Rollercoaster session

Just had quite a swongy session on some high variance tables. I was really opening my game up and using my position to quite good effect.

 

In terms of decision-making and standard of play, I was really pleased with how I played, apart from one hand where I got a bit fancy with a player who was consistently 3-betting me.

 

I decided to take a stand and 4-bet him lightly with A6 and pushed on a QQx flop. This would have been a good play usually because I had already folded several times to his 3 -betting and he knew I was tight. Problem was this time, he was holding KK and unfortunately we were both really deep. Ouch, bad play by me I suppose, and if it hadn’t been for that hand, the session would have been break-even.

 

Here are some key hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739289

 

This hand was fairly early in the session vs a deepstack, who was trying to outplay everyone at the table. I had been watching him and his min raise on the flop was just an attempt to take the pot away from me I think, hence my flat call. I decided to check on the turn and reraise all-in when he bet. lol at villain insta-folding for just $4.25 more in a $47 pot ….

 

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739314

 

Weird hand this one. The board got so drawy postflop, that I just decided to check-call it down. THese 2 villains were playing any two cards and so I was proceeding with caution.

 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739332

 

On really dry flops like this, I like checking to get value from medium pocket pairs. I think c-betting this flop will only fold out worse hands and better hands will call (22, 77)
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739340

 

I am delighted by how I played this hand. I knew villain couldn’t have been that strong otherwise he would have got the money in preflop. I put him on AK, TT+ so I was way ahead of his range. When I saw the flop, I decided I was going to commit vs this aggro villain.  Note, from the villain’s perspective, he must know I have an overpair to the board from the preflop action, so his raise and call of my all-in was so bad….

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739369

 

This is the hand I mentioned above. Obviously I was representing AA here. After the hand, villain said that’s what he put me on. So when I asked why did he call, he didn’t really have an answer, lol !  Just goes to show, you should never try and bluff a calling station. Actually bad play by me – really spewy - this is not +EV play at $25NL vs fish.

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739381

 

But hey, the previous hand made sure I got plenty of action on this hand on same table ! I had so many outs to the best hand here, with 2 cards to come, I just wanted to get the money in as quickly as possible.

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739397

 

I wasn’t too bothered about zolander as he was shortstacked, but I wanted to build a pot vs E MAFIA  who was probably the worst player at the table. Guess I was right lol.  Not to worry though, I stacked him twice after this (see next two hands)

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739424

Me stacking E MAFIA part one – tyvm

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2739433
Me stacking E MAFIA part two – Thanks for the free card on the turn.

 

Good luck at the tables