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Holly23 United States. Oct 08 2009 23:47. Posts 150

I have not updated my blog in while since I have have little time to play poker lately. I've tried to make stabs at higher limits but after losing significant buyins I always drop back to NL2 because I feel that it is my comfort zone. I believe that my play style at this limit is very effective however it does not typically work in my favor at higher limits.

So far this is my life time history at NL2

I just started playing NL10 recently. My sample size of hands is only about 5000, but I think i'm going to try to stick to this limit for now. One thing I have been doing new lately is not relying on stats from Hold'em Manager entirely. I have encountered some situations where I find myself trying to analyze other players hand ranges.

For example, in this hand the player is running 25/22. I saw that he reraised with hands like AK, KQ, high pocket pairs, and *loves to slow play*. Although, he would limp suited connectors and would just call raises with small pocket pairs. If he had the K why check raise me with the best hand? I'm not sure if I played this hand right. I think this is one of the few occasions when I have reraised someone with middle pair. I will post the result of the hand later, but any *constructive* suggestions or criticism would be appreciated.

Submitted by : Holly23

PokerStars Game #33732235731: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2009/10/07 1:31:07 ET
Table Dares 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: JPKS10 ($2.45 in chips)
Seat 2: Holly2323 ($14.80 in chips)
Seat 4: 00000PS ($10.05 in chips)
Seat 5: sil4nt_sk0p4 ($10 in chips)
Seat 6: Dave1982UK ($4.05 in chips)
zest726 will be allowed to play after the button
00000PS: posts small blind $0.05
sil4nt_sk0p4: posts big blind $0.10

Holecards
Dealt to Holly2323
Dave1982UK: folds
JPKS10: folds
Holly2323: raises $0.20 to $0.30
00000PS: calls $0.25
sil4nt_sk0p4: folds

Flop (Pot : $0.70)

00000PS: checks
Holly2323: bets $0.70
00000PS: raises $1.90 to $2.60
Holly2323: raises $2.40 to $5
00000PS: raises $4.75 to $9.75 and is all-in
Holly2323: calls $4.75

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jasper5408 United States. Oct 09 2009 00:27. Posts 820

u raised preflop. if he leads into you this is called a donk lead.
-if you raised preflop it is safe to assume you will c-bet most flops.
-if you c-bet most flops if he has nothing he will check/fold. if he has something strong he can check/raise. had he just lead into you he may force you to fold air. instead he is trying to get your c-bet into the pot, so he can c/r.

since u are beginning, try and introspect and see what hands you do what with. in general it's a safe assumption other ppl will take similar lines with similar hands.

the above hand i think is an easy fold. but i've played with that player a while ago. the only thing that sticks out is that he berated me for calling his all in shove when i had AK (he had 44's) and tried to explain to me why i made the wrong play. he is a douche

anyway the proper way to play the above hand:
1) check flop or bet flop.
-a] so u decided to check flop. you have 2nd pair. it is ok to pot control here. your hand is good most of the time. a Q or T gives you more outs. if he checks again i think betting is good.

-b] so u decided to c-bet this flop. u have 2nd pair. it is good most of the time. flush draws and straight draws will call you. however most of these flush draws and straight draws may have overcards as well; giving them great equity and making a flop c-bet somewhat thin. however they fold a ton here on the flop so this is a +e.v play. but when they call they prob have very good equity. since they have great equity expect to be check/raised here on occasion and you will be forced to muck your hand here. if they flat, continue with caution; trying to get 2 barrels of value may or may not be greedy.

Last edit: 09/10/2009 00:31

thumbz555 United States. Oct 09 2009 01:27. Posts 3281

fold to ch/r
or just do this:
+ Show Spoiler +

I click buttons.

Last edit: 09/10/2009 01:29

Zalfor United States. Oct 09 2009 01:56. Posts 2236

u made a godlike number of BI at nl2. wow.

Holly23 United States. Oct 09 2009 12:08. Posts 150

On October 08 2009 23:27 jasper5408 wrote:
the only thing that sticks out is that he berated me for calling his all in shove when i had AK (he had 44's) and tried to explain to me why i made the wrong play. he is a douche

It is funny that you mention that!

Submitted by : Holly23

PokerStars Game #33732235731: Holdem No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2009/10/07 1:31:07 ET
Table Dares 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: JPKS10 ($2.45 in chips)
Seat 2: Holly2323 ($14.80 in chips)
Seat 4: 00000PS ($10.05 in chips)
Seat 5: sil4nt_sk0p4 ($10 in chips)
Seat 6: Dave1982UK ($4.05 in chips)
zest726 will be allowed to play after the button
00000PS: posts small blind $0.05
sil4nt_sk0p4: posts big blind $0.10

Holecards
Dealt to Holly2323
Dave1982UK: folds
JPKS10: folds
Holly2323: raises $0.20 to $0.30
00000PS: calls $0.25
sil4nt_sk0p4: folds

Flop (Pot : $0.70)


00000PS: checks
Holly2323: bets $0.70
00000PS: raises $1.90 to $2.60
Holly2323: raises $2.40 to $5
00000PS: raises $4.75 to $9.75 and is all-in
Holly2323: calls $4.75

Turn (Pot : $20.20)



River (Pot : $20.20)



Showdown
00000PS: shows (a pair of Nines)
Holly2323: shows (two pair, Jacks and Nines)
Holly2323 collected $19.20 from pot
00000PS said, "WOW UR BAD"

Holly23 United States. Oct 09 2009 12:33. Posts 150

On October 09 2009 00:56 Zalfor wrote:
u made a godlike number of BI at nl2. wow.

Haha, I know this is a ridicules amount of hands at this limit.

Anyways, I appreciate the advice. I think 90% of the time most players would have had me here and folding would have been the right move.