zook's blog

I feel like I haven't been contributing much to FTR recently, despite that fact that I'm a playing professionally and have more time on my hands than usual. So I'm going to start this thing and see how long I can keep it up. My plan is to use it as a daily (or near daily) sounding board for poker thoughts. In every session I learn or relearn something important and I'll try to post it here.

Some background... started playing in fall of 2004, home games->sngs->mtts->low stakes FR cash->midstakes FR->midstakes 6max->shots at highstakes 6max... pretty typical evolution. Reading FTR and posting hands helped me immensely, as did Poker Books, esp Sklansky's NLHE Theory & Practice. Right now I'm rolled for 5/10 comfortably but play mostly 2/4 and 3/6 because the 5/10 games aren't usually that great. I occasionally take shots at 10/20, but only when a fish from my buddy list shows up there.

I have a quality over quantity approach to poker. I don't set hand goals and rarely play more than 1200 hands/day. I only sit at good tables in good seats and play no more than 6 tables at a time.. I'm a firm believer that if you table select carefully and control tilt you can beat any game up through 3/6 with a very basic poker skill set.

Very nice man! Good luck!

Awesome, looking forward to reading this.

Yessssssss about time sir!

haha good advice on table selection.. definitely don't do that very well Razz

The games on Full Tilt were really good today, multiple fish on at least 8 tables at 2/4 and 3/6 which is way more than usual. So today's topic is an easy one...

Playing with fish

Some attention gets paid on poker forums to table and seat selection (although not nearly enough imo) but there isn't a lot said about what to do once you get a good seat at a good table. The answer is pretty easy, which is play as many hands as possible with the fish. If they like to open limp, raise to isolate, if they open raise way too much, 3bet them for value and to isolate. If a reg raises and the fish calls, think before you fold or squeeze... your implied odds have gone up and a hand like 87o might be a call (obv lots of factors involved, including position, stack sizes and likelihood of callers vs. squeezers behind). Set yourself up to play as many big pots as possible with the fish, b/c they're often going to get it in bad.

I could literally pull up thousands of examples from PT, but here are a couple from today...

1. CO is running 30/9/1.5 over 500 hands. Perfect guy to have on my right and we're at a deep table so I'm salivating. I'm raising such a large percentage of my range in this spot it's retarded. (That's right, Special Olympics guy can boycott this blog too.) I think I'm raising close to 60% here. I get a call from shorty BB who's another fish running 50/10/1.

Full Tilt Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

CO: $1,618
Hero (BTN): $794
SB: $908.10
BB: $124
UTG: $1,659.65
MP: $741.50

Pre-Flop: 5 Club

7

dealt to Hero (BTN)
2 folds, CO calls $4, Hero raises to $18, SB folds, BB calls $14, CO calls $14

I could even raise to $20 or $22 pre I think. I would if he had limped the button and I was in the sb, but I should think about doing it more in position vs. limp/callers.

Flop: ($56) 3 Heart

6

9

(3 Players)
BB checks, CO checks, Hero bets $48, BB calls $48, CO folds

I flop an oesd and it's a stupid easy cbet. I get called a lot by both players, but they're almost never c/r'ing and I want to play a big pot with CO. Unfortunately he folds, but I gin the turn and stack the shorty.

Turn: ($152) 8 Spade

(2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $96, BB calls $58 and is All-In

River: ($268) 2 Heart

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $268 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed 5 Club

7

(a straight, Nine high) and WON $265 (+$141 NET)
BB showed 9 Spade

6

(two pair, Nines and Sixes) and LOST (-$124 NET)

2. I've played some with SB and he's a fish, running 21/3/1.2. I've run over him in this session and others, raising a lot of his limps and cbetting or double-barreling him out of pots.

Full Tilt Poker, $3/$6 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 4 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): $977.65
UTG: $1,652.45
BTN: $319.50
SB: $342

Pre-Flop: T Club

9

dealt to Hero (BB)
2 folds, SB calls $3, Hero raises to $21, SB calls $15

Pre-flop is standard even though we're behind his range. We might fold some better hands, it establishes initiative and builds a pot in case we hit something good.

Flop: ($42) 5 Spade

6

9

(2 Players)
SB checks, Hero bets $36, SB raises to $72, Hero calls $36

Std c-bet vs. a guy who will call with any piece. The c/r actually worried me. He isn't very aggro post-flop so this could be a set or overpair slowplayed pre-flop. But I reminded myself that I've been running over him, he's a fish and I have top pair. I decide that calling and letting him bluff the turn is best. A diamond turn sucks but I tend to doubt he c/mr's draws... I think his range is pretty polarized here.

