POKER BOOKS
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:49 pm
If you are ever considering paying some dollars for a poker book, do it!
I was told that i would cover the cost of the book in just one hand some day and it came true!
I'm playing cash table around a mates place and Im heads up with Ian Howarth in a hand. IMO Ian is the best poker player going around in my region. i have AK hearts and he has called my $10 raise.
FLOP is [Kc] [8h] [Jh] I bet $30 Ian calls. TURN: [Kd] I bet $50 Ian calls.
RIVER is [7h] Puzzled I check.
Ian goes all-in for about $250, i've got about $200 left.
I go in the tank for an eternity, watching him, looking for something, anything, that will give him away. Then it happens!
Ian reaches for a cigarette, lights it, draws back then blows a HUGE smokestack straight up in the air like Popeye tooting on his pipe.
"I FOLD!" i declare throwing over the nut flush, "show me ur straight flush or full book." Ian duly rolls over [9h] [Th]
The book taught me that one! And it saved me $200, and it only cost $30.
INCREDIBLY, i lost to a straight flush the VERY NEXT HAND to Bahri Ozbiricik, he had been bluffing all night and i just didn't believe it was possible, but there you go. Play poker long enuff and you'll see it all!
I was told that i would cover the cost of the book in just one hand some day and it came true!
I'm playing cash table around a mates place and Im heads up with Ian Howarth in a hand. IMO Ian is the best poker player going around in my region. i have AK hearts and he has called my $10 raise.
FLOP is [Kc] [8h] [Jh] I bet $30 Ian calls. TURN: [Kd] I bet $50 Ian calls.
RIVER is [7h] Puzzled I check.
Ian goes all-in for about $250, i've got about $200 left.
I go in the tank for an eternity, watching him, looking for something, anything, that will give him away. Then it happens!
Ian reaches for a cigarette, lights it, draws back then blows a HUGE smokestack straight up in the air like Popeye tooting on his pipe.
"I FOLD!" i declare throwing over the nut flush, "show me ur straight flush or full book." Ian duly rolls over [9h] [Th]
The book taught me that one! And it saved me $200, and it only cost $30.
INCREDIBLY, i lost to a straight flush the VERY NEXT HAND to Bahri Ozbiricik, he had been bluffing all night and i just didn't believe it was possible, but there you go. Play poker long enuff and you'll see it all!
