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Two interesting hands happened on the last SNG. Both times I had the nuts. First hand I had the nut boat and the second hand was the nut straight. Both hands turned into monster pots and when I came out betting on the river and I was raised I was a little confused so I re-raised back and got re-raised again. We went back and forth a few times before someone finally called and we both turned up the same exact hands.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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Doyle Brunson has a trick in his Super System that I have used a few times. Once to a nice profit when it should have been a slpit pot.
Flop + turn is AKQJ, you have the T, obvious from the raise, reraise, rerraise that he does too. but hold in, act like an idiot. pause, stare oat the board real hard, do the fake muck, then say ‘what the hell, I call’ If the board pars on the river go all in as fast as you can, and get smug. he has to put you a two pair & boat draw that hit. You have just put him on a decision for all his chips.
Of course you have just a little downside risk (he with AK where the board pairs A or K) . he calls you split, smile and don’t try it again on that table…cause your a made wiseguy. but if you can pull it off, you get the whole pot. I have never pulled it off online, only B&M…but to a ver nice profit
Excellent advice. Though, I think I had two things working against me:
1. Online. A little hard to do acting online. In a B&M casino I’ve gone back and checked my cards and tried to appear weak when I have the monster hand to lure in some extra bets before but online they don’t know if your delay is thinking or a network problem so it’s hard to convey anything.
2. Low Limits. Hell, some of these guys will stay with you all the way to the river with top pair so shaking someone off an ace high straight simply isn’t going to happen even if they buy into the chance that you might be holding the boat on them. Plus, with the pot that large (pre-flop raising, getting 4 or 5 callers, raising on the flop, raising on the turn, etc.) they’re technically correct to see one more bet regardless of what they’re holding.