The Art of the Information Bet

Set-over-set is alot more fun to watch than it is to be the guy w/ one out. Nice hand, @CaityCaity. Way to dodge the one-outer.

-- About 9:30PM EST; Posted @OnAFoldDraw (that's me!)

Katie limped in MP, she got a limper behind her, next player opened for a raise, I just called on the button.  Four of us to the flop for $8.

953 w/ two spades.  Check, check, Original raiser c-bets $30.  I got a feeling I could take him off the hand w/ a laise, but I'm worried about the snakes in the grass before him.  The fact that I have no-pair/no-draw w/ AQo is irrelevant.  I fold.

Katie c/r's to $90 and not long after, the player next to her moves all-in for over $100 more.  The guy that bet $30 had no trouble giving it up, but Katie had a decision to make.

She called, with middle set of fives.  The guy with the information bet had bottom set of threes and was drawing to one out.  Set of fives holds, Katie is happy.

Information Bet (n.) - moving all-in with less than the nut hand.  This is called an information bet because you learn that you're beat when you get called.

It was this hand that I tweeted about.  I was sitting on a nice win and my tumbly was a bit rumbly - so I headed over to the Deli near the @HarrahsPoker Room.  What a mess.  It was so bad I even asked the man with the manager badge for a chance at improvement.

After being gone from the table for nearly 40 minutes, I returned with food.  Some people think that players don't like to play anything but the best of hands while they're chowing down.  I was dealt complete garbage whilst nomming on my burger, I went a full dealer-down with a VP$IP = 0 and half of another one.  Even after I was done with the food, I still was pretty card dead.

We got a new player in the seat to my right.  I was tired of folding.  He limped, I laised.  Flop came out Q73r.  He bet $15 (into $25?, I think sb was in the pot, too.)

I raised.  He looked at the $850+ in front of me, the less than $200 in front of him, and decided he didn't want to tango.  Claims to have folded a queen.

Very next hand, I'm pretty sure... two limps to me, I open, five of us to the flop.  Couple of checks on a Td6d4h flop.  I bet $28 into $40.  Folds back to Katie.  She makes it $90.  Does this sound familiar from the hand where she flopped middle set before?

I looked around for the placement of the button/blinds.  She was in EP.  I could be wrong, but I think she would've opened wth pocket tens, not limped.  I knew she didn't have middle set... because... well, because I did.

There's $220 in the pot if I lost my mind and just called.  I raised another $130.  She moved in.  I called.  She knew she was in trouble when I called.  Turn was a diamond, river paired the tens.  She might've had a diamond with her pocket fours, I didn't see. 

She left to go up to the room.  One of the players at the table asked, "Hey, didn't you buy her a sandwich?  I think she's in the bathroom, throwing it up right about now."