first of all, try not to laugh at me too much for only playing fun chips on absolute poker in a ring game. i only started to play a couple months ago, and at least when i get ten million chips i get free $50 cash.

so what do you think of my play here? (notwithstanding the fact that i look like an idiot for not calling)

should i have called in this situation because of the pot odds? four diamonds accounted for with 46 cards unknown meant that there was a 9/46, or 19.5% chance to win 1,000 or more in chips based on what i knew at the time.

Stage #669339864: Holdem No Limit $100 - 2007-05-29 16:39:00 (ET)
Table: CORAL GABLES (Play Money) Seat #9 is the dealer
Hand History Converter from Poker-Theory.org

Seat 9 - GIGANTES1966 ($22350 in chips)
Seat 5 - PARMAN969 ($5400 in chips)
Seat 6 - ROMINOU46 ($46450 in chips)
PARMAN969 - Posts small blind $50
ROMINOU46 - Posts big blind $100
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to GIGANTES1966

GIGANTES1966 - Calls $100
PARMAN969 - Raises $150 to $200
ROMINOU46 - Calls $100
GIGANTES1966 - Calls $100

*** FLOP ***

PARMAN969 - Checks
ROMINOU46 - Checks
GIGANTES1966 - Checks

*** TURN ***

PARMAN969 - Bets $700
ROMINOU46 - Calls $700
GIGANTES1966 - Folds <--------------------- d'oh!

*** RIVER ***

PARMAN969 - Checks
ROMINOU46 - Bets $2000
PARMAN969 - Folds
ROMINOU46 - returned ($2000) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ROMINOU46 - Does not show
ROMINOU46 Collects $2000 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total Pot($2000)

Originally Posted by gigantes

should i have called in this situation because of the pot odds? four diamonds accounted for with 46 cards unknown meant that there was a 9/46, or 19.5% chance to win 1,000 or more in chips based on what i knew at the time.

The board is paired, so you even have reverse implied odds here, winning a small pot when you hit your flush, and going broke whenever it's not the best hand.

So is was good laydown. If you fold the hand preflop, it's even better.

Originally Posted by DaFish

The board is paired, so you even have reverse implied odds here, winning a small pot when you hit your flush, and going broke whenever it's not the best hand.

So is was good laydown. If you fold the hand preflop, it's even better.

QFT, good analysis about the reverse implied odds. This is something I never think enough about.