Turn: ($186) 6 Club

(2 Players)
SB bets $78, Hero raises to $420, SB calls $171 and is All-In

Not the best turn card and I'm not sure if shoving is right... in retrospect I think I prefer a call b/c his small bet keeps his range polarized and it's hard to imagine what worse hand is calling. But one does...

River: ($684) A Diamond

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $684 Pot ($2 Rake)
Hero showed T Club

9

(two pair, Nines and Sixes) and LOST (-$342 NET)
SB showed A Club

5

(two pair, Aces and Sixes) and WON $682 (+$340 NET)

This hand brings up another important point about playing with fish. When you have marginal decisions against them, gambool! One, they're capable of much worse plays than you expect and two, if you don't bust them first, there's a chance someone else at your table will.

Here's a hand from last week to illustrate...

3. BB is a whale, running 60/20/1.5. He's donated over $1k to me already at this table on big bluffs. Basically this guy is a ticking time bomb and with all the deep stacks at the table I want to get his money before anyone else does.

Still, I timed down a bit before calling 250bb off pre-flop with AKs. Eventually I decided I could have snapped. I don't think he ever plays AA or KK like this and there's a chance he's doing it with AQ or worse.

Full Tilt Poker, $3/$6 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $894
BB: $2,784.30
UTG: $870.90
MP: $2,511.05
Hero (CO): $1,768.85
BTN: $1,321.25

Pre-Flop: A Diamond

K

dealt to Hero (CO)
2 folds, Hero raises to $21, BTN calls $21, SB folds, BB raises to $87, Hero raises to $282, BTN folds, BB raises to $2,784.30 and is All-In, Hero calls $1,486.85 and is All-In

Flop: ($3,561.70) 5 Diamond

9

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Turn: ($3,561.70) 5 Heart

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($3,561.70) Q Heart

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $3,561.70 Pot ($3 Rake)
BB showed 8 Heart

8

(two pair, Nines and Eights) and WON $3,558.70 (+$1,789.85 NET)
Hero showed A Diamond

K

(two pair, Nines and Fives) and LOST (-$1,768.85 NET)

Disappointing result, but fun hand.

cliffnotes: Find fish, sit on their left, play as many hands with them as possible and gamboooool!

good notes Sad

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last hand was really really gay

Wow, that kind of money is mind boggling to me, but I'll try to think of it in $10NL terms.

I've learned a lot already and I look forward to further posts!

Good hands. I often make it 1 bb extra when I'm isolating fish to create a bigger pot and make it more difficult for the regs to 3bet me. The only problem I find with the strategy is that if a good reg does realise that you are constantly trying to isolate a fish he will 3bet you more and the bigger initial raise size you used makes it more difficult to play back at the regs constant 3betting because of the SPR.

I mean more like he limps UTG and we're to his left. So we have position on him, but we risk being OOP if we're called by anyone else other than the blinds.

I've had a few times recently where I have great position on a weak player, but because I avoid playing a wide range against him unless I'm in LP I dont feel like I'm making the most of the good relative position.

My god, I thought I was pretty crazy with isolation. 57o is just too weak for me. That said, I like to isolate limpers with 10x to make a bigger pot (when I'm sure I have the best of the flop fold equity) and make it harder for my opponents to follow me into the pot with speculative hands.

How do you actually go about table selecting? Do you watch the table before joining it, looking for fish. Or do you know the fish at your stakes?

Hey Zook,

Good luck with your operation. Will be following it closely.

My brain is fried from too much poker. Ran bad in two FTOPS events but good in cash. Lots of fishies out again.

Not going to make a long post, but here are a few interesting hands...

1. I almost didn't bluff this turn but reminded myself that it doesn't need to work that often to be profitable b/c he only has $140 behind. 40% is the breakeven point.

Full Tilt Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $244.30
Hero (BB): $406
UTG: $418
CO: $376
BTN: $125.60

Pre-Flop: K Diamond

T

dealt to Hero (BB)
3 folds, SB calls $2, Hero raises to $16, SB calls $12

Flop: ($32) A Spade

8

9

(2 Players)
SB bets $32, Hero raises to $90, SB calls $58

Turn: ($212) 4 Diamond

(2 Players)
SB checks, Hero bets $148, SB folds

2. Some regs in my games are aggro enough and valuebet thinly enough that I can take really passive lines and still get paid.

