Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
Quote Originally Posted by evman150
NEVER tell anyone how you made what you think was a great laydown. It just encourages them to make the same play with a shitty hand later. You don't want to be known as someone who will make big laydowns. You of course want to be able to make the big laydowns, you just really don't want that kind of reputation.
Yah, this is one of those rules that I say, "Do as I say, not as I do." Sometimes I'm just so good, others need to know about it. :biggrin: But just sometimes.

-'rilla
Tried ramming the pencil in my temple....it didn't help...lol. I take it you are not a Hellmuth fan? Believe me, I am such a s**t player that reading that book actually helped me...or at least prolonged my suffering.

I think the real problem is that I was doing alot of check-raising. Of course it's easy with a nut hand, but when my TT came up against a bet on a board of Aces, my inexperience got the best of me. I was hoping that the Button would think I was check-raising again and not make a bet.

evman150-
I showed my hole cards in hope that I could trap someone trying to knock me off stronger holdings in the future. Is this a bad idea?

Thanks for your responses. It is appreciated.

Anyway, thank you for