Texas Calculatem and Poker Office Blog

Did not manage to meet Juice or Rosie today. And Juice even failed to make our evening Poker session at Ladbrokes Poker, slagging off Texas Calculatem as we scheduled the game. Not a good success!

Am still banging my head against the wall with the website stuff. No one is posting on my community forum, and after making a few enquiries over at the DP Forums, it looks like the best way forward is to post content myself. I already have a half arsed trading blog and this blog. The trading blog doesn't get read too often, but my colleagues like looking at my outrageous lies when I bother. This blog is read by fellow Poker buddies. So I've decided to stop spamming my own Poker Blog everyday and will move my web development and commercial posts over to my Community Site.

Managed an hour at Laddies while I multi-tasked and watched more Alias...

Had AKo on the button. One guy, Ducati, limps to me. I raise 4BB. SB folds. BB calls. Limper calls.

Flop comes AKT. I know that I can't protect. I can deny odds with a FSB, but a fish will call. The villain was actually an aggressive player who'd stolen a few bets. I therefore did what Juice is always telling me never to do... I followed my strong pre-flop bet with a check. Villain senses weakness and bets 4BB. What can I do? I could re-raise to deny odds. But if I'd done that I would have denied D the odds to call. So he'd have forced me all in and hit me with the river. I therefore called.

Turn is a 4.

We'd both missed. I knew I had to show weakness again in order to induce a bet. So D made a bet (under half the pot I think) and I called.

The river was a J.

Not a good river. As it gave anyone with a Queen a straight. D checked. And I wasn't going to get sucked into a check-raise so I checked too. D shows two pair, with JKo in his pocket. The Edge picked up the pot with two pair aces over kings.

Lethal Limping Wins the day. The passive nature of Texas Calculatem will never fail me!