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A thing I wanted to do was simply to re-narrate the hands I did play for the reasons mentioned. I'm going to try do keep doing this in my blog (Or maybe another medium) in the future. You don't have to read this. FWIW I probably played this bad!

Anyway there was on hand where it was folded to the small blind, who completed. I was in the BB and saw 85 off suit. The villain was calling a ton of preflop opens so I didnt feel there was great value in isolating. I was also at about 45 Big blinds, so I would have to commit a large portion of my stack should I choose to outplay him after the flop. So I decided to check. Flop was really dry. It came JT6 Rainbow. Anyway he decided to lead out for about 2/3 about the pot.

Villain had been involved in alot of pots from the small blind. And he had led out postflop from the SB abuot 5 times in the session. The first 4 times I believe he led out for value, sometimes into multiple opponents. Though he had been active postflop I didnt have a real reason to see he was getting out of line. But the previous time he did lead out he led out into 3 opponents on a KQx two toned board and showed a bluff. It seemed like he is growing restless as the game is getting a bit long. Anyway when he led out on this flop I felt that it was just so dry and at this point he would be bluffing alot. He had been continuation betting often during the session as well, and I feel like a continuation bet and a lead out from the SB HU on a dry board are somewhat correlated in terms of personality and thought process, so I decided to raise his bet. In hind sight, a float might have been a cheaper, lower variance option that is just as effective. Anyway I raised to about the size of the pot, a couple of big blinds less. My friend is a casual player doesnt really regard pot odds and definately didnt care about betsizing, so I just chose a leverage point that would get folds from him.

Anyway he decided to call. At that point I was really too happy. But I felt he could potentially be peeling with QJ, Mid pocket pairs, and maybe a T. So I did have some room to maneuver. Anyway the turn came an offsuit (I think) 7, giving me an open ended straight draw. I thought barreling one street would be really bad, since he isn't like to fold anything he called with on the flop. But I felt for some reason (probably because he was getting restless) that he might have peeled my flop raise pretty light. So after long thought I decided to bet an amount on the turn that I could shove river for about a Pot-Sized bet with...to get folds from his QJ hands and his middle pairs. I bet and he called. River came a 4, making me the straight. And he decided for some reason to spazz out and lead into me by shoving his stack on the river! Wtf?! Anyway of course I snap called and won. He showed a T9 or something. He said he was just calling to bluff me later or something as he was getting restless.

Anyway yeah I feel better writing this. TBH I want to write about so many more hands I played. I just feel after this narrative I remember this hand so much better. Its a great feeling. I hope to get really good at this skill and be able to recall hands during live sessions with ease, even the hands where I am not involved in.

good thing you dont remember hands... it means the game isnt consuming you yet
i remember way more than i wish i did

The QUESTION I wanted to ask tho is regarding the process of drawing conclusions based on reads // particular hands. I had particular hands where I wanted to ask good players "What type of read // adjustment they would make after they saw X happen for example...Or does X apply in Y situation too?"

But that is a pretty intense subject I feel so I will reserve that for when I start playing poker again.

*Note that Im just posting this so I can come back to it later. (Ex CC Ax and Not value bet thinly.)

On April 22 2010 22:47 player999 wrote: good thing you dont remember hands... it means the game isnt consuming you yet i remember way more than i wish i did

Well its sort of consuming me already even without that! But yeah Its a great thing that I dont remember every hand at this point because I am sorta busy with other stuff.

But do you mean this jokingly? It seems you are part serious. I can see it being annoying having poker on your mind to an extreme extent. But to be a serious player isn't it a prerequisite?

edit: Actually I can't understand it. From the Microstakes player perspective I guess Im not really supposed to know what you mean by saying you dont want to remember stuff. I guess I'll have to just experience it myself if it comes to that point.

A lot easier to remember hands you play live than online, for obvious reasons. Especially if there was talking going on in/after the hand.

Yeah definitely agree.

On April 22 2010 22:53 hiems wrote: Show nested quote + On April 22 2010 22:47 player999 wrote: good thing you dont remember hands... it means the game isnt consuming you yet i remember way more than i wish i did Well its sort of consuming me already even without that! But yeah Its a great thing that I dont remember every hand at this point because I am sorta busy with other stuff. But do you mean this jokingly? It seems you are part serious. I can see it being annoying having poker on your mind to an extreme extent. But to be a serious player isn't it a prerequisite? edit: Actually I can't understand it. From the Microstakes player perspective I guess Im not really supposed to know what you mean by saying you dont want to remember stuff. I guess I'll have to just experience it myself if it comes to that point.

I dunno, its just that thinking about a stupid game all the time cant be a great thing, I wish I had other things in my mind lol