i was up to $10 on Stars and i kept getting bad beats after bad beats. so far, i just remembered the last hand i lost and literally threw the mouse to the computer screen. i held K Joffsuit…flop was like a rainbow (2 8 K all different suits). i had $4 at the time and i bet $1 (this is the .25/.50 table). the guy re-raised me. i was sitting and thinking…i have the best hand…the only other hand he can probably beat me is A K, A Q, or K 8…but i doubted them. turn card was the J…FUCK YEAH! so i went all-in. river came an Ace…my opponent had A K.
Daflipmasta: i know i promised to get ur money back and i will. just sit tight =D
yo for anybody on here that plays on party & PS, could you help me out and 5shoot me $10 on stars and my friend (tape on srk) will send it to you on party.
send me a pm or w/e to let me know if/when you’ll help me out, thanks
So went to hit up the low level night the other night, and they told me “we switched up the days”…so I said…ah well, throw me on the list for 5/10…didn’t take too long to sit since I called ahead and oddly I sat with a bunch of other people who didn’t really know about the change so here I am knocked up a level I haven’t really been to in a while with the other low level people who are kinda soft…so Im like great…just play solid you know whats up…no biggie
Later on, I’m doing really well here, the soft people still hanging in…and I’m here slowly just grinding away picking my spots…nabbing some fair sized pots…til this lady who I really haven’t played much til the last 2-3 times I’ve been down there came in on her post while Im in the BB with a K10 clubs…I notice alot of people limped in so I decided to raise it up, she called…and some action guy on the end reraised, so I I thought well I know what this guy might have…lets gamble…I called and she comes in with us…now this is still her first hand so i’m semi concerned here…flop is a nice flop for me here flopping the 2 pair K T ( both spades ) if he raised on his K…Im ahead…if he has spades I got a prob…if lady who posted had spades Im also in a bind…so I get it checked to me and I lead out…everyone limps behind me…turn comes a K…internally Im laughing so bad…so I bet it…lady raises, action guy calls…seeing as I think at this point i have all the info i need here draw wise so I bump to 30…she capped out at 40 and Im like wtf?..action guy looks and mucked out
Riv is her A high flush so I bet into her seeing if he just she thinks I have 3 kings…and I guess thats it because again I reraise she makes it 40 and since we get an extra HU i cap it out…she says I got the flush…and I said… sorry…I turned you showed the KT boat…she had to smoke for 15 mins…lemmie tell you …pissed
While she left one of the 10-20 regs who I kinda knew of since we played a few times before and talked to him when he was around asking whats up etc…pretty low key stuff. He was waiting for the table to start up saw how I played that hand out and took it down…and invited me over to play 10-20 now I’ve never been at 10-20 ever…and I said I’d think about it…I never refused but I couldn’t do it that night…I did later on go over and just say sorry I couldn’t get over but i was on a nice rush…he stood up saw my stacks and said…np I know you have that table…maybe next time…I think he knew I was on a roll
so I just went back and he wished me luck.
Rest of the night was pretty good…one point during the thinned out period, I got some 3-6 handed hands in with people smoking or being on break…and made a few nicely done steals. Checked my watch and I had to bail home cashed out around 550 and felt pretty good not playing that limit for a while. :tup:
That… isnt a bad beat, you just dont really know what you’re doing. There were multiple layers of mistakes on that hand, the numero uno mistake was seeing the flop in the first place unless you were BB. You had very VERY little money to play at that game, as soon as you saw that hand you should have folded. 2nd mistake, putting in a quarter of your stack to make a small bet, you were just asking to get re raised there. 3rd mistake was putting a quarter of your stack in with a fairly weak top pair. 4th mistake though this is probably your first one, right here you’re beat by 22, 88, KK, AA, AK, KQ, all of which are plausible hands. Now, what can YOU beat after a reraise? Umm, in theory he MIGHT be seeing where he’s at looking to see if you have a King(Say if he has QQ-99), but likely in this situation its a value raise(if it was to steal it would have put Donald all in), meaning he’s got at LEAST a strong King aka AK or KQ. Which means you’re looking at a 3 outer to a jack to HOPE to win a pot in which you’re already pot committed.
