Archive for the 'Hands' Category

Adjusting against maniacs

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I just cannot seem to fold a hand against a maniac, you know.

I get pushed around, raised of my FD, raised of my middle pairs, the guy is running like 55/37/4 and I am just thinking I have position on this idiot now all I need is a showdown hand.

Then you get it and I can never can fold it even if his line is different than usual and looks like I am beat

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Slow playing sucks

Friday, April 11th, 2008

I was counting his chips already, when the turn turned…

I was waiting all session to catch this guy and at the end he caught me :)

At least I saved some money.

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Folding aces

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

The UTG player is taggish like 20/14/2. When this guy bet the turn I put him on TT+, so since we are 140bb deep I decided to represent a 7 or 22.

The stacks were good to try to bluff his range. Once he called I decided he could have put me on 99-KK also and then the K comes.

It seemed like the perfect card to bluff, because I expect him to fold 99-QQ here always. So the only hand he calls with are KK and sometimes AA.

I thought that even AA can fold, since at this point I am repping only 7 and 22, the stacks were good, the cards fell good, just that he didn’t fold ;)

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Embedded replayer

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

A saw this replayer from Andrew’s blog and decided to give it a try.

Villain is a good,loose very aggressive player running like 29/25/4. If I bet the turn I don’t expect to be called by worse, however by checking I still keep TT-QQ,KK and AJ,AK in my range. Which is why he cannot easily bluff this turn, but once he checks it I know he is not on AA,KK so I am WA/WB. Which is the reason to check the river and represent AK which he still needs to bluff. However against 99,AT,KJ a bet is better but I am not sure they are still in his range.

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Month turning point?

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Yesterday, I discussed general poker issues with a friend and after the talk felt inspired to seriously reduce the number of tables I am playing.

I want to play good poker with style, aggression and reads and this is not always possible when I play 6-8 tables at a time.

So I played a NLHE and PLO sessions yesterday on 4 tables. The last time I played 4 tables was 6 months ago, when I discovered that you need a very simple strategy to beat NL50. I was able to focus on table selection more and choose two tables with loose calling players and the results speak for themselves.

Small sample, still running below expectation, but better than my return on 8 tables :)

NL:

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PLO:

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Hope to keep up with this winrate ;)

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