October 27, 2009

Are Foxwood play in $ 2000 No Limit Hold’em Event. We started with 3000 chips each and now I 15,000 chipsAt my table is Richard Tatalovitch, A player who I met often.

Raised pre-flop from middle position with KJ of different seed and Richard calls me from the big blind, the flop is 9-6-4 with two diamonds.
Richard hesitates and then does check, I point the dish, Richard thinks a while and then calls on the whole my hand I do not like too much.
Imagine my relief when he comes out a non-J of diamonds on the turn, now I have the best pair and a good kicker, Richard pointing out, Uh-Oh!
Let a moment go back and say that when a player hesitates before you check is usually a clue.
But Richard is the king of the slow and so I ignored his behavior and I bet on the flop.
His bet on the turn seems to say Raises, I’ve got.
I shut myself in myself and I thought something like this:

1. Closed three of a kind on the flop. This explains the call on the flop and now is trying to ambush in the hope that I raise on the turn.
2. No, if he had closed the trio would go on to check on the turn and waited for me to make my move on the river and then destroy. Can not have trips.
3. The jack helped him, I have the jack of diamonds, maybe him and he called the flop with a flush to the jack, so if my kicker makes good my hand.
4. Because he is heading up a project or color of scale and hopes to close the pot here.

I made these considerations, but did not reach a conclusion.
Normally I just called, we both have a lot of chips, and do not want to put it all in with my more torque, but to my misfortune, I was reminded of a hand we played a month before the Bellagio:

Richard was losing and complained of having suffered a terrible streak of bad beats, I saw him do a full check in hand for fear of encountering a poker.
A man so terrified by the monsters under the bed would never check on the flop with three of a kind in hand and the possibility that someone closed color.

All in I cried!

Now it has become a flat-top, and you’re sure that more torque is not a big hand in these cases.
In the four years that I played with him I never seen him do a call so quickly, I was despatched 9-9 against his really excellent game.

Sometimes we all forget that big cards do not always mean having a high hand, and a wise thing may be to play conservatively instead of seeking immediate victory. Richard however had the good sense to play a big pot with a big hand and patience to have it pay a good price

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