Archive for April 5th, 2007

Thank you all for your comments on the J-T and K-K hands. I truly appreciate the time you took to offer your thoughts.

Let’s look at the K-K hand first.

After the UTG player made it 7,000 and I saw the kings, I thought back to what he had seen me do at our first table, early in the rebuy period. I was pushing a lot of hands and made a couple of huge suckouts, including one on him when my 3-3 took out his 9-9 with a 3 on the turn. The whole table was getting frustrated with me, as I built a big stack rather quickly and decided to wield it instead of tightening up. I played a lot of marginal hands and won more coinflips than I lost in those early levels. He was playing a loose (and I think correct) rebuy strategy as well, he’d just caught the worst of it. But here he was again, so my first instinct when he raised UTG and I picked up the kings was “how can I get the most value out of this situation?” (more…)