$10/20 stud/8 (HORSE)--Limping with a Nine in the Door

[betgo]

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If I had 779 I would have clicked my "fold" box as soon as someone else entered the pot.

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I usually would too. I had a momentary inspiration.

If I told you that the limper had (A7)T rainbow, would your responses change?

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Results oriented. Anyway, you are only slightly ahead of that hand, and you have to worry about bi. With all the high cards out, bi could have 3 low cards and a low card and a pair. He is probably playing any reasonable low draw, and his low draw should be very live.

The fact that villain limped with a T indicates he may be a moron. However, you kind of have to assume split tens, two low cards and a 3-flush, a concealed pair probably higher than T, three high suited cards probably connected, or rolled up tens.


http://twodimes.net/h/?z=2194026
pokenum -mc 500000 -7s8 as td 7c - 7d 7h 9c / js 2h qd qh kc th
7-card Stud Hi/Low 8-or-better: 500000 sampled outcomes
cards scoop HIwin HIlos HItie LOwin LOlos LOtie EV
As 7c Td 151641 169127 330645 228 144927 3404 153 0.445
9c 7d 7h 206878 330645 169127 228 30127 5614 153 0.555

[dsaxton]

I'm not convinced that this is a profitable situation, even with a horrendous player in the pot. You have a very weak high hand, and the only way you can make a low is by catching 4 perfect cards. I would just fold.

[cgrohman]

Once I got there (probably high on coke riding on a hang glider), I would bet the river.

[Phat Mack]

Hard to know what to make out of this hand. If it were played on my kitchen table, I would advise turning the nine over, turning the seven up, and raising 3rd street.

Since you didn't switch cards, and you called instead of raising, I have to assume that you thought seat 8 was a bad player. If you raise a nine behind a ten, and the ten is sentient, he might bail out, leaving you with the pot.

Even more curiously, you let the deuce on your left see a free 4th street. This leads me to believe that you are a genius, and here's why: If I were playing a 779 (note the use of the subjunctive), I would raise with it on 3rd in a futile attempt to get heads up with seat 8. This would fail, of course, and seat 4, sensing a pot brewing, would stay in, rivering a wheel. But you don't raise, you call, and seat 4 drops out of his own free __ing will, allowing you to be heads up with your targeted seat 8.

Ni han, sir. I can only assume that your two pair scooped.

mike i? mike i? Isn't he the guy they call the "Andy B of hold em?"

[Andy B]

Ask Vehn, bicyclekick, Schneids, worm33, etc.

[Vehn]

3rd isnt that bad but I really dont like your call on 5th. If he's that bad that you felt it necessary to play this hand I would definitely bet 7th..