http://poker.dnord.com/2005/06/24/why-im-not-playing-empireparty-ring-games-anymore/ Dan Nordquist's poker blog Fri, 18 May 2012 23:43:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://poker.dnord.com/2005/06/24/why-im-not-playing-empireparty-ring-games-anymore/#comment-2 Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:42:58 +0000 http://poker.dnord.com/2005/06/24/why-im-not-playing-empireparty-ring-games-anymore/#comment-2 You only made one play error...when you are playing tight you have to play big when you get a hand like that. Three of a kind (TOP) at the flop rules...you get to go all in. Nobody chases a straight when they have to pay 20 bucks to see. You would not have won a huge pot, but you wouldn't have lost it all on the river...there wouldn't have been a river to catch. But those straights that require two sequential cards in the pocket are hard to see sometimes. I usually run through the communal cards in my head in order as well as looking at how many of each suat are present before I call anything big...which sounds really basic, but doing that has saved me some serious losses...suddenly you realize that your Aces look bad when a well hidden straight flush is possible. You only made one play error…when you are playing tight you have to play big when you get a hand like that. Three of a kind (TOP) at the flop rules…you get to go all in. Nobody chases a straight when they have to pay 20 bucks to see. You would not have won a huge pot, but you wouldn’t have lost it all on the river…there wouldn’t have been a river to catch. But those straights that require two sequential cards in the pocket are hard to see sometimes. I usually run through the communal cards in my head in order as well as looking at how many of each suat are present before I call anything big…which sounds really basic, but doing that has saved me some serious losses…suddenly you realize that your Aces look bad when a well hidden straight flush is possible.

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