to the inexperienced player
A couple nights ago, we hosted a poker game in our apartment. $0.25/.50 NL, $20 buy-ins. Through some hot hands, I tripled up in the first 5 minutes. Then I got involved in a hand against my brother. I’m in the BB holding KTo. My brother raises to something like $2-3 preflop in the SB. I call. Flop is 235. He bets out $4. I think for a little bit and put him all in. He calls with AK. To most people, this might appear like a donkey-ish play but it’s actually a situation where two people made good reads. I knew he didn’t have shit on that flop which is why I pushed all in. Doesn’t matter what two cards I’m holding. My brother also made a good read in putting me on having worse shit than his. In the end, all the money was in the middle with Ace high vs. Ten high.
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