Ebook Sneak Peek

                             Here is another random, very rough draft, of the Ebook I am almost done writing.  Of  course than the hard part of editing has to be done.  Making slow progress.  Enjoy

                          So Michelle and I basically avoided each other at the table.   I didn’t want to take her money and I thought she felt the same way about me.  I was trying to figure out if she had the hand’s she was representing or not.  This is my biggest strength in Poker being able to figure out what the other players have.  Poker is a game of incomplete information and if you can get a good idea what cards your opponents have you are more than half way to beating them in a consistent basis.  For the first time we both had a good enough hand to be in the pot together, was basically unavoidable.  She raised from early position, which means she will be at a disadvantage the whole hand being she has to act before the other players on every betting round.  I look down at 2 Kings, which is the 2^nd best hand in Holdem to start with.  I don’t mess around so I raise 3 times more money than Michelle did to basically get everyone else to fold.  This move is the right one being big pairs have more chance of holding up or winning if only a few other players are in the pot.   The first 3 community cards are turned over, known as the flop.  They are A-J-3 all different suites, not a very good flop for Kings being if Michelle has an Ace my 2 Kings are crushed.  Michelle checked to me and looked un-interested in winning the pot.  This usually indicates the other player has missed the flop and will hold to any bet.  So I bet half the pot which is a standard move being I took control of the betting by re-raising pre-flop.  She thinks for a minute and calls my bet.  This it suspicious, really feels like she has an Ace and is trying to trap me to commit more of my chips into the pot.  A 7 of hearts comes next putting 2 hearts on the board and she checks again.   So I put a small bet of one third the pot out there to she how she reacts.  Michelle now does what many people hate to happen to them at the table she check-raises me for all my chips.   I think about it for a long time and really feel she has a strong hand.  After all I am a detective and make my living from knowing if people are lying or not.  She is giving off feelings of strength so I fold my hand face up for everyone to see.  The pot is pushed to Michelle and before the dealer takes her cards she shows the table a pair of fives.  She bluffed me off a really big pot, how did she know I would fold the better hand?  She apologized for bluffing me and making me look weak to the table.  Told her it’s all part of the game and no offense taken.  The fact that she read me so well and tricked me would be stored up in the back of my head for the future