Crazy Bet?

We have all experienced a little sixth-sense now and then. And we all poses a little bit of skill to be able to determine another player’s hand in poker. And some us, well… we are just crazy enough to speak up when both factors happen to reach their peak at the same time!

Summer of 1998, Coventry, England. Ten minutes in to a small PLH re-buy event - I was involved in a three-way action pot. By this stage I had built my initial 500 into 2000. Facing a raise from a tight player with the same size stack as mine - and a re-raise from even tighter player who just had a rebuy - I decided to call the 300 with my A-5os. The initial raiser contemplated a re-raise but decided to just call. The flop of 4-6-8 gave me outs - so I had no problem in calling the all-in bet of 200. The fact that the initial raiser moved all-in for a further 1,500 - came as no surprise at all.

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Wed, November 23rd, 2005

Poker jargon:

TOKE - Gambling term for "tip", as in "Toke the cocktail waitress". Comes from the term "Token of appreciation".
COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
FILL - To draw a card that makes a five-card hand (straight, flush, full house, straight flush).
SIXTH STREET - The sixth card dealt in 7-card stud.
HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
BARN - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.

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