Full House
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Showin' mah Pokemans
Posts: 651
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I've just had a nice breakfast and I'm looking at the aforementioned hands with a fresh set of eyes. I'll post my thoughts on them, but since hindsight has probably compromised my objectivity I will post them in white. If anyone is reading this, I would appreciate your thoughts as well.
Hand 1: Actually, I think I played this one fine. Preflop is good, flop bet is good, turn bet... well I know this is 10NL and many opponents will call preflop with almost anything. A3 and 45 is certainly in his range, but so are lots of other hands. I think draws, TP and overpairs call often enough to make this +EV. Checking behind on the river looks fine too. I'm not beating very many hands now, and I'm not getting called unless I'm behind.
Hand 2: Ugh. First off, I have no idea whether I should be raising UTG with AJo. I'm struggling right now with playing TT, JJ, QJ, KJ, AT, and AJ in early position. In middle to late position I'm raising these hands just about every time. The main reason is that I hate C-Betting out of position, but it also presents me with difficult situations even when I hit. But I digress. PFR aside, I like the raise on the flop. If he's drawing, I want him to pay for it. If he has a set or overpair, he'll probably reraise me and allow me to throw the hand away cheaply. I expect hands like JT, QJ, and KJ to just call. That turn card sucks, because it just completed alot of draws. Against a thinking player, I could safely assume that he wasn't likely on any sort of draw because I gave him bad odds. But this is 10NL, so I don't know if he could have a pair of Jacks or a monster. Checking behind seems like the right play. I really don't know WTF I was thinking calling that river bet. If I was unwilling to value bet on the turn, why the hell am I calling a pot sized bet on the river when every draw imaginable has completed? Terrible call. It's extremely unlikely that I'm ahead.
Hand 3: Min-raises annoy me, I think the reraise is good. Min 3-bets really annoy me, but it should be a red flag that tells me I'm behind. He's probably got AA-JJ, AK or AQ. I don't know why I called. In my experience, most shorties will push any flop once they've raised preflop. I guess my reasoning for this flop bet was to stop AK or AQ in it's tracks and prevent him from stealing this pot from me. Following that logic, the reraise should tell me that I'm actually up against an overpair. But now there's $6.40 in the pot and it's only costing me $1.65, so I guess I have no choice but to call. I probably should have checked the flop and folded to a push.
Hand 4: PFR looks good. I wouldn't C-Bet against 2 opponents if I completely missed, but I have middle pair and I can't allow flush draws to have free cards. That said, my bet is weak. I'm usually betting about 2/3 - 3/4 of the pot, so why the weakness? I don't know. I guess I'm afraid of a Queen. Is it possible that someone would slowplay top pair on a connected board? Yes, probably. I've seen worse. Turn is a blank. Why am I checking behind? I don't know, I must be thoroughly convinced that I'm up against a Queen. The way I've played the hand so far is as if I completely missed the flop. My C-Bet was called, and now I'm shutting it down. The only difference is, I would normally C-Bet bigger than 1/2 pot. River is a T. Hooray! I'm not afraid of your Queen anymore! 2/3 pot bet, bitch! Call me, I dare you. Wait, what's that? You were on the flush draw all along? FUCK.
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