vici ergo sum optimus
Posted on September 24th, 2009 by whinger. Filed under Poker, Whinges.
I love to see people look back on hands and think “I played that really well” whereas in actual fact they played like a weak donkey.
Nick Schulman’s post on full-tilt is the perfect example. He raises with a middling hand, gets reraised and decides to call anyway. He then misses the flop – there’s an overcard to his middling hand – but calls the bet on the flop. He then proceeds to give his opponent two opportunities to hit a card that beats him, assuming that he wasn’t beaten by the queen on the flop or indeed before the flop.
In almost every situation this is just rubbish. He’s then giving himself kudos because he won the pot but that’s just results-orientated thinking. If he’d reraised all-in he’d have won much more, was that a better play?
IMO he played the hand badly from start to finish. Thoughts?