I see now why the pros are so much better than the amateurs. I was at the Bicycle club's Legends of Poker no-limit holdem tournament today and was sitting at Mark Seif's table and saw two amazing plays by him. The first was when two players just called in early position and Mark raised it to 5 times the big blind. Everyone folded to the small blind who then just doubled Mark's raise to 10 times the big blind. The two limpers folded and Mark almost instantly folds A-Q suited face up, the re-raiser shows pocket aces!!! A few hands later Mark makes a small raise about 3 times the big blind, everyone folds to the big blind who calls. The flop comes K-2-4. The big blind makes a small bet, Mark calls. The turn is a Q, the big blind bets a medium size bet again Mark calls. The river is a 9 or something like that and the big blind bets a medium size bet again. Mark almost immediately calls, the big blind shows A-2 off for a pair of twos, and Mark flips over A-4 suited to take down a good size pot with only a pair of fours. What amazing reads!! And it seemed like he was doing that the whole time. He made a believer out of me!