| Some 400NL fun |
[Jul. 29th, 2006|12:44 pm] |
So I played some 400NL and it turned out to be quite fun actually. The new pot-bet script worked like a charm and everything was running smoothly again, so I'm happy. I was also pleased to find out just how much some of the 400NL regulars suck and how big the difference between 600NL and 400NL really is. I might even drop down here for a few thousand hands to experiment with some BLd-type of crazyness for fun and experience.
Anyway, as promised here are some hands from the session. Not all (any?) of them are very interesting from the strategical point of view, but I need to get used to this so here we go:
I started the session by throwing two stacks on pure bluffs that both failed. On the first hand I put him close to what he had based on the quick flop call, and on the turn I thought he realized his hand is no good so he should go for a bluff... What a retarded move by him. Oh well, moral of the hand: Don't bluff without reads.
The other one was more comic than anything:
***** Hand History for Game 4829072974 *****
$400 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, July 28, 23:34:40 ET 2006
Table Monster #1278293 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 1: buffalo021 ( $266 )
Seat 4: PokerDruid ( $940.84 )
Seat 6: BedlamWaltz ( $603.70 )
Seat 2: Sawyer_on_TILT ( $402 )
Sawyer_on_TILT posts small blind [ $2 ].
PokerDruid posts big blind [ $4 ].
Holecards:
Dealt to Sawyer_on_TILT [   ]
FOLD BedlamWaltz
FOLD buffalo021
RAISE Sawyer_on_TILT , $10
CALL PokerDruid, $8
Villain is 40/22 with low WSD and high aggression factor after 50 hands. The new pot-bet script makes 3xBB raises in blind-battles, which is something I'm going to experiment with as cts reported good results with it on his part.
Flop: (Pot: $24) [    ]
BET Sawyer_on_TILT , $18
RAISE PokerDruid, $41
RAISE Sawyer_on_TILT , $101
CALL PokerDruid, $78
Villains flop raise was quite fast. His flop aggression frequency indicates he likes raising marginal hands and probably fair amount of bluffs (hey, it's a blind battle), so I decide to go for a 3-bet bluff. I don't want him to be raising his marginal hands for information vs. me and I need my c-bets to have some respect, so this play has some meta-game value too. I should have atleast a few overcard outs on avarage vs. this Villain
Turn: (Pot: $262) [  ]
XChanp has joined the table.
BET Sawyer_on_TILT $144
CALL PokerDruid $144
He called flop 3-bet incredibly fast without even thinking about it, which made me think he might have called me just out of spite, so i fire again for half pot. I use bets like these a lot because most people realize at this point that if they call they are already commited to the pot, so they might just as well push now. This saves me some money when I'm on a bluff and leaves me with more options.
River : (Pot: $550) [  ]
CHECK Sawyer_on_TILT
CHECK PokerDruid
He called so it's time to give up. I don't have enough money behind to move him off anything he could have called this far so it's better to just cut my losses and move on.
Sawyer_on_TILT shows [ ] high card king .
PokerDruid shows [   ] a pair of sixes .
The time at which hand ended:Jul 28 2006 23:34 ET
PokerDruid wins $547.50 from the main pot with a pair of sixes .
Shockingly enough my flop 3-bet and turn follow-up were not bluffs but infact value bets against my opponents 7-outer. Now, if the six hadn't hit he may or may not have pushed the river as a bluff, forcing me to fold the best hand. I can't know for sure if he'd have the balls to do that with so little left in such a big pot, but we can't overlook the possibility of that when we analyse the play. For this reason these type of multi-barrell bluffs tend to work better in position.
If I had known this particular player likes to draw for such ridiculous odds I suppose shoving the turn would have been the right play. It leaves him with no illusion of marginal implied odds and should maximize our FE / money spent. Note that against a player like this we're not even expecting for him to fold a hand like TPTK or a marginal overpair. We're just counting on our read based on the quick flop call that he doesn't have a made hand yet or that his made hand is practically a drawing hand like bottom pair. I'm still on the edge on wether I should do these type of plays vs. players who I haven't developed a good read on yet. The obvious downside of this is that my read on his calling-ranges for any given moment could be way-off. On the other hand when it comes to game flow and table dynamics, it's often very important to push hard in the first head-to-head battle vs. an aggressive Villain when HE has not yet developed a read on you.
