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“Never mistake motion for action.”
– Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
I just felt like sharing this quote with you. I think everybody should stop once in a while and think about what they are currently doing in their life and if they are fully content with what they are doing. I’m sure there is something all of us would like to do better and are not doing with no valuable reasoning. Sometimes we just get caught up in cycles living from the beginning of the cycle till the end of it and then repeating the process. We are so busy doing what we are doing that we get distracted from striving to achieve more.
Poker has been good to me lately. I’ve been focusing more and more on focus, not only in poker, but in all aspects of my life. I generally feel as though I am a very fast paced person. Sometimes this leads to me getting caught up in trying to do too many things at once, but not doing something properly. I’ve been working a lot on trying to finish what I start before approaching a second objective. An example of this would me be reading my emails and then reviewing poker hands at the same time. This is actually slower and less effective than focusing on looking at my emails and then focusing on reviewing hands. In regards of poker I try to listen to relaxing music as opposed to loud and fast music. I read in an article once that male humans lose concentration when there is fast paced and or loud music in the background. This probably leads back to earlier times of man kind where “noise” would have been an indication that something foul might be going on. I’ve also tried to actively decrease the number of tables I am playing even if the action might be good on more tables. I’ve been sticking to 5-6 tables depending on the software. Ipoker software for example is pretty slow whereas Prima is on the faster side. Furthermore when multitabling I try to focus on one other hand going on and actively think through the action. This is something that ofcourse will vary, depending on how many hands I am currently playing, but I feel this is more effective than looking at multiple hands at the same time. I guess this is something that varies from person to person. Some people have insane multi-tasking skills. I know mine are good, but I wouldn’t consider myself one of the top in the field.
Here are some hands I played today on 1€/2€ Prima:
UTG+1 was a weaker player and I also interpreted his lead as such. I think a raise here is fairly standard. Given the odds a call is also a possibility. When SB overcalls and he has tagish stats he looks strong, however one would expect him to RR AA, QQ, and AQ a decent percentage of the time preflop. At the time I also thought that a monster hand may be more likely than usual, because a weak player limped and SB might have called to keep him in the pot. I reluctantly take the free card on the turn and when he bets out on the river after I make a flush I have to consider my options. I came to the conclusion that without any real history and the fact that villain could have a mediocre ace that he didn’t know what to do with on the flop plus the odds I was getting I could call, but it is a really marginal spot I feel. I just don’t see how I can make this tight a fold without really knowing SB well.
This was another weird river spot. Villain is a loose and weak player. When he leads into me on the river it’s sought of tough for me to put him on a flush, because it requires him to have check/called with a flush draw on the turn. I guess he could have a hand like As2s, but I think he can also have a Q he’s trying to get value from or some sort of eratic bluff. It’s a weird spot, but with the same logic as in the first hand I call not knowing villain well enough to make tight folds early on. And he has it again. I think that around this point I take a break to clear my head and come back to the tables.
This is the same player as in the above hand. Not much to say about this.
When I was playing my hand I was very indecisive. I didn’t want to raise the flop and face an allin decision so I just called. I think I can credibly have a nine in my range and villain looks weak plus my implied odds are now a lot lower so I decide to raise. I don’t like my raise-sizing amount as i don’t think he get’s away from a lot of his made hands that easily to it. He quickly calls, I river gin the rest is history.
I think I’ll probably stick with Unibet for the rest of the month. I’m not entirely sure yet though as it would be nice to get back into some of the 2$/4$ games on iPoker, I also miss the freerolls that I regularly get entered into with Titan Poker. Mansion Poker recently switched networks from Ongame to iPoker which actually kinda sucks, because now I don’t have RB deal with Ongame anymore and my RB deal w/Mansion in the iPoker network is lower than what is typically offered, but at the same time easier to track as almost all iPoker deals are bonus-related.
It’s weekend again. I’m not quite sure what I am going to do yet. I still need to organize some stuff for Uni when it get’s back on track. I feel like I’ve been on holidays for ages (which I have been, because I left Uni earlier to go to Vegas and Dubai). I’m excited getting back into the Uni’s social network. It’s allways fun to get out there and meet new people, new characters.
