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I say “hang out” because whatever it was that I did there — I bought three
bottles of Dom Perignon for the players at the table and sat in on the $2-$5
blind no limit Hold ’em game — I would not exactly want to call it playing
poker.
Sometimes, it’s not easy for me to play low-limit poker and maintain my focus. I
guess I need something meaningful at online craps before I bring my A game.
Sitting behind me were my agent, Brian Balsbaugh (from Poker Royalty); the man
who is second in command at the World Series of Poker, Ty Stewart; and my CPS
co-host (and former “Kids in the Hall” star) Dave Foley. I was trying to give
Foley a lesson, but mostly I’d hear myself saying something like this: “You
really shouldn’t play the 6-3 off suit for $20, but I’m going to anyway.”
In other words, I was employing the strategy of playing almost every hand, which
is not a good idea if you plan on staying at the online craps table for very
long.
The following situation illustrates what can go wrong when you play every hand.
Before the flop, a gentleman raised it up to $30 to go. I was in the blind with
Q-8 off suit, and decided to call $25 more. What was I thinking here? Q-8 is a
pretty weak hand, and the raise was pretty big. The problem with Q-8 is that
even if I were to hit my queen, I could run into an opponent with A-Q or an
overpair.
Well, the flop was Qd-4d-4s, I checked, and my opponent bet out $50. Now I was
pretty much forced into calling, since I had online craps top pair, and my
opponent could reasonably have been betting a pocket pair, like 7-7, or a flush
draw, like Ad-Jd. The turn card was the 4c, making the board Q-4-4-4. At this
point, I figured I was pretty much in there like a bear! I mean, it would take
an overpair (K-K or A-A) to beat me. Of course, if my opponent had Q-Q or a four
in his hand, like A-4, then that would beat me as well. But if he had A-Q, or
any queen, I had him tied, because we would both be playing Q-Q-4-4-4. So this
card pretty much sealed the deal for me.
I checked, my opponent bet $140, and I asked for a chip count. It was determined
that he had another $370 left. I felt that a fold at this point couldn’t be the
right move, and I stand by the online craps table. I felt I had no choice
other than to move him all-in.
After all, calling this bet wasn’t the right play, because if he was drawing or
bluffing I didn’t want to give him a chance to hit a card.For example, he may
have had A-K, and calling here would have given him a shot at hitting an ace or
a king. So I moved my opponent all-in and he called immediately, which is always
a bad sign for craps.
Sure enough, he showed me pocket kings, and there were now only two cards in the
deck, two queens, that could save me (can you say, “two outs”?). Considering
that the other 42 cards would win for him, I was a 21-1 underdog, and there was
no miracle here as the 7h hit on the last card.
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