Full Tilt Poker, $3/$6 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $1,222.65
Hero (BB): $600
UTG: $1,524.45
CO: $678
BTN: $600

Pre-Flop: 2 Diamond

2

dealt to Hero (BB)
UTG raises to $21, CO folds, BTN calls $21, SB folds, Hero calls $15

Flop: ($66) J Spade

2

6

(3 Players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $45, BTN folds, Hero calls $45

Turn: ($156) K Heart

(2 Players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $115, Hero calls $115

River: ($386) 4 Spade

(2 Players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $1,343.45 and is All-In, Hero calls $419 and is All-In

Results: $1,224 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed 2 Diamond

2

(three of a kind, Twos) and WON $1,221 (+$621 NET)
UTG showed A Club

K

(a pair of Kings) and LOST (-$600 NET)

3. One I played badly. I flatted pre to keep the SB megafish in the hand. He's donk potting a much wider range than you'd expect here but the BB cold call has to be JJ+ so I think I can find a fold on the flop. BB tanked before overshoving, even getting like 5:1 with AA, so maybe it wasn't terrible.

Full Tilt Poker, $3/$6 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (UTG): $605.60
CO: $1,183.75
BTN: $609
SB: $937.10
BB: $1,198.95

Pre-Flop: K Heart

K

dealt to Hero (UTG)
Hero raises to $21, 2 folds, SB calls $18, BB raises to $84, Hero calls $63, SB calls $63

Flop: ($252) T Diamond

2

J

(3 Players)
SB bets $252, BB calls $252, Hero raises to $521.60 and is All-In, SB calls $269.60, BB raises to $1,114.95 and is All-In, SB calls $331.50 and is All-In

Turn: ($2,479.80) 4 Club

(3 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($2,479.80) J Club

(3 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $2,479.80 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed K Heart

K

(two pair, Kings and Jacks) and LOST (-$605.60 NET)
SB showed A Diamond

J

(three of a kind, Jacks) and WON $2,476.80 (+$1,539.70 NET)
BB showed A Club

A

(two pair, Aces and Jacks) and LOST (-$937.10 NET)

At least the megafish sucked out Smile

The fish sucks you in.

Text results appended to pokerstove.txt

1,607,340 games 0.050 secs 32,146,800 games/sec

Board: Td 2c Js
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 51.552% 49.52% 02.03% 796018 32593.00 { TT+ }
Hand 1: 22.407% 21.71% 00.69% 349008 11154.00 { TT+, ATs+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, T9s, ATo+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo }
Hand 2: 26.041% 23.91% 02.13% 384348 34219.00 { KdKh }

oooh, thanks for that Fnord

That said, it's never a happy time when you need to stick the better part of a buy-in into the pot only because of the money already in the pot.

Zook,

That first hand in your last post above, is the flop raise a bluff because you think he has some random shit, will fold an ace or a high equity draw or for value because you think he has primarily draws in his leading range and will call with them? I ask because I always figure that some guy with less than 100bb is never folding and ace or any draw if I raise his donk.

*Last edited by zook on Mon, 18 Aug 2008, 2:47am; edited 1 time in total*

Nice read Z, good luck with the blog....

Are you an honest man yet? If not, when is D-Day?

Maybe someday I will make it past $100 for good and have one of these blogs worth reading....

Thanks c-man.

Spewed a lot today. When I'm on a winning streak I tend to get overconfident and loosen up my game too much. I'm going to start reviewing recent losing hands before each session to try to get myself in the right mindset. I'll let you know how it goes.

Today I 3-barreled a few calling stations (they must be on a draw!) and was reminded why that's a bad idea. I also just made a few too many fancy plays. Here are a couple...

1. Villain is 27/20/3 and likes to make plays. Calls 3bets a lot in position. This flop is a decent one to bluff raise because I'm cbetting 100% of my range, but this is still a bad shove vs. his range and I was damn lucky to have ~50% equity.

Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 4 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

UTG: $2,207.50
BTN: $3,525.75
Hero (SB): $1,035
BB: $3,623.40

Pre-Flop: T Spade

T

dealt to Hero (SB)
UTG folds, BTN raises to $35, Hero raises to $120, BB folds, BTN calls $85

Flop: ($250) 9 Heart

K

7

(2 Players)
Hero bets $180, BTN raises to $650, Hero raises to $915 and is All-In, BTN calls $265

Turn: ($2,080) J Club

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($2,080) 3 Spade

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $2,080 Pot ($2 Rake)
BTN showed A Club

9

(a flush, Ace high) and WON $2,078 (+$1,043 NET)
Hero showed T Spade

T

(a pair of Tens) and LOST (-$1,035 NET)

2. Villain is 42/26/1.2. I figured he calls my cbet with underpairs and crappy K's a lot and will fold a lot of that to my turn c/bomb. Obviously he hit the turn big, but I don't know if a player like this can fold KT here? Meh about this one.

