At the final table on Thursday, I'm watching this luckbox player who over a couple hands eliminates the initial bigstack. He starts winning every hand except an impossible split pot where he was dominated. In the bulk of these wins, he wasn't even looking at his cards.
I met a cash game player in Vegas a couple years ago who rarely looked at his cards. After he pounded my stack to oblivion, he told me of playing an entire tournament with this strategy. Impossible! I thought out loud. He assured me that it was both possible and profitable. I then discovered a strategy by a controversial poker and blackjack author for certain structure tournaments that did not involve looking at your cards (except for showdowns). I admit, I have experimented and it has some merit in a fast tournament.
Anyway... I'm two seats off the button with 22k. There's no small blind and luckbox has 8k up for the big blind. Everyone folds to me. In this classic battle involving chips, position and cards, I'm zero out of three before looking at my cards. I may as well peek.
I look down at my QJ suited and for a second considered the blinds rising to 6k/12k and I have less than 2 blinds for my next cards. Besides, I was better than 60% against any two random cards in a heads-up situation. ALL-IN.
Fold, fold, and as predicted, luckbox/superstack calls the 14k without looking.
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I think the player looks at his cards before the action gets to him, so you might confuse that with playing dark...
ReplyDeleteUnless its Christian you are talking about!
Does this same player count out the chips to make the call way before action is around to him?
This player (Tony or Anthony, I think) was having fun with his dark calls. He clearly had no idea what two cards he was playing. Except, sometimes he would look at one or both cards as the hand progressed.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I do not think he played incorrectly on this hand given his stack size, the rising blinds, and that he was already in the pot for more than half my raise. This was a pretty cheap showdown for him.
Of course, I hoped he would fold but knew it was a long shot!