John (not his real name) a Sit And Go professional from Toronto, Canada is today recovering with his family after suffering a serious mental shock during an online poker session. We caught up with him by telephone:
“I’ve been playing Sit And Goes for 2 and a half years now and multi-table the $20’s to grind a living” said John, while tracing his sharkscope graph with an old biro from his mothers couch. “I know all the ranges of hands and the odds and even the dollar equity models like the back of my hand”.
When prompted as to what exactly happened John’s voice started to tremble – “Well, I had a set of 12 games running as usual, everything appeared to be going fine ... and then it happened”.
After 30 seconds of silence, interspersed with the odd gasp and the sound of swallowing, John continued “It... it must have been a mis-click. Well, there's just no other way of explaining it... 3 cards came in the middle of the table – and I waited for the next 2 to follow, like usual… only this time they did not come. I, I mean, Erm Well, I, Um... had to make a decision on whether to bet, fold or call – based on just those 3 cards”
When asked how this new discovery of post-flop play had changed his perception of the game: “I’ve played over 15,000 Sit N Goes and only had to deal with this situation once” replied John, “in some ways it has opened my eyes to a whole new aspect of poker that I never knew existed” before continuing “Then again, my sharkscope graph looks just fine without it
– so maybe it is not so important after all, but I'll definitely be skyping my short-stacking ring buddy about this. He might be able to convince me its worth the trouble".
