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ynot United States. Jan 29 2012 16:41. Posts 209 | | |
Alright! Where to begin with this session. I didn't really have any changes to my game plan. All I had was a more clear way of understanding of what it was i was trying to accomplish. I understand my hand ranges and was really going to work on making a character profile for everyone at the table. When I sat down I looked around to see what kind of chip stacks i was up against and it was a bit overwhelming and exciting. Majority of the players at the table had 300+, 2 players had around 700 and maybe 2 or 3 with 200 and below. I decided to sit down with 200 as usual.
As I begin to play i see the same common scene, no cards with a lot of action when i am no involved in the hand. FML. :-p The player to the right of me has around 700 in chips and is unusually tight for how i am used to seeing big stacks play 1/2. The person to my left had about 300 but as the game would go on through out the night he would go up to around 700.
So there i am! Being my usual self getting hands like 5,10 off, 3,7o, maybe getting K,4o on my button, you know - the usual. My hands don't really matter so much but the table is beginning to become more and more aggressive. When I first sat down you could see a lot of pots by limping but that was soon cast aside by the player on my left who is quickly gaining a nice chip advantage over everyone.
My first playable hand is A,J spades on the button. Two people decide to limp in around middle position when it comes to me so i decided to raise to 17. I chose 17 since the chip leader on my left like to call anything with anything and i wanted to narrow this pot down from around 3-4 ppl to 1-2. The guy on my left calls and the limpers fold. The guy on my left has shown down hands like 6,3o K,9o. nothing too good but the way the flops have been developing he has been hitting a lot and even though he was calling with almost crap hands, the boards have been very generous to him and i have never seen him bluff or show a bluff at this point. Flop comes A,Q,Q. He checks to me and I think for a little bit. With his hand ranges I think i have him pretty well beat. I raise to 25. He thinks for a small bit and grabs a stack and raises me to 100. I couldn't quite think what he had, maybe K,Q maybe Q,J some pocket pair he thought was good. My image at this point is very tight. I haven't played a hand yet and ive been siting for half an hour. I fold due to the fact i havent seen him re-raise someone unless he had what he represented. After I folded he showed me his Q and said he had Q,10. Blah.
Later on I don't get any hands. I had a suited connector at some point but i think i folded too quickly because i dont even remember the hand.
After about 1.5 hours of folding i am down to 140 in chips. I finally get a pocket pair, my first of the night. Pocket 9's. The guy to the left of me, now with 700+ in chips, staddled my BB. 3 people call the 4$. Action comes to me and i decide to call along with the straddler. I like to raise with pockets 10's and up. Being the BB i didn't want to raise in my position. Flop comes 5,9,10. I was praying in my head. Please please please let me see a 9. I decided to check my trips. Reason i decided this was because the player to my left almost always bets the flop when he straddles, i haven't seen him do it yet. The people at the tables havent seen me bet a hand yet and are used to see me checking. I didn't want to give any signs up hitting something. Guy to my left bets 17 with the other players calling, along with myself. turn comes A. I check hoping the guy to my left will lead out with a bet again and everyone will call building the pot for my re-raise. He checks with everyone following suite and checking. I decide to raise to 35. Everyone folds except the player on my right who went from 700+ chips now to 300. He calls my bet. He has been relatively tight and this bored didnt offer any flushes and i didn't put him on any straight draws. river comes a 2. No 3 of any suits which made me happy. I think for awhile and decide to bet 90. After some heavy consideration he grabs a stack and calls. He shows A,10. I take down the pot. PHEW!
Finally i feel my luck was beginning to change! Only took 1.5hrs of folding. Even though i finally doubled up i told myself to stick to the game plan and not get anxious because we won a hand. I am in the BB with 5,9o. A crap hand with the usual play of check if i can pre flop but fold to any bet. 4 People limp and i decide to just check with my amazing hand. Flop comes 9,9,K. Awesome flop for me. I'm not sure why i decided to check the flop but the table has still been quite aggressive with the flops never usually going for an entire round of checks. I check, i person a semi tight grandma bets 15, one player calls, the other two fold and I call. Turn is a 5. Yahtzee! I am hoping someone has that K and with the players still in the hand i didn't suspect they were good enough to know when to let go of top pair. I check again and the grandma puts the rest of her chips in the pot with a 60$ raise. The guy next to her has been a little down in his chip count lately decides to call the bet with about 150 behind. I decided to shove all-in. I had him covered and i figured he would call my all-in if he had a 9 or any top pair. He didn't get involved with too many pot for a lot of money in the past but when he did he was always committed. This, I took as one of those times. He called with a disgusted look on his face. River comes up a blank. I show my full house, grandma showed 9,A. Trips with A kicker. Red-headed guy showed top pair. I think he had something like K,10. Maybe a little better i actually didnt see since i was so excited i won and that he called me. But with that big win I scooped up all the chips in one big pile so excited i actually forgot to tip the dealer. I got lucky with the 5 but at some point my hands will hit.
Now with a pretty big chip stack and making two player get up and walk away simultaneously i felt pretty good about myself. I look at 6,6 on the button. A smile goes off my mind. I haven't seen this many playable hands in quite some time. A few players limp to me and i decide to limp along with them. The players in this hand were quite weak to my knowledge. They seemed to raise when they had a hand worthy of it and always limped when their hand was weaker. There were no tricks to their play. It was a bit refreshing that i didnt have to think too hard about their hand ranges. Flop comes 5,6 10. YAY! Another good hand for me. Checks all around to me and i decide to raise it to 12. 2 players insta-fold and the third calls. Turn comes a J. I put this player on a funky draw. They always seemed to call call call in whatever hand they were in and usually were flushed out by a big raise. They check to me and i raise to 25. They call. I'm thinking they are still searching for that straight or flush since i dont think they would have called with pair of 10's. Turn comes an Ace, they check. I look at his stack and he has about 60 left. I think a big raise would get him to fold so i bet another 25 which I thought was about the most amount of money he would call with. He calls and turnd over 10,J. Another lucky hit for me.
