Week 25 Update: Running HOT!
Date: Mon, Jun 23, 2008 Internet
Last week I posted an update and I berated myself for not getting in enough hands. This week, I managed to get in even less hands, but damn, I sure managed to run hot while doing so, and think I made very few mistakes.
The position stats are the sickest of all:
I had a VPIP of 38% from the button, and PFR of 33% in that spot. This shows that the tables I played at allowed me to exploit the hell out of position.
I will not be posting the hands of my sunday session vs the Sunday-donks though. I recorded the sunday session without sound, and will probably post a video about it with commentary on Cardrunners when I get time to do so. The session was quite interesting because it shows more about adjusting to game-flow and player tendencies compared to standard optimal lines in certain situations. It also shows some spots where I embrace variance with very marginal holdings because it feels very +EV, and spots where I do the opposite and make some folds which could be perceived as bad/nitty. Overall it should provide enough material for quite an interesting video.
No Respect
Date: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 Internet
Today I again found out why it's pretty stupid to tilt off stacks at FTP, since people are just way too bad at the lower limits (if you table select decently) to really pose much of a problem.
This hand for instance may seem spewy but I'm pretty certain I played it fine.
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
4 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Profiles and Stacks:
 | CO | ($71.20) | 28.0/4.0[/1.0 (25) | | Hero | ($149.15) | 33.9/28.9/3.3 (121) | SB | | ($156.15) | 14.5/9.7/4.0 (62) | BB | | ($457.85) | 35.4/28.3/2.1 (99) | |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 4 players) Hero is BTN
At this table I am not really playing that tight. I'm running around 34/29, attempt to steal was around 78%, and even while 9T is a standard open for me here, and a standard fold to a 3-bet, there are a few things to consider here.
I already stepped onto the SB's toes a few times. Not really stepping on them, but more like throwing knives at his toes and hitting. His head was probably about to explode, so the 3-bet here was not that odd. On the other hand, if he makes such a small 3-bet, I'm calling with most of my range. 9To is a bit too weak to call with though, even in position vs a 3bet, so I decided to turn my hand into a bluff since I am quite certain villain's range is huge here because of our history. I decide to 4-bet very small here so he it seems he almost has to call here (even while I want a fold) hoping he sees this as strength and folds his steals.
Flop:
($49, 2 players)SB bets $49, Hero goes all-in $125.15, SB folds
Again something which may seem spewy. Villain pots here, seems pot commited, and I just have an OESD. This seems a standard fold situation. On the other hand, I really cannot think of any hand villain could be potting here for value after I 4bet him PF, so here it's just about hand ranges. What's the whole story of this hand at the moment?
Villain hates my guts. He does not give me credit pf, even while I only steal 78% of the time, and will often decide to make a light 3-bet in this spot.
Villain saw me making a very small 4-bet, which is something he cannot fold to, because he does not want to let a nit like me outplay him, so he calls.
The flop is likely to miss me, if he bets large here he probably expects me to fold most overcard combo's.
Sorry dude, you made a huge mistake here. Would I make such a gay 4-bet preflop with a hand like AK/AQ? Or rather, do I think you expect me to make those raises with those hands? No bloody chance dude.
So taking that into account, I can only see him donkleading potsize on this flop with a hand which has absolutely no showdown value if called (like an underpair). Sadly, underpairs beat me here, so I shove to fold them out.
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Final Pot: $147
Hero wins $221.15 ( won +$72 )
SB lost -$73.00
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Profiles and Stacks:
| UTG | ($464.25) | 35.4/28.3/2.1 (99) | | CO | ($71.90) | 57.9/36.8/8.0 (19) | Hero | | ($222.90) | 33.9/28.9/3.3 (121) | SB | | ($188.00) | 16.1/12.5/1.0 (56) | BB | | ($100.25) | 25.6/4.7/1.0 (43) | |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 5 players) Hero is BTN
Flop:
($25.50, 2 players)CO checks, Hero checks
Even while I cbet this flop with almost 100% of my range, I do not like to cbet it vs 100% of the villains. Here my image should be something like a total retarded spewmonkey on tilt if villain trusts his stats, and I flop the nuts (TPTK is the nuts when you are a maniac), but sadly, I also hold the ace of hearts here. Which leaves very few hands in villains range to peel one off here, or semibluffraise me with. Because of that, I decided to just check behind here. Another reason to check behind is because my 3-betting range is probably conceived to be pretty huge (even while it isn't, I would only 3-bet him with 74s and better there...).
