Ladbroke Poker – Case Study 1
Posted on March 31, 2009
Filed Under Online Poker
Ladbrokepoker – This was one of the more damaging hands I was involved in on Wednesday. In the big blind, I had just got back from a toilet break in time to play my hand, and with two callers already, I checked with (8s,9s). The flop couldn’t have looked much better when it fell (5c,6h,7h). It could of course been a completely rainbow flop, but I certainly wasn’t complaining. The small blind checked, and I led out with a 300 raise into a 900 pot. This might seem a little strong, and perhaps it was, but I had been playing aggressive poker that evening and one of the players in the pot had already picked off a bluff of mine earlier in the tournament.
I was called by both players, and the King of hearts appeared on the turn. This really was not what I wanted to see with two flat callers on the previous betting round, but I led out with 300 to try and tempt a made Flush to reraise and let me know I was behind. One player flat called and the other folded. The river was a (3s) which wasn’t quite what I was hoping for. Part of me already knew I was going to be up against a Flush, and so I was hoping for a fourth heart on the river to make it an easy check on the river.
As it was, I made a final 500 bet which could only be reraised by a hand that was beating me. The bet was flat called in fact, by a weak Flush from a player holding (8h,5h). He had picked up an open ended Straight Flush draw on the flop, and was never likely to fold his hand at any point. With that in mind I really only lost a small amount compared to what I could have lost. Perhaps I shouldn’t have raised the final 500, but overall I got away lightly. Ladbrokepoker.com
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