Hold Em Without a Flop

A few days ago, I was speaking with my friend Dragon regarding tournament play, both online and live. We have been experiencing the same phenomenon that should be coined "Hold Em Without a Flop." This is the situation where, regardless of how much the raise is pre flop, and regardless of how much is in the pot and how many people are in the hand and REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE FLOP ACTUALLY IS, the either caller of a big raise or actual raiser feels he or she is committed to the hand.

Usually the show down hands are AK , AJ or a small pair with overcards on the board. It is actually quite shocking. It is like 2-card hold em. In their heads, at least. How is the a good, profitable play? The answer is simply, that it is not. It cannot be profitable in the long run. It simply can't. It is unbelievable the number of time I have re-raised all in or pushed in on a good flop for my hand, and I have been called by Ace hi. It is astounding, very very astounding. If you call me with Ace hi, you must be a great player with a perfect read, or a complete moron, and I have found that the latter is what has been calling my alllins.

In other poker news, I have been running terrible online. I have not cashed in a sng in days, have deficited in cash with incredibly bad suck outs and havent final tabled a mtt in a week. It is severely diminishing my online bankroll, which I will have to focus on building up on Sunday. I am positive though, that things will turn around, ,and once I have my next big cash online, instead of making a withdrawal, I am goin to spread that out on other sites so I can build up.

I won my entry for Sunday's tournament (only tourney I won all week) so I am excited for that.

I am also playing Ladies Only at Foxwoods tomorrow so that should be a lot of fun.

That's all for now, more later.

Good money and peace,

Lucky C.