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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
A Hand From My Home Game
Here is a hand from a home game that I played in recently. We we’re playing $1/$2 no limit and I was one seat away from the button when everyone folded to me. I looked down and saw the A-9 of clubs so I decided to raise it up to $7. The guy to my left made is $22 to see the flop and I decided to call him down.
I wasn’t thrilled about my hand at this point, I figured that he probably had a pair or a better ace, but I wasn’t about to fold this hand for $15. It’s possible he had a couple of high cards and he just wanted to get aggressive because he was in position. The guy had a wide enough range of hands that he would raise with on the button for me to make the call here.
The flop came down J-9-3 with 1 club, so I was pretty sure that if he had re-raised me with A-K or A-Q I was now in great shape. In the back of my head I was looking out for the Ace-Jack, but I was pretty comfortable with this flop. I check called $35 on the flop, and the turn brought the Q of clubs.
This was a terrible card for me in my mind. This seemed to improve most of the hands that I thought I could still beat on the flop with the exception of A-K. The Q did give me a flush draw, so if I was against a dominant hand, I was at least going to have a chance to draw out on my opponent. Since it’s likely that he has me in bad shape here or he is just on a complete bluff, I decided to check to him again.
My opponent bet out $55 which reassured me that I was probably behind here. I imagined some hands that I could still beat, but I felt like I was stretching it when trying to convince myself that I was ahead. In theory it was a pretty poor decision for me to call the turn here, but I had a feeling in my gut that my opponent was not as strong as he wanted me to think he was.
The river brought an off-suit King making the board 3-9-J-Q-K. Right about then my instincts kicked in and I realized how bad my call was on the turn. While realizing how many hands my opponent could have held on the turn which were beating me, I realized that hardly any of those hands would be able to call me on the river here unless he had a 10 in his hand.
I made the decision to push my chips in within about 2 seconds. I had about $75 left, which was about what I would have bet anyway if I had made the straight.
I was pretty sure that my opponent was laying down an extremely wide range of hands here…everything up to top set. One of the reasons that it was an easy bluff to sell was that I was just calling him down from out of position the whole way. This isn’t typically the way that people go about trying to bluff someone. So when I led into him on the river when there was 4 cards to a straight, it looked like I had genuinely drawn out on him.
He started laughing and said “Sorry man, I can’t call all of that.” He begged me a couple of times to show him my cards so I flipped up my A-9 and he did the same, flipping up the exact same hand.
So as it turns out, I actually made a pretty sick call on the turn, and an even sicker bet on the river. My instincts got the better of me there. It’s still pretty fair to say that I made what would normally be a bad call on the turn.
In all likelihood, we would have checked it down and split the pot. Had he decided to bet on the river, I don’t think there is any way that I could have called him.
