Poker Tip

Posts: 83 · Posted: 18.12.2005, 03:58

Don't draw to the low end or both ends of a straight.
If a 9 8 7 flops, you want to be playing the J 10 and not the 6 5 or the 10 6. (The low part is commonly called the "ignorant" end of the straight.)

Posts: 654 · Posted: 18.12.2005, 07:20

Well now, Crazy Horse, the low end of a straight IS sometimes called the "ignorant" end, but if 9 8 7 flops, and if for some dumb reason I was holding 6 5, I would not mind at all playing the "ignorant" end as I add the pot to my winnings. And chances are good that I would. Agreed? Wink

royalblush

Posts: 83 · Posted: 19.12.2005, 17:45

Oh definitely agreed I would play it too but on the
other side you could lose to the high side cause I been
there also but I would not fold my 56 ur right-CrazyHorse

Also like I never fold a boat no matter what if even I lose to
higher one oh well

Posts: 654 · Posted: 20.12.2005, 06:16

Yes, CrazyHorse, many sides are there from which to view any hand. That's one of the many things that makes poker such an interesting game. Limitless facets.

By the way, I love your walking horse. BEAUTIFUL!

royalblush

Posts: 83 · Posted: 20.12.2005, 13:17

Royal thanks for sharing your kind thoughts and
I am wishing you and your family the happiest and safest
Holidays this year-CrazyHorse

2000 2000 0 1500.00

Those wishes I'm sending right back atcha, CrazyH !!!

I got a feelin' we can learn a lot about poker from each other as well as from everyone whose brain we can pick!!!!!

royalblush

Posts: 647 · Posted: 27.03.2006, 10:24

Yep, I found out exactly what you were talking about, CrazyHorse, just the other day, and until then, I'd never even given any thought to this.

I had probably the same hand you and Royal Blush were using as an example above, like a 6-7, and the cards on the table included, an 8, 9, and a 10.

So, of course, I thought I was doing great, having made my straight, and someone else was betting, so I was calling and even raising, thinking he had pairs or whatever, thinking he had no idea I had a straight and was getting ready to beat him!

Until the end, and he showed a J-Q, OF COURSE, I really should have seen that coming.

Actually, I did, but it was too late by then, because just as it was almost over, someone else at the table who was obviously paying close attention, figured it all out before we even showed our cards... he knew just what I was doing - just what I was doing wrong, I mean. And he said "hm... sucker straight?" Yep, he pegged it alright.

And as soon as he said that, I knew what he meant, and I knew I was the sucker - the sucker with a straight that didn't matter!

But like I said, by then, it was too late, and we showed our cards, and of course, he was right.

So, trying to save face, I said "I knew that."
And he said "so why'd you do it then?"
And all I could say was, "Denial."

(And he said "Been there, done that")

But that raises the question, what are you supposed to do then? I mean, how can you fold when you KNOW you have a straight, even if it starts to look like someone else has a higher one? Since you can never be 100% sure that's what he has, but you know for sure what you have... That's just an awful hard move to make in that situation - to fold your hand. Is that what I should have done? I'm still not so sure...

Hopefully a lesson learned though, to at least be aware of things like that...

good point by the way CrazyHorse.

Maybe I should have read this post before I played that hand...!

sunspun