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Today I got my camera back from my friend. I’ll try to reconstruct as much as I can from my trip. I left on Saturday the 13th from my appartment to drive down to Italy to our main marina in Folonice. I live pretty close to the boarder of Italy, approximately 1 hour away, but it still took us 6 hours to get to our destination. In Folonice we met up with some of the other groups that were following roughly the same route as we were.
There were 7 boats in total and we had our on boat where we all knew each other, except for the Skipper and two others that had decided last minute that they wanted to come along. The two people we didn’t know were sailors that already had a license and were looking for some practice. Everybody in our crew was pretty friendly.
Sunday morning we departed from Folonice to head for Elba, I can’t recall the name of the place we stayed in. On our way we stayed in a couple of marinas and bays. Anyhow we spent the day with getting to know the other people better and we also cooked in the evening. Luckily for me we had two motivated hobby cooks on board so I didn’t have to deal with making dinner. We also ate out frequently. I had some pretty good food on our trip, especially the Italian food.
Monday we did some sailing practice. Part of the point of the trip was to learn about sailing, I definetly picked up a few things, but there is still lot’s that I need to learn. There were so many terms people were using that I was unsure about.
Tuesday we headed off to Corsica. We anchored in Bastia, a well known harbour-city. Their marina was kinda lame, because compaired to the amount of ships that were present, they had way too few showers and toilets and ship toilets really suck. I wasn’t the only person that felt this way… In the evening we went out to dinner in the Marina restaurant which had fairly high prices. The food was reasonably good though. I ate Entrecote with mixed vegetables and had a Tiramisu for afters. Afterwards my friends and I headed to the town centre, but it was early in the week and practically nothing was open.
Wednesday we sailed to Cap Corse right in the north of Corsica. Here we saw the most balla sailing ship called “Highland Breeze”. Two guys from another boat hopped into their dinghy and tried to see if they could go on board and check it out. The crew was a bit hesitant at first, but they let them come aboard eventually and take a look. From what I hear it was pretty nice and they left with some t-shirts saying “Highland Breeze” on them.
Thursday morning at 3 am we decided spontaneously to go sailing by moon light. The water was very still, the sky was clear and it was a beatufil site followed by the image of the rising sun. We sailed to Cap Raia which used to be an island to which they sent people to who were sentenced to exile. Their bay was really nice and we also went on land and had some coffee. Italian coffee really is the nizzles. After Cap Raia we sailed onwards back to Elba. This is where we had our regatta where we were to show off what we had learnt about sailing on our trip. To be honest I felt as though we were allways a favourite to win the regatta as we had a lot of experienced crew members on board. Not everyone was as optimistic as I was, because apparently our sails weren’t the best, but on the day everything seemed to fall into our favour and we ended up winning by 30 minutes which is a lot over a distance of just 2 hours.
Friday we went back to our starting Marina where we got everything ready for departure. We also had a few drinks with our fellow crews.
Saturday morning we put all our stuff in the car and started our trip back to Austria. On our way we stopped in Pisa to go and see the Leaning Tower of Pisa. This was lot’s of fun, I haven’t been there before. We also drove to an outlet in Mantua where I picked up an orignal Italian Espresso maker and a nice pair of shoes. I might have been able to get some more stuff, but we were on a time schedule so we couldn’t stay for too long.
Here are some of the pics I took with my Camera. I didn’t take too many, because we had a ton of people taking pictures with cameras that were far superior to mine. The plan is to get some of the high res pics from them when they’re done processing them all:
Me, Thomas, Gerhard and Johannes from my crew in Bastia.
The harbour in Cap Corse.
Me in Cap Corse.
Werner and Gregor. These were the two members of our crew that I didn’t know before hand.
The small town of Cap Raia.
I took this picture in Cap Raia when Thomas and I ran up the hill to get a better view of the place.
This is the only picture I had on my camera of our skipper, Peter.
Pisa!
Trying to straighten things out.
Italians have the reputation of doing really poor translations. I’m actually pretty sure they just enter the text into some internet translator and then print it (sad times for translators in Italy). The English isn’t too bad, but the German is hilarious.
