Lesson Learned
Tonight I played in a small home-game $10 rebuy tournament with 4 other friends: Ben (yes, this Ben), Sean, Bobby, and Mitchell. Dave decided not to show up, we’re not sure we’re going to continue to let him write for this site … All jokes aside, I wanted to bring up this hand:
We decided since it was so short handed to start with 7,000 chips each. The blinds were somewhere near 100-200 and I decided to limp with 8&spades8♦ UTG. It was a fairly passive game and I wanted to see a flop for cheap. The flop was perfect:
K♦8♥9&spades
And Mitchell (from the SB) bets out 350 into a pot of around 700. Bobby (BB) folds and I decide to simply call. The turn brought the J&spades and Mitchell bet out 350 again. I was not too concerned with what Mitch had and instead of raising decided to slow play it again until the river. River card came 7♣ and the board looked like:
K♦8♥9&spades J&spades7♣
Mitchell opened the betting at 500 and I made my 2nd mistake and raised. Mitchell had the confident swagger going into the river and had a look like ‘comon, call that one too.’ and somewhere in the back of my head I’m thinking ‘Ah, four to a straight, I should just call and not get into too much trouble,’ then I talked myself out of it thinking Mitchell wouldn’t have a 10 and was more likely to have played something like K♥Q♦, I forgot he had simply limped from the SB and could have basically anything, but I stuck to my slowplaying logic and raised to 1500. He quickly reraised to 3000 and I made the mistake again of calling, 90% sure I was beat by a straight. He quickly turned over 10&spades9♣ and I was down to 1500 chips. I mucked my hand and decided that slowplaying my 8s was dumb.
I lost the rest of my chips to Ben on the next hand with A 10 vs KQ he runnered the nut straight, and rebought. Not 5 hands later this hand arrives:
I’m dealt 9&spades9♣ UTG and decide to limp at the 150-300 blind level. Its the same three to the flop, me Mitchell and Bobby and I’m last to act. The flop was another beauty:
K♦9♥7♣
Mitchell bets out 750 chips and Bobby quickly made it 2000 to go! This time I was taking no chances, thought about it and decided to raise all-in for 6,300 chips. Mitchell folded, slightly aggravated, and Bobby quickly made a loose call with K♥10&spades and I showed him the good news. :)
The turn brought the 6♣ and it was over … river a harmless but insulting 10♦
Instead of slowplaying and simply calling Bobby’s raise I decided to reraise right there, unknowingly pushing out Mitchell with his 10♥8&spades, narrowly missing his nut straight on the turn. Rarely do I realize I misplayed something and get a chance to play it correctly 7 hands later, but it stuck in my mind, slowplaying is dangerous unless you have stone-cold unbeatable hands because hands like T9 can sneak up on you and cost you a crap-ton of chips. Mitchell played his hand very well, it was my own damn fault for giving him 5,000 of my chips, luckily I realized that and didn’t let it happen again.
Thought I’m still not sure why Bobby called my raise of 4,000 with K♥10&spades … oh well
Good luck out there!
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