Full Tilt Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BTN: $487.40
SB: $400
BB: $406.20
Hero (UTG): $427.90
CO: $202.60

Pre-Flop: 7 Heart

7

dealt to Hero (UTG)
Hero raises to $14, CO calls $14, BTN calls $14, SB folds, BB calls $10

Flop: ($58) K Club

5

4

(4 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $40, CO folds, BTN calls $40, BB folds

Turn: ($138) 6 Heart

(2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN bets $92, Hero raises to $373.90 and is All-In, BTN calls $281.90

River: ($885.80) A Heart

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $885.80 Pot ($3 Rake)
BTN showed 6 Diamond

K

(two pair, Kings and Sixes) and WON $882.80 (+$454.90 NET)
Hero showed 7 Heart

7

(a pair of Sevens) and LOST (-$427.90 NET)

3. And why you should play flopped non-nut flushes fast. No history, villain has std taggy stats.

Full Tilt Poker, $2/$4 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: $660.20
UTG: $406
MP: $1,911.45
Hero (CO): $476.60
BTN: $400
SB: $400

Pre-Flop: 6 Club

K

dealt to Hero (CO)
2 folds, Hero raises to $14, 2 folds, BB calls $10

Flop: ($30) 2 Club

4

8

(2 Players)
BB checks, Hero bets $24, BB raises to $128, Hero raises to $462.60 and is All-In, BB calls $334.60

Turn: ($955.20) T Heart

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($955.20) 8 Spade

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $955.20 Pot ($3 Rake)
BB showed J Spade

A

(a pair of Eights) and LOST (-$476.60 NET)
Hero showed 6 Club

K

(a flush, King high) and WON $952.20 (+$475.60 NET)

In hand 2 I was sitting two seats to the whale's right b/c of a discussion I had with griffey last night. We were wondering whether it's more +ev to sit at the first available seat at a fish's table or wait for a seat on his left and risk him busting before one opens up. I think we agreed that it depends on the size of the fish. This one was big enough that I just sat.

Awesome, zook making a blog! I'll definitely be following along.

In what ways and what specific tools are you using to review sessions? How many hands do you review and how do you select them? Just big pots, or session stats as well?

ill be reading this blog man for sure, gl

Fnord: What's your strategy for evaluating your small pot play? I guess I could try to look at top 20 winners and losers... I usually play relatively short sessions (600-1000 hands) so that would get me all the medium pots at least...

The 5/10 tables were finally good yesterday so I mostly played there. Unfortunately I didn't run very well and couldn't make hands against the fish. I reviewed some losing hands before the session and I think it helped me tighten up and play more solid poker. And I played well with a couple of notable exceptions...

When Pots Odds Don't Matter or Avoiding The "Awww Fuckit" Call

Pot odds are great in limit and small stakes no-limit where opponents can't or don't bet size properly to deny odds to draw. But in medium and high stakes they're most often used as a rationalization for bad calls.

1. Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BTN: $5,114
SB: $1,000.75
Hero (BB): $1,274
UTG: $768.15
MP: $2,682
CO: $4,887

Pre-Flop: 5 Heart

4

dealt to Hero (BB)
UTG calls $10, 2 folds, BTN calls $10, SB raises to $66, Hero calls $56, 2 folds

Flop: ($152) 9 Heart

4

K

(2 Players)
SB bets $100, Hero calls $100

A raise and get it in here is good too I think.

Turn: ($352) K Spade

(2 Players)
SB bets $150, Hero calls $150

Weird small bet here from a reg. Looked to me like he was trying to induce? If that was my read I should have folded because 4's are prob no longer outs and I may be drawing dead to 99. I really doubt he has air or a flush draw with this bet size.

River: ($652) Q Heart

(2 Players)
SB checks, Hero bets $450, SB raises to $684.75 and is All-In, Hero calls $234.75

And now for the awww fuckit call. My thought process... sweet, I hit my flush! He won't believe I'm a chasing fish, I'll get some value from K's here. Check/raise all-in? WTF? Only $200 more, I'm pot-comitted, awww fuckit CALL! This last sentence goes through my head in about 100 milliseconds, approximately the amount of time it takes for my finger to twitch and click the mouse. Obviously I'm never good here and would really improve my winrate if I could fold and save myself 25bb. Sigh.

