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when the best thing you can say about the day is that they only hit you over the head with a crowbar two or three times instead of five or six times... 2009-05-15 - 4:37 p.m. I guess you know you're having a tough time when the best thing you can say is that when you flop trips, you're punished for the minimum. Here's a 30/60 LHE hand against a young unknown aggressive kid who appeared to have a touch of the old Fancy Play Syndrome. It could have been much more expensive. Here's the situation. UTG limps, kid on the button raises, I'm in the small blind with pocket Queens, so I three-bet because the odds are that I'm ahead. Big blind folds, limper folds. Button calls. 8 bets in the pot. The flop is QJT so I flop trips. I bet, he calls. Hmm. This guy never just calls on the flop, so he either knows he's behind and just wants to peel one more, or he has a monster. I'll find out which in a minute. The turn is the A. Yah, so I still have trips, but if he has a K in his hand, I'm screwed unless the board pairs. I'm out of position though, and I don't want to just give up if his "monster" hand happens to be a set of Jacks or Tens. So I bet, and he calls. Wow. When is a bet and a call ever the right play in this spot? If he's got something, he needs to raise the turn and get some more money in the pot. If he's got nothing, it should be obvious from my strong play OOP that I'm going to showdown, so he can give up. Maybe I'm missing something, but there is no "call" here, you raise or fold. When he calls, he might as well wave a sign that says, "I'm going to raise you on the river unless the board pairs." I just know I'm behind. Kid, I might have played this game before, you know? Anyway, the river is a useless 5, and I check and let him bet. He does, I call, and he turns over his pair of Kings for the straight. Come on, people, give me that hand in that situation and I'd make a lot more money. What hand does he fear pre-flop? If he thinks I only 3-bet AA from the small blind, he hasn't been watching the game. He puts in 4 bets, and I'm going to make it 5 for the cap. So he's lost an entire big bet there. The flop was OK when he flops his open-ended straight draw with an overpair, although I still don't think that putting in a raise against an aggressive player is bad either. The big streets are where he really screws the pooch, because he just gets the standard one bet on the turn and the river that he's going to get in any heads-up pot that's a shoot-out. I probably don't three-bet the turn, because his weak flop play is so unusual compared to his standard line that I'm already suspicious, but I still have to call the turn raise. So he basically gave up two big bets and maybe more to no purpose. Yah, let's re-cap there. He turns the stone cold nuts and has plenty of evidence that I'm going to showdown, and he passes up the turn raise in position. God Bless America, that truly does take talent. For more of my ridiculous poker commentary, you can check out the index to my poker pages right here. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford