Archive for January 9th, 2010

After two hours of 5/10 NL this evening, I was up about $800. By my rough count, I’d voluntarily put money into the pot 16 times, won 13 of those pots, and saw exactly 1 showdown. I was going to leave at the next time collection, but then I played a pot where four people limped over a straddle of my big blind, and I made it $140 to go with absolute certainty that, even if they recognized what I was doing, none of these guys was going to do anything about it other than maybe call and then fold any flop that misses them, which is actually even better for me than if they just fold pre-flop. Sure enough, one dude called and folded the flop. “Well,” I thought to myself, “if they’re just going to give it away, maybe I’ll stick around.”

A few hands later, there was one limp, and a new guy at the table raised to $35. He got one caller, I called with 3c 2c in the BB, and the limper called.

Flop came Td 3s 2s. We checked to the raiser, who bet $60. The next player called, I raised to $300, got one fold, the raiser called, and the other guy folded.  Read the complete post...