Grinding

Played another short session today.

Here are some hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1675137

This was a tricky spot because on the turn, the preflop raiser was still to act behind me, and I was worried he was going to check-raise which is why I only called. If this had been heads up I would have bet out on the flop and certainly raised the turn. Thoughts ?

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1675149

I don’t like spots like this, where I flop a potentially strong hand out of position from the blinds. Since my hand was strong, but vulnerable, I wanted to keep the pot small. I always say to myself “don’t go broke in an unraised pot. I think I played the hand ok, but my raise was too weak on the turn.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1675176

When I called villain’s raise on the turn, I realised I wasn’t quite getting the pot odds to draw to my flush, but I thought I was getting the implied odds, with villain being pot committed. In fact I was wrong, villain only had $3.50 left behind which only gave me implied odds of just less than 4-1, which is less than the 4.22-1 needed to make this a +EV call. The result was good, but I made the wrong play.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1675326

This was a tough decision to make. I knew it was a close call/fold decision based on the pot equity and odds being layed. In the heat of the moment, I figured I was getting close to 2-1 to call, which meant I needed at least 33% equity. The way the hand had been played, I figured AK/AQ was a large part of villain’s range. I reckoned if he had AA, he would have just called my reraise. If villain had had a fullstack, I would have folded here.

I have just analyzed this hand in pokerstove, and if I give villain range of JJ+, AKs,AKo, then it is practically a coinflip and I have 47% equity.If I give villain a tighter range of QQ+, AKs,AKo, then I have 40% equity.

So it turns out the call was correct.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1674985

Pretty standard AA > QQ. I was pleased with my bet-sizing on each street here to get all of villain’s stack in the middle.

Session stats:

Number of hands: 177

Net profit/loss: +$68

Winrate: +38.67

Bankroll: $1074