This was exhausting, I’m probably gonna go straight to bed. I think tomorrow I’d like to review some hands I played today as today wasn’t my best of days. However I played some 2€/4€(3$/6$) again, I ended up breaking even, but I’m happy to be back at my regular stakes.
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Poker has still been going steady. Yesterday I ended up 3 buy-ins playing the Prima games. I still have to play a bit to make it to the second reward level with RakeTheRake. The difference is 10% on RB, so it’s definetly something I want to persue. I’ve been enjoying analayzing my hands lately and have also started doing it more seriously. By that I mean that I try to take time on a regular basis to analyze sessions and plays I made, not only when I had absolutely no clue in a hand. I’ve also discovered a new form of tilt for myself. It is the mildest form of tilt, but tilt nonetheless. I’m speaking of winner’s tilt. I feel as though I lose some focus when I’m winning larger amounts. I feel the only way I can control this is by trying to get rid of the euphoria one get’s by winning big pots. Now I imagine how this may sound strange to some people. Why not be happy when winning? Well the answer is simple. I don’t think one should be affected positively or negatively ever by winning or losing at poker. One should derive joy from playing good solid poker (When I say solid I don’t mean being a nit. I just mean making fundamentally good plays.). This means being happy about playing a hand well, even when sucked out on. This is the ultimate form of poker psychology in my opinion and sounds good on paper, but is pretty hard to execute. All I can do is strive to get as close to this state as possible.
Here are some hands from my winning session:
I think this hand is a somewhat interesting reg on reg spot. There aren’t too many hands I need to worry about being behind of. KJ, likely doesn’t call preflop unless suited, which drastically decreases the combos of KJ. J9 will probably raise the flop aswell as any set. QTs is a possibility aswell. QT will however often raise the turn. All in all I think I can profitably overbet-shove here especially as my line looks bluffy with the missed draws on board. AA was a bit of surprise, but I think villains play is fine. It’s good to mix things up and create value in certain spots. I think given the flop texture he could also raise and get it in, especially if he had the Ad.
Pretty standard shove by villain.
This is an awkward spot. I’m getting 62-146 on a shove on the flop. This means I need 62/62+142=0.30=30% equity to break even. It’s hard for me to tell what villains range is here and what bluffing frequency he has, so I have to work on estimates. I’ll assume for now that he is never folding and that he is capable of raising the flop with overcards x percentage of the time. I think it’s fair to say that he can have 44 or a random J here and that he can be slowplaying JJ-AA x percentage of the time. For simplicity reasons I’ll just assume x=50% and see what I get.
Board: 4d Js Jc
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 43.613% 38.02% 05.59% 44041 6476.00 { AhQs }
Hand 1: 56.387% 50.80% 05.59% 58837 6476.00 { AcAd, AcAh, AcAs, KcKd, KcKh, KcKs, QcQd, QcQh, QcQs, QhQs, JcJd, JcJh, JcJs, TcTd, TcTh, TcTs, 99-44, AcQc, AdQd, AJs-A7s, A4s, KcQc, KdQd, KcJc, KdJd, QJs, AdQc, AdQs, AhQc, AhQd, AsQc, AsQd, AsQh, AJo-A8o, KdQc, KhQc, KhQd, KsQc, KsQd, KsQh, KJo, QJo }
These are pretty interesting results, I wouldn’t have estimated my equity to be this high. I think it has a lot to do with removal effects due to my hand. It’s possible that some of my assumptions are a bit too loose, but when my equity is so high I can assume a 10% error margin and still be +ev on a shove.
Hands like these are great for image and can put villains on huge tilt.
Right now I’m unsure how to evaluate villains play in terms of good or bad. I think his flop call is pretty standard, but I don’t think I’m barreling the turn here much against this opponent. After he calls the turn and if he doesn’t think I’m vbetting a 2 on the river and that I’m barreling the turn then I don’t think a river call is awfull, but still not too great. I think this is a very dynmacis based board and hand to play, but as a default I wouldn’t start off by calling down people light here.
