ken_p ([info]ken_p) wrote,
@ 2006-09-15 13:12:00
Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend  Next Entry
A loss
I probably had stupid one. I'd had a fairly decent go and got chopped back a bit. Hand came up between two of us and I held AK--which I am very selective to raise. As the button I did and was reraised by the BB. The flop came xTQ and the BB went all in. I was suspicious. He was a fairly short stack and the bet made me think weak. I had the two overcards and the gutshot for 10-outs which didn't make me that much of a dog to anything but a set. I called and lost to his pocket jacks which made my actual outs 8.

This is a hand I'd usually fold. I guess I've been listening to too many pros and announcers and called with my 40%er; letting the pot odds dictate the call. Donk or not, I am not fully certain but I was then left with a few hundred chips which got all in with a set to be rivered by a flush.

You can't win em all. And I figure if I keep playing decent pot odds plays like a pro, I'll be sidelined a lot more than they will. And they would have surely consider the fold with the semi-decent stack jeopardy. But, hitting too would have put me right up there. So, the crap shoot wasn't all bad...I think...

Usually, I know if I was a donk; today it seems, at least, in the gray zone.



Create an Account
Forgot your login or password?
Login w/ OpenID
English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…