Results: $2,021.50 Pot ($3 Rake)
SB showed Q Spade

Q

(a full house, Queens full of Kings) and WON $2,018.50 (+$1,017.75 NET)
Hero mucked 5 Heart

4

(a flush, King high) and LOST (-$1,000.75 NET)

2. Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

UTG: $2,000
MP: $1,572
CO: $4,600
BTN: $419
Hero (SB): $3,888.50
BB: $4,078.50

Pre-Flop: 5 Club

6

dealt to Hero (SB)
UTG raises to $35, 3 folds, Hero calls $30, BB folds

Flop: ($80) 5 Heart

J

5

(2 Players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $55, Hero raises to $220, UTG calls $165

Turn: ($520) 8 Diamond

(2 Players)
Hero bets $400, UTG calls $400

River: ($1,320) J Heart

(2 Players)
Hero bets $850, UTG raises to $1,345 and is All-In, Hero calls $495

After the turn I put him on AJ/QQ+. The river comes and I'm pissed, but I don't want to miss value from QQ+ so I put in a bet. It might be a little big, but I'm not sure. Then he shoves and my heart sinks... did he really hit his two-outer? I can't fucking believe it. Well I'm getting 7:1 CALL! Such a tilty dumbass call in another spot I'm never good.

Results: $4,010 Pot ($3 Rake)
UTG showed J Diamond

K

(a full house, Jacks full of Fives) and WON $4,007 (+$2,007 NET)
Hero mucked 5 Club

6

(a full house, Fives full of Jacks) and LOST (-$2,000 NET)

Hope you learned something from my spew. Actually I hope I learned something from it! I'm going to try to slow down in big pots today and even take my hand off the mouse when faced with decisions like these. My rational mind would never make these plays but my impulsive mind reacts first. I need to play more like Spock.

I like this last post. I do these dumbass "pot odds" calls ALLLL the time. I agree though, saving the 25bb's etc can definitely add up.

The flush hand is kind of close, cause in theory he could be value bombing some strong trips though I doubt it. In the second spot, he's never value shoving worse.

Folding both is prob best though.

Hand 2, I don't see the point in betting the river (saw it posted in the HS forum but that's above my stakes grade). How often are we sacrificing value by checking and don't we get more from worse with a c/c?

Man, I think #2 is just straight spew, I think you have to check/fold....

#1, I agree, I can't remember the last time I beat a river check raise (or a river raise of any type)!

I think I found where the 5/10 fish have been hiding... the deep tables! I don't know why they prefer them but I've been datamining the deep instead of the regular recently and finding a lot more fish. That plus no shorties (50bb min buyin) more than outweighs the negatives of playing deep against some of the better regs.

Played well and ran well today. 3 fun brag hands...

1. Big hand of the day. Never fun calling off 130bb with a non-nut draw but I priced myself in and I've seen this guy spew a few times in the past.

Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 3 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

BB: $4,532.05
Hero (BTN): $2,315.50
SB: $2,005

Pre-Flop: K Spade

Q

dealt to Hero (BTN)
Hero raises to $30, SB raises to $110, BB folds, Hero calls $80

Flop: ($230) T Club

4

6

(2 Players)
SB bets $160, Hero raises to $600, SB raises to $1,895 and is All-In, Hero calls $1,295

Turn: ($4,020) A Diamond

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($4,020) J Spade

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $4,020 Pot ($1 Rake)
Hero showed K Spade

Q

(a flush, King high) and WON $4,019 (+$2,014 NET)
SB showed 7 Diamond

8

(Ace Jack high) and LOST (-$2,005 NET)

2. Villain is running 52/25 and I'm 3 betting him a lot. He's mostly calling in and oop and seems to be playing fit or fold on the flop. He's been raising to $35 a lot, so I figure this raise to $20 is a weaker hand that I can isolate and steal most flops from. 97o is pretty weak to do this but sometimes you get called by worse Smile

Full Tilt Poker, $5/$10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

MP: $1,363
CO: $1,138.50
Hero (BTN): $2,308
SB: $1,913
BB: $2,594
UTG: $1,000

Pre-Flop: 7 Heart

9

dealt to Hero (BTN)
2 folds, CO raises to $20, Hero raises to $75, 2 folds, CO calls $55

