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Sunday Night Session
Not the best session, as I finish $400 down and call it a night at 1am. The table was pretty much a limp-call loose-passive fest throughout and I end up being card dead and playing a little tilty towards the end.
VVW was back and ended up being stacked for $1000 against an Octogenarian Viktor Blom (OVG) who ran hotter than the sun. OVG and VVW end up getting all in on the flop with one other for a $2600 dollar pot at 1/2 on JT9r, with OVB’s KK sucking out on VVWs J9 and the other player’s QJ. VVW was pissed and left the table to “go home”, but surprise surprise, he re-appeared an hour later with another $1k and waited thirty minutes for the same seat, despite seats at other tables being open. Degens gonna degen I guess, but I wonder how guys like VVW can keep coming back and if he somehow scrapes a profit? He’s not a terrible player by live standards, but I’d guess he’d be a small loser at 5nl online.
Anyway, when I left OVB had a stack of ~$6k, which is nuts for 1/2. Despite appearances, he definitely knows how to play in terms of understanding fold equity and using his image to extract the thinnest value. He made one other terrible call though in a big pot and sucked out again, but I still kind of like the way he played this hand versus an ABC-type before the river call:
Effective stacks $550
ABC opens utg to $10, 5 callers inc OVB in the bb. OVB check/tank calls $50 on T75cc.
Turn is Ac. OVB donks $200 into $150. ABC snap jams ~$500 and OVB shrugs and calls. ABC has KK with Kc and OVB has 76o with 7c
River comes 6 no club and OVB scoops a big pot. ABC takes it like a man and leaves the table.
I buy in for $200 at 8:30pm:
Hand A
I limp along T7hh on the button 8-way. Flop comes QJ3 all hearts. Random local old man leads pot for $15, VVW min-raises to $30 and I jam for ~$180 total. Both snap fold and the rest of the table proceed to talk to each other about how bad my play was. VVW gets a little aggressive with me and tells me he had air, but who cares?
Stack ~$250
Hand B
I iso another limp fest on the sb to $15 with QQ. 4 callers. I b/f $45 on 532cc vs a nit local old man’s snap jam. He shows a set (I’ve no idea what’s up with these guys having to show everytime).
Stack $200
Hand C
I flat AKss in the CO vs ABC utg $12 open. Flop comes 887dds and I elect to float vs a $25 pot bet vs a guy I’ve seen auto snap cbet the flop 3 times already for pot. I figure there are plenty of turn cards I can represent or call down on.
Turn comes Jc and I jam vs a $55 cbet. Villain takes two seconds to call with two red aces. Even though I had villain tagged as reasonably competent and believe he can find fold when this face-up, I still think that this is way too fancy when villain’s just can’t fold at this stake. I’d never do this at 5nl, which plays about the same as 1/2, so the play isn’t good.
I rebuy for $200 and immediately win a $200 pot vs a shortie with a monster draw vs his 2nd pair no kicker.
Stack at $300 ($100 down)
Hand D
New woman at the table, seems in her late thirties and not too terrible (although she does open limp utg in this hand), $300 effective. I limp along J7ss in the sb and we go 7-handed.
Flop comes all spades. I’m torn between donking and checking here, but I think the guys at this table are the type that think “must price out the draws”. Anyway, checks around to terrible-local-Marge Simpson’s-sister-type who bets $20 into $13. I c/r to $75 and BB cold calls. Marge Simpson’s sister folds. I figure new woman has As nearly always here and probably with a pair, maybe with a pair and I’m looking forward to jamming the majority of turn cards.
Turn is the gross 3s however and I elect to c/f vs a jam. Villain shows As and I begin to get irritated at the way the weekend sessions are going.
Stack at $200 ($200 down)
Hand E
I iso btn to $15 with KK no diamond. After spending the weekend correctly folding overpairs vs heavy action, I then proceed to bet/tilt stack off 4-way versus a snap check jam on a flop of 752dd vs a player I suspect is loose-passive pre and a nut peddler post flop. Terrible call obviously, villain turns over bottom set and it turns out my online discipline problems rear their head live sometimes too after spending a sustained period having to fold and limit my losses.
I then realise I’ve lost my discipline and pack up for the night $400 down.
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