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A nice call here with the pocket snowmen (how very festive!) (that’s pocket 88 just incase anyone’s lost) – the player in question is our very own Vster from SCB craftily named as “vster-scb”

lovely !

May I wish you a very merry xmas and a happy new year if i don’t see you before

Cheers and happy punting!

duff

25.00/50.00 Texas Hold’em (No Limit)
STT $20 NL (Real/Tournament)
Seat 1: goodhands (1860.00)
Seat 2: MontyDog (1815.00)
Seat 3: pense (915.00)
Seat 5: LOCOMOTIVE ( 3585.00)
Seat 6: -ASSOS- (1190.00)
Seat 7: vster-scb (1580.00)
Seat 8: JonesyFish (820.00)
Seat 10: ***ela*** (3235.00)
MontyDog post SB 25.00
pense post BB 50.00
** Deal **
goodhands [N/A, N/A]
MontyDog [N/A, N/A]
pense [N/A, N/A]
LOCOMOTIVE [N/A, N/A]
-ASSOS- [N/A, N/A]
vster-scb [8c, 8h]
JonesyFish [N/A, N/A]
***ela*** [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
LOCOMOTIVE Fold
-ASSOS- Call 50.00
vster-scb Raise to 150.00
JonesyFish Fold
***ela*** Fold
goodhands Call 150.00
MontyDog Fold
pense Fold
-ASSOS- Fold
*** Flop(Board): *** : [3d, 7s, 7d]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
vster-scb Bet 300.00
goodhands Raise to 750.00
vster-scb Call 750.00
*** Turn(Board): *** : [3d, 7s, 7d, 2h]
*** Bet Round 3 ***
vster-scb All-in 680.00
goodhands Call 680.00
*** River(Board): *** : [3d, 7s, 7d, 2h, Qs]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 3285.00
goodhands [3h, Jh] Two pair sevens and threes Win:0.00
vster-scb [8c, 8h] Two pair eights and sevens Win:3285.00

It gains you information and saves you chips in the later rounds.

As you can see from the below example – I flop Middle pair – I elect to raise to find out where I am. Not only does this tell me that I’m most definitely up against a Queen somewhere if I get called or re-raised but it also means that I get checked to .. Rather than “bet into” on the later more expensive rounds……. (where one can very often improve for free!)

A flat call on the flop would have told me nothing and would have meant another bet on the turn to attempt to find out, and maybe even then face a bet on the river, which would suddenly look all the more tempting through “value” (thus costing me another 3 bets rather than the extra 1 that I used to gain information) – Tievoli and Vster will take the mickey claiming that I do this all the time (I do!) however I also do this with the best hand as well so beware! Hehe

Cheers – happy raising

Duff

***** Hand 481160259 *****
0.10/0.20 Texas Hold’em
Table TH Mini (Real /Cash Game )
Seat 1: totdod (3.39)
Seat 2: Schrimpsen (3.31)
Seat 3: barakov1 (9.84)
Seat 4: Pikasss (4.15)
Seat 5: duplex111 (5.56)
Seat 6: bigm2261 (4.89)
Seat 7: Dimborg (11.19)
Seat 8: endly (6.41)
Seat 9: Monchy (13.06)
Seat 10: somewone (7.25)
Monchy post SB 0.05
somewone post BB 0.10
** Deal **
totdod [N/A, N/A]
Schrimpsen [N/A, N/A]
barakov1 [N/A, N/A]
Pikasss [N/A, N/A]
duplex111 [N/A, N/A]
bigm2261 [N/A, N/A]
Dimborg [10d, Jh]
endly [N/A, N/A]
Monchy [N/A, N/A]
somewone [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
totdod Fold
Schrimpsen Call 0.10
barakov1 Fold
Pikasss Call 0.10
duplex111 Fold
bigm2261 Fold
Dimborg Call 0.10
endly Call 0.10
Monchy Call 0.10
somewone Check
*** Flop(Board): *** : [7d, Jd, Qh]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
Monchy Check
somewone Bet 0.10
Schrimpsen Fold
Pikasss Call 0.10
Dimborg Raise to 0.20
endly Call 0.20
Monchy Fold
somewone Call 0.20
Pikasss Call 0.20
*** Turn(Board): *** : [7d, Jd, Qh, 5h]
*** Bet Round 3 ***
somewone Check
Pikasss Check
Dimborg Check
endly Check
*** River(Board): *** : [7d, Jd, Qh, 5h, 9h]
*** Bet Round 4 ***
somewone Check
Pikasss Check
Dimborg Check
endly Check
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.07 Total Pot: 1.33
Pikasss Muck Win :0.00
Dimborg Muck Win :0.00
endly Muck Win :0.00
somewone [3c, Qc] Pair of queens Win :1.33

