A few hands from tonight's session.
Tonight was a great session, up a little over 2 buyins, but a few hands I wanted opinions on.
Hand 1: Standard button raise with KJo, and then the standard continuation bet. After he called I slow down on the turn. When he bets that river should I make the call? A lot of times after you check behind on the turn they will fire with anything, and his bet seemed like a blocking bet with maybe something like 99.
***** Hand History for Game 3651201334 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, March 02, 02:35:35 ET 2006
Table Belmont (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Blatman25 ( $26.90 )
Seat 2: keinesnuff ( $24.85 )
Seat 3: SirLionell ( $23.35 )
Seat 4: ledders ( $29.95 )
Seat 5: stratman671 ( $35.28 )
Seat 6: aisle5 ( $24.65 )
Blatman25 posts small blind [$0.10].
keinesnuff posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to aisle5 [ Kd Js ]
>You have options at Aslog Table!.
>You have options at Berwick Table!.
SirLionell folds.
ledders folds.
stratman671 folds.
aisle5 raises [$1].
Blatman25 folds.
keinesnuff calls [$0.75].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qh, 2c, 8d ]
keinesnuff checks.
>You have options at Aslog Table!.
aisle5 bets [$1.50].
keinesnuff calls [$1.50].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jd ]
keinesnuff checks.
aisle5 checks.
** Dealing River ** [ 4s ]
keinesnuff bets [$2].
aisle5 calls [$2].
keinesnuff shows [ Qc, Ks ] a pair of queens.
aisle5 doesn't show [ Kd, Js ] a pair of jacks.
keinesnuff wins $8.65 from the main pot with a pair of queens.
Hand 2: Easy call preflop for set value, but with only one non ace overcard on the board I figured my hand to be good, so I lead out. He raised me and I had to fold, is this standard though? Is a check-raise a better play since he might be raising me with nothing on this flop for the fact that I lead into him?
***** Hand History for Game 3651183869 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, March 02, 02:32:18 ET 2006
Table Belmont (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: Blatman25 ( $27.15 )
Seat 2: keinesnuff ( $24.35 )
Seat 3: SirLionell ( $23.35 )
Seat 4: ledders ( $30.10 )
Seat 5: stratman671 ( $32.78 )
Seat 6: aisle5 ( $24.75 )
aisle5 posts small blind [$0.10].
Blatman25 posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to aisle5 [ 8h 8d ]
keinesnuff folds.
SirLionell folds.
ledders folds.
stratman671 raises [$1].
aisle5 calls [$0.90].
Blatman25 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kd, 5d, 5c ]
aisle5 bets [$1.50].
stratman671 raises [$4].
aisle5 folds.
stratman671 does not show cards.
stratman671 wins $7.50
Hand 3: I can't tell you how close I was to folding this preflop, but I just couldn't fathom folding pocket kings preflop in a 25nl 6 max game. I was hoping it was AK or QQ, but I ended up being up against Ace-Ace. It turns out I got extremely lucky for a 3 buyin pot. I really was almost positive he had AA, but I didn't go with it and I outdrew him. I am a firm believer in never folding KK preflop, but the limp-reraise set off alarms in my head. Thoughts?
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$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, March 02, 02:39:45 ET 2006
Table Too Bad (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: MICR0machin3 ( $13.35 )
Seat 4: PPbmj87PP ( $147.30 )
Seat 5: RalphTheRice ( $27.30 )
Seat 6: joeetrib ( $46.55 )
Seat 3: aisle5 ( $37.80 )
Seat 2: YourSvengali ( $35.45 )
PPbmj87PP posts small blind [$0.10].
RalphTheRice posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to aisle5 [ Ks Kd ]
joeetrib calls [$0.25].
YourSvengali calls [$0.25].
aisle5 raises [$1.50].
PPbmj87PP calls [$1.40].
RalphTheRice folds.
joeetrib raises [$7.75].
YourSvengali folds.
aisle5 is all-In.
PPbmj87PP folds.
joeetrib calls [$29.80].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 6s, 4c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kc ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3h ]
joeetrib shows [ As, Ah ] two pairs, aces and sixes.
aisle5 shows [ Ks, Kd ] a full house, Kings full of sixes.
aisle5 wins $75.60 from the main pot with a full house, Kings full of sixes.
RalphTheRice has left the table.
Hand 4: Judging from his huge stack I assumed he was your typical 25NL calling station. This was my very first hand at this table. I assume he was on a flush draw or a straight draw since he folded to an 8 dollar bet on the river into an enourmous pot. If he had a jack I definitely think he calls. Did I play every street ok?
***** Hand History for Game 3651138688 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, March 02, 02:23:16 ET 2006
Table Too Bad (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: MICR0machin3 ( $15.30 )
Seat 2: JimTheGrk ( $19.75 )
Seat 4: PPbmj87PP ( $146.90 )
Seat 5: RalphTheRice ( $24.85 )
Seat 6: joeetrib ( $49.90 )
Seat 3: aisle5 ( $25 )
JimTheGrk posts small blind [$0.10].
aisle5 posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to aisle5 [ Qs Qc ]
PPbmj87PP raises [$1].
>You have options at Suntana Table!.
RalphTheRice folds.
joeetrib folds.
>You have options at Berwick Table!.
MICR0machin3 folds.
JimTheGrk folds.
aisle5 raises [$2.75].
PPbmj87PP calls [$2].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3d, Jh, 8h ]
>You have options at Suntana Table!.
aisle5 bets [$4].
PPbmj87PP calls [$4].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
aisle5 bets [$10].
PPbmj87PP calls [$10].
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
aisle5 is all-In.
PPbmj87PP folds.
aisle5 does not show cards.
aisle5 wins $40.40
So far after a fairly small sample size of around 725 hands I am currently at 34PTBB/100, which is obviously pretty crazy but not too unrealistic long term given the weak competition at party. My stats are as follows:
VP$IP = 16.39
PFR% = 8
Folded SB to Steal = 79
Folded BB to Steal = 87
Att to Steal Blinds = 20
Won $ WSF% = 30.12
WTSD% = 21.69
W$SD% = 70
AF = 1.9
I've been playing a very solid game at Party, much more solid than I play anywhere else. I try to avoid a lot of marginal situations since I'm 4-tabling, and hands like TJs UTG usually I'll just pitch it, on UB I would never do this since I get more respect, but at Party I end up getting 2-3 calls at least with a pretty marginal hand out of position. I'm not exactly playing like a rock, but definitely very TAG. That's all I've got for now, thoughts and comments appreciated.