Flop: ($165) 5 Spade

4

7

(2 Players)
CO bets $80, Hero calls $80

Turn: ($325) 9 Heart

(2 Players)
CO bets $190, Hero raises to $1,000, CO calls $793.50 and is All-In

River: ($2,292) A Heart

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $2,292 Pot ($3 Rake)
CO showed 6 Diamond

5

(a pair of Fives) and LOST (-$1,138.50 NET)
Hero showed 7 Heart

9

(two pair, Nines and Sevens) and WON $2,289 (+$1,150.50 NET)

3. I have Alexos to thank for this one. (He mentioned in one of my HSNL threads that he'll induce calls from fish with chat.) This is my first time!

Full Tilt Poker, $3/$6 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (SB): $603
BB: $671.85
UTG: $952.80
MP: $878
CO: $675
BTN: $2,026.70

Pre-Flop: A Heart

A

dealt to Hero (SB)
UTG raises to $18, MP raises to $63, CO calls $63, BTN folds, Hero raises to $240, 2 folds, MP calls $177, CO folds

Flop: ($567) 5 Heart

5

(2 Players)
Hero bets $363 and is All-In

MP has requested TIME
Hero: fold
Hero: AA

MP calls $363

Turn: ($1,293) K Diamond

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

River: ($1,293) 7 Heart

(2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $1,293 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed A Heart

A

(a full house, Fives full of Aces) and WON $1,290 (+$687 NET)
MP showed K Heart

A

(a full house, Fives full of Kings) and LOST (-$603 NET)

looooool

haha, that last one is awesome!

Wowwowowwow. I don't think I've ever run as bad in a single session as I did this morning. Standard aces cracked in a 3bet pot, a couple of pre-flop AI coolers, but there was also this beauty. I didn't feel tilted at all during the session... in fact I was just laughing at the absurdity of poker. I think I only tilt when I'm getting outplayed or run over. Of course it helped that there were only two 5/10 tables running so all of this happened at 2/4 and 3/6.

Playing Back at Squeezers

I've been experimenting with shoving over squeezes recently instead of 4betting small like I do over 3bets. If you 4bet small over a squeeze and get shoved on you're getting a better price than if you do it over a 3bet, so it's less often correct to fold. Plus I think villains are more likely to semibluff 5bet if the pot is already bloated like it is in squeezed pots. Here are a few examples from today...

1. SB is a loose passive fish, BB is a frequent 3bettor.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $6.00 BB (5 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (UTG) ($615.00)
MP ($600.00)
Button ($650.20)
SB ($920.90)
BB ($600.00)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with 10

A

Hero raises to $21.00, 2 folds, SB calls $18.00, BB raises to $84.00, Hero raises to $615.00 (All-In), 2 folds

2. CO is a loose passive fish, button is a frequent 3bettor.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $4.00 BB (6 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($406.00)
UTG ($459.95)
Hero (MP) ($425.60)
CO ($359.50)
Button ($827.80)
SB ($402.00)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 5

6

1 fold, Hero raises to $14.00, CO calls $14.00, Button raises to $60.00, 2 folds, Hero raises to $425.60 (All-In), 2 folds

3. Button is a loose passive fish, SB is a frequent 3bettor (see a pattern?). SB tanked before calling so if I might even have FE vs. a hand this good.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $4.00 BB (6 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (MP) ($400.30)
CO ($461.00)
Button ($1126.10)
SB ($506.00)
BB ($556.40)
UTG ($394.00)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 2

2

1 fold, Hero raises to $14.00, 1 fold, Button calls $14.00, SB raises to $72.00, 1 fold, Hero raises to $400.30 (All-In), 1 fold, SB calls $328.30

Flop: ($818.60) J

4

3

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Turn: ($818.60) 7

(2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($818.60) A

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $818.60 | Rake: $3.00

Results below:
SB had A

Q

(one pair, Aces)
Hero had 2

2

(one pair, twos)
Outcome: SB won $815.60

Thoughts welcome.

Almost forgot, I induced another all-in call in chat today! Not as big a brag as yesterday because it was from AQ on a QTxT board but again I typed "fold" "I have a ten" when he was timebanking and he snapped Smile

I recommmend trying it vs. fish, it has to be the best thing I've ever done in poker.

LoL, the funny thing is that I think that tell is backwards.

If I'm facing a close decision, anything typed in chat tilts it towards being a stronger hand.

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