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edzwoo United States. Dec 02 2008 16:12. Posts 5911

...awesome! I think my hand reading skills, or at the very least putting my opponents in a category of weak, medium or strong hands has been very good lately. Of course with that and the combination of running 1 bi above expectation in each of my last two sessions, my confidence is at an all time high

I decided to try and open up my typical 12/9 game by raising a LOT more stuff on the button/cutoff/hijack. I also made looser calls vs regs and donks that I felt I could outplay postflop. I experimented with various lines that I wouldn't normally take to:

a. Potentially maximize value. Of course I probably took a few less optimal lines, but I figured it would be okay because...
b. Confuse the regs and give them bad reads (if they were paying attention at all)

Here's are the results:

Here's just a bunch of fun hands:

Second time in a row villain has done this to me, so I figure reraising him here is pretty automatic. If he calls I am definitely shoving any non-diamond turn.
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Donk. After his cbet and very quick shutdown on the turn, he has garbage like 100% of the time. $1 valuebet for lols and I'm calling any raise.
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Woohoo! Suckout! I was really just destroying this table and stealing like 100%, and this guy definitely realized it. This was like the fifth time in a row he 3bet me, so I called with the intention of getting it in with any piece of the flop. Obv he had the nuts pre but poker is ez.
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I felt I played this hand fine based on my reads, but my reads were off. I checked the flop because I felt the shorty was soooooooo likely to bet his entire range on there, whereas my cbet would fold out a lot of it. I felt if he invested any amount of money postflop, he'd just stick the rest in. Of course I had to get some value out of random pps or weaker Ks, but I definitely didn't expect KardinaalS to show up with THAT.
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Now that I look back at this hand, I really only fold out one hand in his calling range, which is AQ (MAYYYBE JQ as well). So I guess mathematically speaking, this was a bad double barrel. But regardless, his turn check seemed weak since it lasted like 2-3 seconds. Something like KQ probably thinks a little longer than that.
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Mistake on the river. Raffy's bet was just straight up weakness, and I incorrectly assumed overunder was just calling because of pot odds. I just did a small checkraise squeeze because I figured both of them were weak. After overunder called though, I figured his range only consisted of monsters. Eh, I leveled myself into thinking he could have Ax on the river though looking for value, combined with the fact that another 3 came up making the only set likely for him to have 44. Didn't expect JJ though.
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That bet just seemed so full of crap I figured I had the best hand, and even if I didn't, I had outs. Epic feel-out imo
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I figured this was a squeeze like 10000% of the time, so 4betting here seemed right.
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ez river
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Donkbet bluffed the flop a lot. I figured my hand was strong enough to be a bluff catcher for all three streets. the board ran out like total crap, but the reason I called him on the river is that he bet the turn pretty quickly. He then stalled on the river and shoved the rest of his chips in. The thing is, if he really had a 7, he would have def stopped on the turn to think about what to do with his open ender, likewise with the flush as well. Called and was delighted of course
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I'm considering making a video of one of my sessions in order to get some constructive criticism from some of you guys. GL at the tables.

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terrybunny19240 United States. Dec 03 2008 11:42. Posts 13829

awesome run, keep it up. one of the few times I've actually looked at all the hands in a blog for fun