I think it’s needless to say that the only street I think villain played well was the flop. I was only going to call a river bet as I think it’s hard to get value from worse by raising, even though I think villain is never folding a 7. Actually this villain my also never be folding an A if he bet’s bigger and I raise, however the stack sizes are iffy if villain reshoves, as I would be getting very good odds, but virtually never be ahead.
I was unfocused in this hand. I don’t like my flop shove here as it’s such a dry board and villain will only call with his range that he his raising for value.
I’m a bit tired right now as I got up early to get get registered for some sport courses I would like to do this semestre. I signed up for Salsa, Aikido and Swimming. I’m not sure how I will be able to manage everything time-wise, but these are things I like doing and haven’t done much in the past (Aikido is a Japanese martial art).
Tonight I’ll be going to the cinema to watch Tropical Thunder. To be honest the film looks kinda silly from the previews. A friend of mine claims it has good reviews and I’m not all to worried about going to a film that I know will be great. In a way I guess one could say that my willingness to assume a risk is high when it comes to cinema films.
Still haven’t got my cam yet, but I’m working on it. Later.
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Hi guys! I’m back from my sailing trip to Italy and France. A blog will soon follow with all the details and some pictures. All I can say for now is that it was a ton of fun and a great experience for me. The reason I am postponing my blog is because I forgot my camera in my friends’s dad’s car. Even though my experience was great, I am also kinda happy to be back. I feel as though I am a very creative person and there are allways stuff I wanna try out, so I’m hardly ever bored.
Today I got straight back into some pokers after a good night’s sleep. We had originally considered going straight to town to hit some clubs and socialize with are friends from Innsbruck, but as soon as everyone got home the temptation of going straight to bed seemed too great.
I played a bit of 1€/2€ today on Unibet. There is still a bonus I want to clear there and they don’t have 2$/4$ so I just stack with the 200€NL game. Session turned out well all in all with me winning 1 buy-in playing on my notebook from a friend’s place.
Pretty standard.
This hand is a little bit messed up. I didn’t have much information on villains, except for that they were bad/loose. I like calling here preflop instead of raising due to stack sizes and the uncertainty what UTG’s limp-RR-range could be. I don’t like my flop check here, because I had no clue what there stabbing tendencies were. Villain happens to bet anyway, but he outdraws me. The turn is a bit iffy, becuase the flush and the straight hit. I guess I could check/fold if I think villain plays the turn straight forward. This may be the better line and maybe I was a bit hasty with thinking that I am committed to bet/call this turn. I do think villain is capable of calling worse on the turn, but I also think this is the minority of the time. Furthermore when I check and he bets, he is unlikely to be betting worse for value due to the board texture.
Villain is a pretty tight regular. We have tangled a bit together with me calling oop and check/folding the flop most of the time, but once I called him down w/JJ on a low board when he barrelled me w/AK.
This hand humoured me.
Villain was a weaker player and I was trying to get value from him by inducing bluffs on the turn by checking the flop. On the river I think villains range is fairly wide and he call me w/a 3, 4 and sometimes a worse J aswell whilst at the sametime he is not likely to have too many better J’s. I did take slighty more time to bet the river than usual due to multi-tabling, but I don’t think it is significant enough to factor in bluff induces. This spot is kinda close due to my pot odds and I think call or fold are pretty close. I maybe should’ve leaned towards calling for meta, because this hand was early in the session.
Villain snap called my overbetshove. The fact that he had 99 makes this worse in my opinion, because it decreases the amount of draws I can be overbet-shoving the turn with as a semi-bluff.
These are the kind of people you want to be playing against.
Getting it in well.
This is the same villain from a hand I posted earlier ago. He is very tight, but I really don’t like his turn barrel here. He has no reason to believe I’m peeling the flop light enough against him to make betting a complete blank +ev.
That’s all from me for the meanwhile. I’m gonna go and watch some films with some friends. Hopefully I’ll be able to pick up my camera soon so I can post about my trip. My plan for tomorrow is to put in some hands on Ongame or iPoker (depending on whether I have cleared my Prima bonus or not).
