Five Jive

Posted by wynn on Jul 30, 2010 in Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

While I look forward to what should be a highly profitable weekend at the table, I reflect back upon my session last night at MGM Grand Detroit. Thursdays are generally quiet, but they had this Jive ballroom dancing lessons party thing going on in the Ignite nightclub that shares the 3rd floor with the poker room. As if that was not irritating enough, my table...

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Good Gone Bad

Posted by wynn on Jul 13, 2010 in Bluffs, Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

“You flop a set ?” one of my opponents asks on the flop. I guess I played bad. That is all I can come up with when I replay the hand in my head. Here is what happened. I figure the player on my immediate right has a hand like A-Q or A-J when he raised to $75 pre-flop. I called with A-10d knowing I could outplay him on the flop. The player on my...

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What Do You Do?

Posted by wynn on Jun 28, 2010 in Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

You just flopped middle set from middle position. The flop is Jc-9c-7h. There is $60 in the pot and you have to call a $50 bet with one player behind you. You are not sure what the bettor before you is holding, but you are pretty sure the player that acts after you will call off anything on a flush draw. What do you do? I have seen this scenario countless times....

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Poker Brutality

Posted by wynn on Jun 25, 2010 in Bad Beats, Buy-in, Great Reads | 2 comments

Wow! What a rough night last night was. Not a single playable hand for the first three hours. I pay attention to what is on the board to see if maybe I am playing too tight. But, for the first 100 or so hands, not a single hand would have held up even if the hand ended on the flop. My first playable hand was a 1000-to-1 disaster. Got away fairly cheap when my...

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King Kracker

Posted by wynn on Jun 24, 2010 in Buy-in, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

We all make mistakes during a session. In retrospect, I played a hand badly. The right move was fold. No one at my end of the table thought too much of it, though. Instead, they thought how it all played out was very funny. It was just after 1:00 AM when a young gun struts in with a cold beer. He sits down in seat 10 and posts the big blind. He gets settled in...

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