"Winning poker has always been about aggressive play.
These days, though, aggressiveness seems to get taken to extraordinary levels. At the 2008 World Poker Tour’s $9,700-buy-in event at Connecticut’s Foxwoods Resort, with blinds at $150-$300, longtime pro Kenna James open-raised to $900 with K-Q of hearts from late position. The player on the button called.
The flop came A-8-5, rainbow. With the backdoor nut-flush draw, James bet out $1,300. The button called.
“As soon as he called me,” James said, “I can sense that he’s floating me, trying to see what happens on the turn and maybe take it away from me.”......
MORENext time this happens to you... what will you think? Were you outplayed or did you just got stomped on by a donkey?