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05.20.06
The Secret Of Poker
posted by Absinthe | 6:54 PM
This thought I had the other day re-occurred to me today while I was in the 40K Guarantee with a good-sized stack and a pair of aces in the big blind. We’re on the bubble. Someone goes all-in UTG for about a quarter of my chips (he has over 10BB left, by the way). I call. He turns over 67s. Flop comes 67T. I do not improve.
One missed steal and two nigh-inevitable instances of getting my chips in dominated later (once with a worse king-high in a battle against a shorter-stacked big blind, the other being a put-me-out-of-my-misery push with A9s against a loose raiser who unfortunately had a rather-near-the-top-of-his-range AJo), I was out, with something in the neighborhood of a hundred bucks for my efforts instead of a shot at the five-figure first prize. As of this writing, the tournament is still running and the fellow who made the inexplicable move that cracked my aces is alive (though, I note with some satisfaction, nursing a short stack and saying a lot of terribly stupid things). And I was remembering the thought I had that’s at the core of this post, a post which should have been one line long at the most, and that is this:
The most aggravating thing about poker is the numerous opportunities it affords you to help your opponents profit from their mistakes.
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May 26, 2006 at 9:45 PM
Classic quote. Hope you break through next time!