Hand Discussion #5: My Thoughts

Thanks for your remarks, Ed. I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t totally on crack.

I think my crucial error was that I didn’t think of my hand as strong on the turn. I felt I had a mediocre hand. If I made a decent bet, I’m now playing for a big pot on the river if I miss. It didn’t occur to me that my hand was actually pretty strong and I could avoid the issue of having to play a big pot on the river by moving in on the turn. It makes sense now that you’ve explained it.

As it turns out, opponent called and had ATo, so I lost. The opponent played this hand very strangely–making a very dangerous PFR, betting into seven players when he had nothing, checking when he hit his best possible card, and then check-calling on the river. The only thing I could think of is that he must’ve thought I was sandbagging an overpair–like Jacks or Queens. He didn’t seem savvy enough to induce a bluff, but he very well could’ve been trying for that. Otherwise, his play of this hand made no sense to me at all.

Thanks for your help.

Come on preflop is fine if you don’t believe the people behind will 3bet. Stacks are deep enough for JTs multiway.

I think that the biggest mistake is on the flop - 2 overs + a fd and villian bets weakly, I think you need to reraise his flop bet. It sux with all the people left to act but you dont want players with high fd’s/overs calling you want to isolate here.

I liked this article very much and have found the same to be true in my own experience.

I found your article by accident. I was doing a google search because I play in the online tournaments and get to the last table almost every time and then when there like 5 people left I just start acting weird. I was trying to find info about anyone with similar experiences.

Anyway, nice article