Turn:
($25.50, 2 players)CO bets $25.50, Hero calls $25.50
villain bets pot while I got the nuts, pretty standard.
River:
($76.50, 2 players)CO goes all-in $34.40, Hero calls $34.40
Villain shoves here for half-pot remaining stack sizes as a bluff. Even when I am on complete monkey tilt I pick better spots to bluff. This shows again how little credit people give you when you got somewhat maniac-donkey-total-drunk statistics at a table.
Final Pot: $145.30
CO shows:
Hero shows:
Hero wins $142.30 ( won +$70.40 )
CO lost -$71.90
This hand was probably the most interesting:
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Profiles and Stacks:
| UTG | ($171.00) | 18.1/18.1/5.0 (105) | | Hero | ($146.75) | 21.5/17.0/2.3 (135) |
| CO | ($97.00) | 21.5/15.6/7.0 (135) | |
| BTN | ($246.75) | 29.8/14.5/1.8 (131) | | SB | ($100.00) | 22.2/11.9/0.9 (135) |
| BB | ($105.00) | 17.0 /14.8/6.0 (88) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1
Flop:
($7, 2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $5.50, SB calls $5.50
My table image here is a bit more normal, but I got enough history with villain to know he gives me very little credit. This is not the best board ever, but still a standard cbet situation.
Turn:
($18, 2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $13, SB calls $13
I never mind hitting top set, so I am not too shy to put a bit more chips in the middle here.
River:
($44, 2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $21, SB goes all-in $78.50, Hero calls $57.50
This is where the hand becomes interesting. I know villain gives me little credit on the flop, yet would always raise a flop cbet with a set or straight. He would raise there but would not raise a draw, except his best ones. But if he calls my turn bet, I know he never holds a hand like 67, and 56 he would have played different as well. So if he holds a 6 on this river, it must be because of him holding 66, which also makes no sense since he would fold that to a turn bet. This translates to top set being the nuts here even with 4 to a straight being on the board. I almost bet something like $36 here, trying to get looked up by TP or underpair hands, but was not really certain villain always held a made hand here in this spot, so decided to bet smaller and make it look like a blocking bet. When I make bets like these, I never do so with intention to fold, and here I also got no reason to.
Final Pot: $201
Hero shows:
SB shows:
Hero wins $198 ( won +$98 )
SB lost -$100.00
Largest pot I lost today:
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Profiles and Stacks:
| UTG | ($177.00) | 23.8/9.5/1.2 (42) | |
| CO | ($147.10) | 14.5/9.7/4.0 (62) | | BTN | ($200.00) | 35.4/28.3/2.1 (99) |
| SB | ($213.55) | 5.9/5.9/1.0 (17) | | Hero | ($105.00) | 33.9/28.9/3.3 (121) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 5 players) Hero is BB
I obviously gave villain little respect here. He seemed like a total maniac. He played like me a bit. So I 3bet here.
Flop:
($25.50, 2 players)Hero bets $16, BTN calls $16
This is a good board to cbet.
Turn:
($57.50, 2 players)Hero bets $32, BTN goes all-in $171.50, Hero folds
I do not mind the second K arriving on the turn, since it makes it much less likely that villain holds a K here himself. The best part about this spot is that I do not need to bet too much. Even if I just bet half-pot here or something, I can still easily shove the river here should I have a K. Because of that, I get a nice discount on a second bluff, and take it.
Final Pot: $121.50
BTN wins $258 ( won +$58 )
Hero lost -$60.50
WTFrog Do You Think I Have?
Date: Tue, Jun 17, 2008 Internet
I only put in a short session, playing slightly over an hour and putting in slightly over 400 hands. Yet people absolutely gave me no respect at all and tried to treat me like Holland treated Italy and France earlier. Good strategy, but not failing to take one little detail into consideration: I am Dutch.
These were my largest pots for the hour:
• Preflop: Leviathan1 seems a solid aggressive player. I had a quite aggressive image at this table as well and his limp here surprised me a bit. Some fish limped, and he did not make an isolation raise? I had the feeling that if I were going to make an isolation raise myself I'd get slapped in the face by him, so I elected to just limp along in position. Another very aggro player in the BB decides to squeeze here, but his range here should be huge. Even while my hand is not that great, I get decent odds to call and see a flop in position.
