BLOGPOLL BRETHREN: BRIAN'S 15K UP AT THE WSOP

I would be very uncomfortable sitting just one table away from Ron, a.k.a. “The Hedgehog”, Jeremy. That’s well within his hosing range.

Never bet the house on pocket jacks.

Is it just me, or does WSOP look alarmingly close to a racial slur.

“he’s been tabled for ten minutes for dropping a prohibited profanity at the table”

Brian must have called the dealer a c*cksucker.

I steal-raise with A8 off in third or fourth position. GLG calls from the BB. Flop is A62 all spades — my 8 is a spade. Check to me, I bet 1k and get moved in on. Horrible error here: I have a hand that is good but despises a reraise. Like the JJ hand I should just play this for showdown value. Instead I have 6300 to me in a pot that’s about 4k in size. I figure this is either a mid-pocket pair with a spade, in which case I’m ahead, or a set of sixes or twos, in which case I’m behind but but not dead… the thought that I’ve got another ace with a bigger spade kicker does not occur tome and should have swung my decision to fold. I do call, though, and am shown trip sixes. Turn is the ten of spades — hurrah — river is the ten of hearts — curses.

Thank God I’m not there – I’ve played a little Texas Hold-Em in my day and I still have NO idea what any of that means.

Dave,

Poker Service Announcement – Essentially it means this:

Brian was sitting three or four places from the dealer (important when you have blinds and for betting purposes (getting to see who bets before you have to, etc.)) and has Ace and 8, off-suit (the 8 later revealed to be a spade) and bets. GLG (an abbreviation for a guy at the table) calls the bet from the Big Blind. The flop (the first 3 cards face-up) is Ace, 6, 2 of spades. GLG checks and Brian bets a grand. GLG moves all-in. Brian’s concerned that his hand isn’t good enough to play against something that’s enough to go all-in on. He thinks he should just play to show the guy he won’t wilt under pressure, but then he analyzes the odds of what he’s looking at (figuring the number of ‘outs’ (i.e. how many cards could come up to give him a solid/winning hand.) He feels that he should have folded based on that analysis and it turns out he was right when the guy shows a pair of 6s to get three of a kind. His flush on the 10 of spades beats that, but the 10 of hearts produces a full house for GLG and Brian loses the hand on the river. Not really a bad beat because he was bringing only an Ace kicker against a pocket pair, but still rough when the turn card brings you something that’s close to unbeatable and then the river douses your hopes.