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 Originally Posted by ChezJ
personally i don't see this as a "cruise control" situation where you are playing too much by the book. i see major errors on every single street.
pre flop, with A8 on the button, i would have gone for the blind steal.
Me too, if I was paying more attention. When I mentioned cruise control I don't mean playing by the book - I mean zoning out and just kind of going along for the ride. You can play very by the book and play a hand a lot better than I played this one.
the flop is a clear fold for me once EP bets out. you've got 1 overcard and a backdoor flush draw. not worth a 5:2 bet in a miniscule pot.
I don't TOTALLY agree... many players bet out when they hit bottom or middle pair against 1 or 2 opponents; this is even more likely if two of the players are the blinds and the third (if there is a third) is just a limper. I can easily read this as a probable pair of sevens and called with two overcards and the backdoor draw. Actually he had worse than the sevens.
However in this case I called because I wasn't really paying attention, as mentioned before. It was a small bet (though not relative to the pot) and the board was uninteresting, so I called. Not a great play. Defensible but not great. I'd usually fold there.
on the turn, i definitely bet with a draw to the nut flush.
Me too - that was a clear opportunity to pick up the pot from disinterested opponents.
i also bet the river to rep the K.
sure. Standard play.
if this is representative of your standard play, you may want to rethink your game.
I have to reiterate, this is not at all representative of my standard play. It is however fairly representative of the occasional hand I get involved in when I'm bored and not paying attention to the game. The amounts are small, I'm distracted with another hand at another table - or something else I'm doing on the computer - so I just limp in and call a couple small bets until it gets interesting, or until the hand ends. I'm not looking at my reads or calculating the pot odds. It is indeed very bad play from almost start to finish. Luckily I do this maybe four or five times total in a long session; I doubt it's costing me more than a buck or two a day. But that's still a leak. Which is why I posted this thread.
If you want to see what is representative of my standard play, please view basically any other post I've made here in Hand Histories. Generally I'm a much more adept, aggressive, careful player than what is shown here. Not that my play is above reproach, but I would rarely play a hand as poorly and disinterestedly as I did this one.
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