As you can see from the below transcript, I was playing in a cheap limit game ($0.10/$0.20) but still managed to win a $9.46 pot as this monkey (barakov1) just couldn’t stop raising in the face of a blatant full house!

Surely if he can see me keep raising and raising he’s gotta put me on something good! – I would never keep raising this much without at least a full house (or the nuts if there is nothing else on the board).

Normally I would only reraise twice and then get the message that he’s strong.

Any comments welcome.

Cheers

Duff (Dimborg)

(please note that I do not normally endorse playing such poor hands …. I was in the big blind after all!!)

***** Hand 481157592 *****
0.10/0.20 Texas Hold’em
Table TH Mini (Real /Cash Game )
Seat 1: totdod (3.49)
Seat 2: Schrimpsen (3.31)
Seat 3: barakov1 (13.19)
Seat 4: Pikasss (4.15)
Seat 5: duplex111 (5.76)
Seat 6: bigm2261 (4.94)
Seat 7: Dimborg (6.48)
Seat 8: endly (6.56)
Seat 9: Monchy (13.86)
Seat 10: somewone (7.95)
bigm2261 post SB 0.05
Dimborg post BB 0.10
** Deal **
totdod [N/A, N/A]
Schrimpsen [N/A, N/A]
barakov1 [N/A, N/A]
Pikasss [N/A, N/A]
duplex111 [N/A, N/A]
bigm2261 [N/A, N/A]
Dimborg [Js, 4h]
endly [N/A, N/A]
Monchy [N/A, N/A]
somewone [N/A, N/A]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
endly Call 0.10
Monchy Call 0.10
somewone Fold
totdod Call 0.10
Schrimpsen Fold
barakov1 Call 0.10
Pikasss Fold
duplex111 Fold
bigm2261 Fold
Dimborg Check
*** Flop(Board): *** : [Jd, 4d, 3c]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
Dimborg Bet 0.10
endly Call 0.10
Monchy Call 0.10
totdod Fold
barakov1 Raise to 0.20
Dimborg Raise to 0.30
endly Fold
Monchy Fold
barakov1 Raise to 0.40
Dimborg Call 0.40
*** Turn(Board): *** : [Jd, 4d, 3c, 4s]
*** Bet Round 3 ***
Dimborg Check
barakov1 Bet 0.20
Dimborg Raise to 0.40
barakov1 Raise to 0.60
Dimborg Raise to 0.80
barakov1 Raise to 1.00
Dimborg Raise to 1.20
barakov1 Raise to 1.40
Dimborg Raise to 1.60
barakov1 Raise to 1.80
Dimborg Raise to 2.00
barakov1 Raise to 2.20
Dimborg Raise to 2.40
barakov1 Raise to 2.60
Dimborg Raise to 2.80
barakov1 Raise to 3.00
Dimborg Raise to 3.20
barakov1 Raise to 3.40
Dimborg Raise to 3.60
barakov1 Raise to 3.80
Dimborg Raise to 4.00
barakov1 Call 4.00
*** River(Board): *** : [Jd, 4d, 3c, 4s, Ac]
*** Bet Round 4 ***
Dimborg Bet 0.20
barakov1 Call 0.20
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.49 Total Pot: 9.46
barakov1 Muck Win :0.00
Dimborg [Js, 4h] Full house Win :9.46

No matter where you play there will be miss-deals. These are a fact of poker. They aren’t done on purpose to wind anyone up. One thing that people need to understand is that in most cases of a miss-deal, those rockets that you are angrily throwing back to the dealer would not have been dealt to you in the first place.

Best not to look really!

cheers

Duff