***** Hand History for Game 4829134209 *****
$400 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, July 28, 23:42:23 ET 2006
Table Monster #1278293 (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: buffalo021 ( $271.80 )
Seat 4: PokerDruid ( $1222.24 )
Seat 6: BedlamWaltz ( $592.70 )
Seat 2: Sawyer_on_TILT ( $420 )
Seat 5: XChanp ( $400 )
Seat 3: I_Run_It ( $399.10 )
XChanp posts small blind [ $2 ].
BedlamWaltz posts big blind [ $4 ].
Holecards:
Dealt to Sawyer_on_TILT [   ]
FOLD buffalo021
RAISE Sawyer_on_TILT , $14
CALL I_Run_It, $14
FOLD XChanp
FOLD BedlamWaltz
Villain is around 20/14, aggro post-flop and multitables. I've shown down one big bluff (the KJ hand above) and have continued my aggression and won a ton of small pots without showdown.
Flop: (Pot: $34) [   ]
CHECK Sawyer_on_TILT
BET I_Run_It, $25
CALL Sawyer_on_TILT , $25
As an aggressive player his flop betting range figures to be much wider than his calling range, so check-calling the flop here makes sense. The downside to this is that I'm playing a guessing game and haven't got a good idea on where I'm at. In a sense, by allowing my opponent to do a mistake here, I'm taking the risk of making a bigger mistake myself.
Turn: (Pot: $84) [ ]
CHECK Sawyer_on_TILT
BET I_Run_It, $50
CALL Sawyer_on_TILT , $50
Interesting turn card. The relative strength of my two-pair on this particular board is not very good, so I think going for another check-call is the right play instead of check-raising or leading, which is what I prefer as the second option. This way I allow him to keep on bluffing while concealing my hand, and the only hand I'm going to possibly miss value against is AK. My plan is to call a third barell on a blank turn.
River: (Pot: $184) [  ]
CHECK Sawyer_on_TILT
ALL-IN I_Run_It [ $310.10 ]
CALL Sawyer_on_TILT , $310.10
River is scare-card and there's obviously no value in betting out except as a blocker, which I believe is a horrible line choice in this situation. His river overbet shove was very fast and non-hesitant, which to me indicates he either rivered the nuts or he's on air. The only hands with a King in them that play the flop and turn like that are AK and KQ (I think KJ folds pf), of which AK is less likely as he'd probably 3-bet pf, and KQ would probably check turn behind. On the other hand his range on every street includes a lot of hands, mainly small pairs, that are never good after the flop and turn action, so bluffing the river would be a logical choice.
Sawyer_on_TILT shows [ ] two pairs queens and jacks .
I_Run_It doesn't show [   ] a pair of fives.
The time at which hand ended:Jul 28 2006 23:42 ET
Sawyer_on_TILT wins $801.70 from the main pot with two pairs queens and jacks .
It's good to be right! I think the size of his riverbet made this call much easier, as it limits his range into a pure bluff and the nuts. If he had instead bet pot or close to it, his range could now easily include hands such as AQ, AJ, 66, TT and so on, that are value-betting thin. This was probably the most interesting hand of my session.
Meanwhile on another table I got berated by a 19/10 multitabler after this hand:
#4829646428: Sawyer_on_TILT wins $816.62 from the main pot with two pairs, kings and tens with queen kicker.
turtlehed11: u r a XXXXing tool
turtlehed11: such a bad XXXXing call
turtlehed11: go XXXX off sawyer u suck
[...]
WingNut05: SAWYER IS TERRIBLE.... PERIOD
turtlehed11: hes horrible
Sawyer_on_TILT: don't tap the glass please
#4829717461: Sawyer_on_TILT wins $289.50 from the main pot with a full house, Queens full of fives.
turtlehed11: 45
Sawyer_on_TILT: wp
Sawyer_on_TILT: nh
turtlehed11: XXXX u
I challenged him into a HU match but he respectfully declined, appealing on the amount of tables he was playing :-(.
That's all for now. It's 2 pm. and I plan on watching a few TV show episodes on my computer and then fall asleep. |
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