.... well, you get the idea if you've seen Lock Stock.
Have you ever wrongly assumed that the players on your table think like you?
Down to 6 in the Ladbrokes daily festival final.
$55 entry, 55 players, 5 seats worth $580 available. 6th receives $125.
I'm on the button with 2.8k and in 5th.
The guy before me is the lowest with 2.7k.
Every1 else is miles ahead. The sb has 19k. The bb has 28k.
The lowest chips goes all-in.
I have J2 off suit.
I thought that if I just flatcalled, leaving myself with 100, that the sb and bb (2 chip leaders) would be almost forced to call. The logic here would be that if they both called, not only would they have increased the chances of knocking the lowest chips out, but even if he did win, I'd be sitting there with 100 and practically out of the competition.
At the time this made perfect sense to me and I, foolishly, pressed down on the call button, confident that my plan had no pit-falls.
Yes, I know, kind of amusing.
Anyhow, you may have guessed, the sb and bb didn't recognise my pro (cough) move and briskly mucked fearing that two monsters were out. The bb really didn't want his 28k to be rocked.
The original raiser turns over KQ off. Obviously I didn't hit and I was left feeling rather silly, with the rest of the table berating my play. I tried to explain why I did it, but there were more woooooshes than snoopy and a joke thread.
You won't believe how hard I tried to convince them that my brainwave (aka. dumb idea) was an intelligent move.
Well, I thought it made sense at the time. However, I also forgot that I was playing on an online table with players that weren't (surprise) exactly the same as me and so probably not thinking along the same lines.
Now is that the most stupid assumption I've ever made or what. Probably, but I don't want to jump to conclusions just yet...
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