Re: [ba-poker] the origin of presto

[Rodney Chen <rchen(deleted the rest)>]

Thanks go to Mike Wiesenberg for clueing me to the RGP archives on Presto.
I think I'm in agreement to toss a couple chips in on the flop in most
situations to continue forcing riffraff out, and possibly the dominated
hand, but if I was going down in my home game I might as well do it in the
most dramatic way. :)

Rodney

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Phil Gustafson wrote:

> >
> > PLH, I get KK on the button, I raise, 5 callers.  Flop 5JK, I let it check
> > all around.  Turn 4.  Small blind bets (has about 2x my stack), everyone
> > drops, I call.  River 5.  He makes a small bet, I raise the pot, he
> > reraises the pot.  I call, and get presto shown to me.
> >
> Half that; he could have had JJ too.  I can't imagine not making at
> least a modest potbuilder bet on that flop and that action, but I don't know
> the tenor of the game.
>
> PhilG
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