Back to basics

Well following on from my previous post and previous few sessions, I have now made an extra effort to stop getting too fancy with the fish and also to stop thinking the fish are always making moves. – Unless there is a specific read that a villain is a bluffing lagtard, a raise usually means the villain has hit a hand and he isn’t gonna fold, so it’s absolutely pointless (and -VE) to try and take the pot off him without a hand with excellent showdown value.

 

Well, I just finished a session, putting this into practice and it all worked out pretty well. In fact, this is how I used to play all the time last year when I was crushing $25NL for over 10ptBB/100 ( http://doublemeup.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/ ) before I hit some variance / tilted.  In fact I just reread that post from my blog and wow, I was crushing $25NL by just being patient and picking my spots and folding when I was obviously beat. That’s how I played in today’s session, and it’s how I’m gonna carry on playing

 
Here are a few hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2808941

 

Villain was very loose passive. I had a note on him that he called down light, but a raise meant he had the goods, so this was an easy fold with 99 IMO.

 

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2808996

 

On the flop, it was obvious 1 villain had a K, and the other one had the Jack, so I called hoping to hit my flush, in the knowledge that they wouldn’t be able to fold trips, ie my implied odds were huge if I hit.  When the K came on the turn (giving both players a FH), I just instafolded, and sat back and watched the fireworks lol.  It always amuses me how players are unable to fold a full-house even when it is obvious they are beat lol !
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2809019

 

 

Decided not to mess around on this flop. I was calling an all-in from maledai, no hesitation.

 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2809032

 

This was borderline. A raise UTG is usually very strong and I’m OOP in the SB with QQ. I’m either way ahead or way behind, and 3betting is usually just going to fold out weaker hands and bloat the pot / commit me vs hands that crush me. That was why I decided to check / call this to showdown. Thoughts ?

 

 

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2809051

 

This hands requires a bit of context / background information -  In the 2 previous hands, peter-poncho got his money in good vs julee619 and got rivered on both occasions. That was why he was shortstacked at the beginning of the hand, and he must have been tilting quite a bit because of it. I rubbed a bit of salt in the wound by typing in “nh” in the chat window, to which julee619 replied “ty” !!  So I knew he was pretty pissed off. When the flop came, it was so dry, I tried to tip him over the edge by making a weakish c-bet that he could come over the top of easily. As soon as I bet, I had my mouse waiting over the call button, as no way he had me beat here lol !

 
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2809087

 

 

Standard vs shorstacking parasites

 

GL at the tables