHAT ELSE COULD HE HAVE!!!
Anyway I have played a couple of games recently and jumped down stakes for fear of being a bit rusty.
Its just as well because I made two quite basic errors in two hands.
Hand one is the first or second hand in a 50 player 10$ buy in on Party Poker. This is a new format and it looks like a good way of killing time between big games.
Anyway I have AA. I am loath to go all in with AA at the best of times (not that I fold it) so I am quite happy with my preflop play.
Ok blinds 20/40 player UTG calls. The next player raises to 125 the players fold to me in early/mid position. I reraise to 275 to get one caller next to me (after a wee pause) and the person who bet 125 calls.
He checks on the flop of three hearts queen high (no straight on).
The pot is pretty large. These tourneys start with 2000 chips and there is 900 in the pot. I do not want to let anyone draw for free but I think the guy still to act MIGHT have something like 2 hearts etc. ie i think he is chasing something. I bet 700 chips to get reraised all in by this guy (other guy folds)
I call. I think I am pretty much pot comited by that point. He could have top pair, overcards, 1 heart etc.
However I think this is a clear case for checking on the flop. If he checks I give him a free card but I think this is a case where i should have avoided comitting myself from me bet on the flop.
Second hand i have 26 in the BB - this time it is a limit tournament (10$ buy in 1 table). quite a few see the flop which is 22k with 2 diamonds. I check and it goes bet 200, call 200 call 200 raise 400. call (everyone does)
The turn is an ace - I bet and all but one fold.
Turn is a diamond ace giving me an underfull house
Mistake one I bet
Mistake two I call his reraise
I think if I check I will call his bet but if he has an ace i am in the soup and WHAT ELSE COULD HE HAVE!!!