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I finally went and played again Monday night, mostly because they had their usual $60 donkament and I like going there and playing push/fold poker. You start with 2500 chips at 25/25 blinds and the blind levels are 20 minutes. I played a few pots in the first couple levels, didn't win any chips, and got short enough that I couldn't really play anymore pots without knowing that I wanted to go all the way. At that point I just waited for a hand to push with once the blinds became 50/100, and then I finally busted after pushing over a MP raise with 77 and not 2-outering his AA. Sounds like fun, I know
There was one hand where I raised AJo in EP and got 6 calls. The flop came Axx - how should I proceed here? I bet/folded. Next time I'll fold it preflop. Title says that I suck post flop but I suck preflop too
During the second level I got down to 1400 chips (blinds 25/50) and some guy in MP opened to 250. He'd been playing pots but I hadn't seen a show down with him yet and this is the first time I'd seen him raise. I looked at my cards and saw pocket eights, sighed, and folded. Easy fold right? I don't see any other way to play it.
Okay no more donkament hands. After I busted, I went and played 1/2 cash. They opened a new table but there were only four of us at it with no waiting list. The table isn't eligible for the bad beat jack pot unless the table is at least 5-handed, so the other 3 people refused to play. I really wanted to play short handed but they wouldn't have any of it and left to go join full tables. Bastards.
So I went and joined a pretty boring 10-handed table myself. It seemed like the typical table you'd find there but without the crazy person trying to raise it every time preflop - this table tried to limp every hand preflop instead. So, in my determination to learn how to not be a bored nit in these games, I started raising these limps in position. One of the first times I did this, I did it on the button with 9To, raising to $15. SB, the only player at the table with over $400 at the table, called. SB had been playing quite a few limped pots, but he seemed okay overall. I have seen him in this cardroom before and I'm pretty sure he's a regular, but I had no real reads. The flop came JJx rainbow, he checked, I c bet, and he called. Turn came a ten and he checked. Is checking behind better than firing again? Before the turn came I wanted to double barrel anyway, but then the ten confused me for some reason. Thoughts?
So I kept raising limps in position and the guy on my right was getting annoyed. The first time I raised his limp to $15, he folded. The second time I raised, he called, and then he folded to a bet on the turn. The third time, I actually heard him make an annoyed sound when I raised. It folded around to the SB who called, and after thinking for a second, the guy on my right called behind. I hadn't played any pots with either of these players yet. I had no reads on the guy to my right (other than he straddled the first hand he played and then he just proceeded to play limped pots), and I knew that the SB was a huge nit who wouldn't put any money in post flop unless she had it.
Anyway, the SB had maybe $150 in her stack, the guy to my right had ~$250, and I had ~$200. My hand was T9 of spades, and the flop came T9x all hearts. SB checked and the guy to my right bet $25 OOP into a $50 pot - what does this kind of bet mean? I raised him to $75 (pot now $150), SB folded, and he pushed. Pot was $260 and I had $110 behind. Thoughts on this one?
No other interesting hands. I played for cash for 4 hours and ended up down $125. I was definitely card dead for most of the night (my highest pocket pair was TT), but I did flop two sets
Okay so running tally is now -$705 in cash and -$60 in donkaments. I'll probably go play all day on Saturday. I'm tempted to be a fish and try to satellite into the BC Poker Championships which takes place in November. I probably shouldn't.
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