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My sleeping rhythm is way off again and I’m trying to balance it again. This means no sleep for me today untill 20:00ish. I’ll try and spend the day with packing and doing some last minute shopping for my sailing trip to Elba, Korsika, Cap Corse and Capraia, which are Italian and French islands. A friend of mine’s cousin organizes group trips like these and he told me about it. People who know me know I’m not quick to turn down mini-adventures, so I opted in. I’m pretty excited about it and I’ll post some pics afterwards of the trip (promised).
I’m gonna go and have some English breakfast in an hour or so. I love English breakfast, but never seem to get round to going and having one. I also don’t know many people who are willing to go and eat heavily in the morning. I guess I’ll just have to go visit Dodgyken some time for some good old English breakfast.
I’ve completed my quest of making 10 buy-ins. I actually ended up with 13, because I ran hot towards the end. I played some hands of 2/4 today and it actually went quite well with me winning 500$. I wanted to put some more hands in yesterday evening, but I got visitors so I couldn’t, which is fine. I decided not to play MSNL today, because of the lack of sleep so I played some .5/1€ on Prima. The games were crazy soft as to be expected and got some pretty good HU action. I ended up breaking even due to a couple of suckouts, but that’s cool.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3179938
This hand is kinda funny in a way as I looked at my stack and thought I was short, but forgot I was playing .5/1€ (that’s no sleep for you). All in all I don’t think just jamming is too bad here anyway the pot is pretty big, villain is a fish and will call off with any hand he probably plays for a smaller bet too.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3179943
This guy took 3 buy-ins off of me. He is pretty good at flopping sets. I was a bit surprised he flatted two streets here on such a drawy board with mid-set. I don’t think there is any other way you can play this hand against this villain. The river 9 is an ugly card, because it makes some of his two pair hands and JT, but I don’t see how I can check/fold getting 2-1 with AA here on a board with a missed flush draw. So betting to get value from the hands he checks behind seems to be the best play.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3179952
Stack #2 against my friend.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3179959
Stack #3, I meh’d at the flop as I didn’t hold a spade myself. I was very surprised he reraised me w/a SC pre as he was very passive in general.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3179970
In this hand I check/call the flop figuring I have implied as this was the first time he raised preflop and we were deep. I chase on the turn getting odds and the river is actually kinda close as I put him on a strongish range early on. I find his betting line confusing and just figure that given this guys unpredictability calling w/top pair on the river here is the best play, especially earlier on in the match. I don’t really like this hand a whole lot , because I didn’t have any intiative throughout it. I think the line I took given my assumptions was ok, but not great. I think I like leading the flop more given that I knew he likes to overbet randomly.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3180011
I think when villain calls this turn his hand is pretty face up as a mediocre seven, so I just pot river for value.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3180020
I feel a bit sorry for this guy. We played HU and I don’t think I lost a single all-in to him. He was only playing small stacks, but I think I ended up winning close to 200bb off of him.
Most of my other hands are just of me stacking the weaker players with overpairs, nothing too interesting there. It was weird playing HU after such a long time. I feel controlling tilt is a lot easier when your playing ring games. Something I noticed was that in the phases where I was losing I started playing too quickly. However as I was aware of this, I just started timing my moves to calm me down again and refocus.
Well that’s it for now, I’m gonna go and shave and shower and then grab some breakfast ^^.
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I had my first bigger winning day in a long time. I ended up winning 5 buy ins @ 1€/2€ on Prima.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3171816
I’ve been experimenting with a 3x RR in position. I think the key is to keep your range wide so you’re not giving people sufficient implied odds. I also think that the majority of people do not adopt well to this by calling way too many hands and playing fit or fold post or sometimes calling me down with dominated hands. I make a standard cbet here, probably looking to get it in as the only hand I am worried about is 88.
