My third session, and I made a reasonable profit ($3.98), but ended the session feeling somewhat conflicted about how I did. I did my usual $3 buy-in and after the below mildly hair-raising hand I stayed in profit the whole time.
#Game No : 6095098623
***** Hand History for Game 6095098623 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, June 25, 15:39:17 ET 2007
Table Table 125954 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Dkotor ( $8.61 USD )
Seat 4: GREAEA ( $3.26 USD )
Seat 5: barra65 ( $2.64 USD )
Seat 7: jaybeegaybee ( $1.48 USD )
Seat 8: PokherGoed ( $3.75 USD )
Seat 9: ano_nym ( $5 USD )
Seat 10: JvanH83 ( $5.52 USD )
Seat 2: e_r_c ( $2.50 USD )
Seat 3: ultralord22 ( $1.92 USD )
Seat 6: JapaneseMind ( $5 USD )
ultralord22 posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
GREAEA posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ Kd Jh ]
jaybeegaybee folds
PokherGoed calls [$0.04 USD]
ano_nym folds
JvanH83 folds
Dkotor raises [$0.20 USD]
e_r_c calls [$0.20 USD]
ultralord22 folds
GREAEA folds
PokherGoed calls [$0.16 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, 7d, Jc ]
PokherGoed checks
Dkotor bets [$0.36 USD]
e_r_c calls [$0.36 USD]
PokherGoed folds
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
Dkotor bets [$1 USD]
e_r_c calls [$1 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 3h ]
Dkotor bets [$1.08 USD]
e_r_c is all-In [$0.94 USD]
Dkotor shows [ Qc, Ad ]a pair of Sevens.
e_r_c shows [ Kd, Jh ]two pairs, Kings and Jacks.
Dkotor wins $0.14 USD from side pot #1 with a pair of Sevens.
e_r_c wins $5 USD from the main pot with two pairs, Kings and Jacks.
I felt proud of this hand just because one of my problems can be to be intimidated by large bets and bow out, especially when it's threatening to take me down to $0. I had Dkotor pegged as having maybe another of the Jacks or maybe a high pocket pair from his bet on the flop, but i figured I had a good number of outs. The turn gave me two pair, Kings and Jacks, and I called him, figuring I had him if he was counting on having two pair with either Kings or Jacks and the sevens. Turned out, he had squat.
So I was feeling pretty good about my play for the first part of the evening, but I think perhaps I stayed on too long and lost some focus. I pulled it back again towards the end, but left on a down note, losing my last hand to a guy with [2,9] for pretty much the same reason as I slated oldfellow for in last post. I made it too cheap for him to see the turn and he turned a set to beat my pair of Aces. This is still a big problem for me, judging how much to bet, when to call and when to re-raise.
The below hand I'm still not sure about, the chat comment from the guy I beat in the hand shows his derision at how I played it...
#Game No : 6095373197
***** Hand History for Game 6095373197 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, June 25, 16:37:22 ET 2007
Table Table 125954 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 7: jaybeegaybee ( $2.66 USD )
Seat 8: PokherGoed ( $1.20 USD )
Seat 9: ano_nym ( $8.71 USD )
Seat 2: e_r_c ( $6.90 USD )
Seat 6: JapaneseMind ( $5.64 USD )
Seat 10: MurkSteel ( $1.84 USD )
Seat 1: wonglee111 ( $1.90 USD )
Seat 4: zana2003 ( $2.48 USD )
e_r_c posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
zana2003 posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ As Ah ]
JapaneseMind folds
jaybeegaybee folds
PokherGoed folds
ano_nym folds
MurkSteel folds
wonglee111 folds
e_r_c calls [$0.02 USD]
zana2003 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Qc, 3h ]
e_r_c bets [$0.04 USD]
zana2003 calls [$0.04 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
e_r_c bets [$0.12 USD]
zana2003 calls [$0.12 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ 4c ]
e_r_c bets [$0.16 USD]
zana2003 calls [$0.16 USD]
e_r_c shows [ As, Ah ]a pair of Aces.
zana2003 doesn't show [ 8c, Kd ]a pair of Kings.
e_r_c wins $0.69 USD from the main pot with a pair of Aces.
zana2003: what cards you have and you played so bad :))
So, i was small blind with the best possible starting hand, and literally everyone else has folded out before it's my turn. I figure a preflop raise means most likely all I'll get is the blinds, so I call. Going through postflop I was trying to steer between sucking as much out of zana2003 without chasing him away, or losing big if he happened to have two pair. I thought I had made the best of a bad situation (everyone else having junk), but the guy's comment made me wonder.
So, comments from more experienced players welcome on that one.
Anyway, off to bed, my second day of new job tomorrow so should probably get some sleep. I swear it takes me longer to write these posts than I spend playing the game!
This month's profits: $11.17
1 comment:
It's not a bad play at all - not one I favour as it involves having no clue about your opponents hole cards and being out of position, however they will never put you on AA.
I prefer the overbet preflop raise as many people will see it as a steal - esp if you have done it previously and you may get action you were not expecting.
However the limp is ok and you then value bet every street which is risky as you pretty much have to fold to any raises as you have no idea where you are. Personally the only thing I'd do differently if you want to play like this is to check call the river when out of position. This give them the chance to bluff the pot so you often win more and also prevents you getting raised and costing more when behind.
Different game at those levels to where I play though so just experiment and see what tends to work.
Steve
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