Keep your hands to yourself
I learned a big lesson at the tables tonight. Don’t ever tell people what hand you had. Of course, I know this already but I sometimes make the mistake of showing a hand when I shouldn’t. Tonight was one of those nights.
I laid down what most PokerStars players would think is a monster and told them. I called a big bet preflop with AQ and check-raised my opponent on a QJT flop. He then went all-in and I folded, telling him in chat that I just folded top pair top kicker . My feeling was that I didn’t think he’d ever come back over the top of me with anything worse than AA, KK, AK, QQ, JJ or TT. By telling him what hand I was laying down, I was trying to slow down my opponents’ bets and raises against me later. Instead, it seemed to have the reverse effect. It just got me bluffed at a lot more. I was shown a big check-raise bluff with 6 high. It was a pure bluff done well. He called my preflop raise with 56 and check-raised me big after I bet the Q-high flop. I insta-folded my hand and he showed.
I was about to leave the table because of my awful image, but thought to myself, is it really that awful? You can use any image to your advantage, so just having an image is a good thing right? I proceeded to use my super-tight image to steal some pots myself with no hand and wait for an opportunity to slowplay something strong. I get KK in the big blind and Mr. Bluff raises from $2 to $8. I decided here was my opportunity to slowplay a monster and I just called. The flop was T44. I check-raised and then went all-in on the turn. He called me with AT, I avoided the A or T on the river and I doubled up from $210 to $420.
Sweet revenge for sure.
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