Session review
Yesterday I played a session of NL, followed by a short PLO session.
Here I want to discuss some of the hands from the session.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2939265 This guy sat on the table like 5hands ago, played every hand and did the same 3bet minraise IP already once. So I decided to see the flop. He bets pot which he might be doing with bluffs and also with strong hand, so I continue with the hand, turn is a safe card and he bets very,very small. At this point I am either way behind or slightly ahead. On the river he pushed and even though I don’t beat any of his value pushing range I was seriously considering calling. At the end I decided to muck since I am trying to get rid of this habit of mine whenever I don’t have reads to call down lightly. However, later in the session, this hand happened http://www.pokerhand.org/?2939275
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2939278 I have been experimenting with donkleading recently and it seems to work, against very aggro players and against weak players. It also seems to slow down reasonably aggressive players who otherwise would be double barreling often. My current approach is to use it with various range dependent on the opponent.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2939261 The opponent in this hand is very aggressive and tries steals a lot. However, he likes to call 3bets IP. Given the last part maybe a call preflop here is also ok. On the flop I was seriously puzzled what my line should be, I tried to figure out my range and how would I play this with high aces and also with KK,QQ. However while I was considering my time expired and the stupid policy of party is to fold your hand if you run out of time.Sucks! However I am pretty sure I will bet here with aces going for flop and river value,maybe also with KK. I think my line with TT should be the same. There are very few hands ahead of me and he might fold JJ to a river bet.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2939266 I messed up this hand completely. Opponent is loose and has floated me light previously, so I figure he will float this flop often and then bet turn if checked to. However I didn’t have the discipline to raise his turn bet. Also on the river when he insta bet this fishy value size I should have just folded. Bad play, me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2939268 This guy was playing very loose. The minraise on a monotone board will be a bluff more often than not. However I want to keep in his drawing hands with high spade and that is why I 4bet small. Here I am very unsure how I feel about his play. Mainly because I will play my flushes and high aces with high spade hands exectly the same way. I will also play bluffs like this, that his play is folding. I will also probably fold good showdown hands like AJ without a spade and KQ with a spade, but with those I am more apt to call his minraise. In general I believe he is usually crushed by my min4betting range.
And to finish with my biggest PLO hand
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2939282 Villain is probably a good player since I saw he was also playing some of the 400PLO tables. I have a monster on the flop and I am willing to stack against every raise. On the turn I still have my outs however, he keeps calling. The river bricks, he checkss to me and I have a tought decision. He doesn’t have a set, since he would raise me earlier. He doesn’t have two pair since he would check/raise me on the turn.So either he has a strong combo draw that is not strong enought to raise the flop or he had some mixed hand that picked up a draw on the turn.If he had 78, he would probably push the river, expecting me to call him with a set, I cannot see a hand with 32 or 37 often after flop and turn call, so I was left with the idea that he must have a combo draw. One of AKTx,KKTxKJTx,KQTx,KT9x,T98x probably with a club draw. Some of those have one pair, that currently beats me but cannot call a push for half pot, since I am representing minimum QJ, so I bet and he folds.
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