Here's an interesting example of how a play in one hand can set up a later hand for profit. Hand 1:

***** Hand History for Game 1600092239 *****
$50 NL Hold'em - Wednesday, February 16, 13:55:39 EDT 2005
Table High - Tide (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Bambopoker ( $178.58 )
Seat 2: reydetontos ( $48.7 )
Seat 3: midnight234 ( $387.14 )
Seat 4: SLOVAK1 ( $38.65 )
Seat 5: barneybos ( $40 )
Seat 7: GOLDMINT ( $53.85 )
Seat 9: rodger47 ( $49 )
Seat 10: Coachget ( $62.8 )
Seat 6: stressball10 ( $58.6 )
Seat 8: gandi9 ( $50 )
GOLDMINT posts small blind [$0.5].
gandi9 posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ Kh Qc ]
rodger47 folds.
Coachget folds.
Bambopoker folds.
reydetontos folds.
midnight234 folds.
SLOVAK1 calls [$1].
barneybos calls [$1].
stressball10 raises [$3].
GOLDMINT folds.
gandi9 folds.
SLOVAK1 folds.
barneybos calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, 6d, Ks ]
barneybos checks.
stressball10 bets [$6].
barneybos raises [$12].
stressball10: flopped two pair?
stressball10: kind of smells like it
stressball10 folds.
barneybos does not show cards.
barneybos wins $25.5

- What is noticable here of course is that when he plays back at me I fold (after much consideration). Message: I am tight. You can get me to fold by coming over the top of me. (Incidentally, I do think he was on KJ.)



Hand 2:

***** Hand History for Game 1600124656 *****
$50 NL Hold'em - Wednesday, February 16, 14:05:59 EDT 2005
Table High - Tide (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Bambopoker ( $195.08 )
Seat 3: midnight234 ( $373.39 )
Seat 4: SLOVAK1 ( $31.3 )
Seat 5: barneybos ( $46.45 )
Seat 9: rodger47 ( $68.25 )
Seat 10: Coachget ( $48.8 )
Seat 6: stressball10 ( $60.75 )
Seat 8: gandi9 ( $47 )
Seat 7: Haz11 ( $35.25 )
Seat 2: joyouskills ( $49 )
stressball10 posts small blind [$0.5].
Haz11 posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ Kh Tc ]
gandi9 folds.
rodger47 folds.
Coachget folds.
Bambopoker folds.
joyouskills folds.
midnight234 folds.
SLOVAK1 calls [$1].
barneybos calls [$1].
stressball10 calls [$0.5].
Haz11 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, 4c, 9h ]
stressball10 bets [$3].
Haz11 folds.
SLOVAK1 folds.
barneybos raises [$6].
stressball10 raises [$7].
barneybos calls [$4].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
stressball10 bets [$8].
barneybos folds.
stressball10 does not show cards.
stressball10 wins $30.8

- I had already determined when I bet here that if he came back with a raise, I was going back at him. I knew when he flat-called that re-raise (and took a few seconds to do it) that the hand was over. Whatever he had, he was going to fold it when I bet the turn. And I was right.