Poker is sex

[X-Longshot-X]

I really dont know why you have a personal vendetta against me. Every time I post about playing well you are just an ass. I managed to come back from 800 chips early in this thing after making a tough laydown with bottom set. Until you actually WATCH me play, I would appreciate it if you could keep your comments to yourself. You are basing my play off a few hands you have seen me post. You wanna tell me what I did wrong with this hand Mr. High Stakes?

[Boobie Lover]

Reraise more. From now on, reraise a person's bet to 3x-4x his initial bet (so if 300, reraise to 900-1200). If that bet is more than 1/2 your stack, push all-in.

With your tiny reraise, you price him in to suck out on you if he has one overcard.

[X-Longshot-X]

gipsdad: raises 150 to 300
TP_Longshot: raises 450 to 750
gipsdad: calls 450


thats exactly what i did, his initial bet was 150, not 300.

[Boobie Lover]

Stupid wording by me. So, if he raises to "x" reraise to "x*3-4".

[X-Longshot-X]

Okay, but that is pricing him out....dont i really want a call in this situation? my hand isnt really that vunerable

[Boobie Lover]

You want your opponents to make a mistake against you. So, if you reraise an amount that it would make it incorrect for him to play against you, you profit. Yes, you still profit if you make this small reraise since you are "pricing him in", but you are not letting him make a mistake against you. You are letting him play correctly against you, and you are basically waiting for the random number generator to figure out the winner in this battle because you are both playing correctly preflop.

Also, as you move up in limits, people will start to notice that you are only doing this when you have a monster holding, and people will adjust to this.

[Zybomb]

Yes you need to learn to stop min raising / making raise that dont induce folds, but in this case I dont think it matters, since opponent is intent on calling the last 1160 with no pair no draw

[bdawg31]

I have been doing terrible the last year or so - so take this question for what its worth. But, he did manage to get him to call 1160 chips to win a pot the size of 2660 drawing to three outs. That sounds like he got him to make a mistake after the flop, no?

Maybe he was 'right' in calling the re-raise (calling 450 to a 1050 pot with a hand that could be in a lot of trouble), but it seems to me that Longshot got him to make an error after the flop. Would the villian have made that call after the flop had he seen Longshots cards? For that matter, would he have made the call preflop had he seen his cards? I would think the answer would be 'no' to both questions.

Am I missing something here? I have to assume i am based on how i have run the last 9-10 months. In theory, if i was Longshot - i would have loved how this hand progressed (up til the K hit of course :-)

[Robbr25]

I was thinking this exact same thing.
Re-raise to 900 at least

[PShabi]

Poker is Sex...

You just don't get it!

[sjay2k]

Lame

[Reel Deal]

As soon as you stop posting hands like this while telling us that we don't know how good you really are, is when I'll stop being an ass.