after watching a cash game after winning a pub tourney I decided to sit in ven though it was very loose and money was flying left right and centre. Straddles, double straddles were common, 7-2 was being played for 50p and a prop bet of 50p
per person if the worst hand pre flop improved to win the hand by the end of the river
so I sit on the button with my very first hand for £10 on a 10/20p blinds and announce if it"s limped to me I"m gonna raise the pot with any 2 hands (bit silly as really as anyone with aces it kings could take advantage)
usual straddle takes place and there"s 2 limpers for 40p straddle. Gets to me and I raise the pot £1.50 with a mighty 3-6 of spades. Blinds and original straddle get out the way but the 2 limpers call
pre flop its now £5.20
it"s a juicy 45K flop with 5K of spades
player 1 checks
player 2 bets £1.50
now this looks like a value bet to me but it"s a little weak bet with my opened ended and flush draw I elect to call to see the turn one
Now it gets silly. Player 1 check raises to £4 then player 2 goes all
in for £30. Pot is now £42.20 but most I can win is £30 for my stack. I know hitting a 3 or 6 won"t win me then hand but I do have 8 cards to draw for the straight and 7 for the flush (can"t double count the 2 or 7 if spades) for 15 outs. I put one of them on a set and the other on either AK or AA,QQ
with £7 behind me, Pot us giving me £7 to win £30 which is a little over 4/1
my outs with 15 cards to draw from 52 is little over 3/1 so I call saying that i"m well behind but the odds cry me to call. Player 1 gets out the way showing JJ. Player 2 turns over K5 for two pair
turn is a blank but river is a 2 to give me the straight. And the 2 players in the hand go crazy at me.
HOW THE F##K can you raise with 36
HOW THE F##K can you call the flop bet
player2 I"m starting to know quite well and quite like. Friend of a friend (he was the guy in another thread I made about Omaha and didn"t really know what he was doing in an Omaha game and actually works as a dealer in a local casino)
now maybe I"m wrong but I explained to him afterwards when the game ended that post flop both their bad plays got me to call. Sure it was a stone bluff pre flop. But his bet of £1.50 on the flop was giving me the chance to call £1.50 to win £8.20. That"s 5/1 with my draws. Had he bet more, probably the pot or 3/4, then chances are I"d fold
but the way the hand evolved even though I was an underdog the odds were right to call. I didn"t like the call but the odds were there
Was I wrong, post flop on how this played?
Also I got a nice 50p bonus from each of the other 6 players in the hand for winning with the worst hand