Board: 5d 5c 8d
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 36.376% 36.36% 00.02% 10079 4.50 { Kd7d }
Hand 1: 63.624% 63.61% 00.02% 17632 4.50 { QQ-88, AdQd }
Stove gives me 37%, so if I would’ve gotten 2-1 calling off would be plus ev. I think he has AA, KK very rarely here, so I’ll neglect it for the meanwhile. I think that even if calling off would be neutral EV, I’d probably still do it early on in the session to create a crazier image for the rest of the match.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3171843
I really don’t like the way villain played this hand for the simple fact that this isn’t a board I am going to be barreling him a lot on. He makes a small river bet, which in retrospect may have been to induce a raise, and I contemplate raising, but find it hard to put him on a hand he’d look me up with. It isn’t really a spot you’d expect somebody to bluff in, so my range looks like value only thus making it hard for him to look me up with one pair hands. Against a fishier player I’d def raise here for value expecting to get called by one pair hands the vast majority of the time.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3171875
This hand turned out pretty well for me. My range is well balanced here I feel. I don’t think I like villains call on the river, I can have a T, QsJs or a boat and sometimes a missed draw, but I generally don’t expect people to fold a ton to me in this spot. I guess the fact that it is less likely he doesn’t have a T, given that he didn’t raise the turn, should make him slighlty more inclined to call, but it doesn’t change a whole lot.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3171895
This hand was pretty crazy. I get minraised in a 4 handed pot on a monotone club flop. I saw this as insanely strong at this point and figured I might be drawing so I just called planning on probably getting it in on most turns. I’d probably just go with top set as I think it has decent equity against a range of sets, flushes and soemtimes semi-bluffs. Obviously the turn makes me very happy and I expect to get shown two clubs or someitimes the naked Ac. It turns out my timid play here earned me his stack.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3171913
Easy game.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3171917
I was pretty confident about getting it in here, even though the board was pretty dry. I think AA can safely be deducted form his range by 95%, leaving JJ which I guess he could have more frequently given that this is FR. Leaving the majority of his range @ KQs and AJ.
Board: Ac Js Th
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 51.640% 51.04% 00.60% 40932 478.50 { JcJd, JcJh, JcJs, AJs, KQs, AJo, KQo }
Hand 1: 48.360% 47.76% 00.60% 38301 478.50 { TT }
Stove says it’s a flip. I gave him 50% combos of JJ all the combos of AJs and AJo aswell as all the combos of KQs and KQo. I guess it’s a lot closer than I thought, but I’m not entirely sure about KQo being in his range 100% of the time. If it’s not in his range and he only plays KQs here for multiway value then I become a favourite to win the hand.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3171950
This hand is pretty standard, I reraise for value agaisnt a weaker player. The only thing I could’ve maybe changed is my bet sizing, I was trying to control the size of the pot with my bet sizing, but it might have been better to choose a bet sizing so that I can shove the river if I choose to do so given that my hand has a lot of value against his callin range on flop and turn, allthough I should and will get slowplayed occasionally.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3171958
In this hand I thought villain could have a 5 or 88 given his timing, but maybe he was just distracted by something. I was surprised to see the nut flush here, I didn’t even aknowledge it on board at the time, but it’s all good to me. I maybe could have chosen a bigger raise size and called off a shove.
I’m pretty tired now after analyzing all these hands, but I also just got up like an hour ago. I’m happy to say that I managed to finish Theory of Poker on time, which surprised me a bit at first, but I think I am getting a lot more efficient at reading stuff. I actually thought the book was pretty good, especially for such an old poker book. I wouldn’t necessarily advise complete beginners to read, but it definetly should be in there somewhere after a couple months of playing. I found the bits on Game Theory pretty interesting. I allways here about Game Theory and an “optimal” or should I say non exploitable style of playing, but I’ve never actually read exactly how it should work.
I’ve already started off with my next book “You Call the Shots” by Cameron Johnson. It sounds like some kinda self-help book at first glance, but it’s one of my entrepreneurship books that I picked up. Cameron is a kid who has been running succesfull businesses since he was 9 and became a millionaire by 21. It sounds pretty good so far.
I need to go and make some reservations for tonight as I’d like to see the match between England and Croatia and I believe the only place showing it is the Irish Pub near my uni.
