CoralPoker.co.uk: Case Study 1
Playing online poker at Coral Poker is great. This hand was an interesting one which took place between myself in the big blind, and a friend of mine in the small blind. I had been dealt (Jh,4h) and the action was folded around to the small blind. I play aginst this player most weeks and so when he raised four times the big blind, I felt completely certain he had a marginal hand at best. The problem I had with putting in a relatively small raise, was firstly that I am known for playing aggressively. I will get called far more often when making smaller raises I feel. The main point though is that I know he has a fairly weak hand and there is no way he had a strong enough hand to call an all in.
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I made the all in reraise, never for a moment thinking he would call. But after thinking for a long time, he did call, showing (Kh,8h). This means that basically my read of the situation was entirely correct, but there was one point I did not consider. My opponent knew me as well as I knew him, and as he explained later, he felt very strongly that I had reraised heavily, purely because I knew his hand was too weak to logically call. His recognition that I was reraising strongly for this reason alone, whilst probably being weak myself, meant he felt he could well be in front with his (K,8).
I personally feel it was an excellent call on his part for all his chips. It is one thing to think that your (K,8) might be in front, and even to work through that same reasoning as to why, but pushing all the chips in is difficult in this position.
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