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RAHZero China. Jun 09 2007 13:06. Posts 109 | | |
Jesus, I never have a boring day, do I? Anyway, yesterday I decided to take some more shots at NL $400, so I was playing a pretty even mix of NL $200 and NL $400 tables. Got off to a very rough start, at one point during the horrific early downswing, my won $ at showdown was less than 30%. I seriously was making every second best hand possible, and every draw was hitting against me. However, as you can see from the graph below, things turned around quite a bit:
Hand 2900 or so was my new biggest pot ever. I'd been waiting to stack this donk for ages. He had just recently won a huge pot off ValueKill when he flopped a set, and of course got paid off because he was firing with air about 90% of the time. Here's are an earlier hand I played against him just to give you an idea:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/208969
Then came along this beauty:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/208972
I think I played this one pretty well. Obviously I'm not folding to the minraise PF, I'm calling and hoping to flop a set. The flop is perfect. Against a lot of players, this deep after being min 3-bet PF, I might play a little cautiously (though I'm still committing all my chips if push comes to shove), against this guy I'm just praying that he actually has something. I check-call the flop and check the turn to let him keep firing away with whatever he has. The turn decision after he bets again is the pivotal moment in the hand. He's shown a ton of strength, minreraising PF, then firing pot on the flop and turn, so even though he's crazy, there's a decent chance he actually has something. I can just call, and check the river, hoping the he'll fire again. However, if I do that, he may not bluff again on the river if he has air, and might even check behind some hands (like KQ or a weak ace) that I could get some more value out of. On the other hand, he may just shove the river if I call. If I raise, I can shove, in which case he'll probably only call with a big hand. I don't know too too much about his calling range, but he may even be able to fold his actual hand, AJ here. I opted to minraise in this spot, which is one of the few places I like to minraise - a huge pot is already built, and I want to get more chips in the pot without forcing out a marginal hand, and here a minraise also all but commits him to call a river shove.
So yeah, overall another very wild day, but one I need to get used to as I continue to play higher, where the games are more aggressive. I actually finished down for the day at NL $200, by $33, and after the upswing my W$@SD was right at 50%. And I also won two other $1k plus pots (both off the same guy), which are always nice:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/208982
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/208983
My month so far:
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