A Hand from last nights focus game

[happyhornet]

Early in the game this hand occured: teaulcsg1 sitting in seat 1 with 1510.00 borokp sitting in seat 2 with 1667.50 philossify sitting in seat 3 with 2090.00 thehornet01 sitting in seat 4 with 1315.00 roger_melly sitting in seat 5 with 2495.00[Dealer] RiverChaser_ sitting in seat 6 with 4480.00 beanolizzy sitting in seat 7 with 1972.50 MrTricky sitting in seat 8 with 2270.00 RiverChaser_ posted the small blind - 15.00 beanolizzy posted the big blind - 30.00 ** Dealing cards to thehornet01: 5h, 6s MrTricky folded teaulcsg1 folded borokp folded philossify folded thehornet01 called - 30.00 roger_melly raised to 120.00 RiverChaser_ folded beanolizzy folded thehornet01 called - 120.00 ** Dealing the flop: 4s, 8s, As thehornet01 checked roger_melly bet - 150.00 thehornet01 raised to 450.00 roger_melly went all-in - 2225.00 thehornet01 went all-in - 745.00 roger_melly shows: Ad, Ah People at the table were mystified to my play, and whilst I agree it is far from optimal, I am not sure it was as bad as people made out:\ Equally I could be wrong and you all agree it was terrible:lol:lol Pre-flop I am trying to mix my game up at the moment, I've felt I am becoming a bit predictable (certainly in PL games) and you guys are more than good enough to read me:(, so I call Martyn's raise. After the flop, I had a gutshot and a flush draw. I was going to check as OOP. Martyn's bet looked weak (shows what I know!!:lol) so I raised. When he came over the top, my thinking (such as it was) was that he was trying to protect against the flush draw and as long as he didn't have a high spade, I had a fair number of outs. Add to that it was just my last 700-odd into a 3000-odd pot, I jumped. I thought Martyn may have a Big Ace. The turn was the nine of clubs, but the river was a spade to give me the pot. I was a little surprised at the criticism of my play here, but, and it is a big but, if it was that bad, then that is a major leak in my game that I need to address. Maybe, I took unpredictable to a whole new level:loon Any thoughts guys would be appreciated! Steve

[Spooner]

Re: A Hand from last nights focus game HH, I don't play alot of poker just a few games here and there but can I ask why are you going into a pot with a 56? I mean a call for 30 chips...but then you called hes raise?