My Strongest Winning Plays: The Backlash

[Ojingo]

[Dumb Snowman]

Eh. Watching a dog vomit to death wouldn't be ENTIRELY unfunny.

I just find it crude that people seem so willing to mock a man for what? Saying backlash instead of Limp reraise all in / check raise all in? Not that funny. And it's not like every other post in the NL section doesn't say CRAI so it's not like he's disagreeing with you guys in general strategy.

Basically just going after a guy who's not gonna fight back and that's kinda sad. Oh well. Internet, right?

[Zmej]

[Neilis]

[Johnny Hughes]

[Johnny Hughes]

Hey, Neilis: On any play you mix up your play but in our present game there are a ton of multi-pot, raised pots, five or six taking the flop. AK, AA, KK don't play well against over two other players so you use the play to thin the field. Depends on the flow of the game.

I play in a house game or two and New Mexico, Oklahoma, and mostly downtown Las Vegas. I am old school.

This post is originally about the fact I find the big money hands in my poker journal over three years are AK, AA, KK, sets. I make money semi-bluffing straight draws. Yesterday, I pitched off a dab of money drawing at a flush that wouldn't have been any good.

Yesterday, I won my biggest pot with A,K as the third raise all-in and got two callers. The board came A,Q,J,!0,x. I do not know what the others had. Our code of behavior is rather rigid and it works. I said "straight" and showed the hand out of position. They mucked their hands and there was no discussion. We all acted the same, win or lose. We do not slow roll, ever. We do not ask to see a man's hand that lost a pot, ever.
That would mark you as a fool. One reason I don't have nifty hand histories to post is that I don't see the hands on fifth street. We do not trash talk ever. Partially this is a Texas or Southern thing. We do rib and tease but not after a pot and rather gently. We always discuss the surprisiing verbal behavior of the folks we meet in casinos on the road. Around poker, it is best to be nice to everyone and be liked by everyone. In the play, Harvey, Elwood P; Dowd's motto is, "It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice."

That's a big difference in Las Vegas and other casinos.. The suckers keep showing their hands and talking about the play. A monkey shows his ass and a sucker shows his hand. No matter how many times I refuse to show them my hand, they keep asking and keep asking.

That AK yesterday was the only time I got to try the backlash, uppercut, limp--pop 'em.
Hiawascrooge. drop the big pea, scoot to the center like we did last winter play.

Any weird math thing can happen in poker. Once I got so all ready for Las Vegas, reading, new cloths, psyching myself up. The first night I hit a long drought of no cards. Finally, down 300 or so I hit two aces and lost the other 700, the only big pot I played.

About two years ago, I was playing four or so sitdowns a day in Las Vegas. On four, count them, four occasions, I had two aces on the very first hand. They all stood tall.

If you keep track of how much money you win on AK, KK, AA, AQ and sets with any pair, you will be surprised. I do not know the frequency of AK but it is obviously much higher than AA. If you get AA or KK once over 111 hands, how you play them will make a big difference. There is an old saying that all two Aces are good for is to win a small pot of lose a large one. Not if you play them right which is fast before the flop.

[NorthView]

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[iceman5]

[Dumb Snowman]

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