• Flop: Villain cbets around pot size here. I do expect him to cbet here with his entire range, but I am not sure about what size he'd use OOP. I have no backdoor draws, but there's a somewhat decent chance my bottom pair is still good here. Even if it's not, I decide to float and see what happens on the turn.
• Turn: So I hit two pair, could still be behind to a few sets and AK but I have to assume vs a very aggro player that I hold the best hand here almost always. When he shoves, I hardly see him doing so with anything which beats me so the call here is standard.
• Preflop: Standard, a minraise here can mean a bunch of things, I do not really care though with a second player in and somewhat nice implied odds.
• Flop: I can't wait to check-fold here.
• Turn: I love free cards. Villain who is not the PFR, but who runs like 41/8, pots this turn. I have little idea about his range here to be honest. He could have the nuts, top set, air, but I am very eager to get the stacks in. I decide to just call though to try to keep the initial PFR in.
• River: I still think I need to raise for value here. I missed out on 0.55 worth of value though.
• I just started at this table, and had no clue what the minraise meant. It could be a draw, set, bluff and I'll be OOP for the rest of the hand. I decided to not fool around and just try to get my chips in the middle. Villain actually just had top pair second kicker here and misplayed it in a pretty terrible way. If hands like these are in the range he'll raise and shove this flop with, I need much less strong hands to continue vs him in the future.
• Another hand vs an unknown who seemed a bit aggressive in the small sample so far. I really dislike how I played this hand though. On the flop I had no clue about his range, so I guessed it could be bluffs, sets, draws, TP etc. I decided to just raise for value here because I had no backdoor draws left. If I held a Q of diamonds, I would just have called. But villain made a very small 4-bet here which screams strength. Correct turn play would probably have been to slam my head into the wall, yet fold regardless since this is rarely a bluff. But I'm a fish so decided to get it in.
Overall I managed to win 3.3 buyins in slightly over an hour, Holland gave Romania the 1-2 Teddy, so nothing to complain about today at all.
Week 24
Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 Internet
So why have there been no updates since last sunday a week ago? For the same reason people are silent in non-poker related events: I had nothing to talk about.
I only managed to put in around 6k hands, running at a measly 2.16ptBB/100. Not really something I can brag about on my blog.
One thing I've been wondering about is how I approach my game. I keep making some very high variance plays, probably due to the Fancy Play Syndrome, and a discussion on the Cardrunners forums made me realize the errors of my ways: I should keep the fancy plays for higher limits, bluff much less, and just grind my way up from the toe-itch limits so I can eventually reach the nose-bleed limits.
The hand in question was this one:
Flop: I made a standard cbet here and got called. One thing was certain when facing this player, which is that he does not have two pair here nor TPTK. Turn: I do not want to two-barrel since I expect to get called by his whole range here. So I decide to check, to either get a free card, or to CR him off his marginal hand. The nice thing about CR'ing here is that even if he shoves, I get the correct odds to call. BUT...the equity of my hand would also have allowed me to just check-call here. There was absolutely no need to CR here vs a fish since the pot odds I received were already great, and if I could earn a few more bucks on the river, check-calling here would already have been very +EV, without the variance.
That does not mean I will stop bluffing completely though, nor 3-betting light, though 4-betting light is something I only do now vs people who are really asking for it. I am trying to reduce my light 3-betting frequency when out of position, but when I do so, I do with hands that will make me look like a spewmonkey:
I obviously did not make a value bet on this river even while it's a standard spot to do so, but I really wanted to show down 72o here. Villain will probably give me MUCH less respect when 3-betting vs him when I do so occasionally with total junk, compared to doing so with 56s/33 etc.
Semi-bluffing stays insanely profitable though, and it will stay an important part of my game, be it a check-raise with an underpair (semi-bluffing to 2 outs) on dry boards OOP, but people give me no credit anyways when I have relatively loose stats at a table. If people play so bad at NL100, I got no need to really go fancy, since they'll pay off anyways as long as I show I occasionally make some moves (for much smaller pots):
The difference with this hand compared to the earlier 67s hand is that this is a semi-bluff where I can fold to a shove, AND lack the implied odds since I do not know whether hitting two pair is good here.
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2008 Internet
Just like any sunday the day starts looking for juicy tables full of fish. And there were tons of them.
This only leads to one problem. When there are like a hundred tables, and like a million fish, why can't I get one of those tables for myself? Every juicy table I manage to find there are atleast 1 or 2 sharks who just don't allow me to bust the fish by myself.
