I hope all the Americans and anyone else who celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday had a nice time. I’d like to express my gratitude to everyone who reads and/or comments here at thinkingpoker. It’s enormously gratifying to know that there are people out there interested in what I have to say about this fascinating game. I’m particularly flattered by those of you who aren’t serious poker players yourselves but nonetheless find something of interest here.
Lastly, I’m grateful for double floats that turn into runner-runner-nuts in 3-bet pots (played this hand yesterday but don’t have HH from laptop):
5/10 NLHE with 2K stacks, I open to $35 with 43s on the CO, fish in SB calls, BB squeezes to $140, I call, fish folds. Flop K82 with one of my suit, BB bets $220, I call planning to take it away if he shows weakness or I turn a good draw. Turn is an A he bets $475 I ought to shove or fold here but for some reason I make a terrible call instead thinking I can shove river if he checks. River is a 5 to give me the nuts and he shoves into me for $1200 or so. I call and beat his AQ.
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you for consistently putting up great content.
Andrew,
Thank you for taking time out of your schedule to answer/respond to questions/comments. Very rarely do you see such in-depth analysis from winning poker players. I for one really appreciate this and have read and reread a lot of your material here and on various forums. This has definitely made me a better poker player and when you come out with your book I’ll certainly be one of the 1st people to preorder it. Thanks again and keep up the good job.
I agree with both posters above. I enjoy and learn from your blog. Happy holidays!