Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Why'd you throw the rest in on the flop?

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

It's a bad idea to do this. Your only going to hit the flush once every three times, the other two your out of the tournament. A 1/2 - 3/4 pot bet tells you if he has the J.

Read about pot odds here:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/start_pot_odds.html

Originally Posted by Les_Worm

A8 is not a good hand.

Originally Posted by shysti

Yeah I know my odds I am a gambler at times in tournies well because I believe you can't win it playing safe.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Yea fair enough everyone has to win the odd coinflip or whatever on their way to win a MTT, but why put your money in when you are loosing? That is not the point of winning poker.

If you wan't to gamb00l go buy a scratch card.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

Yea fair enough everyone has to win the odd coinflip or whatever on their way to win a MTT, but why put your money in when you are loosing? That is not the point of winning poker.

If you wan't to gamb00l go buy a scratch card.

Originally Posted by shysti

I don't gamble the entire tournament only when I have a feeling and I had one there. I am a gut player and it's done me pretty well I know the fundamentals of poker bub.

Originally Posted by Irisheyes

You reckon your gut can tell you when your flush is going to hit?

Originally Posted by biondino

"I am a gut player and it's done me pretty well I know the fundamentals of poker bub."

Nice oxymoron! Can I play you soon?

Originally Posted by CrunchyNuts

Can't really comment on odds given your awesome gut's capability at predicting RNGs. But if we assume that your gut is in fact filled with vital organs instead of mystical hooha, calculation shows you to be a fool:

Originally Posted by CrunchyNuts

Can't really comment on odds given your awesome gut's capability at predicting RNGs. But if we assume that your gut is in fact filled with vital organs instead of mystical hooha, calculation shows you to be a fool:
And you can't really expect to post here about your guts magical contents without getting ridiculed. Folks here have made too much money off of people's magical entrails.

Originally Posted by drmcboy

At least we know rilla was right about all the dead money heading to the tourneys.

Originally Posted by shysti

Well what you aren't considering is the type of players I was up against, if you look at my chip stack and theirs you'll see I knew what type of hands I could play against them and get away with it.

Originally Posted by Les_Worm

A8 is not a good hand.

Originally Posted by Rondavu

Do any of you guys take fold equity into consideration? What about the gap theory? Just because someone is raising A8 suited doesn't mean they're a fish. I do stuff like that all the time in the right spots.

When shysti jammed the flop on the flush draw, fold equity was definately taken into consideration. No one wants to race for the 33% draw. I know I don't, but when two jacks flop you got yourself some fold equity right there on top of the strong draw. Huge pot too. Go for it.

Stop knocking shysti when any of you might pull the same moves.

I'll tell ya why shysti is finishing well in tournaments. Shysti is at a table full of camping rocks who have no creativity whatsoever besides "hey look AA all in". Shysti is making moves stealing pots from tightwads like a person should be doing at high blind levels. A8 suited in the cutoff?... RAISE.

Originally Posted by Rondavu

Do any of you guys take fold equity into consideration? What about the gap theory? Just because someone is raising A8 suited doesn't mean they're a fish. I do stuff like that all the time in the right spots.

When shysti jammed the flop on the flush draw, fold equity was definately taken into consideration. No one wants to race for the 33% draw. I know I don't, but when two jacks flop you got yourself some fold equity right there on top of the strong draw. Huge pot too. Go for it.

Stop knocking shysti when any of you might pull the same moves.

I'll tell ya why shysti is finishing well in tournaments. Shysti is at a table full of camping rocks who have no creativity whatsoever besides "hey look AA all in". Shysti is making moves stealing pots from tightwads like a person should be doing at high blind levels. A8 suited in the cutoff?... RAISE. She probably got called by AJ on the misclick raise because the huge raise was supicious. Otherwise she might have stolen the blinds.

Originally Posted by CrunchyNuts

Yes, but in this case it appears to be doing the (possibly) right thing for the wrong reasons.

Originally Posted by Rondavu

Do any of you guys take fold equity into consideration? What about the gap theory? Just because someone is raising A8 suited doesn't mean they're a fish. I do stuff like that all the time in the right spots.

When shysti jammed the flop on the flush draw, fold equity was definately taken into consideration. No one wants to race for the 33% draw. I know I don't, but when two jacks flop you got yourself some fold equity right there on top of the strong draw. Huge pot too. Go for it.

Stop knocking shysti when any of you might pull the same moves.

I'll tell ya why shysti is finishing well in tournaments. Shysti is at a table full of camping rocks who have no creativity whatsoever besides "hey look AA all in". Shysti is making moves stealing pots from tightwads like a person should be doing at high blind levels. A8 suited in the cutoff?... RAISE. She probably got called by AJ on the misclick raise because the huge raise was supicious. Otherwise she might have stolen the blinds.

Originally Posted by Les_Worm

I never called him a fish. I said A8 was not a good hand and I stand by that. In the first hand preflop is fine but you don't have to risk all of your chips in that spot on the flop if you are trying to get a fold. You can bet like 800-1000 chips and get the same result. The second hand there is a raise UTG and he reraises w/ A8. Thats not a good play. I understand what the results were but you can't focus on results. If you missed your flush on the first hand and don't make a straight in the second hand would you ever consider posting these hands? I mean, this is the strategy forum, where is the strategy in this post?

Originally Posted by shysti

Look at it this way, reverse the roles, you see me put in a big raise you call with the AJos, then you see the flop gives you a set and you see the flush draw out there, now say I would of checked, what would you of done at this point?

Say you checked too to get me to bet at you, then on the turn comes the spade and you see the flush out there, now you see that that flush beats your set and all of a sudden I come all in, now what do you do? You already invested huge chips into a big pot very early into the tournament, do you let this guy push you around? Or you fold and take a big hit to your stack ?

Originally Posted by shysti

Anyhow there was plenty of strategy in this in that I had made a mistake with my bet and was now trying to recover from it by making him make the mistake, which he did.

Remember poker is a game of making correct decisions. He failed to do that.

Originally Posted by STIdrivr

Hey les worm who is that in your picture?

Originally Posted by Les_Worm

1. I don't call a big raise w/ AJ
2. If you check on flop there is no way I check behind w/ a flush draw out there.
3. If I was dumb enough to check and give you a free card, I have to fold and take a hit to my stack because I am not making a stubborn call and busting out.

Originally Posted by STIdrivr

Hey les worm who is that in your picture?

Originally Posted by shysti

Well this guy didn't have the same reasoning you did or else I wouldn't of played it the way I did with him, he was easy bait.

Originally Posted by shysti

I was trying to get a call, like I said in just that ONE particular case that I posted I had a feeling I would hit the flush. I know how to bet to make him fold trust me.

Anyhow there was plenty of strategy in this in that I had made a mistake with my bet and was now trying to recover from it by making him make the mistake, which he did.

Remember poker is a game of making correct decisions. He failed to do that.