Contrary to the title, I actually did quite decently. Managed to put in around 3k hands, won 2.4 buyins and ended 23rd in a freeroll donkament from my Rakeback site, which sadly only earned me $55.
It was one of those days where KK runs into AA from half-stack fish constantly, sets do not hold up over half the time, AA loses a bunch of times after getting most the money in good, and the large bluffs never seem to work. You know what I'm talking about, those days are sundays.
There were quite some interesting hands but the most interesting ones were vs other cardrunners members.
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($100.50) | ||
| UTG+1 | ($101.50) | ||
| CO | ($316.30) | ($100.00) | |
| SB | ($112.20) | ($101.50) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is BB
Villain in question is a CR member, is very solid and observant. He probably also knows who I am, yet that didn't stop him from attacking the blinds almost every time he was on the CO or button. I do not mind that, except when I am the BB. I expect him to know I will 3bet him often because of that, so I chose to do so at first with a polarized range to see if he'll start 4-betting me or calling in position.
Flop:
($25.50, 2 players)Hero checks, BTN checks
Not a bad flop, but not one I can cbet. Villain will probably be raising me here with tons of hands, regardless of if he actually hit it. So I decided to just check, call a flop bet and check raise all-in on most turns. Villain checked behind though which tells me he has a hand with showdown value.
Turn:
($25.50, 2 players)Hero bets $17, BTN calls $17
Now I got a pair + flushdraw, and I do not expect him to bluffraise me here. If he was going to bluff, he was going to do so on the flop. So I just lead out.
River:
($59.50, 2 players)Hero goes all-in $72, BTN calls $70.50
On the river, what will villain be thinking? I checked the flop on a drawy board, so I never have an overpair. Both the turn and river are 'blanks' so if he was ahead on the flop he must still be. Also, he must realize I know he has a hand with showdown value, so something worse than AQ, probably a lower pair. I decided my best play would be to just shove, since that line screams bluff.
Final Pot: $200.50
Hero shows:
BTN shows:
Hero wins $199 ( won +$97.50 )
BTN lost -$100.00
Hand 2 vs same villain. This hand is more interesting because villain knows exactly what kind of hand I have and makes a great play vs the wrong opponent:
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($112.25) | ||
| UTG+1 | ($114.30) | ||
| CO | ($299.80) | ($101.50) | |
| SB | ($100.50) | ($189.00) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is BB
TT is a monster vs villain's range, but I do not like to 3-bet it at this time because of the last hand. Villain will probably not fold to a 3bet, and may start 4-betting me to put me in a tough spot, especially after seeing me 3bet him with 63s earlier.
Flop:
($7.50, 2 players)Hero checks, BTN bets $5, Hero calls $5
My hand is generally ahead on that board but vs this player I am not checkraising there. It's a good board to CR with hands like sets, marginal pairs which include a gutshot and perhaps some random hands without much equity here, like KQ. But I do not think doing so with hands like TT and JJ is optimal play vs this villain. It will be tough OOP vs him, but that's no reason to turn my hand into a bluff. So I just check-called.
Turn:
($17.50, 2 players)Hero checks, BTN checks
I check here hoping to keep the pot small and villain checks behind. I think he never holds an overpair if he checks here, and obviously also never a set. That means my hand must still be good.
River:
($17.50, 2 players)Hero bets $14, BTN raises to $45, Hero calls $31
I make a value bet on the blank river and villain decides to make my life hell by making a substantial raise here. But what is villain representing here after checking the turn?
How does my hand look to villain? I called him OOP preflop, which can mean multiple things except a strong overpair. I check-called the flop, which implies I either have a weak pair or a draw. So when I bet the river here, how strong could my hand possibly be?
Villain's river raise here is not bad because he knows the strength of my hand, but he should realize his line makes no sense vs players who will be thinking about their hands as well. So after raising here the only hands he can represent here are dueces or bluffs.
Final Pot: $107.50
Hero shows:
BTN shows:
Hero wins $104.50 ( won +$51 )
BTN lost -$53.50
Hand 3, this one is vs another cardrunners member:
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($100.00) | ($100.00) | |
| CO | ($100.00) | ($135.60) | |
| SB | ($99.00) | ||
| BB | ($81.50) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is BTN
This villain is also quite aggressive preflop, and instead of stealing my blinds constantly, this one keeps stealing my button, which is even worse. vs most aggro players I would 3-bet here with a hand like this, but villain knows who I am, knows I could be 3betting him light, and could possibly do something annoying like 4-betting me here. So I elect to just call. It's my button after all.
