Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Perfect - Perfect
Ok. So, I played one last session for 2007. I won $27 at Greektown Friday night. Whooo! Hoooo!.
I was actually up $200 from an hour of play at the no-limit table. I was getting good control of the table of a brand new table that just opened. I had one of the 2 big stacks at the table. Things were looking goooood!
Then, I decided to join my friend for some $3/$6 limit Hold’em. So, I moved my chips and buckled down for some tight/aggressive, high-quality LHE.
The players were god awful. All of them. They couldn’t read the board. I saw one guy run failed river bluff raises, one-after-the-other, more times than I could count. I felt like telling him, “I don’t think that play works so well,” but I came to my senses and just praised him for having heart every time he tried this play.
Yada yada yada. I loose all but $27 of the profit I had made from NL.
Anyway, an interesting hand came up.
A pot is capped 5 ways preflop. The flop comes A-K-4 rainbow.
One player, who looked like the young Richard Dryfus, takes a stab at it after the flop and gets one caller. The turn is a 5. Making a board of A-K-4-5. The young Richard Dryfus bets out again and is again called again by someone who I’ll call Mr. Dumas (pronounced Dumb Ass – not Doo’ mas). The river is a 6 – making a board of A-K-4-5-6.
Richard Dryfus tries one last time and is sheepishly called by Dumas (remember, it’s pronounced Dumb Ass) who is apologizing as he makes his call.
Although, we had established a player’s only rule at this table that no one could apologize for making a donkey play and no player could complain about the donkey play of another, this one was an exception.
Dumas shows 7-8 for a straight to the 8. Richard Dryfus mucks his top set in disgust and chastises Dumas for his bad play.
When Richard Dryfus asked, “what did you call the flop with?” Dumas replied, “well, there was $60 in the pot and I just need to call one small bet to see if I could pick up a draw”.
I was floored by this.
I figured that he would need to catch “perfect, perfect” to make a hand. I wasn’t exactly sure, but I though the odds of catching perfect-perfect is about 1%. That means he needs to make about 100x his call of $3 to be getting the right price ($300).
Anyway, this type of poker expertise pervaded this particular table. I swear, this $3/$6 game has to be the most profitable game in the casino for someone who can read a board and calculate the right price needed to chase perfect-perfect.
I think I’ll go back tomorrow.
I was actually up $200 from an hour of play at the no-limit table. I was getting good control of the table of a brand new table that just opened. I had one of the 2 big stacks at the table. Things were looking goooood!
Then, I decided to join my friend for some $3/$6 limit Hold’em. So, I moved my chips and buckled down for some tight/aggressive, high-quality LHE.
The players were god awful. All of them. They couldn’t read the board. I saw one guy run failed river bluff raises, one-after-the-other, more times than I could count. I felt like telling him, “I don’t think that play works so well,” but I came to my senses and just praised him for having heart every time he tried this play.
Yada yada yada. I loose all but $27 of the profit I had made from NL.
Anyway, an interesting hand came up.
A pot is capped 5 ways preflop. The flop comes A-K-4 rainbow.
One player, who looked like the young Richard Dryfus, takes a stab at it after the flop and gets one caller. The turn is a 5. Making a board of A-K-4-5. The young Richard Dryfus bets out again and is again called again by someone who I’ll call Mr. Dumas (pronounced Dumb Ass – not Doo’ mas). The river is a 6 – making a board of A-K-4-5-6.
Richard Dryfus tries one last time and is sheepishly called by Dumas (remember, it’s pronounced Dumb Ass) who is apologizing as he makes his call.
Although, we had established a player’s only rule at this table that no one could apologize for making a donkey play and no player could complain about the donkey play of another, this one was an exception.
Dumas shows 7-8 for a straight to the 8. Richard Dryfus mucks his top set in disgust and chastises Dumas for his bad play.
When Richard Dryfus asked, “what did you call the flop with?” Dumas replied, “well, there was $60 in the pot and I just need to call one small bet to see if I could pick up a draw”.
I was floored by this.
I figured that he would need to catch “perfect, perfect” to make a hand. I wasn’t exactly sure, but I though the odds of catching perfect-perfect is about 1%. That means he needs to make about 100x his call of $3 to be getting the right price ($300).
Anyway, this type of poker expertise pervaded this particular table. I swear, this $3/$6 game has to be the most profitable game in the casino for someone who can read a board and calculate the right price needed to chase perfect-perfect.
I think I’ll go back tomorrow.
