Lost $100 buy-in at a local game, where I should have cleaned up.
I have a middle stack with $450+. The big stack has about $700. Re-buys allowed, and several have done so. Blinds $2 and $5. I'm in position holding
so I raise to $20 even. The blinds fold and one of the callers before me calls the raise. I don't put him on a good hand because the whole table has been raising like crazy when they have great hole cards - this guy won the last few pots and was on a roll. He was trying to see the flop. I put him with an over and under, or suited connectors.
Flop:
He bets $80. Big bet. I'm beginging to think: worse case scenario, he might be trapping me with a set of Jacks. But most likely he has AK or AQ. But I have a set and I'm not folding. I call his bet.
Turn:
He now bets $150. I'm sure he doesn't have a J or he would have checked me like he did the last time he had a set. But, that's about 1/2 my stack and he has me covered by about $25, and with a confident 8's over Jacks I re-raise him all-in. He wonders for a bit and calls.
He shows
. I've got full house and he's dead meat. Low and behold, the river is a
Should I have called his bet on the turn and see the river? If an A or J came up, and he bet big again, I probably would have folded - reluctantly. Was my all-in bet a mistake?
