Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Monday, May 16
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Redcar, Windsor, Leicester and Carlisle.
Month: May 2022
Poker Playing Strategy: How To Hide Your Skill Level And Fly Under The Radar
If you intend to create for yourself an image of a bad player you can. The question in not why you can do that but it is mostly why you should do it and only then how you can accomplish this purpose. The idea is that at some point in your game you might get lost within the rules you have read about and learned about and because of this you will play tighter and tighter, not willing to risk money on hands that are just not worth it. After you learn a thing or two about poker you start realizing that you were initially playing too loose and too many hands and now you will fall into the other extreme and play too little hands. This will cause you win small pots because your games style is going to be too readable and people will start fearing you.
You will have to understand that the odds are there for everyone, they are not there to fight against you, they are there for you. You are not at war with the odds you are at war with your opponents and you must act accordingly. Remember that you must add value to you good hands and for this you have to play stupidly sometimes and confuse the opponents so they will lose their respect over your game and when you really have a hand you can benefit from it.
So, if you want to be seen as a bad player you can always:
– Raise from under the gun. Being under the gun means you are sitting next to the blinds, in the right. If from that position you bet twice before having to see your cards and everyone at the table will clearly label you as a gambler. The players that have some experience will see how you did this from the worst possible position and they will assume you are a beginner or you just play bad.
– Bluff and let them catch you. Every player hopes when he or she makes a call that they are on a quest to expose a bluffer. Trying to keep you honest is what you need them to do, because if they see now you are bluffing they will assume you will do that again so they will call endlessly on your bets even when you have a strong hand of course.
– Start with weak cards and take them all the way, so high to even beat a better hand with them and you will make a name at the table that you play bad cards. This is what you want them to think when you will have your strong hand.
If you manage to make the table label you as a bad player then you can get ready to make some serious money on your next big hand.
Shake Em Loose To Bypass Preakness For Turf Stakes on Undercard
It's back to the grass for J R Sanchez Racing Stable's Shake Em Loose after the claimer-turned-multiple stakes winner on dirt breezed over Laurel Park's world-class turf course Sunday morning.
Owner-trainer Rudy Sanchez-Salomon said Shake Em Loose will make his next start in the $100,000 James W. Murphy for 3-year-olds going one mile on the grass May 21 on the Preakness Stakes (G1) undercard at historic Pimlico Race Course. He had been under consideration for the middle jewel of the Triple Crown.
Working in company with 6-year-old stakes-winning mare Can the Queen, Shake Em Loose and his partner were timed in :51.20 over the yielding course, with Shake Em Loose and jockey Jevian Toledo galloping out five furlongs in 1:03.
“The filly doesn't usually breeze in company, but he's been breezing in company lately,” Sanchez-Salomon said. “It went very well for both my horses. They did pretty well over the course.”
By Shakin It Up, a Grade 1-winning dirt sprinter, Shake Em Loose has raced once before on the grass for his previous connections, a 1 1/16-mile maiden special weight at Laurel where he lost all chance after getting bumped and pinched back at the start and finished 11th. Two starts later, Sanchez-Salomon claimed him for $16,000.
Since then, Shake Em Loose has won three of five races including the Dec. 26 Heft at odds of 59-1 in the first start for Sanchez-Salomon. Following his victory over Joe in the March 19 Private Terms, he was nominated to the Triple Crown by the late deadline for $6,000. He ran a troubled third behind Joe in the April 16 Federico Tesio, which offered a free pass to the Preakness for Triple Crown-nominated horses.
“I was pretty excited and very happy with his work on the grass, I'm going to go to the Murphy,” Sanchez-Salomon said. “I'm not going to force him too much. A race like the Preakness is really, really tough. Anybody can win the race; you saw what happened in the [Kentucky] Derby. Anything can happen, but I don't want to push him too much. I like this horse a lot and I want to protect him a little bit. I don't want to push him and break his heart.
“The horses that are coming in [for the Preakness], I don't want to go over there just to show up. I just want the horse to be happy and let him be a racehorse, and he can continue winning races,” he added. “There's a lot of races for him. I think he's a grass horse. I have this filly Foggy Dreams, who is by the same sire as Shake Em Loose, and she loves the grass. I think he will love it, too.”
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McCarthy: Breakthrough Grade 1 Win In Man o’ War Felt Like Early Birthday Gift
When Fitriani Hay's Highland Chief emerged from post 5 in Saturday's Grade 1 Man o' War at Belmont Park, he was the longest shot on the board at odds of 19-1. The long odds didn't faze Trevor McCarthy, who confidently piloted the Graham Motion-trained son of Gleneagles to a one-length score and earn the first Grade 1 triumph of his career.
“It really hasn't sunk in yet,” said McCarthy on Sunday. “This morning it was pretty nice to go out and go to work – it was pretty easy to wake up early. To get all the praise, it means a lot to me. It shows how many people believe in me and have faith in me.”
McCarthy settled Highland Chief in second as the field of five rolled through slow fractions over the firm course, which held some moisture as afternoon rain doused the grounds. McCarthy swung the 5-year-old four-wide in upper stretch and gave a strong ride to overtake the lead at the top of the lane and hold off late charges from multiple Grade 1 winner Gufo and last year's Breeders' Cup Turf champion Yibir. He earned a 105 Beyer Speed Figure for the effort.
Highland Chief entered from a troubled ninth-place effort in an optional claimer on April 14 at Aqueduct where he was squeezed at the break. He broke better in the Man o' War and was more forwardly placed as the Todd Pletcher-trained Abaan set the pace.
“There was no pace in the race other than Todd's horse, and I was really the only one that could go with him,” McCarthy said. “I learned a lot from riding him the first time, and he broke well that day but got crushed by other horses.
“I thought if he breaks like the day I rode him or better, he would be in a pretty forward spot and I wouldn't have to use him that much,” McCarthy added. “That's what he did. He carried me the whole way nicely and when I asked him for more, he kicked on nicely and kept giving it to me.”
McCarthy, who turns 28 on Monday, said winning a Grade 1 felt like an early birthday gift.
“My mom asked, 'What do you want for your birthday,'” McCarthy said. “I told her I don't want anything. I already got my present.”
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