Flop:
($8.50, 2 players)UTG+1 bets $6, Hero calls $6
I totally miss the flop, it's a dry one, and vs a solid player I do not really like bluffraising here. If I raise I am representing 33, 44 or the nut flush draw. I would also be raising KQ here, but villain probably does not know that. But it's still my button, so I call.
Turn:
($20.50, 2 players)UTG+1 bets $15, Hero calls $15
Another K arrives making it less likely for villain to hold a K here. But he also knows that I could be floating the flop with some random junk so decides to 2-barrel me. Standard play here is to fold, but villain may still have total air, so I call again. Even while I do not have anything yet, I still have the button and I'm not giving it up yet...
River:
($50.50, 2 players)UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $36, UTG+1 folds
Villain checks, and because he's solid, I know he will be inducing bluffs from me here with hands like JJ/QQ/AA perhaps even TT. I do not expect him to fold many made hands to a river bet. So I make a small enough bet here to get a fold out of hands like 22 or ace high, but large enough so 88 and 99 will probably also fold.
Final Pot: $50.50
Hero wins $84 ( won +$23.50 )
UTG+1 lost -$24.50
6 Tabling
Date: Sat, Jun 7, 2008 Internet
I've been 6-tabling for the last few days, and it really is addicting. The first thing is that when I have little time to play I can easily put in quite some hands, and the second thing is that I can play slightly more straightforward.
It actually is quite more relaxing as well since the variance seems lower. Today I managed to get AK allin vs KK, and get into a 3-way allin with a set vs overplayed aces and an OESD and lost both of them within a 2 minute timeframe. Oddly it didn't seem to bother me at all since I were running over the other tables quite well.
And because I'm slightly less prone to make donkey moves because I am occupied on more tables, I can exploit the other people who like to make donkey moves vs me. I simply lack the time to make too many stupid mistakes.
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($312.05) | ||
| CO | ($165.85) | ($131.45) | | ($128.90) | BB | | ($130.90) | |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 5 players) Hero is BTN
Flop:
($21, 2 players)SB checks, Hero bets $14, SB raises to $33, Hero calls $19
Turn:
($87, 2 players)SB goes all-in $85.90, Hero calls $85.90
River:
($258.80, 2 players)Final Pot: $258.80
Hero shows:
SB shows:
Hero wins $255.80 ( won +$126.90 )
SB lost -$128.90
Preflop call was quite standard for me. Villain liked to 3bet light and uses pretty bad 3bet sizing OOP.
Also cutting down on 4-bet bluffing preflop and making too many large bluffs postflop seems to lower my variance a bit, though I do like to make a somewhat spewy bluff at times when I think it's neutral EV but great for my image:
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($49.00) | ($128.60) | |
| CO | ($74.60) | ||
| BTN | ($23.50) | ($168.50) | |
| BB | ($17.90) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1
Flop:
($24, 2 players)SB bets $16, Hero calls $16
Turn:
($56, 2 players)SB bets $36, Hero goes all-in $101.10, SB folds
Final Pot: $128
Hero wins $190.10 ( won +$61.50 )
SB lost -$63.50
Another reason to like 6-tabling is that when running pretty good (slightly over 12ptBB/100 in the last few days) that translates to $135 per hour excluding rakeback. Even with half that winrate, which should be sustainable, it's nothing to complain about.
I did not really tighten up that much preflop though, still running around 23/18 with an attempt to steal of around 35%. I did notice though that my postflop game has been simplified a bit, and most plays I make which differ from standard ABC poker is just because of known opponent tendencies, but not much else.
Tilty Business
Date: Thu, Jun 5, 2008 Internet
The last few days I've again managed to run quite bad. I do not like to post bad beats much, since I do not believe in them (every hand which has some equity no matter how small is supposed to suck out now and then) but the last days were again quite bad in this order. I lost over 10 buyins just in June (though I did manage to put around 10k hands in so far).
Examples are getting AA vs KK/QQ cracked a few times all in preflop for large amounts, or having a possibly tilting image at the table (losing 2 huge pots in a single orbit) and managing to get AK vs AQ in preflop and again get sucked out.