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I just had a sickening session of 1€/2€. I ended up losing 3 buy-ins. I don’t think my opponents play too well, but I’m just not winning. It’s very dissapointing.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3153470
Villain called my preflop bet rather quickly, I thought he was a reg at first, but in retrospect I think he was too fishy to make my flop check good on this board. I’d much rather prefer a 1/3 flop bet and turn jam in this spot. A 3/4 flop bet is also fine and may be the best play given my opponent. I was a bit surprised at the river fold tbh. I expect villain to bet his draws on the flop a lot and to not fold overpairs on the river. He probably had overcards.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3153492
I’ve been experimenting lately with working flop leads into my game. It makes playing oop easier I feel and also makes you harder to play against. I think this is a good board to lead on as villains typically cbet less on this kind of flop texture making leading w/air, draws and strong made hands a reasonable play in my opinion. I’m happy with taking down the pot immideately and if called I have a gutshot to improve to. I think I like my line, villain never has a higher straight here. The only times I am beat is when he has a backdoor flush, which I was worried about a little bit, because of his turn timing, but I thought I might get a hero call out of him he thinks I can ever have a busted flush draw here. My other options here would be to check/fold or to bet smaller. I don’t think he is ever betting as a bluff on the river . He can’t really rep anything besides the backdoor flush and by the river I don’t expect him to have many bluff hands in his range. He may have a hand like KdQd, but that’s about it. Any input on possible river lines is welcomed.
edit: I just checked Holdem Manager and realize that villain wasn’t a reg, but a loose fish. I think given this information I should either make a normal sized bet or check/call, because he can have a missed flush draw in his range. Check/call is obviously the preferred play if he is allways folding two pair hands.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3153558
If this had been folded around to me, I would have just folded to avoid domination, but jerste and philip5767 were among the worst players on the table and I was getting very good odds so I called. On the flop I like leading to take it down. I’m not really happy about getting it in against the PFR, but at this point there is too much money in the pot too worry about calling off his remaining stack. I turn jin and bet big so I can shove the river against Philip for value if I choose to do so, but both players fold.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3153579
I did contemplate folding the flop given that I could have a dominated draw and because Matealvaro could reraise, but I decided that wouldn’t happen often enough to make calling bad here against jerste in position. I improve on the turn, but decide against raising. I think an argument could be made for raising, but I don’t expect to be good against villains value-reraising range here so I just call planning on valuebetting the river or just calling if bet into. when the four hits and I have close to bottom two I think a valuebet could be good, but is close. At this point I wasn’t sure how light jerste would look me up. Given that he had A9 I think he probably would have called me, but I think it’s close between the times he has me beat and the times he calls me for value. I don’t think he reads into my hand far enough to put me on the missed flush draw, which should give me more incentive to bet.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3153602
This is where the fun begins. Villain is a regular and my flop check is for balance. He snap called the turn after snap checking the flop, which I think is really poor timing. The J is next to blank in my eyes as I don’t think he ever has JJ here. I think his most likely hand is a K (kqs, ako, aks). Good times.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3153619
Not much to be said about this hand. I don’t like villains cold 4-bet, but it worked out for him. I couldn’t win the flip.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?3153634
This hand is a little bit more interesting. Preflop I contemplate whether I should raise or not, because it’s hard to tell how light villain will be playing back to me UTG and when I raise QQ here it is generally for value and I’m willing to get it in. I decide that I’m felting and raise. On the flop I decide to check back. I think when the A flops I am wa/wb and I can induce bluffs by checking backand try and get to showdown. When accru833, a reg at these stakes bets, I assign his range to be sets, air, AQ and fd’s. Given that I have QQ, AQ is very unlikely aswell as a set so I think a call is reasonable. He almost instantly jams the river at which point I think his range looks a lot like a set (I think flushes are less likely given that he didn’t really aknowledge the river card). It’s one of those spots where he can almost jam any two cards and I can hardly call given our history.
I’m kinda surprised I ended up losing 650€ total as those were the biggest pots I lost. The small pots you lose just add up so quickly at times. I’ve set myself a deadline till monday to finish reading Theory of Poker and I think I’ll put in a session of reading tommorrow and not play. I think it’s an interesting read for general poker theory. So far I found the chapter on semi-bluffing and countering the semi-bluff pretty interesting.
I’m gonna go shower and then hang out with some friends and watch the footbal game. Today Austria is playing against France for the World Championship qualification. England is also playing against Andorra which should be an easy win, but you never know with England these days.
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