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Originally Posted by *acesandfaces* Finally the aces hold up....Nice to hear they didn't get cracked. Seems everytime I get pocket rockets somebody calls with a J 9 off(or some other garbage) and mine get cracked. |
Yeah, his call on the turn scared me, and when the board paired I thought I was done for sure figuring him for trips now or maybe a FH...I figured there was no way I could get away from it and was pissed at myself for not going all in on the turn
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Originally Posted by yeltzen You buying us all a round? |
you did notice the stakes of the game right? I'm still new to this.
But I'll gladly buy you all a nice tall glass of ice cold water.
The really nice thing was this made me the 2nd stack at the table and I had no problem getting people off of hands later on. I just followed the exact same betting pattern, raise to 5-6xBB (5 if I wanted two callers and 6 if I wanted no more than 1 or fold around), potsize, potsize. Nobody ever called me to the river the rest of the night.
I am finding on these beginner tables the standard 3-4xBB doesn't do much but get rid of the absolute bottom of the barell, especially if you are in LP with a bunch of limpers. Seems like anybody that limps is going to call 3-4xBB in a heartbeat because they already have money in it. But 5xBB seems to clear out all but two, sometimes three, and 6xBB usually gets rid of all but maybe one.
I'm still having a little bit of a tough time getting good reads. I probably laid down the best hand a couple of times (laid down ladies at a different table last night as well as AK, both on flops that I didn't hit, but I wouldn't normally be afraid of, and was bet into fairly heavily). A couple of hands later I took the ladies for a nice pot, but got a little scared when my flop bet got reraised and slowed down or the pot would have been even nicer.
It definitely seems like hardly anyone will lay down any A, any PP, top pair, and even second pair. I definitely feel like the tightest player at the tables and when I look at my stats I am always shocked to see my flops seen percentage is closer to 30 than 20 (actually last night it was 34!!!!). I am learning that I have to be even more disciplined with starting hands and not chasing at these tables, because I have to showdown the best hand usually.
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