Bad beats and good calls!
Strange session – I thought I played pretty solidly, but I finished exactly break-even. I took 2 pretty bad beats early on and then made some great calls and got some good hands to recover:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1381921
His flop bet was weak. If he had a strong made hand he would have bet more to try and protect his hand, plus if he had AQ, he would have raised it pre-flop. His reraise all-in didn’t bother me as it was from a shortstack so I insta-called, and of course he hits his 3 outer on the river….
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1381948
Another suckout lol. I got my money in when I was way ahead, and none in when I realised I could be behind, so at least I lost the minimum….
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1381963
As you can see, I don’t mess around preflop with my premium pairs. I rarely slow play them and this was no exception. This was an awful flop for me and I didn’t fancy c-betting this into 2 loose villains. When everyone checked behind, I was pretty sure they didn’t have an Ace, but his call on the turn worried me. I really should have value bet the river, and when he bet over half the pot, I really took my time and very nearly folded. lol at his hand ! This call was great for my image after that and I knew no-one would be trying to bluff
me…
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1381979
I was quite happy to call this down. Medium hand, medium pot was fine with me, plus villain wasn’t a very good player (despite his large stack) and so if I had raised him, he was quite capable of re-raising me which would have been difficult to call.
Session stats (Pokerstars):
Number of hands: 374
Net profit/loss: $0
Winrate: 0 ptBB/100
Pokerstars Bankroll: $363.38
4 responses so far ↓
Jamie (comfycouch) // August 18, 2007 at 10:20 am |
Hey its comfycouch from twenty to wynn.
Hand #1 I think a raise preflop on the button is a better option here. One early position limper, and you have a strong enough hand to open for sure. Of course there is nothing you can do about the 3 outer though. However, in future situations it will be much easier to narrow your opponents hand range if you choose to raise preflop. I think you should be raising with KQo in this spot nearly 100% of the time.
Hand #4 I think you played this hand too passively. Top two is very strong here. I think a small turn raise is the line i would go with here. I think you are losing value from a lot of different hands but just calling the turn. Even if you choose to call the turn i suggest raising the river. Your hand is too strong to just call down in this situation in my opinion. What hands are you afraid of on the turn? And that river bet is awful on his part. That bet size doesn’t come from two pair. And if he hit with J9 hes going to value much more. What do you think?
doublemeup // August 18, 2007 at 12:08 pm |
Hey, thanks for the comments, I appreciate it
With hindsight, I agree with both your comments.
Hand 1, villain had just sat down, so I didn’t have any stats on him yet and I was erring on the side of caution I think. I find it difficult playing vs shortstacks too. So many of them will reraise all-in to any reraise, which I obviously couldn’t call. You’re right though, I’m on the button, I should be punishing limpers.
Hand 4, yeah lol, I definitely should have put in a raise. The villain had been sucking out a lot and making some strange plays. He was terrible in fact but this also made him pretty unpredictable, but I agree his line looks very weak.
Jamie (comfycouch) // August 18, 2007 at 6:36 pm |
Hand #1 This is a very good observation that your Opponent doesn’t have a full stack, but 46big blinds is still enough not to worry too much about a shove. However, if he limp reraises you all in for 46 big blinds, we can be sure that KQ is toast! However, if you just limp and hit a K or Q on the flop, he is going to get paid of a lot more times with disguised strong hands.
Basically, the preflop raise makes all your decisions easier post flop. And it’s never wrong in that spot to fold to a limp shove by the 46bb opponent.
Good luck and keep posting hands!
rgc2005 // August 20, 2007 at 8:43 am |
You write well and do a great job at breaking down hands.