Since our plans for a poker tournament were changed, we'll make it up to you by showing an online hand we promised awhile back. This one took our pretend chip stack at Yahoo above $12,000 on January 18:
BLINDS: $1/$2
IN THE POCKET: 9-2
It's a fairly busy table, with plenty of what critics call "pot pumpers" -- raising back and forth at will, because they know it's not real money at stake. We were suited (as best we recall), so call it along in hope.
ON THE FLOP: 9-9-K.
3x9 = really fine. We're betting, and a couple of others do the same rather obliviously.
ON THE TURN: 8.
We keep on betting, and one player to our right insists on taking us on. Could he have a set of Kings, and have a full house?
ON THE RIVER: 10.
Hmmm -- our opponent might have caught a straight with that. But we bet in hope, and he takes us all the way to the $20 limit.
End result: He had K-10 for two pair. Our three nines hold up, for a heavy-duty pot of more than $280.
In a small cash game, it was worth betting our three of a kind. In a tournament, the chance of a big hand on the flop or the river would have brought more caution -- especially if the opponent had thrown out a big bet of his own. There is a difference.
YAHOO POKER SCOREBOARD: $11,713 -- down $15. (We haven't had time to play much lately.)
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