Dude, That’s My Bet

Hopefully these new suit characters will solve the problem of people not being able to see suits at work (pun):

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $10.00 BB (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($1799.75)
Hero (SB) ($2339)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 2♦, 4♦
Hero bets $30, BB calls $20

Flop: ($60) 4♥, 7♥, 10♦ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $44, BB calls $44

Turn: ($148) 3♥ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $111, BB calls $111

River: ($370) J♥ (2 players)
BB bets $260, Hero raises to $1150, 1 fold

Total pot: $890 | Rake: $0.50

Results:
Hero didn’t show 2♦, 4♦ (nothing).
Outcome: Hero won $889.50

This was kind of a gameflow thing, but I’d been playing pretty aggressively in position, lots of triple barrel bluffs and thin value bets. This is just a spot where I can be expected to bet a lot, and it didn’t make sense that Villain would randomly take the lead if he actually had the nuts. It’s a perfect spot for a check-raise. My guess is he’s either blocking/value betting or turning something into a bluff, but in any event my pair of 4’s is no good.

10 thoughts on “Dude, That’s My Bet”

    • This is as it should be. They are treated as characters now, just like a letter, number, or # sign, rather than as images. I imagine it’s a bit harder to follow for those who could see the images but considerably easier for those who could not.

  1. I say let’s go back to the old way… It seems like it was just one person who could not view the suits at work as I had no problem. These characters are difficult to differentiate

    • I’m going to try putting them in color, but actually several people left comments saying they couldn’t see the suit images at work.

    • Bah, it stripped all the tags … how hard is it to do:

      [span style=”color: #f00″]4♥[/span], [span style=”color: #f00″]7♥[/span], [span style=”color: #00f”]10♦[/span]

      ?

      • Simpler even than that- there’s a tool in WordPress to change the text color with a click. I’ll try it for a few posts and see if I get annoyed by it.

  2. Yup there were quite a few of us who couldn’t see the suits previously. Thanks for the efforts Andrew, this makes it a lot easier to follow, though you might consider just hosting the previous images on imageshack or something? I don’t think any corporate firewall is going to block that..

    • Thanks for the suggestion, but it’s not as simple as that. The whole shebang is produced by a hand converter, ie a website where I enter the text hand history and it turns into HTML code suitable for blog posting. I’d have to change all the links by hand, which I don’t relish doing.

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