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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Mary Lou

Posted by wynn on Jan 27, 2010 in Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

Remember the Bob Seger song Mary Lou? It reminds me of how people play pocket Queens wrong. It goes something like this: I’m gonna tell you a story ’bout Mary Lou You know the kind of woman make a fool of you She make a young man itch She man an old man faint The way she took my money was a crying shame Mary Lou she took my watch and chain Mary Lou...

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Play the Player

Posted by wynn on Jan 20, 2010 in Donkeys, Great Reads, Table Talk | 1 comment

I hear talk all the time about playing the player. Where many fall short is they think they can take a marginal hand and outplay weaker players that are calling stations. It won’t work. You need to have the stone cold nuts against these types of players. That said, it is HOW you play the nuts against the players that makes the difference. I was in two...

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Big Boat

Posted by wynn on Dec 10, 2009 in Great Reads, Table Talk | 0 comments

I am not a big fan of A-K. Suited. Off-suit. Late position. Any position. Big slick is simply over-rated for cash games. That said, I get A-K off while being one-off the button. With a bunch of limpers in the pot, I raise pre-flop to $25. I get three callers. The flop comes As-Kc-10c. Now what? With a potential straight, flush draw, royal flush draw, $100 in the...

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