All in all I felt like i played semi-good. I got quite bit lucky with my 9,5o hand. I really didn't play more than 5-6 hands the entire time. I feel like i have a decently big range of hands that i play but i just didnt get anything. I played all my pockets pairs and any suited connectors. I didn't see anything A hands minus the A,J i lost. I went in with 200 and walked out with 855 in chips. Not too shabby. I still don't think i played all of my hands the best I could and i may need to re-adjust when I see another table as loose as this one was.
But thanks for taking the time to read this and i'm going to continue writing these for as long as I play poker and become a good player some day!
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Luckb0xx Germany. Jan 29 2012 17:31. Posts 2069 | | |
| | turn comes A. I check hoping the guy to my left will lead out with a bet again and everyone will call building the pot for my re-raise. He checks with everyone following suite and checking. I decide to raise to 35. Everyone folds except the player on my right who went from 700+ chips now to 300. He calls my bet. He has been relatively tight and this bored didnt offer any flushes and i didn't put him on any straight draws. river comes a 2. |
teach me how to check from the big blind and then 'raise' after everyone else checked |
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ynot United States. Jan 29 2012 17:44. Posts 209 | | |
How about instead of insulting my play, you could talk about ways to play the hand better? |
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Carthac United States. Jan 29 2012 17:53. Posts 1343 | | |
| | On January 29 2012 16:44 ynot wrote:
How about instead of insulting my play, you could talk about ways to play the hand better? |
I think hes talking about the error. You said you checked, everyone else checked, yet it came back to you and you bet 35 on that same street |
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Luckb0xx Germany. Jan 29 2012 17:53. Posts 2069 | | |
| | On January 29 2012 16:44 ynot wrote:
How about instead of insulting my play, you could talk about ways to play the hand better? |
insulting? i cant really judge the way a hand is played if you write stuff that cannot have happened like this.. so how did the hand go down after all? and what live games do you play where people with TOP2 have to think before calling rivers. lol |
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Luckb0xx Germany. Jan 29 2012 17:57. Posts 2069 | | | |
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Almebeast Sweden. Jan 29 2012 18:16. Posts 797 | | |
Yeah gotta agree with Luckb0xx, I didn't understand what happened on the turn in that hand. And the betting/raising kinda annyoed me too. Sorry for being a terminology nazi.
Anyway nice to hear you won. Kinda amazes me how the guy with JT in the last hand didn't raise at some point and how the guy with Kx called your shove into an empty side pot. Sounds like these games could be very profitable for you. GL. |
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ynot United States. Jan 29 2012 18:19. Posts 209 | | |
I need to stop being a donk on these. Sorry for the error. |
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Endo United States. Jan 29 2012 18:32. Posts 953 | | | |
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Stat.Quo Somalia. Jan 29 2012 19:14. Posts 1227 | | |
Alme, it shouldnt amaze you, 1/2 is usually the lowest spread poker game at casinos, so even people who want to try poker and have never played end up trying it out at 1/2 |
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NewbSaibot United States. Jan 29 2012 19:44. Posts 4946 | | |
FYI you cant raise someone unless they already bet first. So when everyone checks to you, you didnt "raise $25" you "bet $25". |
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ynot United States. Jan 29 2012 20:17. Posts 209 | | | |
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ynot United States. Jan 29 2012 20:18. Posts 209 | | |
I will make sure the next blog post will be written in better quality. Sorry for all the errors in this one. |
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exalted United States. Jan 29 2012 21:53. Posts 2918 | | |
I admit, I enjoy reading these because you explain your feelings honestly and have a good memory for what happened. Also you're enthusiastic and although still a beginner, eager to improve. Keep it up! |
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Jan 29 2012 22:40. Posts 5647 | | | |
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NeillyJQ United States. Jan 30 2012 00:08. Posts 8947 | | |
| | On January 29 2012 20:53 exalted wrote:
I admit, I enjoy reading these because you explain your feelings honestly and have a good memory for what happened. Also you're enthusiastic and although still a beginner, eager to improve. Keep it up! |
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sosha United States. Mar 28 2012 18:47. Posts 1 | | |
finally found ur blog, Tony. Read this, although it was pretty much the same from what you told me on the phone =b
No worries about the mistakes you had writing this up. Everyone, more or less, knew what u were going for during ur description. So many terms and things to remember, by the time u get half way through an entire nights write-up im sure words start to mince together.
Definitely sounds like an entertaining night. In my opinion, at this stage in my experience, any time u can come out and be ahead is a pretty good night. I need to work on my paitience and trying to multitask enough to profile the people i'm playing against. Seemingly hard when i'm sitting at a table with 7-8 others and trying to memorize how they play each different hand when they obviously get different hands each time, therefore playing them a bit differently.. I dunno, just seems like a lot sometimes. I guess if ur at a table for 3+ hours, it might get a bit easier.
Congrats on ur success. Now that u have the time to play virtually unrestricted, i'm sure ur level and ur gains will improve much ^ ^
gl yo |
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