[friscosardines]

Texas Hold'em $0.50-$1 (real money), hand #607,954,222
Table San Fabian, 29 Jan 2005 02:05 AM

Seat 2: bartzz ($94.40 in chips)
Seat 3: Jayseki ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: Fiasco ($99.25 in chips)
Seat 5: Madragan X ($59.85 in chips)
Seat 6: yimanya ($29.50 in chips)
Seat 7: StarlightCst [QH,JH] ($19.65 in chips)
Seat 9: JohnnyStyles ($55.35 in chips)
Seat 10: echinacea100 ($38.30 in chips)



ANTES/BLINDS
echinacea100 posts blind ($0.25), bartzz posts blind ($0.50).

PRE-FLOP
Jayseki folds, Fiasco folds, Madragan X calls $0.50, yimanya folds, StarlightCst calls $0.50, JohnnyStyles calls $0.50, echinacea100 calls $0.25, bartzz bets $0.50, Madragan X calls $0.50, StarlightCst calls $0.50, JohnnyStyles calls $0.50, echinacea100 folds.

FLOP [board cards JD,QD,2D ]
bartzz bets $0.50, Madragan X calls $0.50, StarlightCst bets $1, JohnnyStyles folds, bartzz bets $1, Madragan X folds, StarlightCst calls $0.50.

3 diamonds on the flop. I raise and he reraises. I hold 2 pair,but the obvious flush draw staring me in the face. I already figure another diamond and I'm a dead man, but do you cap this or not?


TURN [board cards JD,QD,2D,4C ]
bartzz bets $1, StarlightCst calls $1.

RIVER [board cards JD,QD,2D,4C,5H ]
bartzz bets $1, StarlightCst calls $1.

fourth diamond never fell, but the preflop raiser could have the flush since the flop. Do you call out or raise it since no overcards have hit?


SHOWDOWN
bartzz shows [ AD,AC ]
StarlightCst shows [ QH,JH ]
StarlightCst wins $11.40.



SUMMARY
Dealer: JohnnyStyles
Pot: $12, (including rake: $0.60)
bartzz, loses $4.50
Jayseki, loses $0
Fiasco, loses $0
Madragan X, loses $1.50
yimanya, loses $0
StarlightCst, bets $4.50, collects $11.40, net $6.90
JohnnyStyles, loses $1
echinacea100, loses $0.50

[jhasper]

Due to his pre-flop raise from the BB, you could have put him on Aces. So a re-raise here wouldn't be so bad... but it IS the river and you don't want to pay 3 bets JUST IN CASE he raised from the blind with QQ, JJ or AK of diamonds.

The play was fine, don't get greedy.

[DeepBlue]

Good play, played it safe and didn't go too far in one hand.

Perhaps it was a little of both, safe play but done intelligently will get you the pots, not necesserily the big ones, but it will win you pots.

[Chi_Town]

You definitley don't raise the river... maybe play back on the flop or turn to get info, but calling down is OK too. You are 3:1 to hit the full-house with 2 cards to come... so take a flop call of $0.50 + turn call for $1.00 = $1.50. If the pot with get to $4.50 aside from your $1.50 ($6.00 total) it is the correct play to call... Then one more bet to look him up has very good reverse implied odds - the worst, you lose one more $1 (the rest is already gone if you fold), and you stand to pick up $10)