But the problem is even after quitting a bit and playing a bit later, I often made some very high variance plays. For instance, check-raising a gutshot vs a regular who I see around quite often in a 4 bet pot 150BB deep and getting called by top set. These plays are not that terrible in themselves, since I want regulars to know I can do some crazy stuff so they put their money in lighter, but the frequency of doing total donkey moves was a bit to high. Check-raising total air or a gutshot allin like 0.5% of the time in a certain spot is fine for your image and in the long run is probably +EV, but when running bad I make such moves way too often.
One bad psychological disadvantage of running bad is the effect on your bankroll. When you manage to get AA allin preflop vs KK for $250, even while you lost 250BB's, the difference for your bankroll is $500 compared to when your hand would have held up. Get AK AI vs AQ 3 times in a row for 100BB and lose all 3, the losses are $300, but it seems mentally as if you are $600 down compared to hands 'holding up'.
Today I decided to 6-table a bit to keep myself from overthinking situations and playing a bit tighter than usual, and I noticed a well kept secret which the best winning players in poker try to keep for themselves:
People suck at poker.
Seriously, I was playing on 6 tables while the loosest table was somewhere about 32% vpip, and while most players had somewhat decent stats, most players at NL100 just play terrible. So why should I bother to spew chips around making fancy moves too often when people just lack fundamental preflop and postflop skills?
My profit does not come from large multistreet bluffs or great hero calls/folds. My profit comes mostly because I do not forget to make that 18BB valuebet on the river in a 43BB pot with middle pair when I think villain holds an underpair most of the time or second pair worse kicker while many other players fail to extract value vs me in that same spot. It comes from inducing tons of bluffs from other people by taking a bit more passive line with marginal TP hands or marginal overpairs, instead of overplaying them, while when the situation is reversed, many people deny me the mandatory river bluff in some situations because they try to protect their marginal hands too much.
Same counts for overplaying hands, which I do quite often as well when tilting, and the general reason for completely misplaying a hand in such a situation is probably because of the mindset tilt gives. Look at the following hand for instance, villain ran pretty bad, and probably was thinking 'My hand must be good this time. Finally a board without overcards, let's get it in!' instead of 'How do I extract most value from villain's overcard holdings or bluffs and keeping my losses vs overpairs small?'
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com
Stacks:
| UTG | ($129.15) | ||
| CO | ($115.40) | ($104.00) | |
| SB | ($38.00) | ($101.65) |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 5 players) Hero is BB
Flop:
($25.50, 2 players)Hero bets $17, BTN goes all-in $91.50, Hero calls $72.15
Turn:
($206.15, 2 players)River:
($206.15, 2 players)Final Pot: $203.80
BTN shows:
Hero shows:
BTN wins $2.35 ( lost -$101.65 )
Hero wins $200.80 ( won +$99.15 )
Villain held a strong hand here, but shoving this flop only causes overcard holdings to fold and only gets called by better. Villain complained for 5 minutes about what a cooler that flop was, instead of realizing he misplayed his hand here.
Another hand from yesterday was also quite interesting. It was a spot where I could be vs a fullhouse, but I expected villain to never fold a J here if I made a somewhat silly play. I also expected a J to be much more likely for villain to hold then a fullhouse, because of the flop play. I cbet there because people without a J or fullhouse could simply not continue when I bet into a million callers, which pretty much locks down villain's hand as a single set or a J. So I raised to 444 on the river, which pretty much means I represent a fullhouse 4's full of jacks, and villain is smart enough to not believe that I hold a fullhouse (so stacked of with weak trips):
$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
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Stacks:
| UTG | AO1715 | ($133.70) | ($56.50) |
| CO | BRONCOAA | ($37.75) | ($612.35) | | ($159.10) | ($100.00) | |
Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is BTN
Flop:
($18, 4 players)coimbra83 checks, Schefflowski checks, inyoung checks, Hero bets $10, coimbra83 calls $10, Schefflowski folds, inyoung folds
Turn:
($38, 2 players)coimbra83 checks, Hero checks
River:
($38, 2 players)coimbra83 bets $17, Hero raises to $444, coimbra83 calls $127.60
Final Pot: $327.20
coimbra83 shows:
Hero shows:
Hero wins $623.60 ( won +$165.10 )
coimbra83 lost -$159.10
Schefflowski lost -$4.50
inyoung lost -$4.50
If other people make bad plays like shoving or calling in these spots, why should I bother?
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