This is precisely as painful as it sounds.
The battlefield here is a 50+10 i-poker full ring SNG. [That's CENTS not $ before you all get too excited. ]
Starting blinds are 10/20 and a full table.
A bold soldier in early-mid open- limps. It is folded round to me in late-mid, where I sit looking at AQ :club:. Naturally, because I am so well-trained, ♦ I stick in the PS-approved raise to 100.
The button flats me.
Holy Cow!!! What manner of monster cards could he have????????.
The blinds fold. The bold open-limper folds.
It's just Flattie and me to see the flop. This comes down AQ
and 3 :club:.
OK, here there is a game decision. I ask the community and the coaches: Did I do the right thing?
My decision was to check. Why? I had two top pairs on the flop, and I reasoned that I wanted to induce a bet or a shove from the BU. I am ahead of every starting hand except QQ , AA and 33. I reasoned that AA was unlikely, else I would have been given a 4-bet preflop.
The other decision would have been to bet out strong, to take the pot immediately and to protect against a possible :diamond:flush draw.
Anyway, I checked and Flattie duly shoves. I call.
To my astonishment, Flattie had called my raise with 7
and 10 :diamond:!!!
There could be only ONE POSSIBLE REWARD for such craziness!!!
Yup! By the river, two more diamonds have fallen : Flattie doubles up, and I am eliminated.
I have been tillting off my BR for days since .....