What would you have done?
I'm not going to give my own poker advice on this blog because if you all listen to me, you'll be broke. But a beauty of this blog is I get to ask everyone else about poker, in the name of journalism.
So, here we go:
I'm playing in a multitable tournament at Dania, with an average chip stack, think it's 2000 or so. I'm in the big blind (100 units).
I get pocket 10s. Five players in front of me call the 100.
So I bet out 500. Get two callers.
Flop comes, 2-4-8, rainbow.
So, with no overcards, continuation bet, another 500. Get one caller, from first position.
Uh-oh.
Another blank on the turn, maybe a 5. I check, he bets 500, then mercifully he checks it out on the river, another 5. Friendly game.
He turns over queens. He slow-played the queens from the first seat.
Where did I go wrong? Should I:
a.) Not have bet out on the 10s at all?
b.) Bet more?
c.) I didn't do anything wrong. That's poker.
d.) Other
Send me some responses and I'll put them up.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
