[RR] “Heads-up has so much more psychology than full-table games”, Roderick the Rock asserted. “After enough hands, you can really get inside your opponent’s head, and in the last hand in Rounders, Mike pretty much understood Teddy perfectly and was able to use his aggression against him.”
[AA] “Well, it’s always nice to flop the nuts”, Al the Almost diverted, “but the key was extracting maximum value from his straight, which, having minraised preflop1, he did by checking the flop, turn, and river.”
[RR] “Teddy might have bet that way with almost any two cards, but I think he had a real hand, probably a set of some sort, and quite possibly a set of Aces, as he claimed, ‘That ace could not have helped you’.”
[AA] “Since he’d been playing so aggressively, he might think that Mike could put him on almost any two cards there and call with just a pair. And Mike’s actual holding seemed pretty unlikely to Teddy, so he expected to win the hand almost every time, whether Mike folded or not.”
[RR] “As much as the movie helped fuel the Texas Hold ‘Em boom, it’s unfortunate that it also portrayed string bets, pot splashing, temper tantrums, and cheating without nearly enough discouragement of those actions from the hero.”
[AA] “It was a movie, not a training video.2 I’m sure Miss Manners Guide to Etiquette at the Poker Table is a best-seller at Amazon.”
Footnotes:
- KGB was dealing and must have called from the small blind, although that isn’t shown.
- We covered Table Manners a few months ago.
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Full Tilt Poker formatted version, suitable for inputting into various poker analysis tools
Full Tilt Poker Game #0000010022: Table Teddy KGB's Place - 50/100 - No Limit Hold'em - 00:01:01 EDT - 1998/09/11 Seat 1: McDermott (41,400) Seat 2: KGB (18,600) McDermott posts the big blind of 100 KGB posts the small blind of 50 The button is in seat #2 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to McDermott [9s 8s] KGB calls 50 McDermott raises to 200 KGB calls 100 *** FLOP *** [6d 7s Th] McDermott checks KGB bets 2,000 McDermott calls 2,000 *** TURN *** [6d 7s Th] [2c] McDermott checks KGB bets 4,400 McDermott calls 4,400 *** RIVER *** [6d 7s Th 2c] [As] McDermott checks KGB bets 12,000, and is all in McDermott calls 12,000 *** SHOW DOWN *** McDermott shows [9s 8s] straight, Nine high KGB mucks McDermott wins the pot (37,200) with straight, Nine high *** SUMMARY *** Total pot 37,200 | Rake 0 Board: [6d 7s Th 2c As] Seat 1: McDermott (button) showed [9s 8s] and won (37,200) with straight, Nine high Seat 2: KGB (big blind) mucked
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