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fishsticks United States. May 02 2007 18:00. Posts 14

Beautiful day out today. Slept in, and took the dog to the park for a while. Fun in the sun.

Played an afternoon session for a few hours. +$300 on the session.

Two full stack losers though that I don't know how I feel about.

1) I have AKs, raise in the CO, button cold calls me. He is BAD, and I'm already psyched. Flop comes Q82 so I make a standard cbet, and he minraises me. I had seen this junk before, and I felt confident he wasn't strong based on past history. I elect to just call and take a turn, with a plan to move him off his hand. Turn comes a three, giving me 4-flush to the nuts. I check to him, he half pots it, and I checkraise all in (he was about 100BB and I had him covered so it wasn't an overbet or anything). He SNAPCALLS with 98o, I whiff the river, and MHING. Yowsa - fo shizzle buddy?.

2) I have TT in EP, raise it, get 3bet from the blinds by a relatively loose player - although I hadn't seen them 3bet from the blinds at all so I have her on JJ+/AQs here. We're a little deep, so I take a flop in position playing basically for set value, and she's the type that just might c/f AK on a raggy board. Flop comes QQT. YAHTZEE! She checks, I pot it, quick call. Turn is a 9. Again, check, pot, quick call. River is a J. She has about a 3/4 pot bet left, and pauses and pushes it in. Shitballs. At this point I'm confident it's not AA/KK/AK, and I'm pretty sure I'm against AQ (which is good) or JJ (which is bad). I feel pretty strongly it's JJ, as I don't think she's a slowplayer. Whatever, I call anyways expecting the riverboater to take all my chips, and sure enough it's JJ. I know standard logic says snapcall, but given my reads I really felt I could have let that one go and I just didn't make the fold. Oh wells.

Two days of grinding has me up $900 this week so far. I'm not playing live tonight, as I'm tired and I'm just gonna watch American Idol from the other night and get a good night's sleep. Hoping to grind another couple hunge out tomorrow, as I'm probably out of town this weekend (that means you Drew - any chance we can make an AC run hehe?)

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Last edit: 02/05/2007 18:02

amead United States. May 03 2007 08:41. Posts 7

I considered it, but it depends on what's up/whether Kim is coming and all that.

I know Erin was looking to "be a rockstar" this weekend, so that plays into our favor. I think it's 2.5-3 hours, but we can chat.

Are you able to get on the road at a good hour on Fri, or are we talking late nite arrival?

Hand 1: Applying results oriented thinking, which is my forte, I say you shoulda punished him on the flop. Something tells me that he was one of those, "I'll raise small on the flop to sniff out a c-bet" types, and when you just called, he figured you for AK or a similar broadway or small PP whiff. Obv. your turn cr/ai was a huge show of power, but he probably made his "read" and nothing would sway him save an A or K. Against a tough opponent, your line is obv. superior. Something tells me a lot of bad players make their decision for the full hand on the flop. I know I do it sometimes too. Perhaps this is something to consider, but who knows.

Hand 2: I don't think you can fold that ever at this level. Shockingly, I think you can see AK there. "OMG BIG SLICK!". That gets 3-bet, and then some people just can't let go of it. It's like, one of the best starting hands! If they held on, they made a hand on the river and you're gonna get paid. Odds are definitely against JJ, even though the action did seem to call for it. JJ isn't an auto 3-bet for lots of folks either though, so who knows. Don't think you can kill yourself for not laying that down. It had to have been a big pot there, and I think you're good more than half the time. Meh, tight one though.

-akm