yeah i’m really not trusting pairs as much anymore. i dunno. K J is a good hand. a rainbow flop. those hands that u mentioned could beat me, but preflop, we didn’t raise (bad idea?). flop came a K. so i’m thinking ihave the best hand with mediocre kicker. i’m really low on cash and i was REAL DESPERATE…this was one hand out of about 20+ hands that i actually played. so i needed to get me something moving and blinds were killing me. i guess it was a desperation move…i didn’t think much on what my opponent really had. there’s somethign i learned
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when’s the next tournament and where? Stars or FullTilt
KJ is a decent hand shorthanded or if you’re playing on a weak table with a big stack and you’re playing aggressive, in the former case because you’ll be dominated much less against fewer hands, in the latter because(at least in my experience) at a weak LL table people will play with garbage suited Ks alot, when you make top pair you’ll get action holding the best hand enough to be profitable(thats a very situational play though, depending on the table). That being said KJ is not good at a normal full table, nor good with a small stack in really any situation, except possibly very shorthanded in an attempt to steal blinds with an all in. In this situation though, you were really, very, quite wrong.
And furthermore, WHY were you in a game with only 8x BB??? What did you sit down with?
it’s the only decent i had all that night honestly. what do u mean KJ is not good at a normal table. =\ it was 6-handed and i was on low stack (opponent on maximum buy-in $10). help would be appreciated.
i had $5 to start with (that’s all i had) and the hand that i lost was somewhere around $3-4
ANother bad story i had last night:
i had good chip lead in a 5 handed tournament
I had pocket 6s and i bet preflop. the flop came down 2 3 A. i bet, opponent calls. turn came 6. i bet the pot. opponent calls. turn came a 4. i checked, opponent bets small amount. i call (i can’t fold trips =(. the river was a blank. opponent had 10 5…GRRRRRRRRRRR!!! that left a bad taste in my mouth.
seriously, i’ve been only beat by gay shit as of late. honestly, i calculate all my odds and what not and i’m ALWAYS BEAT on the TURN OR RIVER…that’s it. fuckin poker :tdown:
Gotta go work now but real quickly, in tourneys is when you loosen your requirements on a short stack, in a ring game short stack doesnt mean wait for a mediocre hand and go with it. You started with 10x BB, WTFocker??? In that game you have to sit for the maximum or dont play it.
yah stack size is largely irrelevant in ring games…i hate when people say they had to gamble because they were on the shortstack which isnt even short…
i’m sorry the turn was a 6 and the river a 4. so sorry, i was high last night.
N-Ken: yea i know. i wanted to get cash quicker than the pace i was going at with the table i’m at…i guess rushdown in Marvel kinda makes me a rushdown in Poker money-wise hehe.
I got river’d out of some shit the other night…holdin pocket 2’s the only thing u can really hope for is trips, and I hit it, flop comes 2,7,9.
I check to trap, he bets, slow call from me, third guy folds…turn is a 10…no biggie, I bet the pot…he raises, I go all in…he calls.
This motherfuck shows a 10,3 of spades and I look down and see 2 spades on board. DEALER SHOOTS ME IN THE FACE WITH A SPADE…I was like, fuck!! oh well it wasn’t a real money game, but it still hurt!!
I really hate slow playing people. Yeah it feels fucking good when you flop a straight or trips and smoke some jackass for big money. But there has been enough times when i’ve slow played someone and let them get a straight or a flush and they take the pot.
I’d rather bet big early and win 4 or 5 small pots than risk slow playing for a big pot and losing it on the river.
Well, if it wasn’t for a real money game, then I’d call everything down to the river. Hell, going all in every hand would be fun in a non-real money game.
No, what really sucks is going to the casino (only 18 to get in here in Oklahoma) and playing with a bunch of old guys who have money to throw around and call a young guy like me down to the river and end up sucking you out of a 300 dollar pot. Yeah, THAT sucks, haha.
Here’s something you say that really bothers me, well 2 things actually
Now the first, that shows that you need to reevaluate how you look at hands. KJ at a normal table is a marginal hand, it is not a good hand. You will be dominated fairly often.
The 2nd is something that really worries me, esp since your playing with borrowed money and seemingly lack of poker knowledge. Now first off I really hope you didnt think sixes were good after that flop, and you were betting to try and steal the pot. No 6 on that flop means one of 2 things, you fold or you try to represent a strong ace to kick the other guy out of the pot and win it outright, it doesnt sound like you made a big bet at all. But at the river, there was a FOUR CARD straight on the board and you say you cant fold trips, in a tournament no less(actually the point is ESPECIALLY in a tournament) The attitude behind that sounds like one that is going to lose most of his money when he plays. Im getting on you about your play mostly because you’re playing with someone elses money, and from how you’re posting it seems you dont have much of a clue how to play the game.
