Fulltiltpoker.com – Hands of note Part 1
Posted on January 19, 2009
Filed Under Online Poker
Fulltiltpokercom – Upon Walking to the shop the day after my local weekly tournament, I found myself thinking back over the pevious nights action when something struck me about a particular hand I had played. The blinds were 200/400 after an hour of play and I had around 7,000 chips from a starting stack of 6,000.
Three players (myself included) saw a ragged flop of (3,7,9) and the first player to act, who I knew to be an experienced, strong player, checked. I also checked having missed, and the young player last to act raised 600. I was immediately certain in my mind that he was trying to put out a feeler bet in the hope of picking up the pot. I also had a very distinct feeling that the strong player to my right was thinking exactly the same. Sure enough, our strong player reraises to 1,200 causing me to fold, and then the original raiser to quickly fold.
For some reason, I had folded a hand which had missed the flop completely, against a raise and a reraise in front of me. Well you might say, that is precisely what you should do, and that was my reflex reaction at the time. But upon closer examination, I could have been far more creative here because I know I had the situation in progress read perfectly.
The original raiser didn’t have a hand. Both myself and our other player knew that, but the strong player to my right was first to act with the reraise, almost certainly I felt, also having very little in terms of a hand.
He wasn’t concerned about me waiting to act because I had already checked the flop and appeared to have no part of it. on the basis of my certainty that neither player had any real hand, I could of in fact pushed all in over the top and got both players to fold.
It would have been a very intricate and skilled play to try and pull off, partly because of it’s heavy reliance on my reading. That said, this was one of those situations where I really felt certain my read of both players was spot on, and so I shouldn’t have immediately made a textbook fold.
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