August Low-Content Thread

[Bad Lobster]

This was a weirdplay and a lean payoff for making a draw last Sat:

Hero on the button with 5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 4 players, Hero limps in, don't ask why.

Flop has two spades. Early position player bets, call, hero raises for a free card. Big Blind calls, early position player raises and then bets again on the turn (a blank). Late player folds, hero calls

(that free card play is sure paying off here, isn't it?

big blind check-raises. Oh, thank you. Early and hero call.

River card is a spade! Hooray! Big blind bets his last 5 chips. Early player calls, hero completes the bet.

...and early position player folds!

WTF??? There are over 15 big bets in the pot--that's 120 chips--and a player who just called a bet from a check raiser now folds for 3 more chips? This guy has some uncanny mind-reading powers.

Anyway, I won the pot but I sure didn't get a good return on my risk. Early player said he folded 2 pair--never found out what the big blind had. I deserved at least three more chips for that hand.