Sometimes I’m such an idiot. On three separate occasions today I had either a set or two pair going to the river.. and the draw card came that I thought my opponent had. These pots were all of good size so I didn’t want to just give them up because I can’t just always assume the player has the hand I put him on. So I figured the cheapest way to get out of the hand would be to bet like 25% of the pot into the player and fold to a raise. So all three times that I did this I got raised, and believe it or not I called. I kept convincing myself that the other player was bluffing me because I was betting so small and he saw it as an opportunity to steal the pot. I was also looking at the size of the pot and I was like whats another $50-100 bucks. But I really need to learn. These online players don’t have these moves in their repertoire. In the past week I have called a lot of raises on the river, and just about every time the other player has had the nuts. Note: im calling with good hands such as top 2, sets and so on. I know all I can beat here on the river is a straight up bluff because these guys aren’t good enough to value raise on the river with good hands.. just the nuts. Ill probably now convince myself that people are min raising me on the river because they read my blog and think I’m gonna fold.. so ill probably still call… so don’t try it.
Hand of day
1/2 nl
sb limps
bb (me) 33
flop 399
sb checks
I bet 4
sb calls (this made me say this guy has do have a 9 cause what else would he have limped in with and calling pot)
turn 4
sb checks
i bet 28
sb calls (I know he has a 9 now)
river q
sb checks
I go all in for 170
Sb snap calls with 9,10